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...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 ...

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...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...

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... 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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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 ...

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... 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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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, ...

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...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...

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... 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 ...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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... 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...

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... 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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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-...