| Edward Berdoe - 1897 - 608 pages
...rich yet so simple, so intricate yet so regulated, so various yet so majestic, should be a mere sound which is gone and perishes ? Can it be that those...should be wrought in us by what is unsubstantial, and comes and goes, and begins and ends in itself? It is not so! It cannot be." NOTES. — STANZA I. "Solomon... | |
| Francis Thayer Russell - 1897 - 380 pages
...rich yet so simple, so intricate yet so regulated, so various yet so majestic, should be a mere sound, which is gone and perishes? Can it be that those mysterious...should be wrought in us by what is unsubstantial, and comes and goes, and begins and ends in itself? It is not so; it can not be. No, they have escaped from... | |
| Henry Maudsley - 1897 - 352 pages
...genuine wail of his fate -stricken soul, not the studied and rather • Of music Dr. Newman writes : "Can it be that those mysterious stirrings of heart...should be wrought in us by what is unsubstantial, and comes and goes and begins and ends in itself? It is not so ; it cannot be. No, they have escaped from... | |
| William Samuel Lilly - 1897 - 312 pages
...I suppose we are all familiar with that passage in his " Oxford University Sermons," in which "the mysterious stirrings of heart and keen emotions, and...yearnings after we know not what, and awful impressions, we know not whence," are described in words whose majestic eloquence, I think, has never been surpassed.... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1898 - 256 pages
...should be a mere sound which is gone and perishes ? Can it be that those mysterious stirrings of the heart and keen .emotions, and strange yearnings after...should be wrought in us by what is unsubstantial, and comes and goes, and begins and ends in itself ? It is not so ! It cannot be ! No ! they have escaped... | |
| George Gore - 1899 - 604 pages
...reasoning may be further inferred from the following remarks of his respecting the influence of music : " Can it be that those mysterious stirrings of heart...should be wrought in us by what is unsubstantial, and comes and goes, and begins and ends in itself? It is not so, it cannot be. No, they have escaped from... | |
| George Gore - 1899 - 628 pages
...reasoning may be further inferred from the following remarks of his respecting the influence of music : " Can it be that those mysterious stirrings of heart...from we know not whence, should be wrought in us by wrct is unsubstantial, and comes and goes, and begins and ends in itself? It is not so, it cannot be.... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1899 - 602 pages
...awful impressions from we know not whence, should be wrought in us by nhat is unsubstantial, and comes and goes, and begins and ends in itself? It is not...; they have escaped from some higher sphere ; they arc Sin. outpourings of eternal harmony in the medium of created sound ; they are echoes from oar Home... | |
| John Henry Newman - 1900 - 400 pages
...regulated, so various yet ao majestic, should be a mere sound, which is gone and perishes ? Can it bfl that those mysterious stirrings of heart, and keen...should be wrought in us by what is unsubstantial, and comes and goes, and begins and ends in itself ? It is not so; it cannot be. No ; they have escaped... | |
| Pauline W. Roose - 1900 - 294 pages
...notes out of which such infinite combinations of harmony are evolved, " that those mysterious yearnings of heart, and keen emotions, and strange yearnings...know not what, and awful impressions from we know not where, should be wrought in us by what is unsubstantial, and comes and goes, and begins and ends in... | |
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