Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Æolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident?
The tender but low-lying domestic sentiment of the Æolian Harp is in a moment informed by it with the dignity which marks that poem's close.
The Æolian Harp has been already referred to as a pleasing poem, and reading it, as we must, in constant recollection of the circumstances in which it was written, it unquestionably is so.
The Æolian harp of the Castle of Baden Baden, and those of the four turrets of Strassburg Cathedral are celebrated.
Without dwelling upon the history of the Æolian harp, we may say that in modern times this instrument has been especially constructed in England, Scotland, Germany, and Alsace.
According to a generally credited opinion, it is to Father Kircher, who devised so many ingenious machines in the seventeenth century, that we owe the first systematically constructed model of an Æolian harp.
Nature is an Æolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the Æolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.
He endeavoured to clothe unfathomable thoughts and shadowy images in melody that was like the wind wandering over the strings of an æolian harp.
But it was not reading--it was rather a soft dreamy chant, which rose and fell like the waves of sound on an Æolian harp.
Kircher for a long time had the credit of being the inventor of the Æolian harp, but it is of much earlier date.
This is the ordinary Æolian harp, but in this country and on the Continent there are many more complicated forms of the instrument in existence.
The simplest pattern of Æolian harp is that which fits into any ordinary window frame.
The day was clear and cold, with just enough wind to wake the æolian harp of the forest into sound.
New, strange harmonies swept through the æolian harp of his being--harmonies both tragic and exultant by which he felt himself subdued.
This was no spasmodic breeze through his æolian harp, but the breath and life of his being.
The Æolian harp is thought to have been invented by St. Dunstan, and he is said to have been able to play upon that instrument without touching a string thereof.
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