Date: 1790
"His own view of his situation immediately recurs upon him. He abandons himself, as before, to sighs and tears and lamentations; and endeavours, like a child that has not yet gone to school, to produce some sort of harmony between his own grief and the compassion of the spectator, not by moderati...
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Date: 1817
Milton in his "latter days" was "poor, sick, blind, slandered, persecuted [...] yet still listening to the music of his thoughts."
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: August 1817
"Poetry is the music of language, expressing the music of the mind."
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
Date: August 1817
"The musical in sound is the sustained and continuous; the musical in thought and feeling is the sustained and continuous also."
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
Date: 1818
"But poetry makes these odds all even. It is the music of language, answering to the music of the mind, untying as it were 'the secret soul of harmony.'"
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
"Man is an instrument over which a series of external and internal impressions are driven, like the alternations of an ever-changing wind over an Aeolian lyre, which move it by their motion to ever-changing melody."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)