 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...its expressions to be intelligible to the heart. It is a language of delightful sensations, that is far more eloquent than words : it breathes to the ear the clearest intimations ; but how it was learned, to what origin we owe it, or what is the meaning of some of its most affecting... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...acknowledged b expressions to be intelligible to the hew. It is a language of delightful sensations, that is far more eloquent than words: it breathes to the ear the clearest intimations ; but how it was learned, to what origin we owe it, or what is the meaning of some of its most affecting... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 pages
...ita expressions to be intelligible to the heart. It is a language of delightful sensations, that is ession, and distress— I will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted ; but how it was learned, to what origin we owe it, or what is the meaning of some of its most affecting... | |
 | Charles Whitlock Moore - 1846 - 134 pages
...passions by sound. There are few who have not felt its charms, and acknowledged its expressions to be intelligible to the heart. It is a language of delightful sensations, far more elegant than words : it breathes to the ear the clearest intimations ; it touches, and gently agitates... | |
 | Henry Clinton Atwood - 1850 - 448 pages
...passions by sound. There are few who have not felt its charms, and acknowledged its expressions to be intelligible to the heart. It is a language of delightful sensations, far more elegant than words ; it breathes to the ear the clearest intimations ; it touches, and gently agitates... | |
 | 1851 - 278 pages
...its expressions to be intelligible to the heart. It is a language of delightful sensations, that is far more eloquent than words : it breathes to the ear the clearest intimations ; but how it was learned, to what origin we owe it, or what is the meaning of some of its most affecting... | |
 | Charles Whitlock Moore - 1856 - 234 pages
...passions by sound There are few who have not felt its charms, and acknowledged its expressions to be intelligible to the heart. It is a language of delightful sensations, far more elegant than words ; it breathes to the ear the clearest intimations ; it touches and gently agitates... | |
 | Florence De Courcy - 1860 - 168 pages
...discoverable, yet we all feel its effects ; its expressions are perfectly understood by the heart, for it is a language of delightful sensations, far more eloquent than words, breathing through the ear to the brain the clearest intimations : but how first learnt, who first originated... | |
 | Waldemar Malmene - 1871 - 80 pages
...passions by sound. There are few who have not felt its charms and acknowledged its expressions to be intelligible to the heart. It is a language of delightful...wraps us in melancholy, and elevates us in joy; it dissolves and influences, it melts us to tenderness and excites us to war. This science is truly congenial... | |
 | 1872 - 556 pages
...its expressions to be intelligible to the heart. It is a language of delightful sensations, that is far more eloquent than words : it breathes to the ear the clearest internal notions ; but how it was learned, to what origin we owe it, or what is the meaning of some... | |
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MUSIC Is that elevated science which affects the passions by sound. There are few who have not felt its charms, and acknowledged its expressions to be intelligible to the heart. It is a language of delightful sensations, far more eloquent than words;... 
