| 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
...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 the pleasure is constructed ;...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 - 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 270 pages
...suppose that it is by the ear they communicate with music, and, therefore, that they are purely passive to its effects. But this is not so : it is by the...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... | |
| 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... | |
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