"David Tayler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> Although there are scatterred references to the numbering of the
> layers in the Elizabethan period, I think the phrase "seventh heaven"
> derives more from the Islamic and Cabalist traditions.
> dt
You can colloquially say in Hebrew ba-raqîa ha-shvi
Ed
This topic is raised form time to time on the list. Here is the last
thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lute@cs.dartmouth.edu/msg17862.html
I think we are gradually getting there.
Anthony
Le 1 juin 08 =E0 02:45, Ed Durbrow a ecrit :
>
> On May 31, 2008, at 6:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Although there are scatterred references to the numbering of the
layers in the Elizabethan period, I think the phrase "seventh heaven"
derives more from the Islamic and Cabalist traditions.
dt
At 05:45 PM 5/31/2008, you wrote:
>On May 31, 2008, at 6:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> At lea
On May 31, 2008, at 6:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At least in Finnish we still say "seventh heaven", when referring
to something very wanted is achieved
We have the same phrase in English. I never put it together with your
derivation until now.
And so on. You'll find this kind of re
On 5/31/2008, "LGS-Europe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Elizabehan World Picture
> by E.M.W. Tillyard (I happen to have a Pelican from 1943, but there must be
> more modern editions)
Yep, mine is reprint of 1984, at least 14th reprint, ISBN 0-14-021484-4.
Arto
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I think that in a specific way, it refers to the many types of
diagrams showing the celestial order, many of which are reprinted in
the untuning of the Sky by John Hollander, and obtusely referenced in
Spitzer's classic text,
Classical and Christian Ideas of World Harmony.
In a general sense, i
Hi lutenists,
just in case someone thinks I am a madman, when writing about the world
picture of the composers of our lute music, as I did (see below), I
would like to add something. My list of "heavens" (should it be
"spheres"?) is taken from the preface of one edition of Dante's
Divina Comedia
> I would suggest underlights are the planets and perhaps also the Moon
> (and Sun?). In the world picture of those days all the stars were
> attached to the same, uppermost chrystal sphere, each planet had its own
> chrystal sphere, which were also lower, nearer to the center of the
> universe, o
What about Aurora Borealis? Was Campion far enough north to see it?
> .. in Thomas Campion's lute song Author of Light?
>
> Sun and moon,
> stars and underlights I see,
> but all their glorious beams
> are mists and darkness
> being compar'd to thee.
>
> The OED is not really helpfull, suggestion
