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...d seen, were left to crawl like worms, pushing their carts and singing their songs as traditional music blared forth. He died every time he saw one of...

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...intance about a generation ago, and the effect of it was, like Swinburne’s Songs Before Sunrise, Mazzini’s Duties of Man, and other congenial document... ...ved his youth without forgetting its pangs, joys, mortifications, and love-songs. In Nejdanov it is another picture of that youth which we see—youth r... ...t the piano and played, rather in- differently , several of Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without Words.” Charmant! Charmant! quel touché! Kollomietzev called ... ...m sound no strain of sadness—Muted string or muffled drum; Come to me with songs of glad- ness—Whirling in the wild waltz come! I would hear—ere yet I...

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...it is Deutschland. (And—as in the case of all imperfectly civilised people—songs of hate for foreigners.) But it needed a decadent young American to s...

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...is to say, each evening there would take place in the village a singing of songs and a weaving of country dances; and so shapely and buxom were the ma... ...ian. Only Platon reflected: “What is there so splendid in these melancholy songs? They do but increase one’s depression of spirits.” The journey homew... ...round the whole stood a grove, from the recesses of which came the echoing songs of nightingales. Involuntarily the place communicated to the soul a s...

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...ant and very expensive ar- ticles, the same amusements, dances, music, and songs. The former attract by all possible means; so do the latter. No diffe... ...s. I aided them, I made proposals, and they finally executed a few pieces,—songs without words, and a little sonata by Mozart. He played in a marvello... ... the Khorovody (a street gathering of the village boys and girls, who sing songs), and told them they must sing his praises, saying that in return he ... ...06 Tolstoy seen in their lives. The little girls laughed and began to sing songs praising Ivan, and when they had finished they said: “Very well; now ... ...nging and dancing.” The little children sang, but Ivan said to them, “Your songs are no good.” The children said, “Then show us how to sing better.” T...

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...ond of music, and could accompany himself on the piano as he sang the love songs of his friend A- or gipsy songs or themes from operas; but he had no ...

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...e earth nor men, but in your books I have drunk fragrant wine, I have sung songs, I have hunted stags and wild boars in the forests, have loved women…... ...ually badly off. Some were able to drive in a carriage, and others to sing songs at the top of their voice and to play the concertina, but one and the...

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... brightened into gay humour, and addressed them in the words of one of the songs in The Beggar’s Opera:— ‘But two at a time there’s no mortal can be...