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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 : 



" Prsehabebat porr6 vocibus humanis, 



'* instrumentisque harmonicis musicam il- 



*' lam avium : non quod ali^ quoque non 



" delectaretur ; sed quod ex music^ hu- 



** mana relinqueretur in animo continens 



" quaedam, attentionemque et somnum 



" conturbans agitatio ; dum ascensus, ex- 



*' scensus, tenores, ac mutationes illae sono- 



" rum, et consonantiarum euntque, red- 



" euntque per phantasiam : — cum nihil tale 



*' relinqui possit et 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 fine music I am haunted with passages 



therefrom night and day ; and especially 



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