The Rhythm of LifeThomas Y. Crowell Company, 1915 - 303 pagina's |
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Pagina 6
... the very foundation on which all the other arts are builded . We might go still farther and say that music is the soul of all art ; that music , in its high- est and best sense , comes closer to the divine 6 MUSIC OF OTHER CLIMES.
... the very foundation on which all the other arts are builded . We might go still farther and say that music is the soul of all art ; that music , in its high- est and best sense , comes closer to the divine 6 MUSIC OF OTHER CLIMES.
Pagina 7
Charles Brodie Patterson. est and best sense , comes closer to the divine in man than does anything else in life ; that in its last analysis , it is a revelation of God to man . Music is , as it were , the link between divinity and ...
Charles Brodie Patterson. est and best sense , comes closer to the divine in man than does anything else in life ; that in its last analysis , it is a revelation of God to man . Music is , as it were , the link between divinity and ...
Pagina 11
... divine principles of rhythm , melody , and harmony in everything she felt , thought , and did . From the time she began to lose these principles , there came a decline . But the spirit which once animated the Greek people did not die ...
... divine principles of rhythm , melody , and harmony in everything she felt , thought , and did . From the time she began to lose these principles , there came a decline . But the spirit which once animated the Greek people did not die ...
Pagina 15
... divine Mozart . Though his life on earth was a brief one , he composed in those few years not only a greater quantity of music than any other musician before or since , but also produced greater varieties of rhythm and harmony than had ...
... divine Mozart . Though his life on earth was a brief one , he composed in those few years not only a greater quantity of music than any other musician before or since , but also produced greater varieties of rhythm and harmony than had ...
Pagina 20
... Divine Governance , or the Divine Attributes ; something are they besides themselves , which we cannot compass , which we cannot utter , though mortal man , and one perhaps not other- wise distinguished above his fellows , has the gift ...
... Divine Governance , or the Divine Attributes ; something are they besides themselves , which we cannot compass , which we cannot utter , though mortal man , and one perhaps not other- wise distinguished above his fellows , has the gift ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 291 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Pagina 195 - Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might ; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Pagina 67 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres ! Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Pagina 152 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Pagina 193 - There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro...
Pagina 262 - Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm : Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please : Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above. This the divine Cecilia found, And to her Maker's praise confin'd the sound. When the full organ joins the tuneful quire, Th...
Pagina 154 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Pagina 123 - And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element ! 0 pure of heart ,• thou need'st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be ! What, and wherein it doth exist, This light, this glory, this fair luminous mist, This beautiful and beauty-making power.
Pagina 156 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Pagina 170 - What passion cannot Music raise and quell ? When Jubal struck the chorded shell His listening brethren stood around. And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound. Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell That spoke so sweetly and so wel1.