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Dryden says—
“From harmony, from heavenly harmony
The universal frame began;
From harmony to harmony
Throʹ all the compass of the notes it ran,
The diapason closing full in man.”
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Song for St. Cecilia’s Day.
According to the Pythagoreʹan system, the world is a piece of harmony, and man the full chord.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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