The Century, Volumen88Century Company, 1914 |
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... called throughout the history of music in- stances in which some one of the world's famous singers had been picked up on life's road where it is roughest . Was this to become now his own experience ? Fall- ing on his ears was an ...
... called throughout the history of music in- stances in which some one of the world's famous singers had been picked up on life's road where it is roughest . Was this to become now his own experience ? Fall- ing on his ears was an ...
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... called one of the Apostles Jim ! And another one Pete ! He had rejoiced that Gabriel had not been strong . enough to stand up in a high wind one night ! Everybody standing about on the outside was nine and a half feet ! Thus with ...
... called one of the Apostles Jim ! And another one Pete ! He had rejoiced that Gabriel had not been strong . enough to stand up in a high wind one night ! Everybody standing about on the outside was nine and a half feet ! Thus with ...
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... called government . He reverses the traditional American policy of more than half a cen- tury , that the United States could not go behind the returns , and when a man called himself president and appeared to be in possession of the ...
... called government . He reverses the traditional American policy of more than half a cen- tury , that the United States could not go behind the returns , and when a man called himself president and appeared to be in possession of the ...
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... called hard names because he is money - loving , or because he has not followed in the steps of Beethoven , because of a thousand and one things of no actual critical value . That he is easily the greatest technical master of his art ...
... called hard names because he is money - loving , or because he has not followed in the steps of Beethoven , because of a thousand and one things of no actual critical value . That he is easily the greatest technical master of his art ...
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... called music a species of emotional mathematics , yet so vast is its kingdom that it may con- tain the sentimentalities of Mendelssohn , the old - world romance of Schumann , the sublimated poetry of Chopin , and the thunderous epical ...
... called music a species of emotional mathematics , yet so vast is its kingdom that it may con- tain the sentimentalities of Mendelssohn , the old - world romance of Schumann , the sublimated poetry of Chopin , and the thunderous epical ...
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Página 312 - 11 example you with thievery The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea ; the moon 's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun ; The sea 'sa thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears ; the earth 'sa thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement ; each thing's a thief; The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power Have uncheck'd theft.
Página 512 - The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle.
Página 511 - Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Página 511 - Not on the vulgar mass Called " work," must sentence pass, Things done, that took the eye and had the price; O'er which, from level stand, The low world laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice...
Página 632 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
Página 417 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there.
Página 681 - A single poplar, marvellously thinned. Half like a naked boy, half like a sword; Clouds, like the haughty banners of the Lord; A group of pansies with their shrewish faces, Little old ladies cackling over laces ; The quaint, unhurried road that curved so well ; The prim petunias with their...
Página 160 - Eire was daughter of Carne, King of Connaught. Her lover, Murdh of the Open Hand, was captured by Greatcoat Mackintosh, King of Ulster, on the plain of Carrisbool, and made into soup. Eire's grief on this sad occasion has become proverbial.
Página 291 - What a glorious new Scandinavia might not Minnesota become ! Here would the Swede find again his clear, romantic lakes, the plains of Scania rich in corn, and the valleys of Norrland ; here would the Norwegian find his rapid rivers, his lofty mountains, for I include the Rocky Mountains and Oregon in the new kingdom ; and both nations their hunting-fields and their fisheries. The Danes might here pasture their flocks and herds, and lay out their farms on richer and less misty coasts than those of...