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...Audrey Blankenhagen 36 Before leaving Fort William, the travellers enjoyed the spectacle of the festival of Durga Puja. Their Indian guide explaine... ...lected Helen, as she saw the people dancing and singing in the streets enjoying this joyous Hindu festival. Large effigies of the demon Ravana stuff... ...at on low, cushioned divans placed around the room to be entertained by dancing girls and Indian musicians. Then it was all over and time for the g... ...nding the walled garden, which at night, Helen guessed, would create a magical ambience. The soft music of a sitar emanated from the marble pavilion... ...ion. The colour of agates, they gazed out on the world with the unseeing stare of the blind. The musician of the sitar was an elfin-faced, raven-hai... ...ll on her husband and his first wife: India kept intruding by its own varied culture. It was the festival of Bakr-Id which reminded her of Islam’s a... ...? Muna was veiled whenever we were together and never left my side during these rides. Why do you connect this man with a romantic liaison? Could he... ...n Gavin had to leave Mirapore with the Nawab to inspect the Company’s plans to build a railway to connect Mirapore to other hill stations in British...

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...e community...never mentioning that our fleet was rotted! Presently, the musicians and dancers wandered among us and the party went on. After many ... ...led, laughed, then sprawled over the fur cov- ering of his bed. While the music filtered in to us, I cushioned him in my lap and wiped the perspira... ...ntaining the song. It must be graceful, strong, so that the words and the music can flow... The wings of the swans have drawn you toward the dark ... ...ng because I love life and time is dead. Yes, time is dead at our spring festival and the flowers never spill from our hair. Girls bared their bre... ...entimental, to talk of Alcaeus and miss him, to remember our fun at other festivals. Crickets bubbled like little pots. Frogs burped. A bat fluttere... ...ing her from Charaxos. It was Mallia who served as wine boy at the spring festival. Curiously, it is Rhodopis who has sided with them in opposing an... ...y brakes, remember?” LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 235 “Well, when I connected the chain drive to the pedals and adjusted the han- dlebars you r... ... thought as it becomes the letter L, as it becomes da Vinci, as that word connects with another word. A dot becomes a sketch. A sketch becomes a tre... ...lance. Per- haps the candles go out. Perhaps the fire goes out. I wait for connections, maybe wilderness connections or connections with the prairie,...

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...se work has hitherto fetched the highest prices ever paid in auctions. Despite his connections with leading painters, gallery owners, art professor... ...ra was born. she sold the patent to Warner Brothers Corset Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, for $1,500. They made $15 million over the next 30 ... ...ion in 1834. http://humanityquest.com/topic/Index.asp?theme1=chauvinism Chicago (musical) The musical "Chicago" won 6 Academy awards (Oscars) in... ...rcent in South Carolina). Emancipation led to near bankruptcy. The Union states of Connecticut, Minnesota, and Wisconsin refused to pass constituti... ...tarantism. It was played for days on end to manic patients by groups of travelling musicians as a kind of music therapy. The patient also had to se... ...ed by Hans Leip, a 19-year old German soldier in the first world war. It was put to music by Norbert Schultze (1911-2002), a collaborator with the ... ... to herd it between two bonfires in what became known as the Beltane (or Belltane) festival. The Romans honored the spring goddess Flora on May Day...

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...'s people helping people. Truly, no man or woman is an island. We are all connected and we all need each other. My friend O. C. Smith says, "We are ... ...n this book if I am to com­ ply scrupulously with a court order entered in connection with the settlement agreement. So I have substituted the word ... ...mpany I had founded and built had become final. It was painful to lose my connection with the cookies that had been the main passion of my life till... ...ver black talent agent. I became a founding member of a new rock and roll music division. This was a new challenge for all of us, since there were ... ...rt me in advancing their career, but it was very slow going. By the time music lovers discovered their genius, Simon and Garfunkel had lost faith i... ... happy harmony into the shop, which was the first stop on the way to the festival already underway outside. Inside the shop, the recipients of the ...

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...on As An Organized System An Example Of Interrelated Religious Systems The Connection Between Psychology And Religion Buddhism 16 Hindu Beliefs The Es... ... lose nearly all meaning except to identify them with a set of traditional festivals and a generalized “Yes,” if asked, “Do you believe in God?” I can... ...ining leading to a diploma in psychoanalysis. About this time I severed my connection with the Quakers. I was discovering that the attainment of “onen... ...rs and the real question is not “why” but “how” to manage this burden. THE CONNECTION BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION What then is the connection betw... ...w we are to relate to them, as well as the conduct of prayers, rituals and festivals, form the center of religious faith. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF BUDDHIS... ...l impact consequently differs greatly. The same is to be said even more of music. The score of a particular musical piece indicates the notes to be pl... ... be played and to some degree the timing of each note, but each individual musician is required to input a personal interpretation simply because the ... ...actly how it is to be played. Since we have come to associate emotion with music more than drama, by and large, we need to take this musical analogy q...

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...re obtained -- The great pyramid upon which sacrifices were made -- Ceremonies connected with the bloody rites -- An act of inconceivable perfidy -- T... ... -- Consecration of the corpse -- Procuring the sacrifice -- The dead house -- Festivals at which numbers of humans are sacrificed -- Differences in d... ...to have destroyed the vast strip of land which is supposed to have at one time connected Africa and South America. Pliny observes that it is recorded... ... also disappeared. Eratosthenes states that Spain and Barbara were at one time connected, and that the Islands of Sardinia and Corsica were Joined by ... ...He is curiously inconsistent, for while a ship named for a saint is lucky, the festival of the saint is an unlucky day, and if he can help himself he ... ...breeze, and when the breeze is blowing will curse the whistlers, lest by their musical efforts a storm should, be provoked. He will not tell the numbe... .... Peter is the patron of fishermen and sailors, and desires that they keep his festival as a holiday. He has a horror of the thirteenth; of each month... ...ries of magnificent scenery, composers have made it familiar to the lovers of music in more than one famous opera. The story is told with variations ... ...night was there, nor heat of the sun; pleasant prospects charmed the eye; soft music from unseen sources fascinated the ear; every flower was fragrant...

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... and women can be made to assume the hues of life more effectually than by connecting their images with the substantial and homely reality of a firesi... ...r. Hooker and Mr. Stone, two ministers, went on foot from Massachusetts to Connecticut, through the pathless woods, taking their whole congrega tion ... ...rable event took place in 1643. The colonies of Massachu setts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven formed a union, for the purpose of assisting eac... ... the mysteri ous page, and read it so skilfully that it sounded like wild music. It seemed as if the forest leaves were singing in the ears of his au... ...his former associates.” “How was that?” inquired Charley. “He made a grand festival at his new brick house,” said Grandfather, “and invited all the sh... ...d entered the Province House, it must often have been present at balls and festivals; though I cannot give you a description of any particular one. Bu... ... than to wear red coats and march in stately ranks to the sound of regular music. Still was heard the beat of the drum, rub a dub dub! And now a host... ...quiet descendants of the Puri tans were shocked by the uproar of military music; the drum, fife, and bugle drowning the holy organ peal and the voice... ...oved gorgeous attire, a splendid mansion, mag nificent furniture, stately festivals, and all that was glittering and pompous in external things. His ...

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...orable field, Pure passions, virtue, knowledge, and delight, The holy life of music and of verse. Thus far, O friend, did I, not used to make 55 A pres... ... 280 Near my ’sweet Birthplace’, didst thou, beauteous Stream Make ceaseless music through the night and day Which with its steady cadence, tempering ... ...’d the clouds! The mind of Man is fram’d even like the breath And harmony of music. There is a dark 355 Invisible workmanship that reconciles Discorda... ... veins are interfus’d The gravitation and the filial bond 265 Of nature, that connect him with the world. Emphatically such a Being lives, An inmate of... ...il fame, of those with whom By frame of academic discipline Perforce we were connected, men whose sway, And whose authority of office, served 575 To se... ...ious world of poesy, Kept holiday, a never ending show, With music, incense, festival, and flowers! 610 Here must I pause: This only will I add From he... ...ts, towns, Book Sixth Cambridge and the Alps 95 Gaudy with reliques of that festival, Flowers left to wither on triumphal arcs And window garlands. O... ...n fire, 650 Mobs, riots, or rejoicings? From those sights Take one, an annual festival, the fair Holden where martyrs suffered in past time, And named ... ...ng hand of outward violence 110 Locked up in quiet. For myself—I fear Now in connection with so great a theme To speak, as I must be compelled to do, ...

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...he castle rose sheer from the steep descent, except where the platform was connected with the mountain side by, as it were, an isthmus joining the pen... ...ony, on which he had shortly before left the castle, to attend at a Church festival held at Coldingham. The chaplain was a wise, prudent, and much-res... ...g, and applied to Malcolm to give a specimen of his powers: and thus, with music, ballad, and lay, the evening passed away, till the part- ing cup was... ...the merry sound of bells clashed up to their ears, and therewith sounds of music. ‘’Tis the toon of Christ’s Kirk on the Green,’ said the squire, as S... ...here bells were ringing, flags 44 The Caged Lion flying from the steeple, music sounded, a mayor and his cor- poration in their robes rode slowly for... ...r kept free from the gross vices which a later age has fancied inseparably connected with his frolics; and though always in disgrace, the vexation of ... ...her thoughts went, like his, to his fatherly friend in the solemn services connected with the departed, he was no longer desolate, and there was almos... ...IT WHITSUNTIDE FESTIV SUNTIDE FESTIV SUNTIDE FESTIV SUNTIDE FESTIV SUNTIDE FESTIVAL AL AL AL AL ‘LADY, FAIREST LADY! Ah, suffer your slave to fall at ... ...hat were wont to be like gnats on a lion’s mane. Those solemn banquets and festivals—lasting from fore- noon till eventide, with their endless relays ...

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...is fact, being a man formerly addicted to hospitality, company, mirth, and music, was afterwards observed to forsake all this, and with much melanchol... ...sister’s—there is little pleasure in recollect- ing either the name or the connection.” “Michael Lambourne!” said the stranger, as if endeavouring to ... ...ve downright brute force. Canst thou not make home pleas- ant to her, with music and toys? Canst thou not make the out-of-doors frightful to her, with... ... to his medita- tions in broken words, which we have somewhat enlarged and connected, that his soliloquy may be intelligible to the reader. “’Tis true... ...shovel-board; and there was at the other end an el- evated gallery for the musicians or minstrels, who might be summoned to increase the festivity of ... ...in jest, it will not be amiss that in earnest your present speech had some connection with your real purpose. A court- dame—take the most noble, the m... ... re- fused all admittance, excepting to such as were guests invited to the festival, or persons who were to perform some part in the mirthful exhibiti... ...untry around, had been at once the scene of solemnizing some high national festival, carried the same oppressive thought still closer to her heart, wh... ...her civil or military, seemed always to be his proper sphere; and while in festivals and revels, although he well understood how to trick them up and ...

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...imself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence with his hand. I was very much im... ...ce bound up in a flannel bandage blowing the fire of the drawing room (now connected by an open door with Mrs. Jellyby’s room) and choking dreadfully.... .... Ain’t she?” “Yes.” “But knows a quantity, I suppose? Can dance, and play music, and sing? She can talk French, I suppose, and do geography, and glob... ...essness of yes terday, good naturedly explained that Miss Jellyby was not connected with the suit. “Ha!” said the old lady. “She does not expect a ju... ...r nished with red trappings and clear sounding bells, came by us with its music, I believe we could all three have sung to the bells, so cheerful wer... ...rty, and robust. From the moment of his first speaking to us his voice had connected itself with an association in my mind that I could not define; bu... ...ex artilleryman and present bassoon player. An occasion of feast ing and festival. The celebration of a birthday in the family. It is not Mr. Bagnet... ...mensely received in turf circles. 781 Bleak House – Dickens At feasts and festivals also, in firmaments she has often graced, and among constellation...

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...! 11 Little Dorrit – Book Two ‘But he is a man of family,’ he added. ‘His connections are of the best. He is more than an artist: he is highly connec... ... an artist: he is highly connected. He may, in effect, have repudiated his connections, proudly, impatiently, sarcastically (I make the concession of ... ... Mrs General’s communication of this idea to her clerical and commissariat connection was so warmly applauded that, but for the lady’s undoubted merit... ...uckled on, burdens were adjusted, the voices of drivers and riders sounded musically. Some of the earliest had even al- ready resumed their journey; a... ...and then, after looking at the black gondolas underneath, taking guests to music and dancing, would raise her eyes to the shining stars. Was there no ... ... English volunteers de- filed; the day wore on to the hour of vespers; the festival wore away; the thousand churches rang their bells without any ref-... ... said Rigaud, tapping her on the arm, as if his cruel hand were sounding a musical in- strument, ‘I perceive I interest you. I perceive I awaken 339 ...

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...t Into Hawaiian Culture 86 What Aloha Really Means Use this QR code to connect to the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee website: To keep informed... ...ot only in its natural beauty but its multi-cultural heritage and special connection to Asia and the Pacific. Hawaii is the most isolated land mass ... ...ot only in its natural beauty but its multi-cultural heritage and special connection to Asia and the Pacifc. Hawaii is the most isolated land mass i... ...omen of Hula Halau ‘O Kamuela perform at the world-famous Merrie Monarch Festival, under the direction of kumu hula Kau’ionalani Kamana‘o and Kune... ... and Kunewa Mook. PHOTO: BY RENAE STEWART, COURTESY OF THE MERRIE MONARCH FESTIVAL 83 APEC 2011 · HAWAII BUSINESS iving together, isolated on a ... ...aring, education and organization, a traditional lifestyle redolent with music and dance, and a special relationship to the land and water. HAWAII... ... the world today for graceful, swaying movements and hauntingly romantic music. Most people know that hula is a form of storytelling in dance. The... ...r, and sitting hula, like the one that imitates the manō, or shark. Hula festivals dot the calendar year-round. Perhaps the most WHAT ALOHA REALL... ...iian culture by encouraging participation in traditional Hawaiian dance, music, chant, and arts and crafts. By perpetuating the culture and giving ...

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...Saturday night’s performance. And the story current at that time about the connection between Williams and Marr, having (whether true or not true) nev... ... any chance of executing her errand, it becomes evident that she must have connected some deep feeling of mysterious uneasiness with the movements of ... ...tinually peeping into the window of Marr’s shop; and had thought this act, connected with the man’s appearance, so suspicious, that he stepped into Ma... ...d be presumption in the provincial audi- ence, so slightly trained to good music and dancing, if it should affect to reverse a judgment ratified in th... ... Rotterdam, if sud- denly called away in vision to act as seneschal to the festival of Belshazzar the king, before a thousand of his lords. Schlosser,... ...ose. But what the world knows Wieland by is his ‘Oberon.’ Now in this gay, musical romance of Sir Huon and his enchanted horn, with its gleams of volu... ...nal abstractions. Hence, he did not read, and did not like Shakspeare; the music was here too rapid and life-like: but he sympathized profoundly with ... ...he life that speaks to us in English tragedy. Into an English tragedy even festivals of joy may enter; marriages, and baptisms, or commemorations of n...

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...eur of design and breadth of style; and because, apart from this momentary connection with my paper, the man himself merited a record for his match- l... ...f and ennobling itself constantly and inevitably, were it only through its connection with science ever more and *Upon a large overbalance of probabil... ... or revolt. Now, when we con- sider how intimate, and how ancient, was the connection 9 Thomas de Quincey press voice of God. Such a reserve cannot b... ...of the mail, was transformed into a dream, as tumultuous and changing as a musical fugue. This troubled Dream is circumstantially reported in Section ... ...l, and Miss Watson very well, and with the power of singing difficult part music at sight, they did so for the same reason that the lark sings, and ch... ...stmas; and at Christmas—that is, at the ap- proach of this great Christian festival, so properly substi- tuted in England for the Pagan festival of Ja... ...pital disadvantage, in my eyes, that its chapel possessed no organ, and no musical ser- vice. But any other choice would have driven me to an in- stan... ...rnivals, together with another at- traction of great cities, the pomps and festivals of the Pagan worship, broke the monotony of domestic life, which,... ...e Christian was sternly excluded by his very profession of faith. From the festivals of the Pagan religion his exclusion was even more absolute; again...

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...ummy when dead, than he had done alive. Thus, gentlemen, I have traced the connection between phi- losophy and our art, until insensibly I find that I... ...hed; and, unfortunately, hearing at the very same time of a club that I as connected with, and a dinner at which I presided—both tending to the same l... ... the Austrian; that he had made the profoundest researches into our art as connected with those early and eminent art- ists the Syrian assassins in th... ... myself was considerably excited as the orchestra opened with its storm of music, and the impas- sioned glee began— “Et interrogatum est à T oad-in-th... ...nibus—Non est inventus” By this time I saw how things were going: wine and music were making most of the amateurs wild. Particularly Toad- in-the-hole... ...ld hear it without a contagious desire for falling back into the agitating music of “Et interrogatum est à Toad-in-the-hole,” &c. I enjoined vigilance... ..., saw the pomp of forests in which her childhood had wandered. That Easter festival, which man had denied to her languishing heart— that resurrection ... ...found reverie. The month 122 was August, in which lay my own birth-day; a festival to every thoughtful man suggesting solemn and often sigh-born thou... ...a girl adorned with a garland of white roses about her head for some great festival, running along the solitary strand with extremity of haste. Her ru...

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...ed with each other; at first view, in strong contradiction, yet, in truth, connected together by the strictest sequence. For Goethe has not only suffe... ...ate history, for they brought him into contact with the Duke of Weimar; in connection with whom, the Poet, engaged in 8 Autobiography manifold duties... ...rtalized in Götz von Berlichingen. Goethe’s stay at Strasburg is generally connected still more closely with another circumstance—his passion for Fred... ...ds of a master, compels a language which is as rich as Greek to be also as musical. The spring of 1773, which witnessed the publication of Götz, saw h... ...icly on a stag, which was therefore always at hand in the ditch for such a festival, in case princes or knights interfered with the city’s right of ch... ...ppeal, or do whatever else seems necessary. All at once a singular sort of music announces, if we may so speak, the advent of former centuries. It pro... ...y at the appointed place. We children were particularly interested in this festival, be- cause we were not a little flattered to see our grandfather i... .... These venerable solemnities were followed, in the fine sea- son, by many festivals, delightful for us children, which took place in the open air, ou... ...ged and raised into a pile. His father possessed a beautiful red-lacquered music- stand, ornamented with gilt flowers, in the form of a four- sided py...

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...he greater part of my time and strength is required for the executive work connected with the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, and in securin... ...successful, and that one day she and her chil- dren might be free. In this connection I have never been 15 Booker T. Washington able to understand ho... ...it been left to me to choose, I should have chosen to wear no covering. In connection with the flax shirt, my brother John, who is several years older... ... be great lawyers, or Congressmen, and many of the women planned to become music teachers; but I had a reasonably fixed idea, even at that early pe- r... ...g to be done to prepare the way for successful lawyers, Congress- men, and music teachers. I felt that the conditions were a good deal like those of a... ...mething, like a cake, a chicken, bread, or pies, that could be sold at the festival. Of course the coloured people were glad to give anything that the... ...the white families showed their interested in the school. Several of these festivals were held, and quite a little sum of money was raised. A canvass ... ...le in the town of Tuskegee. The most of this money was obtained by holding festivals and con- certs, and from small individual donations. Our next eff... ...changed to “Dixie” and the audience roared with shrill “hi-yis.” Again the music changed, this time to “Yan- kee Doodle,” and the clamour lessened. Al...

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...ls faster than the flying showers upon the moun- tain-side, faster ‘than a musician scatters sounds;’ in which ‘it was’ and ‘it is not’ are words of t... ...ve, not very much more than to let her see, as see she could not avoid, in connection with that chivalrous homage which at any rate was due to her sex... ...feeling that struck us as remarkable in a person professing an art usually connected with so much of conscious fraud, she rose to take her leave. I mu... ...their motives or the spirit of their actions, would rush (as to some grand festival of curiosity and sentimental luxury) to this public martyrdom of m... ...y any interest or curiosity separate from the personal interest inevitably connected with a case to which there were two such parties as a brutal, sen... ...al bands. Attracted by one of these, Catalina was quietly listening to the music, when some street ruffians, in derision of the gay colors and the for... ...to the morning air. Kate had now no time to send back her compliments in a musical halloo. The Alcalde missed break- ing his neck on this occasion ver... ...t say how much earlier they were first noticed,* as celebrating two annual festivals—one in August, one in November. You are a little too late, reader... ...November. You are a little too late, reader, for seeing this year’s summer festival; but that’s no reason why you should not engage a good seat for th...

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...t and could be used as a balcony. A wall, of the same height as the porch, connected the house front with 11 George Bernard Shaw the boundary wall, a... ... forty-eight living languages and all dead ones; could play on every known musical instrument; was an accom- plished painter, and had written poetry. ... ...orked, or who love to read better than to work. Beware of painters, poets, musicians, and artists of all sorts, except very great artists: beware even... ...ction of his habit of getting drunk at races, regattas, and other national festivals, by an accident at one of which he had met his death. Alice went ... ...ame somewhere,” he persisted. “Perhaps I have; but I cannot recall in what connection. 50 Cashel Byron’s Profession Why? Do you know any friend of mi... ...ped one another; “the twinkling of a star, and the pulsation in a chord of music, are that. But I cannot picture the thing in my own mind. I wonder wh... ...uring the remnant of the Lon- don season. Though she had been proud of her connection with Lydia, she had always felt eclipsed in her presence; and no... ...was about to be asked for a sub- scription to a school treat, a temperance festival, or perhaps a testimonial to one of the Wiltstoken curates. When s...

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...hrough this process, and added thereto the Catholic Church, its cross, its music, its processions, its Saints’ days and image-worship, we have as it w... ...mind are invigorated by hab- its of conversation with nature. The power of music, the power of poetry, to unfix and as it were clap wings to solid nat... ... no record of any word or sign that has passed from one to the other. What connection do the 25 Emerson books show between the fifty or sixty chemica... ...vine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselve... ...r estimates let us take a lesson from kings. The parts of hospitality, the connection of families, the impressiveness of death, and a thousand other t... ...art and brain, which created all things anew; which was the dawn in him of music, poetry, and art; which made the face of nature radiant with purple l... ...tue more than books of political science or of private economy. Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chim- ney-side of prudenc... ...the sun-baked square. Let statue, picture, park and hall, Ballad, flag and festival, The past restore, the day adorn And make each morrow a new morn S... ... clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be the festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in t...

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... her morning’s work undone. Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man’s morning work in this world? I had thr... ...tains, bearing the broken strains, or celestial parts only, of terrestrial music. The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupte... ...and aspirations from within, accompanied by the undulations of ce lestial music, instead of factory bells, and a fragrance filling the air to a high... ... northern hills, which has winged its way over the Green Mountains and the Connecticut, shot like an arrow through the township within ten minutes, an... ...the fields and woods without fear. They are Nature’s watchmen links which connect the days of animated life. When I return to my house I find that ... ...ws a rich and various crop only unreaped by man. Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and culti vated fields; as some states are ci... ...s, our object being to have large farms and large crops merely. We have no festival, nor procession, nor ceremony, not excepting our cattle shows and ...

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...made in the old. And there are so many causes tending to make the feelings connected with this sub ject the most intense and most deeply rooted of th... ...l men, except the most brut ish, desire to have, in the woman most nearly connected with them, not a forced slave but a willing one, not a slave mere... ...the only ones they are allowed to have—those to the men with whom they are connected, or to the children who constitute an additional and indefeasible... ...le the sur rounding Christian churches were only resorted to on fasts and festivals. This entire discrepancy between one social fact and all those wh... ...ns are only of the kind which confirm the general truth. Women. are taught music, I but not for the purpose of composing, only of executing it: and ac... ...nly of executing it: and accordingly it is only as composers, that men, in music, are superior to women. The only one of the fine arts which women do ... ...n any branch of art, and those of men not following it as a profession. In musical composition, for example, women surely have produced fully as good ...

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...the deed in silence.” We from the bridge descended at its head, Where it connects itself with the eighth bank, And then was manifest to me the Bol... ...ded, I saw the Lady, who erewhile appeared Veiled underneath the angelic festival, Direct her eyes to me across the river. Although the veil, that... ...t a tear or sigh, Before the song of those who sing for ever After the music of the eternal spheres. But when I heard in their sweet melodies Co... ...fty forest, vacant By fault of her who in the serpent trusted, Angelic music made our steps keep time. Perchance as great a space had in three fli... ... the beautiful escutcheon Of the great baron whose renown and name The festival of Thomas keepeth fresh, Knighthood and privilege from him receive... ... Made of themselves now D, now I, now L. First singing they to their own music moved; Then one becoming of these characters, A little while they...

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... that unquiet crisis seemed to go through the streets, less as the martial music of the soldiers, than as a muster-call to the inhabitants themselves.... ...Now, he marched onward with a warrior’s step, keeping time to the military music. Thus the aged form advanced on one side, and the whole parade of sol... ...gh the tumult of the city rolls beneath its tower, one would be willing to connect some legendary interest. The marriage might be considered as the re... ...artner should request her hand, and all unite, in a dance of death, to the music of the funeral bell. While these aged mourners were passing up the ai... ... proclaim bounties on the heads of wolves and the scalps of Indians. Their festivals were fast days, and their chief pastime the singing of psalms. Wo... ...estimony, in the negative. Here is a note relating to a suit of his in the Connecticut courts, 79 Hawthorne which was delivered me from that gentlema... ... and drawing his granddaughter’s arm within his own, retired from the last festival that a British ruler ever held in the old prov- ince of Massachuse... ...ted and independent, not, as now, merging their separate exist- ences into connected ranges, with a front of tiresome iden- tity,—but each possessing ... ...cule, as disdaining to be pleased with the provincial mock- ery of a court festival, but with the deeper scorn of one whose spirit held itself too hig...

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...mpt to mould them into shape or sequence, and without any effort to supply connecting links between adjacent verses, to fill up obvious chasms, or to ... ...consideration of the subject matter of each separate Sura and its probable connection with the sequence of events in the life of Muhammad. Great atten... ...reface. The main events thereof with which the Suras of the Koran stand in connection, are–The visions of Gabriel, seen, or said to have been seen, at... ...t the head of a caravan, and that all the congregation, at- tracted by the music of the tambours which preceded it, left the sermon for the spectacle.... ...ord! send down a table to us out of Heaven, that it may become a recurring festival to us, to the first of us and to the last of us, and a sign from t...

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...hared. The pride of being ladies had some thing to do with it: the Brooke connections, though not exactly aristocratic, were unquestionably “good:” i... ...pression of your eminent and perhaps exclusive fitness to supply that need (connected, I may say, with such activity of the affections as even the preo... ...a low stool, unable to occupy herself except in meditation, said, with the musical intonation which in moments of deep but quiet feeling made her spee... ...e was no passion behind those sonnets to Delia which strike us as the thin music of a mandolin? Dorothea’s faith supplied all that Mr. Casaubon’s word... ...be so bad. But there is a lightness about the feminine mind—a touch and go—music, the fine arts, that kind of thing—they should study those up to a cer... ...r a binding theory which could bring her own life and doctrine into strict connection with that amazing past, and give the remotest sources of knowled... ...us of it, so that Mrs. Vincy felt as if, after all, the illness had made a festival for her tenderness. Middlemarch 213 Both father and mother held i... ...ogs and cats included, under the great apple tree in the orchard. It was a festival with Mrs. Garth, for her eldest son, Christy, her peculiar joy and... ...bons. At Middlemarch in those times a large sale was regarded as a kind of festival. There was a table spread with the best cold eatables, as at a sup...

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... shared. The pride of being ladies had something to do with it: the Brooke connections, though not exactly aristocratic, were unquestion- ably “good:”... ...ression of your eminent and perhaps exclusive fitness to supply that need (connected, I may say, with such activity of the affections as even the preo... ...low stool, unable to occupy herself ex- cept in meditation, said, with the musical intonation which in moments of deep but quiet feeling made her spee... ...was no passion behind those son- nets to Delia which strike us as the thin music of a mandolin? Dorothea’s faith supplied all that Mr. Casaubon’s word... ...be so bad. But there is a lightness about the feminine mind—a touch and go—music, the fine arts, that kind of thing—they should study those up to a ce... ...r a binding theory which could bring her own life and doctrine into strict connection with that amaz- ing past, and give the remotest sources of knowl... ...us of it, so that Mrs. Vincy felt as if, after all, the illness had made a festival for her tenderness. Both father and mother held it an added reason... ...ogs and cats included, under the great apple-tree in the orchard. It was a festival with Mrs. Garth, for her eldest son, Christy, her peculiar joy and... ...bons. At Middlemarch in those times a large sale was regarded as a kind of festival. There was a table spread with the best cold eatables, as at a sup...

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...xpecting two very interesting men tonight, le Vicomte de Mortemart, who is connected with the Montmorencys through the Rohans, one of the best French ... ...na smiled and promised to take Pierre in hand. She knew his father to be a connection of Prince V asili’s. The elderly lady who had been sitting with ... ...g long been out of society had lost her 10 War & Peace former influential connections. She had now come to Petersburg to procure an appointment in th... ...her young ladies in begging Natasha and Nicholas, who were noted for their musical talent, to sing some- thing. Natasha, who was treated as though she... ...king but of thee! That while her fingers touch the harp Wafting sweet music music the lea, It is for thee thus swells her heart, Sighing its... ...dance in the large hall, and the sound of the feet and the coughing of the musicians were heard from the gallery. Pierre was sitting in the drawing-ro... ...m the day it was founded. To him the Club entrusted the arrangement of the festival in honor of Bagration, for few men knew so well how to arrange a f...

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...ve of the war. Had not private advantages and state interests been closely connected with it, vain and powerless would have been the ar- guments of th... ...hem. In such circumstances, the only course open to a prudent prince is to connect the in- terests of the cabinet with some one that sits nearer to th... ...of Suabia, converted into a mu- nicipal town of Bavaria. Two circumstances connected with this pro- ceeding must have strongly excited the atten- tion... ...ermany, and this event was now cel- ebrated by all Pomerania as a national festival. Shortly before, the Czar of Moscow had sent ambassadors to congra... ...he militia of Nuremberg, on the fifty-eighth day of his en- campment, (the festival of St. Bartholomew,) he advanced in full order of battle, and pass... ...ping on their knees, burst into a moving hymn, accompanied by the military music. The king then mounted his horse, and clad only in a leathern doublet...

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...of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John Bull, but he is t... ...oying in his friend’s suc- cesses; his laugh still ready but with kindlier music; and over all his thoughts the shadow of that unalterable law which h... ... Stevenson CHAPTER VII THE MANSE I HAVE NAMED, among many rivers that make music in my memory, that dirty Water of Leith. Often and often I desire to ... ...e steamer lay at her moorings. All day long there hung about the place the music of chinking tools; and even in the dead of night, the watchman carrie... ... own surprise and the admi- ration of his adversary. All natural talk is a festival of osten- tation; and by the laws of the game each accepts and fan... ...error of death. It is beyond a doubt to me that, somehow or other, the dog connects together, or confounds, the uneasiness of sickness and the conscio... .... Mr. T rollope’s inimitable clergymen naturally arise to the mind in this connection. But even Mr. T rollope does not confine himself to chronicling ...