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'It feels like thunder, said Mary Beresford to her sister Edith. 'It would be odd if we were to have a real thunderstorm just after listening to the imitation one in the cathedral. 'The vox humana stop is better at some things than at others, said Miss Edith, critically. 'In the chanting the boys' voices are good, and the tenor voices are good; but the bass is too musical.
Thus literature has almost always failed in endeavouring to describe happiness as a state. But here and there the note has been struck with the sudden vibration of the vox humana. In human tradition it has been struck chiefly in the old celebrations of Christmas. In literature it has been struck chiefly in Dickens's Christmas tales.
I attacked the squeaky melodion, pushed down a pedal, pulled out the "vox humana" stop the most harmless one of the melodion, but which gave out a supernaturally hoarse sound I struck the chord, and standing up I began.
Sed credo deos immortalis sparsisse animos in corpora humana, ut essent qui terras tuerentur quique caelestium ordinem contemplantes imitarentur eum vitae modo atque constantia. Nec me solum ratio ac disputatio impulit ut ita crederem, sed nobilitas etiam summorum philosophorum et auctoritas.
You go after it, my boy it's all there appassionato oboe 'consharto' vox humana and the whole system " ... It is hard for one to realize how little music Bedient had heard in his life. Just a few old songs always unfinished but they had haunted the depths of him, and made him think powerfully.
As for the sound like a woman laughing and crying, I never said it was a woman's voice; for, in the first place, I could only hear indistinctly; and, secondly, he may have an organ, or some queer instrument or other, with what they call the vox humana stop. If he moves his bed round to get away from the window, or for any such reason, there is nothing very frightful in that simple operation.
Then above it all, while I sat quivering, there soared like a bird in the air, singing as it flew, one great, superb, vibrating, resolute note, pure, clear, full, sensuous, untrammeled, dominating the heavens: not human, not divine; like no woman's, like no man's, like no angel's ever dreamed of, the vox humana. It did not awaken in me any feeling of reverence or religious ecstasy.
When I came home a surprise amounting nearly to a shock reached me in another letter from L.J.S. Methinks this explains the gloom which hung about me yesterday. I own that the recurrence to these matters seems like a summons from the grave. It fascinates me. I ought perhaps to have stopped it at once, but I have not nerve to do so. Alas! alas! But why alas? Humana perpessi sumus. October 26.
'Foemina humana superior mare. I would gladly have known how your father interpreted that sentence. Last fall I wrote him a letter, the last I ever addressed to him, questioning him about this very subject. That letter, alas! remained unanswered." In a letter to his brother just before taking his degree, Agassiz says: "I am now determined to pursue medicine and natural history side by side.
Quem te Deus esse Jussit? et humana qua parte locatus es in re? A short abstract is, however, to be found in Walsingham. I have added it here for the edification of the modern Whigs, who may possibly except this precious little fragment from their general contempt of ancient learning. "Whan Adam dalfe and Eve span, Who was than a gentleman?
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