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...f the oratorio of “Purgatorio,” which made such an immense sensa- tion, of songs and ballet-musics innumerable. He is a German by birth, and shows suc... ...ars afterwards, neither the liquor, nor the play, nor the delightful comic songs at the cel- lars, could drive Mrs. Walker out of his head, and the me... ...’s Wives ingly. She sat down, and played him that evening every one of the songs which he liked—the old songs—none of your Ital- ian stuff. Podmore, t... ... Alarmed; or, the Siege of Bergen-op-Zoom,” etc. etc.), and, of course, of songs which had considerable suc- 93 Thackeray cess in their day, but are ... ...terary man, quite appeased. “Silence! they’re beginning another song.” The songs, which I don’t attempt to describe (and, upon my word and honour, as ... ...ber that it has been modelled on the style of the very best writers of the sporting papers. 124 Men’s Wives * * * 4th round. Claret drawn in ...

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...pine. “The song itself is intended as an imitation of the jorrams, or boat songs, of the Highlanders, which were usually composed in honor of a favori... ...he snood, nor advanced to the graver dignity of the curch. In old Scottish songs there occur many sly allusions to such misfortune; as in the old word... ...ous Danish ballad which occurs in the Kaempe Viser, a collection of heroic songs first published in 1591, 183 Sir Walter Scott and reprinted in 1695,... ...‘In the year before the great rebellion, two young men from Newcastle were sporting on the high moors above Eldson, and after pursuing their game seve... ...lic at such 208 The Lady of the Lake festivals as we are describing. This sporting, in which kings did not disdain to be actors, was prohibited in Sc... ...nd in the Preliminary Dissertation to the late Mr. Ritson’s edition of the songs respecting this memorable out- law. The game of Robin Hood was usuall... ...inage of his several palaces in various disguises. The two excellent comic songs entitled The Gaberlunzie Man and We’ll gae nae mair a roving are said...

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...ch Dobbin had bought for her, and sang over all her father’s favourite old songs. She pronounced the tea to be excellent, and praised the exquisite ta... ...’s drawing-room singing sweetly to her, in the twilight, her little simple songs and hymns, while the sun was setting and the sea was roaring on the b... ... cousin the decanter to “buzz.” “Killing rats was I? Well, Pitt, are you a sporting man? Do you want to see a dawg as can kill a rat? If you do, come ... ...nick-knacks from Paris, by Rebecca: and when she sat at her piano trilling songs with a lightsome heart, the stranger voted himself in a little paradi... ...er drawing-room, she sat down to the piano and began to sing little French songs in such a charming, thrilling voice that the mollified nobleman speed... ... the Prince of Wales. Fox had toasted her. Morris and Sheridan had written songs about her. Malmesbury had made her his best bow; Walpole had pronounc... ...me of his clothes, papers, handkerchiefs, whips and caps, fishing-rods and sporting gear, were still there. An Army list of 1814, with his name writte...

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...f kings, with a glittering crown, clad in the yellow girdled robes, and he sporting a fine pro- fusion of hair, unequalled by all around him, save by ... ...mid- night. Not before the moon of midnight was in the sky ceased Bhanavar sporting with the serpents, and she sank to sleep exhausted in their midst.... ...filling the cool air with deliciousness, and he heard in the gardens below songs of the bulbul: it was like a dream to his soul, and he lay somewhile ... ...-twenty. The damsels laughed and flung back their locks at his flat- tery, sporting with him; and he thought, ‘These be sweet maidens! I will know if ... ... planet? Can a fate sever us?—can it, ah! can it? And she sang tender songs to him, mazing him with blan- dishments, so that the aim of existence... ... his rever- ence for her wisdom; and of the glory of his reign, and of the Songs and Sentences of Noorna, and of his Laws for the protection and uphol...

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...rless as this serenest night: Here could I hope, like some inquiring child Sporting on graves, that death did hide from human sight Sweet secrets, or ... ...: _10 In honoured poverty thy voice did weave Songs consecrate to truth and liberty,— Deserting these, thou leavest me to... ...e, Which scarce hides thy visage wan;— That a tempest-cleaving Swan Of the songs of Albion, _175 Driven... ...hat is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. _90 Yet if we could scorn Hat... ...ations lay; And England’s prophets hailed thee as their queen, _145 In songs whose music cannot pass away, Though it must flow forever: not unseen... ... _50 And some of April buds and showers, And some of songs in July bowers, And all of love; and so this tree,— O that such our d...

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...ry instructor was a retired minister. He was sarcastic today. He begged of sporting young Mr. Charley Holmberg, “Now Charles, would it interrupt your ... ...ght.” “Course you haven’t, child. Well, I’m Sam Clark, dealer in hardware, sporting goods, cream separators, and al- most any kind of heavy junk you c... ...ale beer, and thick voices bellow- ing pidgin German or trolling out dirty songs—vice gone feeble and unenterprising and dull—the delicacy of a min- i... ...en Spaces, that’s what I’m going out for. I’ll never read anything but the sporting- page again. Will converted me on our Colorado trip. There were so... ...or of brocade panels and cham- pagne and tulle and crystal chandeliers and sporting duch- esses. Carol saw that George Edwin Mott and the blanched Mr.... ...otion, full of metaphysical concepts veiled from Carol. All winter he read sporting- catalogues, and thought about remarkable past shots: “ ‘Member th... ...er start back now?” He mused, “You’re younger than I am. Your lips are for songs about rivers in the morning and lakes at twilight. I don’t see how an... ...e Haydocks…I think I could. “I’ll take back the sound of Yvette Guilbert’s songs and Elman’s violin. They’ll be only the lovelier against the thrummin... ...s friends. She remembered that Kennicott and Sam Clark had listened to her songs, and she wanted to 454 Main Street run to them and sing. “At last,” ...

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...h,” said little Hartopp. “Observe the ethics of it, Prout.”) “Oh, you were sporting with them, were you? I must say I do not envy you your choice of a... ... little tales of a heady and bewildering nature, interspersed with unusual songs— Peacock was that writer’s name; there was Borrow’s “Lavengro”; an od... ...h other’s rooms, talking, calling, shouting, and anon waltzing by pairs to songs of Dick Four’s own devising. There were sixty years of mixed work to ... ...ad- parties went to work, as per Political survey.” “Had some rippin’ sing-songs in camp, too,” said T ertius. “My pup”—thus did Dick Four refer to hi... ...refer to his subaltern— ”was a pious little beast. He didn’t like the sing-songs, and so he went down with pneumonia. I rootled round the camp, and fo...

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...nth. “And a very fashionable young man,” he went on, “distinguished in the sporting world.” “An excellent good fellow, with plenty of pluck,” said Har... ...he fancied he had made for himself. He had learnt something of Mr. Tracy’s sporting renown, and saw himself introduced to all the hunt- ing world of t... ...m, kneeling when they knelt, adding his deep bass to the curate’s in their songs, respond- ing with them, picking up the sleepy and fretful to sit on ... ...being exactly the companion for an un- chaperoned young lady, far less his sporting friends, or that young man who had been Dr. Kingston’s partner. He... ...d away from me, showed me her foreign purchases, or sang snatches of comic songs. Dermot went at last to consult the same doctor to whom, half a year ...

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... anything.” II They were buying their Maine tackle at Ijams Brothers’, the Sporting Goods Mart, with the help of Willis Ijams, 122 Babbitt fellow mem... ...ap is between dry flies and wet flies. Personally, I’m for dry flies. More sporting.” “That’s so. Lots more sporting,” fulminated Babbitt, who knew ve... ...the sob-stuff,” said W. A. Rogers genially. “You boys know I’m the village songster? Come on now sing up: Said the old Obadiah to the young Obadiah, ‘... ... and restrained, in the hotel lounge, while a young woman violinist played songs from the German via Broadway. Then Babbitt’s own mother came down fro... ...uced them pub- licly. “This tall red-headed piece of misinformation is the sporting editor of the Press,” said Willis Ijams; and H. H. Hazen, the drug... ...overed agreeable opportunities for it everywhere. He had a new view of his sporting neighbor, Sam Doppelbrau. The Doppelbraus were respectable people,... ...ed with people whom he despised! To have said foolish things, sung idiotic songs, tried to kiss silly girls! Incredulously he remembered that he had b...

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...ther could not know how he disposed of his time, namely, in a low style of sporting with young Tritton, the son of a rich farmer or half-gentleman, wh... ...rcial school, and lived on his father’s farm, giving himself the airs of a sporting charac- ter, and fast hurrying into dissipation. He was really goo... ...elt on his kind- ness with warmth and gratitude, and on his prowess in all sporting accomplishments with a perfect effervescence of admiration. He evi... ...him know that his son had been at the races— village races, managed by the sporting farmers of the neighbourhood. There was a sense of despair, and ag... ...on and a friend, who had driven in to hear a man from London singing comic songs at the King’s Head, and they had persuaded him to come in. He had bee... ... enraptured at the discovery that this most accomplished hero sang Italian songs to the loveliest guitar in the world, and was very much offended with... ...that Mr. Kendal’s smile grew broad. It was the funniest thing to see Ulick sporting with Sophy’s gravity, constraining her to playfulness, with someth...

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...ch. But it was the music that was most touch- ing I thought,—the sweet old songs of home. There was a considerable company assembled:near a hun- dred ... ...y, screaming “yallah” with the most frightful shrieks, and singing country songs— galloped along ahead of me. I acquired one of his poems pretty well,... ...ht have been an avenue of Pompey’s Pillars within reach, and a live sphinx sporting on the banks of the Mahmoodieh Canal, and we would not have stirre...

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...dangers of the deep, and kindred matters; but as the gray east began to redden and the mysterious solemnity and silence of the dawn to give place to t... ...of the Rhine (The Lorelei) THE LAST LEGEND REMINDS ONE of the “Lorelei”—a legend of the Rhine. There is a song called “The Lorelei.” Germany is rich i... ...word LIE) in the Rhine, and lure boatmen to destruction in a furi- ous rapid which marred the channel at that spot. She so bewitched them with her pla... ...n the evening before his departure, as he wished still once to visit the Lei and offer to the Nymph of the Rhine his Sighs, the tones of his Zither, a... ...r’s horn, the distressed bayings of his dogs, and the solemn chanting of the monks; it rose again, with a jubilant ring, and mingled itself with the c... ...ceedings of higher courts; no information about prize-fights or other dog-fights, horse- races, walking-machines, yachting-contents, rifle-matches, or...

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..., for those that gave the bride or escorted her or otherwise were present, sportingly to say Talasius, intimating that she was henceforth to serve in ... ...e trophy resting erect upon his right shoulder, and so marched on, singing songs of triumph, and his whole army following after, the citizens all rece... ...e performed the part of one of the ablest lawgivers in the world. The very songs which he composed were exhortations to obedience and concord, and the... ...dance, too, in that con- dition, at certain solemn feasts, singing certain songs, whilst the young men stood around, seeing and hearing them. On these... ...an their habits of grace and good breeding in conversation. And their very songs had a life and spirit in them that inflamed and possessed men’s minds... ... a drunken man is; they made them to dance low dances, and sing ridiculous songs, forbid- ding them expressly to meddle with any of a better kind. And... ... of Greece, which was not yet lost. The Ephori, hearing this, made show of sporting all day, and of carelessly keeping holy day, (for they were then c...

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... pointer always came that way , with a view to the Stock Exchange, where a sporting taste (originating generally in bets of new hats) is much in vogue... ...ots had furnished a choice set of apartments; had established among them a sporting bower, embellished with the portraits of winning horses, in which ... ...ed across, without any further contemplation of Mrs Richards’ s bane’ That sporting character, unconscious of their approach, again whistled with his ... ...e spire among the wood—or upwards in the sunny air, where butterflies were sporting round his head, and birds were pouring out their songs—or downward... ...butterflies were sporting round his head, and birds were pouring out their songs—or downward, where the shadows of the branches interlaced, and made a...

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...u- ary of peace sheltering the calm existence of Sulaco. The variable airs sporting lightly with the vast semi- circle of waters within the head of Az... ... forehead. His high rank always procured an audience of Caballeros for his sporting stories, which he detailed very well with a simple, grave enjoymen... ...remember him visiting at our house in Paris some three years ago) thrust a sporting gun into my hands. They were already firing from the windows. Ther... ...ada of the Mexican Domingo; or to sit in the place of honour, listening to songs and looking at dances, made it appear to him as a town that had no ex... ...land. The labouring gangs returned to port every evening, sing- ing chorus songs in the empty lighters towed by a harbour tug. For the moment he had n...

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... wind. “Blessings on his going!” thought Luigi, and sang one of his street-songs:— “O lemons, lemons, what a taste you leave in the mouth! I desire yo... ... blood is up. A T yrolese regiment passed, singing splen- didly in chorus. Songs of sentiment prevailed, but the tradi- tions of a soldier’s experienc... ...ry; one that played its tune according to its nature, shaping no ac- tion, sporting no mask. If you know what is meant by that phrase, a conquered hea... ... only true reply.” During this tirade, Vittoria was singing one of her old songs, well known to Wilfrid, which brought the vision of a foam- ing weir,... ...y which four of them stood, and, lifting hands, sang one of their mountain songs, that seemed to her to spring like clear water into air, and fall wav...

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...Well, old John, what do you think of the music? as good as one of your war-songs, ha?” “Good!” said Mohegan, who had been sharing deeply in the potati... ...o others. Horses were loaded with the dead; and, after this first burst of sporting, the shooting of pigeons became a business, with a few idlers, for... ...en were all to be seen enlivening the fields with their presence and their songs; while the soaring fish-hawk was al- ready hovering over the waters o... ... with the winds. “ “ Ah! he has abandoned that vain relic of paganism, his songs,” cried the divine; “ what says he now? is he sensible of his lost st...

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...nd 140 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall favoured him with two of his favourite songs, in such supe- rior style that even I soon lost my anger in admiratio... ...en hearty together,— Lowborough giving us mad toasts, and hearing our wild songs, and bearing a hand in the applause, if he did not help us to sing th... ...as so few sources of amusement: he never reads anything but newspapers and sporting magazines; and when he sees me oc- cupied with a book, he won’t le... ...power to awaken similar fervour. I can amuse and please him with my simple songs, but not delight him thus. 28TH.—Yesterday, we all went to the Grove,...

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...as so unused to see the sunrise, that she hailed it with one of her finest songs. Her attitude, quite as much as her tinsel, drew the peasants about h... ...- tary scenes, was heated by a porcelain stove, on each side of which were sporting-guns suspended on the walls. These adornments, which cost but litt... ...bird it was, sang its au- tumn song, its farewell song, to which the other songsters listened,—a song welcome to love, and heard by every organ of the...

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...h his red wine. His English was difficult to understand, but he could sing songs in his own language about ah-moor—Ah-moor means love, in French—Shaw.... ... “Not much,” replied Carter, negligently. “There are a few muskets and two sporting guns aft; that’s about all—I fancy it’s too much, or not enough,” ...