The Beautiful in Nature, Art, and Life, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857 |
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... playing of light upon the water ? ' Splendet tremulo sub lumine pontus.'2 1 See Potter's " Grecian Antiquities . " 2 " The sea resplendent with the trembling light . " " " Are not the organs of the senses of IN ART . - MUSIC . 7.
... playing of light upon the water ? ' Splendet tremulo sub lumine pontus.'2 1 See Potter's " Grecian Antiquities . " 2 " The sea resplendent with the trembling light . " " " Are not the organs of the senses of IN ART . - MUSIC . 7.
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... playing upon a wave . Again , the falling from a discord to a concord , which maketh great sweetness in music , hath an agree- ment with the affections , which are reintegrated to the better after some dislikes . It agreeth , also ...
... playing upon a wave . Again , the falling from a discord to a concord , which maketh great sweetness in music , hath an agree- ment with the affections , which are reintegrated to the better after some dislikes . It agreeth , also ...
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... , but with which they would certainly have been delighted . Also , stringed instruments played with a bow , from the rebec to the double bass ; or the violins of Amati , Steiner , or Stradivarius - in the hands of a IN ART . - MUSIC . 13.
... , but with which they would certainly have been delighted . Also , stringed instruments played with a bow , from the rebec to the double bass ; or the violins of Amati , Steiner , or Stradivarius - in the hands of a IN ART . - MUSIC . 13.
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... played , would induce darkness at noon . Such an effect is as- cribed to the playing of Mia Tousine , in the time of the Emperor Akbar . Similar traditions survive in Persia ; and Arabic liter- ature abounds in illustrations of Music's ...
... played , would induce darkness at noon . Such an effect is as- cribed to the playing of Mia Tousine , in the time of the Emperor Akbar . Similar traditions survive in Persia ; and Arabic liter- ature abounds in illustrations of Music's ...
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... played before God with all their might , and with singing , and with harps , and with psalteries , and with timbrels , and with cymbals , and with trumpets . " 2 It accompanied the prophets , was employed in funeral ceremonies , at I ...
... played before God with all their might , and with singing , and with harps , and with psalteries , and with timbrels , and with cymbals , and with trumpets . " 2 It accompanied the prophets , was employed in funeral ceremonies , at I ...
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Page 218 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,— often the surfeit of our own behaviour,— we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity ; fools by' heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence...
Page 237 - Lord ? and there is no God else beside me; A just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: For I am God, and there is none else.
Page 240 - Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth : who, when he was reviled, reviled not again ; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously...
Page 240 - Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be : but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
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Page 238 - Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean ; from all your filthiness, and from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you ; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.
Page 222 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh ; The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near.
Page 215 - From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing, That heavy Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him.
Page 167 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
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