...I am not a musical critic, and did not come here to write essays about the operas and deliver judgment upon their merits. The little children of Bayre... ...der intelligence than I. I only care to bring four or five pilgrims to the operas, pilgrims able to appreciate them and enjoy them. What I write about... ...vocal parts. It may be that he was deep, and only added the singing to his operas for the sake of the contrast it would make with the music. Singing! ... ...now what a schnorkel is, but now that I know it has been left out of these operas I never have missed so much in my life. And Uhlic further says that ... ...igar.” “. . . responded the undertaker, with a laugh.” “. . . murmured the chambermaid, blushing.” “. . . repeated the burglar, bursting into tears.” ... ...rms and phrases not only of the conveyancer’s office, but of the pleader’s chambers and the Courts at Westminster, nothing short of employment in some... ...hat time could be found for the interposition of a legal employment in the chambers or offices of practic ing lawyers?” Stratfordians, as is well kno... ...ly have been learned by an actual attendance at the Courts, at a Pleader’s Chambers, and on circuit, or by associating intimately with members of the ... ...ms and phrases, not only of the conveyancer’s office, but of the pleader’s chambers and the Courts at Westminster.” This, as Lord Penzance points out...

...es of that beautiful flower were massed on the staircase, and in the ante- chamber and supper-room. During this month the formalities for constituting... ..., erect between yourself and Paul the barriers of society; go to balls and operas; go out in the morning, dine out in the eve- nings, pay visits const... ...piness. Amuse yourself; continue your habits of luxury; go to theatres and operas, enjoy society and balls; I leave you free for all things. Dear ange... ... an insult. Did you think I could not live without fine dresses, balls and operas and social triumphs? Am I so frivolous a woman? Do you think me inca... ...ill never criticise me; she will never contradict me; I shall be her Upper Chamber, her Lords and Commons. In short, Paul, she is indefeasible evidenc...

...holden – and which was also Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt’s sitting-room and bed-chamber – being but faintly illuminated through the agency of one low- spir... ...andles on the high chimneypiece faintly lighted 78 Great Expectations the chamber: or, it would be more expressive to say, faintly troubled its darkn... ...he skirts of the visitors: now, giving them the whole length of the dismal chamber. “There’s Matthew!” said Camilla. “Never mixing with any natural ti... ....” With those words, the clerk opened a door, and ushered me into an inner chamber at the back. Here, we found a gentle- man with one eye, in a velvet... ...a dozen or so), that I had ever seen. I thought the windows of the sets of chambers into which those houses were divided, were in every stage of dilap... ... her and the Brandleys on the water; there were picnics, fete days, plays, operas, concerts, parties, all sorts of pleasures, through which I pursued ...

...ater and had now risen to the surface. Carinthia’s mind stepped out of the chamber of death. The different air and scene breathed into her a timid war... ...d on, clam- bering up, scurrying down, tramping gaily, till by degrees the chambers of Carinthia’s imagination closed their doors and would no longer ... ...s countryman had rushed inside to avoid him, and remained there pacing the chamber like a lion newly caged. Their boatmen were brotherly in the antici... ...e found in this hotel.’ ‘Soap?’ said Lord Fleetwood. ‘Soap—at least, in my chamber.’ ‘Fetch it, please.’ Sir Meeson, of course, could not hear that. H... ...y in the darkness that he stumbled and fell on an arm; a small matter. Bed-chambers awaited them at the hotel, none of the party: and Fleetwood’s man-... ...he patron’s 349 George Meredith homage; and who but he knew her adored of operas, or would have had the benevolent impulse to think of solacing her e...

...e Conde; who can themselves, with volatile salts, at- tend the King’s ante-chamber; and, at the same time, send their brave sons (Duke de Chartres, Eg... ...given (which Beaumarchais says he gave), this and the other loyal Seaport, Chamber of Commerce, will build and offer them. Goodly ves- sels bound into... ...als over to the Controller’s; finds him ‘walking with large strides in his chamber, like one out of himself. ’ (Besenval, iii. 209.) With rapid confus... ...dual Commons Members shall, in an ac- cidental way, stroll into the Clergy Chamber, and then into the Noblesse one; and mention there, as a thing they... ...nfessed that the ground-tone of the noblest passage, in one of his noblest Operas, was the voice of the Populace he had heard at Vienna, crying to the... ... Gauche destructive. Intermediate is Anglomaniac Constitutionalism, or Two-Chamber Royalism; with its Mouniers, its Lallys,—fast verging towards nonen...

...themselves, 21 Thomas Carlyle with volatile salts, attend the King’s ante-chamber; and, at the same time, send their brave sons (Duke de Chartres, Eg... ...given (which Beaumarchais says he gave), this and the other loyal Seaport, Chamber of Commerce, will build and offer them. Goodly vessels bound into t... ...als over to the Controller’s; finds him ‘walking with large strides in his chamber, like one out of himself.’ (Besenval, iii. 209.) With rapid con- fu... ...vidual Commons Members shall, in an accidental way, stroll into the Clergy Chamber, and then into the Noblesse one; and mention there, as a thing they... ...nfessed that the ground-tone of the noblest passage, in one of his noblest Operas, was the voice of the Populace he had heard at Vienna, crying to the... ... Gauche destructive. Intermediate is Anglomaniac Constitutionalism, or Two-Chamber Royalism; with its Mouniers, its Lallys,—fast verging towards nonen...

...g a heap of other small matters that had been, cleared away when the other chamber had been arranged into the solemnity of the death-room. Hastily sec... ...h, inclosed by two fine dark walnut-wood settles, making a little carpeted chamber be- tween them. Here Allen had the farmer’s armchair and a foot- st... ... evening parties, though she took her young people to plays, concerts, and operas, and all that was pleasant. Her young people included Jessie. Colo- ... ...ht it might have been disposed of, as being not smart enough for my lady’s chamber. Coming back to her room she found, to her extreme amazement, the c... ...her grave, rose up from weeping and praying, to take me into the innermost chamber, where none could see me, and when she saw my darling’s state, to g...

...RTMENT—indeed, Holywell Street is not above a hundred yards long, and this chamber was not more than half that length—it was fitted up with the simple... ...us and Leo, the Imperial genius of Urbino, covered the walls of the little chamber. Divans of carved amber covered with ermine went round the room, an... ...egone. “The Lady of Barbazure sees nobody but her confessor, and keeps her chamber,” was the invariable reply of the dogged functionaries to the entre... ...ned Quaker, as some people stated. Quak- ers may not marry, nor sit in the Chamber of Peers. The minor bishops have seats in the House of Commons, whe... ...Cross of the Eflant and Castle, and of the Catinbagpipes of Hostria, Grand Chamberleng of the Crownd, and Major- Genaril of Hoss-Mareens, &c. &c. &c.—... ...man of me.” “And send Pa into dunghills,” roared Tug. “Then you must go to operas, and pick up foreign Barons and Counts.” “Oh, thank heaven, dearest ...

...uces. He has listened at the keyhole, not by any “Open Sesame” entered the chamber. He has rather painted manners than men. His power of simulating pa... ... 400 (’T was June, and Cancer had received the sun), Forth from her chamber came the beauteous bride; The good old knight moved slowly by her s... ...me coarse country wench, almost decay’d, T rudges to town, and first turns chambermaid; Awkward and supple, each devoir to pay, She flatters her good ... ...sures, all that e’er was mine: I’ve sacrificed both modesty and ease; Left operas, and went to filthy plays: Double-entendres shock’d my tender ear; Y... ...ry’s contrived for walking, The windows to retire and talk in; The council chamber for debate, And all the rest are rooms of state.’ ‘Thanks, sir,’ cr... ...Rolli 318 the feather to his ear conveys, Then his nice taste directs our operas: Bentley 319 his mouth with classic flattery opes, And the puff’d o... ...of these. He prophesies how first the nation shall be overrun with farces, operas, and shows; how the throne of Dulness shall be advanced over the the... ...stian ground; Saw every court, heard every king declare His royal sense of operas or the fair; The stews and palace equally explored, Intrigued with g... ...George I.) gave in a report to the Lords, that their house and the painted-chamber adjoining were in immediate danger of fall- ing. Whereupon the Lord...