All 3 Uses of
harmonious
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- I translate it so: THREE THINGS ARE NEEDED FOR BEAUTY, WHOLENESS, HARMONY, AND RADIANCE.†
Chpt 5 *
- You apprehend it as complex, multiple, divisible, separable, made up of its parts, the result of its parts and their sum, harmonious.†
Chpt 5
- The instant wherein that supreme quality of beauty, the clear radiance of the esthetic image, is apprehended luminously by the mind which has been arrested by its wholeness and fascinated by its harmony is the luminous silent stasis of esthetic pleasure, a spiritual state very like to that cardiac condition which the Italian physiologist Luigi Galvani, using a phrase almost as beautiful as Shelley's, called the enchantment of the heart.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(harmonious as in: soothing, harmonious music) of music: pleasing (through the combination of different notes)editor's notes: When speaking of music, do not confuse harmonious (pleasing sound) with harmony (the structure of the music with respect to the composition and progression of chords regardless of how pleasing it may or may not be).