 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From h^rmuny. from heav'nly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony...the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. i The conclusion is likewise striking ; but it in eludes an image so awful in itself, that it can owe... | |
 | Magic - 1843 - 320 pages
...the beauty of these lines — " ' From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began j From harmony to harmony, Through all the compass of...notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man."' " I confess, they have ever appeared to me fraught with the deepest meaning." Chaudon listened to my... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pages
...moial and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heav'nly compasa of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. ) ; i ) The conclusion is likewise striking... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...more than dead ! " Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This...the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man. What passion cannot music raise and quell? When Jubal struck the chorded shell, His listening brethren... | |
 | George Field - 1845 - 334 pages
...avoid and be offended at crude, unprepared, and unresolved discordances. " From harmony, from heav'nly harmony, This universal frame began ; From harmony...the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man." — DRYDEN. 255. All the scales of harmony in colour, sound, &c., are framed of alternate concord and... | |
 | George Campbell - 1845 - 444 pages
...even a glimpse of meaning, we have in, the following lines, of Dryden : " From harmony, from heareiiry harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony...all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closmg full in man."* In general it may be said, that in writings of this stamp w& must accept of sound... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...! Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, In order to their stations leap, And Music's power ohey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Tbrough all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man. What passion cannot... | |
 | Mrs. Silver - 1846 - 356 pages
...bodies here." " Who that has realized," thought Mr. Bentley, as he retired for the night, " that ' From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal...the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man ; ' who that has felt Nature's loveliest scenes steal over the heart, giving it a foretaste of heaven,... | |
 | 1846 - 526 pages
...creation of the world only as the harmonious effect of a pure arrangement of number. Thus Dryden — From harmony, from heavenly harmony. This universal...the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. Pythagoras asserted, according to Censorinus, that " the world is made according to musical proportion... | |
 | 1846 - 716 pages
...progressive lines of mind and matter, until they centre in one point, and exclaim with the poet: " From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal...the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man." In contemplating the changes that have taken place in the succession of continents, the two immediately... | |
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From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man. 
