Joseph Addison Quotes About Music

Quotes about: Music

• All of heaven we have below.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Heaven

  'A Song for St Cecilia's Day'

• Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Mind, Praise

  "The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added, Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian Revelation".

• Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Wisdom, Heaven

  'A Song for St Cecilia's Day'

• Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Art, Moving

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.425

• Music, the greatest good that mortals know,
  And all of heaven we have below.
  Music can noble hints impart,
  Engender fury, kindle love;
  40 With unsuspected eloquence can move,
  And manage all the man with secret art.
  When Orpheus strikes the trembling lyre
  The streams stand still, the stones admire;
  The listening savages advance,
  The world and lamb around him trip
  The bears in aukward measures leap,
  And tigers mingle in the dance
  The moving woods attended as he played
  And Rhodope was left without a shade.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Art, Moving

  Joseph Addison, “A Song For St. CeCILIa's Day, At Oxford”

• A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Art, Men

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.414

• Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Religious, Indulge In

• Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Nonsense, Wells

  1711 In The Spectator, no.18.

• Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Religious, Art

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: with a biographical and critical preface, and explanatory notes”, p.254

• Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Art, Plato

  Joseph Addison (1867). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Ay Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.65

• Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Religious, Wings

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, etc. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The evidences of the Christian religion. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Poems on several occasions. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poemata. Rosamond. Cato. The drummer”, p.425

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