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Page 53
... music . But if authority be required , the following paffage from a grave historian , eminent for folidity of judge ment , must have the greatest weight . Polybius , Speaking of the people of Cynetha , an Arcadian 3. See chapter 24- DS ...
... music . But if authority be required , the following paffage from a grave historian , eminent for folidity of judge ment , must have the greatest weight . Polybius , Speaking of the people of Cynetha , an Arcadian 3. See chapter 24- DS ...
Page 55
... music to ❝ their city , and every difcipline that may foften their manners ; for otherwise they can never hope to fubdue their brutal ferocity * . " No one will be surprised to hear fuch influence attributed to mufic , when , with ...
... music to ❝ their city , and every difcipline that may foften their manners ; for otherwise they can never hope to fubdue their brutal ferocity * . " No one will be surprised to hear fuch influence attributed to mufic , when , with ...
Page 140
... music fhould not be affociated with the- fentiments of any difagreeable paffion , nor the de- . fcription of any difagreeable object ; which is , that fuch affociation is altogether unnatural ; the pain , for example , that a man feels ...
... music fhould not be affociated with the- fentiments of any difagreeable paffion , nor the de- . fcription of any difagreeable object ; which is , that fuch affociation is altogether unnatural ; the pain , for example , that a man feels ...
Page 301
... music : in the fame cantata , all the va- riety of emotions that are within the power of mu- fic , may not only be indulged , but , to make the greatest figure , ought to be contrafted . In gar- dening there is an additional reafon for ...
... music : in the fame cantata , all the va- riety of emotions that are within the power of mu- fic , may not only be indulged , but , to make the greatest figure , ought to be contrafted . In gar- dening there is an additional reafon for ...
Page 332
... music of birds , the lowing of cattle , and the murmuring of a brook , are in conjunction delightful ; though they ftrike the ear without modulation or harıno- ny . In fhort , nothing can be more happily ac- commodated to the inward ...
... music of birds , the lowing of cattle , and the murmuring of a brook , are in conjunction delightful ; though they ftrike the ear without modulation or harıno- ny . In fhort , nothing can be more happily ac- commodated to the inward ...
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