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...mself into it with enthusiasm, and Latin antiquity was not enough for him. Greek, a study discountenanced by the Church, which looked on it as dangero... ...riendship of Pierre Amy and of the celebrated Guillaume Bude. In fact, the Greek letters of the latter are the best source of information concerning t... ... from his ancestor Esormon, Prince of Achaia, 2139 B.C., who was surnamed (Greek), that is to say the Fortunate and the Well-beloved. A Gascon could n... ...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 ...

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... of Women by John Stuart Mill 9 any more than domestic slavery among the Greeks jarred with their notion of themselves as a free people. The truth i... ...different natures among mankind, free natures, and slave natures; that the Greeks were of a free nature, the barbarian races of Thracians and Asiatics... ...d fathers. The in dependence of women seemed rather less unnatural to the Greeks than to other ancients, on account of the fabulous Amazons (whom the... ... are said to be governed by women? Is it meant that queens choose as their instruments of government, the associates of their personal pleasures? The ... ...of quali fications in other respects, more apt than men in that choice of instruments, which is nearly the most impor tant business of everyone who ... ...n any branch of art, and those of men not following it as a profession. In musical composition, for example, women surely have produced fully as good ... ... a natural gift: and it may be thought surprising that no one of the great musical composers has been a woman. But even this natural gift, to be made ... .... And in those countries the men who are acquainted with the principles of musical composition must be counted by hundreds, or more probably by thousa... ... a few to do right in preference to wrong, by the direction it gave to the instruments of praise and admiration. But the real dependence of morality m...

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...omething in me to be credible or intelligible. We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten... ...e same character! Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius. We have the civil history of that people, as Herodotus, Thucy... ... sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art. And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the... ...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... ...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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...the morning he had read Theocritus, whom he believed to be the greatest of Greek poets; he had lunched with a merry don and had tasted Zwieback biscui... ...nkled innumerable stars—gods and heroes, vir- gins and brides, to whom the Greeks have given their names. “Life without an ideal—” repeated Mr. Pembro... ... liked, but where anything you did would be transfigured. Like the ancient Greeks, he could even laugh at his holy place and leave it no less holy. He... ...cker blue.” 36 The Longest Journey “Rather! He’s secretary to the college musical soci- ety.” “A. P. Carruthers?” “Yes.” Mr. Dawes seemed offended. H... ...and a listener might know it was a frag- ment of the Tune of tunes. Nobler instruments ac- cepted it, the clarionet protected, the brass encour- aged,...

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...y to day without the aid of posterity. In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sente... ... exert so intimate and genial an influence on nature, as many a god of the Greeks. I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almi... ...truly strange, and heretical, and un popular. To Christians, no less than Greeks and Jews, it is foolishness and a stumbling block. There are, indeed... ...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...

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...us much may give us light after what sort of books were prohibited among the Greeks. Areopagitica Milton 8 The Romans also, for many ages trained ... ...l the learning of the Egyp Areopagitica Milton 13 tians, Chaldeans, and Greeks, which could not probably be without reading their books of all so... ...hought it no defilement to insert into Holy Scripture the sentences of three Greek poets, and one of them a tragedian; the question was notwith stand... ...hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of belea guered truth, than ther... ... o’er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunn’st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo, to... ...ming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo’s lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Wh...

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...ife than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none... ... with Nature herself. I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercis... ...it was then that I lived. The student may read Homer or Aeschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that h... ...r its eggs. They sang at intervals throughout the night, and were again as musical as ever just before and about dawn. When other birds are still, t... ...nts of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments? Why Walden 122 should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the... ... to the shore. It was probably greater in the middle. Who knows but if our instruments were delicate enough we might detect an undulation in the crust...

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...le which, in the hands of a master, compels a language which is as rich as Greek to be also as musical. The spring of 1773, which witnessed the public... ...ds of a master, compels a language which is as rich as Greek to be also as musical. The spring of 1773, which witnessed the publication of Götz, saw h... ...ilt, and the carpet was a perfect flower- bed. In their arms lay the three instruments which I had been able to distinguish from without; for, being d... ...ttiest sight in the world; and I was on the point of sending all the other Greeks after him, when suddenly hissing waters spurted at me on all sides, ... ...lly into a small academy, in which every thing necessary, and at last even Greek and Latin, were taught. The extensive connections of Frankfort caused... ...d by nature. By this love of playing the harpsichord, Pfeil was led to the instruments themselves, and, while he hoped to obtain the best, came into c... ... on both the piano and the violin. The second, a true, good soul, likewise musical, enlivened the concerts which were often got up, no less than his e... ...ted them among my other little poems. The father had invented or perfected musical type. He granted me the use of a fine library, which related princi...

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...y confusedly, some miscellaneous letters and other papers, with one or two musical instruments and a few books. Here, however, after a long and very d... ...edly, some miscellaneous letters and other papers, with one or two musical instruments and a few books. Here, however, after a long and very delib- er... ...haps even more than to the orthodox and easily recognisable beau- ties, of musical science. I had learned, too, the very remark- able fact, that the s... ...furniture was profuse, comfortless, antique, and tattered. Many books and musical instruments lay scattered about, but failed to give any vitality to... ...e was profuse, comfortless, antique, and tattered. Many books and musical instruments lay scattered about, but failed to give any vitality to the sce... ...a faint light; and there were but peculiar sounds, and these from stringed instruments, which did not inspire him with horror. To an anomalous species... ... from object to object, and rested upon none—neither the grotesques of the Greek painters, nor the sculptures of the best Italian days, nor the huge c... ... my arm as he sauntered around the apartment, “here are paintings from the Greeks to Cimabue, and from Cimabue to the present hour. Many are chosen, a... ...another was a “car- nival piece,” spirited beyond compare; the third was a Greek female head—a face so divinely beautiful, and yet of an ex- pression ...

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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... ... class. Then came a boyish attempt to join the fortunes of the insur- gent Greeks, which ended at St. Petersburg, where he got into difficulties throu... ... brought into vogue. All is limpid and serene, with a pleasant dash of the Greek Helicon in it. The melody of the whole, too, is remarkable. It is not... ...finer sort which the inner ear alone can estimate. It seems simple, like a Greek column, because of its perfection. In a poem named “Ligeia,” under wh... ...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... .... Shouts of laughter ascend the skies. The air becomes dissonant with wind instruments, and horrible with clamor of a million throats. Let us descend,...

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...tters: Thomas Linacre, physician to King Henry VIII., a man learned in the Greek and Latin languages, and particularly skilful in physick, by which he... ...It has a very fine organ, which, at evening prayer, accompanied with other instruments, is delightful. In the suburb to the west, joined to the city b... ...ord Russell, son of the Earl of Bedford, whose lady composed the following Greek and Latin verses, and had them engraved on the marble:- How was I sta... ...wing things worthy of observation:- I. The Royal Library, well stored with Greek, Latin, Italian and French books; amongst the rest, a little one in F... ...ility at tilts and tournaments, hung up here for a memorial. IX. Different instruments of music, upon one of which two persons may perform at the same... ... the Bible curiously written upon parchment; an artificial sphere; several musical instruments; in the tapestry are represented negroes riding upon el... ...le curiously written upon parchment; an artificial sphere; several musical instruments; in the tapestry are represented negroes riding upon elephants.... ...ters so with silver, gold, and jewels, as to dazzle one’s eyes, there is a musical instrument made all of glass, except the strings. Afterwards we wer...

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...ion.” He even describes Jonson’s description of his “little Latin and less Greek” as a sneer, whereas it oc- curs in an unmistakably sincere eulogy of... ...eet airs that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices, That, if ... ...spear as treasuring and using (as I do myself) the jewels of unconsciously musical speech which common people utter and throw away every day; and this...

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...chool made only the thinnest pre- tence of teaching anything but Latin and Greek. When I went there as a very small boy I knew a good deal of Latin gr... ...t seen a Latin inscription on a tomb that I could translate throughout. Of Greek I can decipher perhaps the greater part of the Greek alphabet. In sho... ... Cae- sar meant only being set at Virgil, with the culminating hor- ror of Greek and Homer in reserve at the end of that. I pre- ferred Caesar, becaus... ...olmaster, and of their public analogues the lawgiver and the judge, become instruments of tyranny in the hands of those who are too narrow-minded to u... ... that first existed in his handwriting. The reproduction of great feats of musical execution is already on the way: the phono- graph, for all its whee...

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... View shipped as asceticism. A Gothic statue implies celi- bacy, just as a Greek statue implies fruition, and perhaps this was what Mr. Beebe meant. A... ... Lucy for several years, but only as a commonplace girl who happened to be musical. He could still remember his depression that after- noon at Rome, w... ...ict me. No doubt I am neither artistic nor literary nor intellec- tual nor musical, but I cannot help the drawing-room furniture; your father bought i... ... “Is it a thing or a person when Freddy sings?” “You can’t expect a really musical person to enjoy comic songs as we do.” “Then why didn’t he leave th... ...Mr. Vyse?” 173 EM Forster “Never.” “Then you don’t see the wonder of this Greek visit. I haven’t been to Greece myself, and don’t mean to go, and I c... ...nk too highly of her. But the future. Seriously, what do you think of this Greek plan?” He pulled out the letter again. “I don’t know whether you over... ...tself must assist in that acknowledgment, and she was disordering the very instruments of life. She only felt, “I do not love George; I broke off my e...

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...f the water.” Being nearly destitute of fuel and water, and without proper instruments, it being also late in the season, Captain Morrell was now obli... ...cid cast of beauty, and the thrilling and enthralling eloquence of her low musical language, made their way into my heart by paces so steadily and ste... ...h, the softness and the majesty, the fullness and the spirituality, of the Greek—the contour which the god Apollo revealed but in a dream, to Cleomene... ... the feel- ing. I have been filled with it by certain sounds from stringed instruments, and not unfrequently by passages from books. Among innumerable... ...could no longer bear the touch of her wan fingers, nor the low tone of her musical language, nor the lustre of her melancholy eyes. And she knew all t... ...ir, and in the wan fingers which buried themselves therein, and in the sad musical tones of her speech, and above all—oh, above all, in the phrases an... ...e head of which only the back was visible, rivalled in outline that of the Greek Psyche, and was rather displayed than concealed by an elegant cap of ...

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... voice: “O Jack, give me a cigarette.” A handsome face, dark, Latin smile, musical fingers strong. I waded suddenly through a group of gendarmes (they... ...tal white ears tried to hide themselves. The face, a cross between classic Greek and Jew, had a Reynard expression, something distinctly wily and perf... ...t his technique, but the fear of contamina- tion which made me avoid these instruments of hygiene. 93 e e cummings Not that I shaved to excess. On th... ...s personal and exclusive use. All this time he has been singing loudly and musically the following sumptu- ously imaginative ditty: “mEEt me tonIght... ...ay distinguished, circle. Or: I shall describe, briefly , Apollyon and the instruments of his power, which instruments are three in number: Fear, Wome... ...ed to the unimaginable mean- ness of his will by means of the three potent instruments in question all within the sweating walls of La Ferté—that was ... ... palish, foppish, undersized, prominent-nosed creature who affected a deep musical voice and the cut of whose belted raincoat gave away his profession...

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...ining beneath arbours in the arms of Bayaderes; Djiaours, T urkish sabres, Greek caps; and you especially , pale 35 Flaubert landscapes of dithyrambi... ...wn hall, constructed “from the designs of a Paris architect,” is a sort of Greek temple that forms the corner next to the chemist’s shop. On the groun... ... three knocks were heard on the stage, a rolling of drums began, the brass instruments played some chords, and the curtain rising, discovered a coun- ... ...ak. His large Spanish hat fell at a gesture he made, and imme- diately the instruments and the singers began the sextet. Edgar, flashing with fury, do... ... servant, the grand duet in D major, all were for her as far off as if the instruments had grown less sonorous and the characters more remote. She rem... ...n be- gan to sing— “One night, do you remember, we were sailing,” etc. Her musical but weak voice died away along the waves, and the winds carried off... ...at is to say, the beginning of win- ter, that she seemed seized with great musical fervour. One evening when Charles was listening to her, she began t... ...d, that by inducing madame to study; you are economising on the subsequent musical education of your child. For my own part, I think that mothers ough...

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... activity applies to getting through speech or reading the idea of, say, a Greek helmet, where no direct use of any kind enters in. What shared activi... ...stand are combined. Thus the words in which a child learns about, say, the Greek helmet originally got a meaning (or were understood) by use in an act... ...helmet has its use. For the time being, the one who understands the words “Greek helmet” becomes mentally a partner with those who used the helmet. He... ... their children so that they may get on; princes educate their subjects as instruments of their own purposes. Who, then, shall conduct education so th... ...the case where mind is not concerned with the physical manipulation of the instruments but with what one intends to write, the case is the same. There... ...e action of the piano directed to accomplish the purpose of the piano as a musical instrument. It is the same with “pedagogical” method. The only diff... ...ano may produce, and the variations in technique required in the different musical results secured. Method in any case is but an effective way of empl... ... knows of music the more he can perceive the possibilities of the inchoate musical impulses of a child. Organized subject matter represents the ripe f... ... case not merely conducts inquiry and learning without the use of the best instruments, but fails to understand the full meaning of knowledge. For he ...

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...on of his pupil. I have no remem brance of the time when I began to learn Greek; I have been told that it was when I was three years old. My earliest... ...committing to memory what my father termed vocables, being lists of common Greek words, with their signification in English, which he wrote out for me... ...sla tion; and I faintly remember going through Aesop’s Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember better, was the se... ...c, and the mental habits acquired in studying it, were among the principal instruments of this drilling. I am persuaded that nothing, in modern educat... ...y associations. They seemed to have trusted altogether to the old familiar instruments, praise and blame, reward and punishment. Now, I did not doubt ... ...fe, that I was seriously tormented by the thought of the exhaustibility of musical combinations. The octave consists only of five tones and two semi t... ...strike out, as these had done, entirely new and surpassingly rich veins of musical beauty. This source of anxiety may, perhaps, be thought to resemble... ... authority as revolting as any of those for which, when perpetrated by the instruments of other governments, Englishmen can hardly find terms suf fic...

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...was very well qualified to have translated Homer, barring his ignorance of Greek. But every page of his writings proves a wide and diversified knowled... ...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... ...er, each doing his best to render Homer, but none of them is the grand old Greek, whose lines are all simple and plain as brands, but like brands poin... ...s to Art. Oh! when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll’d, And vanquish’... ...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... ...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 ...

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...d mind were always pleasures, and babies, like tough steaks, or the modern Greek olive trees, are invari- ably the better for beating—but, poor woman!... ...isagreed with the Chinese, who held that the soul lies in the abdomen. The Greeks at all events were right, he thought, who employed the same words fo... ...in pure good humor, on a fork. But they want flavor, these Romans. One fat Greek is worth a dozen of them, and besides will keep, which cannot be said... ... 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...

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...occur:— “How can one praise and glorify a nation as a whole?— Even among the Greeks, it was the individuals that counted.” “The Greeks are interesting... ...he relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the con- ditions were unusually favourable for the development of ... ...ristianity, whereby the whole of the deified mode of life and thought of the Greeks, as well as strong Romedom, was almost annihilated or transvalued ... ...rly in music. It would even be possible to con- sider all ‘Zarathustra’ as a musical composition. At all events, a very necessary condition in its pro... ...ld fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they. Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is sti... ...ll for many thirsty ones, one heart for many longing ones, one will for many instruments”:—around him collecteth a people, that is to say, many attemp...

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...d which do not touch either the necessaries of life or the mate- rials and instruments of production, it is his opinion that any relaxation of such du... ...ide for the consumption of the labourer, together with the ma- terials and instruments of production. This definition ap- pears to us peculiarly liabl... ...capital. The two halves would relieve one another, like the semichori in a Greek tragedy; or rather the half which was in employment would be a fluctu... ...ecome productive in their hands until a customer was found) into wages and instruments of production; and if we suppose that the commodity, unless bou... ... of directly af- fording enjoyment, such as the labour of a performer on a musical instrument, we term unproductive labour. What- ever is consumed by ... ...untry might have been not dimin- ished but increased. The performer on the musical instrument then is, so far as respects that act, not a productive, ... ...itical Economy labourer. But what shall we say of the workman who made the musical instrument? He, most persons would say, is a productive labourer; a... ...subject-matter: without this, it would not be philosophy, but empiricism; [Greek: empeiria,] not [Greek: technae,] in Plato’s sense. Rules, therefore,...

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...- dications of refined taste, many books, drawings, pots of flow- ers, and musical instruments. A cheerful fire blazed upon the hearth. At a piano, si... ...ons of refined taste, many books, drawings, pots of flow- ers, and musical instruments. A cheerful fire blazed upon the hearth. At a piano, singing an... ... intoxicated to do duty, now sprang all at once to their feet and to their instruments, and, scrambling upon their table, broke out, with one accord, ... ...been assured that Suky is but a vulgar corruption of Psyche, which is good Greek, and means “the soul” (that’s me, I’m all soul) and some- times “a bu... ...s me the Queen of the Hearts)—and that Zenobia, as well as Psyche, is good Greek, and that my father was “a Greek,” and that consequently I have a rig... ...ry of a Late Physician,’ where the merit lay in good rant, and indifferent Greek—both of them taking things with the public. And then there was ‘The M... ...en I say that it bore resemblance to the fervid, chanting, monotonous, yet musical sermonic manner of Coleridge), I perceived symp- toms of even more ... ... had no room, of course, for any thing except a few posi- tively necessary instruments, some provisions, and the clothes upon our backs. No one had th... ... 190 Poe in Five V olumes every variation of sad tone; but they were soft musical sounds and no more; they conveyed to the extinct reason no intima- ...

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... his best pages, is always strained. To use the expressive metaphor of the Greek athletes, he “smells of the oil.” When one recalls that when attacked... ...the first time that I had lis- 144 De Maupassant tened to that beautiful, musical, and fairy-like drama, and I had derived from it the liveliest plea... ...country celebrated for its scenery and its monuments, rel- ics left by the Greeks and the Normans. Passing over into Africa, I traversed at my ease th... ...till black, but he had a magnificent, full, black beard; he had be- come a Greek prince, and his name was Anastasio Maurokordatos. She met him once in... ... their mission is to shed human blood! They drag through the streets their instruments of death, and the passer-by, clad in black, looks on with envy....

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...wn that both Gothic and Icelandic present traces of Finnish influence. The musical element of a language, the vowels, are well developed in Finnish, a... ... evil on the mountains, and is therefore termed, “The Thunderer,” like the Greek Zeus, and his abode is called, “The Thunder Home.” Ukko is often repr... ...n our youth learned to call beautiful, not less beautiful. A Finn is not a Greek, and Wainamoinen was not a Homer [Achilles?]; but if the poet may tak... ... “darksome Laplanders”, just as the Iliad relates the contests between the Greeks and the Trojans. Castren is of the opinion that the enmity be tween... ...et in frame of molten silver, Come thou hither, thou art needed; Bring the instruments for mending, Firmly knit the veins together, At the end join we...

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...hich they called education; and of keeping pianos in their houses, not for musical purposes, but to torment their daugh- ters with a senseless stupidi... ...ng. But to take a vital process in which we are keenly interested personal instruments, and ask us to regard it, and feel about it, and legislate on i... ..., and a return made to unity of time and place, as observed in the ancient Greek drama. In the foregoing tragedy, The Doctor’s Dilemma, there are five... ... ingenuity of the playwright is much less; but I find in practice that the Greek form is inevitable when drama reaches a certain point in poetic and i... ...th its huge spit like a baby crane, and a collection of old iron and brass instruments which pass as the original 66 Shaw furniture of the fire, thou...

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...n, compare the dif- ferent appearances of the star to the conjugation of a Greek verb, except that the number of its parts is really infinite, and not... ... learn to understand a concept as we learn to walk, dance, fence or play a musical instrument: it is a habit, i.e. an organized memory. General terms ... ... not yield knowledge unless it is true. The question whether our minds are instruments of knowledge, and, if so, in what sense, is so vital that any s... ...se must have some characteristics which it shares with those of scientific instruments, but must also have oth- ers that are peculiar to knowledge. We... ...hereas the response concerns the future. Even this can be paralleled among instruments: the behaviour of the barometer has a present stimulus but fore...

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... erse The measure is English heroic verse without rhyme, as that of Homer in Greek and of Virgil in Latin; rhyme be- ing no necessary adjunct of true ... ...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... ...r LAVINIA disespous’d, Or NEPTUN’S ire or JUNO’S, that so long Perplex’d the GREEK and CYTHEREA’S Son; If answerable style I can obtaine Of my Celesti... ...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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...her young ladies in begging Natasha and Nicholas, who were noted for their musical talent, to sing some- thing. Natasha, who was treated as though she... ...ar fellow. Y ou see it’s hurrah for the Tsar, for Russia, for the Orthodox Greek faith! All that is beautiful, but what do we, I mean the Austrian cou... ... use? Come now for the last time.” 237 Tolstoy Two girlish voices sang a musical passage—the end of some song. “Oh, how lovely! Now go to sleep, and... ...ed her first exercise she stood still in the middle of the room and sang a musical phrase that particularly 269 Tolstoy pleased her. She listened joy... ...a familiar portrait hangs. “Sorrow is sent by Him, not by men. Men are His instruments, they are not to blame. If you think some- one has wronged you,... ...e masses. In- stead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jew- ish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing ...