 | 1821 - 724 pages
...by the re-action of the mind upon the notices of the ear, (the matter coming by the senses, the form from the mind) that the pleasure is constructed :...organic sound an elaborate intellectual pleasure. But, says a friend, a succession of musical sounds is to me like a collection of Arabic characters... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 478 pages
...excitement ; and accounts for this by saying, that, 'Opiunt, by increasing the activity of the mind, increases of necessity that particular mode of its...organic sound, an elaborate intellectual pleasure. A chorus of elaborate harmony, displayed before me, as a piece of arras work, the whole of my past... | |
 | 1822 - 658 pages
...effects. But this is not so : it is by the re-action of the mind upon the notices of the ear (the mailer coming by the senses, the farm from the mind), that...equally good ear differ so much in this point from one-anotber. Now opium, by greatly increasing the activity of the mind generally, increases, of necessity,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 592 pages
...by the reaction of the mind upon the notices of the ear, (the matter coming by the senses, d,e form from the mind,) that the pleasure is constructed :...ear differ so much in this point from one another." Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, p. 106.— Ed. Of the tavern-musick, the French Editor says,... | |
 | 1836 - 744 pages
...and therefore it is that people, of equally good ear, differ so much on this point from each other. t Now, opium, by greatly increasing the activity of...that particular mode of its activity by which we are enabled to construct, out of the raw material of organic sound, an elaborate intellectual pleasure.... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - 1836 - 362 pages
...to its effects : but this is not so; it is by the re-action of the mind upon the notices of the ear, that the pleasure is constructed ; and therefore it...is that people, of equally good ear, differ so much on this point from each other. Now, opium, by greatly increasing the activity of the mind generally,... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - 1836 - 368 pages
...to its effects : but this is not so; it is by the re-action of the mind upon the notices of the ear, that the pleasure is constructed ; and therefore it...is that people, of equally good ear, differ so much on this point from each other. Now, opium, by greatly increasing the activity of the mind generally,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 270 pages
...is by the reaction of the mind upon the notices of the ear (the matter coming by the senses, the/orm from the mind), that the pleasure is constructed :...organic sound an elaborate intellectual pleasure. But, says a friend, a succession of musical sounds is to me like a collection of Arabic characters:... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 316 pages
...by the reaction of the mind upon the notices of the ear (the matter coming by the senses, the form from the mind) that the pleasure is constructed ;...organic sound an elaborate intellectual pleasure. But, says a friend, a succession of musical sounds is to me like a collection of Arabic characters... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 324 pages
...by the reaction of the mind upon the notices of the ear (the matter, coming by the senses, the form from the mind) that the pleasure is constructed ;...organic sound an elaborate intellectual pleasure. But, says a friend, a succession of musical sounds is to me like a collection of Arabic characters... | |
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Now opium, by greatly increasing the activity of the mind, generally increases, of necessity, that particular mode of its activity by which we are able to construct out of the raw material of organic sound an elaborate intellectual pleasure. 
