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 120
... voice in Aristotelian terms . But he added the popular notion that with the voice , which is breath , there is an issue of spirits : Sound is a breath , voyce is a sound and animate breath ; Speech is a breath pronounced with sound ...
... voice in Aristotelian terms . But he added the popular notion that with the voice , which is breath , there is an issue of spirits : Sound is a breath , voyce is a sound and animate breath ; Speech is a breath pronounced with sound ...
Page 122
... voice : Sweete tunes , brave issue , that from Julia come ; Shooke from her braine , armed like the Queene of Ire ; For first conceived in her mentall wombe , And nourisht with her soules discursive fire , They grew into the power of ...
... voice : Sweete tunes , brave issue , that from Julia come ; Shooke from her braine , armed like the Queene of Ire ; For first conceived in her mentall wombe , And nourisht with her soules discursive fire , They grew into the power of ...
Page 239
... voice as a musical instrument , played upon by emotions ( III.lvii.216 , tr . H. ✓ Rackham , Loeb ed . , II , 173 ) : " The whole of a person's frame and every look on his face and utterance of his voice are like the strings of a harp ...
... voice as a musical instrument , played upon by emotions ( III.lvii.216 , tr . H. ✓ Rackham , Loeb ed . , II , 173 ) : " The whole of a person's frame and every look on his face and utterance of his voice are like the strings of a harp ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
Copyright | |
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