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... Not all King Denys daintie fare, Can pleasing taste for them prepare No song of birds, no musikes sound Can lullabie to sleepe profound. Doe you t... ...out of him: and to this day the maidens of that towne and countrie have a song in use, by which they warne one another, when they are leaping, not t... ... Thyestes, of Oedipus, and of Macareus, having with the pleasures of their songs infused this profitable opinion in the tender conceit of children. C... ...is Citie, and how far he extends him selfe about their exercises, sports, songs, leaping, and dancing, whereof he saith, that severe antiquitie gave... ...se, and with the number of battels they have lost againe theirs. I have a song made by a prisoner, wher ein is this clause, 'Let them boldly come al... ... time busied himselfe to number how many severall waies the letters of the Alphabet might be ranged, and found out that incredible number mentioned b... ...ed doth particularly instruct and suddenly teach such as need it; and the alphabets upon fingers, and grammars by jestures; and the sciences which ar...

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... meaning of the strange words or encourage the Bloon to learn the foreign alphabets. But then the letters would wriggle out of focus, and more often... ...own the 6 Bozo and the Storyteller dunes, the long mornings of making up songs beside the wine-streams, and the nights of playing dot-to-dot with t... ...wonder – the bright colours of the f owers, the scents of the plants, the songs of the birds in the trees – it was all a projection of the Storytell... ... to be eating samosas at a chai stand in Bombay, perhaps with a Hindi pop song playing on an old crackly radio while he argued with some- one about c...

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...ity to Nature. But my lot was not so happy as that. A poet pours forth his song and believes in the listening ear and answering soul, to which his son... ...distinct resemblance to the external reality than the forms of an oriental alphabet to the objects that suggested them. Besides, for the last year or ...

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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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...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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...e jug moving. One man was singing—roaring, you may say; and it wasn’t a nice song—for a parlor anyway. He roared through his nose, and strung out the ... ...eave by and by. “So then we went to talking about other things, and we had a song, and then a breakdown; and after that the captain of the watch calle... ...then a breakdown; and after that the captain of the watch called for another song; but it was clouding up, now, and the bar’l stuck right thar in the ... ... clouding up, now, and the bar’l stuck right thar in the same place, and the song didn’t seem to have much warm up to it, somehow, and so they didn’t ... ... warn’t sorry, neither. “But next night about half past nine, when there was songs and high jinks going on, here she comes again, and took her old roo... ...ure that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, to... ...nd placing his hand upon Yates’s head, added, “I am going to pay them off in alphabetical order!” Then he turned and disappeared. The full significanc...

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...my life to know Greek,” she said, when he had done. “I could teach you the alphabet in half an hour,” said Ridley, “and you’d read Homer in a month. I... ... my duty at dinner!” cried Clarissa. “You’ve let yourself in for the Greek alphabet, anyhow.” “Oh, my dear! Who is Ambrose?” “I gather that he was a C... ...r, and made a con- quest by which she has bound herself to learn the Greek alphabet. I will take this occasion of adding that we are both enjoying our... ...r heard such nonsense! Chitter- chatter-chitter-chatter—fish and the Greek alphabet— never listened to a word any one said—chock-full of idi- otic the... ...le was twanging his guitar strings, while a poor girl cried her passionate song in the gutter. The two Englishwomen excited some friendly cu- riosity,... ...ilent; the natives who walked beside the donkeys broke into queer wavering songs and tossed jokes from one to the other. The way grew very steep, and ... ...ousness. From Mozart Rachel passed without stopping to old English hunting songs, carols, and hymn tunes, for, as she had observed, any good tune, wit... ... to go, but not until she had bound herself to learn at any rate the Greek alphabet, and to return her French novel when done with, upon which somethi... ...e cry. Voices rose when a child was beaten, and fell again; voices rose in song, which slid up a little way and down a little way, and settled again u...

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...f number were received, with all sorts of initials; all the letters of the alphabet seemed to be seized with a sudden wish to go out boarding and lodg... ...no by Mr. Tippin; after which, Mr. Tippin sang a comic 81 Charles Dickens song, accompanied on the piano by Mrs. Tippin: the applause consequent upon... ...n was making a watch-guard; Miss Sophia was at the piano, practising a new song—poetry by the young officer, or the police-officer, or the custom-hous... ...nto a scrape on such occa- 116 Sketches by Boz sions. He could sing comic songs, imitate hackney-coach- men and fowls, play airs on his chin, and exe... ... all the patterns of the kaleidoscope. If Miss Sophia Taunton learnt a new song, two of the Miss Briggses came out with a new duet. The Tauntons had o... ...louds; and Mr. Hardy astonished the whole square by practising a new comic song for the occasion, in the chairman’s chambers. Uneasy were the slumbers...

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...nda any more, who became very melancholy and quiet, and sang no more funny songs, because nobody cared to hear her. And then, as she grew older, she w... ... a Y ; then an X; then a W, and went so backwards through almost the whole alphabet. When she came to D, and it wasn’t D, she grew very ex- cited; whe...

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... and the Carolinas; there are few po- ems with a nobler music for the ear: a songful, tuneful land; and if the new Homer shall arise from the Western ... ...s after the retiring waves, trilling together in a chorus of infinitesi- mal song. Strange sea-tangles, new to the European eye, the bones of whales, ... ...hear the guitar accompany, and one of these old, heart-breaking Spanish love-songs mount into the night air, perhaps in a deep baritone, perhaps in th... ... far- ther on and find another hamlet. “Not here, O Apollo!” will become his song. Thus Trouville and, the other day, St. 54 Across the Plains Raphae... ...y looking at this book. Here, I open it with my eyes shut. Read one of these songs – read this one – and tell me, you who are a man of intelligence, i... ... phrase; a vague sense of emotion (about nothing) in the very letters of the alphabet: the romance of language. His honest head was very nearly empty,...

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... the atre. A minute’s silence, and he murmured the burden of some roaring song. He had reached the old house at last—how hot the room was. He had bee... ...h with the ivy, about which, by the bye, our excellent friend there made a song when he first came amongst us. Mr. Snodgrass, have you anything in you... ...ion of his entertainer. ‘I beg your pardon, but you were talking about the song of the Ivy.’ ‘You must ask our friend opposite about that,’ said the h... ...blance to the names of the speakers; and we can only discern an entry of a song (supposed to have been sung by Mr. Jingle), in which the words ‘bowl’ ... ...tter, ma’am,’ replied the stranger. ‘Cricket dinner—glorious party—capital songs—old port—claret— good —very good—wine, ma’am—wine.’ ‘It wasn’t the wi... ..., to learn so little, as the charity boy said ven he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o’ taste. I rayther think it isn’t.’ ‘Well,’ said Sam...

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...Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds Be unto us as is a nurse’s song Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep. AARON: Madam, though Venus gov... ... Nor wink, nor nod, nor kneel, nor make a sign, But I of these will wrest an alphabet And by still practise learn to know thy meaning. Young LUCIUS : ...

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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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...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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...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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...s old, on a rock in the water, in the sun, washing, and humming or moaning a song meanwhile. It was an aboriginal strain. A salmon spear, made wholly ... ...lakes; and made the woods ring, between the claps of thunder, with such boat songs as we could remember. The horses stood sleek and shining with the r... ... on the water, we rowed by turns swiftly over its surface, singing such boat songs as we could remember. The shores seemed at an indefi nite distance ... ...y our singing. It was with new emphasis that we sang there the Canadian boat song, — Ktaadn 23 “Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids ... ...vent new and simple marks where there are so many owners. They have quite an alphabet of their own, which only the practised can read. One of my compa... ... replied that I had not often, and asked him if he would not favor us with a song. He readily assented, and lying on his back, with his blanket wrappe...