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...ote – Part I DON BELIANIS OF GREECE To Don Quixote of la Mancha SONNET In slashing, hewing, cleaving, word and deed, I was the foremost knight of c... ...s strong and fit to stand a cut, he drew his sword and gave it a couple of slashes, the first of which undid in an instant what had taken him a week t... ...ter which he would fling the book away and snatch up his sword and fall to slashing the walls; and when he was tired out he would say he had killed fo... ... Quixote he was already out of bed, and was still shouting and raving, and slashing and cutting all round, as wide awake as if he had never slept. The... ...on Quixote with drawn swords uplifted, ready to de- liver two such furious slashing blows that if they had fallen full and fair they would at least ha... ...ntleman, our guest, may see that even in the mountains and woods there are musicians: we have told him of thy accomplishments, and we want thee to sho... ...irst an- swered for him, and said, “He, sir, goes as a canary, I mean as a musician and a singer.” “What!” said Don Quixote, “for being musicians and ... ...ost of the knights-errant in days of yore were great troubadours and great musicians, for both of these accom- plishments, or more properly speaking g... ...e silence continued some little time, they resolved to go in search of the musician who sang with so fine a voice; but just as they were about to do s...

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...hout a peer. DON BELIANIS OF GREECE To Don Quixote of la Mancha SONNET In slashing, hewing, cleaving, word and deed, I was the foremost knight of c... ...s strong and fit to stand a cut, he drew his sword and gave it a couple of slashes, the first of which undid in an instant what had taken him a week t... ...ter which he would fling the book away and snatch up his sword and fall to slashing the walls; and when he was tired out he would say he had killed fo... ... Quixote he was already out of bed, and was still shouting and raving, and slashing and cutting all round, as wide awake as if he had never slept. The... ...on Quixote with drawn swords uplifted, ready to de- liver two such furious slashing blows that if they had fallen full and fair they would at least ha... ...ntleman, our guest, may see that even in the mountains and woods there are musicians: we have told him of thy accomplishments, and we want thee to sho... ...irst an- swered for him, and said, “He, sir, goes as a canary, I mean as a musician and a singer.” “What!” said Don Quixote, “for being musicians and ... ...ost of the knights-errant in days of yore were great troubadours and great musicians, for both of these accom- plishments, or more properly speaking g... ...e silence continued some little time, they resolved to go in search of the musician who sang with so fine a voice; but just as they were about to do s...

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...ort of twilight; there was a stone railed gallery at each end, high up, with musicians in the one, and women, clothed in stunning colors, in the other... ... some times, to observe it the better and bet on it, and the ladies and the musicians stretched themselves out over their balus ters with the same ... ...es. I therefore considered the matter thoughtfully, and ended by having the musicians ordered into our presence to play that Sweet Bye and Bye again,... ...nd said he couldn’t play — a plausible excuse, but too thin; there wasn’t a musician in the country that could. The queen was a good deal outraged, ... ...et, to all appearances, and here is this old duke of the South Marches still slashing away with sword and lance at his time of life, after raising suc... ...acher, singer is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the musician with the fiddle bow in his hand who sits in the midst of a great... ... two mills and six milrays), and all of a sudden here comes along a man who slashes out nearly four dollars on a single blow out; and not only that,... ...adder bit a knight’s heel; the knight forgot all about the order, and made a slash at the adder with his sword. Inside of half a minute those two pro ...

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...than Tirante el Blanco? Who more courtly than Lisuarte of Greece? Who more slashed or slash- ing than Don Belianis? Who more intrepid than Perion of G... ...e was so gentle that it had not power to stir the leaves on the trees. The musicians were the life of the wedding, wandering through the pleasant grou... ...ischarging a continu- 165 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. ous rain of cuts, slashes, downstrokes, and backstrokes, and at length, in less than the spac... .... “I will take my oath of that,” said Sancho; “they would have given him a slash that would have slit him down from top to toe like a pomegranate or a... ...d the distressed Duenna’s tale of her misfortunes Following the melancholy musicians there filed into the garden as many as twelve duennas, in two lin... ...ating and escaped by it, save one that, finding itself hard pressed by the slashes of Don Quixote’s sword, flew at his face and held on to his nose to... ... renew the calls to arms with such energy, tram- pling on poor Sancho, and slashing at him over the shield with their swords in such a way that, if he... ...but as for doing it- Judas may believe that!” While they were talking, the musician, singer, and poet, who had sung the two stanzas given above came i... ... may be answerable to your deserts?” The young man replied that he was the musician and songster of the night before. “Of a truth,” said Don Quixote, ...

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...in—whiz, bang —another idea—wine shop again—pen and ink—back again—cut and slash—noble time, Sir. Sportsman, sir ?’abruptly turning to Mr. Winkle. [* ... ...m, with crimson covered benches, and wax candles in glass chandeliers. The musicians were securely confined in an elevated den, and quadrilles were be... ...n his short, round body, he wore a close cover ing, ornamented with small slashes; a short cloak dangled at his back; the collar was cut into curious...

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...38. Pibroch. “A Highland air, suited to the particular pas- sion which the musician would either excite or assuage; gen- erally applied to those airs ... ...his fine pushes were caught in the wood, And Sawny, with backsword, did slash him and nick him, While t’other, enraged that he could not once pr... ...e. Presence-chamber. Cf. Rich. II. i. 3. 289: “Suppose the singing birds musicians, The grass whereon thou tread’st the presence strew’d” (that i...

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...e thrush, and the linnet, and the nightingale, are its unhired minstrels and musicians. Robin Hood is king of the forest both by dignity of birth and ... ... turned to the aid of Marian, who was parrying most dexterously the cuts and slashes of her two assailants, of whom Robin delivered her from one, whil...

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...wrote with a thin pen in a rounded boyish handwriting. She italicized with slashes of the pen. He held this letter in both hands between his knees, an... ...to be let do things for you.” (The “you” was erased by three or four rapid slashes, and “our King” substituted.) “I want to be privileged to help buil... ...Or like some wondyful casket,” said Lady Sunderbund…. And also there was a musician with fuzzy hair and an im- pulsive way of taking the salted almond... ...he end, molto semplice e cantabile. It had a real quality of divinity. The musician betrayed impatience at the name of Beethoven, and thought, with hi... ... by tragedy, be- 197 H G Wells ginning with a parting…. It’s like a knife slashing at all our appearances and discretions…. Think of our lovemaking…....

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...d all sorts and degrees of men and women, as well as their slaves, cut and slashed their fore- heads in token of sorrow, repeating in their cries and ... ...o inquire into the miseries of Ulysses, and were ignorant of their own; at musicians, who were so exact in tuning their instruments, and never tuned t... ... to the other cities of Greece, to inquire out rhetoricians, painters, and musicians; but to Lacedaemon for legislators, magistrates, and generals of ... ...ned by the sound of some musical instrument, and was never unprovided of a musician for that purpose. By this example you may judge of the rest, this ... ...hat great Alexander his son sing once at a feast to the wonder of the best musicians there: “Art thou not ashamed,” said he to him, “to sing so well?”... ... not ashamed,” said he to him, “to sing so well?” And to the same Philip a musician, with whom he was dis- puting about some things concerning his art... ... there every day fellows to be found that will give themselves a good deep slash in the arms or thighs. I am willing, how- ever, to have the testimoni...

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...ng hotel in Piccadilly, in which he tried to horse-whip a prominent German musician upon some personal account, delayed his promised ascent. The quarr... ...p blue dome of the sky. Below, far below, was a torn floor of sunlit cloud slashed by enormous rents through which he saw the sea. If you had been wat... ...ch the ripping-cord would have torn the balloon open as though it had been slashed by a sword, and hurled Mr. Smallways to eternity at the rate of som... ...- lar smash—” “They must have been pretty desperate if they meant it. They slashed down on us like a knife; simply ripped the af- ter gas-chambers lik... ...Air The foremost swordsman won three strides on him and was near enough to slash at him and miss as he spurted. A dozen yards they ran, and then the s... ...him and miss as he spurted. A dozen yards they ran, and then the swordsman slashed again, and Bert could hear across the waters a little sound like th...

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...extravagant. It consisted in a sort of grey jerkin, with scarlet cuffs and slashed sleeves, showing a scarlet lining; the other parts of the dress cor... ...ire died, and where I hope he’ll live to die himself, if he’s not shot, or slashed, in a creagh.’ ‘You hope such a death for your friend, Evan!’ ‘ And... ..., to the music of his own whistling. In this double capacity of dancer and musician, he continued, until an idle piper, who observed his zeal, obeyed ... ...s high birth and lofty pretensions. An hour had hardly flown away when the musicians played the signal for parting, so well known in Scotland.’ [Which... ...stance. ‘She has a more correct ear than Flora, though a less accomplished musician,’ said W averley to himself. ‘I sup- pose Miss Mac-Ivor will next ... ...Chevaux-de-poste, post-horses. Chiel, person. Clachan, village. Clamhewit, slash, clout. Claw favour, curry favour. Clour, bump. Coghling, blowing. Co...

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...sidious creeping of blood down his thigh, which was marked with a long red slash. Siegmund watched the blood travel over the bright skin. It wound its... ...te is too great an artist to suf- fer an anti-climax. I am sure the Master-Musician is too great an artist to allow a bathetic anti-climax.’ Chapter 1... ...u like it?’ cried Louisa. ‘I think it’s lovely—lovely!’ There came another slash of lightning. The night seemed to open and shut. It was a pallid visi...

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..., and drink wretched muddy coffee, and to listen to two or three miserable musicians, who keep up a variation of howling for hours together. But the ... ...gro slave, who is riding by himself, the most insolent of all, strikes and slashes about without mercy, and you never hear a single complaint. How to ...

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...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 ... ...nd- father talk of, and of the jolly Almains whom he commanded, with their slashed doublets and quaint hose, all frounced with ribands above the nethe... ...es, by a person quaintly dressed in a doublet of black velvet, cu- riously slashed and pinked with crimson satin. A long cock’s feather in the velvet ... ... heavens, mas- ters, an any one dare to look on this old gentleman, I will slash the eyes out of his head with my poniard!—So sit down, old friend, an... ...Lambourne; “why, thy lim- ber bit of a thigh, thrust through that bunch of slashed buck- ram and tiffany, shows like a housewife’s distaff when the fl... ...ster Holiday his own tal- ents as a juggler, with those of his sister as a musician. Some proof of his dexterity was demanded, which he gave in such a... ...ocks of white velvet, lined with cloth of sil- ver, which was shown at the slashed part of the middle thigh; his doublet of cloth of silver, the close...

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...ome one should come. She watched the smokeless chimneys of Fri- ars Pardon slash its roofs with shadow, and the smoke of Iggulden’s last lighted fire ... ...ncestors’ banqueting hall. Her grey and silver dress disappeared under the musicians’ gallery; two electrics broke out, and she stood backed against t...

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...eir suites drawn up in a circle, the servants where they could, the Earl’s musicians thundering with drums, tooting with fifes, twanging on fiddles, o... ... home-spun kirtle, with the puffs at the top of the tight sleeves, and the slashes into which she had per- suaded mother to insert some old pink satin... ...ed, a well-knit and active figure, in a plain dark blue jerkin, with white slashes, and long hose knitted by his mother’s dainty fingers, and well-pre... ...alf Sadler and his guest Mr. Babington. Antony was dressed in green velvet slashed with primrose satin, set- ting off his good mien to the greatest ad... ... on the ground for numer- ous spectators, and a small gallery intended for musicians was granted, with some reluctance, to the ladies and gentle- men ...

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...bers of the Fund to the Gentlemen of the Edinburgh Professional Society of Musicians, who, finding that this meeting was appointed to take place on th... ...s of the Canongate and Prosperity to the Edinburgh Professional Society of Musicians.” (Applause.) Mr. Pat. Robertson Proposed “The Health of Mr. Jeff... ...have more of a sow than a grumph. It’s shame my father’s knife should ever slash a haggis for the like of him.” Thus saying, (but saying it in Gaelic)...

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...ll, tell him that I wrote the article. It can be sup- posed that I wrote a slashing review, and you toned it down; and he will owe you thanks.” “Could... ...y little youngster that has left school will take himself for a great man, slash his predecessors from the lofty height of a newspaper column, drag th... ...gnon, the Baron de Nucingen, Beaudenord, Philippe Bridau, Conti, the great musician, all the artists and speculators, all the men who seek for violent... ...ut up the play as you did. If you 214 A Distinguished Provincial at Paris slash for the sake of slashing, the paper will get into trouble, and when t... ...ema, and he was to be the first victim. His book was to be honored with “a slashing article,” to use the consecrated formula. Lucien refused to write ...

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...amp-de-Mars Federation, with three hundred drummers, twelve hun- dred wind-musicians, and artillery planted on height after height to boom the tidings... ...st street, our Inspector bounds off again, bull-hearted as he is; amid the slash of sabres, the crackle of musketry; and escapes, full gallop, with on...

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...at as he lay on his face expiring or dead in the heap of the slain, he had slashed his neck with a sword. He had done this, he said, to make sure of r... ...se breast to breast un- der his adversary’s guard Lieut. Feraud received a slash on his shortened arm. He did not feel it in the least, but it checked... ...eut. D’Hubert thought he had killed him outright. The impression of having slashed hard enough to cut his man clean in two abode with him for a while ... ... surgeon whom he knew fairly well. The sounds of the flute ceased, and the musician ap- peared at the window, his instrument still in his hand, peerin... ...al. It’s amusing.” “Very!” snarled Lieut. D’Hubert. “And you will find his slashed arm amusing, too. It will keep both of you amused for quite a long ...

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..., still observed, smil- ingly, that after all he was blind; he, therefore, slashing Dick, could have wished that the great man had always been sur- ro... ...ous justice, he proceeded to amputate all the finest passages in the poem. Slashing Dick was No. 3. Payne Knight was a severer man even than slashing ... ...ction of the black art. Bentley gained from Pope that admirable epithet of slashing, [‘the ribbalds—from slashing Bentley down to piddling Theobalds,’... ...d to be that of the adder for music. The deaf adder heareth not though the musician charm ever so wisely. No scholarship, which so far beyond other me... ...ey. One duty, and no other, rested upon his conscience; one voice he heard—Slash away, and hew down the rotten growths of this abominable amanuensis. ... ...k of the poem were marked by italics, as dedicated to fire and slaughter. ‘Slashing Dick’ went through the whole forest, like a woodman marking with w...

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... Miss Miniver, and hurried on, putting out a rhetorical hand that showed a slash of finger through its glove. “And now, look at us! See what we have b... ...ell the miracle of art and the imagina- tion. You get this queer irascible musician quite impossibly and unfortunately in love with a wealthy patrones...

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... one form. Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations,... ... _340 Let them ride among you there, Slash, and stab, and maim, and hew,— What they like, that let them do. 85. ... ...eath and Damnation, And Consternation, Flit up from Hell with pure intent! Slash them at Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, and Chester; ...

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...allow pan- ther; we kept hoping he would, in our horror of the murder- ous slashes of the cane; and not a syllable did Heriot utter. T emple and I sta... .... ‘The cricketer and the scholar have been developed at the expense of the musician; and music, Richie, music unlocks the chamber of satinrose.’ Late ...

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...t of playing the cornet, and our band-leader, Del Snafflin, is such a good musician, I often say he ought to give up his barbering and become a profes... ...d have been in a distant place, have taken charge of a strange house, have slashed a woman, saved a life. What wonder he detested the lazy Westlake an... ...Carol tried to look at him, yet not look at the seeping blood, the crimson slash, the vicious scalpel. The ether fumes were sweet, choking. Her head s...

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...e Shrew: Act I, scene ii 22 Hath promised me to help me to another, A fine musician to instruct our mistress; So shall I no whit be behind in duty T... ...GREMIO, LUCENTIO in the habit of a mean man; PETRUCHIO, with HORTENSIO as a musician; and TRANIO, with BIONDELLO bearing a lute and books .] GREMIO: ... ... promise you, if I look pale. BAPTISTA: What, will my daughter prove a good musician? HORTENSIO: I think she’ll sooner prove a soldier Iron may hold... ...ll, I must wait, [Aside.] And watch withal; for, but I be deceived, Our fine musician groweth amorous. HORTENSIO: Madam, before you touch the instrum... ...er reach the greybeard, Gremio, The narrow prying father, Minola, The quaint musician, amorous Licio; All for my master’s sake, Lucentio. [Re enter GR... ...d down, carved like an apple tart? Here’s snip and nip and cut and slish and slash, Like to a censer in a barber’s shop: Why, what, i’ devil’s name, t...

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...crane-dance. At black be thy fall. At slash and cut. At ho the distaff. At bobbing, or flirt on t... ...rs, as Timotheus did to his disciples, who had been instructed under other musicians. To do this the better, they brought him into the company of lear... ...st, and upon the back of that, whilst he was about to ward his head from a slash, he ran him in at the breast with a hit, which at once cut his stomac... ...a-pie, and mounted upon one of the best horses in the kingdom, with a good slashing shable by his side, together with Gargantua, Ponocrates, Gymnast, ... ...ave the keeper which held him on the 139 Rabelais right side such a sound slash that he cut clean through the jugulary veins and the sphagitid or tra... ...e above the breast; then, bringing along the blow to the left side, with a slash struck him between the neck and shoulders. After that, advancing his ... ...ithe calves; clapping down their ears like Arcadian asses at the melody of musicians, who with their very countenances in the depth of silence express... ...s, sound wind and limbs, like the old Hebrew captain Moses, Xenophilus the musician, and Demonax the philosopher, by arguments no ways imperti- nent, ... ...s, poets, painters, projec- tors, mathematicians, watchmakers, sing-songs, musicianers, and the devil and all of others that are subject to Queen Whim...

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...h Procession is met with sharp shot, with the thrusting of bayo- nets, the slashing of sabres. Even Dubois makes a charge, with that Cavalry of his, a... ...ther, stout Col. d’Argent (Silver-Stock, so they named him), shattered and slashed by seven-and-twenty wounds in one fell day lie sunk together on the... ...s his second or Tuileries charge, succeeds but in overturning (call it not slashing, for he struck with the flat of his sword) one man, a poor old sch... ...Townhall, to be judged!—Alas, already one poor Invalide has his right hand slashed off him; his maimed body dragged to the Place de Greve, and hanged ... ...essure from him;’ for all Versailles is crowding and shouting. The Chateau Musicians, with a felicitous promptitude, strike up the Sein de sa Famille ... ...d brave Miomandre perish, then, at the Queen’s door? No, he was fractured, slashed, lacerated, left for dead; he has nevertheless crawled hither; and ... ...Champ-de-Mars Federation, with three hundred drummers, twelve hundred wind-musicians, and artillery planted on height after height to boom the tid- in...

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... is no longer in the hands of the playwright: it has been conquered by the musician, after whose enchantments all the verbal arts seem cold and tame. ... ... not the slightest chance of my altering it. CROFTS [rising, after a final slash at a daisy, and coming nearer to her] Well, no matter. I could tell y...

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...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... ...e slender little girl. While the couples were arranging themselves and the musicians tuning up, Pierre sat down with his little part- ner. Natasha was... ...as the last figure of the ecossaise was ended, he clapped his hands to the musicians and shouted up to their gal- lery, addressing the first violin: “... ...tervals of the dance the count, breathing deeply, waved and shouted to the musicians to play faster. Faster, faster, and faster; lightly , more lightl... ... erything was becoming more and more happy and ani- mated. “Oh, how I will slash at him!” thought Rostov, gripping the hilt of his saber. “Hur-a-a-a-a... ... with excitement, he had flown like a storm at the square, cut his way in, slashed right and left, how his saber had tasted flesh and he had fallen ex... ...re, it seemed, obliged to live in the count’s house. Such were Dimmler the musician and his wife, V ogel the dancing master and his family, Belova, an... ...l men being free and equal. This caused people all over France to begin to slash at and drown one another. They killed the king and many other people....

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...erwood Anderson did in her own room. I never went there. I think she was a musician and played a violin. Every now and then she came and knocked at th... ... of the town and told him he was sure to meet the down train but Windpeter slashed at him with his whip and drove on. When the train struck and killed... ...h delight 174 Sherwood Anderson when the team, maddened by his inces-sant slash- ing at them, rushed straight ahead to cer-tain death. Boys like youn...

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...edical student was trying one of the doublets of orange- tawny and silver, slashed with dirty light blue. He was going to a masquerade that night. He ... ...p, pro- posed to the Empress to drop in on the party. He made signs to the musicians to continue: and the conqueror of Marengo and Friedland watched w... ...oblest couple in the room, love,” the lady cried. “That pea-green doublet, slashed with orange-tawny, those ostrich plumes, blue, red, and yellow, tho... ...ught, and the consequence was, that in about three min- utes he received a slash in the right side (cut 6), which effectu- ally did his business:—he w... ...hy- sicians, the chief bankers, the chief statesmen, the chief artists and musicians, the chief everything, under the Moorish kings. Thus it is not su...