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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of tho... ...ls, wearing a tie in accordance with ‘the colours,’ and absorbed in church music and decorations, while his recreations were almost all in ac- cordanc... ...uttie’s Father ‘And she has had several prizes at the School of Art.’ ‘And music? That’s the only thing of any value in society,’ he said impatiently,... ... he said impatiently, and Mrs. Egremont said more timidly, ‘She has learnt music regularly.’ ‘But I don’t care about it,’ broke in Nuttie. ‘I haven’t ... ... should have to teach, and they make me practise. I don’t mind clas- sical music, but I can’t stand rubbish, and I think it is waste of time.’ Mr. Egr... ...ued all her real useful acquirements, and cared for noth- ing but trumpery music. The carriage entered the park, and Nuttie saw lake and woods from a ...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...e devil to get it. For some this spring is play, or the stock-exchange, or music, or a collection of pic- tures or insects; for others it is some woma... ...e piano as if some fancy had crossed her mind, and asked, “Are you fond of music, M. de Rastignac?” “Exceedingly,” answered Eugene, flushing, and disc... ... Italiens yester- day evening,” he remarked. “I never heard such delicious music. Good gracious! how lucky people are to have a box at the Italiens!” ... ... 123 Balzac “Sir,—I have heard from my father that you are fond of Italian music. I shall be delighted if you will do me the pleasure of accepting a s... .... Walk up! walk up! gentlemen! Pay at the desk as you go in! Strike up the music there! Brooum, la, la, trinn! la, la, boum! boum! Mister Clarinette, ...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...e but two play- ers. Somewhere in another part of the building a mam- moth music-box was jangling out a quickstep. From out- side came the long, rhyth... ... other. McTeague kept silence. The two billiard players departed. The huge music-box struck into a fresh tune. “Huh!” exclaimed Marcus, with a short l... ...re by the orchestra, after which came “The Gleasons, in their mirth-moving musical farce, entitled ‘McMonnigal’s Court-ship.’” This was to be followed... ...ter this came a great array of other “artists” and “specialty performers,” musical wonders, acro- bats, lightning artists, ventriloquists, and last of... ... with its new glove to her mouth. The performance went on. Now it was the “musical mar- vels,” two men extravagantly made up as negro minstrels, with ...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...half-dozen of you put together.’ ‘She was more worth it,’ said Ethel; ‘her music and draw- ing are first-rate. Harry was frantic about her singing las... ... with restrained breath and moist- ened eyes. Ethel, far less sensitive to music, was nevertheless touched as she had never before been by sound; and ... ...e window with them clinging to him, and Averil returned to her post. ‘Some music, Ave,’ said Leonard, with an instinctive dread of her conversation. S... ...st renowned instrumental pieces, which she could play as mechanically as a musical-box. ‘Not that jingling airified thing!’ cried Leonard, ‘I want som... ...ng. There’s an evening hymn that the Mays have.’ ‘The Mays know nothing of music,’ said Averil. ‘Stay, this is it:’ and he whistled a few bars. ‘That ...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...—and light streaming from it. ‘Here is your home, Albinia,’ said that deep musical voice that she loved the better for the subdued melancholy of the t... ...ad even less chance of sympathy among his neighbours than if they had been classical. Always reserved, and seldom or never meeting with persons who co... ... with me. I mean to try to ride with him, and I have promised to teach him music, and we shall garden. Never fear, I will employ him and keep him out ... ...thing. If Gilbert was to go to India, it was not worth while to give him a classical education. ‘Is he to go to India? Albinia had not told me so.’ ‘I... ...le fellow proclaimed him- self alive by lusty roars, more welcome than any music. Partly stunned, and far more terrified, he had been in a sort of swo... ...al enjoyed his stay in town. He visited libraries, saw pictures, and heard music, with the new zest of having a wife able to enter into his tastes. He... ...vieve, the poor child is at every free moment trying to perfectionnate her music in the school-room.’ 195 The Young Step-Mother Madame Belmarche had ... ...h, full of sentences against blind, benighted bigotry, and the futility of classical study, and of declamations, as an injured orphan, against his unc...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publica tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of tho... ... the tongue to the roof of the mouth at short intervals in the midst of the music — the reader probably remembers how to do it, if he has ever been a... ...g with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in e... ...ch, a hymn book in the hand is as neces sary as is the inevitable sheet of music in the hand of a singer who stands forward on the platform and sing... ...ncert — though why, is a mystery: for neither the hymn book nor the sheet of music is ever referred to by the sufferer. This superintendent was a slim... ... familiar with the great man and be envied by the school. It would have been music to his soul to hear the whisperings: “Look at him, Jim! He’s a goin...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...da shook her head, full sure that she could never be brought to utter such musical words naturally. “Yes, dearest, when you know what love is,” said D... ...seen her. I expect I’ve seen a portrait of her, though.” “Ah!” Mrs. Lovell musically drew him on. “Was she dark, too?” “No, she’s fair. At least, she ... ...an live without the other?” and horrid pangs smote him to hear her telling musically of the places she was journeying to, the men she would see, and t... ...edge himself that. Still, he did not call on his heart to play inspiriting music. His ideas turned to subterfuge. His aim was to keep the good opinion... ...se was full; and in the brilliance of the lights and divine soaring of the music, the genius of Champagne luncheons discussed the fate of the horse T ... ...volving such a problem as a long career of profitable banking refreshed by classical exercitations does not help us to solve. There sat the son of his...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...rchestra was playing “Carmen” and “Madame Butterfly.” Carol was dizzy with music and the emotions of parting. She saw the palms as a jungle, the pink-... ...residential overshoes in the coat-closet under the stairs, and as the thin music seeped in, Stewart whispered: “I can’t stand it, this breaking up aft... ..., and I’d protect you—” His arm slid behind her shoulders. The insinuating music drained her independence. She said mournfully, “Would you 12 Main St... ...eled in the Art Institute, in sym- phonies and violin recitals and chamber music, in the theater and classic dancing. She almost gave up library 13 S... ...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...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...t cousins, were glad to 23 George Meredith disperse and seek amusement in music and tea. Sir Austin did his utmost to be hospitable cheerful, and req... ...n the ultimate victory of good within us, without which nature has neither music nor meaning, and is rock, stone, tree, and nothing more. In the dark,... ... lots of red-faced daughters but I did not dance with them though they had music and were full of fun and I did not care to I was so delighted and alm... ...owship with the quickened heart and brain. The whole sweet system moves to music. Something akin to the indications of a change in the spirit of his s... ...ichard continued in a low tone, transferring the names, and playing on the musical strings they were to him. Then he said: “Names of ladies! How they ... ...re. He and Ralph and the curate of Lobourne join in their walks, and raise classical discussions on ladies’ hair, fin- gering a thousand delicious loc...

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...File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of tho... ...r the customary exchange years in Heidel- berg and Paris, he went into the classical school of London University. The older so-called ‘classical’ educ... ... informant, hovered for a moment, and then went on his way to the Alhambra music hall. Barnet became aware of an excitement in the newspaper kiosks at...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...limbs moved with a rustling murmur. “As I entered the penultimate hall the music rose and ex- panded into an imperial magnificence of sound, and the s... ...f the giant stairs. Then began a vast throbbing hum, that mingled with the music. The two Selenites dis- mounted, but I was bidden remain seated—I ima... ...mounted, but I was bidden remain seated—I imagine as a special honour. The music ceased, but not that humming, arid by a simultaneous movement of ten ... ... only by ten steps or so from the supreme seat, the woven splendour of the music reached a climax and ceased, and I was left naked, as it were, in tha...

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...File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...ra which was the tragic story of Lucia di Lammermoor in a setting of light music. I could recall no more the hallucination of the Eastern Archi- pelag... ...ned him that I had no experience of a lost rudder at sea, and gave him two classical examples of makeshifts out of a text-book. In exchange he describ...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...e was much admired by Roman writers who derived inspiration from the great classical writers of Greece by way of Alexandria. In fact Alexan dria was ... ...ded to Thracian Oeagrus, near the Pimpleian height. Men say that he by the music of his songs charmed the stubborn rocks upon the moun tains and the ...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...ed his residence the murmur of trade had become a mighty uproar, which was music in the ears of all good citizens interested in the commercial develop... ...as so handsome, or rather, as she phrased it to herself, so beautiful. The music had been silent for a while, but it suddenly began again; and then he... ...e theatre, which had been but scantily gratified, and a taste for operatic music—that of Bellini and Donizetti, in es- pecial (it must be remembered i... ...ards, at leisure, she became conscious that she did—he began to talk about music, and to say that it was his greatest pleasure in life. He had heard a...

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...File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...e les- sons in Homer and Euclid for those which he received in Italian and music. For present amusement there was no rea- son to complain; the neighbo... ... to play so much better than I do, with all my London masters too.” And in music the greater part of the evening was passed away. Beatrice came to her... ...at, but for the laying aside of needle- work, of secular books and secular music, it might as well have been any other day of the week. Her mamma was ... ...go, which to her certain knowledge, ended in a young lady elop- ing with a music master. Beatrice set to work to argue: in the first place it was not ... ...enrietta’s Wish that I did better without all his reading and Italian, and music, and stuff; and I was foolish enough to let them go on, though I knew...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...o you mean with your topsy-turvy? Everything will be ruled like a sheet of music-paper. Have you forgotten what I have just told you about turning the... ...r mother, some- what bettered by the superfluities of education; she loved music, drew the Madonna della Sedia in chalk, and read the works of Mmes. C... ...nt when the animation of the scene, the torrents of light, the gaiety, the music, the excitement of dancing brought on a species of intoxication which... ...is hand and calls forth the transcendent theme towards which the powers of music have all converged, po- ets whose hearts have throbbed at those sound... ...her into the salon and played to him “Rousseau’s Dream,”—a pretty piece of music by Herold; while Constance sat sewing beside him. The poor man laid h...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...id not interest him; indeed, his mind was singularly devoid of pleasure in classical subjects, though so alert in other directions. He was growing int... ...t these tastes bring him into debt or ex- travagance. His turn for art and music began to show itself, and the anthems at St. George’s Chapel on the S... ...tteson’s chief delight was the Midsummer Night’s Dream, with Mendelssohn’s music. He had a tuneful baritone voice and a correct ear for music. We hire... ...ng some of Mendelssohn’s Lieder very pleasingly, and knew most of the bass music from the Messiah by heart. He began to play a few scales on the piano... ...just sum up the advantages thereof. Being naturally endowed with a love of music, the probability is, that when you, Clara, and Miss Horsley are toget... ...ot through my own fault—not a Stilbehen in the house could protect me from music. Here I make my own time, and last week my eyes were troublesome. I w... ...eems very strange to me that I never found any plea- 233 Yo n g e sure in classical studies formerly. Now, the study of the lan- guages for its own s...

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...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of tho... ...he strings of sensualism,’ to the delight of a world gaping for marvels of musical execution rather than for music. For our world is all but a sensati... ...as right, wrong alto- gether her deduction of the corresponding sentiment. Music was resumed to confuse the hearing of the eaves- droppers. They behel... ...as in the first conception of the edifice, backs were damp, boots liquidly musical, the pipe of consolation smoked with difficulty, with much pulling ... ...harmony. He sees all difficulties through his own sanguine hues. He is the musical poet of the problem, demanding merely to have it solved that he may... ...ced. Seeming unaware of its effect where it kindled, she smote a number of musical female chords, com- passion among them. A general grave affability ...