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Newman as a Musician, by Edward Bellasis
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Title: Cardinal Newman as a Musician
Author: Edward Bellasis
Release Date: August 25, 2008 [EBook #26427]
Language: English
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CARDINAL NEWMAN
AS A MUSICIAN.
BY
EDWARD BELLASIS,
Author of "Cherubini: Memorials Illustrative of his Life."
[Illustration]
LONDON: KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER, AND CO. 1892.
REPRINTED (WITH ADDITIONS AND MUSICAL EXAMPLES) FROM "THE MONTH" OF SEPTEMBER, 1891.
ROEHAMPTON: PRINTED BY JAMES STANLEY.
Music's ethereal fire was given Not to dissolve our clay, But draw Promethean beams from Heaven, And purge the dross away.
J.H.N.
Cardinal Newman as a Musician.
It is a remark of St. Philip Neri's latest biographer that, "Our Saint was profoundly convinced that there is in music and in song a mysterious and a mighty power to stir the heart with high and noble emotion, and an especial fitness to raise it above sense to the l