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 89
... tion relates to a proportionable concord in visible things , as Harmony in audible . The desire of this Beauty is Love ; arising onely from one knowing faculty , the Sight . " Beauty in a restricted sense is more than proportion ; it is ...
... tion relates to a proportionable concord in visible things , as Harmony in audible . The desire of this Beauty is Love ; arising onely from one knowing faculty , the Sight . " Beauty in a restricted sense is more than proportion ; it is ...
Page 143
... tion is the reception " of the form of the sensible objects without the matter , just as the wax receives the impression of the signet - ring without the iron or the gold . " The effects of material motion are insignificant . Aristotle ...
... tion is the reception " of the form of the sensible objects without the matter , just as the wax receives the impression of the signet - ring without the iron or the gold . " The effects of material motion are insignificant . Aristotle ...
Page 195
... tion . " Lycidas " is , without question , " a splendid experiment in a traditional form , the pastoral elegy as that had been composed by Theocritus , Bion , Moschus , Virgil , Clement Marot , Spenser , Drummond . " 1 Many of the old ...
... tion . " Lycidas " is , without question , " a splendid experiment in a traditional form , the pastoral elegy as that had been composed by Theocritus , Bion , Moschus , Virgil , Clement Marot , Spenser , Drummond . " 1 Many of the old ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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