 | sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 582 pages
...suppose that it is by the ear they communicate with musick, and, therefore, that they are purely passive to its effects. But this is not so : it is by the...ear differ so much in this point from one another. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, p. 106.— Ed. Of the tavern-muiick, the French editor says,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 576 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 :...ear differ so much in this point from one another." Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, p. 106.-^-J?d. Of the tavern-mutidc, the French editor says,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 584 pages
...the ear (the matter coming by the senses, the form from the mind), that the pleasure iconstructed : and therefore it is that people of equally good ear differ so much in this point from one another." Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, p. 106.—Ed. 3 not only from my obedience, <fcc.] All the SfSS.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 290 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; and...organic sound an elaborate intellectual pleasure. But, says a friend, a succession of musical sounds is to me like a collection of Arabic characters... | |
 | 1864 - 390 pages
...is by the reaction of the mind upon the notes of the air (the matter coming by the sense, the form from the mind) that the pleasure is constructed, and...is that people of equally good ear differ so much from one another." Does not this passage explain in a most satisfactory manner how it is that Bach... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1867 - 140 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... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 356 pages
...by the reaction of the mind upon the notices of the ear (the matter coming from the senses, the form from the mind), that the pleasure is constructed ;...ear differ so much in this point from one another." The passage from Sir Thomas Brown is presumably that in which, after affirming that whatsoever is harmonically... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1872 - 348 pages
...by the reaction of the mind upon the notices of the ear (the matter coming from the senses, the form from the mind), that the pleasure is constructed ;...ear differ so much in this point from one another." The passage from Sir Thomas Brown is presumably that in which, after affirming that whatsoever is harmonically... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...tli-t people of equally good car differ so nitu'li it this point from one another. Now opium. !•; art ! 'Twas then we sat on ae laigh bink, To leir...and looks, and smiles were shed, Remembered evermai »re »ble to construct, out of the raw material of organic sound, an elaborate intellectual pleasure.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 636 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. 
