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...y some impulse, must comprehend that it is with social intercourse as with music, a single discordant note is a complete negation of the art itself, f... ...abhorrence, for a spy is systematically shameless and base. There you have journalism summed up in a sentence. Friendship can par- don error and the h... ...ng-table, deposited there apparently during the day, together with prints, music, snuff- boxes of the “Charter” pattern, a copy of the ninth edition o... ... the day.” The word “pedant” was the latest epithet taken up by Ro- mantic journalism to heap confusion on the Classical fac- tion. Lucien began to re... ...r back is strong enough, enlist if you happen to have a taste for military music. You have the stuff of three poets in you; but before you can reach y... ...he did not make very much out of it himself. Then it grew plain to me that journalism alone could give me a living. The next thing was to find my way ... ... second-rate literature is the kept-mistress picked out of the brothels of journalism, and I am her bully; lastly, there is lucky literature, the flau... ...gnon, the Baron de Nucingen, Beaudenord, Philippe Bridau, Conti, the great musician, all the artists and speculators, all the men who seek for violent... ...is, just about to sing with Camille Maupin. Poetry has taken precedence of music ever since time began.” But when Lucien heard Mlle. des T ouches’ voi...

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...wling faces. On the gloom of this life one sole figure of a man, that of a music-master, stood vigorously forth. The confessors had 8 A Daughter of E... ...ood vigorously forth. The confessors had 8 A Daughter of Eve decided that music was a Christian art, born of the Catholic Church and developed within... ...d developed within her. The two Maries were there- fore permitted to study music. A spinster in spectacles, who taught singing and the piano in a neig... ...e. Such was Schmucke, formerly chapel-master to the Margrave of Anspach; a musical genius, who was now exam- ined by a council of devotes, and asked i... ... as mothers of families learned that the Comtesse de Granville had found a music-master for her daughters, they all inquired for his name and address.... ...s, and of real merit. Even Blondet, so un- fortunate, so used by others in journalism, but so welcomed here, who could, if he liked, enter a career of... ... to hold the reins of a love- affair in society, the ten-horsed chariot of journalism, his dramas on the stage, and his generally involved affairs. “T... ...depended,—not to speak of the thousand and one other details of the paper. Journalism is connected with everything in these days; with industrial conc... ... non-committal, and did not show their colors, would lose subscribers; for journalism, like poli- tics, was about to be simplified by falling into reg...

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...poison-brewing, and choking by sul- phur. From the Palace esplanade, where music plays while Serene Highness is pleased to eat his victuals, down to t... ... 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 l... ...lls; so that when a man walks, it is with continual jingling. Some few, of musical turn, have a whole chime of bells (Glockenspiel) fastened there; wh... ...u flewest through the middle thereof, striking fire from the highway; wild music hummed in thy ears, thou too wert as a “sailor of the air;” the wreck... ...ried children sported, and the young men and maidens often danced to flute-music. “Glorious summer twilights,” cries Teufelsdrockh, “when the Sun, lik... ...viewed in no unfavorable light; finding indeed, ex- cept the Outrooting of Journalism (die auszurottende Journalistik), little to desiderate therein. ... ...orld was now- ise so faultless, and many things besides “the Outrooting of Journalism” might have seemed improvements, we can readily conjecture. With...

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...following: “THE KNAVE OF BERGEN” “In Frankfort at the Romer was a great mask-ball, at the coronation festival, and in the illuminated saloon, the clan... ...rgeon labor awhile, but could not enjoy; it was much less trying to see the wounds given and received than to see them mended; the stir and turmoil, a... ...place. This was while a gorgeous procession of people marched around and around, in the third act, and sang the Wedding Chorus. To my untutored ear th... ...n a stretch! But the people sit there and enjoy it all, and wish it would last longer. A German lady in Munich told me that a person could not like Wa... ...never be able to get enough of it. She said that six hours of Wagner was by no means too much. She said that this composer had made a complete revolut... ... were arrested “two weeks after the inquest.” What a home sound that has. That kind of police briskness rather more reminds me of my native land than ...

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...on’s hell. Beyond, a gaunt hoarding advertised extensively the Princhester Music Hall, a mean beastly place that corrupted boys and girls; and also it... ...s eat the fruit in Paradise? Perhaps there they worked for some collective musical effect, had some sort of conductor in the place of this—hullabaloo…... ...musingly combined a professorship of political economy with the writing of music-hall lyrics, was a keen amateur theologian, nor that Bent, the sentim... ...wnham with her next September. She aspired to his- tory. Miriam’s bent was musical. She and Phoebe and Daphne and Clementina were under the care of sk... ... they— they feel they must do something.” He seized the opportunity of the music ceasing to get away from the subject. “Miriam dear,” he asked, raisin... ... under three hundred pounds a year, and that his experi- ments in cultured journalism made it extremely improbable that the most sedulous literary wor...

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...and out for the scroll he was un- folding, and cast her eyes along bars of music, while Agostino called a “Silenzio tutti!” She sang one verse, and st... ...ers might have sung it; and though it spoke favourably of her aptitude and musical edu- cation, and was of a quality to enrapture easy, merely critica... ...rtainly, signorina!” “A spy!” Vittoria had not always to lift her voice in music for it to sway the hearts of men. She spoke the word very simply in a... ...th pleased ears, as one listens by a brookside near an old home, hearing a music of memory rather than common words. They talked of heat, of appetite,... ...thrilled by emotion, un- der the mask of his hard face, as a lover hearing music. “I read English,” he remarked. After he had drawn the seal three or ... ...s morning, I saw right over your head when you were sleeping. “Farewell to journalism—I hope, for ever. I jump at shak- ing off the journalistic phras...

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...uality of intimacy and more. We wanted each other as one wants beau- tiful music again or to breathe again the scent of flowers. And that is all there... ...’s the best time for it. We 111 H G Wells can start about five.” We heard music, and went further along the arcade to dis- cover a place where girls ... ...hy but determined. She had rather open blue eyes, and she spoke in an even musical voice with the gen- tlest of stresses and the ghost of a lisp. And ... ...hou- sand different gods, sought a shape for itself in stone and ivory and music and wonderful words, spoken more and more clearly of a mystery of lov... ... upon Margaret one evening. She was just back from the display of some new musicians at the Hartsteins. I remember she wore a dress of golden satin, v... ...with her hostess when it became clear she wanted to write, not novels, but journalism, and then she set every one talk- ing by taking a flat near Vict... ... sufficiently present in his mind for my purpose al- ready. Huge stacks of journalism have dealt with Handitch and its significance. For the reader ve...

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...nt historian is not responsible. Colleville was the only son of a talented musician, for- merly first violin at the Opera under Francoeur and Rebel, w... ...alists. These clerks are remarkable for their industry. Colleville, a good musician, owed to the name and influence of his father a situation as first... ...and easy household. From 1816 to 1826 she had five children. Colleville, a musician in the evening, kept the books of a merchant from seven to nine in... ...earsals took half the time that he ought to have been at his desk; but the musical knowl- edge his father had bequeathed to him was sufficiently genu-... ...great care, a youth, warmly recommended to him by his wife, a future great musician, who sometimes took his place in the orchestra with a promise of e... ...d listen.” “Do you know, my dear fellow,” said la Peyrade, laughing, “that journalism is making you into something very solemn? ‘Be seated, Cinna,’—Ca... ... such a man into relations with you; but we wanted some one who understood journalism, and that value he really had for us. But who can ever sound the... ... would be impossible for me to grant them. I have long been disgusted with journalism. I let la Peyrade, I hardly know why, persuade me to make this c... ...” “I mean hasten it, reap it before it ripened. Y ou flung your- self into journalism; then into business, questionable busi- ness; you made acquainta...

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...o you mean with your topsy-turvy? Everything will be ruled like a sheet of music-paper. Have you forgotten what I have just told you about turning the... ...r mother, some- what bettered by the superfluities of education; she loved music, drew the Madonna della Sedia in chalk, and read the works of Mmes. C... ...nt when the animation of the scene, the torrents of light, the gaiety, the music, the excitement of dancing brought on a species of intoxication which... ...is hand and calls forth the transcendent theme towards which the powers of music have all converged, po- ets whose hearts have throbbed at those sound... ...schemes which since have poured their crowded battalions into the arena of journalism, for which they have created—oh, mighty revolution!—the paid adv... ...her into the salon and played to him “Rousseau’s Dream,”—a pretty piece of music by Herold; while Constance sat sewing beside him. The poor man laid h...

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...he strings of sensualism,’ to the delight of a world gaping for marvels of musical execution rather than for music. For our world is all but a sensati... ...as right, wrong alto- gether her deduction of the corresponding sentiment. Music was resumed to confuse the hearing of the eaves- droppers. They behel... ...as in the first conception of the edifice, backs were damp, boots liquidly musical, the pipe of consolation smoked with difficulty, with much pulling ... ...harmony. He sees all difficulties through his own sanguine hues. He is the musical poet of the problem, demanding merely to have it solved that he may... ...ced. Seeming unaware of its effect where it kindled, she smote a number of musical female chords, com- passion among them. A general grave affability ... ...ome news, with the leaders on them, identically dull. Behold the effect of Journalism: a witty man, sparkling overnight, gets into his pulpit and pros...

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...ith no calling by which he could earn a living. He tried teaching and some journalism, but in a little while he found himself on the underside of a wo... ... informant, hovered for a moment, and then went on his way to the Alhambra music hall. Barnet became aware of an excitement in the newspaper kiosks at...

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...de of the mountain, thinking that in this sight, as in a piece of inspired music, there could be found together the utmost delicacy of shaded expressi... ...ith inscrutable patience. “Lucia, Lucia di Lammermoor! I am passionate for music. It transports me. Ha! the divine—ha!—Mozart. Si! divine … What is it... ... of multicoloured flags fluttering on tall poles. Faint bursts of military music would be heard suddenly, and the remote sound of shouting. A knot of ... ...lding, whence issued a shuffle and thump- ing of feet in time to the dance music vibrating and shrieking with a racking rhythm, overhung by the tremen... ...th. I mean some effective truth, for which there is no room in politics or journalism. I happen to have said what I thought. And you are angry! If you... ...again lean- ing out over the quiet street. “This is the quintessence of my journalism; that is the supreme argument,” he said to Antonia. “I have inve... ...s could be seen sit- ting up balancing their bandaged heads in time to the music. Charles Gould dismounted. A sleepy mozo coming out of the bakery doo...

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.... Money, to me, meant a couple of dreadful things,—work and a pub- lisher, journalism and politics. When shall we poor fellows come upon a land where ... ...er eyes like a spark. La Tonsard came out of her bedroom, attracted by the music of metal. “You are always rough to my poor father,” she said to her h... ...filled the combined functions of porter at the town-hall, drummer, jailer, musician, and practitioner, was taken care of by Madame Vermichel, an alarm... ...have seen the Chevalier Gluck at dear Madame’s feet to get her to sing his music, and she did, —she who so adored Piccini, one of the finest men of hi... ...night I’ve loved the place where those words rang in my ears like military music. It’s worthy giving your eter- nity to hear such words said of you by... ...t that drew upon him the contempt of the leading society. If Lupin was the musician of the leading society, Monsieur Gourdon, the doctor, was its man ...

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...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European ca...

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... early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New Y ork. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remot... ...to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acous- tics, always so problematic a quality in h... ... tics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for the hear- ing of music. It was Madame Nilsson’s first appearance that winter, and what the d... ...!” and not “he loves me,” since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world re- quired that the German text of French operas sung by Swed... ...r dreamed of before, and playing the piano in quin- tets with professional musicians. Of course no good could come of this; and when, a few 43 Edith ... ... career; but an insatiable taste for letters had thrown the young man into journalism, then into authorship (apparently unsuccessful), and at length—a... ...tion, one’s critical independence? It was because of that that I abandoned journalism, and took to so much duller work: tutoring and private secretary... ...rth breathing. And so I have never regretted giving up either diplomacy or journalism—two dif- ferent forms of the same self-abdication.” He fixed his...

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... yesterday’s work before the sun had risen. Then I sat and thought, and 41 V ailima Letters sat and better thought. It was not good enough, nor good;... ...e to-day about (of all things) Carthage; 11, luncheon; after luncheon in my mother’s room, I read Chapter XXIII. of The Wrecker, then Belle, Lloyd, a... ...e-handling Chapter IV . of the Samoa racket. I do not go in for litera- ture; address myself to sensible people rather than to sen- sitive. And, inde... ...ely sentimental, but the second has some rows and quar- rels, and winds up with an explosion, if you please!I am just burning to get at Sophia, but I ... ...he sound of a whistle pipe blown outside on the dark, very softly and to a pleasing simple air; I really think I have hit the first phrase: [Here foll... ...efrain from going to him. It was a fine feeling to have finished the History; there ought to be a future state to reward that grind!It’s not lit- erat... ...ion, if that might be. As he left I heard the villagers asking which was the great lady?And a little further, at the borders of Malie itself, we found... ...icked for applying it to me. By writing a novel—even a bad one—I do not make myself a criminal for anybody to insult. This may amuse you. But either t...

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...ract distinguished men. T all, handsome, and finely-formed, she was a good musician, drew and painted, spoke several languages, and even knew somethin... ...aintances were bidden, and dancing went on till very late, formerly to the music of one violin, but for the last six years Monsieur Godard, who was a ... ...rks the piece into shape; and third, the toucher-up, who sets the songs to music, arranges the chorus and concerted pieces and fits them into their ri... ...ising at seven, gifted with some social talents, such as playing quadrille music on the flute, which first brought him into favor with the Saillards a... ...gh- ter was being educated gratis at a boarding school where his wife gave music lessons and he himself a course of history and one of geography in th... ...he prime of life; he trimmed and shuffled under all his difficulties,—with journalism, which at this period it was thought advisable to repress in an ... ...ting it extravagantly; and together they laughed over the absurdi- ties of journalism. “Madame, you really must give the countess and myself the pleas...

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...eason- able and disciplined but a purely imaginative and emotional person. Music, for instance, carried him away, and particu- larly the effect of man... ...poradic vocalisation. But to young people things come differently. “I love music,” she said. “So do I,” said he. They came on down the steepness of We... ...ore Exams. Don’t seem to have ever heard of being alive. Never goes near a Music Hall from one year’s end to the other.” Lewisham heard a shrill whist... ... Lagune’s finger communicated a nervous quivering. What was happening? The musical box somewhere on the table began playing a rather trivial, rather p... ...he was missing points. What was that scent of violets? And who had set the musical box going? The Me- dium, of course; but how? He tried to recall whe... .... If you don’t do that, my dear chap, we can’t do any- thing for you. It’s Journalism, or London docks. Well, con- sidering your experience,—say docks...

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...ding to my strength! Blood’s my natural drink, and the wails of the dying is music to my ear! Cast your eye on me, gentlemen!—and lay low and hold you... ...they happened to be fiddling down below, and we just caught the sound of the music in time to sheer off, doing no serious damage, unfortunately, but c... ...oars; it is lovely to see the white foam stream away from the bows; there is music in the rush of the water; it is deliciously ex hilarating, in summ... ...es up, another follows, and soon the pipings develop into a jubilant riot of music. You see none of the birds; you sim ply move through an atmosphere... ...on, when a body could be heard, service would go on again. Organs and church music mixed up with a bom bardment is a powerful queer combination—along... ...sh Fort. The telephone is everywhere. One of the most notable advances is in journalism. The newspapers, as I re member them, were not a striking fea... ...e pas senger trains arrive and depart daily. In this place, as in St. Paul, journalism thrives. Here there are three great dailies, ten weeklies, and...

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... at Zurich, and take commissions from pur- 54 An Old Maid veyors. A great musician may conceive the sublimest music and commit a forgery. A woman of ... ...n du Bousquier gave two balls every month. Oh, to hear violins and profane music at these worldly entertain- ments in the sacred old house! The abbe p... ...noble interests, which was one cause of the triumph of the bourgeoisie and journalism in 1830. Thus du Bousquier, in common with the class he repre- s...

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...ves; crossed by roads and human traffic, here inaudible or heard only as a musical hum: and behind all swam, under olive-tinted haze, the illimitable ... ...ught, and drown the world and you!—I have heard Coleridge talk, with eager musical en- ergy, two stricken hours, his face radiant and moist, and commu... ...all her gayety gone, the dimpling softness be- come liquid sorrow, and the musical ringing voice one wail of woe, “burst into tears,”—so I have it on ... ... is the real test of a Poet or Singer, as distinguished from a Speaker? In music proper he had not the slightest ear; all music was mere impertinent n... ...Sterling’s verses had a monotonous rub-a-dub, instead of tune; no trace of music deeper than that of a well-beaten drum; to which limited range of exc... ...y among busy public men; and enjoyed, in the questionable form attached to journalism and anonymity, a social consideration and position which were ab...