| 单词 | music of the spheres |
| 例句 | He told me about Occam’s razor, about Ptolemy and the music of the spheres, and how everyone had been all wrong about the sun and the planets for so many centuries. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Greek theorists called the orbiting motions they observed in the night sky ‘the music of the spheres’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z One struck the dead globe, causing it to sing its strange filamental music of the spheres, fragile and high-pitched above the outside noises. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Wallace Berman visualized the music of the spheres emanating from transistor radios, which he printed on a copier machine. 'Someday Is Now' reflects influence of the '60s and Warhol on artist Sister Corita 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Monk and her singers chirrup and caw, clack and chant, sometimes evoking the cries of animals or the wailing of sirens, sometimes suggesting a music of the spheres. Songs of Ascension 2010-08-31T20:30:00Z How much you can tolerate all this will depend on your own particular attunement to the music of the spheres. Looking Inward, and Back, at a Biennale for the History Books 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z The piece's inexorable drift and eerie soundworld suggest something akin to a music of the spheres, but the music follows no tidy geometric map. Luke Bedford Portrait – review 2013-05-24T16:47:20Z “His gift or genius is in his connection to the music of the spheres,” Dylan told New Yorker editor David Remnick. Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter of love, death and philosophical longing, dies at 82 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z His advice: “Do yourself in, or learn the harp and play the music of the spheres.” How a Grandmother’s Diary Led to a Long-Lost Literary Gem 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Listening to Mozart, you can believe high science and music a unified thing, as in that Pythagorean dream of the music of the spheres. I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky; Icarus at the Edge of Time; Don Giovanni 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z Assessing one of the few commercial recordings of Herschel’s compositions, the Gramophone critic Stanley Sadie wrote that this is “no music of the spheres,” and bemoaned its structural predictability and lurching modulations. William Herschel Is Famous for Science. What About His Music? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Think of the clatter as the music of the spheres, even if in this case the spheres are cheap, plastic and castoff. Review | In the galleries: The first exhibition of contemporary Portuguese works in the U.S. 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z It’s a spontaneously choreographed and completely controlled dance to the music of the spheres. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Listen, this was a guy who said that when he was a kid he heard the music of the spheres. The peak of Sinatra’s power: “Every Sinatra performance was acting. His greatest performance was as himself” 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z The real music, the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding, comes to me and I’m just a channel. For John Lennon, Isolation Had a Silver Lining 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Ethereal and strange, it was as if the building was singing its own music of the spheres. Susan Philipsz: Lament for a drowned love 2010-04-04T21:00:00Z They want it to peal with the music of the spheres, and it doesn’t. Review: ‘The Hatred of Poetry’: Let’s Count the Ways 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z In one of Mr. Taylor’s strangest effects, some of them wear strange geometrical headdresses with reflective surfaces: it makes them inhuman, Olympian, like visiting deities moving to the music of the spheres. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Offers a Vision of the World Through Mirrors and Illusions 2011-02-27T23:16:14Z "Some people liken it to the music of the spheres – it's very difficult to achieve, but once you've experienced it, it becomes addictive." The secret of barbershop: harmonise, project ? and smile! 2010-07-27T21:29:00Z The fact that each of these planetlike orange circles is itself made up of tiny orange circles makes clear that the music of the spheres is also the music of atoms, and vice versa. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in August 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z One alternation of silence and electronic sounds helps you to sense that here is the music of the spheres; so does the choreography. Dance Review: Cunningham Dance Company Offers Finality and Contentment 2011-12-30T14:27:41Z Never before has humanity reached out to so deliberately strike such a lasting chord in the music of the spheres. Keep Looking Up 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z His music of the spheres not only sounds like music of the spheres but looks like it too. Appreciation: How George Crumb became one of America's most surprisingly consequential composers 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z In April, we also got further notice of music of the spheres with the capturing of radio waves by a Canadian radio telescope with the appropriate acronym of CHIME. How Terry Riley and Kronos Quartet turned the sun's radiance into the most moving music 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z “His gift or genius is in his connection to the music of the spheres,” Dylan went on. Leonard Cohen Makes It Darker 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Perhaps there is something mystical about global capital markets, humming to the music of the spheres as they coalesce the opinions of all investors and translate them into prices moment-by-moment. Guy Spier's The Education Of A Value Investor 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z That movement was believed to produce a celestial music — the “music of the spheres” — undetectable to sinful human beings on the fallen Earth. When Science Meets Fiction 2013-01-28T03:15:00.220Z Johannes Kepler, the seventeenth-century astronomer after whom the spacecraft was named, theorized that Earth and all the other known planets made their own sounds — an arrangement that he called the music of the spheres. Kepler?s surprise: The sounds of the stars 2012-01-04T18:20:15.193Z They seemed to whirl like twin stars in a cosmic dance to the music of the spheres, the song the stars sing together. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z It is like the gradual drawing together from empty space all the music of the spheres. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z It is like the music of the spheres which only Pythagoras heard. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z The music of the spheres surrounding the world would then presumably be the mocking laughter of all the other creatures around mankind. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Only in unusual circumstances can the music of the spheres be heard by mortal ears. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z Far sweeter than even the music of the spheres, those nightingales of space, is this most beautiful note in the song of creation! Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z The roar of cannon-balls delights his ears, To him it is the music of the spheres. A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z And Lamme, who was wellnigh bursting with all that he had eaten, said that he could hear in his stomach a sound like the music of the spheres. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z Perhaps Lorenzo was right, even about the music of the spheres; and that our deafness, not their silence, is the reason why we do not hear it. Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z THE job of the professional astrophysicist is to contemplate the music of the spheres. Air travel: Please be seated 2011-08-31T17:32:44Z Was that the music of the spheres they wondered? The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza 2011-08-19T02:00:16.653Z Do we persuade them that jazz is the music of the spheres? Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z Hawkesworth will enliven our progress with his cheerful, sensible converse, and Stanley accompany the music of the spheres. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theater, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z “I have a new conception of the music of the spheres,” he said. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z In the soft whirr of their motors men will hear the music of the spheres. The Coming of Coal 2011-06-17T02:00:17.207Z Even in Shakspeare, the stars are already orbs, each orb has his motion, and in his motion produces the music of the spheres. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z Outside, the world was brightened into a land of the sun--every tree was a rich, firm-rooted joy-flower--the valley a condensed universe, ringing with music of the spheres. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z Other men may see the stars shining in the midnight silence, but it seems to me that I actually hear that 'music of the spheres' spoken of by Pythagoras. The Prussian Terror 2011-05-04T02:00:15.170Z The chord of Virtue, Truth, and Beauty, taken from the music of the spheres, calls us from this dark oppressive earth, and announces to us the nearness of a more melodious existence. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z Zinka," he urged, "can you not forgive me for having jingled the fool's cap for six weeks till I could not hear the music of the spheres? Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z The beautiful fancy of the music of the spheres is attributed to him. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z That feathered echo, the nightingale, was singing to us phrases of the music of the spheres, to us inaudible until thus repeated to us by her. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z There was a pause, one of those rare intervals when ears are opened to the music of the spheres, and souls may meet. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z For the subtler symphonic music—that music of the spheres to which the ears of poets alone are attuned—Byron had an imperfect sympathy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z A new song was in her heart, its words inarticulate as yet, but its harmonies singing with the music of the spheres. A Romance in Transit And the step visibly gained in majesty as he overheard the music of the spheres: "Daddy, who is he?" H. R. "A woman's tongue," he says, "should be like the imaginary music of the spheres, sweet and charming, but not to be heard at distance." A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time Why, it is asked, do we not hear this music of the spheres if it exists? Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens And give resounding grace to all Heaven’s harmonies: by echoing back the music of the spheres. 249-252. Minor Poems by Milton Nothing, indeed, but the deafening blare of Byron's brazen trumpet could have silenced this music of the spheres. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) He could look at a woman as though he saw all heaven in her eyes, and could listen to her as though the music of the spheres was to be heard in her voice. Lady Anna And come it has, sufficingly, the discord disappears Until today again is heard the music of the spheres Proclaiming thee the well-beloved, peer of the proudest peers. Walt Whitman Yesterday and Today We leave her in the music of the spheres. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens And in one song magnificently rise, The music of the spheres, That more than marble should immortalize My name in after years. Weeds by the Wall Verses The motif of the poem recalls the truth expressed in the lines: “Who loves the music of the spheres And lives on earth, must close his ears To many voices that he hears.” The Brownings Their Life and Art As well attempt to score the music of the spheres, or to paint "the fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf." The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 See Job xxxviii. 4-7, the oldest reference to the "music of the spheres." Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer One Greek there was, Pythagoras, who discerned the association between the distant music of the spheres with the seven notes of the scale. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 Joy has here expelled all sadness, perfect peace displaced all fears— All around that central Throne makes the true "music of the spheres." Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes Loud, shrilly, liquid, soft; at that quick touch Such modulation wooed his angel ears That Zophiël wondered, started from his couch And thought upon the music of the spheres. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 To F. W. B. Family Those scarlet days come back to me to-night Across the span of many happy years— Dreams, haunted by the music of the spheres, And glowing skies of gold and chrysolite. The Loom of Life An allusion to the music of the spheres. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer In an essay written when he was eighteen he defined poetry as "the soul of man put into untrammelled speech, the voice of angels, the music of the spheres." War Letters of a Public-School Boy The idea which the ancients had of the music of the spheres was here explained to S——, and some general notion was given to him of the harmonic numbers. Practical Education, Volume I The greatest poet by her side, the music of the spheres sounding in her ear, would not have made Elinor forget her troubles like the stretching out towards the fire of those little pink toes. The Marriage of Elinor The whole system was supposed to produce, in its revolution, for the few privileged to hear the music of the spheres, a sound as of some magnificent harmony. Pioneers of Science "If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the spheres, How would he wish that Heaven had left him still The whispering zephyr and the purling rill!" Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer "You are making it akin to 'the music of the spheres,'" said Mr. Linden. Say and Seal, Volume I I shall close this chapter on the music of Nature by appending a beautiful reference to what has been called "the music of the spheres." Music and Some Highly Musical People The spectacle of the universe absorbed him, and listening for the Pythagorean music of the spheres he sometimes became deaf to the voices of those puny lives about him. The Orchard of Tears The “music of the spheres” hath also a true rhythm, “There is neither speech nor language but their voices are heard.” The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" To us the music of the spheres is exalting as it is exalted; and the music of earth is a "sphere-descended maid, friend of pleasure, wisdom's aid." Moon Lore How is it that he manages with so small, so limited a vocabulary, to capture the very "music of the spheres"? Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations It is, indeed, the old Pythagorean "music of the spheres" audible at last again. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Below in the teeming streets moved a million such points, each one but a single note in this vast orchestration, a bird note, faint, inaudible 'mid the music of the spheres. The Orchard of Tears And then his voice is like the music of the spheres. The Vicar of Bullhampton It leads to the music of the spheres. The Lost Art of Reading Who gives up much the gods give more in turn: The music of the spheres for dross of gold; For o'er-officious cares, flame-songs that burn Their pathway through the years and never old. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 It only shows how unhappily one great man has missed the music of the spheres, and failed to catch the “meaning” of God's work. The Education of American Girls Our lives blend with one another in the very music of the spheres. My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year Like the fabulous music of the spheres, once allowed to break sonorously upon the human ear, it would render us deaf to all other sounds. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. It may not be the best, but listening to the singing of the crickets is more worth while than seeming to listen to the music of the spheres. The Lost Art of Reading Mr. Thoreau has twice listened to the music of the spheres, which, for our private convenience, we have packed into a musical box. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 —Charles Heavysege Preparatory.—Compare other passages from literature which suggest the "music of the spheres," for example: Dryden's Song for Saint Cecilia's Day, The Moonlight Scene from The Merchant of Venice, Milton's The Hymn. The Ontario High School Reader The music of the spheres is no fable. How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions This is the reason why, when an act of genuine forgiveness occurs, "the music of the spheres" seems to become audible in our nether world. The Essentials of Spirituality Like that same mystic music of the spheres, Which no one bears, so loudly though it rings, 'T is wonderful how oft the sex have heard Long dialogues—which pass'd without a word! Don Juan The feeling is as powerful, almost, as that of a mother, who thinks her own ugly cub a cherub compared to others, and its squallings the music of the spheres. The King's Own “A grand instrument that,” said Tony, “such as I suppose an angel might choose to sound forth the music of the spheres.” On the Banks of the Amazon "None?" said Pericles; "why it is the music of the spheres." Tales from Shakespeare It was to the music of the spheres they were dancing. The Seventh Noon And as the spot where they appear he nears, Surprised at these unwonted signs of idling, He hears—alas! no music of the spheres, But an unhallow'd, earthly sound of fiddling! Don Juan The threefold echo of virtue, truth, and beauty, created by the music of the spheres, calls us from this hollow earth to the neighborhood of the music. My New Curate Hadn't the hideous official room that held her been heaven to him?—the singing of the naked gas-jets the music of the spheres? Mary Gray Even thus may we drink in the music of the spheres, and, strange as it may seem, the more ear we have, the less likely we will be to hear it. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy This unison of sound forms the great music of the spheres, which the poets and philosophers have written so much about. The Human Side of Animals Nevertheless, there was still one small disturbing note in the music of the spheres. Branded Light, and the new music of the spheres—to whom did she owe those things? The Sagebrusher A Story of the West He was a man of figures, whose only passion seemed to be the "music of the spheres." The Man Who Rocked the Earth Is there more reality in the chink of the dollar than in 'the music of the spheres'? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Herschel was invited to give popular lectures on the music of the spheres. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists And then the key changed again, striking that fundamental middle F that is the mother-note of all the voices of nature and, as Indians maintain, of the music of the spheres as well. Caves of Terror He has set the great organ music of the spheres reverberating forevermore through its high arches. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Like that same mystic music of the spheres, Which no one hears, so loudly though it rings, 'Tis wonderful how oft the sex have heard Long dialogues—which passed without a word! The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 I guess you did," said the doctor; "your tongue is like 'the music of the spheres, So loud it deafens human ears.' Queechy, Volume II God made our lives to be a song Sweet as the music of the spheres, That still their harmonies prolong For him who rightly hears. Our Unitarian Gospel My dear Thomson, I hold the pen for our friend Clarke, who at present is studying the music of the spheres at my elbow. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham And a voice which had once epitomized for Minnie Merle the "music of the spheres," answered in mellow tones: "He has been in London, but goes very soon to Italy." Infelice Confident, but entirely unassuming; serious, but without sadness; joyous, but not to mirthfulness; eager, but without haste; she moves steadily forward with steps timed to the rhythmic music of the spheres. The Madonna in Art Grand indeed is the thought of the unequalled strain poured forth when every other voice was hushed in the mighty city, to no meaner accompaniment than the music of the spheres. Life of John Milton It is the wilderness of lovely flowers—hardly quite the music of the spheres! Foes These are the same men, and have travelled full circle, listen to them!—'tis the music of the spheres, sir.' Corporal Sam and Other Stories Eternity is unreal or empty; we never heard the music of the spheres. Preaching and Paganism She wandered down to the drawing-room and tried the grand piano, whose tones were as the music of the spheres. The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week Order moulded the planets, and every star that gems the evening sky; it launched them forth in their orbits, and guides their glorious way, producing "the music of the spheres." The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character He stood there for some fifteen minutes, I should think, making it—making the whole world rat-a-tat-tat to his music, to Tommy's own music, as if it were the music of the spheres. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy Beauty, eloquence and true poetry, bright gleams of prophetic fire, patriotism, piety and the music of the spheres. The House that Jill Built after Jack's had proved a failure Angels dance before the Great White Throne to harps attuned by angel hands, and the Master of the Revels—who arranges the music of the spheres—looks approvingly on. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales She walked on worlds, and worlds of worlds, and heard there in her little room the tread of armies, the paeans of victory, the breaking of hearts, and the music of the spheres. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel Perhaps the allusion to the music of the spheres may have led to this popular error, as well as to that which regards Orion’s band as one of wind instruments. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 Chaos is only in our own chaotic minds and perceptions: train these aright, and you shall hear the music of the spheres, perceive the reign of everlasting Law. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Forgive it to the music of the spheres That while they walked together so, the Two Together,—heard not you. The Singing Man A Book of Songs and Shadows Jack Stuart sat, with his eyes turned up to the ceiling, as if he were listening to the music of the spheres. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 To Sandy it was a hall of Olympus, where filmy-robed goddesses moved to the music of the spheres. Sandy A female throng, dowdy, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sits in a theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, Whilst the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891 "The music of the spheres" is a literal expression, as all who have ever glimpsed the beauties of the spiritual realms will testify. Cosmic Consciousness Some of the ancients believed that music helped in the creation of the heavenly bodies, and that their motions were accompanied by a harmony known as "the music of the spheres." Selections from Five English Poets Perhaps it had been merely the restlessness that is the twin of a rare heritage—the music of the spheres—for with such had Nan been born. Kindred of the Dust I meet missionaries, and I hear the music of the spheres; and I long to descend again to the circles of the everyday inferno where my friends are. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series It must be 'the music of the spheres.' A Collection of College Words and Customs O planets, sworn The music of the spheres To follow! The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4 The Higher Life What would be the music of the spheres to one bereft of hearing? Dorian The music consisted of an organ, simply but well played; and to Mary, unaccustomed to any sacred sounds save those twanged through the nose of a Highland precentor, it seemed the music of the spheres. Marriage The star is quenched in fat; it has exchanged the music of the spheres for a hideous caterwauling! Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series What Israfil of the future will pour on mortals this new "music of the spheres"? Architecture and Democracy Whenever I think of Father Calvi, I am reminded at the same time of the old man that stands beside Raphael's Saint Cecilia listening intently to the music of the spheres. Without Dogma For flowers we are given stars, for the song of birds the music of the spheres, and for that human glow a spiritual ecstasy. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Thou art the theme the music of the spheres Echoes in endless, variant harmonies. Poems The music of the spheres is rather too sublime an accompaniment for this genteel comedy Princess. Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial The music of the spheres is a living reality, for Harmony is the very essence of the Cosmos. The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation And one of them is, that the precession of the dinner-plates, and the nutation of the glasses, do not promote the music of the spheres. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 07, May 14, 1870 It was attuned to the music of the spheres. Star-Dust Gold's rattle shall not rob my ears Of this sweet music of the spheres. Foliage Would I object to the music of the spheres? Henry Dunbar A Novel It can hardly be said they are harmonious with the music of the spheres, but then it is only a sample of your Earth's development. The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation Heard ye not the music of the spheres? Imogen A Pastoral Romance In the song of the nightingale he finds, as it were, an echo of the music of the spheres. Saint Augustin In their dilemma to account for the retrograde motions of the planets, they denominated them wanderers, stragglers, because they would not march with the "music of the spheres." Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre to see 5 A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. Selections from Poe I guess you did," said the doctor;—"your tongue is like 'the music of the spheres, So loud it deafens human ears.' Queechy Round the luminary of the night the stars lead up the mystic dance, and compose the music of the spheres. Imogen A Pastoral Romance He heard the music of the spheres, he tasted heavenly food, and drank of the river that flows from the footstool of the Most Highest. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Such were the notes our once loved poet sung: and for myself, I could not have been more delighted if I had heard the music of the spheres. Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. The sound of the trumpets died away, the shrill, sweet music of the spheres grew far and faint. The Ghost Kings He believed in what is called the music of the spheres, and he ascribed the qualities of the music—alto, bass, tenor and treble—to certain of the planets. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. Mr. Thoreau has twice listened to the music of the spheres, which, for our private convenience, we have packed into a musical-box. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. An indescribable peace filled the starry spaces, where the music of the spheres flung out its great, still, profound sheets of water…. Jean-Christophe Journey's End Astral beings enjoy the ethereal music of the spheres and are entranced by the sight of all creation as exhaustless expressions of changing light. Autobiography of a Yogi According to the Platonic philosophy, this music of the spheres, too faint for mortal ears, was heard only by the gods. Poets of the South Therefore those wise old Greeks used to talk of the music of the spheres. The Good News of God Like music of the spheres that softly hum; It rises, falls, with measured melody, With saddest notes and mournful symphony. Babylonian and Assyrian Literature The conception of the music of the spheres in their complex orbits finds some analogy in the harmony of the combined rhythmical units of his verse. Halleck's New English Literature Hist, by the gold-strung harp of Apollo, I hear the celestial music of the spheres, As plainly as ever Pythagoras did. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 "Only a few minutes," you answer, wondering whether Theodore really supposes that you could canter, much less trot half an hour, even if stimulated by the music of the spheres. In the Riding-School; Chats with Esmeralda He attached much value to music, as an art which has great influence on the affections; hence his doctrine of the music of the spheres. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations The music of the spheres was to Milton the embodiment of the theory of the universe. England's Antiphon "None," said Pericles; "why it is the music of the spheres." The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 3 Books for Children This phrase points primarily to 'the music of the spheres': the sphere now assigned to Keats had hitherto failed to take part in the music of its fellows, but henceforward will chime in. Adonais "The music of the spheres" belongs to poetry, as well as the speculations of Plato. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. From him comes the pretty conceit of the "music of the spheres." General History for Colleges and High Schools The doctrine of the 'music of the spheres' first saw the light here in India, and not in Greece or Italy, whither it was brought by Pythagoras after he had studied under the Indian Gymnosophists. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan Beyond, a Spanish goddess, some minor deity in the Dionysian theogony, dances continually, rapt and mysterious, to the music of the spheres, her head in Cassiopeia and her twinkling feet among the Pleiades. Letters from America Bye and bye the children quieted down to listen; clustered about their father, and resting their elbows on his legs, they hung upon his words as if he were uttering the music of the spheres. The Gilded Age, Part 1. Hence the doctrine of "the music of the spheres." The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. He rose to greet us and his breath, The tempest music of the spheres, Dissolved the memory of earth, The cyclic labour and our tears. AE in the Irish Theosophist She holds the star to her ear and listens to the music of the spheres. Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts She is listening to the music of the spheres. Palaces and Courts of the Exposition There was a poem to be read there of surpassing beauty, rhythmical and eloquent as the music of the spheres, if it might only be given to a man to read it. The American Senator Her voice, the music of the spheres, So loud, it deafens mortals ears; As wise philosophers have thought; And that's the cause we hear it not. Hudibras Of her skill as a pianist, Otway could not judge; what he heard was Music, music absolute, the very music of the spheres. The Crown of Life Thus modern chemistry demonstrates the verity of the music of the spheres—another visionary concept of ancient mysticism. Nature Cure What joy in that motion, the prospect, the music, the music of the spheres!—he could listen to it in a perfection such as had never been conceded to Plato, to Pythagoras even. Giordano Bruno Her voice is as the music of the spheres to the king, when she whispers her welcome to him, and he, at last, thinks he beholds an angel when he sees Barbarina. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends They produce, naturally enough, sounds, that famous "music of the spheres," which the undisciplined ear fails to recognise, to delight in, only because it is never silent. Plato and Platonism "The music of the spheres!"—he could listen to it in a perfection such as had never been conceded to Plato, to Pythagoras even.— Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance There is no music of the spheres to be compared with this sound, and no view is more charming than the aspect of this pile of gold. Louisa of Prussia and Her Times When once we listen to its noisy cheers Or hear the populace' approval, then We catch no more the music of the spheres, Or walk with gods, and angels, but with men. Maurine and Other Poems Mortal, listen: I was born In Creation's early years, Singing, 'mid the stars of morn, To the music of the spheres. Antonina "Let there be light," is the perpetual demand of Truth and Love, changing chaos into order and discord into the 255:6 music of the spheres. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures When they speak, is the music of the spheres audible in their Olympian mansion, making heaven drowsy with its harmony? Framley Parsonage He who, having entry to the consciousness of the Eternal knows the essence of this power, can divine the meanings of all sounds, from the voice of the insect to the music of the spheres. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: the Book of the Spiritual Man I think, that morning, for a time, I heard the true music of the spheres, the stars singing together. The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment If Nature thundered in his opening ears, And stunned him with the music of the spheres, How would he wish that Heaven had left him still The whispering zephyr, and the purling rill? An Essay on Man It was as if the heavens should give up their secret, and smite us with the music of the spheres. Gala-days They were supposed to be associated with some profound music of the spheres inaudible to human ears, and performed only for the benefit of that being whose soul formed the animating spirit of the sun. Great Astronomers Upon the knowledge of these Divine truths Pythagoras built the theory of the "music of the spheres." The Light of Egypt; or, the science of the soul and the stars — Volume 2 There was a music of the spheres as well as of the notes of the lyre. Timaeus "Why, it is the music of the spheres." Tales from Shakespeare Their multiplied motions shall yet be resolved into harmony, and so the music of the spheres shall chime with the angels' song, "Glory to God in the highest!" Gala-days Forgive it to the music of the spheres That while they walked together so, the Two Together, — heard not you. The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets We are absorbed in the music of the spheres. The Light of Egypt; or, the science of the soul and the stars — Volume 2 |
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