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... hear the soft notes of his flute . I remember the room where I was born , the red - headed sulphur matches I ate and the convulsion that followed , the torture of learning to read at my mother's knee , and the nightmare I used so often ...
... hear the soft notes of his flute . I remember the room where I was born , the red - headed sulphur matches I ate and the convulsion that followed , the torture of learning to read at my mother's knee , and the nightmare I used so often ...
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... hear Verdi's opera " Don Carlos , " too seldom given nowadays , and for reasons I cannot make out . Verdi was identi- fied in his younger days with the cause of Italian unity , and his very name was used as a rallying cry , its letters ...
... hear Verdi's opera " Don Carlos , " too seldom given nowadays , and for reasons I cannot make out . Verdi was identi- fied in his younger days with the cause of Italian unity , and his very name was used as a rallying cry , its letters ...
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... hear an occasional concert , or perhaps to go to a matinée to see some celebrated actor in a good play ; poor music , poor plays , and poor acting I held in as little favor then as I do now . It was at the Academy that my delighted ear ...
... hear an occasional concert , or perhaps to go to a matinée to see some celebrated actor in a good play ; poor music , poor plays , and poor acting I held in as little favor then as I do now . It was at the Academy that my delighted ear ...
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... hear , and Charles Santley , the celebrated English barytone , in Zampa . " Who would have thought that I was to have Zelda Seguin acting with me , and be privileged to sing on many a program with Charles Santley ? 66 During my years in ...
... hear , and Charles Santley , the celebrated English barytone , in Zampa . " Who would have thought that I was to have Zelda Seguin acting with me , and be privileged to sing on many a program with Charles Santley ? 66 During my years in ...
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... hear something of other music I deemed prac- tice upon it almost a waste of time , it was so limited in its scope ; though for social occasions I was not unwilling to show my skill and perform such selections as I knew at sociables ...
... hear something of other music I deemed prac- tice upon it almost a waste of time , it was so limited in its scope ; though for social occasions I was not unwilling to show my skill and perform such selections as I knew at sociables ...
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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.