 | 1806 - 448 Seiten
...sweetness long drawn out; With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony." IS Allegro, zi. 135, et sej. Milton here shews his acquaintance with the distinguishing characteristic... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1822 - 552 Seiten
...What, in comparison, the refined musical ear of a performer, — almost every hour, and everynnoment, of whose life has been spent amid sounds, " Untwisting...excites his wonder, — is astonished, that persons of common ear do not distinguish the nice differences which appear to him almost as remarkable as those... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1824 - 468 Seiten
...to detect. What, in comparison, the refined musical ear of a performer, — almost every hour, and every moment, of whose life has been spent amid sounds,...have shared that incapacity which now excites his wonder,-»-is astonished, that persons of common ear do not distinguish the nice differences which... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 548 Seiten
...to detect. What, in comparison, the refined musical ear of a performer, — almost every hour, and every moment, of whose life has been spent amid sounds,...excites his wonder, — is astonished, that persons of common ear do not distinguish the nice differences which appear to him almost as remarkable as those... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1833 - 800 Seiten
...moment of whose life has been spent amid sounds, " Untwliting all the chainj that tie The hidden soul or harmony,"* — is to a common musical ear, that common...excites his wonder, — is astonished that persons of common ear do not distinguish the nice differences which appear to him almost as remarkable as those... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1835 - 574 Seiten
...to detect. What, in comparison, the refined musical ear of a performer, — almost every hour, and every moment, of whose life has been spent amid sounds,...excites his wonder, — is astonished, that persons of common ear do not distinguish the nice differences which appear to him almost as remarkable as those... | |
 | 1840 - 1176 Seiten
...and those notes we extract by the process of prismatic separation. Hence the expression in Milton, " Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony" is not only poetically beautiful, but literally correct in a physical point of view. We can, therefore,... | |
 | Thomas Brown, David Welsh - 1846 - 580 Seiten
...able to detect. What, in comparison, the refined musical ear of a performer, — almost every hour and every moment of whose life has been spent amid sounds,...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony, — 1 is to a common musical ear, that common musical ear may be to those in whom this discriminating... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1851 - 614 Seiten
...able to detect. What, in comparison, the refined musical ear of a performer, — almost every hour and every moment of whose life has been spent amid sounds,...all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony, — 1 is to a common musical ear, that common musical ear may be to those in whom this discriminating... | |
 | Thomas Brown, David Welsh - 1860 - 744 Seiten
...able to detect. What, in comparison, the refined musical ear of a performer, — almost every hour and every moment of whose life has been spent amid sounds, " Untwisting all the chains Ihnt tic The hidden soul of hannony,"* — is to a common musical ear, that common musical ear may... | |
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... render us capable of distinguishing tones as very dissimilar, the differences of which, however obvious at present, we should scarcely, but for such original attentive discrimination, have been able to detect. What, in comparison, the refined musical... 
