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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 porro vocibus humanis, 

 instrumentisque harmonicis musicam il- 

 " lam avium : non quod alii quoque non 

 delectaretur ; sed quod ex musica hu- 

 mana relinqueretur in animo continens 

 " quaedam, attentionemque et somnuni 

 " 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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