...ulty; and a composition in needlework representing fruit, a kettle, and an alphabet. All the movables, from the wardrobes to the chairs and tables, ha... ...as enthralled by Ada’s singing and told me that she seemed to know all the songs that ever were writ ten—and Mr. Jarndyce, and I were the audience. A... ... instructing and that counsel appearing for B; and so on through the whole alphabet, like the history of the apple pie. And thus, through years and ye... ...outhful voices with having boiled a boy, choruses frag ments of a popular song to that effect and importing that the boy was made into soup for the w... ...pular, commends him highly to the jurymen and public, observing that for a song in character he don’t know his equal and that that man’s character war... ...me dirty playbills; and against the wall were pasted several large printed alphabets in several plain hands. “What are you doing here?” asked my guard... ...an to walk about. Mr. Skimpole played the melody of one of Ada’s favourite songs. Ada and I both looked at Mr. Jarndyce, think ing that we knew what ... ...hed, or to playing fragments of airs on the piano, or to singing scraps of songs, or to lying down on his back under a tree and looking at the sky—whi...

...ulty; and a composition in needlework representing fruit, a kettle, and an alphabet. All the movables, from the wardrobes to the chairs and tables, ha... ...as enthralled by Ada’s singing and told me that she seemed to know all the songs that ever were writ ten—and Mr. Jarndyce, and I were the audience. A... ... instructing and that counsel appearing for B; and so on through the whole alphabet, like the history of the apple pie. And thus, through years and ye... ...outhful voices with having boiled a boy, choruses frag ments of a popular song to that effect and importing that the boy was made into soup for the w... ...pular, commends him highly to the jurymen and public, observing that for a song in character he don’t know his equal and that that man’s character war... ...me dirty playbills; and against the wall were pasted several large printed alphabets in several plain hands. “What are you doing here?” asked my guard... ...an to walk about. Mr. Skimpole played the melody of one of Ada’s favourite songs. Ada and I both looked at Mr. Jarndyce, think ing that we knew what ... ...hed, or to playing fragments of airs on the piano, or to singing scraps of songs, or to lying down on his back under a tree and looking at the sky—whi...

...ng to its end being all settled beforehand, still I have no doubt of our getting on capitally then, when it’s done and can’t be helped. In short, Jack... ...nd that lady passively claimed that sort of exhibitor’s proprietorship in the accomplishment on view, which Mr. Tope, the Verger, daily claimed in the... ...eing infectious, makes him red-hot. Mr. Jasper, still walking in the centre, hand to 75 Charles Dickens shoulder on either side, beautifully turns th... ...d, if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet – or seem likely to do it, in this state of existence – and few languages ... ...quities and ruins are surpassingly beautiful, with a lusty ivy gleaming in the sun, and the rich trees waving in the balmy air. Changes of glorious li...

...fluence on that hoarse companion, it was but to make him roar his cheerful song the louder, and by consequence to make the fire burn the brighter, and... ... Dragon! Skittles, cricket, quoits, 68 Martin Chuzzlewit nine-pins, comic songs, choruses, company round the chimney corner every winter’s evening. A... ...eman of a theatrical turn recites. The vocal gentleman regales them with a song. Gander leaves the Gander of all former feasts whole leagues behind. H... ...e the youngest gentleman alone. He asked him distinctly, before the second song began—as a personal favour too, mark the villain in that—not to play. ... ...wning interest was at hand. The gentleman of a literary turn had written a song on the departure of the ladies, and adapted it to an old tune. They al... ...within five minutes’ walk of the Royal Exchange. Even those letters of the alphabet who are always running away from their friends and being entreated...

...birds in a pye;’ ‘Which pye being open’d they began to sing’ (This old song and new simile holds good), ‘A dainty dish to set before the King,... ...es the word Miltonic’ mean ‘sublime, ’ He deign’d not to belie his soul in songs, Nor turn his very talent to a crime; He did not loathe the S... ...ntime, Sir Laureate, I proceed to dedicate, In honest simple verse, this song to you. And, if in flattering strains I do not predicate, ‘T i... ...ling. She knew the Latin — that is, ‘the Lord’s prayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances here and the... ...nd said there was analogy between ‘em; She proved it somehow out of sacred song, But I must leave the proofs to those who ‘ve seen ‘em; But th... ...o hymn Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample: But Virgil’s songs are pure, except that horrid one Beginning with ‘Formosum Pastor ... ...rom the same clime With Hannibal, and wears the Tyrian tunic Of Dido’s alphabet; and this is rational As any other notion, and not national);—...

...er minds and livelier manners we may escape, as it were, into daylight and song from a land of fog-horns. Shall we read it by the watchmaker’s eye in ... ...s hearing from sun- rise to the setting of the moon salutes in his honour, songs of praise and Ciceronian eulogy. Rich, handsome, courteous, generous,... ...ent, a valiance. He has it as Cicero had a tongue. It is a lute to scatter songs to his mistress; a rapier, is she obdurate. In sooth a leg with brain... ... Patterne Park. His girl was portionless and a poetess. Her writing of the song in 16 The Egoist celebration of the young baronet’s birthday was thou... ...elf if I have not been popular among them. I could not sing their national song—if a congery of states be a nation—and I must confess I listened with ... ...hem into human speech might likewise venture to propose an addition to the alphabet and a continuation of Homer. The one performance would be not more... ...umentally, a land-mark of the tough and honest old Ages, with the symbolic alphabet of striking arms and running legs, our early language, scrawled ov...

...Where? Unlike Alphabet Time Free of All Fire Sacred Night Air Clay Portrait Presence Time Whales Brushstrokes Kingfisher Mind, the Maker Dance Afloat Wild Blue Eye The Value Your Mind After This Intensity The Photogra...

...dicated, save in the above imperfect manner, without the aid of a phonetic alphabet. He is dressed in some- body else’s very second best as a coast-gu... ...hese eyes; and I am one of the few men living who can decipher the curious alphabet in which he writes his private letters. The man is on public recor... ... a special example of him, as far as that can be done without a pho- netic alphabet, for the benefit of the mass of readers outside London who still f... ...’s cockney dialogues in Punch, a great advance, and Mr. Chevalier’s coster songs and patter. The T ompkins verses contributed by Mr. Barry Pain to the...