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...on of Reptilian Bird Culture into Living Humans Cultures Pg 1736 The evil of Music Pg 1737 Human Enlightenment: Carrol and Stevenson Pg 1752 Bob... ...ines of mammals contain 24 vertebrae. This is why there are twelve notes on a musical scale. This is also why there are twelve meridians of the h... ...roperties of both waves and particles. This is why the main vibration of any musical note exists only as a whole, a half, and a third. This is why... ...grips with some previously non-experienced part of their cultural past. Take Germany and its flawed attempt to bury its recent past. Now German ch... ...en mostly whitewashed and deleted from their history books. Now: enlightened Germans are forced to re-experience a painful part of their cultural pa... ...size. So; three round rocks, equals three round eggs. Which is crazy. In a German Concentration camp: the difference between having three eggs as ... ...g in a business culture are not really a cultural force. Actors, and Symphony Conductors and singers becoming millionaires off the sale of mass tick...

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...echnology had taken over most of the work of the stoop labor farmers, the conductors on busses, and many of the jobs of the building trades. Increas... ...ualified and justified reason. We are charitable, but not stupid! Look at Germany where two-thirds of the men have retired before the legal age throu... ...y where you fear the reduction of your Anglo population. The Britons, the Germans, the French, the Chinese all espouse the wish to keep their populat... ...e to ascertain if they have special talents, particularly in mathematics, music, the arts, sports, language facility. This helps the parents to help... ...ndia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Latvia, Norway, Finland, Liberia, Mozambique, Germany, Ireland, UK, Argentina and the Philippines. Only Saudi Arabia and... ... television and films, and participation in things like sport and art and music. But not just watching people sing, act or play, we think it‟s a was... ...st achievement in a society. The same is true for actors and many popular musicians. But it also holds for many in business or in government. Fame s...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It was Sunday, and, according to his custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors? coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his...

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...m on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors’ coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, u... ...ly collected a clientele of butcher boys, shop girls, drug clerks, and car conductors. He made but few acquain- tances. Polk Street called him the “Do... ...di- rection, met and mingled with other toilers of a different description—conductors and “swing men” of the cable company going on duty; heavy-eyed n... ...e but two play- ers. Somewhere in another part of the building a mam- moth music-box was jangling out a quickstep. From out- side came the long, rhyth... ... other. McTeague kept silence. The two billiard players departed. The huge music-box struck into a fresh tune. “Huh!” exclaimed Marcus, with a short l... ... with a pink face and wonderful hair, absolutely white. The Sieppes were a German-Swiss family. “We go to der park, Schuetzen Park, mit alle dem child... ...re by the orchestra, after which came “The Gleasons, in their mirth-moving musical farce, entitled ‘McMonnigal’s Court-ship.’” This was to be followed... ...age. They were dressed in Tyrolese costume; they were yodlers, and sang in German about “mountain tops” and “bold hunters” and the like. The yodling c... ...ign. It costs too much; I can’t get it yet a while. There’s two kinds, one German gilt and the other French gilt; but the German gilt is no good.” McT...

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...rate-souled young man named Grubb, with a black-smeared face by day, and a music-hall side in the evening, who dreamt of a patent lever chain; and it ... ...t great boom in aeronautics was beginning. Grubb and Bert heard of it in a music-hall, then it was driven home to their minds by the cinematograph, th... ...’t only us neither. There’s the Japanese; you bet they got, it too—and the Germans!” The soldier stood with his legs very wide apart, and filled his p... ...a leading hotel in Piccadilly, in which he tried to horse-whip a prominent German musician upon some personal account, delayed his promised ascent. Th... ...ng hotel in Piccadilly, in which he tried to horse-whip a prominent German musician upon some personal account, delayed his promised ascent. The quarr... ...!” This speech it was that particularly impressed Bert Smallways. “If them Germans or them Americans get hold of this,” he said impressively to his br... ...e- work a mast from which the Vaterland’s electricians might hang the long conductors of the apparatus for wireless teleg- 151 H G Wells raphy that w...

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... Mr. Harris was in sympathy with me in this. He was as much of an enthusiast in art as I was, and not less anxious to learn to paint. I desired to lea... ...ed were named for it. This is good evidence that Frankfort was the first place it occurred at. Frankfort has another distinction—it is the birthplace ... ...orms of the soldiers, they were new- ness and brightness carried to perfection. One could never detect a smirch or a grain of dust upon them. The stre... ...anslation by meddling with its English; for the most tooth- 5 A Tramp Abroad some thing about it is its quaint fashion of building English sentences ... ...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... ... the conductor, and he took two. Then he went and got his tariff card and showed me that he had taken only the right sum. So I made a note—Italian omn...

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...g person to be sought in marriage that she can give an account of the last German theory of Pessimism.” That is possible; and I have never concealed f... ... was only reassured by seeing a Bible in every room. When we came down our musical hostess expressed no hope that the rooms had pleased us, and seemed... ...o question of the Queen over here, of course, and American no doubt is the music of the future. Poor dear future, how “expressive” you’ll be! For wome... ...e, considerable; but there is usually much to inquire into by the way. The conductors of the trains, with whom I freely converse, are often men of vig... ...ot beautiful. You may say that they are as beautiful as the French, as the Germans; but I can’t agree with you there. The French, the Ger- mans, have ...

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.... He had no profession: he earned nothing. But he talked of literature and music, he had a passion for old folk-music, collecting folk-songs and folk-... ... his life there, as a sort of epicurean hermit. He loved the past, the old music and dances and customs of old England. He would try and live in the s... ...rt as himself, tampering with the arts, litera- ture, painting, sculpture, music. He was not bored. Three pounds a week, however, would not pay for al... ...n be aggressive on the score of its rosiness. No, he had no desire to defy Germany and to exalt En- gland. The distinction between German and English ... ...ost the same. And Godfrey Marshall had the world to reckon with. There was German military aggression, and the English non-mili- tary idea of liberty ... ...refused to reckon with the world. He just re- fused even to decide between German militarism and Brit- ish industrialism. He chose neither. As for atr... ...ndal about John Tho- mas in half a dozen villages. He flirts with the girl conductors in the morning, and walks out with them in the dark night, when ...

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... little matters of detail never troubled him much. His teaching was as the German philosophy calls it, ‘subjective’; it was to benefit himself, not ot... ... you wanted to draw anything out of it. In a word, he was a learned miser. Germany has not a few professors of this sort. To his misfortune, my uncle ... ...ung sprays through the window panes. My uncle was tolerably well off for a German professor. The house was his own, and everything in it. The living c... ...ot open the door. But how was I to resist the sweet voice which was always music to my ears, saying, “My dear Axel?” I came out of my room. I thought ... ..., that this chimney of an extinct volcano, lined with lavas, which are non-conductors of heat, did not suffer the heat to pass through its walls. But ... ...hemselves into balls of living fire which explode like bombshells, but the music of which scarcely-adds to the din of the battle strife that almost de...

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..., where a single false note, a single word in a wrong key, ruins the whole music; and, secondly, I desire him to consider the utter sterility of unive... ... so much in request among us. It ruled us and swayed us as mysteriously as music. Our younger nurse, whom we all loved, would sometimes, according to ... ...-sustained. These visions needed not that any sound should speak to me, or music mould my feelings. The hint from the litany, the fragment from the cl... ...s by the alliance with the ancient phantom of the forest mountain in North Germany. The playfulness of the scene is the very evoker of the solemn reme... ...dealizes.] Ascend with me on this dazzling Whitsunday the Brocken of North Germany. The dawn opened in cloudless beauty; it is a dawn of bridal June; ... ...to its departure. 9 “Everlasting Jew.”—Der ewige Jude—which is the common German expression for “The Wandering Jew,” and sublimer even than our own. ... ...gion of fear—towards the grim Moloch of the scene. Hence, as by electrical conductors, was conveyed throughout every region of the establishment a tre...

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...has passed, and where it has been most favourably noticed by the respected conductors of the public Press, and by the No- bility and Gentry. He is pro... ...l sweetness of temper has charmed her aged and her youthful companions. In music, in dancing, in orthography, in every variety of em- broidery and nee... ...ore, of the means of study the place offered her; and as she was already a musician and a good linguist, she speedily went through the little course o... ...urse of study which was considered necessary for ladies in those days. Her music she practised incessantly, and one day, when the girls were out, and ... ...t Miss Pinkerton’s academy “The very name,” George said. “Her father was a German Jew—a slave-owner they say—connected with the Cannibal 200 V anity ... ...y handle them. To use a cue at billiards well is like using a pencil, or a German flute, or a small-sword—you cannot master any one of these implement... ...re—qui brenoit des sangviches dans la voiture,” said the courier in a fine German French. Kirsch emerging presently from the neighbourhood of the hold...

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...ears, in a street which now bears his name, and gained a living by copying music. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, the author of ‘Paul and Virginia’, who be... ...ncle became the husband of my aunt, and their children were doubly cousins german. Before a year was ex- pired, both had the happiness to become fathe... ...t he suddenly disappeared, and we learned some time af- ter that he was in Germany, but he never wrote to us, and from that day we heard no news of hi... ...e of that time, escaped my memory. Though my taste, or rather passion, for music, did not show itself until a considerable time after, I am fully per-... ...m de Warrens: I had been so indiscreet as to di- vulge this secret, and my conductors had taken care to profit by it. Madam Sabran found means to depr... ...ry accouterment; I fol- lowed processions, and was pleased with the solemn music of the priests; I next went to see the king’s palace, which I approac... ...ough 146 The Confessions he had experienced inconceivable difficulties in Germany; for not understanding a word of German, Latin, or French, he had b... ... being patient, holding my tongue, and suffering myself to be driven as my conductors thought proper. I had sufficient matter of reflection to prevent...

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...c. Such are the jokes and the basis of conversation between postilions and conductors on the roofs of the coaches. Each profession, each calling in Fr... ...a, in spite of the atomic science with which they arrange those zigzags of German alliances. For a long time the Minorets occupied the tanneries, the ... ...of course, the poor working Massins—just as Aus- tria and Prussia take the German princes into their service. It may happen that a public office is ma... ...s a daughter of the famous harp- sichordist Valentin Mirouet, a celebrated musician, frail and delicate, whom the Revolution slew. Minoret knew Robesp... ...t at the Italian opera under a feigned name, ran away with a young lady in Germany. The dying father commended the young man, who was really full of t... ...Ham- burg, where he married the daughter of a bourgeois, a girl devoted to music, who fell in love with the singer (whose fame was ever prospective) a... ...ched ex- istence before Joseph Mirouet reached the point of enlisting as a musician in a French regiment. In 1813 the surgeon- major of the regiment, ... ...ting good wages, Cabirolle,” said the post master to the son of one of his conductors, who stood by the horses; “for it is to be supposed an old man o...

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...hed as rear- guard. Sharp-eye, I soon had occasion to remark, had a skil- ful and quite professional way of opening doors—touched latches delicately, ... ...Well!’ says Mr. Superintendent, laying his hand on the shoulder of the swarthy youth, ‘and who’s this?’ ‘Antonio, sir.’ ‘And what does he do here?’ ‘C... ... Millennium, while any of the uncomfortable su- perstitions I have glanced at remain in existence. CHAPTER VII TRAVELLING ABROAD I GOT INTO the trave... ...emed to be that the former were locomotive and the latter not): my back windows looking at all the other back windows in the hotel, and deep down into... ...t, send it into the dark against its will, leave it in a lonely bedroom against its will, and you had better murder it. On a bright morning I rattled ... ...etimes hooked on before the post- horses, and I went lumbering up, up, up, through mist and The Uncommercial Traveller 69 rain, with the roar of fall... ...entiveness would seem to indicate that be- fore very long white-lead may be made entirely by machin- ery. The sooner, the better. In the meantime, I p...

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...beyond the “barriere.” The occupants of the “hen-roost” (the name given by conductors to this section of their vehicles) were made to get down outside... ...very different. Englishmen pique them- selves on never opening their lips; Germans are melancholy in a vehicle; Italians too wary to talk; Spaniards h... ... no matter where, was his sole ambition. Though Frederic Marest was cousin-german to Georges Marest, the latter not having told his surname in Pierrot... ...ustrious sister of our head-clerk and leading lady of the Royal Academy of music and dancing, having obligingly put at the disposition of this Practic...

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...llery towards the tribune of the chapel. In the first place there was some music; then tables were placed all about for all kinds of gambling; there w... ...shed his courtiers to attend assiduously. This evening, directly after the music had finished, the King sent for Monseigneur and Monsieur, who were al... ... in the streets the coach of Madame de Bouillon, which the servants of the German woman forced to give way to their mistress’s. The Bouillons, piqued ... ...mself in the matter. She was so outraged, that she resolved to retire into Germany, and in a very few months did so. My year of service in the Muskete... ...aint-Simon to Versailles, and sent off a large detachment of the army into Germany. The surprise of the Marechal de Luxembourg was without bounds. He ... ...adies into the saloon near the chapel, where was a fine collation, and the music. At nine o’clock he conducted Monsieur and Madame la Duchesse de Bour... ...re was often only twenty-four hours’ distance; and execution- ers were the conductors of the converts and their witnesses. Those who in the end appear... ... alms collected for them not being sufficient, still less the little their conductors gave them, they everywhere died in frightful numbers. This inhum... ...ty, but whom others thus got rid of by whispering a word in the ear of the conductors and greasing their palms; all these things, I say, caused so muc...

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...ated steamers running many knots, and heralding their approach by strains of music. The contrast between these pleasure embarkations and our own grim ... ..., Wyoming, Minnesota, and the Carolinas; there are few po- ems with a nobler music for the ear: a songful, tuneful land; and if the new Homer shall ar... ...self, I found that there had sat down beside me a very cheerful, rosy little German gentleman, somewhat gone in drink, who was talking away to me, nin... ...nit his brows at me like one who has conceived a doubt; next, he tried me in German, supposing perhaps that I was unfa- miliar with the English tongue... ...upon the bench, I was received at once into a dream- less stupor. The little German gentleman was only going a little way into the suburbs after a din... ...talk ceased at that, and the faces began to lengthen. I have no idea whether musically this air is to be considered good or bad; but it belongs to tha... ...he annoyance is considerable, and the disrespect both wanton and petty. Many conductors, again, will hold no communication with an emigrant. I asked a...

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...Belloni being a money-maker was redeemed in their sight by his devotion to music. Music was now the Art in the ascendant at Brookfield. The ladies (fo... ...eir house not simply attractive, but enticing; and, seeing that they liked music, it seemed a very agreeable de- vice. The Tinleys of Bloxholme still ... ...d noblemen known to him, with familiar indiffer- ence, as things below the musical Art, gave a distinguishing tone to Brookfield, from which his Frenc... ...aining. He does. But in him it is not combined with an indigestion of high German romances. Here is so notable a difference, that he cannot possibly b... ...enting, and what I want is to be an accurate singer. My music-master was a German—not an Austrian—oh, no!—I’m sure he was not. At least, I don’t think... ...ow yet whether I can thank him for. He made me know the music of the great German. I used to listen: I could not be- lieve such music could come from ... ...ves! will do when the elec- tric hostess rustles. The men present were non-conductors. Arabella knew that she could carry off the women, but such a pr...

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...so that at the end of six mouths he began to speak Span- ish, English, and German. In strict accordance with the promise The Count of Monte Cristo 14... ...ling of envious discontent filled his mind as the sound of mirth and merry music from the joyous revellers reached even the miserable hostelry to whic... ... great, and she developed with his growing fortune. She learned draw- ing, music — everything. Besides, I believe, between ourselves, she did this in ... ...ce. The usual guide from the hotel having followed them, they had paid two conductors, nor is it possible, at Rome, to avoid this abun- dant supply of... ... and confidingly surrendered themselves into the care and custody of their conductors. Albert had already made seven or eight similar excursions to th... ...evenings mostly pass at Italian theatres; that is, not in listening to the music, but in paying visits and conversing. The Countess G—— wished to revi... ... regalias, havanas, and manillas; and, in an open cabinet, a collection of German pipes, of chibouques, with their amber mouth- pieces ornamented with... ... had, who so nearly became King of France, and whose cousin was Emperor of Germany.” “On my word, I think you are right, Lucien,” said Albert absently...

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...e Valera, be deported. Dead right, by golly! All these agitators paid with German gold anyway. And we got no business interfering with the Irish 20 B... ...d of Mr. and Mrs. Doppelbrau as “Bohemian.” From their house came midnight music and obscene laughter; there were neighborhood rumors of bootlegged wh... ...e of Saragossa, the defini- tion of the word “sabotage,” the future of the German mark, the translation of “hinc illae lachrimae,” or the num- ber of ... ...ed hair, his nose-glasses, his hesitant speech, his moodiness, his love of music, as a younger brother, to be petted and protected. Paul had gone into... ...lofty and half-timbered, with Tudor leaded casements, an oriel, a somewhat musicianless musicians’-gallery, and tapes- tries believed to illustrate th... ...ky rooms in Washington what he should think about disarmament, tariff, and Germany, so did the large national advertisers fix the surface of his life,... ...vies on the trolley. But we went, and then there was one of those impudent conductors, and Paul wouldn’t do a thing. “I was standing on the platform w... ... believe we ought to do the thing up brown and get one of the highest-paid conductors on the market, providing he ain’t a Hun—it goes right into 228 ...

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...has passed, and where it has been most favourably noticed by the respected conductors of the public Press, and by the No- bility and Gentry. He is pro... ...l sweetness of temper has charmed her aged and her youthful companions. In music, in dancing, in orthography, in every variety of em- broidery and nee... ...ore, of the means of study the place offered her; and as she was already a musician and a good linguist, she speedily went through the little course o... ...urse of study which was considered necessary for ladies in those days. Her music she practised incessantly, and one day, when the girls were out, and ... ...t Miss Pinkerton’s academy “The very name,” George said. “Her father was a German Jew—a slave-owner they say—connected with the Cannibal 200 V anity ...

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..., is the privi- lege of those popular songs which are the superstitions of music,—if we may use the word “superstition” as signifying all that remains... ...ed shoes echoed on the stones with a sound eas- ily distinguished from the music of the mill, and no doubt heard by the person who opened the window. ... ...ons and fault-findings she bore during the day. Like the hero of a ballad, German or Russian, I forget which, her sleep seemed to her the happy life; ... ...ace of the Thibaults who made Provins what Ferrara was to Italy, Weimar to Germany,— what Munich is trying to be to-day.” “Was Provins ever a capital?... ...red, the kindly looks and ways which all the world, even strangers and the conductors of the coaches, had be- stowed upon her. Her bewilderment, alrea... ...r Madame Auffray, thinking to amuse Pierrette who was passionately fond of music. It was a poem to watch her listening to a theme of Weber, or Beethov...

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... were alive with men; its shades and glens rang with the sounds of martial music, and the echoes of its mountains threw back the laugh, or repeated th... ...ay, I think not of it now; but this strange man amuses me; and if he ‘hath music in his soul’, let us not churlishly reject his company.” She pointed ... ...ave been set apart, like the youth of the royal David, for the purposes of music, no syllable of rude verse has ever profaned my lips.” “Y ou have, th... ...his sign, intended for those that might follow, was observed by one of her conductors, who restored the glove, broke the remaining branches of the bus... ...hasn’t dropped a living body on, be it an enemy or be it *Baron Dieskau, a German, in the service of France. A few years previously to the period of t...

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...mbus, in the United States of America, quite recently. The sub ject was a German who kept a liquor shop aud was an inveterate drunk ard. 5 Bleak H... ...imself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence with his hand. I was very much im... .... Ain’t she?” “Yes.” “But knows a quantity, I suppose? Can dance, and play music, and sing? She can talk French, I suppose, and do geography, and glob... ...r nished with red trappings and clear sounding bells, came by us with its music, I believe we could all three have sung to the bells, so cheerful wer... ...on and had once lived, in his professional capacity, in the household of a German prince. He told us, however, that as he had always been a mere child... ... the canals of Venice, at the second cataract of the Nile, in the baths of Germany, and sprinkled on the sea sand all over the English coast. Scarcely... ...ies him with his own particular bull’s eye at his waist. Be tween his two conductors, Mr. Snagsby passes along the middle of a villainous street, und... ...s produced, but is not at all near the thing. Whenever Mr. Snagsby and his conductors are stationary, the crowd flows round, and from its squalid dept...

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...lds was wont to resound of old, yet neither Garrison, nor Phillips, 4 The German physiologists have even discovered vegetable matter—starch—in the hu... ...n his inmost soul, because a something told him that harmony in sound, and music of the spirit, could not consociate with miserable degradation. To su... ... sung under Miss Lucretia’s window, I was very apt to get well paid for my music. The reader will see that I now had two friends, both at important po... ...mance is strictly southern. It supplies the place of a violin, or of other musical instru- ments, and is played so easily, that almost every farm has ... ...oubt not that the south would blaze with insurrections. These holidays are conductors or safety valves to carry off the explosive elements inseparable... ...ICE AGAINST COLOR—AMUSING CONDE- SCENSION— “JIM CROW CARS”—COLLISIONS WITH CONDUCTORS AND BRAKEMEN—TRAINS ORDERED NOT TO STOP AT LYNN—AMUSING DOMESTIC... ...s and mistresses, to ride unmolested. After many battles with the railroad conductors, and being roughly handled in not a few instances, proscription ... ... the moral sense of the civilized world is with us. En- gland, France, and Germany, the three great lights of mod- ern civilization, are with us, and ...

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...he servants’ hall? Again, had my title borne ‘Waverley, a Romance from the German,’ what head so obtuse as not to image forth a profli- gate abbot, an... ...the wappen-brief, or concession of arms, of Frederick Redbeard, Emperor of Germany, to my predecessor, Godmund Bradwardine, it being the crest of a gi... ...ave Waverley to understand, that this poor simpleton was doatingly fond of music, deeply af- fected by that which was melancholy, and transported into... ...als entrusted to him, warm affections, a prodigious memory, and an ear for music. The stamping of horses was now heard in the court, and Davie’s voice... ...dow, and we think that from him Davie gathered many fragments of songs and music unlike those of this country. But if we ask him where he got such a f... ...well to. T o go round a person in the opposite direction, or wither-shins (German wider- 154 Waverley shins), is unlucky, and a sort of incantation.]... ...effectually as he might otherwise have done. When this was observed by his conductors, they called to their aid two or three others of the party, and ...

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... that being so, the usage should in justice extend to all nations, and the German poet should not be undervalued because he writes in his own lan- gua... ...e was so gentle that it had not power to stir the leaves on the trees. The musicians were the life of the wedding, wandering through the pleasant grou... ..., shouting, to receive the bride and bridegroom, who were approaching with musical instruments and pageantry of all sorts around them, and accompanied... ...e to mention the rope in the house of the man that has been hanged? To the music of brays what harmonies couldst thou expect to get but cudgels? Give ... ...ave him with him that he would not have changed places with the emperor of Germany. On taking leave he kissed the hands of the duke and duchess and go... ... there I was anxious to see all I could. I crossed into Italy, and reached Germany, and there it seemed to me we might live with more freedom, as the ... ...plume from his poor jade’s tail, while Sancho did the same for Dapple. His conductors tried to punish the audacity of the boys, but there was no possi...

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...mbus, in the United States of America, quite recently. The sub ject was a German who kept a liquor shop aud was an inveterate drunk ard. 5 Bleak H... ...imself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence with his hand. I was very much im... .... Ain’t she?” “Yes.” “But knows a quantity, I suppose? Can dance, and play music, and sing? She can talk French, I suppose, and do geography, and glob... ...r nished with red trappings and clear sounding bells, came by us with its music, I believe we could all three have sung to the bells, so cheerful wer... ...on and had once lived, in his professional capacity, in the household of a German prince. He told us, however, that as he had always been a mere child... ... the canals of Venice, at the second cataract of the Nile, in the baths of Germany, and sprinkled on the sea sand all over the English coast. Scarcely... ...ies him with his own particular bull’s eye at his waist. Be tween his two conductors, Mr. Snagsby passes along the middle of a villainous street, und... ...s produced, but is not at all near the thing. Whenever Mr. Snagsby and his conductors are stationary, the crowd flows round, and from its squalid dept...

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... is if you hear in my voice any resemblance to a voice that once was sweet music in your ears, weep for it, weep for it! If you touch, in touching my ... ...nhappily, I am!” The plaintive tone of her compassion merged into the less musical voice of the Judge, as he said something fiercely: “Answer the ques... ...double laden though the horse was), at a gallop, like a new version of the German ballad of Leonora? It portended that there was one stone face too ma... ...nion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pic tures: or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.” Sydney Carton drank the punch at ... ...or (in a few cases) to be sent back to their cells. That, presented by his conductors to this Tribunal, he had announced himself by name and professio...

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...he real, between the spirit of poetry and the spirit of prose; and perhaps German phi- losophy never evolved a more ungainly or unlikely camel out of ... ...acles from saints; but merely to take care that your style and diction run musically , pleasantly, and plainly, with clear, proper, and well-placed wo... ...lling her Dulcinea del Toboso -she being of El Toboso—a name, to his mind, musical, uncommon, and significant, like all those he had already bestowed ... ...te that he was in some famous castle, and that they were regaling him with music, and that the stockfish was trout, the bread the whitest, the wenches... ...ld, too, that Don Fernando de Guevara did not go in quest of adventures to Germany, where he engaged in combat with Micer George, a knight of the hous... ... that being so, the usage should in justice extend to all nations, and the German poet should not be undervalued because he writes in his own lan- gua... ...plume from his poor jade’s tail, while Sancho did the same for Dapple. His conductors tried to punish the audacity of the boys, but there was no possi...

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...r Scott CHAPTER III Then (sad relief!) from the bleak coast that hears The German Ocean roar, deep-blooming, strong, And yellow hair’ d, the blue-eyed... ... 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 ... ...uperstitions which his ances- tors had brought with them from the wilds of Germany. He remembered, moreover, that he was in the house of a Jew, a peop... ...h lay betwixt it and the open common. He was compelled to follow his rough conductors into the very depth of this cover, where they stopt unexpectedly... ...th Queen of England, niece to Edgar Atheling, and mother to the Empress of Germany, the daughter, the wife, and the mother of monarchs, was obliged, d...

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...Contents Preface to the First German Edition................................................................................................ 5 Preface to the Second Edition .....................................................................................

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...versity is an equal opportunity university. Contents Preface to the First German Edition................................................................ ...................................................................... 86 THE MUSIC OF THE RING ............................................................ ...................................................... 92 The Old and the New Music ........................................................................ ...................................................................... 98 The Music of the Future........................................................... ...e: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by Bernard Shaw Preface to the First German Edition IN READING through this German version of my book in the Man... ...induce some readers of the original English text to read the book again in German. For some time to come, indeed, I shall have to refer En- glish read... ...d to see one of twenty-five, much as in any ordinary opera house. Even the conductors upset the arrangements occasionally. On the other hand, if we le...

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...on!” she went on, with fury. “Thy other ancestors were shepherds, bandits, conductors of caravans, a horde of slaves offered as tribute to King David!... ...tiles, thy maidens shall be forced to cease their lamentations and to make music upon the zither, and the bravest of thy sons shall learn to bend thei... ...ny of the old soldiers of Herod’s army; a dozen Thracians, a Greek and two Germans; besides huntsmen and herdsmen, the Sultan of Palmyra, and sailors ... ...that place. Others held fast to the principles of their native religion. A German, who was nearly blind, sang a hymn celebrating that promontory in Sc... ...a mad desire, he sighed: “Come to me! Come!” But she whirled on, while the music of dulcimers swelled louder and the excited spectators roared their a...

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...to my father,” he went on, emitting a smoke ring. “La balance y est...** A German knows how to skin a flint, as the proverb says,” remarked Shinshin, ... ... preparing to re- sent any slight that might be put upon the children. The German tutor was trying to remember all the dishes, wines, and kinds of des... ...sert, in order to send a full de- scription of the dinner to his people in Germany; and he felt greatly offended when the butler with a bottle wrapped... ...her young ladies in begging Natasha and Nicholas, who were noted for their musical talent, to sing some- thing. Natasha, who was treated as though she... ...king but of thee! That while her fingers touch the harp Wafting sweet music music the lea, It is for thee thus swells her heart, Sighing its... ...dance in the large hall, and the sound of the feet and the coughing of the musicians were heard from the gallery. Pierre was sitting in the drawing-ro... ... led up to some object he noticed a hesitation and uncer- tainty among his conductors. He heard those around him disputing in whispers and one of them...

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...main five minutes in the same cavern with their beloved ones. And then the music! There is always a piano in a hotel drawing-room, on which, of course... ...e pianos are in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, ... ...em. And they, as they fall with a continual roar, not hurting the ear, but musical withal, will seem to move as the vast ocean waters may perhaps move... ...f pioneers of agriculture— those frontier farmers, who are nearly one-half German and nearly the other half Irish, would desert their clearings and ru... ...nfusion—so much so that the Western towns appear to have been peopled with Germans. I found regiments of volunteers consisting wholly of Germans. And ... ...ed the fact that hired labor is chiefly done by fresh comers, by Irish and Germans, who have not as yet among them any combination sufficient to prote... ...re and the vicinities of fashionable life. The street cars are manned with conductors, and, there- fore, are free from many of the perils of the omnib...

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...ng led up to some object he noticed a hesitation and uncertainty among his conductors. He heard those around him disputing in whispers and one of them... ...e drawn, and a single candle was burning on the table, screened by a bound music book so that the light did not fall on the cot. “My dear,” said Princ... ...ejoicing, and the rewards sent to the army are innumerable. Though he is a German—I congratu- late him! I can’t make out what the commander at Korchev... ...k part in it—and it’s all true. When mis- chief-makers don’t meddle even a German beats Buonaparte. He is said to be fleeing in great disorder. Mind y... ...es to profit by the opportunity to fight a battle ‘on his own hand’ as the Germans say. He does so. This is the battle of Pultusk, which is considered... ...toil and rest, and its intellectual interests in thought, science, poetry, music, love, friendship, hatred, and passions— went on as usual, independen...

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...hrough this process, and added thereto the Catholic Church, its cross, its music, its processions, its Saints’ days and image-worship, we have as it w... ...ch that fact or series belongs. The primeval world,—the Fore-World, as the Germans say, —I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with resea... ...mind are invigorated by hab- its of conversation with nature. The power of music, the power of poetry, to unfix and as it were clap wings to solid nat... ...em an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to the eye their deed. Did the wires generate the galvani... ...art and brain, which created all things anew; which was the dawn in him of music, poetry, and art; which made the face of nature radiant with purple l... ...k of Webster. We conceive dis- tinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the German ge- nius, and it is not the less real that perhaps we should not mee... ...erpowered the littleness and incapableness of the performers and made them conductors of his electricity, so it was easy to observe what efforts natur... ...iad, the Hamlet, the Doric column, the Roman arch, the Gothic minster, the German anthem, when they are ended, the master casts behind him. How sinks ...

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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 ... ...hat but for her the poor natives would never have been able to go to their German baths.” “Oh, no such philanthropy, my dear. It is homeliness, or rat... ... tonight,” said Mr. Flight. “What did you call her?” said Geraldine. “Some German or foreign name, Schnetterling, and the school calls her Lydia.” At ... ...with an engagement to meet at the circus on the part of the boys and their conductors. Fergus was greeted with open-mouthed, open-armed de- light by a... ...ly mis- erable, and on meeting her brother, who had become a mem- ber of a German band, she had contrived to make her escape with him, and having real...

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...f Grass –Whitman 5 Wandering at Morn...........................412 Italian Music in Dakota.....................412 With All Thy Gifts.................. .....................414 BOOK XXV.....................................415 Proud Music of the Storm..................415 BOOK XXVI........................... .....................460 Quicksand Years...............................461 That Music Always Round Me..........461 What Ship Puzzled at Sea................. ...g in its callous shell were enough. Mine is no callous shell, I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop, Leaves of Grass –Whitman ... ...se of his crowded course.) Having studied the new and antique, the Greek and Germanic systems, Kant having studied and stated, Fichte and Schelling an... ... Christ divine having studied long, I see reminiscent to day those Greek and Germanic systems, See the philosophies all, Christian churches and tenets... ...s yearning and thoughtful, It seems to me I can look over and behold them in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Or far, far away, in China, or in Russia o...

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...e, That part are in the water, part on land; And as among the guzzling Germans there, The beaver plants himself to wage his war; So that vile mo... ...ld. Above in beauteous Italy lies a lake At the Alp’s foot that shuts in Germany Over Tyrol, and has the name Benaco. By a thousand springs, I thi... ... by the spur corrected, Since thou hast laid thy hand upon the bridle. O German Albert! who abandonest Her that has grown recalcitrant and savage,... ...ad once seen burned. 228 Longfellow T owards me turned themselves my good Conductors, And unto me Virgilius said: “My son, Here may indeed be tor... ...t a tear or sigh, Before the song of those who sing for ever After the music of the eternal spheres. But when I heard in their sweet melodies Co... ...fty forest, vacant By fault of her who in the serpent trusted, Angelic music made our steps keep time. Perchance as great a space had in three fli... ... Made of themselves now D, now I, now L. First singing they to their own music moved; Then one becoming of these characters, A little while they...

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...en much improved. England, Holland, France, and 172 The Wealth of Nations Germany; even Sweden, Denmark, and Russia, have all advanced considerably, ... ...bove the accidents to which they are exposed from the unskilfulness of the conductors of this paper money, they are liable to several others, from whi... ...hey are liable to several others, from which no prudence or skill of those conductors can guard them. An unsuccessful war, for example, in which the e... ...en, lawyers, physicians, men of letters of all kinds; players, buf- foons, musicians, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. The labour of the meanest of ... ...e declamation of the actor, the harangue of the orator, or the tune of the musician, the work of all of them perishes in the very instant of its produ... ... O- O- MAN EMP MAN EMP MAN EMP MAN EMP MAN EMPIRE IRE IRE IRE IRE WHEN THE GERMAN and Scythian nations overran the western prov- inces of the Roman em... ... purveyance has been entirely abolished. It still sub- sists in France and Germany. The public taxes, to which they were subject, were as irregular an... ...he owners of the great mercantile capitals are necessarily the leaders and conductors of the whole industry of every nation; and their example has a m... ...er the direction of the public magistrate, in gymnas- tic exercises and in music. By gymnastic exercises, it was intended to harden his body, to sharp...

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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... ...ies of the Ninety-ninth, and Sixty-sixth, and the Grenadier Brigade of the German Legion began to advance up the echelon. The devoted band soon arrive... ... exploit before Ascalon, by the Emperor Maximilian, and a reference to the German Peerage of that day, or a knowledge of high families which every gen... ...he latter rushed into his arms, grown to be one of the finest young men in Germany: tall and exces- sively graceful in proportion, with the blush of h... ...ppeared, it is true; but why? because he had dived. He calculated that his conductors would consider him drowned, and the desire of liberty lending hi...

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...moderns call by the name of Jack o’ Lent; but his voice being so extremely musical, that it rather allured the birds than terrified them, he was soon ... ...nteel vice the town abounded with. He applied most of his leisure hours to music, in which he greatly improved him- self; and became so perfect a conn... ... in the eighteen-penny gallery, when, through the trap-door, to soft or no music, Mr. Bridgewater, Mr. William Mills, or some other of ghostly appeara... ...cer, a player, a dull poet, a quack-doctor, a scraping fiddler, and a lame German dancing-master. As soon as dinner was served, while Mr Adams was say... ... we shall leave Mr Joseph and Mr Adams to themselves, and imitate the wise conductors of the stage, who in the midst of a grave action entertain you w...

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...t the whole thing was a living affair. The rate at which new readings, new conductors of sense interposed, to make any total sense at all right, becam... ... he had described to her this experience. He called it a “serenade,” a low music that, outside one of the windows of the sleeping house, disturbed his... ...dinner Charlotte Stant played to him; seated at the piano and requiring no music she went through his “favourite things”—and he had many favourites—wi... ...en playing lawn tennis or endlessly and rhythmically waltzing. His love of music, unlike his other loves, owned to vaguenesses, but while, on his comp... ...ir wood of enchantment, a green glade as romantic as one’s dream of an old German forest. The picture was veiled on the contrary with the dimness of t...

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... sufficient mea- sure by which fully to express himself. He had no ear for music and no eye for painting, and the finest qualities in the creations of... ... year. He also wrote an ‘Essay on Epitaphs,’ and an ‘Epitaph on Philips, a Musician,’ which was afterwards published with some other pieces of his, in... ...es Burney, who has since distin- guished himself so much in the science of Musick, and obtained a Doctor’s degree from the University of Oxford, had b... ...nt. He once dedi- 177 Boswell’s Life of Johnson cated some Musick for the German Flute to Edward, Duke of York. In writing Dedications for others, he... ...d, as he flat- tered himself, to the admiration of all who were present; a German who sat next him, and per- ceived Johnson rolling himself, as if abo... ..., notwithstanding a ludi- crous story told me by a lady abroad, of a heavy German baron, who had lived much with the young English at Geneva, and was ... ... the few people present were assembled, publick notice was given, that the conductors to the wheels, suns, stars, &c., were so thoroughly water-soaked...