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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

...f Grass –Whitman 5 Wandering at Morn...........................412 Italian Music in Dakota.....................412 With All Thy Gifts.................. .....................414 BOOK XXV.....................................415 Proud Music of the Storm..................415 BOOK XXVI........................... .....................460 Quicksand Years...............................461 That Music Always Round Me..........461 What Ship Puzzled at Sea................. ...at sea, The boundless blue on every side expanding, With whistling winds and music of the waves, the large imperious waves, Or some lone bark buoy’d o... ... will thrill to every page. POETS TO C OME Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to day is to justify me and answer what I am for, ...

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

... to be as merry in this here parlour, come round every week, as a piece of music? Gone down with Wal’r. Where’s that there fresh lad, that nothing cou... ...mmed some bars, and beat time on the seat beside him, seemed to denote the musician; and the extraordinary satisfaction he derived from humming someth... ...t was so very long since any voice 74 Dombey & Son of apathy had made sad music in her ears; that the stranger’s figure remained present to her, hour... ...y on her breast, and laughed in a tone that made the howl of the old woman musical. ‘So Alice Marwood was transported, mother,’ she pursued, 83 Charl... ...inner slowly made its way: the later stages being achieved to the sonorous music of incessant double knocks, announcing the arrival of visitors, whose...

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...ofogo Bay — Terrestrial Planariae — Clouds on the Corcovado — Heavy Rain — Musical Frogs — Phosphorescent In- sects — Elater, springing powers of — Bl... ... their eternity, and each 350 The V oyage of the Beagle note of that wild music told of one more step towards their destiny. It is not possible for t... ... surprised at seeing large booksellers’ shops, with well-stored shelves; — music and read- ing bespeak our approach to the old world of civili- zation... ...cicadas, will associate with these lifeless objects, the cease- less harsh music of the latter, and the lazy flight of the former, — the sure accompan... ...he privation of small luxuries, the loss of domestic so- ciety and even of music and the other pleasures of imagination. When such trifles are mention...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...and poison brewing, and choking by sulphur. From the Palace esplanade, where music plays while Serene Highness is pleased to eat his victuals, down to... ...es. Gay mansions, with supper rooms and dancing rooms, are full of light and music and high swelling hearts; but, in the Condemned Cells, the pulse of... ...lls; so that when a man walks, it is with contin ual jingling. Some few, of musical turn, have a whole chime of bells (Glocken 32 SARTOR RESARTUS s... ... thou flewest through the middle thereof, striking fire from the highway; wild music hummed in thy ears, thou too wert as a “sailor of 40 SARTOR RESART... ...earied children sported, and the young men and maidens often danced to flute music. “Glorious summer twilights,” cries Teufelsdr¨ ockh, “when the Sun,...

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The Maine Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

... from fourteen to sixteen dollars. There was something refreshing and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man’s canoe, reminding m... ...following the windings of every inlet and of every cape, and stepping to the music of the surf, — with a desolate fishing town once a week, and a city’... ...s; these, I think, were all beside ourselves. In the saloon was some kind of musical instrument, cherubim, or seraphim, to soothe the angry waves; and... ...wards and tuned to each other with the axe, like Pandean pipes. Probably the musical forest gods had not yet cast them aside; they never do till they ... ...ith his blanket wrapped around him, he commenced a slow, somewhat nasal, yet musical chant, in his own language, which probably was taught his tribe l...

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Crime Its Cause and Treatment

By: Clarence Darrow

...criminals by the courts is not better nor more scientific than 23 was the old-time doctors’ treatment of physical ailments by magic, incantations and... ...as furnished this emotional life. Churches have provided some art and some music. But aside from the Catholic Church almost none of this is for the po... ... element of joy is largely lacking. To many it makes no ap- peal, although music and art and beauty do. In no country has society so utterly neglected... ... large part of our population has come from lands where beauty and art and music have for generations been made a part of the common life of all. VII ...

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Rudin a Novel

By: Ivan S. Turgenev

...ise before us from Tolstoi’s pages. His art is rather that of a painter or musical composer than of a sculptor. He has more colour, a deeper perspecti... ...he sympathies and emotions of his readers. In this he can be compared to a musician who works upon the nerves and the souls of his audience without th... ... to Turgenev’s mastery over all the resources of our rich, flex- ible, and musical language. The poet Lermontov alone wrote as splendid a prose as T u... ...ken a gloomy turn. Constantin, play us Thalberg’s new etude. I daresay the music will soothe African Semenitch. Orpheus soothed sav- age beasts.’ Kons... ...o ask what connection had your idea of the three kinds of egoists with the music you have just been hearing?’ ‘None at all, but I did not listen to th...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...l sweetness of temper has charmed her aged and her youthful companions. In music, in dancing, in orthography, in every variety of em- broidery and nee... ...ore, of the means of study the place offered her; and as she was already a musician and a good linguist, she speedily went through the little course o... ...urse of study which was considered necessary for ladies in those days. Her music she practised incessantly, and one day, when the girls were out, and ... ... the juniors, and intimated to Miss Sharp that she was to instruct them in music for the future. The girl refused; and for the first time, and to the ... ...ith the children,” Rebecca said abruptly, “not to teach 17 Thackeray them music, and save money for you. Give me money, and I will teach them.” Miner...

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

By: Bram Stoker

...apter 3 47 pered together, and then they all three laughed, such a silvery, musical laugh, but as hard as though the sound never could have come thro... ... was almost as if the sound sprang up at the rising of his hand, just as the music of a great orchestra seems to leap under the baton of the conductor... ...ient. In the evening we strolled in the Casino Terrace, and heard some good music by Spohr and Mackenzie, and went to bed early. Lucy seems more rest... ... church yard, and tears that burn as they fall, all dance to gether to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. And believe me, frie... ...am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen ...

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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

...alls of a couple of full bottles on the table, to play appropri- ate dance-music. The cloth was laid by Lavvy. Bella, as the acknowledged ornament of ... ...ng to the City at ten, coming home at half-past five, and dining at seven. Music; a 129 Charles Dickens respectable performance (without variations) ... ...odsnap added a small and early evening to the dinner, and looked in at the music-shop to bespeak a well-conducted automaton to come and play quadrille... ...but not before the discreet automaton had got behind the bars of the piano music-desk, and there presented the appearance of a captive languishing in ... ...‘Yes. At least I—don’t mind that so much,’ returned Miss Podsnap. ‘M-m-m-m-music. So insinuating was Mrs Lammle that she got half a dozen ms into the ...

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Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

...of yours to the top of mine – Ring once, ring twice – the best tune on the Musical Glasses! Y our health. May you live a thousand years, and never be ... ...a peal of bells!” The sound of her iron shoes upon the hard road was quite musical, as she came along at a much brisker trot than usual. We got a chai... ...sly strong voice (in reply to the inquisitive bore who leads that piece of music in a most impertinent manner, by wanting to know all about everybody’... ....” “Would you mind Handel for a familiar name? There’s a charming piece of music by Handel, called the Harmonious Blacksmith.” “I should like it very ... ...ignation taking the form of nuts. Lastly , Ophelia was a prey to such slow musical mad- ness, that when, in course of time, she had taken off her whit...

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