 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!  Great Men at Play - Side 245af Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1889Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 sider
...here in this world. All inmost things, we may say, are melodious ; naturally utter themselves in Song. The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that,...leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that ! Nay all speech, even the commonest speech, has something of song in it : not... | |
 | William Wetmore Story - 1842 - 196 sider
...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 - 1849 - 260 sider
...here in this world. All inmost things, we may say, are melodious ; naturally utter themselves in Song. The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that,...leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that. Jfay all speech, even the commonest speech, has something of song in it: not... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1852 - 488 sider
...not ; but that he would, we have little doubt, for has he not in his own strange eloquence said, " Who is there, that in logical words can express the...Infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that?" Surely, they who can silently understand, if they cannot audibly interpret, this unfathomable speech,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 412 sider
...here in this world. All inmost things, we may say, are melodious ; naturally utter themselves in Song. The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that,...leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that ! Nay all speech, even the commonest speech, has something of song in it : not... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 222 sider
...here in this world. All inmost things, we may say are melodious ; naturally utter themselves in Song. The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that,...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 - 1861 - 234 sider
...here in this world. All inmost things, we may say are melodious ; naturally utter themselves in Song. The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that,...logical words, can express the effect music has on us 1 A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and lets... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 sider
...indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings. MUSIC— Influence -oí Tho meaning of song goes deep. Who is there that, in logical...leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for momenu gaze into that ! CarljU. Amid the golden gifts which Heaven Has loft, like portions of its light... | |
 | Patrick Proctor Alexander - 1868 - 230 sider
...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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 328 sider
...here in this world. All inmost things, we may say, are melodious ; naturally utter themselves in Song. The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that,...leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that ! Nay all speech, even the commonest speech, has something of song in it: not... | |
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