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A Reading of Life

By: George Meredith

...whirl, sun-satiated, Athirst for shade, they sigh, they wed, They play the music made of two: Oldest of earth, earth’s youngest till earth’s end: Cunn... ... he has choice. Perchance his wound is deep; she listens long; Enjoys what music fills the plaintive song; And marks how he, who would be hawk at pois... ...varied strings. ’Tis taught him how for touch of mournful verse Rarely the music made of two ascends, And Beauty’s Queen some other way is won. Or it ... ...faith she feels? May not his aspect, like her own so fair Reflexively, the central force belie, And he, the once wild ocean storming sky, Be rebel at ... ...f geese or of cranes or the long-necked troops of the wild-swans, Off that Asian mead, by the flow of the waters of Kaistros; Hither and yon fly they,...

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The Poems

By: George Meredith

................................................................. 33 TWILIGHT MUSIC ........................................................................ ..., Chillanwallah! Where our brothers fought and bled, O thy name is natural music And a dirge above the dead! Though we have not been defeated, Though ... ... thine, Such heart is mine, O thou of mortal visions most divine! TWILIGHT MUSIC Know you the low pervading breeze That softly sings In the trembling ... ...r Step the purple Queen whose hate Wraps red-armed her royal mate With his Asian tempest-star: Now Cassandra views her Fate. XII King of men! the blin... ...ng to bud Rose in brain from rose in blood. Wisdom throbbing shall you see Central in complexity; From her pasture ‘mid the beasts Rise to her etherea... ...ered curves, and down, Out of sight of Earth’s blue crown, Whither, in her central space, Spouts the Fount and Lure o’ the chase. Fount unresting, Lur... ...ance in our fight, Accept the throb for lord of us; For lord, for the main central light That gives direction, not the eclipse; Or dost thou look wher... ...f geese or of cranes or the long-necked troops of the wild-swans, Off that Asian mead, by the flow of the waters of Kaistros; Hither and yon fly they,...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...eezes sweep. _55 Floating on waves of music and of light, The chariot of the Daemon of the World Descends in sile... ...too enamoured of that voice, _65 Locks its mute music in her rugged cell. By solemn vision, and bright silver dream 42 V o... ...voice was like the voice of his own soul Heard in the calm of thought; its music long, Like woven sounds of streams and breezes, held ... ... _1720 A snowy steep:—the moon was hanging low Over the Asian mountains, and outspread The plain, the City, and the Camp below, Ski... ...desert savage ceased to grasp in fear _3840 His Asian shield and bow, when, at the will 152 V olume One Of Europe’s subtle... ...nd thy touch runs down _85 Even to the adamantine central gloom Along these marble nerves; ’tis life, ’tis joy, And, through ... ...: GON: Ye elemental Genii, who have homes From man’s high mind even to the central stone _540 Of sullen lead; from heaven’s star-fretted dome... ... birth Awaken all its fruits and flowers, and dart Magnetic might into its central heart; And lift its billows and its mists, and guide By everlasting...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I.

By: George Gilfillan

...s replied. DAPHNIS. Hear how the birds, on every bloomy spray, With joyous music wake the dawning day! Why sit we mute when early linnets sing, When w... ...EMP TEMP TEMP TEMPEST EST EST EST EST 12 12 12 12 12 LYCIDAS. Thyrsis, the music of that murmuring spring Is not so mournful as the strains you sing; ... ...e – V olume One No more the streams their murmurs shall forbear, A sweeter music than their own to hear; But tell the reeds, and tell the vocal shore,... ...ky, melancholy sprite, As ever sullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repair’d, to search the gloomy cave of Spl... ... ‘The youth:’ Alexander the Great: the tiara was the crown peculiar to the Asian princes: his desire to be thought the son of Jupiter Ammon, caused hi... ...ying all abroad? I sought no homage from the race that write; I kept, like Asian monarchs, from their sight: 220 Poems I heeded (now be...

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Don Juan

By: George Byron

...illy, Who took Algiers, declares I used him vilely? ‘Did not the Italian Musico Cazzani Sing at my heart six months at least in vain? Did no... ...of a bird, So soft, so sweet, so delicately clear, That finer, simpler music ne’er was heard; The sort of sound we echo with a tear, Witho... ...spring up from this entrail, Like earthquakes from the hidden fire call’d ‘central,’ Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Three” 79 In the mean time, witho... ... nears, Surprised at these unwonted signs of idling, He hears—alas! no music of the spheres, But an unhallow’d, earthly sound of fiddling! ... ... a moral model. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Five” 121 The European with the Asian shore Sprinkled with palaces; the ocean stream Here and there... ...the gate, ‘t was open’d wide, And a magnificent large hall display’d The Asian pomp of Ottoman parade. I won’t describe; description is my forte...

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Father Goriot

By: Honoré de Balzac

...e Conflans, and regardless of re- peated corrections from her lodgers. The central space between the walls is filled with artichokes and rows of pyram... ... silence, and cold, and rain, and drought combined to make as dreary as an Asian steppe, was a pleasant shaded nook; the 17 Balzac gaunt yellow house... ...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!” ...

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Around the World in 80 Days

By: Jules Verne

... com- manding the Sepoy troops, and receiving high salaries ever since the central government has assumed the powers of the East India Company: for th... ...ce a day; and the hours were whirled away, when the sea was tranquil, with music, dancing, and games. But the Red Sea is full of caprice, and often bo... ...s, like most long and narrow gulfs. When the wind came from the African or Asian coast the Mongolia, with her long hull, rolled fearfully. Then the la... ...th diamonds, and the magnificent weapons of a Hindoo prince. Next came the musicians and a rearguard of capering fakirs, whose cries 51 Jules Verne s... ...h songs, and resolved to try them upon the Japanese, who must be lovers of music, since they were for ever pounding on their cymbals, tam-tams, and ta... ...acific Railroad is, however, really divided into two dis- tinct lines: the Central Pacific, between San Francisco and Ogden, and the Union Pacific, be... ...a. The country between San Francisco and Sacramento is not very hilly. The Central Pacific, taking Sacramento for its start- ing-point, extends eastwa...

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The Secret Agent

By: Joseph Conrad

...ewspapers. My wife—” “Y our what?” interrupted Mr Vladimir in his guttural Central Asian tones. “My wife.” Mr V erloc raised his husky voice slightly.... ...s. My wife—” “Y our what?” interrupted Mr Vladimir in his guttural Central Asian tones. “My wife.” Mr V erloc raised his husky voice slightly. “I am m... ...t are you going to do?” asked Ossipon wearily. He dreaded the blame of the Central Red Committee, a body which had no permanent place of abode, and of... ...iled fast to the seat of his chair. The lonely piano, without as much as a music stool to help it, struck a few chords courageously, and beginning a s... ...ght feel if suddenly, in the middle of the performance, the manager of the Music Hall were to rush out of the proper managerial seclusion and begin to... ...which was not perhaps unnatural in the wife of Mr V erloc, Delegate of the Central Red Committee, personal friend of certain anarchists, and a votary ... ...o. A youngish composer in pass of becom- ing famous was discoursing from a music stool to two thick men whose backs looked old, and three slender wome...

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Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë

...the ceiling, and a little red gallery high up against the wall filled with musical instruments. Here I walked about for a long time, feeling very stra... ..., grammar, &c., went on for an hour; writing and arithmetic succeeded, and music les- sons were given by Miss Temple to some of the elder girls. The d... ...prise she neither wept nor blushed: composed, though grave, she stood, the central mark of all eyes. “How can she bear it so quietly—so firmly?” I ask... ...branches of a good English educa- tion, together with French, Drawing, and Music” (in those days, reader, this now narrow catalogue of accomplishments... ...to satisfy St. John till my sinews ache, I shall satisfy him—to the finest central point and farthest outward circle of his ex- pectations. If I do go... ...ould cross oceans with him in that capacity; toil under East- ern suns, in Asian deserts with him in that office; admire and emulate his courage and d...

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The Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

...sky, Proud of the house that I sew— Over and under, so weave I my music—so weave I the house that I sew. Sing to your fledglings agai... ...setting the time for all his squadron, his legs going as smoothly as waltz music. Then the big guns came by, and I saw Two Tails and two other elephan... ... For to get out of the rain! Then I heard an old grizzled, long-haired Central Asian chief, who had come down with the Amir, ask- ing questions of... ... to get out of the rain! Then I heard an old grizzled, long-haired Central Asian chief, who had come down with the Amir, ask- ing questions of a nativ...

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