 | John Sullivan Dwight - Music - 1855 - 428 pages
...into their dressing rooms." Mreic. — Channing says, "I am no musician and want a good ear ; and yet I am conscious of a power in music, which I want words to describe. It touches chords, reaches depth» in the soul, which lie beyond all other influences, extends my consciousness, aud has sometimes... | |
 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1856 - 94 pages
...and surely he will doubt no more. " I am no musician," says Channing, " and want a good ear, and yet I am conscious of a power in music which I want words...all other influences, extends my consciousness, and sometimes gives me a pleasure which I have found in nothing else." We do not hesitate to advise parents... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 356 pages
...truth at bottom, and he wanted to understand more. " I am no musician, and want a good ear, and yet I am conscious of a power in music which I want words...in the soul, which lie beyond all other influences, — it extends my consciousness, and has sometimes given me a pleasure which I may have found in nothing... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Music - 1872 - 348 pages
...truth at bottom, and he wanted to understand more. " I am no musician, and want a good ear, and yet I am conscious of a power in music which I want words...in the soul, which lie beyond all other influences, — it extends my consciousness, and has sometimes given me a pleasure which I may have found in nothing... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1879 - 834 pages
...with the celebrated but long subsequent passage of Cardinal Newman on the religious aspect of music. " I am conscious of a power in music which I want words to describe. Nothing in my experience is more inexplicable. And instinct has always led me to transfer the religious... | |
 | English periodicals - 1879 - 562 pages
...with the celebrated but long subsequent passage of Cardinal Newman on the religious aspect of music. " I am conscious of a power in music which I want words to describe. Nothing in my experience is more inexplicable. An instinct has always led me to transfer the religious... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - English literature - 1880 - 396 pages
...discovers. Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici. MUSIC. I AM no musician, and want a good ear, and yet I am conscious of a power in music which I want words...in the soul, which lie beyond all other influences. It extends my consciousness, and has sometimes given me a pleasure which I may have found in nothing... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1880 - 750 pages
...a truth at bottom, and I wanted to understand more. I am no musician, and want a good car, and yet I am conscious of a power in music which I want words...describe. It touches chords, reaches depths in the soul, wlu'ch lie bej-ond all other influences, — extends my consciousness, and has sometimes given me a... | |
 | American periodicals - 1880 - 784 pages
...with the colobrated but long subsequent passage of Cardinal Newman on the religious aspect of music. "I am conscious of a power in music which I want words to describe. Nothing in my experience is more inexplicable. An instinct has always led me to transfer the religious... | |
 | Choice literature - 1880 - 786 pages
...with the celebrated but long subsequent passage of Cardinal Newman on the religious aspect of music. "I am conscious of a power in music which I •want words to describe. Nothing in my experience is more inexplicable. An instinct has always led me to transfer the religious... | |
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I have found in nothing else. Nothing in my experience is more mysterious, more inexplicable. An instinct has always led men to transfer it to Heaven, and I suspect the Christian under its power has often attained to a singular consciousness of his immortality. 
