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... celestial music occurs in the Nativity Hymn . Here the theme is first announced by the angel choirs : Divinely - warbled voice Answering the stringed noise , As all their souls in blissful rapture took : The air , such pleasure loth to ...
... celestial music occurs in the Nativity Hymn . Here the theme is first announced by the angel choirs : Divinely - warbled voice Answering the stringed noise , As all their souls in blissful rapture took : The air , such pleasure loth to ...
Page 107
... celestial Sirens ' harmony , 2 That sit upon the nine enfolded spheres , And sing to those that hold the vital shears , And turn the adamantine spindle round , On which the fate of gods and men is wound . Such sweet compulsion doth in ...
... celestial Sirens ' harmony , 2 That sit upon the nine enfolded spheres , And sing to those that hold the vital shears , And turn the adamantine spindle round , On which the fate of gods and men is wound . Such sweet compulsion doth in ...
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... celestial sound when our minds , as Persius says , are bent down towards the earth and completely empty of celestial things ? But if we bore pure , chaste , snow - clean hearts , as once Pythagoras did , then 1 Cf. " " 4 celestial ...
... celestial sound when our minds , as Persius says , are bent down towards the earth and completely empty of celestial things ? But if we bore pure , chaste , snow - clean hearts , as once Pythagoras did , then 1 Cf. " " 4 celestial ...
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English Music in the Seventeenth Century | 1 |
The Life of Milton as a Musician | 12 |
Milton and the Art of Music 28 | 57 |
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