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...wing and reading, and the blind were, for the most part, set to perform on musical instruments, and got up a con- cert for the visitors. It was then w... ... reading, and the blind were, for the most part, set to perform on musical instruments, and got up a con- cert for the visitors. It was then we wished... ...ible, that even as blind beggars they could hardly get a livelihood in the musical way. 15 Thackeray HENCE WE WERE DRIVEN to the huge palace of Neces... ...and, I have no doubt, played to every soul of them the twelve tunes of his musical-box. It was pleasant to see him with that musi- cal-box—how pleased... ...iter of the present, occasion to behold a second beauty. This was a native Syrian damsel, who bore the sweet name of Mariam. So it was she stood as tw... ... had actually made his appear- ance at Windsor, where he was received as a Syrian Prince, and treated with great hospitality by Royalty itself. I don’... ... board, and to point me out as the dignified personage in question. So the Syrian Prince was introduced to the Royal equerry, and a great many compli-...

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...d dance, and song, and joy appear; both describing the Spartans as no less musical than warlike; in the words of one of their own poets— With the iron... ...so, eager for distinction, then first obtained the decree for a contest in musical skill to be held yearly at the Panathenaea, and he himself, being c... ...great and good objects of thought, an intelligence that requires no aid of instruments nor supply of any external materials; whereas the other, who te... ...oats, swine, sheep, both in the mountains and the plains; and to celebrate musical fes- tivities with an expenditure of the precise sum of 333 sestert... ...in general; every one de- claring that they were, beyond all question, the instruments of the public safety. And the senate having passed a decree tha... ...e Carthaginian interest, and so make use of these foreign pre- tenders, as instruments and auxiliaries for himself, either against the Syracusans or D... ... foot guards, I advise you not to be surprised; since in fact they are all Syrians differently armed.” After his achievements in Greece, and when the ... ...tain oracles. And, in fact, he used solemnly to carry about in a litter, a Syrian woman, called Martha, a supposed prophetess, and to do sacrifice by ... ...nd te- dious, through the upper country, being informed by his freedman, a Syrian by nation, of the direct road, left that lengthy and fallacious one;...

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...fteen minutes Carol kept it up. She asserted that she was going to stage a musical comedy, that she pre- ferred cafe parfait to beefsteak, that she ho... ... into a clean nightgown, and washed his arm. Kennicott came to lay out his instruments. She realized that, with no hospi- tal facilities, yet with no ... ...all hemlock! What the dickens is all this stuff about, Carrie?” She was no Syrian queen. She was Mrs. Dr. Kennicott. She fell with a jolt into a white... ...cent of dust and trampled grass and sun-baked wood gave her an illusion of Syrian caravans; she forgot the speakers while she lis- tened to noises out... ... came they joined in the expose. “My name is Elizabeth. I’m the celebrated musical tailor. The skirts fall for me by the thou. Do I get some more veal...

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...e. 29 Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil... ...2 34 33 Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of... ...es, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hun dred and twenty thousand. 38 All... ...hun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were porters. 43 And a... ...e chariot horses, but reserved of them an hundred chariots. 5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the... ...yrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men. 6 Then David put garrisons in Syriadam... ... twenty thousand men. 6 Then David put garrisons in Syriadamascus; and the Syrians became David’s servants, and brought gifts. Thus the LORD preserved...

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...for example, that two eminent per- sons, whose names were Attis, the one a Syrian, the other of Arcadia, were both slain by a wild boar; that of two w... ...r physician he crucified, and for- bade playing on the flute, or any other musical instrument in the camp a great while, till directions came from the... ... it as an unreasonable and absurd thing that artificers, using vessels and instruments inanimate, should know the name, place, and use of every one of... ...he name, place, and use of every one of them, and yet the statesman, whose instruments for carrying out public measures are men, should be negligent a... ...o was to be yearly chosen, was to have this honor, and all public acts and instruments were to bear their date by his name. They decreed, also, that t... ...that he, who was possessed of all the vast provinces between India and the Syrian sea, should think himself so poorly off as for the sake of two citie... ...at were with him, carried him, not to the presence of Seleucus, but to the Syrian Chersonese, where he was committed to the safe custody of a strong g...

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...es, who rejoice in avowing themselves the scourges of God, and the special instruments of his wrath, have no one feature of affinity to the polished a... ...sant variety, therefore, the tormentors were introduced with their various instruments of torture; and many a dismal tragedy in that mode of human suf... ...nd occupied 62 The Cæsars the rest of the day with experiments on certain musical in- struments of recent invention, in which the keys were moved by ... ...n artist to be thus violently snatched away, and on the calamitous fate of musical sci- ence, which then stood on the brink of so dire an eclipse. In ... ...t whose very odor they inhaled. Thus provided with the means, and improved instruments, for executing his purposes, he broke out into open rebellion; ... ...Lætus, and dismissed the praetorian cohorts. Thence march- ing against his Syrian rival, Niger, who had formerly been his friend, and who was not want... ...ar upon the Parthians, who had naturally, from situa- tion, befriended his Syrian rival. Their capital cities he over- threw; and afterwards, by way o... ... soon arose; and, to the astonishment of all the world, in the person of a Syrian. The Emperor Severus, on losing his first wife, had resolved to stre...

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...ion had ha- bituated them to the fare of the desert, although, since their Syrian conquests, the Arabian simplicity of life frequently gave place to t... ...tracted between the partakers of daily dangers. It was on the decline of a Syrian day that Richard lay on his couch of sickness, loathing it as much i... ...ean proficient in the art of minstrelsy—had instantly discovered, that the musical strains, namely, which had reached their ears, were produced by the... ... atten- tion as if he had been a human being. He then took forth a case of instruments, and, by the judicious and skilful appli- cation of pincers, wi... ...bring thee into disgrace with Father Francis, as once about the black-eyed Syrian wench. But here comes the horn. Be active a bit, man, wilt thou, and... ...removed them? No. Such mediciner might have tormented the patient with his instruments, or perhaps soothed him with his balsams and cordials, but dark... ..., “that your Grace finds the mule a useful slave, though his voice be less musical than horse-hair or wire.” “What, thou canst not yet digest that qui... ... and their muster was accompanied by an astonishing clamour of their noisy instruments of martial music, by which, in all ages, the warfare of the Ara...

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...rpse, again the pomps of life rise up in silence, the glory of summer, the Syrian sunlights, the frost of death. Dream forms itself mysteriously withi... ...an away,—a slight jar was thus given to the else triumphal effect of these musical ovations. Once having ut- tered my protest, however, willingly I ga... ...was a family of amiable children, who were more skilfully trained in their musical studies than at that day was usual. They sang the old English glees... ...- bility to music, had also, as may be supposed, the most en- tire want of musical knowledge. No blunders could do much to mar my pleasure. There firs... ...of kicking seized him always after hearing good per- formers on particular instruments, especially the bagpipes. 88 Thomas de Quincey Of kicking? But... ...til several moons later, when he formed the invaluable acquaintance of the Syrian “butcher,” viz., Djezzar, the Pacha of Acre. I record this little tr...

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...Confounded burst in ruin o’er the world: And they did build vast trophies, instruments Of murder, human bones, barbaric gold, Skins torn from living m... ...The ghastly torrent mingles its far roar, With the breeze murmuring in the musical woods. Where the embowering trees recede, and leave A little space ... ... the beautiful shade Of the green groves, with all their odorous winds And musical motions. Calm, he still pursued The stream, that with a larger volu... ...liancy and magnificence of sound which a mind that has been nourished upon musical thoughts can produce by a just and harmonious arrangement of the pa... ...the Republic, fast verging itself to slavery and ruin, that a multitude of Syrian captives, big- oted to the worship of their obscene Ashtaroth, and t... ...ch had adorned his life in happier hours, _255 And instruments of music—you may guess A stranger could do little more or less ... ...ced over them in blue and yellow paint. Then comes a range of mathematical Instruments, for plans nautical and statical, A heap of rosin, a queer brok... ...rious degrees of complacency and panegy- ric, “Paris”, and “Woman”, and a “Syrian Tale”, and Mrs. Lefanu, and Mr. Barrett, and Mr. Howard Payne, and a... ... THIRD MESSENGER: THIRD MESSENGER: The Christian tribes Of Lebanon and the Syrian wilderness Are in revolt;—Damascus, Hems, Aleppo ...

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...in their spiritual guide. But as to the preference for oratory—for loud or musical voice—for peculiar views in religion—these things are special: they... ...That the Hebrew style of the coif- fure may probably be collected from the Syrian coins; and, 2. That black hair being admired in Palestine, and the J... ...t Jaffa, perpetrated by Napoleon in coun- cil. 13 In the Saxon, as in the Syrian massacre, the numbers were between four and five thousand; not that ... ... ad- vantages would in that case arise: 1. That the apparatus of means and instruments is much smaller in the one case than the other; 2. That science...

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...ticed anything decisively alarming. In very many cities bells are the main instruments for communicating be- tween the street and the interior of hous... ...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... ... of dramatically representing an impassioned tale, by means of dancing, of musical ac- companiment in the orchestra, and of elaborate pantomime in the... ...inciple of the natural, by this metrical dialogue, as the Italian opera by musical dialogue. If it is hard and trying for men to sing their emotions, ... ...onosyllable, is here made a dissyllable. But Thebez, the dissyllable, is a Syrian city. It is true that Causabon deduces from a Syriac word meaning a ...

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...t less triumphant than it is sorrowful, namely, that amongst God’s holiest instruments for the elevation of human nature is “mutual slaughter” amongst... ...theless I cite them in honor, as capable of the holiest justification. The instruments rise in grandeur, carnage and mutual slaughter rise in holiness... ...artyrdom on behalf of man’s most saintly in- terests. In proportion as the instruments for upholding or retrieving such saintly interests should come ... ...of the mail, was transformed into a dream, as tumultuous and changing as a musical fugue. This troubled Dream is circumstantially reported in Section ... ...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... ...daily. They mix as equal partakers in the same amusements of races, balls, musical assemblies, with the baronets (or elite of the gentry); with the la... ...ng to heaven, as a penitential litany, that same petition which Naaman the Syrian offered to the prophet Elijah as a reason for a personal dispensatio... ...cy about Ecbatana, when suddenly a horrid discovery was made—that the very Syrian village at his own head-quarters was known by the pompous name of Ec...

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...etical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 ful terrier. To obtain a terse and musical expression for his thought is his artistic purpose, but that of his... ...ial for the theme. It is a tale of intrigue, murder, and suicide, set to a musical snuff-box! His “Rape of the Lock” we have already characterised. It... ...power, ministry, and empire of Dulness, extended through her sub- ordinate instruments, in all her various operations. This is branched into episodes,... ...gs 235 The Smithfield Muses 236 to the ear of kings, I sing. Say you, her instruments, the great! Called to this work by Dulness, Jove, and Fate; 237... ...gh his house be sold; To headless Phoebe his fair bride postpone, Honour a Syrian prince above his own; Lord of an Otho, if I vouch it true; Bless’d i... ...ll’d, and said, Rattling an ancient sistrum at his head; ‘Speak’st thou of Syrian prince? 423 T raitor base! Mine, goddess! mine is all the hornèd ra... ...rn o’erflow.’ DONNE to QUEEN ELIZ.—P . 286 ‘Chapel-royal:’ the voices and instruments used in the service of the chapel-royal being also employed in ... ...tus tells the same thing of it in his time.—P . W . 423 ‘Speak’st thou of Syrian princes:’ the strange story follow- ing, which may be taken for a fi...

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...ete individuals. Next, it must have degraded the gods, (and have made them instruments of degradation for man,) that they were, one and all, incarnati... ...selves. It is a separate consideration, that through total defect of cheap instruments for communication, whether personally or in the way of thought,... ...Christian system of involving its own integra- tions, in the same way as a musical chord involves its own successions of sound, and its own resolution... ...troying them in detail. About nineteen days brought him within view of the Syrian fields. On the last day of February he slept at the Arimathea of the... ...latter years of Nero, a most tragical catastrophe happened at Joppa to the Syrian pirates, by which the very same number perished as in the Napoleon m... ...ons made it indispensable to murder prisoners in cold blood—in that case a Syrian war became impossible to a man of honor; and the guilt commences fro... ...ace, to outrun another. The mod- ern Italians have excelled all nations in musical sensibility, and in genius for painting. They have produced far bet... ...d for the poor, considered simply as poor (i.e. as objects of pity, not as instruments of ambition). II. Secondly, as the great aegis of western Chris...

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...g and original figure in American letters. And, to sig- nify that peculiar musical quality of Poe’s genius which inthralls every reader, Mr. Lowell su... ...upper rim or base of the cone, a circle 28 Poe in Five V olumes of little instruments, resembling sheep-bells, which kept up a continual tinkling to ... ...common barometer with some important modifications, and two astro- nomical instruments not so generally known. I then took op- portunities of conveyin... ...ributable to Cambyses, the son of Cyrus. And, indeed, the character of the Syrian monarch does by no means stand in need of any adventitious embellish... ...heavens; his Sunship is not there — at least not the Sunship adored by the Syrians. That deity will be found in the interior of yonder building. He is... .... Shouts of laughter ascend the skies. The air becomes dissonant with wind instruments, and horrible with clamor of a million throats. Let us descend,... ...pardon— will be given—by the learned of future ages, to the Ashimah of the Syrians. Put on your spectacles, and tell me what it is. What is it? “Bless...

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...ge! Warblings under the sun, usher’d as now, or at noon, or setting, Strains musical flowing through ages, now reaching hither, I take to your reckles... ...each other, The youth lies awake in the cedar roof’d garret and harks to the musical rain, The Wolverine sets traps on the creek that helps fill the H... ..., I hear fierce French liberty songs, I hear of the Italian boat sculler the musical recitative of old poems, I hear the locusts in Syria as they stri... ...asks! You Jew journeying in your old age through every risk to stand once on Syrian ground! You other Jews waiting in all lands for your Messiah! You ... ...nd cornices?) All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments, It is not the violins and the cornets, it is not the oboe no... ... is latent music yet in France, floods of it, O I hear already the bustle of instruments, they will soon be drowning all that would interrupt them, O ... ...r cry, the doctor’s shouted orders or calls, The glisten of the little steel instruments catching the glint of the torches, These I resume as I chant,...

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.... But my wrath still rises, like a towering flame, against all the earthly instruments of this ruin; I am still at times as unresigned as ever to this... ...f it? I could wish we had a theodolite here, and a spirit-level, and other instruments, for settling some impor- tant questions. Yet no: on considerat... ...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... ... nor B is the abiding law: and next it becomes an object by science and by instruments to distin- guish more readily and more certainly between the ca... ...l; that it is spo- ken of prophetically as such; and that historically the Syrian ass is made known to us as having been used in the prosperous ages o... ...Miscellaneous Papers it suggests to a very common error. In some period of Syrian warfare, a large military detach- ment was entering at some point of... ...nformation of a skull which he saw amongst many others on an altar in some Syrian convent. He offered a considerable sum in gold for it; but it was by... ...ble expression of national ven- eration to the deceased, there was a grand musical service, most admirably performed, at the close of which Kant’s mor...

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...ns less. Every thing that is his,—his name, his form, his dress, books and instruments,—fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his... ...and affectionate, does not seem to us to need Olympus to die upon, nor the Syrian sunshine. He lies very well where he is. The Jerseys were handsome g... ...bulk left out, and the spirit or moral of it contracted 180 Essays into a musical word, or the most cunning stroke of the pencil? But the artist must... ...rt of human character,—a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and th... ...of nature forward far; Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes. Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas b... .... That discovery is called the Fall of Man. Ever afterwards we suspect our instruments. We have learned that we do not see directly, but mediately, an...

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...ed promise Eliphas Levi was shown a collection of vestments and of magical instruments. The lady lent him certain books of which he was in need; and a... ...turn of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias.’ His voice, poignant and musical, blended with the suave music of the words so that Margaret felt sh... ...hadows, and the glow of yellow light within, and the tinkling of un couth instruments, and the acrid scents of Eastern perfumes. It was like a proces... ...loes, of heavy per fumes of the scent merchants, and drowsy odours of the Syrian gardens. The fragrance of the East filled her nostrils. And all thes... ... The room was furnished no differently from the others, but to the various instruments for chemical operations on a large scale were added all manner ...

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...antagruel attending the digestion of his food, they made a thousand pretty instruments and geometrical figures, and did in some measure practise the a... ...the astronomical canons. After this they recreated themselves with singing musically, in four or five parts, or upon a set theme or ground at ran- dom... ...n a set theme or ground at ran- dom, as it best pleased them. In matter of musical instru- ments, he learned to play upon the lute, the virginals, the... ...e mattocks, pickaxes, grubbing-hooks, cab- bies, pruning-knives, and other instruments requisite for herborizing. Being come to their lodging, whilst ... ...had given thanks, he set himself to sing vocally, and play upon harmonious instruments, or oth- erwise passed his time at some pretty sports, made wit... ...her he nor she amongst them but could read, write, sing, play upon several musical instruments, speak five or six several languages, and com- pose in ... ..., devoured by vermin and lice; as before him died L. Sylla, Pherecydes the Syrian, the preceptor of Pythagoras, and Greek poet Alcmaeon, and others—an...

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...no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed, or in some way musically measured,—is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume ... ... few hasty lines which at evening record his day’s experience will be more musical and true than his freest but idle fancy could have furnished. Surel... ... on. Instead of the Scythian vastness of the Billerica night, and its wild musical sounds, we were kept awake by the boisterous sport of some Irish la... ...chus, “Pythagoras did not procure for himself a thing of this kind through instruments or the voice, but employing a certain ineffable divinity, and w... ...very flower of all reading, which we had postponed to such a season “Of Syrian peace, immortal leisure.” But, alas, our chest, like the cabin of a ...

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...hey consulted, and a feminine tongue more urgent than the others, and very musical, sweet to hear any- where, put him in tune. She said, ‘Brother! bro... ... bed. Such are the petty accidents affecting cir- cumstances. They are the instruments of Destiny. There he lay, protesting that the ceremony could no... ...tiful schooner yacht, with his Lord Feltre, bound to make an inspection of Syrian mon- asteries, and forget, if he could, the face of all faces, anoth... ...directions to the house named Stoneridge. The band consisted of eight wind instruments; they played astonishingly well for itinerant musicians. By cur...

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...agedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight; which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syll... ... from the bordring flood Of old EUPHRATES to the Brook that parts EGYPT from SYRIAN ground, had general Names Of BAALIM and ASHTAROTH, those male, The... ...s foul. THAMMUZ came next behind, Whose annual wound in LEBANON allur’d The SYRIAN Damsels to lament his fate In amorous dittyes all a Summers day, W... ...ish Conquerour, whom he drew Gods Altar to disparage and displace For one of SYRIAN mode, whereon to burn His odious offrings, and adore the Gods Whom... ...rious hue; by some were herds Of Cattel grazing: others, whence the sound Of Instruments that made melodious chime Was heard, of Harp and Organ; and w...

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... no trace of an opening could be found, Doctor Ponnonner was preparing his instruments for dissection, when I observed that it was then past two o’clo... ...ceed with the investigation intended. Here Doctor Ponnonner made ready his instruments. In regard to the latter suggestions of the orator, it appears ... ...me, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, b... ...y dripping, drop by drop, Upon the quiet mountain top. Steals drowsily and musically Into the univeral valley. The rosemary nods upon the grave; The l... ...s in that happy valley, Through two luminous windows, saw Spirits moving musically, To a lute’s well-tuned law, Round about a throne where, sittin... ...testimonies to the contrary, could never have been very general. Andeus, a Syrian of Mesopotamia, was condemned for the opinion, as heretical. He live...