Both Uses of
chord
in
Middlemarch
- To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.†
Chpt 2
- "I never give up anything that I choose to do," said Rosamond, recovering her calmness at the touching of this chord.†
Chpt 4 *
Definition:
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(chord as in: piano chord) a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together