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... beautiful one ? -is of seeing a perfect rainbow after heavy storm . I was a child of two and a half years , spending part of a summer with my parents at Atlantic City , so convenient to us of Philadelphia . At the close of a rainy ...
... beautiful one ? -is of seeing a perfect rainbow after heavy storm . I was a child of two and a half years , spending part of a summer with my parents at Atlantic City , so convenient to us of Philadelphia . At the close of a rainy ...
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... beautiful Jack Barnes , as manly a figure in Romeo and other parts as one could wish to see , and a perfectly fitting companion upon the stage to even so great a woman as Miss Neilson . While I still lived in Moorestown and before I ...
... beautiful Jack Barnes , as manly a figure in Romeo and other parts as one could wish to see , and a perfectly fitting companion upon the stage to even so great a woman as Miss Neilson . While I still lived in Moorestown and before I ...
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... beautiful tenor voice was developing , he began to study with the elder Lamperti in Milan , and upon returning to London one Sunday , as he told me , he found a letter addressed to him in an emergency and almost at the last moment from ...
... beautiful tenor voice was developing , he began to study with the elder Lamperti in Milan , and upon returning to London one Sunday , as he told me , he found a letter addressed to him in an emergency and almost at the last moment from ...
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... beautiful little girl upon his shoulder as he went about the streets . Every one turned to look at the quaint but charming sight of the happy child and the equally happy grandfather , who turned out to be the well - known American song ...
... beautiful little girl upon his shoulder as he went about the streets . Every one turned to look at the quaint but charming sight of the happy child and the equally happy grandfather , who turned out to be the well - known American song ...
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... beautiful , but was always fascinating . Her feet and hands , all that remained small about her , were always in evidence : her dainty toes rested upon a small stool before her , her hands in becoming gestures accompanying her speech ...
... beautiful , but was always fascinating . Her feet and hands , all that remained small about her , were always in evidence : her dainty toes rested upon a small stool before her , her hands in becoming gestures accompanying her speech ...
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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.