Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917. Excerpt: ... SCHOPENHAUER The hour is bed-time; but the wine is good, Warming, yet almost wholly feverless. Yon viols sing-it soothingly, the 'winds' Not too asseverative tame their throats To moods in mystical complacency Of contemplation whilst my limbs repose Beneath their harmony and bask with them: The melody of prelude! And my heart Outreaches, takes (upon the stimulus Of symphony within me and without Releasing from long, nerve-rack'd harassment) Inceptions novel, tuned unto the taste Esthetic of the momentary lapse From tension and from irritance. I turn No petulance now upon the pageant-thoughts Which dream-like muster in the lamplit air;, Relaxing, I, to suave despondency Well-suited unto genius at research; The genius at research till haply wine With music lull to luxury of sleep Sans that bourgeois banality of bed And boorish night-cap. And in open'd book Which suits so well by sugar'd sonneting The melody of prelude, let me prick For phrase that fits, some text unto the tune Of thought: good reading matching the good wine. 'Music to hear, why hear I music sadly', When all the yearning of the will of the world (The human burden-note, the nature-chord Supportant summing-up the cosmos-scheme), With scarce world's anguish'd unreality Of intellect-presentment, sweetly speaks--Ay, sweetly speaks, despite objective taint Still archetypal of our misery--In music wholly and therein alone? Why sadly, when the will, as Will, were nought Hedonic? Were it that the intellect, Whereof perchance no auditor were purged (Oho! am I of intellect now purged, Who spur at truth-lists but in music's name?) Nor musical creator quite exempt In exposition to art's inwardness, Through some machinery of sense impinged In music as in aught else, outwardly Interprets and infuses with a...
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