the end of a long life our poet gives us his oft-quoted conclusion : " ' I state it thus : There is no truer truth obtainable By man than comes of music' Caduceus of Kappa Sigma - Stran 4181895Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1919
...abstraction; it is a concrete reality drawn from experience. Browning says it all when he declares:— "There is no truer truth obtainable by man than comes of music." These lines go well with that other social axiom of his from "Pippa Parses"— "God's in his heaven,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1887 - 187 strani
...(Since fatal Wagner fixed it fast for us) In some unmodulated minor ? Nay, Even by Handel's help ! vI. I state it thus : There is no truer truth obtainable By Man than comes of music. " Soul " — (accept A word which vaguely names what no adept In word-use fits and fixes so that still... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1887
...(Since fatal Wagner fixed it fast for us) In some unmodulated minor ? Nay, Even by Handel's help ! VI. I state it thus : There is no truer truth obtainable By Man than comes of music. " Soul " — (accept A word which vaguely names what no adept In word-use fits and fixes so that still... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1887
...some unmodulated minor ? Nay, (Since fatal Wagner fixed it fast for us) Even by Handel's help ! VI. I state it thus : There is no truer truth obtainable By Man than comes of music. " Soul " — (accept A word which vaguely names what no adept In word-use fits and fixes so that still... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1889 - 291 strani
...fixed it fast for us) CHARLES AVISON In some unmodulated minor ? Nay, Even by Handel's help! 227 VI. I state it thus: There is no truer truth obtainable By Man than comes of music. " Soul"—(accept A word which vaguely names what no adept In word-use fits and fixes so that still... | |
 | John Trivett Nettleship - 1890 - 454 strani
...so moves its contemporary hearers, is that music touches the soul more closely than other arts do. I state it thus : There is no truer truth obtainable By man, than comes of music. Soul is the something which no adept in speech can express in any one word, but which, however it escapes... | |
 | Edward Berdoe - 1892 - 572 strani
...THE POEM.] This is a criticism of the province and office music in its influence on the mind of man. "There is no truer truth obtainable By man, than comes of music," i Mr. Browning. Underneatli Mind rolls the unsounded sea e Soul. Feeling from out its deeps emerges... | |
 | Edward Berdoe - 1892 - 572 strani
...POEM.] This is a criticism of the province and office of music in its influence on the mind of man. " There is no truer truth obtainable By man, than comes of music," says Mr. Browning. Underneath Mind rolls the unsounded sea —the Soul. Feeling from out its deeps... | |
 | 1893
...Browning's musical poems "Charles Avison" appeals most to the thoughtful musician. Having premised that "there is no truer truth obtainable by man than comes of music," he proceeds to examine what the nature of that truth is. The cogitations of the poet are aroused by... | |
 | 1894
...four musical poems we are prepared to find analysis and explanation, as well as mere description. Near the end of a long life our poet gives us his oft-quoted...truer truth obtainable By man than comes of music." In the plenitude of his powers the thought of a soul of enduring import back of the transience of sound... | |
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