Musical Backgrounds for English Literature: 1580-1650Rutgers University Press, 1962 - 292 pages The author traces the history of metaphysical ideas about music and explores the place of these in the poetry of Milton. |
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Page 11
... sweet pleasure.3 30 For Davies , the soul is most often the musician who plays on the body's instruments . Refining the image of sensuous- ness , of concrete literalness , almost of musical reality , he makes of it an allegory to ...
... sweet pleasure.3 30 For Davies , the soul is most often the musician who plays on the body's instruments . Refining the image of sensuous- ness , of concrete literalness , almost of musical reality , he makes of it an allegory to ...
Page 41
... sweet- nesse , and harmonious sound , / A milder straine , another kind agreement . " " George Herbert , in melancholy vein , saw in music a symbol of all mortality , of the death of all " sweets , ” when he wrote “ Vertue " : Sweet ...
... sweet- nesse , and harmonious sound , / A milder straine , another kind agreement . " " George Herbert , in melancholy vein , saw in music a symbol of all mortality , of the death of all " sweets , ” when he wrote “ Vertue " : Sweet ...
Page 95
... sweet Nectar fill the thirsty sprite . ” The " sweet voyce ... sweetly skild withall , / In all sweet stratagems sweete Arte can shew " was the final assault on the heart , for " sweete notes helpe perswasion . ” 62 Chiefly , however ...
... sweet Nectar fill the thirsty sprite . ” The " sweet voyce ... sweetly skild withall , / In all sweet stratagems sweete Arte can shew " was the final assault on the heart , for " sweete notes helpe perswasion . ” 62 Chiefly , however ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
Copyright | |
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