 | James Beattie - 1776 - 582 pages
...or language, would be necefTary to improve that fenfibility into a real emotion, by fixing the fancy upon fome definite and affecting ideas. A fine inftrumental...the fame air, and applying words to it, immediately tranllates the oration into our own language; then all uncertainty vanifhes, the fancy is filled with... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1812 - 442 pages
...emotion, by fixing the fancy up" on some definite and affecting ideas. A fine instru" mental symphony, well performed, is like an oration '" delivered with..." feeling. We are alarmed, perhaps, or melted, or sooth" ed ; but it is very imperfectly, because we know not " why. The singer by taking up the same... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1812 - 444 pages
...emotion, by fixing the fancy up" on some definite and affecting ideas. A fine instm" mental symphony, well performed, is like an oration " delivered with propriety, but in an unknown tongue ; tl it may affect us a little, but conveys no determinate " feeling. We are alarmed, perhaps, or melted,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1815 - 884 pages
...the fancy " upon some definite and affecting ideas. " A fine instrumental symphony, well per" formed, is like an oration delivered with " propriety, but...tongue; it " may affect us a little, but conveys no de" terminate feeling. We are alarmed, per" haps, or melted, or soothed ; but it is very " imperfectly,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1821 - 466 pages
...emotion, by fixing the fancy upon " some definite and affecting ideas. A fine instrumen" tal symphony, well performed, is like an oration " delivered with..." feeling. We are alarmed, perhaps, or melted, or " soothed ; but it is very imperfectly, because we know " not why. The singer by taking up the same... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1830 - 430 pages
...emotion, by fixing the fancy upon some definite "and affecting ideas. A fine instrumental symphony, well " performed, is like an oration delivered with...an unknown tongue ; it may affect us a little, but con" veys no determinate feeling. We are alarmed, perhaps, or " melted, or soothed ; but it is very... | |
 | Daniel Bishop - 1849 - 190 pages
...!" 125. By the application of language music becomes intelligible. " A fine instrumental symphony, well performed, is like an oration delivered with...determinate feeling. We are alarmed perhaps, or melted, or soothed, but it is very imjierfectly ; because we know not why. The singer by taking up the same air... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, Archibald Alison - 1871 - 332 pages
...emotion, by fixing the fancy upon some definite and affecting ideas. A fine instrumental symphony, well performed, is like an oration delivered with...tongue ; it may affect us a little, but conveys no definite feeling. We are alarmed, perhaps, or melted, or soothed ; but it is very imperfectly, because... | |
 | Robert Sutton (music master.) - 1872 - 154 pages
...of Music," page 1. t Murby's *' Musical Student's Manual," pa^'e 1. B A fine instrumental symphony, well performed, is like an oration delivered with...determinate feeling. We are alarmed, perhaps, or melted, or soothed ; but it is very imperfectly, because we know not why. The singer, by taking up the same air... | |
 | Henry Parker - 1885 - 376 pages
...real emotion, by fixing the fancy upon some definite and affecting ideas. A fine instrumental symphony well performed is like an oration delivered with propriety...determinate feeling. We are alarmed, perhaps, or melted or soothed, but very imperfectly, because we know not why. The singer, by taking up the same air, and... | |
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... it is very imperfectly, because we know not why: — the singer, by taking up the same air, and applying words to it, immediately translates the oration into our own language; then all uncertainty vanishes, the fancy is filled with determinate ideas... 
