How far, that is, the mind may be directed on the one hand to ascetic abnegation by the systematic use of certain music, or on the other to illicit and dangerous pleasures by melodies of an opposite tendency.

But this much is, I think, certain, that after a comparatively advanced standard of culture has once been attained, music is the readiest if not the only key which admits to the yet narrower circle of the highest imaginative thought.
On the occasion for travel afforded him by his honeymoon, an impulse which he could not at the time explain, but which after-events have convinced me was the haunting suggestion of the _Gagliarda_, drove him to visit the scenes mentioned so often in Temple's diary.

He had always been an excellent scholar, and a classic of more than ordinary ability.
Rome and Southern Italy filled him with a strange delight.

His education enabled him to appreciate to the full what he saw; he peopled the stage with the figures of the original actors, and tried to assimilate his thought to theirs.

He began reading classical literature widely, no longer from the scholarly but the literary standpoint.