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... performed upon those suffering from acci- dents . The experience of the hospitals was not easy , and that of the dissecting room certainly gruesome ; yet be- fore long my nostrils became accustomed to the peculiar odor of the dissecting ...
... performed upon those suffering from acci- dents . The experience of the hospitals was not easy , and that of the dissecting room certainly gruesome ; yet be- fore long my nostrils became accustomed to the peculiar odor of the dissecting ...
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... performed " Julius Cæsar , " with a cast and in a manner always to be remembered by any one who had the fortune to see the tragedy with so many well - chosen men in the principal parts . E. L. Davenport afterward assumed the part of Bru ...
... performed " Julius Cæsar , " with a cast and in a manner always to be remembered by any one who had the fortune to see the tragedy with so many well - chosen men in the principal parts . E. L. Davenport afterward assumed the part of Bru ...
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... performed by Elliott Pendleton of Cincinnati . We finished the evening with W. S. Gilbert's delightful comedy " Sweethearts , " in which I was the gardener , while the young lover , who is many years older in the second act , was well ...
... performed by Elliott Pendleton of Cincinnati . We finished the evening with W. S. Gilbert's delightful comedy " Sweethearts , " in which I was the gardener , while the young lover , who is many years older in the second act , was well ...
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... performed at St. Mark's Church . The weekly rehearsals were long and arduous , but none the less interesting , as they introduced me to a phase of the art which so far I had not known . The first program I have of services in St. Mark's ...
... performed at St. Mark's Church . The weekly rehearsals were long and arduous , but none the less interesting , as they introduced me to a phase of the art which so far I had not known . The first program I have of services in St. Mark's ...
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... performed at Covent Garden , I had in his opinion but a poor chance of success . When I told him I had not thought of going into opera , he naturally enough expressed great surprise , saying , " If you are studying at all why don't you ...
... performed at Covent Garden , I had in his opinion but a poor chance of success . When I told him I had not thought of going into opera , he naturally enough expressed great surprise , saying , " If you are studying at all why don't you ...
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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.