 | 1826 - 370 pages
...one, a circumstance that occasions a blunt sensation to the ear, and gives a monotony to the whole. However, the effect possesses much sublimity, when...visible, it is impossible to silence reflections, which join with the harmony, as to see human nature reduced to such an use, calls up thoughts very inimical... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 386 pages
...that occasions a blunt sensation to the ear, and gives a monotony to the whole. However, the eiFect possesses much sublimity, when the performers are...visible, it is impossible to silence reflections, which join with the harmony, as tu see human nature reduced to such an use, calls up thoughts very inimical... | |
 | Anonymous - 1809 - 506 pages
...gives a monotony to the whole. However, the effect possesses much sublimity, when the performers 'ore unseen ; but when they are visible, it is impossible...very inimical to admiration of strains so awakened. I enquired who the instrument belonged to ? (by that word, both pipes and men are included !) and was... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1809 - 498 pages
...one : a circumstance that occasions a blunt sensation to the ear, and gives a monotony to the whole. However, the effect possesses much sublimity, when...very inimical to admiration of strains so awakened. I enquired who the instrument belonged to ? (by that word, both pipes and men are included!) and was... | |
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... a blunt sensation to the ear, and gives a monotony to the whole. However, the effect possesses much sublimity, when the performers are unseen; but when they are visible, it is impossible to silence reflections which jar with their harmony. To see... 