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 13
... whole body , in fact , was thought to be permeated by airlike spirits , by which soul acted upon body , and which were carried not through a single pipe , but through the multitude of pipes and channels making up the human mechanism ...
... whole body , in fact , was thought to be permeated by airlike spirits , by which soul acted upon body , and which were carried not through a single pipe , but through the multitude of pipes and channels making up the human mechanism ...
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... whole harmony discordant . As one lax string spoils the music of an instrument , wrote John Case in his Apologia musices ( 1588 ) , or one lax nerve in the body causes paralysis and tremors , so one false member in a state brings ...
... whole harmony discordant . As one lax string spoils the music of an instrument , wrote John Case in his Apologia musices ( 1588 ) , or one lax nerve in the body causes paralysis and tremors , so one false member in a state brings ...
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... whole Sensitive Soule , or the whole Syntasis of the Spirits is inclined towards the beloved thing , lifts up to it the whole Nervous System , and together with the solid parts , draws , and leads the Humours : so when we are indulged ...
... whole Sensitive Soule , or the whole Syntasis of the Spirits is inclined towards the beloved thing , lifts up to it the whole Nervous System , and together with the solid parts , draws , and leads the Humours : so when we are indulged ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
Copyright | |
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Musical Backgrounds for English Literature: 1580-1650 (Classic Reprint) Gretchen Ludke Finney No preview available - 2018 |
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