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It were easy to adduce examples of each of these, if this 

 were the proper place. 



46. The sublime is also a sentiment which music can excite 

 in a much higher degree than any visible object: it is pro- 

 duced by an elaborate and magnificent combination of sounds 

 distributed into 6, 8, or at least 4 parts, celebrating the infi- 

 nite majesty of the Supreme Being : the most perfect speci- 

 men of this is exhibited by Handel ■,— He is the King of Glory, 

 the Lord God reigneth for ever and ever, hallelujah. — The most 

 exquisite performance ever produced by man. See the grand 

 chorus of the Messiah. 



47. The pleasures of vision and music not being percepti- 

 bly organic, are deemed to participate more of a spiritual 

 nature than any other proceeding from the senses, and hence 

 are the only that are mentioned to exist in heaven. 



- 48. The pains impressed through the sense of hearing, be- 

 sides those mentioned, No. 32 and 34, are chiefly of the 

 sympathetic kind, as those caused by groans, lamentations, 

 mournful ditties void of grace or dignity ; though even these, 

 by powerfully agitating sluggish minds, that would otherwise 

 be a prey to ennui, and partly by the inherent pleasure of 

 sympathetic grief, or by reviving the memory of our earliest 

 youth in which they were first heard, or through national 

 prejudices and mistaken pride, still give pleasure, at least to 

 many who have heard nothing better. Grating discords, 

 false tones and incoherent dissonances, universally give 

 pain. 



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