... saw. Each of the mon- strous animals had a castle on its back, armed with Mauritanian archers and the celebrated Persian matchlock-men: it was the fe... ...rums, gongs, tambourines, vio- loncellos, and other instruments of Eastern music, raised in the air a strange barbaric melody; the officers (yatabals)... ...boys!” A strength supernatural thrilled through my veins at that delicious music: by one tremendous effort, I wrested the post from its foundation, fi...

...ioned at the passage of the river. These men fancied even that a strain of music issued from this aerial flute. And some, both of the shepherds and th... ...nd occupied 62 The Cæsars the rest of the day with experiments on certain musical in- struments of recent invention, in which the keys were moved by ... ...n artist to be thus violently snatched away, and on the calamitous fate of musical sci- ence, which then stood on the brink of so dire an eclipse. In ... ...posed to flatter him, the very foremost of the Parthian archers and of the Mauritanian lancers [Parthyaion oi toxichæs hachribentes, chai Mauresion oi...

...etic exercise was the Spartan characteristic. Nor was their instruction in music and verse less carefully attended to than their habits of grace and g... ... to battle, we shall find that Terpander and Pindar had reason to say that music and valor were allied. The first says of Lacedaemon— The spear and so... ...d dance, and song, and joy appear; both describing the Spartans as no less musical than warlike; in the words of one of their own poets— With the iron... ...inds or change in their countenance, calmly and cheerfully moving with the music to the deadly fight. Men, in this temper, were not likely to be posse... ...rious debates of such men, to inspire and direct them; and visit poets and musicians, if at all, in their more sportive moods; but, for difference of ... ... all expedition, to put to sea again, and taking with him from Africa some Mauritanian horse, and a few of the refugees out of Italy, all together not...

...lingsby.” She had been seated at an ivory pianoforte on a mother-of- pearl music-stool, trying a sonata of Herz. She rose when thus apostrophized. Mir... ...ibouk of Lord Codlingsby. IV WHEN MIRIAM, returning to the mother-of-pearl music-stool, at a signal from her brother, touched the silver and enamelled... ...ot upon the escutcheon of the Mendozas.” As they sat talking together, the music finished, and Miriam having retired (though her song and her beauty w... ...it,” says she; “I’ll make him dance a turn with me.” So, presently, as the music was going like mad all this time, I pretended fatigue from my late wo... ...p, pro- posed to the Empress to drop in on the party. He made signs to the musicians to continue: and the conqueror of Marengo and Friedland watched w... ... saw. Each of the mon- strous animals had a castle on its back, armed with Mauritanian archers and the celebrated Persian matchlock-men: it was the fe...