The Listener, Volume 1James Nisbet, 1830 - Education |
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... heavens , and the outline of every object was as distinctly traced as in the full light of day ; seeming to gain magnitude and sublimity by the loss of colouring . The cliff appeared to have grown to immeasurable height , the woods to ...
... heavens , and the outline of every object was as distinctly traced as in the full light of day ; seeming to gain magnitude and sublimity by the loss of colouring . The cliff appeared to have grown to immeasurable height , the woods to ...
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... heaven , and therefore must have been given for our good ; and rapidly my mind ran over the various uses that have been made of it . In every age and every country , music has been made the emblem of whatever is most lovely and ...
... heaven , and therefore must have been given for our good ; and rapidly my mind ran over the various uses that have been made of it . In every age and every country , music has been made the emblem of whatever is most lovely and ...
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... heaven , but he placed music among the first of its delights ; and in those bright prospects of eternal bliss , so often opened to us in the Holy Scriptures , music is always made a part , real or emblematical , of our promised ...
... heaven , but he placed music among the first of its delights ; and in those bright prospects of eternal bliss , so often opened to us in the Holy Scriptures , music is always made a part , real or emblematical , of our promised ...
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... heaven bow their heads with reverence ! The best that can be said is , that they think no wrong , and in the enjoyment of the music , give no heed to the meaning of the words : but that is not the less a danger , to which we are ...
... heaven bow their heads with reverence ! The best that can be said is , that they think no wrong , and in the enjoyment of the music , give no heed to the meaning of the words : but that is not the less a danger , to which we are ...
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... Heaven , but man has no use for it . " I had scarcely thought out the melancholy thought , when a young lady entered with an elegant work - box , red without and blue within , and filled with manifold conveniences for the pursuance of ...
... Heaven , but man has no use for it . " I had scarcely thought out the melancholy thought , when a young lady entered with an elegant work - box , red without and blue within , and filled with manifold conveniences for the pursuance of ...
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