Milton's Knowledge of Music: Its Sources and Its Significance in His Works |
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... divine things . Milton however , makes the conception very definite . Before sin entered into the world , he says , man was able to hear the heavenly music.4 Even now a man may hope to attain to some degree of apperception and ...
... divine things . Milton however , makes the conception very definite . Before sin entered into the world , he says , man was able to hear the heavenly music.4 Even now a man may hope to attain to some degree of apperception and ...
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... divine agency hidden in the body or the mind . Song is essentially the same as poetry . For written poetry is unnatural and a late development of civilization . Primar- ily , poetry is vocal in character . As poetry is song , and , as ...
... divine agency hidden in the body or the mind . Song is essentially the same as poetry . For written poetry is unnatural and a late development of civilization . Primar- ily , poetry is vocal in character . As poetry is song , and , as ...
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... divine mercies and marvellous judgments in this land throughout all ages . 15. Animadversions , P. W. 2. 61-62 ( 1641 ) : Variety ( as both music and rhetoric teacheth us ) erects and rouses an auditory , like the masterful running over ...
... divine mercies and marvellous judgments in this land throughout all ages . 15. Animadversions , P. W. 2. 61-62 ( 1641 ) : Variety ( as both music and rhetoric teacheth us ) erects and rouses an auditory , like the masterful running over ...
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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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