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... levels. Scholars believe that the plague emanated from the Middle East through southern Russia, between the Black and the Caspian seas. Co... ...s. An Annexation Association was founded to promote unification with the prospering southern neighbor. The two versions of an Annexation Manifesto ... ...ion in 1834. http://humanityquest.com/topic/Index.asp?theme1=chauvinism Chicago (musical) The musical "Chicago" won 6 Academy awards (Oscars) in... ...armers - opposed slavery as a form of unfair competition. Less than one quarter of southern families owned slaves in 1861. Slave-based, mainly cott... ...Primary (or compression) and secondary (or shearing) body waves (that travel in the rocks under the surface of the Earth at speeds of up to 7 kilome... ...y Harold Brown with the active support of Thomas Edison. Carlos McDonald and A. P. Rockwell contributed to the engineering of the chair. But the pa... ...twice (1922 and 1923), who was 5- foot-7 and weighed 140 pounds (c. 65 kg.). Norman Rockwell, the painter, was on the panel of judges in 1923. Ca... ...ions were trounced by Isaac Shoenberg and his team, set up in 1931 by Electric and Musical Industries (EMI). RCA refined its own system, as did the... ...owner. Like Puccini, Verdi lived, out of wedlock, with the common-law wife of a musical agent, the prima donna Giuseppina Strepponi. When she me...

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...terature to discover, for example, discussions debating whether indigenous groups such as the traditional clans of Aborigines in Australia have a reli... ...in The Dreaming 9 but also embodies those Beings in material forms such as rocks, hills, and most other natural objects, as well as in individual peop... ...na shares with a river the quality that it is in constant flux, and with a rock that it is motionless and never changing. As a King is the bulwark for... ...atly. The same is to be said even more of music. The score of a particular musical piece indicates the notes to be played and to some degree the timin... ...ate emotion with music more than drama, by and large, we need to take this musical analogy quite seriously, for it is this analogy which in practice r... ...he broad outline of the life that is to be lived already exists, just as a musical score for a violin sonata already exists when the musician takes up... ...nd mud and new light snowfalls. And now as summer comes on I am riding and rocking the tops of sturdy saplings so that they curve toward the ground an... ...ons. The dramatic wet and dry seasons of the tropical north, the temperate southern woodlands and grassy tablelands, forests, mountain ranges and coas... ...onial unveiling” of a boy’s masculinity in circumcision. In large areas of southern Australia, circumcision has been un- known, and is said to have sp...

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...ip of Thorfinn -- The first white baby in the New World -- The Dighton writing rock -- Church records respecting the discovery of America -- Killing o... ...- Pinzon's adventures -- Discovery of the sailors -- Anew constellation of the Southern Cross -- Landing on strange shores -- A desperate fight with t... ...ives murder ten Spaniards -- A bloody vengeance -- Claimed to have visited the southern continent 135- 152 CHAPTER XII. Voyages Of Vasco da Gama. -- A... ... among the East Indies -- Preparation for a voyage of discovery in search of a southern continent -- Tasman placed in charge of the expedition -- Disc... ...nderstanding with the natives -- Hostile natives frightened by the firing of a rocket -- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville... ...given in the Sagas, but by the discovery of what is called the Dighton Writing Rock, which was found in the 16th century on the very spot where the No... ...breeze, and when the breeze is blowing will curse the whistlers, lest by their musical efforts a storm should, be provoked. He will not tell the numbe... ...ieved that the travellers heard strange whisperings in the air and concerts of musical instruments, and the drums and noises of armies, which so disco... ...c07_sm_fig06.jpg - 131707 Bytes sporting, singing, dancing, and the playing on musical instruments. But the most distinguishing characteristic, as rel...

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...eas have formed in the village. Most of the seamstresses' shops are in the southern end of the village, while the cement casters have settled in the c... ...umerous side alleys and lanes criss- cross the main lanes, twisting around groups of houses and village backwaters, but always ending up re-joining th... ...is resistance to Western entertainment, although people seem to be used to rock music. The table does not show that people’s ideas of what constitute... ...s do not have the characteristic timbre of the old way of singing, and the musical scale is tending towards the Western. Pop stars sing in the same st... ...international techno-world. In Lampang, too, youth culture means clubs and rock bands. Teenagers hanging out around supermarkets want to behave and dr... ...to behave and dress like their contemporaries in international adverts and rock videos; they want to copy the self-assured achievers on TV, to use uni... ...thern girls are particularly pretty, and that was why they were enticed to southern tourist centres, and also that pre-marital sexual morality was not... ... northern mountain peoples as in the agrarian villages of the plains. When southern girls no longer went to the brothels in the years of economic grow... ...ion and Equality. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth. Yupho, Dhanit 1960. Thai Musical Instruments. Transl. from Thai by David Morton. Siva Phorn Ldt., Ba...

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...eralogy in the University of London, and while working upon the auriferous rocks of North Wales, after a brief holiday spent in agitating for women’s ... ...t to them. They handled a line of cheap gramophones, and did a little with musical boxes. The staple of their business was, however, the letting of bi... ... ourselves—the Desert Dervishes.” They bowed profoundly. The few scattered groups upon the beach regarded them with horror for the most part, but some... ...the wind and is itself a part of the atmosphere. Once started, it does not rock nor sway; you cannot feel whether it rises or falls. Bert felt acutely... ...weltering ditch of shipping far away ahead, the Mersey estuary. Bert was a Southerner; he had never been north of the Midland counties, and the multit... ...re instantly a coruscation of war pictures and of headlines that rose like rockets and burst like shells. T o the normal high-strung en- ergy of New Y... ...to prove to the world that the spirit that had created the Monitor and the Southern submarines of 1864 was not dead. The chief of the aeronautic estab... ...ll and distant for Bert to distinguish. At first, only what was called the Southern fleet of the Asi- atics was visible to him. It consisted of forty ... ... it seemed like a hand-to-hand scuffle in the sky. Then they broke up into groups and duels. The descent of German air-ships towards the lower sky inc...

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...o hear of Royalist Camp of Jales: Jales moun- tain-girdled Plain, amid the rocks of the Cevennes; whence Royalism, as is feared and hoped, may dash do... ... as this, Hunger, as we have remarked, can hardly fail. The Provinces, the Southern Cities feel it in their turn; and what it brings: Exasperation, pr... ...y and by Anaxagoras Chaumette, one already descries: mellifluous in street-groups; not now a sea-boy on the high and giddy mast: a mellifluous tribune... ...e glad people, with moisture and fire in their eyes, ‘spontaneously formed groups, and swore one another, ’ (Newspapers (in Hist. Parl. iv. 445.)—and ... ...lourishes of drums and trumpets are something: but think of an ‘artificial Rock fifty feet high, ’ all cut into crag-steps, not without the similitude... ...ave been spared. But fancy then the banners all placed on the steps of the Rock; high-mass chaunted; and the civic oath of fifty thousand: with what v... ...ng and smouldering unluminous, has now burst into flame there. Hot is that Southern Provencal blood: alas, collisions, as was once said, must occur in... ...lifting out, and recognition; amid the cries and movements of a passionate Southern people, now kneeling in prayer, now storming in wild pity and rage... ...rim melody and rhythm; into his Hymn or March of the Marseillese: luckiest musical-composition ever promulgated. The sound of which will make the bloo...

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...Legislative, so hard was fate, had let itself be hand-gyved, nailed to the rock like an Andromeda, and could only wail there to the Earth and Heavens;... ... Blue, and cut her loose: but whether now is it she, with her softness and musical speech, or is it he, with his hardness and sharp falchion and aegis... ...s, pointing to the map! That is the Forest of Argonne, that long stripe of rocky Mountain and wild Wood; forty miles long; with but five, or say even ... ...and yet not none. Paul Francois Barras, ‘noble as the Barrases, old as the rocks of Provence;’ he is one. The reckless, shipwrecked man: flung ashore ... ...ich against Poor, Culottic against Sansculottic, man against man. From the Southern Cities come Addresses of an al- most inculpatory character; for Pa... ... lotine in its loft? Consider finally if, on all these mad jarrings of the Southern Cities, and of France generally, a traitorous Crypto-Royalist clas... ...ese Girondins; at every hit the glad Mountain utters chorus: Marat, like a musical bis, repeating the last phrase. (Seance du 1er Avril, 1793 (in Hist... ...age of exaggeration: but listen to the cold deposition of witnesses. Not a musical Patriot can blow himself a snatch of melody from the French Horn, s... ... there; wheresoever needed. Fouches, Maignets, Barrases, Frerons scour the Southern Departments; like reapers, with their guillotine-sickle. Many are ...

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...tle plaintiff or defendant who was promised 9 Bleak House – Dickens a new rocking horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, po... ...amily, do it somehow or other, like good souls, and suffer him to ride his rocking horse!” 74 Bleak House – Dickens It was plain enough that Mr. Jarn... ...He has shown nothing but his shell. As easily might the tone of a delicate musical instrument be inferred from its case, as the tone of Mr. T ulkingho... .... My Lady’s maid is a Frenchwoman of two and thirty, from somewhere in the southern country about Avignon and Marseilles, a large eyed brown woman wit... ...n, and the hall was blocked up by a grand piano, a harp, and several other musical instru ments in cases, all in progress of removal, and all looking... ... stern decision which had worn into my godmother’s face, like weather into rocks, was so completely wanting in the face before me that it could not be... ... British Beauty wears every variety of fancy dress, plays every variety of musical instrument, fondles every variety of dog, ogles every variety of pr... ...ss to find itself so famous and fills the whole room with the fragrance of southern grapes. Mr. T ulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open win ... ...d brooding, he crosses the square and is swallowed up by the shadow of the southern gateway. Mr. Guppy and Mr. Weevle are the possessors of those eyes...

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...burned red. All was scrupulously clean and perfect. A baby was cooing in a rocker-less wicker cradle by the hearth. The mother, a slim, neat woman wit... ...l we light them as we fix them,” asked Robert, “or save them for one grand rocket at the end?” “Oh, as we do them,” said Cyril Scott, who had lacerate... ...s something like the keyboard of a piano: more still, like a succession of musical notes. For the rectangular planes of light were of different intens... ...ining. Fortunately the women had brought shoes. They slipped these on. Jim rocked through the crowd, in his tall hat, looking for the flautist. At las... ...HE OPERA SEASON ENDED, Aaron was invited by Cyril Scott to join a group of musical people in a village by the sea. He accepted, and spent a pleasant m... ...the sea. He accepted, and spent a pleasant month. It pleased the young men musically-inclined and bohemian by profession to patronise the flautist, wh... ...the perfect air, the perfect and un- blemished Alp-sky. And like the first southern flower, Novara. Aaron sat watching in silence. Only the uneasy bir... ... Italian jaws, something in- human and possessed-looking in their foreign, southern- shaped faces, so much more formed and demon-looking than northern... ... is the pith, the marrow, the sum and essence of the English language to a southerner. Of course it is not all right. 191 D. H. Lawrence It is Or-rye...

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...edle-work, supplied the place of chairs in this apartment, which contained musical instruments, embroidery frames, and other articles for ladies’ past... ...rown matri- monial held at the humour of a woman, and owning only the poor rocks and bogs of the north.” The Countess paused, as if what the Earl last... ...climb a mountain of loose sand —we dare make no halt until some projecting rock affords us a secure footing and resting-place. If we pause sooner, we ... ...tin Swart on ground lay slain; In raging rout he never reel’ d, But like a rock did firm remain.’ [This verse, or something similar, occurs in a long ... ...des all the stars that these blessed eyes of mine have seen sparkle in the southern heavens, to which these northern blinkers are but farthing candles... ...n one party entered and traversed the Pleas- ance. But they were in joyous groups of four or five persons together, laughing and jesting in their own ... ...over, but the men, still habited in their masking suits, stood together in groups, like the in- habitants of a city who have been just startled by som... ...length of the Great Hall, in which the astonished courtiers formed various groups, and were whispering mysteriously together, while all kept their eye... ...edge, enclosing a piece of ground somewhat raised. On the east side of the southern extremity stand three squarish flat stones, of about four or five ...

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...need for this vitamin. ―If people got 10 to 15 minutes of sunlight a day they could get all the D they need. This may be easy in the southe... ... counted on to break into song with the repertoire of Sophie Tucker, that 1920‘s songstress whose ample body produced the powerful tunes that rocked... ...ome imams salves their power drives with votives of violence. ―It‘s much easier for poor youths to burn cars and buses and to throw rocks ... ...b screws and iron masks pale to the rack, being lowered face down in boiling oil or lead, being tied to a wide wooden wheel and rolled down a rocky ... ...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... ...otivated by the social system than by their internal drives. ―Two researchers were intrigued by the fact that in your country many more Southe... ...nd less intense. They checked several reasons why this might be so and concluded that the people of the South were more externally controlled. Southe... ...o create?‖ . —―Your after school program reminds me of what the Venezuelans call ‗The System‘ in which poor children are taught to play musica... .... 124 ―This highly successful program has already given us some musica...

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...n Waikiki Waikiki Starlight Luau Spirit of Aloha Catamaran available for groups Friday night fireworks Our Sales Team is eager to speak to you. Cal... ...n Waikiki Waikiki Starlight Luau Spirit of Aloha Catamaran available for groups Friday night fireworks Our Sales Team is eager to speak to you. Cal... ...ndem with its Hawaiian twin to provide full coverage of the northern and southern hemispheres. In June 2011, a team of international astronomers de... ...n A. Burns School of Medicine. “Patients in several of Hawai‘i’s ethnic groups have been found to be more severely impacted than those in other e... ...Since 1916, the Kamaka family has been fashioning and manufacturing the musical instruments out of Hawaiian koa, an acacia wood with fne grain hi... ...direction on the top of the swell. “If the Swell drives him close to the rocks before he is overtaken by its break, he is much prais’d,” King wrote...

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...of the mail, was transformed into a dream, as tumultuous and changing as a musical fugue. This troubled Dream is circumstantially reported in Section ... ... decision at length upon the archives of the Spanish Marine. Those for the southern ports of Spain had been transferred, I believe, from Cadiz and St.... ...re a cowardly wretch, unless when sublimed into courage by famine; but, in southern Africa, he is the most currish of enemies. Those who fancied so mu... ...hich is in fact that same quadrangle planted with trees, and having on its southern side the Bristol Cathedral, up and down which, early in the reign ... ...pital disadvantage, in my eyes, that its chapel possessed no organ, and no musical ser- vice. But any other choice would have driven me to an in- stan... ...daily. They mix as equal partakers in the same amusements of races, balls, musical assemblies, with the baronets (or elite of the gentry); with the la... ...s a baffled visionary, whose favorite conceit had suddenly exploded like a rocket into smoke and stench, is more than we know. But, at all events, the... ...ng description, which Mr. Gor- don gives us, of Hydra: “Built on a sterile rock, which does not offer, at any season, the least trace of vegetation, i... ...re able- bodied seamen.” The other islands were, with few exceptions, arid rocks; and most of them had the inestimable advantage of being unplagued wi...

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...ENS ENS ENS WHEN I RETURNED to the common the sun was setting. Scat- tered groups were hurrying from the direction of Woking, and one or two persons w... ...the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atm... ...could be going on there? Most of the spectators had gathered in one or two groups— one a little crowd towards Woking, the other a knot of people in th... ...t the first lightning of the gathering storm, and the thunder burst like a rocket overhead. The horse took the bit between his teeth and bolted. A mod... ...d terrible day of the Lord! When men shall call upon the mountains and the rocks to fall upon them and hide them—hide them from the face of Him that s... ...e to discharge enormous clouds of a black and poisonous vapour by means of rockets. They have smothered our batteries, destroyed Richmond, Kingston, a... ...ly into the quiet air. As I looked, the handling-machine, with a faint and musical clinking, extended, telescopic fashion, a ten- tacle that had been ... ...nd after dividing London between us, I taking the northern side and he the southern, we played for parish points. Grotesque and foolish as this will s...

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... still vale of Thisbe, O speed, and rejoice! On the sward at the cliff-top Lie strewn the white flocks, On the cliff-side the pigeons ... ...ay Beyond this gracious bound, The cone of Jaman, pale and gray, See, in the blue profound! Ah, Jaman! delicately tall Above his sun-warm’d firs— Wh... ... wood, In the yet star-sown nightly sky, The peak of Jaman stood. Still in my soul the voice I heard Of Obermann!—away I turn’d; by some vague impul... ...s bleeding heart? That thousands counted every groan, And Europe made his woe her own? What boots it, Shelley! that the breeze Carried thy... ... cottage-smell, And stocks in fragrant blow; Roses that down the alleys shine afar, And open, jasmine-muffled latt... ...in! These English fields, this upland dim, These brambles pale with mist engarlanded, That lone, sky-pointing tree, are not for him;...

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...y confusedly, some miscellaneous letters and other papers, with one or two musical instruments and a few books. Here, however, after a long and very d... ...phs. Its body, which was unlike that of ordinary fishes, was as solid as a rock, and of a jetty blackness throughout all that portion of it which floa... ...Cheyenne, or Chienne river, which has its source in the Black Hills of the rocky chain. There is scarcely, perhaps, a spectacle on the surface of the ... ...cav- erns in the soil, of a funnel shape, and line the sides of them with, rocks, so disposed one upon the other that they fall in- stantly, when trod... ...haps even more than to the orthodox and easily recognisable beau- ties, of musical science. I had learned, too, the very remark- able fact, that the s... ...furniture was profuse, comfortless, antique, and tattered. Many books and musical instruments lay scattered about, but failed to give any vitality to... ...ormed by cutting perpendicularly the once rugged precipice of the stream’s southern bank, but no trace of the labor has been suffered to remain. The c... ...very precise regularity. The widest portion was within eighty yards of the southern extreme. The slopes which encompassed the vale could not fairly be... ... unexplored mountains and forests. The other open- ing was directly at the southern end of the vale. Here, gener- ally, the slopes were nothing more t...

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...t which related to the Antarctic Ocean, was Mr. Poe, lately editor of the “Southern Literary Messenger,” a monthly magazine, published by Mr. Thomas W... ...ion of my adventures, from facts afforded by myself, publishing it in the “Southern Messenger” under the garb of fiction. To this, perceiving no objec... ...of a lifetime dragged out in sorrow and tears, upon some gray and desolate rock, in an ocean unapproachable and unknown. Such visions or desires—for t... ...enty yards from the hulk, as near as I could judge. She was lying keel up, rocking furiously from side to side, and the sea in all directions around w... ...ntleman of great urbanity of manner, and of considerable experience in the southern traffic, to which he had devoted a great portion of his life. He w... ...es to distin- guish the harbour. Its projecting point terminates in a high rock, through which is a large hole, forming a natural arch. The en- trance... ...cid cast of beauty, and the thrilling and enthralling eloquence of her low musical language, made their way into my heart by paces so steadily and ste... ...could no longer bear the touch of her wan fingers, nor the low tone of her musical language, nor the lustre of her melancholy eyes. And she knew all t... ...ir, and in the wan fingers which buried themselves therein, and in the sad musical tones of her speech, and above all—oh, above all, in the phrases an...

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...nts you a refractory President ‘at Croe in Combrailles on the top of steep rocks, inaccessible except by litters,’ there to consider himself. Likewise... ...el, miraculously in our miraculous Being, and name World.— But if the very Rocks and Rivers (as Metaphysic teaches) are, in strict language, made by t... ...tte’s music-party in the Park: all Birds of Paradise flying from thee, and musical windpipes growing mute. (Campan, i. 197.) Thou unclean, yet unmalig... ...aving been opponents of the Court, can descend unchained from their ‘steep rocks at Croe in Combrailles’ and else- where, and return singing praises: ... ...that super-sublime of modesty! Yet, on the whole, our good Saint-Pierre is musical, poetical though most morbid: we will call his Book the swan-song o... ...Book the swan-song of old dying France. Louvet’s again, let no man account musical. Truly, if this wretched Faublas is a death-speech, it is one under... ...uzzing in eager expectancy, begins heaping and shaping itself into organic groups. Which or- ganic groups, again, hold smaller organic grouplets: the ... ...nds, in those days. If poor famishing men shall, prior to death, gather in groups and crowds, as the poor fieldfares and plovers do in bitter weather,... ...he might say with the old Despot: “The National Assembly? I am that.” Of a southern climate, of wild southern blood: for the Riquettis, or Arighettis,...

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...nts you a refractory President ‘at Croe in Combrailles on the top of steep rocks, inaccessible except by litters,’ there to consider himself. Likewise... ...l, miraculously in our mi- raculous Being, and name World.—But if the very Rocks and Rivers (as Metaphysic teaches) are, in strict language, made by t... ...tte’s music-party in the Park: all Birds of Paradise flying from thee, and musical windpipes grow- ing mute. (Campan, i. 197.) Thou unclean, yet unmal... ...ing been oppo- nents of the Court, can descend unchained from their ‘steep rocks at Croe in Combrailles’ and elsewhere, and return singing praises: th... ...that super-sublime of modesty! Yet, on the whole, our good Saint-Pierre is musical, poetical though most morbid: we will call his Book the swan-song o... ...Book the swan-song of old dying France. Louvet’s again, let no man account musical. Truly, if this 47 Thomas Carlyle wretched Faublas is a death-spee... ...he might say with the old Despot: “The National Assembly? I am that.” Of a southern climate, of wild southern blood: for the Riquettis, or Arighettis,... ... as this, Hunger, as we have remarked, can hardly fail. The Provinces, the Southern Cities feel it in their turn; and what it brings: Exasperation, pr... ...ng and smouldering unluminous, has now burst into flame there. Hot is that Southern Provencal blood: alas, collisions, as was once said, must occur in...

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...d mountain summit, and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock. There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the s... ...ghtsman employed in a public survey who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geological struc- ture was first explained to him. In a c... ... their forefathers. “The custom of mak- ing houses and tombs in the living rock,” says Heeren in his Researches on the Ethiopians, “determined very na... ...ly significant, the inhabitants of these climates have always excelled the southerner in force. Such is the value of these matters that a man who know... ...bulk left out, and the spirit or moral of it contracted 180 Essays into a musical word, or the most cunning stroke of the pencil? But the artist must... ...rt of human character,—a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and th... ...of nature forward far; Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes. Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas b... ...h of rogues and the pusillanimity of hon- est men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung. ... ...lity affords. This immensely stretched trade, which makes the capes of the Southern Ocean his wharves, and the Atlantic Sea his familiar port, centres...

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...g and original figure in American letters. And, to sig- nify that peculiar musical quality of Poe’s genius which inthralls every reader, Mr. Lowell su... ...ix. He then was a resident of Rich- mond and a regular contributor to the “Southern Literary Mes- senger.” It was not until a year later that the brid... ..., Poe was connected at various times and in various capaci- ties with the “Southern Literary Messenger” in Richmond, V a.; “Graham’s Magazine” and the... ...uced at a greater cost of brain and spirit. Poe’s initial salary with the “Southern Literary Messenger,” to which he contributed the first drafts of a... ...roper relation of parts, and to draw a correct outline, while the sec- ond groups, fills up and colors. Both of these Mr. Poe has displayed with singu... ...ies of mankind had utterly faded away from the face of the earth. From the rock of Gibraltar, now dwindled into a dim speck, the dark Mediterranean se... ...ould guide me to it, but that it was not a castle nor a tavern, but a high rock. “I offered to pay her well for her trouble, and, after some demur... ...e place. The ‘castle’ consisted of an irregular as- semblage of cliffs and rocks—one of the latter being quite re- markable for its height as well as ...

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...ding amid the green corn, soon lengthened out, and broke up into different groups that loitered to talk. The fiddler walked in front with his violin, ... ...uarters of oranges; and finally , on the upper platform a green field with rocks set in lakes of jam, nutshell boats, and a small Cupid balancing hims... ...side whence it comes, or rather whence it should come—that is to say , the southern side—by the south-eastern winds, which, having cooled themselves ... ...ok it up in the wrapping that enveloped it and began singing softly as she rocked herself to and fro. Leon walked up and down the room; it seemed stra... ...as this shop- keeper. Born a Gascon but bred a Norman, he grafted upon his southern volubility the cunning of the Cauchois. His fat, flabby, beardless... ...ame Homais, and the drug- gist, who was worrying about the danger of stray rockets, and every moment he left the company to go and give some ad- vice ... ...n be- gan to sing— “One night, do you remember, we were sailing,” etc. Her musical but weak voice died away along the waves, and the winds carried off... ...at is to say, the beginning of win- ter, that she seemed seized with great musical fervour. One evening when Charles was listening to her, she began t... ...d, that by inducing madame to study; you are economising on the subsequent musical education of your child. For my own part, I think that mothers ough...

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...le tremors of hope now shook my nerves: if they shook from that inevitable rocking of the waters that follows a storm, so much might be par- doned to ... ...ng is come—when our poor Kate, that had for fifteen years been so tenderly rocked in the arms of St. Sebastian and his daughters, and that hence- fort... ...h this? It was dark; and she stood, as you may see an Etonian do at times, rocking her little boat from side to side, until it had taken in water as m... ...to the morning air. Kate had now no time to send back her compliments in a musical halloo. The Alcalde missed break- ing his neck on this occasion ver... ... be applied to the great constellation of the other hemisphere, called the Southern Cross. It is viewed popularly in South America, and the southern p... ...ked, can exist between this vessel on the Nile and a remote penin- sula of Southern Europe? ‘No matter,’ replied Napoleon; ‘my presentiments never dec... ...ch- ess on being hailed as Dauphiness, was a succession of the most tragic groups from the most awful section of the Gre- cian theatre. The next allia... ...in its most difficult form; whilst Coleridge, trained regularly in a great Southern school, never carried his Latin to any classical polish. There is ... ...ble expression of national ven- eration to the deceased, there was a grand musical service, most admirably performed, at the close of which Kant’s mor...

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...probably scarcely inhabited; but the trees and brushwood or heather of the southern country would have joined the chalk downs, mak- ing part of what t... ...t some beautiful beech-trees; and breaking into peaty, boggy ground on the southern side. The northern side is of good rich loam, favourable to the gr... ...on of Winchester. He was a 50 John Kemble’s Parishes man of great musical talent, and some of his chants are still in use. The only other fac... ... scrolls containing corn and grapes, presided over by angels, and with two groups of kneeling figures; on one side, apparently an Emperor with his cro... ... borders of Hursley Park. It is chiefly of oak, fir, and beech, and on the southern side are the fine arcades of beechwood that Mr. Keble used to call... ...ndsome pinnate leaf—lane at Brambridge, Standon, and in Hursley. Crucifera Rocket (Diplotaxis tenuifolia).—Seen at Brambridge. Charlock (Sinapis arven... ...times double in rich ground. Hairy Cardamine (C. hirsuta).—Hursley. Yellow Rocket (Barbarea vulgaris).—Road near Chandler’s Ford. Near bridge over Itc... ...gnonette (Reseda lutea).—Mignonette all but the perfume—chalk-pits. Dyer’s Rocket (R. luteola).—Slenderer and more spiked; more common. Rock Rose (Hel...

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...r dog, and here and there a priest modestly edging to his Mass through the groups of tourists. But Mr. Emerson was only half interested. He watched th... ...ualled by their desire to go different directions. Finally they split into groups. Lucy clung to Miss Bartlett and Miss Lavish; the Emersons returned ... ... Lucy for several years, but only as a commonplace girl who happened to be musical. He could still remember his depression that after- noon at Rome, w... ... Leonardo more than ever; her sunburnt features were shadowed by fantastic rock; at his words she had turned and stood between him and the light with ... ...mosphere began to alter. Other houses were built on the brow of that steep southern slope and others, again, among the pine-trees behind, and northwar... ...ict me. No doubt I am neither artistic nor literary nor intellec- tual nor musical, but I cannot help the drawing-room furniture; your father bought i... ... “Is it a thing or a person when Freddy sings?” “You can’t expect a really musical person to enjoy comic songs as we do.” “Then why didn’t he leave th... ...ORNER lay, not on the summit of the ridge, but a few hundred feet down the southern slope, at the springing of one of the great buttresses that sup- p...

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...ds of a master, compels a language which is as rich as Greek to be also as musical. The spring of 1773, which witnessed the publication of Götz, saw h... ... with each other; and the streets consequently, in the fine season, wore a southern aspect. One felt at ease while in communica- tion with the public.... ...ains the Jordan, passes over its waters, and spreads himself over the fair southern regions of Palestine. This land was already occupied, and tolerabl... ...occupied, and tolerably well inhabited. Mountains, not extremely high, but rocky and barren, were severed by many watered vales favorable to cultivati... ...distress they have endured, they determine to part. Both, indeed, tarry in Southern Canaan; but while Abraham remains at Hebron, near the wood of Mamr... ...me, huzzas and shoutings are heard from every end and corner; and at night rockets and fire-balls, now here, now there, announce that the people, ever... .... Round this open circle closed the densest thickets, from which the mossy rocks mightily and venerably peered forth, and made a rapid fall for a copi... ... on both the piano and the violin. The second, a true, good soul, likewise musical, enlivened the concerts which were often got up, no less than his e... ...ted them among my other little poems. The father had invented or perfected musical type. He granted me the use of a fine library, which related princi...

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...one from the main building and next to the last. Seating himself in a wicker rocker which was there, he once more applied himself to the task of readi... ...d went out on the porch, where she sat down in the wicker chair and began to rock gently to and fro. It was then past midnight. The cottages were all ... ...longer. The following morning Mr. Pontellier was up in good time to take the rockaway which was to convey him to the steamer at the wharf. He was retu... ...self in her selections. Edna was what she herself called very fond of music. Musical strains, well rendered, had a way of evoking pictures in her mind... ... verse ended with “si tu savais.” Robert’s voice was not pretentious. It was musical and true. The voice, the notes, the whole refrain haunted her mem... ...se, the Ratignolles entertained their friends once a fortnight with a soiree musicale, sometimes diversified by card play ing. There was a friend who... ...ith the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day. She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar ... ...ord seemed real to those who listened. They could feel the hot breath of the Southern night; they could hear the long sweep of the pirogue through the... ...hey were right! The sound of a cannon, shot at Sumter, has rolled across the Southern States, and its echo is heard along the whole stretch of Cote Jo...

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...teppe has tumult and gold ornaments; also many a scene that looks desert and rock bound from the distance, will unfold itself, when visited, into rare... ...y, no History seems to be discoverable; or only such as men give of mountain rocks and antediluvian ruins: That they have been created by unknown agen... ...lls; so that when a man walks, it is with contin ual jingling. Some few, of musical turn, have a whole chime of bells (Glocken 32 SARTOR RESARTUS s... ...hat of practical Reason’ proceeding by large Intuition over whole systematic groups and king doms; whereby, we might say, a noble complexity, almost ... ...d, and marked successively, in gilt China ink, with the sym bols of the Six southern Zodiacal Signs, beginning at Libra; in the inside of which seale... ...tual hand grips with Destiny herself, may have comported himself among these Musical and Literary dilettanti of both sexes, like a hungry lion invited... ...o despica ble firework. Happy, if it indeed proved a Firework, and flamed off rocket wise, in successive beautiful bursts of splendor, each growing nat... ...t engaged in Æsthetic Tea, yet in trustful evening conversation, and perhaps Musical Coffee, for we hear of “harps and pure voices making the stillnes...

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... of Zion. Here, a broad, deep, circumvallatory trench, hewn from the solid rock, was defended by a wall of great strength erected upon its in- ner edg... ... arisen from sweet dreams of one beloved to bathe in the aromatic air of a southern mid- summer night. One of the finest poems by Willis—the very best... ...billows excite an emotion, It is that they bear me from thee. Though the rock of my last hope is shivered, And its fragments are sunk in the wave,... ...nge music of the waves Beating on these hollow caves, This black den which rocks emboss, Overgrown with eldest moss, The rude portals that give light ... ...me, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, b... ...y dripping, drop by drop, Upon the quiet mountain top. Steals drowsily and musically Into the univeral valley. The rosemary nods upon the grave; The l... ...s to its fate, Poe presented a copy of “Annabel Lee” to the editor of the “Southern Literary Mes- senger,” who published it in the November number of ... ...hese lines are but slightly varied from those inscribed “To Mary,” in the “Southern Liter- ary Messenger” for July, 1835, and subsequently republished... ...s in that happy valley, Through two luminous windows, saw Spirits moving musically, To a lute’s well-tuned law, Round about a throne where, sittin...

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...e. “How beautiful they are!” mused Codlingsby, as he surveyed these placid groups calmly taking their pleasure in the sunset. “D’you vant to look at a... ... each began to look out with some anxiety for the preconcerted signal, the rocket from Sir Hussey Vivian’s quar- ters, which was to announce the recom... ...i- ties. It came just as the moon rose in her silver splendor, and ere the rocket-stick fell quivering to the earth at the feet of General Picton and ... ...e?), and the gallant Potztausend, with his Hanoverian veterans. The second rocket flew up. “Forward, Onety-oneth!” cried I, in a voice of thunder. “Ki... ... that there was a person by 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 ... ...as the evening of the 27th March, 1199, indeed—his Majesty, who was in the musical mood, treated the court with a quantity of his so-called compositio... ...e him; the western tower was in flames; the besiegers were pressing at the southern gate; Athelstane’s banner, the bull rampant, was still on the nort...

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...e the aeroplane routes along the line of the world’s coast- lines and lake groups and waterways. The airmen will go to and fro over water as the midge... ...ds of feet up into the sky, the air is more irregular than a torrent among rocks; it is—if only we could see it—a waving, whirling, eddying, flamboyan... ...of adapting itself to them has been no more than patching. Individuals and groups and trades have found themselves in imperfectly apprehended and diff... ...e a general form for it. Every art nowadays must steer its way between the rocks of trivial and degrading standards and the whirlpool of arbitrary and... .... All that fine talk, without some further exposition, goes to sustain Mr. Rockefeller’s simple human love of property, and the woman and child sweati... ...esearch would pack into a very small room, that they are working in little groups without any properly organised system of intercom- munication, and t... ...versal 206 An Englishman Looks at the World simple democratic car. In the Southern States, however, a proportion of these simple democratic cars are ... ...ays been his dream to have a piano. The youngest girl, he is convinced, is musical. As a man who has knocked about the world and has thought, he quite...

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...found oc- 12 Bride of Lammermoor cupying, like ospreys’ nests, projecting rocks, or promonto- ries, in many parts of the eastern coast of Scotland, a... ...tt “So, Lucy,” said her father, entering as her song was ended, “does your musical philosopher teach you to contmn the world before you know it? That ... ...arm in arm, by a noble avenue overarched by embowering elms, beneath which groups of the fallow- deer were seen to stray in distant perspective. As th... ...hem, and then gradually glided away from the prospect to lose itself among rocks and thickets, and guide to scenes of deeper seclusion. It was when pa... ...state of its inhabitant. The cottage was situated immediately under a tall rock, which in some measure beetled over it, as if threatening to drop some... ...t long before any help could reach them.” “ And they deserved it weel, the southern loons!” said Caleb; “what had they ado capering on our sands, and ... ...tagenarian sibyl. The pair had hobbled into the garden to gather rosemary, southernwood, rue, and other plants proper to be strewed upon the body, and... ...d be celebrated with all manner of good cheer, and meeting of friends, and musical instruments—harp, sackbut, and psal- tery; or gude fiddle and pipes...

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...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... ...understand—Tolstoy’s too... a si- multaneous expedition.... But what’s the southern army to do? Prussia is neutral... I know that. What about Aus- tri... ...aters of the confluence of the Enns and the Danube became visible, and the rocky left bank of the Danube covered with pine forests, with a mystic back... ... sat Count Langeron who, with a subtle smile that never left his typically southern French face during the whole time of the reading, gazed at his del... ...king into the nursery. Princess Mary was still standing by the cot, gently rock- ing the baby. “Ah yes, and what else did he say that’s unpleasant?” t... ...ording to his understanding of his master, would touch and delude him. The southern spring, the comfortable rapid traveling in a Vienna carriage, and ... ... use? Come now for the last time.” 237 Tolstoy Two girlish voices sang a musical passage—the end of some song. “Oh, how lovely! Now go to sleep, and... ...ed her first exercise she stood still in the middle of the room and sang a musical phrase that particularly 269 Tolstoy pleased her. She listened joy... ...sandth time and lay down. But hardly had he done so before he felt the bed rocking backwards and for- wards beneath him as if it were breathing heavil...

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...low stool, unable to occupy herself ex- cept in meditation, said, with the musical intonation which in moments of deep but quiet feeling made her spee... ...grouped in consequence; while a few personages or families that stood with rocky firmness amid all this fluctuation, were slowly presenting new aspect... ... that young lady for mental acquisition and propriety of speech, while her musical execution was quite exceptional. We cannot help the way in which pe... ...noted Kapellmeister in a country which offers more plentiful conditions of musical celebrity. Rosamond, with the executant’s instinct, had seized his ... ...other which were exceptionally fine, and made his character resemble those southern landscapes which seem divided between natural gran- deur and socia... ...enables a white soft living substance to make its way in spite of opposing rock. Papa was not a rock: he had no other fixity than that fixity of alter... ...ine scheme? And was he after all to become a mere stone of stumbling and a rock of offence? For who would understand the work within him? Who would no... ...ught of shutting up The Shrubs for a few months, and taking a house on the Southern Coast. Hence Mr. Garth got the assurance he desired, namely, that ... ...London crowd, and push myself; set up in a wa- tering-place, or go to some southern town where there are plenty of idle English, and get myself puffed...

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...a low stool, unable to occupy herself except in meditation, said, with the musical intonation which in moments of deep but quiet feeling made her spee... ...ouped in con sequence; while a few personages or families that stood with rocky firmness amid all this fluctuation, were slowly presenting new aspects ... ... that young lady for mental acquisition and propriety of speech, while her musical execution was quite exceptional. We cannot help the way in which pe... ...noted Kapellmeister in a country which offers more plentiful conditions of musical celebrity. Rosamond, with the executant’s instinct, had seized his ... ...rother which were exceptionally fine, and made his character resemble those southern landscapes which seem divided between natural grandeur and social ... ...enables a white soft living substance to make its way in spite of opposing rock. Papa was not a rock: he had no other fixity than that fixity of alterna... ...ine scheme? And was he after all to become a mere stone of stumbling and a rock of offence? For who would understand the work within him? Who would no... ...ught of shutting up The Shrubs for a few months, and taking a house on the Southern Coast. Hence Mr. Garth got the assurance he desired, namely, that ... ...e London crowd, and push myself; set up in a watering place, or go to some southern town where there are plenty of idle English, and get myself puffed...