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...thout saying why. Mother served a round of roasting, grainy coffee, in tiny demitasses. A symphony of smacking lips and groans of pleasure followe... ...Even at dusk, I found this city languid. All shops were closed. I had a dinner date with a Londoner, a naturalised Iranian oil trader. Throughout t... ...en to turn your back on and go to sleep. A woman needs attention, flowers, a restaurant and orchestra on her birthday, buy her a fresh dress here an... ...ion camp called Home, we report in striped pyjamas to the barefeet commandant, Our Mother orchestrating our daily holocaust. Burrowing her finger... ...y by Sam Vaknin Synthetic joy of wedding halls, caked bride and groom, a spewing orchestra, metallic rings. Exchanging aqueous looks, t... ...nted Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General Manager of IPE Ltd. in London. The firm financed international multi-lateral co... ...eloper. Raised funds through a series of private placements locally in the USA, Canada and London. 1993 to 1996 Publisher and Editor of a Capital ...
...of people with similar interests. So what might be normal for an Orthodox Jew might not be in the norm for a Reformed Jew. What is the norm in London... ...It is not enough that they are producing highly skilled musicians at an early age, but they are learning the teamwork that is essential to an orches... ...h as Gustavo Dudamel, who was named the musical director for the Los Angeles Philharmonic when he was only 26. He had already conducted major orches... ... New Year‘s Concert in Vienna was another peak experience, with the music of Strauss and Mozart. The whirling waltzers of the State Opera, the sympho...
... as the Howard H. Goldman (Ed.) in the "Review of General Psychiatry" [4th Edition. London, Prentice Hall International, 1995] puts it: "The person... ...be nonsense. Women were thought not to be world-class musicians. But when American symphony orchestras introduced blind auditions in the 1970's - t... ...se. Women were thought not to be world-class musicians. But when American symphony orchestras introduced blind auditions in the 1970's - the musici... ...is invisible to those listening - the number of women offered jobs in professional orchestras increased. Similarly, in science, studies of the ways... ...ovember 2002 issue of "Child Development". The researchers, from City University of London, found that the level of maternal testosterone during pre... ...adian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General Manager of IPE Ltd. in London. The firm financed international multi-lateral countertra...
...NY High Grade COAL Gale's BIk, Spring St., WilliamsiowR FIRE INSURANCE THE LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION ESTABLISHED A. D. 1720 Fire Insurance PoHoIbs ... ... or rati nipply llAVlllV ttlav The Ten Eyck Albany Fireproof European Plan Orchestral Concerts in Grill after Theatre and during Dinner 6.30 to B.30 o... ...Solourn CoukUn 8«>I(-Klllln«Pu The Ten Eyck Albany Fireproof European Plan Orchestral Concerts in Grill after Theatre and during Dinner 6.30 to 8.30 o... ...ANY High Grade COAL Gale'sBlk, Spring St., Williamstown FIRE INSURANCE THE LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION ESTABLISHED A. D. 1720 Fira Insurance Polioies... ... Ut'ri Vouhlla HolM'IIIInf I'm The Ten Eyck Albany Fireproof European Plan Orchestral Concerts in Grill after Theatre and during Dinner 6.30 to 8.30 o... ...NY High Grade COAL Gale's BIk, Spring St., Williamstown FIRE INSURANCE THE LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION ESTABLISHED A. D. 1720 fire Insurance Polloies... ...o in F, J. S. Bach Berceuse, S. Rousseau Skijjerzo, H. Hofmann Finale, 5th Symphony, Beethoven ^i WILLIAMS REOORD, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1007 h\ I Ui^t... ...s: Toccata and Fugue in D minor by H. B, Bach Andante Con Moto (unfiniBhed symphony) by F. .Schubert Intermezzo in D flat by W. Wolstenholme Overtnre ... ... Soft Sonthem Breeze by J, Barnby Snng by S. R. Pevear '07 Largo—New World Symphony by A. d' Vorals Phantasie in E flat by C. Saint-Satus A. D. BAST I...
... space is flat. But we can‘t use that geometry to fly a 35 plane from London to Los Angeles because the earth is somewhat round. It is an oblate ... ...ist.‘ And he certainly showed that he had reservations when he wrote from London (17) ‗If we look back into history for the character of present sec... ...people think they are valuable to a society, should we give tax breaks to symphony orchestras and operas and to their musicians and singers? How abou... ...ink they are valuable to a society, should we give tax breaks to symphony orchestras and operas and to their musicians and singers? How about secular... ...ll out the forms required by other governmental agencies. Cut culture—the orchestras, zoos, museums. But keep the limos for the city council members... ... on the 6 o‘clock news in New York as verifiable as that put on the BBC in London. Is the fact that the electric light generally comes on when you f...
...rees of the sacred and oecumenical Council of Trent, Ed. and trans. J. Waterworth (London: Dolman, 1848), 75-91.) Still, most systems of morality a... ...called this period "scientific humanism" (in "Flesh and Stone" by Richard Sennett, London, Faber and Faber, 1994). We mentioned John of Salisbury's... ... decadence and evil (though it was not perceived this way by the Nazis), carefully orchestrated, and artificial. Nazism was about reproduced copies... ...arcissistic leader invariably proffers an aesthetic of decadence and evil carefully orchestrated and artificial - though it is not perceived this wa... ...epth of our souls. The narcissistic leader prefers the sparkle and glamour of well-orchestrated illusions to the tedium and method of real accompli... ... Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Andreas Bartels and Semir Zeki of University College in London showed that the same areas of the brain are active when a... ...be nonsense. Women were thought not to be world-class musicians. But when American symphony orchestras introduced blind auditions in the 1970's - t...
...he fuckers off. Have you ever heard a zillion ring tones at once, it’s no symphony orchestra I can tell you. They’re talking about Steven and Ali, as... ...s off. Have you ever heard a zillion ring tones at once, it’s no symphony orchestra I can tell you. They’re talking about Steven and Ali, as though t... ...ngrel?” This grey-blue fluff-ball thing actually spoke to me in a toffee, London accent. It’s sleeking between the carton of milk and fruit juice. “...
...ng the long banquet tables, and no more Champagne was being served. A six piece orchestra played non-descript classical music. The seats at the spea... ...pped mortars, and start tossing them at Ten Downing Street like darts in a pub, London just won't exist anymore. The Okla homa Federal Building was ... ... has to have someone to do the dirty work, and I'll bet my pension that Taranto orchestrated the murders, not to men tion blackmail and corruption o... ... who sat stoic. The chamber started to buzz, and Hacker rapped the gavel like a symphony director, the room hushed. "Contin ue, Mr. Jones," Hacker s...
...of sounds into segmented individual notes, and manipulating them? What is an orchestra or a symphony, but accumulations of manipulated, separate no... ...segmented individual notes, and manipulating them? What is an orchestra or a symphony, but accumulations of manipulated, separate notes? What is t... ...ulating the separate notes of separate musical instruments into a band, or an orchestra, an orchestration of sounds. Blaring out sounds like an orc... ...tling: which the entire audience knows is faked. The bouts are painstakingly orchestrated and rehearsed in advance. But the audiences does not want... ...yet poisoned by an overpopulated civilization, sent there by investors of the London company of Virginia to get rich quick. . After dying in dr... ...: it was a hasty, ill-planned get-rich-quick scheme by the shareholders of the London Company. They had not even planned on feeding themselves or gr... ...oing, which unwittingly became a settlement, when the original purpose of the London company was not establishing a colony at all. Why? It do... ...tter person. Normally, the money is given to high profile charities like the symphony, or museums, or cancer research… so the philanthropists can g... ...e, no nothing. But the high-profile charities of the Opera, or their beloved Symphony, or their beloved Museums have a drawback. It reveals the el...
...pictures, no more joy, no money—the great means to enjoyment! V enice, the London of the Middle Ages, was falling stone by stone, man by man. The omin... ...at on earth does the Duke do with a violin?” he won- dered. “Do I owe this symphony to him?” He asked Clara Tinti. “My dear child,”—for she saw that E... ..., “to find all our dancers detestable and our singers atrocious? Paris and London rob us of all our leading stars. Paris passes judgment on them, and ... ...ur quarters of the world. The forces of modern industry no longer reign in London, but in his own Venice, where the hanging gardens of Semiramis, the ... ...r wit to lend some charm to life and detain her lover from death. When the orchestra had given out the three chords in C major, placed at the opening ... ...hile the curtain was being raised. And now the physician heard the sublime symphony with which the composer introduces the great Biblical drama. It is... ... treble string of the violins with boreal mildness; it spreads through the orchestra, it awakes the in- struments one by one, and flows among them. Ju... ...y which the composer has grouped them round the main idea given out by the orchestra? the learned progressions that pre- pare us for the festal allegr... ...loriam Dei; Cimarosa, by the air Pria che spunti; Beethoven by his C minor symphony; Pergolesi, by his Stabat Mater; Rossini will live by Mi manca la ...
...at sort would never think of retreating. Their spectral advance on quaking London through Kentish hopgardens, Sussex corn-fields, or by the pleasant h... ... beauty, which they visited by coach and rail, looking back on unfortified London with particular melancholy. Rosamund’s word may be trusted that she ... ...ancholy. Rosamund’s word may be trusted that she dropped the letter into a London post-office in pursuance of her promise to Nevil. The singular fact ... ...n us. Ay! on her wretched tinkler called a piano, which tries at the whole orchestra and murders ev- ery instrument in the attempt. But it’s convenien... ...as your piano is the Constitutional bourgeois. Match them with the trained orchestral band of skilled individual performers, indoors or out, where eac... ...ver man was; with his ridiculous metaphors, and talk of organs and pianos, orchestras and despotisms, and flying to the sun! How could Nevil listen to... ...iled, turned over some leaves, and struck the open- ing notes of the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven, and made her selections. At the finish he said: ‘Now...
... line with hundreds of others of the same kind, along a wide road in South London. Now and again the trams hummed by, but the room was foreign to the ... ...s hummed by, but the room was foreign to the trams and to the sound of the London traffic. It was Helena’s room, for which she was responsible. The wa... ...tired, and life drained rapidly out of the opera-house. The members of the orchestra rose, laugh- ing, mingling their weariness with good wishes for t... ...d lin- gered, unwilling to take the long farewell of his associates of the orchestra. Other years he had left the opera-house with a little pain of re... ...ame which flooded him.... But it died out, and he thought of the return to London, to Beatrice, and the children. How would it be? Beatrice, with her ... ...est. There was a space of silence, while Siegmund dreamed on. ‘A Beethoven symphony—the one—’ and he explained to her. She was not satisfied, but lean... ...ce for me. Things are not sepa- 60 The Trespasser rate; they are all in a symphony. They go moving on and on. You are the motive in everything.’ Hele... ....’ Helena lay beside him, half upon him, sad with bliss. ‘You must write a symphony of this—of us,’ she said, prompted by a disciple’s vanity. ‘Some t... ... meant Beatrice, his children, Helena, the Comic Opera, his friends of the orchestra. How could he set himself again into joint with these? It was imp...
...dith ONE OF OUR CONQUERORS By George Meredith 1897 BOOK 1 CHAPTER I ACROSS LONDON BRIDGE A GENTLEMAN, noteworthy for a lively countenance and a waistc... ... noteworthy for a lively countenance and a waistcoat to match it, crossing London Bridge at noon on a gusty April day, was almost magically detached f... ...living, could by any chance have got into a wrangle, in a thoroughfare, on London Bridge, of all places in the world!—he, so popular, renowned for his... ... supernumeraries. He wished to introduce Nesta. His girl was on the raised orchestral flooring. Nataly held her fast to a music-scroll. Mr. Peridon, s... ...of Nataly, Nesta, and Peridon. ‘They have come,’ he said; he jumped on the orchestra boards and hastened to greet the Luciani with Durandarte in the r... ...en Victor, fronting the glassy stare of Colonel Corfe, tapped to start his orchestra through the lively first bars of the overture to Zampa. We soon p... ...sum- mately: really, we are all sensible of it. I am. He must lead us in a symphony. These light “champagne overtures” of French composers, as Mr. Fen...
...eaves me more time and energy to be individual in. And— I remember once in London I saw a picture of an Ameri- can suburb, in a toothpaste ad on the b... ...e- ater was the Chateau, which held three thousand specta- tors and had an orchestra of fifty pieces which played Arrangements from the Operas and sui... ...ouses, but the Eathorne Mansion remains virtuous and aloof, reminiscent of London, Back Bay, Rittenhouse Square. Its marble steps are scrubbed daily, ... ...ht now! I guess maybe you’d like that.” “Eh? Eh? Went to the opera once in London. Covent Garden sort of thing. Shocking! No, I was wondering if there... ...ant to come out flatfooted and ask you boys to O.K. the propo- sition of a Symphony Orchestra for Zenith. Now, where a lot of you make your mistake is... ...me out flatfooted and ask you boys to O.K. the propo- sition of a Symphony Orchestra for Zenith. Now, where a lot of you make your mistake is in assum... ...tle old Zenith can put up in the way of Culture. ’ That’s precisely what a Symphony Orches- tra does do. Look at the credit Minneapolis and Cincinnati... ...Orches- tra does do. Look at the credit Minneapolis and Cincinnati get. An orchestra with first-class musickers and a swell conductor—and I believe we... ... call on you good brothers to whoop it up for Culture and a World- beating Symphony Orchestra!” They applauded. To a rustle of excitement President Gu...
...ld, Arabella, Cornelia, and Adela Pole, daughters of a flourishing City-of-London merchant, had been told of a singular thing: that in the neighbourin... ...being heard at night, in the nine- teenth century, within sixteen miles of London City. They agreed that Mr. Pericles had hired some charming cantatri... ...all be instructed as was not before. Zen a noise at La Scala. No—Paris! No—London! She shall astonish London fairst.—Y ez! if I take a theatre! Yez! i... ...my hate. I came here, thinking only of you. I heard the water like a great symphony. I fell into dreaming of my music. That’s when I am at his mercy. ... ...t the drop-scene, as at a lost kingdom, scarcely repressing her tears. The orchestra tuned and played a light overture. She fol- lowed up the windings... ...at the possible reasons for the summons. Emilia had seen her father in the orchestra. There he sat, under the leader, sullenly fiddling the prelude to... ... fun going on, give me a nudge.” Emilia kept her eyes on her father in the orchestra, full of pity for his deplorable wig, in which she read his later...
...ther after the fall of Cadiz were allowed to charter a vessel and sail for London. So there was neither resistance nor reaction. But the change of gov... ...t magnificent of all instruments invented by human ge- nius. It is a whole orchestra in itself. It can express anything in response to a skilled touch... ... to end. He understood to the full- est extent the imagery of that burning symphony; for him the chords reached deep and far. For him, as for the sist... ...social order; and the social order is the same everywhere, in Moscow as in London, in Geneva as in 23 Balzac Calcutta. Given a certain number of fami... ...ngeais, “you tell this old story that everybody knows if they have been to London, and look at my neck in such a melodramatic way that you seem to me ...
... condescending manner during dinner. The important fact was known all over London that night. People who had been crying fie about Mrs. Crawley were s... ... season of her life, when she moved among the very greatest circles of the London fashion. Her success excited, elated, and then bored her. At first n... ...d, call-boys summoned them from their beer. Scores of the great dandies of London squeezed and trod on each other on the little stairs, laughing to fi... ...sympathizing audience. At its conclusion (while the music was performing a symphony as if ever so many birds were war- bling) the whole house was unan... ...ras played there, and it is said one day, in a fury, from his place in the orchestra, when he attended a rehearsal, broke a bassoon on the head of the...
...profound bow to his patrons, the Man- ager retires, and the curtain rises. London, June 28, 1848 Chapter I Chiswick Mall WHILE THE PRESENT CENTURY was... ...ff, exceedingly flurried and nervous. Miss Sedley’s papa was a merchant in London, and a man of some wealth; whereas Miss Sharp was an articled pupil,... ...mbo’s arm, as happy and as handsome a girl as any in the whole big city of London. Both he and coachman agreed on this point, and so did her father an... ...sympathizing audience. At its conclusion (while the music was performing a symphony as if ever so many birds were war- bling) the whole house was unan... ...ras played there, and it is said one day, in a fury, from his place in the orchestra, when he attended a rehearsal, broke a bassoon on the head of the...
...Pequod meets the Delight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509 132 The Symphony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511 133 The ... ... a whale in air, To express unwieldy joy.” Cowper, on the Queen’s Visit to London. “Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a st... ... of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is in... ...oyage.” Currents and Whaling. U.S. Ex. Ex. “Pedestrians in the vicinity of London and elsewhere may recollect having seen large curved bones set uprig... ...ial; ye but turn us your taffrail to show us your coffin!” Chapter 132 The Symphony I t was a clear steel blue day. The firmaments of air and sea were ... ...trove to pierce the profundity. But the lovely aromas 512 Chapter 132 The Symphony in that enchanted air did at last seem to dispel, for a moment, th... ...as the rope belayed to its pin on deck, when he struck the key note to an orchestra, that made the air vibrate as with the combined discharges of rifl...
...and how her ap- pearance would change by degrees, and how she would fly to London, and how Katharine would have to lead her about, as one leads an eag... ...s. Have they ALL disappeared? I told her she would find the nice things of London without the horrid 6 Night and Day streets that depress one so.” “T... ...ry different people who were now making their way, by divers paths, across London to the spot where she was sitting. As she ran her needle in and out ... ...e more began beating a kind of rhythm, as if he were marking a phrase in a symphony, 58 Night and Day upon the smooth stone balustrade of the Embankm... ...inside the drawing-room was like the tun- ing up of the instruments of the orchestra. It seemed to her that there were numbers of people in the room, ...
...hard for a European to compute. The flying city of Laputa moored for a fortnight in St. James’s Park affords but a pale figure of the Casco anchored b... ...; the island cock springs his jubilant rattle and airs his golden plumage; cow-bells sound far and near in the grove; and when you sit in the broad ve... ...rit. I know not what it was about, I was too much absorbed to ask. In one act a part of the chorus, squealing in some strange falsetto, produced very ... ...rt Louis Stevenson worth a dollar in itself; but the bulletin about my friend in England proved, some six months later, when I got my mail, to have be... ... the bottom, and applied a match: it was one of Bryant and May’s. The flame was slow to catch, and the irreverent sorcerer filled in the time with tal...
... observe her and him. He knows English—has been attached to the embassy in London; but, pooh! the hand’s Italian. I confess myself puzzled. We shall p... ...mbier. The delayed absence of the maestro from his post at the head of the orchestra, where the musicians sat awaiting him, seemed to confirm a rumour... ...universal confusion. Some were for handing her down into 204 Vittoria the orchestra, and getting her out through the general vomitorium, but Carlo an... ...um of money from Antonio- Pericles by accepting an immediate engagement in London, or go to the war. T o sit in submissive obedience seemed un- reason... ...nth of Spring, at night-time, fifteen miles and a quarter from the city of London—oh, city of peace! Sandra you will come there. I give you thousands ... ...s was a battle. Vittoria perceived that there was the difference between a symphony and a lyric song. The blessedness of the sensation that death can ...
...whale in air, To express unwieldy joy.” — Cowper, on the Queen’ s Visit to London. 9 Herman Melville “Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out ... ... of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is in... ...yage.” —Currents and Whaling. U.S. Ex. Ex. “Pedestrians in the vicinity of London and elsewhere may recollect having seen large curved bones set uprig... ...our taffrail to show us your coffin!” 513 Herman Melville CHAPTER 132 The Symphony I T WA S A CLEAR STEEL-BLUE DAY. The firmaments of air and sea wer... ...was the rope belayed to its pin on deck, when he struck the key-note to an orchestra, that made the air vibrate as with the combined discharges of rif...
...ll, here is my book for you; and—in all sincerity—much good may it do you! London, 23rd. October 1907. Preface to the Second Edition THE PREPARATION o... ...siasms to survive can believe that such an attempt could succeed. G. B. S. London, 1901 11 Shaw Preface to the First Edition THIS BOOK IS A COMMENTAR... ...int of view, The Ring is full of extraordinarily attractive episodes, both orchestral and dramatic. The nature music alone—music of river and rain- bo... ...ce not to grab vigorously at his own gain. Such dwarfs are quite common in London. He comes now with a fruitful impulse in him, in search of what he l... ... eighteenth century fashion, but see them on the stage, hear them from the orchestra, and feel them through the infection of passionate emotion. Dr. J... ... that it is questionable whether the great popularity of this piece at our orchestral concerts really means that our audiences are entirely catholic i... ...t of the musician: it is in this way that we get the fugue of Bach and the symphony of Beethoven. The admittedly inferior musician is the one who, lik... ...is own dramatic poems, thus giving dramatic integrity to opera, and making symphony articulate. A Beethoven symphony (ex- cept the articulate part of ...
...lling me full. I hear the train’d soprano (what work with hers is this?) The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from... ...rsburg, Berlin, Constantinople, I am of Adelaide, Sidney, Melbourne, I am of London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Limerick, I am of Madrid, Cadiz, ... ...owers, the measureless pasturages, The scenery of the snows, the winds’ free orchestra, The stretching light hung roof of clouds, the clear cerulean a... ...of forest tree tops—wind of the mountains, Personified dim shapes—you hidden orchestras, You serenades of phantoms with instruments alert, Blending wi... ...gan majestic, or chorus, or perfect band, Silent, athwart my soul, moves the symphony true. ABRAHAM L INCOLN, B ORN F EB. 12, 1809 To day, from each a...
...g for booksellers. They had removed from some country place and settled in London; partly because it afforded better chances of employment for the boy... ...S CHAPTER I—THE STREETS—MORNING THE APPEARANCE PRESENTED by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer’s morning, is most striking even... ...in happy oblivion, his long-cherished curiosity to be- hold the wonders of London. Rough, sleepy-looking animals of strange appearance, something betw... ...mpany; and Smuggins, after a considerable quantity of cough- ing by way of symphony, and a most facetious sniff or 60 Sketches by Boz two, which affo... ...d knows me; she smiled at me.’ Another cut from the whip, a burst from the orchestra, a start from the horse, and round goes Miss Woolford again on he... ...f we recollect right, are dis- played in tempting array. There is a raised orchestra, and the place is boarded all the way down, in patches, just wide... ...our little boys and a woman in the pit; and two fiddles and a flute in the orchestra, who have got through five overtures since seven o’clock (the hou... ...sonal friends. ‘Tap-tap-tap,’ went the leader’s bow on the music-desk. The symphony began, and was soon afterwards followed by a faint kind of ventril...
...tarts a new mortal disease every month. How could he have got hay fever in London? and even if he could, it seems hard that you should give up a visit... ...site, as humanity piled itself higher and higher on the pre- cious soil of London. Mrs. Munt had her own method of interpreting her nieces. She decide... ...’Italia, because by it they must return to their homes. And he is a chilly Londoner who does not endow his stations with some personality, and extend ... ... EM Forster CHAPTER V IT WILL BE generally admitted that Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of... ...e left of that hall, so that the brass bumps at you before the rest of the orchestra arrives, it is still cheap. “Whom is Margaret talking to?” said M... ... of death, and, amid vast roarings of a su- perhuman joy, he led his Fifth Symphony to its con- clusion. But the goblins were there. They could re- tu... ...t— that’s my opinion.” Evidently these sisters quarrelled. “Now, this very symphony that we’ve just been having—she won’t let it alone. She labels it ...
...E CLUB STORY OF THE YOUNG MAN WITH THE CREAM TARTS DURING HIS RESIDENCE in London, the accomplished Prince Florizel of Bohemia gained the affection of... ...to a low humour, when there was no laughable play to witness in any of the London theatres, and when the season of the year was unsuitable to those fi... ...ting upon a nearer acquaintance. There was nothing present but the lees of London and the commonplace of disre- spectability; and the Prince had alrea... ...d education. I can play the violin nearly well enough to earn money in the orchestra of a penny gaff, but not quite. The same remark applies to the fl... ... starry heavens; the guitar wailed, shouted, and reverberated like half an orchestra; and the voices, with a crisp and spirited delivery, hurled the a... ...s, Elvira, I am sure.” And without waiting an answer he began to strum the symphony. The first chords awoke a young man who was lying asleep upon a ne...
...ether, without a signal from any one of us, always to the music of the Kur orchestra, always in the temperate sunshine, or, if it rained, in discreet ... ...od enough for me. But when we discovered that the Ashburnhams’ copy of the London paper followed them from England, Leonora and Florence decided betwe... ...ad found it. She would tell him the story of Hamlet; explain the form of a symphony, humming the first and second subjects to him, and so on; she woul... ...up at the British consul’s, in getting the fellow’s wife to come back from London and bring back his girl baby. She had bolted with a Swiss scullion. ... ... Swiss scullion. If she had not come inside the week he would have gone to London himself to fetch her. He was like that. Edward Ashburnham was like t... ...s not a very difficult feat for a woman instinct with jealousy. The Casino orchestra was, as Edward remem- bered to tell me, playing the Rakocsy march...
... ceremony was performed by the Rev. A. Payne, of the Deaf and Dumb Church, London.”] he must not be- get children heedlessly and unwittingly because o... ... should be written the most tragic consequences. The Foundling Hospital of London, estab- lished by Coram—to save infant lives!—buried, between 1756 a... ...tentions in the world, have, for all practical purposes, organized it. The London Foundling, be it noted, in the reorganized form it assumed after its... ...rms is organizing something within itself, beside which the most wonderful orchestra one can imagine is a lump of rude clum- siness. There will come a... ...tin whistle, a xylophone, and a drum are capable of render- ing the Eroica Symphony. In being also ignorant of itself, this wide ignorance of En- glis...
...ed out from every door and mingled in a strange chaos, as though an unseen orchestra 16 Anton Chekhov were tuning up in the darkness above the roofs,... ...: “What a lot of houses!” “That’ s nothing,” said the medical student. “In London there are ten times as many. There are about a hundred thousand such... ... in a sort of chaos, and this tangle of sounds seemed again like an unseen orchestra tuning up on the roofs. If one looked upwards into the darkness, ... ...the fact that it did not last long. Vassilyev was soon tired. The cases in London, in Hamburg, in W arsaw, weighed upon him by their mass as a mountai... ... on her eyes dried. Nadya remembered that Gorny had declared his love at a Symphony concert, and again down- stairs by the hatstand where there was a ... ... dor of the court at Moscow, himself delivering a speech, his sisters, the orchestra which for some reason kept droning: “Oo- oo-oo-oo! Oo-oooo-oo!” “... ...e wedding, he was 109 The Schoolmistress and other stories sitting in the London T avern with the whole company, and all were talking about Masha. Th...
... harmony or chorus in which all take part, to which each instrument in the orchestra contributes his share. Y ou would see there plenty of respectable... ...elf. The alternations of sound and silence bore a distant resemblance to a symphony of Beethoven’s. The two friends, seated on a silken divan, were fi... ... drowned the clinking of gold, which mingled in the sounds sent up by this orchestra; yet, despite all obstacles, I distinctly heard the words of the ... ...you manage at the Italiens this evening? An English family is returning to London, and I have taken their box for the rest of the sea- son, and it is ... ...nger lady. The applause of young and old was so pro- longed, that when the orchestra began, the musicians turned to the audience to request silence, a...
...he assistance of the scene-painter, the costumier and the conductor of the orchestra, he may add to this something of pageant, some- thing of sound an... ...mita- tors; for there is always something consolatory in grandeur, but the symphony transposed for the piano becomes hys- terically sad. This literatu... ... body and soul to the unpatriotic faction in his own country, set out from London with a light heart and a damaged integrity. In the magnificent copy ... ...l perspective, is almost a history of his imprisonment. It gives a view of London with all its spires, the river passing through the old bridge and bu... ...ibrary of their grandfather Charles V., when Bedford put it up for sale in London.** The duchess had a library of her own; and we hear of her borrowin...
...nd said little or nothing. (Weber, Memoires concernant Marie- Antoinette (London, 1809), i. 22.) So it has lasted for the better half of a fortnight;... ...alier d’Eon, now in petticoats, now in breeches, is no less problematic in London than in Paris; and causes bets and lawsuits. Beautiful days of inter... ...n. ’ We have a Courrier de l’Europe in those years, regularly published at London; by a De Morande, whom the guillotine has not yet de- voured. There ... ... that Parlement is questionable. Already among the Notables, in that final symphony of dismissal, the Paris President had an ominous tone. Adrien Dupo... ... i. 302.) And so, with such protracted crash of deafening, most discordant Orchestra-music, the Scene is changed: and eight-and-twenty thousand suffic...
...ble fully to describe the experience. It was like the effect of some great orchestra when all the separate notes have melted into one swelling harmony... ...that deliverance is felt as incomplete [29] Mark Rutherford’s Deliverance, London, 1885, pp. 196, 198. 80 The V arieties of Religious Experience unle... ...er. Mr. Dresser’s works are published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York and London; Mr. Wood’s by Lee & Shepard Boston. [46] Lest my own testimony be s... ...h to me is sweeter.” S. A. K. Strahan: Suicide and In- sanity, 2d edition, London, 1894, p. 131. 148 The V arieties of Religious Experience So much f... ...or worth of it consists. One must have musical ears to know the value of a symphony; one must have been in love one’s self to understand a lover’s sta...
...nd said little or nothing. (Weber, Memoires concernant Marie- Antoinette (London, 1809), i. 22.) So it has lasted for the better half of a fortnight;... ...ier d’Eon, now in petticoats, now in breeches, is no less problem- atic in London than in Paris; and causes bets and lawsuits. Beautiful days of inter... ...n. ’ We have a Courrier de l’Europe in those years, regularly published at London; by a De Morande, whom the guillotine has not yet devoured. There to... ... that Parlement is questionable. Already among the Notables, in that final symphony of dismissal, the Paris President had an ominous tone. Adrien Dupo... ... i. 302.) And so, with such protracted crash of deafening, most discordant Orchestra-mu- sic, the Scene is changed: and eight-and-twenty thousand suf-...