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...” We finished our errands, his to the green-grocer and the baker, and to the music shop for staff paper, and I to the saddlery for new reins and the ... ...ded me out of the little craft. “Welcome,” he said quietly, “to my palace of music.” I looked around in amazement. There was a dining table, set for ... ...ic.” I looked around in amazement. There was a dining table, set for two; a music area with a violin, a piano, a pipe organ, and sheets of music spr... ...d forward, my hair caressing his chest and cheeks as I kissed him. His long musician’s hands stroked my back. “Now, my fancy man,” I purred into his... ...e, Claire. And tonight, that is where I wish to sleep.” I settled into the crook of Erik’s arm, my face against his cloaked shoulder. “Thank you f... ...th love. I sat next to Erik on the carriage’s leather seat, nestled in the crook of his arm, and sighed with contentment. “My love,” he whispered, ... ...overlet and curled up on the chaise longue, with her new cat purring in the crook of her knees. My wife. I cannot help but wonder whether I will eve... ...tite. Now, she is asleep on the chaise longue, her tabby cat curled in the crook of her knees. I find myself angry at her illness, of all things. N... ...ht.” “Only if you stay with me.” “I shall,” I promised, and settled into the crook of his arm. I awoke again some time later. Erik’s even breathing t...

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...certainty. The certitude I offer you throughout our game. Sometimes I even venture: "I am a crook to be avoided". You listen with your occidental ma... ...eputation was cemented by this nocturnal recital. We didn't understand a word he said, his music fell on arid ears. My mother beseeched him softly,... ...w me." We climbed down to the dormitories of the fresh initiates. He mutely pointed at the crooked berths, the metal chests, the hanging hair shirts... ... I said to Nomi: "Why don't you approach the organisers? Tell them that you have composed music to some of his poems and that you are willing to p... ...ed the womaniser's tensile, proud, virility. He dyed his hair jet black. Original Moroccan music, wistful and lusty, the desert's guttural refrain,... .... "Whose is it, do we know?" – my grandpa probed at last. My father snuffed the ornamental music and shrugged uncertainly. My grandpa rubbed his re... ...randpa, his eyes still shut, waving a steady hand in the general direction of the decimated music – "Just salvage our dignity and hers." The next d...

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... impossi ble now, at least till night time; he could not go back now to the music sung by the decanter women; so he must forget himself in the dream ... ... to work; why they were visited by those professors of French literature, of music, of drawing, of dancing; why at certain hours all the three young l... ...iftly lightly, and rhythmically moving over the slippery floor in time to the music. “It’s a rest to waltz with you,” he said to her, as they fell into... ...e had only just put his arm round her waist and taken the first step when the music suddenly stopped. Kitty looked into his face, which was so close to... ...he married parties, desertion without communication for five years,” he said, crooking a short finger covered with hair, “adultery” (this word he pronou... ...r 5 351 with obvious satisfaction), “subdivided as follows” (he continued to crook his fat fingers, though the three cases and their subdivisions could... ...cannot be ashamed of your act.” Alexey Alexandrovitch knitted his brows, and crooking his hands, he cracked his fingers. “One must know all the facts,”... ...ng better could be imagined. In the first place, she’s charming!” said Kitty, crooking one of her fingers. “He thinks her very attractive, that’s certai... ...looked so much less important now, bent and dry and bloodstained, with heads crooked aside, than they did when they were flying. The number was verified...

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...e community...never mentioning that our fleet was rotted! Presently, the musicians and dancers wandered among us and the party went on. After many ... ...led, laughed, then sprawled over the fur cov- ering of his bed. While the music filtered in to us, I cushioned him in my lap and wiped the perspira... ...ntaining the song. It must be graceful, strong, so that the words and the music can flow... The wings of the swans have drawn you toward the dark ... ...ls bared their breasts and arms to the light. Men clapped in unison. The music sped up and the faster pace widened our circle of dancers. Our bare ... ...: “the convivialists,” Serfo has named it. To help pamper Gyrinno, we had musicians in the courtyard. The air was so warm, so languid, nobody wished... ...ttle valleys, right to her door, a hut of rocks and straw, her shepherd’s crook beside the door. Kleis is so unlike my Kleis. She seems able to spe...

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................................................................. 33 TWILIGHT MUSIC ........................................................................ ..., Chillanwallah! Where our brothers fought and bled, O thy name is natural music And a dirge above the dead! Though we have not been defeated, Though ... ... thine, Such heart is mine, O thou of mortal visions most divine! TWILIGHT MUSIC Know you the low pervading breeze That softly sings In the trembling ... ...ice! How keenly I rejoice When in me with sweet motions slow The spiritual music ebbs and moans – Lives in the lustre of those heavenly eyes, Dies in ... ...d! Well, that’s not enough; they must push her downstairs, T o make her go crooked: but why count the list? If it’s right to suppose that our human a... ...utors the torrent-brook, Delaying its forceful spleen With many a wind and crook Through rock to the broad ravine. By the hyacinth-bells in the brakes... ...deem of minds of men they grow! these sheep, By fits wild horses, need the crook and rein; Hot bulls by fits, pure wisdom hold they cheap, My Lawgiver... ...r ripeness at play, Rosiness fondles and feeds, Guides it with shepherding crook, T o her sports and her pastures alway. Not she gives the tear for th... ...over ripeness at play, Rosiness fondle and feed, Guide it with shepherding crook T o my sports and my pastures alway. The key will shriek in the lock,...

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... two men coming out resist them, and cast them forth again with their feet; this done, one of the two locks the door with a goodly key, and the other ... ...or Canon, fair and rosy, and perpetually pitching himself head-foremost into all the deep running water in the surrounding country; Mr. Crisparkle, Mi... ...ay have had its influence in forming his manner. It is mostly in shadow. Even when the sun shines brilliantly, it seldom touches the grand piano in t... ...a mere daub; but it is clear that the painter has made it humorously – one might almost say, revengefully – like the original.) ‘We shall miss you, Ja... ...een (have you seen, have you seen, have you seen) my-y-y Flo-o-ora-a pass this way!”’ Melodiously good Minor Canon the Reverend Septimus Crisparkle th... ...the left as you go down the broken steps of the little underground chapel as formerly was; I make him out (so fur as I’ve made him out yet) to be one ... ...made him out yet) to be one of them old ‘uns with a crook. To judge from the size of the passages in the walls, and of the steps and doors, by which t...

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...e so poor!” and again he gave that disagreeable grin, and placed an odious crook-nailed and by no means clean finger to his nose. But I was not so afr... ...ogether. Well, sir, I—Mary of Scotland knew me but as a little hunchbacked music master; and yet, and yet, I think she was not indifferent to her Davi... ...- losophy.’ More and more the light peeps through the chinks. Soon, amidst music ravishing, the curtain will rise, and the glo- rious scene be display...

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...orable field, Pure passions, virtue, knowledge, and delight, The holy life of music and of verse. Thus far, O friend, did I, not used to make 55 A pres... ... 280 Near my ’sweet Birthplace’, didst thou, beauteous Stream Make ceaseless music through the night and day Which with its steady cadence, tempering ... ...’d the clouds! The mind of Man is fram’d even like the breath And harmony of music. There is a dark 355 Invisible workmanship that reconciles Discorda... ...ain of Windermere With rival oars, and the selected bourne Was now an Island musical with birds 60 That sang for ever; now a Sister Isle Beneath the o... ...could have made My dwelling place, and liv’d for ever there 135 To hear such music. Through the Walls we flew 24 The Prelude of 1805 And down the vall... ... each and all Must in their turn lend ornament and flowers 565 To entwine the crook of eloquence with which This pretty shepherd, pride of all the plai... .... Our shepherds (this say merely) at that time Thirsted to make the guardian crook of law 650 A tool of murder. They who ruled the state, Though with ...

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...se family belonged to Steerage No. 4 and 5, and who, wherever he went, was like a strain of music round the ship. He was an ugly, merry, unbreeched ch... ...on the brass and the beautiful sea-cry, ‘All’s well!’ I know nothing, whether for poetry or music, that can surpass the effect of these two syllables ... ...fficult to keep ones footing on the deck. I have spoken of our con- certs. We were indeed a musical ship’s company, and cheered our way into exile wit... ...ceedings; and once we sought in vain to dance a quadrille, eight men of us together, to the music of the violin. The performers were all humorous, fri... ... songs were appropriate to the scene; others strikingly the reverse. Bastard doggrel of the music-hall, such as, ‘Around her splendid form, I weaved t... ...lump into a cave among the rocks, and find yourself face to face with a wild boar, or see a crooked viper slither across the road. Perhaps you may set... ...not meet again, she said; it was a long farewell, and she was sorry. But life is so full of crooks, old lady, that who knows? I have said good-bye to ...

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...xcept to a measure and cadence. So Queen Medea slew her children to a slow music: and King Agamemnon perished in a dying fall (to use Mr. Dryden’s wor... ...nto the gallery, giving an arm to his lady. They passed thence through the music-gallery, long since dismantled, and Queen Elizabeth’s Rooms, in the c... ...ned part of his house; where were the morning parlors, above them the long music-gallery, and before which stretched the garden-terrace, where, how- e... ...King James the First’s time, always took her side; and so did old Mistress Crookshank, Bishop Crookshank’s daughter, of 71 Thackeray Hexton, who, wit... ...h so longed after!—because they are out of 93 Thackeray reach; as holiday music from withinside a prison wall—or sun- shine seen through the bars; mo... ...ot make any very long face. “The money will come very handy to furnish the music-room and the cellar, which is getting low, and buy your ladyship a co... ...: and presently you hear that Chloe is crying, and Strephon has broken his crook across her back. Can you mend it so as to show no marks of rupture? N...

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...ntrast with the martial simplicity of his own attire. They were armed with crooked sabres, having the hilt and baldric inlaid with gold, and matched w... ... riders. As the procession entered the lists, the sound of a wild Barbaric music was heard from behind the tents of the challengers, where the perform... ... lances! stand forth gallant knights, fair eyes look upon your deeds!” The music also of the challengers breathed from time to time wild bursts expres... ... over- thrown two knights, and foiled a third. At length, as the Saracenic music of the challengers con- cluded one of those long and high flourishes ... ...ter, sometimes broken by screams, and sometimes by wild strains of distant music. All these sounds, intimating the disorderly state of the town, crowd... ...to their temporary sovereign. No sooner was Rowena seated, than a burst of music, half- drowned by the shouts of the multitude, greeted her new dignit... ... to the chaplain for an exposi- 226 Ivanhoe tion of its contents. “By the crook of St Dunstan,” said that worthy ecclesiastic, “which hath brought mo... ...ecclesiastic, “which hath brought more sheep within the sheepfold than the crook of e’er another saint in Paradise, I swear that I can- not expound un... ...avy halberd to play around his head as a shepherd boy flourishes his light crook. “T rue, Holy Clerk,” said the Black Knight, “true as if Saint Dunsta...

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...e young girl for exhaustion and brutally blistered feet. Then by hook and by crook to Hamburg they must, no trains, no buses, no planes, but from sout... ...focus and desire, all that's needed is motivation and a heart truly on fire. Music and art stimulate and please, tapping the keys of flute and clarin... ...ea, easy to talk to, frank and honest, a woman of many talents, professional musician, then a nurse, retraining again when married and two children ap...

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...ith inkpot and with rod Endowed you, bade your fortune lead Forever by the crooks of Tweed, Forever by the woods of song And lands that to the Muse be... ...rth from thy dreamland thou, a dreamer, cam’st And in thine ears the olden music rang, And in thy mind the doings of the dead, And those heroic ages l... ...leep Toss gaping on the pillows. But O thou! Uprise and take thy pipe. Bid music flow, Strains by good thoughts attended, like the spring The swallows... ...ing, a being Trod the flowery April blithely for a while, Took his fill of music, joy of thought and seeing, Came and stayed and went, nor ever ceased... ...; An’ there the auld housie beeks an’ dozes, A ’ by her lane. The gairdner crooks his weary back A ’ day in the pitaty-track, Or mebbe stops awhile to...

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...whirl, sun-satiated, Athirst for shade, they sigh, they wed, They play the music made of two: Oldest of earth, earth’s youngest till earth’s end: Cunn... ... he has choice. Perchance his wound is deep; she listens long; Enjoys what music fills the plaintive song; And marks how he, who would be hawk at pois... ...varied strings. ’Tis taught him how for touch of mournful verse Rarely the music made of two ascends, And Beauty’s Queen some other way is won. Or it ... ...e fills, with laugh at shallow laws Forbidding love’s devised embrace, The music Beauty from it draws. Poem: A Reading of Life—The Test Of Manhood Lik... ... of Life A peak, a forest mound, a valley’s gleam Of grass and the river’s crooks and snaky coils, Signification marvellous she caught, Through gurgli... ...nor ever squandered force. Is battle nature’s mandate, here it reigned, As music unto the hand that smote the strings; And she the rosier from their s...

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...hou canst find out Sneak’s noise; Mistress Tearsheet would fain hear some music. Dispatch: the room where they supped is too hot; they’ll come in str... ...y heart: an thou dost, I’ll canvass thee between a pair of sheets. [Enter Music.] Page: The music is come, sir. FALSTAFF: Let them play. Play, sirs... ... dozen captains stay at door for you. FALSTAFF: [ To the Page ] Pay the musicians, sirrah. Farewell, hostess; farewell, Doll. You see, my good wen... ... made, my gentle friends; Unless some dull and favorable hand Will whisper music to my weary spirit. WARWICK: Call for the music in the other room. K... ...hat ever I shall breathe. God knows, my son, By what by paths and indirect crook’d ways I met this crown; and I myself know well How troublesome it sa... ...vil swords and native fire As far as France: I beard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king. Come, will you hence? [Exeunt.] EP...

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... for the most part, and, the anthem being rather long, was asleep. But the music ceasing, my lord woke up, looking about him, and his eyes lighting on... ... eyes.) “I admire your art: the murder of the campaign is done to military music, like a battle at the opera, and the virgins shriek in harmony, as ou... ...ne;—the cho- rus occupying the stage and singing of the action to pathetic music. Something of this I attempt, my dear sir, in my humble way: ’tis a p... ...ds down, and remember them, but how describe her sweet tones, sweeter than music! My young lord did not come home at the end of the cam- paign, and wr... ...shepherds and shep- herdesses, you know.” “A shepherd should have a little crook,” says my mistress, laughing from her end of the table: on which Mrs....

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... the mel ancholy assembly were seated on the deck, which was strewed with musical instruments, and the wreck of furniture and other articles. ‘Here a... ...t tide overthrows, that it is cu rious to consider how their play, to the music of the sea, foreshadows the realities of their after lives. It is cur... ... tic sports; lotteries for toys; roundabouts, dancing on the grass to the music of an admirable band, fire balloons and fireworks. Further, almost ev... ... the crisp wave tops as they break and roll towards me—a picture with such music in the bil lowy rush upon the shingle, the blowing of morning wind t... ...ready for you, your news room, dining room, smoking room, bil liard room, music room, public breakfast, public dinner twice a day (one plain, one gor... ...er my shoulder at the lights upon the bridge, and down ward at their long crooked reflections in the river. ‘Very,’ said I, ‘and make one think with ... ...bend herself a hair’s breadth this way or that way, out of her natu rally crooked shape. But, she was very potent in her wicked art. She could stop t... ...nd white teeth, and the insolence of his crisp tail curled like a pastoral crook, all live and flourish. From an otherwise unaccount able association...

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...ad been poured into the cups. So all day long worshipped they the god with music, singing the beautiful paean, the sons of the Achaians making music t... ...of Homer good thing; let there be one master, one king, to whom the son of crooked counselling Kronos hath granted it, [even the sceptre and judgments... ...her with them, the god who revealed him made of him a sign; for the son of crooked counselling Kronos turned him to stone, and we stood by and marvell... ...fect; for I also am a god, and my lineage is even as thine, and Kronos the crooked counsellor begat me to the place of honour in double wise, by birth... ...; and from Olympus’ heights she darted down. Even as the son of Kronos the crooked counsellor sendeth a star, a por tent for mariners or a wide host ... ...ing across the plain, overthrowing battalions before him, anon he bent his crooked bow against T ydeides, and smote him as he sped onwards, hitting ha... ...eet fruit in plaited baskets. And in the midst of them a boy made pleasant music on a clear toned viol, and sang thereto a sweet Linos song [probably... ... cate voice; while the rest with feet falling together kept time with the music and song. Also he wrought therein a herd of kine with upright horns, ...

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... contemporary as “a little man with legs too short for his body. He walked crookedly; he was clumsy, ill-dressed, and rather ridiculous-looking, with ... ...he stage during the closing act of a piece, even though, with arms sharply crooked and legs slightly bent, the said billiard players were taking the m... ...ting dogs; another man’s may be that of believing himself to be a lover of music, and able to sound the art to its inmost depths; another’s may be tha... ... to indite the letter in charac- 137 Gogol ters as bold as the notes of a music score, while momen- tarily checking the speed of his hand, lest it sh... ...t intervals, and strike the kind of attitude which is assumed by lovers of music when a lady singer has, in rivalry of an accompanying violin, produce... ...er neighbour. Yes, we all know why bribes are accepted, and why men become crooked in soul. It is all done to provide wives—yes, may the pit swallow t... ...ectitude, and were allowed to re- enter the Service; but not by hook or by crook could Chichikov worm his way back, even though, incited thereto by su... ... the winged population of the air as from earth and sky alike the manifold music of winged creatures combined in a single harmonious chorus. In the ry... ...s. Millions are easily come by, for a millionaire has no need to resort to crooked ways; the way lies straight before him, and he needs but to annex w...

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... that stimulates the brain. Or another possibility is that different people react differently to aggression. On another track, when classical music ... ... us in business, but not as bad as what you must have felt. After all, we all expect the clergy to be saintly, but in business we expect some crooks... ...s photos can indicate anti-social feelings. 60 ―The popular male music ... ... more about the most effective techniques of love-making, or should we say ‗sexing?‘ We find romantic love as the central theme of the arts, music,... ...goals of self fulfillment for our individual citizens. We make pleasant and productive use of our leisure time. We read, we exercise, we play musica... ... either working on a college degree or are taking classes that help them to enjoy life more. Classes in philosophy and history, in art and in music,...

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...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... ...drab shoes, and beautiful snowy air. All the old women had peaked ats, and crooked cains, and chince gowns tucked into the pockits of their quiltid pe... ...et. Parvy Newcome really looked like a gentleman, and though corpulent and crooked, Schneider had managed to give him, &c. Don’t you see what a stroke... ... discovered the Christino Lance twisted up like a fish-hook, or a pastoral crook. “Ha! ha! ha!” said Cabrera (who is a notorious wag). “V aldepenas ma... ...e, was as great a contrast to her attendants as could possibly be: she was crooked, old, of the complexion of molasses, and rendered a thousand times ... ...lvet, it only draws the more attention to his legs, which are disgustingly crooked and bandy. A rose-colored hat, with towering pea- green ostrich-plu...

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... his inches were few; while in Pope, both bodily and mentally, there lay a crooked, waspish, and petty nature. His form too faithfully reflected his c... ...etical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 ful terrier. To obtain a terse and musical expression for his thought is his artistic purpose, but that of his... ...ngth, their intricate but in- tense sweetness, their varied and voluminous music, their linked chains of lightning, and feel the difference between th... ... poem suggests the wish that more of our critics would write in verse. The music might lessen the malice, and set off the commonplace to advan- tage, ... ...ial for the theme. It is a tale of intrigue, murder, and suicide, set to a musical snuff-box! His “Rape of the Lock” we have already characterised. It... ...me too frequently, ver. 105, &c. A word or two of false taste in books, in music, in painting, even in preaching and prayer, and lastly in entertainme... ...n grain O’ercharge the shoulders of the seeming swain: Oft o’er his back a crooked scythe is laid, And wreaths of hay his sunburnt temples shade: Oft ... ... Alike disdain with servile necks to bear Th’ unwonted weight, or drag the crooked share, But rend the reins, and bound a different way, And all the f... ...apacity obtained him the name of Vulture Hopkins.—P . 29 ‘Japhet:’ Japhet Crook, alias Sir Peter Stranger, was pun- ished with the loss of those part...

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...wn that both Gothic and Icelandic present traces of Finnish influence. The musical element of a language, the vowels, are well developed in Finnish, a... ...of ruler he was assisted by his wife, a hideous, horrible, old witch with “crooked, copper fingers iron pointed,” with deformed head and distorted fea... ... forests, Oft have sung me lays n concord Waves of sea, and ocean billows, Music from the many waters, Music from the whole creation, Oft have been my... ...e happy Wainamoinen, Sits upon the rock of gladness, Joyful on the rock of music, Sings a little, sings and ceases, Sings again, and sings a third tim... ...n the rock of sorrow, Sat alone in cold and darkness, Listened only to the music Of the winds and rolling billows, Singing all the dirge of Aino. All ... ...he evening of the third day, Evil Hisi grasps the hatchet, Lempo takes the crooked handle, T urns aside the axe in falling, Strikes the rocks and brea... ...ys homeward, Hastens to his golden portals, Head awry and visage wrinkled, Crooked cap upon his forehead, Since as ransom he had promised Ilmarinen, m... ...ulded on a rock in water, Through the many days of summer. Mana’s son with crooked fingers, Iron pointed, copper fingers, 168 The Kalevala Pulls of n... ...h as wide as seven streamlets, Tongue as long as seven javelins, Like five crooked scythes his talons; Swoops upon the pike of Mana. Quick the giant f...

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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 ... ... itself fatuously by the forcible in- cantations of Mr. Stead or Professor Crookes is scarcely worth having. Can you imagine anything more squalid tha... ...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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...xcept to a measure and cadence. So Queen Medea slew her children to a slow music: and King Agamemnon perished in a dying fall (to use Mr. Dryden’s wor... ...nto the gallery, giving an arm to his lady. They passed thence through the music-gallery, long since dismantled, and Queen Elizabeth’s Rooms, in the c... ...ned part of his house; where were the morning parlors, above them the long music-gallery, and before which stretched the garden-terrace, where, how- e... ...King James the First’s time, always took her side; and so did old Mistress Crookshank, Bishop Crookshank’s daughter, of 73 Thackeray Hexton, who, wit... ...h so longed after!—because they are out of 95 Thackeray reach; as holiday music from withinside a prison wall—or sun- shine seen through the bars; mo... ...ot make any very long face. “The money will come very handy to furnish the music-room and the cellar, which is getting low, and buy your ladyship a co... ...: and presently you hear that Chloe is crying, and Strephon has broken his crook across her back. Can you mend it so as to show no marks of rupture? N... ...shepherds and shep- herdesses, you know.” “A shepherd should have a little crook,” says my mistress, laughing from her end of the table: on which Mrs....

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...oying in his friend’s suc- cesses; his laugh still ready but with kindlier music; and over all his thoughts the shadow of that unalterable law which h... ...nt outdoor crafts and occupations, whether Mr. Hardy wields the shepherd’s crook or Count T olstoi swings the scythe, lift romance into a near neighbo... ... Stevenson CHAPTER VII THE MANSE I HAVE NAMED, among many rivers that make music in my memory, that dirty Water of Leith. Often and often I desire to ... ...e steamer lay at her moorings. All day long there hung about the place the music of chinking tools; and even in the dead of night, the watchman carrie... ...le rags, would get his fiddle down and strike up human minstrelsy amid the music of the storm. But it was in sunshine only that I saw Dhu-Heartach; an... ...ecret pretensions, and give themselves out for the he- roes, brave, pious, musical and wise, that in their most shin- ing moments they aspire to be. S... ...re than I can guess. When I knew him he was all fallen away and fallen in; crooked and shrunken; buckled into a stiff waistcoat for support; troubled ... ...ok up the song – “‘Are these the links of Forth, she said; Or are they the crooks of Dee, Or the bonny woods of Warroch Head That I so fain would see?...