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...or a minute in the midst of one of our church liturgies to hear a drinking-song. And it will be argued, that a man need be less thankful because, at t... ...ry Thorne—his Mary and Sir Louis Scatcherd? Between the alpha of the whole alphabet, and him whom he could not but regard as the omega! Think of it! W...

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.................................................................... 8 II – A SONG OF THE ROAD ............................................................. ...ity in all that touches dialect; so that in every novel the letters of the alphabet are tor- tured, and the reader wearied, to commemorate shades of m... ...sing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore! II – A SONG OF THE ROAD The gauger walked with willing foot, And aye the gauger pl... ...outh now flees on feathered foot Faint and fainter sounds the flute, Rarer songs of gods; and still Somewhere on the sunny hill, Or along the winding ... ...ve The hum of city cabs that sought the Bois, Suburban ashes shivered into song. A patter and a chatter and a chirp And a long dying hiss – it was as ... ... your fortune lead Forever by the crooks of Tweed, Forever by the woods of song And lands that to the Muse belong; Or if in peopled streets, or in The...

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...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);—...

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...ith a flourish of the whip, the man broke into a sort of endless, drawling song. In that song everything had a place. By “everything” I mean both the ... ...sants were engaged in whitewashing the ceiling and drawling out an endless song as they splashed their stuff about the floor. Hastily bid- ding peasan... ...hird in topsy- turvy characters of a kind never before seen in the Russian alphabet, and so forth. Meanwhile our friend Ivan Antonovitch comported him... ...gers, to dance around Chichikov’s chair, and to sing snatches of a popular song. To the champagne succeeded Hungar- ian wine, which had the effect of ... ... me to you? Why does there ceaselessly echo and re-echo in my ears the sad song which hovers throughout the length and the breadth of your borders? Wh... ...out the length and the breadth of your borders? What is the burden of that song? Why does it wail and sob and catch at my heart? What say the notes wh... ...t themselves properly, even if they fail to learn a single letter of their alphabet: whereas to those in whom I may perceive a tendency to jocularity ...

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...’ ‘N—not exactly so, sir,’ said Mr Wegg. ‘Why, you know every one of these songs by name and by 51 Charles Dickens tune, and if you want to read or t... ...sive? If not re- mote enough, I can go remoter. In the words of the poet’s song, which I do not quite remember: Thrown on the wide world, doom’ d to ... ...to know or to want to know. Like the Miller of questionable jollity in the song, They cared for Nobody, no not they, and Nobody cared for them. After ... ...n IN the house. ‘Well Lizzie-Mizzie-Wizzie,’ said she, breaking off in her song. ‘what’s the news out of doors?’ ‘What’s the news in doors?’ returned ... ...d the old man went his different way up-stairs. As he mounted, the call or song began to sound in his ears again, and, looking above, he saw the face ... ...Miss Peecher’s tuition were half a year ahead of every other letter in the alphabet. And Mental Arithmetic, administered by Miss Peecher, often devote...

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... the ground-floor 125 Dumas of this house came a noise, or rather a confusion of voices, like the chirping of young birds when the brood is just hatc... ...the children tried to take away, with battles more fierce than those of the Greeks endeavoring to recover the body of Patroclus from the hands of the ... ... did it take place?” “A month back.” “Oh! then there is no time lost. Aramis cannot yet have wanted me. But how is it, Bazin, you do not follow your m... ...hich will not be willing to belie its acts.” “Planchet,” said D’Artagnan, “you argue like a cheese! The nation — the nation is tired of these gentleme... ...times? Well those were good times.” “Not too good, not too good! I was near being hung in those times.” “Well, but you were not.” “No.” “And you laid ... ...said Planchet, increasing his attention; “let us see your plan. But in the first place it seems to me we are forgetting something.” “What is that?” “W... ...r pos- sible, “I am not an enemy of jesting, my dear Monsieur d’Artagnan; my soldiers will tell you that even many times in camp, I listened very indi... ... reclined upon beds of moss, to the great damage of velvet clothes and curled heads, into which little dried leaves and blades of grass insinuated the...

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... a Frenchman or Englishman learning Russian is the difficult and confusing alphabet; the chief obstacle to anyone learning English is the irrational s... ...ngua franca of which the world has need. And in the same way, the phonetic alphabet adopted as the English medium could be used as the medium for in- ... ...ian letter- ing—I speak from the point of view of those who read the Latin alphabet. How confusing it may be only those who have tried it can tell. It... ...l the instruction in Russian of which I can get an account begins with the alphabet, and must, I suppose, begin with the alphabet until teachers have ... ...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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... the stage, because no hero known to history ever summoned a garrison in a song, or changed a battery in a semichorus. In this argument lies an ignora... ...tand- ing in civil life or in science be represented by the letters of the alphabet; in Grecian life each man would separately go through all the lett...

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......................................................................... 124 SONG, ........................................................................ ...k trot. And there is not even a point of comparison between his sweet sing-song, and the wavy, snow-like, spirit-like motion of Milton’s loftier passa... ...le into the far depths of the woods, where she is pouring out her heart in song, he says— “And with thee fade away into the forest dim?” The “Essay on... ...pp’d with kisses my enchanting tongue, And found my kisses sweeter than my song, In all I pleased, but most in what was best; And the last joy was dea... ...bs bedew. For thee the fading trees appear to mourn, And birds defer their songs till thy return: Night shades the groves, and all in silence lie, All... ...thor of something yet more great than letter; 400 While towering o’er your alphabet, like Saul, Stands our digamma, 401 and o’ertops them all. ‘’Tis ...

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...erstein stood out. Jordi showed a dogged ability to track down obscure 1950s songs that was almost scary. Addi- tional thanks go to Jennifer Ma, Tolu ... ..., musicians, and writers can take their unique visions, histories, poems, or songs to the world— and make a living doing so if their work finds favor. ... ... culture. No one is reprinting the books, screening the films, or playing the songs. No one is allowed to. In fact, we may not even know who holds the ... ...hen comes the Internet. Right now, you can search for those books or films or songs and have the location of the work instantly displayed, as well as a... ...n staring at an infinite roll of paper tape. On the paper are symbols in some alphabet or number system. The reader carries out simple, The Enclosure o... ...e, has four “base pairs”— A, C, G, and T . Scientists have developed genetic alphabets that involve twelve base pairs. Not only is the result not foun... ...ry. Even though the rules would have allowed the equivalent of patenting the alphabet, the very maturity of the field minimized the disruption such pat... ...ithout data, the “more is better” idea is obviously flawed. Copyrighting the alphabet will not produce more books. Patenting E = mc 2 will not yield m... ...ase. A white pages directory is a database of names and numbers, compiled in alphabetical order by name. Does anyone have an intellectual property rig...

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...tate to add the wanton music of Timotheus, jealous of chastity, and thus the song of the merry maker and not the chant of the mourner is become the of... ...armony, as, brutally scourged by the harrying furies of war, he utters not a song but the wailings of a dove. We mourn, too, for Zeno, who lest he sho... ...wrote. For Julius put the fourth letter for the first, and so on through the alphabet; whilst Augustus used the second for the first, the third for th... ...wherever they find an extra margin about the text, furnish it with monstrous alphabets, or if any other frivolity strikes their fancy, at once their p...

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...es from Crete to prepare and mollify the Spar tan surliness with his smooth songs and odes, the bet ter to plant among them law and civility, it is ... ...tion and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. No music must be heard, no song be set or sung, but what is grave and Doric. There must be licensing... ...ended with their uses, motives, marks, and means, out of which, as out of an alphabet, or sol fa, by forming and transforming, joining and disjoining ... ... Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, ‘Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night,... ...st melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even song; And, missing thee,I walk unseen On the dry smooth shaven green, To ... ... And listen why; for I will tell you now What never yet was heard in tale or song, From old or modern bard, in hall or bower. Bacchus, that first from...

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...y or another. Jetter. Then we may not even sing the new psalms; but ribald songs, as many as we please. And why? There is heresy in them, they say, an... ...hooses. (Aloud to Ruysum.) There is nothing more harmless than a spiritual song—Is there, fa- ther? Ruysum. What, indeed! It is a godly work, and trul... ...ra. Nonsense! Come and hold! Mother (knitting in her arm-chair). Give us a song! Brackenburg sings so good a second. You used to be merry once, and I ... ...burg. As you please. Clara. Merrily, then, and sing away! ’Tis a soldier’s song, my favourite. (She winds yarn, and sings with Brackenburg.) The drum ... ..., me! 20 Egmont What heart-thrilling rapture A soldier to be! (During the song, Brackenburg has frequently looked at Clara; at length his voice falte... ... his sake? Soest. Eh! Vansen (mimicking them). Eh! Oh! Ah! Run through the alphabet in your wonderment. So it is, and so it will remain. Heaven help h...

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...tles the Un quenchable sprang to his feet and struck up his favorite drinking song: — “There ’s Henry Ward Beecher And Sunday school teachers, All dr... ... work; the men of the camps and trails unbent in its genial glow, and jest and song and tales of past adventure went round the board. Aliens from a do... ...seems the main point in life. Weatherbee flatted every third note and sang such songs as “The Boston Burglar” and “The Handsome Cabin Boy,” for hours a... ... two men had lived seeming aeons in this ghostly peace. They could remember no song of the past; they could conjure no song of the future. This uneart... ... in the sand and did not move. And they raised the sails to the sound of their songs, and the An Odyssey of the North 75 ship went away on the wind. ... ...e was tougher ’n rawhide, but weak. And he did n’t know the first letter in the alphabet of boxing. Prayne chopped him to ribbons. But he hung on for t...

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...to see it well got up for once, if only by amateurs. Miranda has a capital song by Uncle Bill, made for Francie’s soprano. She cuts you all out, Anna.... ...hat belonged to authorship, “so that there could be any amount of Scottish songs. Prospero is an old Highland chief, who has been set adrift with his ... ...g e “But who were the wreckers?” asked Anna. “Buccaneers, my dear, singing songs out of the ‘Pirate’— schoolmaster, organist, and choir generally. The... ...Whigs) by the leg, while the exiled fellow was Jacobite, so as to have the songs dear to the feminine mind. They get wrecked on the island, and are te... ...ur was over Briggs, a retired purser, who had always had a monopoly of sea-songs, and who looked on the boatswain as his right, and was likely to roar... ... had quaintly dressed in the likeness of an old-fashioned school, with big alphabet and samplers, flourished copies, and a stuffed fig- ure of a ‘cont...

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...gible form. CHAPTER IV THE PRINCESS DINNER, and a little piano-music and a song closed an evening that was not dull to Patrick in spite of prolonged s... ...nd a fatter for the ravens,’ Patrick joined in softly, as if carrying on a song. ‘Have at us, Mr. O’Donnell! I’m ashamed of my appetite, Miss Adister,... ...ood reader of music. On the whole, he sang pleasantly, particularly French songs. She complimented him, with an emphasis on the French. He said, yes, ... ...uestion with us.’ ‘What a country!’ sighed the captain. ‘I’ d compose ye a song of old Drowsylid, except that it does no good to be singing it at the ... ...ng. Dr. Forbery’ll be able to tell how far they mean going for a patriotic song. “For we march in ranks to the laurelled banks, On the bright horizon ... ...r friend Cap- tain Con; only you don’t rattle the eighteenth letter of the alphabet in the middle of words.’ ‘I’ve tried, and can’t persuade my tongue...

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...ing? Very many would die.” There came up from the water a snatch of a love-song such as the boys sing when they watch their cattle in the noon heats o... ...arrot screamed joyously, sidling along his branch with lowered head as the song grew louder, and in a patch of clear moonlight stood revealed the youn... ... the cymbals and the drums, Heavenly Ones, while yet there are flowers and songs. As men count time the end is far off; but as we who know reckon it i... ...l carry us where we should go. —Song of the Engines I T WA S her first voyage, and though she was but a car... ...Gounod’s “Funeral March of a Marionette,” with variations. “You’ll learn a song of your own some fine day,” said the Steam, as he flew up the fog-horn... ...y’s idleness he made a drawing in chalk upon the deck, with letters of the alphabet at the angles. He pointed out that, though the piston-rod was more...

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...ssion of simplicity, youth, and innocence. When he spoke, in his soft sing song voice, his speech flowed as from a well spring. He never thought about... ...g was in flower, and from near and far the nightingales poured forth their song. “I fancy there was an oak here that understood me,’ said Prince Andre... ...he inevitableness of “love’s sad satiety “ amid the scent of roses and the songs of night ingales. Doubt and despondency, increased by the vexations ... ...he used to whistle and sing meanwhile, to amuse himself. He knew no end of songs, and had a fine voice. When peasant women and young girls came to ask... ... which the children used to play; then the girls in the village with their songs, his horses and how they had been stolen, and how the thief was caugh... ...got hold of the Gospel, but he could not read. He had started to learn the alphabet in his boyhood, but could not grasp the joining of the syllables, ...

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...ged to squander a dime on non necessities. “Thir ty thousand dollars!” the song went on and on. A vast sum, an unthinkable sum! All day long Aleck was... ...me because my mother had given it me—Aileen Mavoureen. She got it out of a song; and the Grays knew that song, and said it was a beautiful name. Mrs. ... ...ool was dismissed, and the young hearts re gained their freedom, with the songs of the evening, laugh ing at the anticipated pleasures of a happy ho... ...inia, who hardly seemed to perceive him, as she played carelessly with the songsters that hopped from branch to branch. Nothing could be more strik i... ...ed; all is invigorated by the animating sunbeams which awaken the heart to songs of gaiety. Leaving this point, to notice another prominent considerat... ...ry craft; Standard Oil; U. S. Steel; the class A hotel—and the rest of the alphabet in that line; the class A prize fighter— and the rest of the alpha...

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...th unction. I was the only white man under the roof, and the scene and the songs made an impression on me that I shall never forget. Mr. Washington ar... ...y mind; and the inexpressible pathos of his life found expression in these songs as I had never before felt it. And the future? These were the ambitio... ...me the conventional student life of most educational institutions. Another song rolled up along the rafters. And as soon as silence came, I found myse... ...ing, and lasted later into the night. Most of the verses of the plantation songs had some reference to freedom. True, they had sung those same verses ... ...ad been careful to explain that the “freedom” 22 UP FROM SLAVERY in these songs referred to the next world, and had no connection with life in this w... ...d an old copy of Webster’s “blue-back” spelling- book, which contained the alphabet, followed by such meaningless words as “ab,” “ba,” “ca,” “da.” I b... ...I had learned from somebody that the way to begin to read was to learn the alphabet, so I tried in all the ways I could think of to learn it,—all of c... ...le. In some way, within a few weeks, I mastered the greater portion of the alphabet. In all my efforts to learn to read my mother shared fully my ambi...