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  • Eolian Harps should be tuned in unison or octaves. — and in no other way but you had better suffer me to make you a better than you have in exchange I should particularly wish it.

    Letter 203 2009

  • And here me thinks I could moralize about the strange tenements that we live in, and all that sort of fun, but I have not time just now; and besides I have the Eolian Harps in hand, and I find such pleasure in the use of the saw and the plane that I am determined to fetch up my arrears in writing to day, and attack the Harps tomorrow.

    Letter 189 2009

  • I cannot conclude without informing your Lordship, whom I know to be possessd of a love for nature's music, and a fund of fancys, that I have lately taken up a new and most agreeable trade, that of constructing Eolian

    Letter 191 2009

  • I shall bring you an Eolian Harp in a few weeks, and return home.

    Letter 190 2009

  • Your messenger has just brought me the promised copy of my stray production relating to [hole in MS] Eolian

    Letter 365 2009

  • Coleridge's verse in The Eolian Harp sounds out a lilting course into silence, "Where the breeze warbles and the mute still Air/Is Music slumbering on its instrument" (31-32).

    Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound 2008

  • I think of the starlings I saw on my way out gathering in bare winter trees in the villages of East and West Harptree and making their noise, and of Coleridge, who also watched starlings, writing “The Eolian Harp” just a few miles west.

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

  • Romantic literature is replete with aesthetic examples of this philosophical tenet, whether in Coleridge's recognition of "the one life within us and abroad" ( "The Eolian Harp" [28.26]) or

    Enlightenment East and West: An Introduction to Romanticism and Buddhism 2007

  • Eolian sand has accumulated on some of the surfaces, especially on San Miguel Island.

    Northern Channel Islands (Bailey) 2009

  • Most of the exiting studies relate to vulcanology of Eolian islands.

    Aeolian Islands, Italy 2008

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