 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1884 - 698 páginas
...spiritual efficacy of music, three may be selected : — "I am no musician, and want a good ear, yet I am conscious of a power in music which I want words...consciousness, and has sometimes given me a pleasure which I have found in nothing else. Nothing in my experience is more mysterious, more inexplicable. An instinct... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1884 - 704 páginas
...spiritual efficacy of music, three may be selected: — "I am no musician, and want a good ear, yet I am conscious of a power in music which I want words...consciousness, and has sometimes given me a pleasure which I have found in nothing else. Nothing in my experience is more mysterious, more inexplicable. An instinct... | |
 | William Ellery Channing, American Unitarian Association - 1880 - 748 páginas
...a truth at bottom, and I wanted to understand more. I am no musician, and want a good ear, and yet I am conscious of a power in music which I want words...which lie beyond all other influences, — extends 1113' consciousness, and has sometimes given me a pleasure which I may have found in nothing else.... | |
 | Frank Landon Humphreys - 1896 - 192 páginas
...bring all heaven before mine eyes." In more recent days Dr. Channing, in a letter to Blanco White, says : " I am conscious of a power in music which...in the soul, which lie beyond all other influences. It extends my consciousness, and nothing in my experience is more mysterious. An instinct has always... | |
 | 1879 - 1166 páginas
...with the celebrated but long subsequent passage of Cardinal Newman on the religious aspect of music. " I am conscious of a power in music which I want words to describe. Nothing in my experience is more inexplicable. An instinct has always led me to transfer the religious... | |
 | 1857 - 486 páginas
...nation shall be a nation of song. A SiruscmnER. MUSIC. I AM no musician, aud want a good ear, and yet I am conscious of a power in music which I want words...extends my consciousness, and has sometimes given me pleasure which I have found in nothing else. Nothing in my experience is more mysterious, more inexplicable.... | |
 | 1884 - 652 páginas
...Blanco White, says : " I am no musician, and want a good ear, and yet I am conscious of a power in mnsio which I want words to describe. It touches chords, reaches depths in my soul which lie beyond all other influences,— it extends my consciousness. . . . Nothing in my... | |
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I have found in nothing else. Nothing in my experience is more mysterious, more inexplicable. An instinct has always led men to transfer it to Heaven, and I suspect the Christian under its power has often attained to a singular consciousness of his immortality. 
