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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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...es, a rosy dawn veiled in slight mists, the winning notes of some divinest music, or indeed any unexpected motion within the soul or within the body. ... ...ve flowers for themselves, whereas I love them as I love to listen to fine music. So, as I was saying, the secret of a mass of things escapes me. You,... ...ix of the Institute has not as yet furnished a single great painter, great musician, great architect, great sculp- tor; just as the suffrage for the l... ...ame Graslin, looking at Roubaud, “can’t politics get on without the wit of journalism, even here?” “In this lamentable business, the bourgeoisie plays...

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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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...cting Blondet’s affection. Every man who has dabbled, or still dabbles, in journalism is under the painful necessity of bowing to men he despises, of ... ... his coat button, “a journalist who apes the fine gentleman deserves rough music. In their place,” said the merciless jester, as he pointed to Finot a... ...e best of men. He grudged his daughter nothing. Lydie, who had been taught music by Schmucke, was herself a musician capable of composing; she could w... ...and Asie?” T ormented by such reflections, Esther scarcely listened to the music. Still less, it may be believed, did she listen to the Baron, who hel... ...ure, you would not make so much noise in a box with a woman who is fond of music. I don’t listen to you? I should think not! There you sit rustling my... ... cried she, with a gush of feeling that made her voice sound like heavenly music. “These are the women,” said Comte Octave, “who are fas- cinating, ir...

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...to justify. You were of mature age when you made the suggestion; and you knew your man. It is hardly fifteen 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 ignoranc...

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... your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pio- neers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an ep... ...d for his canonization for a whole cen- tury, thus treating him as English journalism has treated that comic foe of the gods, Punch. Moliere’s Don Jua... ...rt mere harmonious plati- tude which, with a little debasement of the word-music, would be properer to Pecksniff, yet if you separate the real hero, i... ...if he takes care not to split his infinitives. And so with your Doctors of Music, who, with their collections of discords duly prepared and resolved o... ...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 ... ...rate seriousness]. Enry: I have ever been a warm advocate of the spread of music among the masses; but I object to your obliging the company whenever ... ...sa, Louisa, Louisa, I love thee. One name and one phrase make my music, Louisa. Louisa, Louisa, Louisa, I love thee. Men...

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...................................................................... 86 THE MUSIC OF THE RING ............................................................ ...................................................... 92 The Old and the New Music ........................................................................ ...................................................................... 98 The Music of the Future........................................................... ...- mulas, and its general attempt to disguise a masterpiece of propagandist journalism and prophetic invective as a drily scientific treatise of the so... ...ers to bring out a new life of Wagner, which shall describe him as a court musician of un- questioned fashion and orthodoxy, and a pillar of the most ... ..., and be read with satisfaction and reassurance by many lovers of Wagner’s music. As to my much demurred-to relegation of Night Falls On The Gods to t...

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...are now drawn. Let Mr Harris survey for a moment the field of contemporary journalism. He will see there some men who have the very characteristics fr... ...om my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak; yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound. I grant I never saw a goddess go: ... ...pose that she liked his plays any better than Minna Wagner liked Richard’s music dramas: as likely as not, she thought The Spanish Tragedy worth six H... ...hat most thoroughgoing and inspired of all Shakespear’s loves: his love of music (which Mr Harris has been the first to appreciate at anything like it... ...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... ...s tablets again] Prithee say that again: that about frailty: the strain of music. THE BEEFEATER. What strain of music, sir? I’m no musi- cian, God kno...

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...n an intelligible form. CHAPTER IV THE PRINCESS DINNER, and a little piano-music and a song closed an evening that was not dull to Patrick in spite of... ...a- tion, protesting that his boldness was entirely due to his de- light in music. ‘But I’ve heard,’ said he, ‘that the best fortification for the exer... ...atrick hummed a bar or two of an air, to hint of his being fanatico per la musica, as a pretext for their departure. ‘If you’ll deign to give me a les... ...circumstances. 25 George Meredith CHAPTER V AT THE PIANO, CHIEFLY WITHOUT MUSIC BARELY HAD THE DOOR SHUT behind them when Patrick let his heart out: ... ...e one anywhere?’ Caroline stood at her piano, turning over the leaves of a music-book, with a pressure on her eyelids. She was near upon being thrille... ...ness twists him awry. Such a man has the stuff of the born journalist, and journalism is the food of the age. Ask him, however, midway in his running,... ...gs! Rockney could not be a mild sermoniser commenting on events. Rather no journalism at all for him! He thought the office of the ordinary daily prea... ...onnell for a diversion, to appease an animus. The revolutionist in English journalism was too devoutly patriotic to belabour even a pantomime mask tha... ...to be eminently a stranger to the official duties,’ observed the captain. ‘Journalism is a maw, and the journalist has to cram it, and like anything e...

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...mently in the future. They saw too many people at Wickham Place—un- shaven musicians, an actress even, German cousins (one knows what foreigners are),... ...t once, and naturally. Your po- ets too are dying, your philosophers, your musicians, to whom Europe has listened for two hundred years. Gone. Gone wi... ...disturb the others—or like Helen, who can see heroes and shipwrecks in the music’s flood; or like Margaret, who can only see the music; or like Tibby,... ...shillings. It is cheap, even if you hear it in the Queen’s Hall, dreariest music-room in Lon- don, though not as dreary as the Free Trade Hall, Manche... ...man or other whom she takes an interest in?” “I expect so,” Helen replied. Music enwrapped her, and she could not enter into the distinction that di- ... ...; they could not lead her into lasting love. They were—she saw it clearly— Journalism; her father, with all his defects and wrong- headedness, had bee... ...t interested in the New English Art Club, nor in the dividing-line between Journalism and Literature, which was started as a conversational hare. The ... ...wouldn’t have. She’s an Italian—by birth at least. She makes her living by journalism. I met her originally on Garda. Monica is much the best per- son...

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...and poison brewing, and choking by sulphur. From the Palace esplanade, where music plays while Serene Highness is pleased to eat his victuals, down to... ...es. 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... ...lls; so that when a man walks, it is with contin ual jingling. Some few, of musical turn, have a whole chime of bells (Glocken 32 SARTOR RESARTUS s... ... thou flewest through the middle thereof, striking fire from the highway; wild music hummed in thy ears, thou too wert as a “sailor of 40 SARTOR RESART... ...earied children sported, and the young men and maidens often danced to flute music. “Glorious summer twilights,” cries Teufelsdr¨ ockh, “when the Sun,... ...ife, viewed in no unfavorable light; finding indeed, except the Outrooting of Journalism (die auszurottende Journalistik), lit tle to desiderate there... ...he world was nowise so faultless, and many things besides “the Outrooting of Journalism” might have seemed improve ments, we can readily conjecture. ...

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...irst summer after their marriage that he was charmed with the vivacity and musical talent of her young sister Angela, now upon the world again. Angela... ...uch attraction towards the Salvation Army, that her brother declared their music to have been the chief deterrent from her becoming a “Hallelu- jah la... ...the winter’s journey to Italy. Poor man, he little knew what he undertook. Music, art, Roman Catholic services, and nov- elty conspired to intoxicate ... ...heeriness, still young-look- ing, though his hair too was scantier and his musical tones subdued; and Geraldine, pensive in eye and lip, but often spa... ...yet; no, I can’t, nor lose his little voice out of the choir, and have his music spoilt.” “I don’t wonder.” “I don’t think I spoil him. I really have ... ... cap, though not quite the kind of feather his elders might have desired. “Journalism is a kind of native air to us,” said Mrs. Grinstead, “but from ‘... ... first time in print. As to Gerald, he had so long been bred—as it were—to journalism that, young as he was, he had caught the trick, and ‘The Inspect... ... maybe it would be worse for their hearts,” he said, with a sigh. “There’s journalism, a great power.” “Yes, but to put my name to all I could—and lon...

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...els, appointed in 1544 by Henry VIII. T o keep order among the players and musicians of that day when they performed at Court. This first appearance o... ...ting to apply a censorship of the Lord Chamberlain’s pattern to the London music halls. A proposal to examine all enter- tainments before permitting t... ...to undertake such a task. The attachment of an inspector of morals to each music hall would have meant an appreciable addition to the ratepayers’ burd... ...ce of adoption. Municipal control of the variety theatres (formerly called music halls) has been very far from liberal, except in the one par- ticular... ...informer. As it is, it has been found nec- essary, in order to enable good music to be performed on Sunday, to take away these powers in that par- tic... ...letter of the law and take no chances. And as far as the law is concerned, journalism, literature, and the drama exist only by custom or sufferance. W...

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........................................................ 190 Chapter 2.1.IV . Journalism. .................................................................. ...iful Armida-Palace, where the inmates live enchanted lives; lapped in soft music of adulation; waited on by the splendours of the world;—which neverth... ...n black domino, like a black night-bird, and disturb the fair Antoinette’s music-party in the Park: all Birds of Paradise flying from thee, and musica... ...ndignation, which makes, if not verses, satirical law-papers, the withered Music-master, with a desperate heroism, takes up his lost cause in spite of... ...ever, heard from such distance, are little other than a cheerful marching- music. If indeed that dark living chaos of Ignorance and Hun- ger, five-and... ... as in rapt commerce; an Antique Egyptian Hierophant in this new age. Soft music flits; breaking fitfully the sacred stillness. Round their Magnetic M... ...and uncracked lungs of Saint-Huruge, the Palais Royal rebellows with Veto. Journalism is busy, France rings with Veto. ‘I shall never forget,’ says Du... ...his red-blue impassive visage waxing hardly a shade bluer. Chapter 2.1.IV. Journalism. As for Constitutionalism, with its National Guards, it is doing... ...- ningly try it. (See Bertrand-Moleville: Memoires, ii. 100, &c.) Great is Journalism. Is not every Able Editor a Ruler of the World, being a persuade...

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...is a wonderful church.” She joined her cousin. 29 EM Forster Chapter III: Music, Violets, and the Letter “S” IT SO HAPPENED that Lucy, who found dail... ...ential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave. The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding ... ...was introduced he understood why, for Miss Honeychurch, disjoined from her music stool, was only a young lady with a quantity of dark hair 31 EM Fors... ...id she trusted I should never live a duet.” “Doesn’t Mrs. Honeychurch like music?” “She doesn’t mind it. But she doesn’t like one to get excited over ... ...only meant—” “Of course,” said he, wondering why she bothered to explain. “Music—” said Lucy, as if attempting some gener- ality. She could not comple... ...a porter! and runs down to his fa- ther for week-ends. Papa was to do with journalism, 143 EM Forster but is rheumatic and has retired. There! Now fo...

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...is art rises to its most consummate triumphs in Venus and Madonna, and his music is saturated in love suggestions. Not only is this so with the right ... ...ining I mean the differentiation of sounds—articu- late, inarticulate, and musical—fixing the child’s attention and causing it to imitate. As every so... ...des of expression need not begin till after five, or later. With regard to music, every child should begin to undergo a simple course of ear-training ... ...lve or fourteen. But, beginning early—as early as pos- sible—every child, ‘musical’ or not, can be trained, just as every child, ‘artistic’ or not, ma... ...go to a Board School, and very probably after- wards to evening classes—or music-halls. Here again is a new type of home, in which the English of 1920... ...iterature, using the word in its widest sense to cover all that is good in journalism, all untechnical speculative, philosophical writing, all that is... ...or the development of that consis- tency of thought which the condition of journalism renders so impossible. This review would mean for them status, r...

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... the rebec that he set in the hands of some lady of the land, drank in the musical notes of her ballad, and in the twilight by the gothic arch above t... ...rs of good to waken. For this work of Raphael’s had the imperious charm of music; you were brought under the spell of memories of the past; his triump... ...nalist! But hold your tongue, we are going through a crowd of subscribers. Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society, and has even gone ... ...e they kept clear of lies, as they exchanged flattering speeches. A famous musician administered soothing consolation in a ral- lying fashion, to a yo... ... is invested. There was a murmur of admiration, which vibrated like a soft musical note. Wine had not taken love for traveling com- panion; instead of... ...- ther, the despair soothed by slumber, the dark broodings charmed away by music. I breathed my sorrows forth in melodies. Beethoven or Mozart would k...

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...iful Armida-Palace, where the inmates live enchanted lives; lapped in soft music of adulation; waited on by the splendours of the world;—which neverth... ...n black domino, like a black night-bird, and disturb the fair Antoinette’s music-party in the Park: all Birds of Paradise flying from thee, and musica... ...ignation, which makes, if not verses, satirical law-papers, the with- ered Music-master, with a desperate heroism, takes up his lost cause in spite of... ...ver, heard from such distance, are little other than a cheer- ful marching-music. If indeed that dark living chaos of Ignorance and Hunger, five-and-t... ... as in rapt commerce; an Antique Egyptian Hierophant in this new age. Soft music flits; breaking fitfully the sacred stillness. Round their Magnetic M... ...ons of Paris and Brabant. Brilliant, we say: for if, in that thick murk of Journalism, with its dull blus- tering, with its fixed or loose fury, any r...

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...f the old fore court,’ where the young people danced and made merry to the music of the village band. Or perhaps, in the depth of winter, the father w... ... day; and attained to such pro- ficiency that her collaboration in chamber music was courted by professionals. And more than twenty years later, the o... ...at is still more strange, he had been up to then invincibly indifferent to music, insomuch that he could not distinguish 28 Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin... ... Here at the opera he discovered besides a taste for a new art, the art of music; and it was, he wrote, ‘as if he had found out a heaven on earth.’ ‘I... ... the refreshments chosen, the list of guests drawn up, by Joseph; the best music of the place in attendance; and hosts and guests in their best clothe... ...es of poor humanity, my fault and his. I had been led to dabble in society journalism; and this coming to his ears, he felt it like a disgrace upon hi...

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...armonics” upon the feeling of an idiot, we may conceive what we mean. Such music does not utterly revolt the idiot; on the contrary, it has a strange ... ...3. TE 3. TE 3. TE 3. TE 3. A great modern poet refers to this very case of music enter- ing “the mouldy chambers of the dull idiot’s brain;” but in su... ..., or Diogenes, one may conceive qualified for this mode of authorship, had journalism existed to rouse them in those days; their “articles” would no d... ...hat temptations did it unfold? These calls upon the moral powers, which in music so stormy, many a life is doomed to hear, how were they faced? The ch... ...ualities, both affirmative and negative, that Lamb had an insensibility to music more absolute than can have been often shared by any human creature, ... ..., or per- haps than was ever before acknowledged so candidly. The sense of music,—as a pleasurable sense, or as any sense at all other than of certain...

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...at. His fair eyebrows arch good- naturedly and uncritically. He has a most musical voice; his speech is a perpetual anthem; and he never tires of the ... ...RIDGEON. Good-night. B. B. repeats the salutation several times, in varied musical tones. Schutzmacher goes out. SIR PATRICK. Its time for us all to m... ...g he hears. As the only employment in which these defects do not matter is journalism (for a newspa- per, not having to act on its description and rep... ...le joy and pride: you did not speak the words that will always be heavenly music in my ears. I listen to them now whenever I am tired or sad. That is ...

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...ng will come of it. Hovstad. No, Miss Petra is much more likely to take to journalism, I expect. By the way, have you had time to do anything with tha... ... had the best of food and had the oppor- tunity of hearing soft voices and music. Do you not think that the poodle’s brain is developed to quite a dif...

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...00 volumes, its classes for the study of the foreign languages, elocution, music; its opportunities of discussion and debate, of healthful bodily exer... ... of a Herschel or a Faraday? It is with all these things as with the great music of Mendelssohn, or a lecture upon art—if we had the good fortune to l... ...On the above date Mr. Dickens gave a reading of his Christmas Carol in the Music Hall, before the members and subscribers of the Philosophical Institu... ...y no difference. The painters’ art has four or five such institutions. The musicians’ art, so generously and charmingly represented here, has likewise... ...to abuse his trust, I confidently ask those here, the best acquainted with journalism, whether they be lieve it possible that any newspaper so ill co... ...ficiated as Chairman at the annual dinner of the Dramatic, Equestrian, and Musical Fund, at Willis’s Rooms, where he made the following speech: Ladies...

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...poses and entail certain con- sequences. A child growing up in a family of musicians will inevitably have whatever capacities he has in music stimulat... ...have been awakened in another environment. Save as he takes an interest in music and gains a certain competency in it, he is “out of it”; he is unable... ...erred to as an interest. Thus we say that a man’s interest is politics, or journalism, or philanthropy, or ar- chaeology, or collecting Japanese print... ...using them, and the order is not something which exists ready- made in the musician’s hands or brain prior to an activity deal- ing with the piano. Or... ...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... ...the illustration may apply if we consider the infinite variety of kinds of music which a piano may produce, and the variations in technique required i...

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...books. A few of them (not necessar- ily books of verse) are melodious; the music some others make for you as you read has the disagree- able emphasis ... ...Polish State is not the 108 Notes on Life and Letters gift of any kind of journalism, neither is it the out- come even of some particularly benevolen... ...r known in the North Atlantic—even if you have provided them with a little music to get drowned by. Sell less tickets! That’s 206 Notes on Life and L...

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...y describe by nega- tives— Sense of union with the Absolute— Mysticism and music— Three conclusions— (1) Mystical states carry authority for him who h... ...ther, not like the emotional effect of some poem, or scene, or blossom, of music, but the sure knowledge of the close presence of a sort of mighty per... ...0] “is worthy to be called a religion”; and accordingly he thinks that our Music, our Science, and our so-called “Civilization,” as these things are n... ...sically, I would just as lief, yes, rather, die with a hearty enjoyment of music, sport, or any other rational pastime. As a timepiece stops, we die— ... ...t. Q. What things work most strongly on your emotions? A. Lively songs and music; Pinafore instead of an Oratorio. I like Scott, Burns, Byron, Longfel... ...although I lived with him for eight years, mak- ing what money I wanted by journalism, and spending it in high carousal with any one who would sit wit...