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...y the dance but the sun god was putting him to sleep and 15 minutes into the performance he was on a park bench fast asleep. When he awoke, the crowd ... ...are here with friends and family. I should let you get back to them and the performance." "We're here alone," said Saeng Sob, " but I guess we shoul... .... "Sometimes," said Saeng Sob. "Maybe we can get something to eat after the performance if you aren't busy," said Sang Huin. "Maybe. They're probabl... ...sical prostitution. Before Hallmark removed her from their list of freelance artists for accidentally mailing in one of her profane sketches, she had ... ... and top of the morning to you!" She looked toward this strange Southern and Irish sound and saw her son walking back and forth on stilts before the k... ... She supported her premise with quotations from Emerson, Thoreau, and myriad artists. It was a typical speech presented and specifically catered to t... ...sery was intruding on her contemplation of beauty. It was often that way for artists, for the jungle, beautiful as it might seem from the external vie...

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...he prince with drew, trying not to show how ridiculous he thought the whole performance. The princess was distracted, and did not know what to do. Sh... ... he really had to see the colonel of his regiment, who never missed a single performance there. He wanted to see him, to report on the result of his m... ...re the pavilion, a dry ditch, a ditch full of water, a precipitous slope, an Irish barricade (one of the most difficult obstacles, consisting of a moun... ...cross it ahead of the others he would come in first. He was flying towards the Irish barricade, Frou Frou and he both together saw the barricade in the... ... service, of reminding the ministry of his existence—and having, for the due performance of this rite, taken all the available cash from home, was gai... ...they were the worse he found them) of looking at the works of con temporary artists with the sole object of being in a position to say that art is a ... ...ent could not develop for want of education—the common defect of our Russian artists. But the picture of the boys had imprinted itself on their memori...

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... is approached not only through the delights of courtship, but by a public performance and repeated legal signatures. A man naturally thinks it will g... ...h Gipsies. “It is said,” I find on p. 7, “that those who can converse with Irish peasants in their own native tongue form far higher opinions of their... ...ead of the Charge of Balaclava in much the same spirit as they assist at a performance of the Lyons Mail. Persons of substance take in the Times and s... ... were a world too far away. Both sides must feel a little ashamed of their performances now and again when they draw in their chairs to dinner. Indeed... ...ses at table makes no very pleasant figure, any more than a thousand other artists when they are viewed in the body, or met in private life; but his w... ... this planet, which already embraces the pretty soldier and the terrifying Irish beggarman, is, or is not, the child to expect a Bluebeard or a Cormor...

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...l we were gloriously favoured; for in addition to porridge, which was common to all, we had Irish stew, some- times a bit of fish, and sometimes risso... ...o create a popularity. There was, besides, a Scots mason, known from his favourite dish as ‘Irish Stew,’ three or four nondescript Scots, a fine young... ...; admitted, after some fencing, that he was born in England; and ultimately proved to be an Irishman born and nurtured, but ashamed to own his country... ...w. I have noth- ing to lose and nothing to hope.’ And again: ‘I am sick of the whole damned performance.’ He was, like the kind little man, already qu... ...eased, but not at all abashed, by this attention; and one night, in the midst of his famous performance of ‘Billy Keogh,’ I saw him spin half round in... ... drawing ever nearer the beginning of the wood, you will arrive at last before an inn where artists lodge. T o the door (for I imagine it to be six o’... ...stract the attention, for one thing, and the forest is more itself. It is not bedotted with artists’ sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn... ...tournaments are organised at chess, draughts, billiards and whist. Once and again wandering artists drop into our mountain valley, com- ing you know n...

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... accord, unhired.— And yet we will remark that premeditation itself is not performance, is not surety of performance; that it is per- haps, at most, s... ...ey-species. Man-midwives, as Levasseur of the Sarthe, are not wanting. Nor Artists: gross David, with the swoln cheek, has long painted, with ge- nius... ... short is it of the thing pitied! A Confessor has come; Abbe Edgeworth, of Irish extrac- tion, whom the King knew by good report, has come promptly on... ...ch year as many third-rate potatoes as would sus- tain him? (Report of the Irish Poor-Law Commission, 1836.) History, in that case, feels bound to con... ...of Deliverance for him and his, was but the second-miserablest of men! The Irish Sans- potato, had he not senses then, nay a soul? In his frozen darkn...

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...new and important acquisition to the English crown. Upon this occasion the Irish chieftains contended which should first offer to the young Prince the... ...ndants could not resist the tempta- tion of pulling the long beards of the Irish chieftains; a conduct which, as might have been expected, was highly ... ...enth cup, but he would not be controlled—Friend, I drink to thy successful performance.” So saying, he took off his cup with much gravity, at the same... ...t, had done all that culture can do in supplying natural deficiencies. His performance, therefore, might have been termed very respect- able by abler ... ...quell maiden shame, And grant him bliss who brings thee fame.” During this performance, the hermit demeaned himself much like a first-rate critic of t... ... strangers our bosom friends, our confidential servants; we borrowed their artists and their arts, and despised the honest simplicity and hardihood wi... ...black vault of Denure, a strong fortalice, built on a rock overhanging the Irish channel, where to execute leases and conveyances of the whole churche... ... be seen in the censures usually passed by vulgar criticism upon actors or artists who venture to change the character of their efforts, that, in so d...

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...PACE COLORED PLATES, DRAWN ESPECIALLY FOR THIS WORK BY AMERICA'S MOST FAMOUS ARTISTS. PUBLISHED AND MANUFACTURED BY HISTORICAL ... ...ur visited Iceland and conquered its inhabitants, which were said to have been Irish. This, like other traditions, however, is scarcely to be credited... ...here is considerable proof which historians cannot wholly ignore that both the Irish and the Welsh made expeditions to America in about the seventh ce... ... foot of man, which are the abodes of demons. One such travels up and down the Irish coast, appearing at various points once in seven years; another i... ...h exquisite manner that they vastly surpassed the best workmanship of European artists; and besides these, a Spanish helmet, which had been sent to Mo... ... fancied grievance they had descended upon the Mexicans while they were in the performance of their religious rites in the court-yard of the great tem... ..., discovery, and colonization encouraged, until true greatness was measured by performance, and accident of birth or fortune was in such small esteem ... ...hem belonging to the better class, who refused to receive gratuities for their performances. Describing the entertainment the Commander says: "The wom... ...me for British commerce. Besides the crews there were scientists, naturalists, artists, astronomers, and the young man, Omai, whom Captain Furneaux ha...

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...ases, unless the person has happened to observe in pictures how it is that artists pro- duce these effects, he will be utterly unable to make the smal... ....” But this is wrong; for it is unreasonable to expect all men to be great artists, and born with the ge- nius of Mr. Williams. Now it will be remembe... ...ed to make a luxury of the fire, and to hiss 13 it, as he would any other performance that raised expecta- tions in the public mind, which afterwards... ...ore of Cain (Cain senior, I mean,) it is no disparagement to say, that his performance was but so so. Milton, however, is 15 supposed to have thought... ... which was honored with the approbation of Chaucer, on occasion of another performance from the same school, which he puts into the mouth of the Lady ... ...at Catiline, Clodius, and some of that coterie, would have made first-rate artists; and it is on all accounts to be regretted, that the priggism of Ci... ... man was too great for this; and he fell a sacrifice to the impetuosity of Irish youth, combined with his own absurd obstinacy. Leibnitz, being every ... ... oad-in-the-hole, who now rose im- patiently to give the next toast:— “Our Irish friends; and a speedy revolution in their mode of tooling, as well as... ...little farther, before the word Tipperary or Ballina-something betrays the Irish manu- facture. Instantly we loath it; we call to the waiter; we say, ...

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...e, which did not provoke any reproaches even to a dignitary of the supreme Irish church; its own monstrosity was its excuse; mere extravagance was fel... ...his position as an artist by wearing a morning gown. In his sec- ond great performance, it was particularly noticed and re- corded by the one sole tre... ...y himself, he might be regarded as the most aristocratic and fastidious of artists. But who meantime was the victim, to whose abode he was hurrying? F... ... enemy) had been selected for the subject of this present Saturday night’s performance. And the story current at that time about the connection betwee... ...a man on such a subject. I consign him to the attentions of some patriotic Irishman. Schlosser, however, is right in a graver reflection which he make... ...ty; he never forgets his mother-tongue in exotic forms, unless we may call Irish exotic; for Hibernicisms he certainly has. This merit, however, is ex... ...precedency as the original ‘Paradise Lost,’ and to supersede the very rude performance of ‘Milton, Mr. John.’ 7 Schlosser makes the astounding asserti... ... terms of his contracts. At least I know of people now-a-days (much better artists) that would execute such contracts, and enter into any penalties fo... ...and Mont Blanc might be improved by a century of chiselling from judicious artists. Such are the works of blind elements, which (poor things!) cannot ...

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...is having passed the night in a ‘loathsome dun geon.’ And next morning an Irish gentleman, a member of the same fraternity, who had read the case, an... ...y collection of clocks, purporting to be the work of Parisian and Genevese artists—chiefly bilious faced clocks, supported on sickly white crutches, w... ...,) it fills my soul with terror at the British Institution, it lures young artists on to their destruction. Go where I will, the Ghost of Art, eternal... ... general that the enemy shall be exterminated. On this occasion, after the performance of an Umsebeuza, or war song,—which is ex actly like all the o... ...ator, that illustrious person is rather in the position of an orator in an Irish House of Commons. But, several of these scenes of savage life bear a ... ...ral of these scenes of savage life bear a strong generic resemblance to an Irish election, and I think would be extremely well received and understood... ...eously—and goes below. The re maining Mystery then smiles upon the sister artists (who, I am afraid, wouldn’t greatly mind stabbing each other), and ... ... counted. To the best of our belief we were once called in to witness this performance; when, unable, even in his milder moments, to endure our presen... ...ious engineer ing, in the construction of their houses and instruments of performance. The famous one belonged to a company of proprietors, some of w...

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...edith 1910 CHAPTER I WHEREIN AN EXCURSION IS MADE IN A CELTIC MIND A YOUNG IRISH GENTLEMAN of the numerous clan O’Donnells, and a Patrick, hardly a di... ...heir hands had given us a taste of a will of our own, we are eager for the performance of their contract to do what we are only half inclined to; the ... ...armies of the fields above likened its shad- owed stillness to that of his Irish home. There had this woman lived! At the name of Earlsfont she became... ...on the sound of a short laugh coming from Mr. Adister. It struck the young Irishman’s ear as injurious and scornful in relation to Captain Con; but th... ... those reservations should allow the splen- did conception to pass for the performance, when we bring to mind that the conception is the essential par... ...remost rank (on the line, facing the door) in our exhibition of the chosen artists, where, as our popular words should do, it struck the spectator’s e... ...t-flying gas, and prove a poem-producing people to be of their nature born artists; if they did but know it. The explosion of a particular trade point... ...e foreigner; he is down, he is roaring; he is washing his hands of English performances, lends ear to foreign airs, patronises foreign actors, browses...

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... years. He will then, in some measure, realize the difficulty of Boswell’s performance. When his work appeared Boswell himself said: ‘The stretch of m... ...is Ofellus in the Art of Living in London, I have heard him relate, was an Irish painter, whom he knew at Birmingham, and who had practised his own pr... ... Juvenal. Oldham had also imitated it, and applied it to London; all which performances concur to prove, that great cities, in every age, and in every... ...remark- able, that there is scarcely any coincidence found between the two performances, though upon the very same subject. Johnson’s London was publi... ... will break through this churlish and unsocial re- straint. Johnson and an Irish gentleman got into a dispute concerning the cause of some part of man... ...ng naturalists, but has never been brought to any certain issue.’ What the Irishman said is totally obliterated from my mind; but I remem- ber that he... ...our people by the news-papers.’ Sir Adam mentioned the orators, poets, and artists of Greece. Johnson. ‘Sir, I am talking of the mass of the people. W...

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...audation, and trot out this misdespised novelette as not the worst of your performances. I read the album extracts with sincere interest; but I regret... ...my mind of what I have read has been to awaken a livelier sympathy for the Irish; although they never had the remarkable virtues, I fear they have suf... ...over six years, and an unfin- ished Autobiography reaching up to the first performance of King John. By William Shakespeare. 2. The journals and Priva... ...ere your name appears. It is called ‘Fontainebleau: Village Communities of Artists,’ and the signature of R. L. Stevenson will be found annexed Please... ...keenly admire its merits as a 249 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 performance; and that all that was in my mind was its pe- culiarly unreligi... ... please keep or return. As for not giving a reduction, what are we? Are we artists or city men? Why do we sneer at stock-brokers? O nary; I will not t...

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...ible for Kate to avoid turning a little in her saddle to see the Alcalde’s performance on this tight rope of the trench. His worship’s horsemanship be... ...ey the reader’s satisfaction, the sequel—so far as Kate could at- tend the performance. Gathering himself up for mischief, the Alcalde took a sweep, a... ...open to his own snare by refusing to pay for admission. Spies must be poor artists who proceed thus. Upon which Coleridge remarked—‘That, before the g... ...le one. We do not pretend to be acquainted with the tenth part of Cuvier’s performances; but we suspect that Coleridge’s range in that respect was not... ...hom *But judge not, reader, of French skill by the attempts of fourth-rate artists; and understand me to speak with respect of this skill, not as it i... ...and almost before he had begun to curse and to swear plainly in French, an Irish vagabond had attempted to swindle him out of that famous witticism wh...

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...pass lightly, without call to linger: for as yet events are not, much less performances. Time of sunniest stillness;—shall we call it, what all men th... ...n Astolpho could have ridden! In the Commons Deputies there are Merchants, Artists, Men of Letters; three hundred and seventy-four Lawyers; (Bouille, ... ...he pavement, scattering it with his blood and brains!—Allelew! Wilder than Irish wakes, rises the howl: of pity; of infinite revenge. In few moments, ... ...n; Roman triumphs and ovations, Cabiric cymbal-beatings, Royal progresses, Irish funerals: but this of the French Monarchy marching to its bed remaine... ... payment of that,—is decreed: the first of a long series of like financial performances, which shall astonish mankind. So that now, while old rags las... ...rethren will fly to meet and welcome. Now, therefore, judge if our Patriot Artists are busy; taking deep counsel how to make the Scene worthy of a loo... ...n accord, unhired.—And yet we will remark that premeditation itself is not performance, is not surety of performance; that it is perhaps, at most, sur... ...ey-species. Man-midwives, as Levasseur of the Sarthe, are not wanting. Nor Artists: gross David, with the swoln cheek, has long painted, with genius i... ... short is it of the thing pitied! A Confessor has come; Abbe Edgeworth, of Irish extraction, whom the King knew by good report, has come promptly on t...

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...away, and one very handsome and courteous and graceful one, a curly haired Irish setter by the name of Robin Adair, who was a Presbyte rian like me, ... ...and sickness, this unequaled char acteristic may always been seen, in the performance of the most charitable acts; nothing that she can do to promote... ...st imagined. Ac cordingly he made himself sentinel, immediately after the performance of the evening—retained his position appar ently in defiance o... ... other. He was a perfect pet. And he was always a favorite with his fellow artists, and was a conspicuous member of their benevolent secret society, c... ...cious ness of the old farmer are perfectly simulated, and the result is a performance which is thoroughly charming and delicious. This is art—and fin... ...ous instructions. The ink war ranted to be the kind used by the very best artists. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories 190 A MONUMENT TO ADAM SOME...

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...pass lightly, without call to linger: for as yet events are not, much less performances. Time of sunniest stillness;—shall we call it, what all men th... ...n Astolpho could have ridden! In the Commons Deputies there are Merchants, Artists, Men of Letters; three hundred and seventy-four Lawyers; (Bouille, ... ... pave- ment, scattering it with his blood and brains!—Allelew! Wilder than Irish wakes, rises the howl: of pity; of infinite revenge. In few moments, ... ... Ro- man triumphs and ovations, Cabiric cymbal-beatings, Royal progresses, Irish funerals: but this of the French Monarchy marching to its bed remaine...

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...er in business! But it seems to me that I can see it everywhere. Most jokes have a power punch line. Whether the butt of the joke is a Jew, an Irishm... .... When a person finds meaning in life, or searches for meaning, it is a sign of being psychologically healthy and happy. One might look at the artist... ...ou know, many studies have been done on the success of children of divorced parents, the single parent syndrome. There is more chance for poor perfor... ...choose? Maslow quoted Child (21) to back up his thesis that the highest achievers in a ‗human area‘ think similarly. Child found that the best artist... ...ke some basic needs for the love and the esteem of others in order to live alone and quietly meditate on the mysteries of nature. And how many artist... ...ing to. If that doesn‘t happen they must find a new identity by identifying with the roots of their ancestors. Americans find comfort in their Irish,... ...d exploded the ammunition that the Turks had stored there. I experienced the spectacle in English, Greek, French and German as I attended two perfor...

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...do you mean? O.M. It would be personally entitled to the credit of its own performance? Y.M. The engine? Certainly not. O.M. Why not? Y.M. Because its... ...erformance? Y.M. The engine? Certainly not. O.M. Why not? Y.M. Because its performance is not personal. It is the result of the law of construction. I... ... we are mere machines! And machines may not boast, nor feel proud of their performance, nor claim personal merit for it, nor applause and praise. It i... ... his religion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T... ... English, and that answered very well. English and alien poets, statesmen, artists, heroes, battles, plagues, cataclysms, revolutions—we shoveled them... ... but formerly a missionary, gave the mountain its gracious name. He was an Irishman, son of an Irish king—there were thirty What Is Man and Other Ess... ...ock for the chief roles, and one of these is composed of the most renowned artists in the world, with Materna and Alvary in the lead. I suppose a doub... ...WHEN YOU THINK OF IT, that you may list all the celebrated Englishmen, Irishmen, and Scotchmen of modern times, clear back to the first Tudors—a l...

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...ter on parole and in a sense your pupil, every hasty or slovenly or untrue performance, should rise up against you in the court of your own heart and ... ...y, not essen- tially ignoble, and the one human trait to be espied in that performance. You were thinking of the lost chance, the past day; of that wh... ... all ashamed of it. We may pardon it some faults, indeed, on the ground of Irish obstruction– a bitter trial, which it supports with notable good humo... ...he practisers of delightful industries, like gardening; some are students, artists, inventors, or dis- coverers, men lured forward by successive hopes... ...uperiority. I do not know that the advance is much. But Mr. T atler’s best performances were three short papers in which he hit off pretty smartly the... ... that point is one rather of the difference of arts than the difference of artists. Throughout his best and worst, in his highest and most divine imag... ... grave-digging. ‘Na, na,’ said the one, ‘ye’re a’ wrang.’ ‘The English and Irish Churches,’ answered the other, in a tone as if he had made the remark... ...e the remark before, and it had been called in question – ‘The English and Irish Churches have impoverished the country.’ ‘Such are the results of edu...

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...t. I had myself to see Rothschild in Eaton Place this morn- ing, about the Irish loan, of which I have taken three millions: and as I wanted to walk, ... ...oundiaoul nabochlish,” said the French officer, with a curse in the purest Irish. It was lucky I stopped laughing time enough to bid Lanty hold his ha... ... be hot enough work for you ere long.” The honest fellows answered with an Irish cheer. I saw that it affected our prisoner. “Countryman,” said I, “I ... ...ike her husband—stood up with the Austrian ambassador. Besides, the famous artists Baron Gros, David and Nicholas Poussin, and Canova, who was in town... ...e in watching the graceful movements of Miss Julia. * So admirable are the performances of these watches, which will stand in any climate, that I repe... ... the name of Blondel, who, in fact, did all the musical part of the King’s performances; and as for the words, when a king writes verses, we may be su... ...after that famous feat of arms. 306 Thackeray CHAPTER VII. THE END OF THE PERFORMANCE. IN A SHORT TIME the terrible Sir Wilfrid of Ivanhoe had killed... ... the chief phy- sicians, the chief bankers, the chief statesmen, the chief artists and musicians, the chief everything, under the Moorish kings. Thus ... ...ian trumpeters, and the famous Bohemian Minnesingers; with all the leading artists of London, Paris, the Continent, and the rest of Europe. I leave yo...

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...at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. ’Tis well—but, artists! who can paint or write, To draw the naked is your true delight. Th... ...chase what he ne’er can taste? Not for himself he sees, or hears, or eats; Artists must choose his pictures, music, meats; He buys for Topham 45 draw... ...ountrymen may learn to judge from Dryden’s Virgil of the most perfect epic performance. And those parts of Homer which have been published already by ... ... a gorgeous seat, that far out-shone Henley’s gilt tub, 292 or Flecknoe’s Irish throne, 293 Or that where on her Curlls the public pours, 294 All-bou... ..., Cooke, who for some time held constant weekly meetings for these kind of performances. Daily Journal, June 11. A Letter signed Philoscriblerus, on t... ...k iii. 283 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 293 ‘Flecknoe’s Irish throne:’ Richard Flecknoe was an Irish priest, but had laid aside (as... ... P——. Capt. Breval was author of the Confederates, an ingenious dra- matic performance to expose Mr P ., Mr Gay, Dr Arb., and some ladies of quality,’... ...f our nation.—P . 330 ‘Next Smedley dived:’ the person here mentioned, an Irishman, was author and publisher of many scurrilous pieces, a weekly Whit...

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...value—be- sides being impracticable. Yes, indeed. Art has served Religion; artists have found the most exalted inspiration in Christianity; but the li... ... Per- haps in the whole record of human transactions there have never been performances so brazen and so vile as the manifestoes of the German Emperor... ...t belong to me. It may be found in the note-books of one of the great- est artists that ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci. It has a simplicity and a truth... ...ty. A Board of Trade—what is it? A Board of … I believe the Speaker of the Irish Parliament is one of the members of it. A ghost. Less than that; as y...

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...my plain statement of the fundamental constitution of London society as an Irishman’s reproach to your nation. From the day I first set foot on this ... ...12 GB Shaw foreign soil I knew the value of the prosaic qualities of which Irishmen teach Englishmen to be ashamed as well as I knew the vanity of the... ...ell as I knew the vanity of the poetic qualities of which Englishmen teach Irishmen to be proud. For the Irishman instinctively dispar- ages the quali... ... artist-philosopher, and that the artist-philosophers are the only sort of artists I take quite seriously, will be no news to you. Even Plato and Bosw... ...nce, as a boy, I first breathed the air of the transcendental regions at a performance of 23 Man & Superman Mozart’s Zauberflote, I have been proof a...

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...was the sense in which they were Scotch and not English, or Scotch and not Irish? Can a bare name be thus influential on the minds and affections of m... ...have had some disposition to learn; for I clear-sightedly condemned my own performances. I liked doing them indeed; but when they were done, I could s... ...uppose the old man thought so too, and was either touched or amused by the performance; for he took me in his arms with most unwonted tenderness, and ... ...in of the old divine. CHAPTER VIII MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET THOSE WHO TRY to be artists use, time after time, the matter of their recollections, setting an... ...ment, but by slow declension. I remember, in the entr’acte of an afternoon performance, coming forth into the sunshine, in a beautiful green, gardened...