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... audiences of that time ; indeed they rather looked for the familiar strains , expecting them before they wended their way to their own sweet homes . For all my enjoyment of the people that I heard in my youth , nothing could compare ...
... audiences of that time ; indeed they rather looked for the familiar strains , expecting them before they wended their way to their own sweet homes . For all my enjoyment of the people that I heard in my youth , nothing could compare ...
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... audience her train caught upon a nail in the floor and in one instant she had turned and was tearing at it with the ferocity of a tigress . Seeing the trouble , I was fortunately able to disengage her dress from the obstacle , when she ...
... audience her train caught upon a nail in the floor and in one instant she had turned and was tearing at it with the ferocity of a tigress . Seeing the trouble , I was fortunately able to disengage her dress from the obstacle , when she ...
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... audience ever knew what a singer's pianistic talents might be ? Its judgment is based on the beauty of his voice and the interest he arouses by his songs and his singing . I decided never again to waste time by touching a piano , but to ...
... audience ever knew what a singer's pianistic talents might be ? Its judgment is based on the beauty of his voice and the interest he arouses by his songs and his singing . I decided never again to waste time by touching a piano , but to ...
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... audience to say , " Line , please . " The prompter , never thinking that Irving could be in need of him , was not attending to his business but was talking to some one behind the scenes , when the actor taking a step toward him said in ...
... audience to say , " Line , please . " The prompter , never thinking that Irving could be in need of him , was not attending to his business but was talking to some one behind the scenes , when the actor taking a step toward him said in ...
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... audience rose at him , for no one was ever known to sing the " Cujus Animam " with such a volume of tone as his ; but at my lesson next day , Vannuccini was highly displeased with what Tamagno had done . He said he did not think it ...
... audience rose at him , for no one was ever known to sing the " Cujus Animam " with such a volume of tone as his ; but at my lesson next day , Vannuccini was highly displeased with what Tamagno had done . He said he did not think it ...
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Page 345 - What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also : I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Page 364 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Page 126 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Page 131 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 230 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 345 - So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
Page 353 - Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound, Of all that mote delight a dainty ear, Such as at once might not on living ground, Save in this paradise, be heard elsewhere...
Page 47 - I do embrace it; for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer.
Page 301 - twill pass for wit; Care not for feeling — pass your proper jest, And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd. And shall we own such judgment? no— as soon Seek roses in December— ice in June; Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that's false, before You trust in critics, who themselves are sore Or yield one single thought to be misled By Jeffrey's heart, or Lambe's Boeotian head.