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...the springs-of-universe. Among sun-flakes the toothless smile of a child. Music is a dream passing among the stars. Dancers are passing arm in arm ... ...ocent" of his poems, called "Lesson of Philosophy", "It is raining and the Saints are rotting in churches/at the windows the thought/flap the wings//L... ...mong Ion Pillat's worthy sucessors for this type of poem. Among names like Lucian Blaga, Virgil Teodorescu, Bazil Gruia, Ion Brad, Grigore Bieru, Gheo... ...Alp horn, the vineyard, the wine, the heart, the thought, the violins, the music, the dance, the longing, the evening, the stars, the moon, the lovers...

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...at is non-understood / is changed into many even greater non-understood” (Lucian Blaga). In another kind of paradoxical poetic experience, discourse ... ...us the absolute of the availability (“that should be more unusable than a saint”) and of “the possibility to renovate oneself through heresies”; an ... ... cultivated in a recent time, in which the visual intertwines with dance, music, text, may bring an important contribution to a deeper understanding... ...minaries - an antiopera, in which he exercises the pure casualness of the musical language). We can affirm that paradoxism is a neo-avant-gardism p... ...n the pages, the counterpoint verbalism, the coalescing of the words, the musical arrangement of the punctuation, the orthographic coercion - usually... ...rches to the solution of the crisis are the great lyric interrogations of Lucian Blaga or Ion Barbu? The researcher Elvira Solcan introduces the co... ...is real and meets it angrily Look with what comes out “the vulgar prose” Saint Simion Lemnaru (manuscript, dated Istanbul - Ankara, in the concentr... ...iolent state of dissatisfaction out of which paradoxism was born. Thus, Saint Simion Lemnaru is a book of an “old actuality”, if we think at a clan... ...n, Emil, The sylogisms of bitterness, Bucuresti, Humanitas, 1992. Chisu, Lucian, A cactus blooming in the desert, “Literatorul”, no.42/1994. Craci...

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... of culture, mass hysteria induced in groups of youngsters by the ″techno music″, etc. are examples of premeditated and culpable unidirectional focu... ...els, archangels and fire chariots lowered from heaven, the descent of the saints and of the Holy Spirit, walking over waters, <the Ascension>, etc. ... ...bsolute good would seem really unnatural, anomalous. (In ″The Miracles of Saint Sisoie″, G. Topârceanu noticed the grotesque of an idyllic good, by... ...oticed the grotesque of an idyllic good, by describing the scene where a saint invites another one in the bushes of the Elysian Fields, praying him... ...explain some sentimental manifestations of plants (the pleasure caused by music), intelligent manifestations of animals, as well as specific vegetat... ...losophy: the Dionysiac and Apollonian ones. In his ″Horizons and Stages″, Lucian Blaga asserts that Nietzsche′s bipolar philosophy is not contradict...

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...e but commerce and money". His attack against luxury: "those artists and musicians pursuing luxury are lowering their genius to the mediocre level ... ...led artist. An anti-Goethe and non-Faust. A sacerdotal sinner, a wicked saint. The heroes hide cowardly secrets. The poltroons have heroic f... ...y in the center of the speculative and metaphoric philosophical system of Lucian Blaga. Its inner tension dilates it. To reveal this is to form the... ... but to do and die. Criminals are transformed in heroes. Sinners in saints. This is the contemporary world! While innocents and obedient beco... ...s and inspire ideas. c) Sonorous Philosophy: a symphony melody, the jazz music, a sound, any noise are all ideas, or inspire ideas - because they d...

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...obiecte negre, accentuate... conceput de Jean Tinguely (elve ţian) şi Niki de Saint Phalle (francez) – intitulat “Hommage à Stravinsky”. Şi muzic ă ... ...entimente. Clubul era de fapt un restaurant semiîntunecat. Str ăb ătusem Bd. Saint Michel, Bd. Montparnasse (de bog ăta şi, aici locuie şte şi dram... ...olo: – Poate c ă nu-s de rangul ei, dar nici ea nu-i de ranga mea!... Pe Rue Saint-Remi, lâng ă port. Mas într-o libr ărie. Dau cu ochii prin raftu... ...t la infinit”, în Târgovi şte. Nici n-am ştiut, m-a informat M. I. Vlad. Ion Lucian, de la Teatrul “Excelsior” Bucure şti, p ărea interesat în “P ă... ...e lui Graziano Marini g ălbenicioase cu linii intercalate), ori şterse (Zoran Music), ori curate şi albastre-ro şii (Sebastian Burckhardt), ori în p...

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...ract distinguished men. T all, handsome, and finely-formed, she was a good musician, drew and painted, spoke several languages, and even knew somethin... ...y as she did the thorns of a position which can only be likened to that of Saint-Laurence on his grid-iron, is it any wonder that she sometimes cried ... ...ms without too roughly jarring the existing state of things or incurring a Saint-Bartholomew of clerks, Rabourdin considered that an evolution of twen... ... Voltairean, yet punctual at mass if a fashionable company could be met in Saint Thomas Aquinas,—such a man as this secretary-gen- eral resembled, in ... ...aintances were bidden, and dancing went on till very late, formerly to the music of one violin, but for the last six years Monsieur Godard, who was a ... ...rks the piece into shape; and third, the toucher-up, who sets the songs to music, arranges the chorus and concerted pieces and fits them into their ri... ...leville. “Monsieur Cochin signs E. A. L. Cochin (he is named Emile-Adolphe-Lucian), which, when anagrammed, gives Cochineal. Now observe, he’s a partn...

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...ired in the higher spheres of statesmanship [are not] those of a hero or a saint. Passionate earnestness and self-devotion, complete concentration of ... ...ers would be marching across the country for its final extirpation, to the music of the war-song of the great conflict: “John Brown’s body lies a-moul... ...of papers on the kitchen table and requested that they should be handed to Lucian. He made no apology for coming to the kitchen, nor for not handing t... ... He made no apology for coming to the kitchen, nor for not handing them to Lucian himself, but showed the token of being frightened and confused both ... ...rson ever saw it in his possession. Next I quote a sentence, “Now my son Lucian swears that when Talbott called for the deed, that he, Talbott, open...

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........................................................... 39 A FRAGMENT: TO MUSIC. ....................................................................... ..................................................... 40 ANOTHER FRAGMENT: TO MUSIC......................................................................... ............................................................... 107 FRAGMENT: MUSIC AND SWEET POETRY. ...................................................... ...g interest that pervade this work. There was something in the character of Saint-Preux, in his abnegation of self, and in the worship he paid to Love,... ...the Prometheus of Aeschylus, several of Plutarch’s Lives, and the works of Lucian. In Latin, Lucretius, Pliny’s Letters, the Annals and Germany of Tac... ... _95 By thy sweet love was sanctified; And in thy smile, and by thy side, Saintly Camillus lived, and firm Atilius died. But when tears stained thy r...

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...t the great peoples from whom we sprang; the warring of Harold Fairhair or Saint Olaf; the Viking (1) kingdoms in these (the British) Western Isles; t... ...t at Sticklestead, where Olaf Haraldsson lost his life and won the name of Saint—was, like all religions, a com- pound of myths, those which had survi... ...uieted men’s lives, although the poetry which stood to the folk in lieu of music did not die away, it lost the exclusive hold it had upon men’s minds.... ...ce we have histories alike of kingdoms, or families, or miracles, lives of saints, kings, or bishops in saga-form, as well as subjects that seem at fi... ...h epic of the century; (13) and Richard W agner in the mightiest among his music-dramas. Of the story as told in the saga there is no need here to spe... ...etransform themselves into wolves when they bite. Apuleius, Petronius, and Lucian have similar stories. The Emperor Sigismund con- voked a council of ...

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...AMELIA By Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Amelia by H... ...ectronic Classics Series Publication Amelia by Henry Fielding, ed. George Saintsbury is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Po... ... electronic transmission, in any way. Amelia by Henry Fielding, ed. George Saintsbury, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, ... ...e started from her chair, repeating, “Murder! oh! it 31 Henry Fielding is music in my ears!—You have heard then the cause of my commitment, my glory,... ... miracle; but what chiefly rec- ommended him to my father was his skill in music, of which you know that dear man was the most violent lover. I wish h... ...father, had the very contrary ef- fect with me: I had never any delight in music, and it was not without much difficulty I was prevailed on to learn t... ...inced he studied above all others—you guess, I believe, I am going to name Lucian. This author, I say, I am convinced, he followed; but I think he fol... ... age of the Philopatris, when he gives him the epithet of the incomparable Lucian; and incomparable, I believe, he will remain as long as the language... ...ich Mr. Rowe translated, was written by Lucan; but I have been speaking of Lucian, a Greek writer, and, in my opin- 326 Amelia ion, the greatest in t...

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...he upper part of people’s thighs as he made shift to shuffle about, making music, such as it was, and raising a smile even from the gravest. It was cu... ...ill one find views so injurious to human nature as in Thucydides, Juvenal, Lucian, but more particularly T acitus? When I consider that, ever since th... ...a sad rake.’ Therein is his promise; the rake being crude material for the saint.’” “Ah, you are a talking man—what I call a wordy man. You talk, talk... ...stine confesses that, until his thirtieth year, he was a very sad dog?” “A saint a sad dog?” “Not the saint, but the saint’s irresponsible little fore... ...three thrones on the dais, as for the three kings of Cologne, those patron saints of the barber), “sir, you say you trust men. Well, I suppose I might...

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...o be relied upon where there’s a woman.” She refused her implicit trust to saints—”if ever a man really was a saint before he was can- onized!” Her pe... ...erious claim on her who is the heart of it. He marched on that road to the music of sonorous brass for some drunken minutes. The question came, What o... ...of the red-lipped mate, where there were no words, went through him like a music when the bow is over the viol, sweeping imagination, and they said he... ...se of blessedness she had in her bowed simplicity of feeling was as if the sainted dead had cleansed and anointed her. When the sods had been cast on,... ..., therefore to live. She had yester- day read letters of a man who broke a music from the word— about as much music as there is in a tuning —fork, yet... ...He was my tutor when I was a girl. He was fond of declaiming passages from Lucian and Longus and Ovid. One day he was at it with a piece out of Daphni...

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...ce in the last resort with the spirit of martyrdom on behalf of man’s most saintly in- terests. In proportion as the instruments for upholding or retr... ...terests. In proportion as the instruments for upholding or retrieving such saintly interests should come to be dishon- ored or less honored, would the... ...of the mail, was transformed into a dream, as tumultuous and changing as a musical fugue. This troubled Dream is circumstantially reported in Section ... ...l, and Miss Watson very well, and with the power of singing difficult part music at sight, they did so for the same reason that the lark sings, and ch... ...nd generally of those who were then known amongst sneerers as “the Clapham saints.” This one requisition it was on which the scheme foundered. And the... ...pital disadvantage, in my eyes, that its chapel possessed no organ, and no musical ser- vice. But any other choice would have driven me to an in- stan... ...hich is not a representa- tive specimen of the author’s manner. In reading Lucian, I once stumbled on a passage of German pathos, and of Ger- man effe... ...have been intellectually just, to quote this as the text of an eulogium on Lucian? What false criticism it would have suggested to every reader! what ...

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...yre-carlings [Witches] frae the bonny bairn, grace be wi’ it? Ay, or ‘said Saint Colme’s charm for its sake, the dear?” And without waiting an an- 32... ...hes of their will; Weel is them, that weel may Fast upon St. Andrew’s day. Saint Bride and her brat, Saint Colme and his cat, Saint Michael and his sp... ...nts, which made them occasionally useful and entertaining. Many cultivated music with success; and the favourite fiddler or piper of a district was of... ...rtial. I thought for some time that some tuneful domestic, whose taste for music was laid under constraint during the day, chose that silent hour to i... ...resort of walking gentlemen of all descriptions, poets, players, painters, musicians, who come to rave, and recite, and madden, about this picturesque... ...mass is singing, From thee doff thy mortal weed, Mary Mother be thy speed, Saints to help thee at thy need;— Hark! the knell is ringing. Fear not snow... ...ER XXXVIII. Die and endow a college or a cat Pope THERE IS A FABLE told by Lucian, that while a troop of mon- keys, well drilled by an intelligent man...

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...or some time. “The sergeant had recovered his power of speech. ‘By all the saints!’ he cried, ‘we shall have to get a cavalry man with a lasso to secu... ... he had contemplated in churches the inanimate and powerful statues of the saints, 31 Joseph Conrad whose protection is invoked in dangers and diffi-... ...to climb the walls, and I heard him distinctly invoke the names of several saints. ‘Out, out, Santierra!’ he yelled. “The girl’s voice was the only on... ...d by a shabby Variety Artists’ Agency—an agency for performers in inferior music-halls, you know. A fel- low-called Bomm, I remember. He was not distu... ...years old if a day, so his death wasn’t, perhaps, so surprising. Still Mr. Lucian Apse was convinced that his father would have lived to a hundred. So... ...e darkish iron- grey, but his hair went snow-white in a fortnight. And Mr. Lucian Apse (they had known each other as young men) pretended not to notic... ... surgeon whom he knew fairly well. The sounds of the flute ceased, and the musician ap- peared at the window, his instrument still in his hand, peerin... ... that it dated from the time they were holding garrison in Strasbourg. The musical surgeon shook his head at that. It went much farther back, he thoug...

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... Compleat Angler — Walton 9 even in their own trap, according to that of Lucian, the father of the family of Scoffers: Lucian, well skilled in scoff... ...a soft lodging at night:—These I will pass by, but not those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which n... ...ut the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud musick out of her little in strumental throat, that it might make mankind ... ...bling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, “Lord, what musick hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou affordest bad... ...lifted above earth, and say, “Lord, what musick hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such musick on Earth!“ And th...

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...waves on all sides, and beating the sea before him into a foam.” —Tooke’ s Lucian. “The True History.” “He visited this country also with a view of ca... ...om the deck, reversing all other processions, by bringing up the rear with music. But ere stepping into the cabin doorway below, he pauses, ships a ne... ...of a modern ship sing out for a sail, or a whale just bearing in sight. In Saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times, who built him a l... ... corn when you may, say I. All legs go to harvest soon. Ah! here comes the music; now for it! Azore sailor. (Ascending, and pitching the tambourine up... ...l rest), whence requim denominating the mass itself, and any other funeral music. Now, in allusion to the white, silent still- ness of death in this s... ... once narrated it at Lima, to a lounging circle of my Spanish friends, one saint’s eve, smoking upon the thick-gilt tiled pi- azza of the Golden Inn. ... ...of a griffin-like shape, and though the battle is depicted on land and the saint on horseback, yet considering the great ignorance of those times, whe...

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...e waves on all sides, and beating the sea before him into a foam.” Tooke’s Lucian. Extracts 5 “The True History. ” “He visited this country also with... ...om the deck, reversing all other processions, by bringing up the rear with music. But ere stepping into the cabin doorway below, he pauses, ships a ne... ...of a modern ship sing out for a sail, or a whale just bearing in sight. In Saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times, who built him a l... ...e corn when you may,say I. All legs go to harvest soon. Ah! here comes the music; now for it! Azore sailor. (Ascending, and pitching the tambourine up... ...rest), whence Requiem denominating the mass itself, and any other funereal music. Now, in allusion to the white, silent stillness of death in this 18... ... once narrated it at Lima, to a lounging circle of my Spanish friends, one saint’s eve, smoking upon the thick gilt tiled piazza of the Golden Inn. Of... ... of a griffin like shape, and though the battle is depicted on land and the saint on horseback, yet considering the great ignorance of those times, whe...

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...in their spiritual guide. But as to the preference for oratory—for loud or musical voice—for peculiar views in religion—these things are special: they... ... a sort of measured tread, by way of impressing a regular cadence upon the music of their feet. The chains of gold were exchanged, as luxury advanced,... ...th, still the ludicrous aspects of the Parliamentary war, and its fighting saints, were too striking to have perished. If not in a narrative form, the... ... the combination of such fabulous beings in the same groups with glorified saints and angels, as there is to the combination, by a painter or a sculpt... .... chermadion, or hand- ful; of which he also cites the definition given by Lucian, [Greek text: lithos cheiroplaethaes], a hand-filling stone. Ninety ... ...y speed, and in a moment all is over. Like festal shows, or the hurry- ing music of such shows— ‘It was, and it is not.’ Untruly, therefore, was it ev...

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...ts forth notes which might charm the ears of some modern connois seurs in music; now, in the imagination of the half drunk clown, as he staggers thro... ...amation are used by ladies in a fright, as fa, la, la, ra, da, &c., are in music, only as the vehicles of sound, and without any fixed ideas. Next t... ...leader, his heart beating time, but not after the manner of heroes, to the music of the drum, which ceased not till they had traversed the common, and... ...f glory from ambition. Come, thou that hast inspired thy Aristophanes, thy Lucian, thy Cervantes, thy Rabelais, thy Moliere, thy Shakespear, thy Swift... ...e is one whose devotion to the fair sex, like that of the papists to their saints, wants to be raised by the help of pictures. But I am so far from de...

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...rmingly narrates how they used to awake him by the sound of some agreeable music, and how he learned Latin, without suffering the rod or shed- ding a ... ... would not, if he did not speak too loud. He then summoned Mademoiselle de Saint Quentin, his niece, to him, and addressed her thus: “Dear niece, sinc... ...cted by our friends.”—Cicero, T usc. i. 45.]—and it was a holy saying of a saint, “Curatio funeris, conditio sepultura: pompa exequiarum, magis sunt v... ...ople about the cataracts of the Nile; and what philosophers believe of the music of the spheres, that the bodies of those circles being solid and smoo... ....]—The Ephoros who so rudely cut the two strings that Phrynis had added to music never stood to ex- amine whether that addition made better harmony, o... ...in? and yet there would be something of greater moment in the case than in Lucian, that Sigma should serve Tau with a process; for “Non l... ...owl.”—Juvenal, Sat., viii. 144.—The Santones were the people who inhabited Saintonge in France, from whom the Romans derived the use of hoods or cowls...

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...etical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 ful terrier. To obtain a terse and musical expression for his thought is his artistic purpose, but that of his... ...ngth, their intricate but in- tense sweetness, their varied and voluminous music, their linked chains of lightning, and feel the difference between th... ... poem suggests the wish that more of our critics would write in verse. The music might lessen the malice, and set off the commonplace to advan- tage, ... ...ave, Save just at dinner—then prefers, no doubt, A rogue with venison to a saint without. 80 Who would not praise Patricio’s ... ...rron 2 ) Otho a warrior, Cromwell a buffoon? A perjured prince 3 a leaden saint revere, A godless regent 4 tremble at a star? ... ...onduct; one, heroic love. ’Tis from high life high characters are drawn; A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn; A judge is just, a chancellor just... ...Arms:’ the Bible, Curll’s sign; the Cross-keys, Lintot’s. 304 ‘Seas:’ see Lucian’s Icaro-Menippus, where this fiction is more extended.—P . 305 ‘Eva...

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...first book, and in 1590 he published the comic catalogue of the library of Saint Victor, borrowed from the second book. It is not a translation, but a... ...ut little account. On the other hand, the influence of Aristophanes and of Lucian, his intimate acquaintance with nearly all the writers of antiquity,... ...there are the sheep. The tempest is there, and the in- vocation to all the saints. Rabelais improves all he borrows, but it is from Folengo he starts.... ...th may not have been manipulated and adorned. The Counts of Anjou were not saints. They were proud, quarrelsome, violent, rapacious, and extravagant, ... ...rs, as Timotheus did to his disciples, who had been instructed under other musicians. To do this the better, they brought him into the company of lear... ...y in that, but in the other mathematical sciences, as geometry, astronomy, music, &c. For in waiting on the concoction and 90 Gargantua & Pantagruel ... ...the astronomical canons. After this they recreated themselves with singing musically, in four or five parts, or upon a set theme or ground at ran- dom... ... talk together as Icaromenippus did to Jupiter, according to the report of Lucian. Have you understood all this well? Drink then one good draught with...

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...erable only, but full of solemnity and loveliness? How has the belief of a Saint been united in this high and true mind with the clearness of a Scepti... ...n school. She initiated him into the mystical writings of those abstracted saints, and she engaged him in the study of alchemy, which served at once t... ...ds of a master, compels a language which is as rich as Greek to be also as musical. The spring of 1773, which witnessed the publication of Götz, saw h... ...ppeal, or do whatever else seems necessary. All at once a singular sort of music announces, if we may so speak, the advent of former centuries. It pro... ...ged and raised into a pile. His father possessed a beautiful red-lacquered music- stand, ornamented with gilt flowers, in the form of a four- sided py... ... he discovered in the rest of the family hearts so openly disposed for his saint. The copy which he used only one week during the year was given over ... ...allowed free play, both in his programmes and his public speeches; and, as Lucian was almost the only writer whom he read and esteemed, he spiced all ... ...age. We sat in his library, at a table covered with oil-cloth, a much-read Lucian never quit- ting his side. In spite of all my willingness, I did not... ...oint to the repository. I took the volume, he let me read, turned over his Lucian; and, when I made any remarks on the book, his ordinary laugh was th...

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...armonics” upon the feeling of an idiot, we may conceive what we mean. Such music does not utterly revolt the idiot; on the contrary, it has a strange ... ...hentic dramas. As to the first argument, let it be remembered, that if the saints of the chapel are always in the same honor, because there men are si... ...en are simply discharging a duty, which once due will be due for ever; the saints of the theatre, on the other hand, must bend to the local genius, an... ... question as seriously affecting the glory of the poet. In some legends of saints, we find that they were born with a lambent circle or golden aureola... ...3. TE 3. TE 3. TE 3. TE 3. A great modern poet refers to this very case of music enter- ing “the mouldy chambers of the dull idiot’s brain;” but in su... ...ave been fear- fully caustic. But, as they failed to produce anything, and Lucian in an after age is scarcely characteristic enough for the purpose, p... ...hat temptations did it unfold? These calls upon the moral powers, which in music so stormy, many a life is doomed to hear, how were they faced? The ch...

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...ari- see, who belonged to the sect called The Dashers (that little knot of saints whose manner of dashing and lacerating the feet against the pavement... ...and what with rambling in the woods, sketching, boating, fishing, bathing, music, and books, we should have passed the time pleasantly enough, but for... ...beauty in the prime of her womanhood, putting one in mind of the statue in Lucian, with the surface of Parian marble, and the interior filled with fil... ...n to eternity alone. And thus 103 V olume Five when by Poetry, or when by Music, the most entrancing of the poetic moods, we find ourselves melted in... ...those divine and rapturous joys of which through’ the poem, or through the music, we attain to but brief and indeterminate glimpses. The struggle to a... ...en, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore; Not the least obeisance made he; not an instant stopp... ...his soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Clasp a rare and radiant maiden...

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...st philosophers. The contempla tive atheist is rare: a Diagoras, a Bion, a Lucian perhaps, and some others; and yet they seem to be more than they a... ...r. What would men have? Do they think, those they employ and deal with, are saints? Do they not think, they will have their own ends, and be truer to... ... the time, let him find means to take them off, and to bring oth ers on; as musicians use to do, with those that dance too long galliards. If you dis... ...t, that the song be in quire, placed aloft, and accompanied with some broken music; and the ditty fitted to the device. Acting in song, especially in ... ...n. Let the songs be loud and cheerful, and not chirpings or pulings. Let the music likewise be sharp and loud, and well placed. The colors that show b...

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...rates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian, and Isocrates ad Demonicum and Ad Nicoclem. I also read, in 1813, t... ...well as many of the songs in Walter Scott, I used to sing internally, to a music of my own: to some of the latter, indeed, I went so far as to compose... ... house; among whom I have pleasure in the recollection of having once seen Saint Simon, not yet the founder either of a philosophy or a religion, and ... ...e imaginative arts in which I had from childhood taken great pleasure, was music; the best effect of which (and in this it surpasses perhaps every oth... ...t height, is precious for sus taining them at other times. This effect of music I had often experienced; but, like all my pleasurable susceptibilitie... ...led himself, and even announced him self in the title page as, a pupil of Saint Simon. In this tract M. Comte first put forth the doctrine, which he ...

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...at- ing abundance of their enemies. They have not so much as a name for God, and have no religion, no worship. The saints who are canonized amongst th... ...oncubitor atque mularum. (Peregr. Baumgarten, 1. ii. c. I. p. 73.) More of the same kind concerning these precious saints amongst the Turks 53 John L... ...fied by diversity of notes of different length put to- gether, which make that complex idea called a tune, which a musician may have in his mind when ... ...e of eating and drinking to re- move them: the pain of teeth set on edge; the pleasure 218 Human Understanding of music; pain from captious uninstruc... ...habitual train, when once they are put into their track, as well as it does to explain such motions of the body. A musician used to any tune will find... ...es. Monsieur Menage furnishes us with an ex- ample worth the taking notice of on this occasion: “When the abbot of Saint Martin,” says he, “was born, ... ...the world. And no wonder, since the philosophers of old, (the disputing and wrangling philosophers I mean, such as Lucian wit- tily and with reason ta...