The "Daily News" has published several notable passages of prose music, For sheer beauty, whether of sound rhythm, not to mention its vividness of metaphor, loth's description of physical y (Ecclesiastes, xii., 1-7; Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken. would be difficult to surpass. But what imitative wizardry De Quincey wields Then was completed the passion of the mighty fugue. The golden tubes of the organ, which as yet had but muttered at intervals—gleaming amongst clouds and surges of incense—threw up as from fountains—unfathomable, columns of heart-shattering music trumpet and echo—fare.
well love, and farewell anguish—rang through the dreadful sanctus. In these last words the continued clang rends the tumult as one resounding note of agony.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.