 The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that!  Occasional Addresses on Educational Subjects - Page 118by Simon Somerville Laurie - 1888 - 215 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...themselves in Song. The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us ? A kind of inarticulate...the Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that ! Nay all speech, even the commonest speech, has something of song in it : not a parish in the world... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Hero worship - 1841 - 408 pages
...themselves in Song. The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us ? A kind of inarticulate...the Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that ! Nay all speech, even the commonest speech, has something of song in it : not a parish in the world... | |
 | William Wetmore Story - Music - 1842 - 196 pages
...them all reveals more than we can speak, and nearest all that we feel ? Is it not, as Carlyle says, " a kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and let us for a moment gaze into that " — But the effort of musical art is not to imitate the sounds... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1849 - 260 pages
...themselves in Song. The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us ? A kind of inarticulate...Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that. Jfay all speech, even the commonest speech, has something of song in it: not a parish in the world... | |
 | John Seely Hart - American literature - 1852 - 488 pages
...for has he not in his own strange eloquence said, " Who is there, that in logical words can express the effect music has on us ? A kind of inarticulate...leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that?" Surely, they who can silently understand, if they cannot audibly interpret,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1858 - 412 pages
...themselves in Song. The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us ? A kind of inarticulate...the Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that ! Nay all speech, even the commonest speech, has something of song in it : not a parish in the world... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Hero worship - 1859 - 222 pages
...themselves in Song. The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us ? A kind of inarticulate...speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and kts us for moments gaze into that. Nay all speech, even the commonest speech, has something of song... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1861 - 234 pages
...meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us 1 A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which...Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that. Nay all speech, even the commonest speech, has something of gong in it : not a parish in the world... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...MUSIC— Influence -oí Tho meaning of song goes deep. Who is there that, in logical words, can express her : that which purifies us is trial, and tri il...is contrary. That virtue, thercf-trc, which ia but momenu gaze into that ! CarljU. Amid the golden gifts which Heaven Has loft, like portions of its light... | |
 | Patrick Proctor Alexander - Free will and determinism - 1868 - 230 pages
...law of familiarity.' Mr. Carlyle has said of Music, that it 'is a kind of inarticulate un' fathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the ' Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that' Foolishness as it must needs be to a certain class of readers, this seems to express with as much precision... | |
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