 | 1821 - 724 pages
...mind generally, increases, of necessity, that particular mode of its activity by which we are able to construct out of the raw material of organic sound an elaborate intellectual pleasure. But, says a friend, a succession of musical sounds is to me like a collection of Arabic characters... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 478 pages
...activity of the mind, increases of necessity that particular mode of its activity, by which we are able to construct, out of the raw material of organic sound, an elaborate intellectual pleasure. A chorus of elaborate harmony, displayed before me, as a piece of arras work, the whole of my past... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - 1836 - 368 pages
...mind generally, increases, of necessity, that particular mode of its activity by which we are enabled to construct, out of the raw material of organic sound, an elaborate intellectual pleasure. A chorus displays before me, as on a piece of arras, the whole of my past life; — not as though recalled... | |
 | 1836 - 744 pages
...mind generally, increases, of necessity, that particular mode of its activity by which we are enabled to construct, out of the raw material of organic sound, an elaborate intellectual pleasure. A chorus displays before me, as on a piece of arras, the whole of my past life; — not as though recalled... | |
 | 1846 - 860 pages
...with the monk of Catania, whose dying request it was, to be buried beneath the organ whose harmonics had so long blessed him. Like the opium-eater, they...they float to the verge of the infinite. Without the denniteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, fiir more suggestive. Like Milton's... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 270 pages
...mind generally, increases, of necessity, that particular mode of its activity by which we are able to construct out of the raw material of organic sound an elaborate intellectual pleasure. But, says a friend, a succession of musical sounds is to me like a collection of Arabic characters:... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 316 pages
...mind, generally increases, of necessity, that particular mode of its activity by which we are able to construct out of the raw material of organic sound an elaborate intellectual pleasure. But, says a friend, a succession of musical sounds is to me like a collection of Arabic characters... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 300 pages
...mind, generally increases, of necessity, that particular mode of its activity by which we are able to construct out of the raw material of organic sound an elaborate intellectual pleasure. But, says a friend, a succession of musical sounds is to me like a collection of Arabic characters... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 290 pages
...mind, generally increases, of necessity, that particular mode of its activity by which we are able to construct out of the raw material of organic sound an elaborate intellectual pleasure. But, says a friend, a succession of musical sounds is to me like a collection of Arabic characters... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1867 - 140 pages
...the mind generally increases, of necessity, that particular mode of its activity by which we are able to construct out of the raw material of organic sound an elaborate intellectual pleasure. But, says a friend, a succession of musical sounds is to me like a collection of Arabic characters... | |
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... much in this point from one another. Now opium, by greatly increasing the activity of the mind, generally increases, of necessity, that particular mode of its activity by which we are able to construct out of the raw material of organic sound an elaborate... 
