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... dress coat and neckcloth . Ever since , I have rather curiously connected this vision with Paganini , his world - renowned predecessor . My uncle John also took me to my first opera . How I loved him for it ! We heard Clara Louise ...
... dress coat and neckcloth . Ever since , I have rather curiously connected this vision with Paganini , his world - renowned predecessor . My uncle John also took me to my first opera . How I loved him for it ! We heard Clara Louise ...
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... dress coat and be- ing unable to find the wherewithal to release it , was playing billiards with some companions when an emis- sary came from the Palace looking for Heinrich , and ex- citingly demanding his attendance , saying that the ...
... dress coat and be- ing unable to find the wherewithal to release it , was playing billiards with some companions when an emis- sary came from the Palace looking for Heinrich , and ex- citingly demanding his attendance , saying that the ...
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... fortunately able to disengage her dress from the obstacle , when she , with instantaneous composure , walked upon the stage like a queen . That same greenroom is still adorned with litho- graphed portraits 36 A QUAKER SINGER'S ...
... fortunately able to disengage her dress from the obstacle , when she , with instantaneous composure , walked upon the stage like a queen . That same greenroom is still adorned with litho- graphed portraits 36 A QUAKER SINGER'S ...
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... dress rehearsal , where he carried through his part with- out a mistake , a feat the accomplishment of which would have been almost impossible to any one else in England . This led to Mr. Shakespeare's frequent engagement as tenor at ...
... dress rehearsal , where he carried through his part with- out a mistake , a feat the accomplishment of which would have been almost impossible to any one else in England . This led to Mr. Shakespeare's frequent engagement as tenor at ...
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... dress and slippers , of the sort my mother used for my occasional chastisement , square - toed with ribbons tied over the instep , are still a picture in my memory . She had never been beautiful , but was always fascinating . Her feet ...
... dress and slippers , of the sort my mother used for my occasional chastisement , square - toed with ribbons tied over the instep , are still a picture in my memory . She had never been beautiful , but was always fascinating . Her feet ...
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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.