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...England and France give license to prey on Spanish commerce -- A defeat of the English -- Capture of colonists -- They are freed and re-establish them... ...blish themselves -- Formation of a communistic settlement -- Occupation by the English and French of many islands -- A fort built at Tortuga -- Captur... ...by Spaniards and massacre of the people -- A few survivors turn freebooters -- English and French sailors and Colonists become pirates against Spanish... ...breeze, and when the breeze is blowing will curse the whistlers, lest by their musical efforts a storm should, be provoked. He will not tell the numbe... ...sts have put it on the boards with all the accessories of magnificent scenery, composers have made it familiar to the lovers of music in more than on... ...ieved that the travellers heard strange whisperings in the air and concerts of musical instruments, and the drums and noises of armies, which so disco... ...c07_sm_fig06.jpg - 131707 Bytes sporting, singing, dancing, and the playing on musical instruments. But the most distinguishing characteristic, as rel... ...s that such a performance would have met with universal applause on a European theatre; and it so far exceeded any attempt we had made to entertain th... ...ek, not unlike what is sometimes practised in the comic dances on our European theatres. They formed the triple semi-circle as the preceding dancers h...

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...nce. The Universal symbols of Birth and Infinity are semantically correct in English, and in Mathematics, and in Gender. When you use logic organi... ...ines of mammals contain 24 vertebrae. This is why there are twelve notes on a musical scale. This is also why there are twelve meridians of the h... ...roperties of both waves and particles. This is why the main vibration of any musical note exists only as a whole, a half, and a third. This is why... ...e exists only as a whole, a half, and a third. This is why the totality of a musical octave contains twelve notes. This is why the Earth’s Crust ha... ...gration from the Portuguese to the Spanish to the Africans to the Dutch to the English is matched with a tectonic plate arriving in the exact same hi... ...ved in the exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is definitely not a coincidence… ... ...e of cleanliness? Affluent people who keep their homes spotless, go to movie theatres where they slop all of their food and drink containers onto th... ...ition of puppeteers outlasted all other Greek traditions? Why has the puppet theatre been the only ancient Greek tradition that has been handed down... ...m than a joke. They have orchestrated the unbroken preservation of puppet theatres for over 2,750 years… as a sly, secret, ironic joke. Becaus...

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...Accept this as my grateful acknowledgment of the readiness with which you tried--perhaps not very successfully-- to initiate me into the mysteries of musical knowledge. You have at least taught me what difficulties and what labor genius must bury in those poems which procure us transcendental pleasures. You have also afforded me the satisfaction of laughing more than once ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...tried—perhaps not very success- fully—to initiate me into the mysteries of musical knowl- edge. You have at least taught me what difficulties and what... ...e with ignorance, not knowing that I have taken counsel of one of our best musical critics, and had the benefit of your conscientious help. I have, pe... ...lue or russet fishes swam. Whatever may be said in favor of the natural or English garden, these trees, pruned into parasols, and yews fantastically c... ...upiter alone could hold his own with his divine better- half, on whom many English ladies model themselves. Emilio set his mistress far too high ever ... ...an opera by Garcia that was then being played by an Italian company at the theatre in the Rue Lauvois. She was so beautiful that a Naples guardsman, h... ...ks of some great painters of Heaven. In the evening the lovers went to the theatre. This is the way of Italian life: love in the morning; music in the... ... The Fenice was crowded. The five hours of the night that are spent at the theatre fill so important a place in Italian life that it is well to give a... ...he Duchess and the French doctor. Just as the discussion became vehemently musical, Duke Cataneo made his appearance. He bowed very courteously to Emi...

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...g student publication project to bring classi- cal works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...e attention of the company and skilfully led it to a discussion of matters musical. “Will you tell me, monsieur,” said he to the composer of dance-mus... ...uction and for the way the scheme is worked out,” the Count went on. “Most composers make use of the orches- tral parts in a vague, incoherent way, co... ...ged from generalities to talk of him- self, of his life, his work, and the musical regeneration of which he believed himself to be the Messiah. “Liste... ...ser,” the musician began. “Thus at an early age I had mastered the laws of musical construction in its twofold aspects, the ma- terial and the spiritu... ...ind teaching. Led by my passion for music I wandered throughout Italy from theatre to theatre, living on very little, as men can live there. Sometimes... ...enable us to combine all these forces in accordance with their true laws. “Composers work with substances of which they know nothing. Why should a bra... ...ncouraged me in my investigations, and who got me employment at the Venice theatre. “Living was cheap, lodging inexpensive. I had a room in that Capel... ...also emerge from thence one day to be crowned. “I spent my evenings at the theatre and my days in work. Then came disaster. The performance of an oper...

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... ‘There you’re wrong; nor wouldn’t be.’ ‘What’s that?’ was the gentleman’s musical inquiry. ‘That’s flat, as you was half a minute ago,’ the man re- j... ...with applause of the boys and girls of both ages in this land; and all the English critics heap their honours on its brave old Simplicity: our nationa... ...was pencilling upon letters perused. ‘Skepsey’s craze: regeneration of the English race by box- ing—nucleus of a national army?’ ‘To face an enemy at ... ...t be a privilege to dine with him—to know him. I know what he has done for English Commerce, and to build a colossal fortune: genius, as I said: and h... ...as to meet the friends with whom her feelings were at home, among whom her musical gifts gave her station: they liked her for herself; they helped her... ...n Victor’s Con- cert-room with an easy homely recognition of one another’s musical qualities, at times enthusiastic; and their natural di- vergencies ... ...es. Visibly, that man Jarniman was disposed of with ease. As in the street-theatres of crowing Punch, distance enlisted pan- tomime to do the effectiv... ...ext day at eight of the evening I shall be address- ing our meeting in the Theatre. Simeon speaks. Beaves Urmsing insists on coming, T ory though he i... ...r lips—too much a resurrection smile. There was talk of the Meeting at the theatre: Simeon Fenellan had spoken there in the cause of the deceased Mem-...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...m “one of the worst of men.” Literary Paris had combined with Hume and the English Government to sur- round him—as he supposed—with guards and spies; ... ...ty, I thought everything attainable: I entered with confidence on the vast theatre of the world, which my merit was to capti- vate: at every step I ex... ...st as suddenly as it arrived. Though this mischance had rather dampened my musical ardor, I did not leave off studying my Rameau, and, by re- peated e... ...er- fectly suited his features: the sound of his voice was clear, full and musical; it was an agreeable and expressive bass, which satisfied the ear, ... ...to me, for the hours destined for lessons were passed any- how rather than musically; we breakfasted, chatted, and read new publications, but not a wo... ...tterly undo me. I know not by what whimsicallity I resolved to pass for an Englishman; however, in consequence of that determination I gave my- self o... ... retrenching it; going to the coffee-house but every other day, and to the theatre but twice a week. With respect to the expenses of girls of easy vir... ... regularly dedicated, at Maugis, the evenings on which I did not go to the theatre. I became acquainted with M. de Legal, M. Husson, Philidor, and all...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...at the power of reflecting and comparing, we look for something nobler. We English estimate Waterloo, not by its amount of killed and wounded, but as ... ...rst such an apology must wear a very suspicious aspect of paradox. 3. “The English Mail-Coach.”* —This little paper, accord- ing to my original intent... ...of the mail, was transformed into a dream, as tumultuous and changing as a musical fugue. This troubled Dream is circumstantially reported in Section ... ...ong by a babble of impossible forms, as fantastic as any that our Lon- don theatres have traditionally ascribed to English rustics, to English sailors... ...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... ...e to modifi- cation from personal qualities, inasmuch as there is no great theatre (as with us) for individual display. Forensic eloquence is unknown ... ...e irresolute Christian in the fascinations of the public amuse- ments. The theatre, the circus, and, far beyond both, the cruel amphitheatre, constitu...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...as become old-fashioned— was a girl of ten or twelve in the chorus of some theatre, more particularly at the opera, who was trained by young roues to ... ...oumois for the rest of his days. Has he discovered some secret to ruin the English?” “He has done what you will not do in a hurry,” retorted Rastignac... ... natural. I met him by chance, three months ago, at the Porte-Saint-Martin theatre, where I went one day when I had leave, for we had a day a week at ... ...nto my heart, and had so completely changed me, that on my return from the theatre I did not know myself: I had a horror of myself. Lucien would never... ...the herd of mankind the observation recently made on flocks of Spanish and English sheep which, in low meadows where pasture is abundant, feed side by... ... after a fatiguing pas seul, or one of those tremendous duets which modern composers inflict on the public. Malefactors are, in fact, so entirely bere... ...g the same phrase, illustrate to attentive hearers the infinite variety of musical modes. The soul goes out into the voice as it does into the eyes; i...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...- ers, honeysuckles, roses, box, and many enchanting plants. It is like an English garden, designed by some great architect. This rich, coy nature, so... ...aise of the Connetable par excellence, the great du Guesclin who drove the English for a time from France. The depth of this carving, which has been p... ...heart some noble and beautiful being,—not a stage-player, a masquerader, a theatre woman, an author whose business it is to feign sentiments, a creatu... ...g the gentle tenets of her sex. A woman commits a sin in even go- ing to a theatre; but to write the impieties that actors repeat, 50 Balzac to roam ... ... write a French opera; he does not find in Italy the pecuniary gains which composers obtain in Paris. Here’s the letter I received yesterday from Beat... ...om- poser, begged by his young rival to sing, gave them that great- est of musical masterpieces viewed as execution, the famous “Pria che spunti l’aur... ...iness it was to engage a stall had taken it quite near to that part of the theatre which is called the avant-scene. As Calyste looked about him during... ... head-love in which nei- ther the heart nor the rest of it had any part,—a musical love, in short! As for Rochefide, that was duty. So, you under- sta...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... the quotations, which were in a most corrupt state, and of which Cotton’s English versions were singularly loose and inexact, and for the zeal with w... ...t, and for the zeal with which he has co-operated with me in collating the English text, line for line and word for word, with the best French edition... ...lls, and Mount Savello has, in truth, grown simply out of the ruins of the theatre of Marcellus. He believed that an ancient Roman would not recognise... ...urs de Bonneval and the Sen- eschal of Agenois, who were walking upon the ‘theatre aux ayenes’; who having shown him to the Sieur de Villiers, com- mi... ...get a better opportunity to explain myself. Nor in this do I glance at the composers of centos, who de- clare themselves for such; of which sort of wr... ...e caused me to 236 Essays: Book the First be wakened by the sound of some musical instrument, and was never unprovided of a musician for that purpose... ... it the virtue to attract others. And it is more evidently manifest in our theatres, that the sacred inspiration of the Muses, having first stirred up...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...han leading University men, for the impress they leave is on the flower of English youth, at the very time of life when thought has come, but action i... ...e at the same time with the cham- 36 Life of John Coleridge Patteson pion English eleven, one of the most noted professional crick- eters, meeting hi... ...here was a mixture of the utile with the dulce. Our constant visits to the theatre were strong incentives to a preparatory study of the plays of Goeth... ...of Goethe, Schiller, and Lessing. What noble acting we saw in that Dresden theatre! ‘With regard to the opera, I have never seen Weber or Meyerbeer’s ... ...his absolute delight in evil. It is long since I have been so excited in a theatre. I was three rows from the stage, heard and understood everything, ... ...anner of saying the prayers was exceedingly good: his voice very sweet and musical; without seeming loud, it was fully audible, and gave assurance of ... ...in those private classes that he exercised such wonderful in- fluence; his musical voice, his holy face, his gentle manner, all helping doubtless to i... ...n shall cease for ever. It was not only what he said, but the tones of his musical voice, and expression of peace on his own face, that hushed us into...

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...fteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a propaganda of our own views of life. So you cannot plead ignorance of the character of the force you set in motion. Yon meant me to epater le bourgeois; and if he prote...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a pro- paganda of ou... ...e to my Plays for Puritans I explained the predicament of our contemporary English drama, forced to deal almost exclusively with cases of sexual attra... ...illicit love affairs are at once vicious and delightful, we have no modern English plays in which the natural attraction of the sexes for one another ... ... friend William Archer holds up as examples of seriousness to our childish theatres. There the Juliets and Isoldes, the Romeos and T ristans, might be... ... edify and partial failure to interest, which is as familiar to you in the theatres as it was to me when I, too, frequented those uncomfortable build-... ...it is impossible for us to under- take a joint arrangement. ANN. [in a low musical voice] Mamma— MRS WHITEFIELD. [hastily] Now, Ann, I do beg you not ... ... clarionet turning this tune into infinite sadness: (Here there is another musical staff.) The yellowish pallor moves: there is an old crone wandering... ...friend, let us hasten to my palace and celebrate your arrival with a grand musical service. THE STATUE. With pleasure: you’re most kind. THE DEVIL. Th...

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...g student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...uple of hours. The spencer, as its name indicates, was the invention of an English lord, vain, doubtless, of his handsome shape. Some time before the ... ...ing in the minority, the success of the spencer was short-lived in France, English though it was. At the sight of the spencer, men of forty or fifty m... ... was now ending his days as the con- ductor of an orchestra in a boulevard theatre, and a music master in several young ladies’ boarding-schools, a po... ...s still composing, on scanty pay, for his own orchestra or for neighboring theatres. And yet, the worthy man did justice to the great masters of our d... ...the pianoforte, he brought them or- ders for boxes at the Feydeau, his own theatre, he organized concerts, he was not above taking the fiddle himself ... ...d Clara Wieck —and all Ger- mans, generally speaking. Schmucke was a great musical com- poser doomed to remain a music master, so utterly did his char... ...ain a music master, so utterly did his character lack the audacity which a musical genius needs if he is to push his way to the front. A German’s naiv... ... first meeting, Pons had just received that marshal’s baton of the unknown musical composer— an appointment as conductor of an orchestra. It had come ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...lated a new chapter which will perhaps induce some readers of the original English text to read the book again in German. For some time to come, indee... ...bitsch for making me a living German author instead of merely a translated English one is so great that I am bound to point out that he is not respon-... ...ents A FEW OF THESE will be welcome to the ordinary citizen visit- ing the theatre to satisfy his curiosity, or his desire to be in the fashion, by wi... ...note in it that has any other point than the single direct point of giving musical expression to the drama. In classical music there are, as the analy... ... the middle of the third scene, and almost force their way out of the dark theatre into the sunlit pine-wood without. And I have seen people who were ... ...o armed rebellion, which reached Dresden in 1849. Had Wagner been the mere musical epicure and political mugwump that the term “art- ist” seems to sug... ...rse, calling down on its every future possessor care, fear, and death. The musical phrase accompanying this out- burst was a veritable harmonic and me... ...ied’s Death was originally intended to be: that is, a heroic piece for the theatre, without the metaphysical or allegorical complications of The Ring....

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...into the Strand. He had been to take a box for Armida at Madame V estris’s theatre. That little Armida was folle of Madame V estris’s theatre; and her... ...nights in the week at least, in the narrow, charming, comfort- able little theatre. Godfrey had the box. He was strolling, list- lessly, eastward; and... ...ved like the bow of Love—every man or maiden, every babe or matron in that English Jewry bore in his countenance one or more of these characteristics ... ...to his nation. All the airs which the Hebrew maid selected were written by composers of her race; it was either a hymn by Rossini, a polacca by Braham... ...est to have my parole withdrawn from me, and to cause me to be sent to the English depot of prisoners at V erdun, the Marquis’s interest with the Empe... ...by the august approach. It was indeed the Emperor, who, returning from the Theatre Francais, and seeing the Marquis’s windows lighted up, pro- posed t... ... that there was a person by the name of Blondel, who, in fact, did all the musical part of the King’s performances; and as for the words, when a king ... ...as the evening of the 27th March, 1199, indeed—his Majesty, who was in the musical mood, treated the court with a quantity of his so-called compositio...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...- ough.” And her eyes began to shine. “Of course I regard you Schlegels as English,” said Mrs. Munt hastily—”English to the backbone.” Margaret leaned... ...was in life for hours after it—who can describe that? It is so easy for an Englishman to sneer at these chance collisions of human beings. To the insu... ...im to hear what we are doing in music. Oh,—you musn’t run down our English composers, Margaret.” “For my part, I have heard the composition at Stettin... ...cially loud part?” hazarded Mrs. Munt. “Of course I do not go in for being musical,” she added, the shot failing. “I only care for music—a very dif- f... ...As Marga- ret and Helen sat down, the city behind them seemed to be a vast theatre, an opera-house in which some endless trilogy was performing, and t... ...lping, but being Henry’s wife, she preferred to help some one else. As for theatres and discussion societies, they at- tracted her less and less. She ... ...rch. “A tendency to spiritualism and those things, though nothing serious. Musical, literary, artistic, but I should say normal—a very charming girl.”...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...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... ...me. Our foe was no sulk in his ship I tell you, (said he,) His was the surly English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never... ..., 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... ...tter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there. The English believe he comes of their English stock, A Jew to the Jew he seem... ...uch for me! O an intense life, full to repletion and varied! The life of the theatre, bar room, huge hotel, for me! The saloon of the steamer! the cro... ...g paved avenues, amid temples, palaces, factories, libraries, shows, courts, theatres, wonderful monuments. Are those billions of men really gone? Are... ...ith Nature’s rhythmus all the tongues of nations; You chords left as by vast composers—you choruses, You formless, free, religious dances—you from the...

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...r as he is who is possessed of them, you and I would fain become. And to all composers in the world, poets, orators, legislators, we hereby announce t... ... must not be forgotten in relation to this subject. In the end less maze of English law is there any ‘dividing the whole into parts or reuniting the ... ...d this name from the character of your strains, or because the Melians are a musical race, help, O help me in the tale which my good friend here desir... ...n most of truth shall come to the birth as a philosopher, or artist, or some musical and lov ing nature; that which has seen truth in the sec ond de... ...ue. SOCRATES: And if the law is finally approved, then the author leaves the theatre in high delight; but if the law is rejected and he is done out of... ...e went down, and were bidden by them to convey a message to him and to other composers of speeches—to Homer and other writers of poems, whether set to...

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... A AUTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIO... ...P ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EA IUM-EA IUM-EA IUM-EA IUM-EATER... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...s will have ad- equately appreciated the prodigious change effected in the theatre of the human spirit, by the transition, sudden as the explosion of ... ...First of all, at starting, we have the inspiration (No. 1) to the original composers of the sacred books. That I grant, though distinguishing as to it... ...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... ...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... ...Constantine, resuming its old Grecian name of Byzantium, there succeeded a theatre less diffusive, a population more concentrated, a character of acti...

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...g student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ashed itself against the win- dow pane and flown away again. “Where is the English press that could go at that pace?” the parent asked of his astonish... ... out the type. You in Paris have been making such a to-do over that damned Englishman’s invention—a foreigner, an enemy of France who wants to help th... ...ce in the old manor-house of Escarbas, and brought with him his baggage of musical compositions. The old country gentleman’s hospitality was handsomel... ...n, and Italian literatures, and deciphered with her the music of the great composers. Finally, as time hung heavy on his hands in the seclusion enforc... ...tas who boomed out his song in a bass voice, and made prodigious claims to musical knowl- edge. His self-conceit had taken a stand upon solfeggi; he b... ...ence to talking about music, and finally to talking of noth- ing else. His musical tastes had become a monomania; he grew animated only on the one sub... ...meraries that represent rank and fash- ion at stage weddings in third-rate theatres. One of the queerest figures in the rooms was M. le Comte de Senon...

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...OIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn ... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL Translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux The tex... ... Aretino must not be forgotten, nor the licence of the whole Italian comic theatre of the sixteenth century. The Calandra of Bibbiena, who was afterwa... ...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... ...the barriers or lists for tournaments, the hippodrome or riding-court, the theatre or public playhouse, and natatory or place to swim in, with most ad... ...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 ... ... was acted at Saint Maxents, I had no sooner entered within the pit of the theatre, but that forthwith, by the virtue and oc- cult property of it, on ...