The Beautiful in Nature, Art, and Life, Volumen1Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857 |
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... effect of these tones being heightened by prolongation , we have the fierce war - cry , the exultant shout of victory , the wail of deso- lation , or the infant's soothing lullaby . These feelings may be suggested on occasion , by ...
... effect of these tones being heightened by prolongation , we have the fierce war - cry , the exultant shout of victory , the wail of deso- lation , or the infant's soothing lullaby . These feelings may be suggested on occasion , by ...
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... effects ; imitation and accidental dis- coveries improved upon would continue to receive addi- tions from time to time , till we had the instrumental ac- companiment , and , at length , the varied grandeur of the self - sustaining ...
... effects ; imitation and accidental dis- coveries improved upon would continue to receive addi- tions from time to time , till we had the instrumental ac- companiment , and , at length , the varied grandeur of the self - sustaining ...
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... effects may , to a certain extent , frequently be observed with telegraphic wires . We have often listened with delight to their wild musical murmurings in the breeze . Low sounds , otherwise quite inaudible , may at times be distinctly ...
... effects may , to a certain extent , frequently be observed with telegraphic wires . We have often listened with delight to their wild musical murmurings in the breeze . Low sounds , otherwise quite inaudible , may at times be distinctly ...
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... effects is enlarged . Each instrument speaks a language of its own - its peculiar body of tone possessing a distinct quality , or as it were colour , which is by the French designated timbre . The duration , succession , and combination ...
... effects is enlarged . Each instrument speaks a language of its own - its peculiar body of tone possessing a distinct quality , or as it were colour , which is by the French designated timbre . The duration , succession , and combination ...
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... 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 power under the guise of similar hyperboles ...
... 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 power under the guise of similar hyperboles ...
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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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