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affect some men, as it were by recollection, 

 for days after a concert is over. What I 

 mean the following passage will most 

 readily explain : 



" Praehabebat porro vocibus humanis, 

 " instrumentisque harmonicis musicam il- 

 " lam avium : non quod alia quoque non 

 " delectaretur ; sed quod ex musica hu- 

 <e mana relinqueretur in animo continens 

 " qusedam, attentionemque et somnum 

 " conturbans agitatio; dum ascensus, ex- 

 " scensus, tenores, acmutationes illaesono- 

 " rum, et consonantiarum euntque, red- 

 " euntque perphantasiam: cum nihil tale 

 " relinqui possit ex modulationibus avium, 

 " quae, quod non sunt perinde a nobis 

 " imitabiles, non possunt perinde internam 

 " facultatem commovere." 



Gassendus in Vita Peireskii. 



This curious quotation strikes me much 

 by so well representing my own case, and 

 by describing what I have so often felt, 

 but never could so well express* When I 

 hear tine music I am haunted with passages 

 therefrom night and day ; and especially 



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