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...t critic attended with less danger to the author. On this principle, I let parody, burlesque, and squibs find their own level; and while the latter hi... ...e. Presence-chamber. Cf. Rich. II. i. 3. 289: “Suppose the singing birds musicians, The grass whereon thou tread’st the presence strew’d” (that i...

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... upon Margaret one evening. She was just back from the display of some new musicians at the Hartsteins. I remember she wore a dress of golden satin, v... ...me, and had now been reminded of its qual- ity. That infernal little don’s parody of my ruling phrase, “Hate and coarse thinking,” stuck in my thought...

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...r dreamed of before, and playing the piano in quin- tets with professional musicians. Of course no good could come of this; and when, a few 43 Edith ... ...rs. Archer’s world lay the almost unmapped quarter inhab- ited by artists, musicians and “people who wrote.” These scat- tered fragments of humanity h... ...d unsettling to think of. Archer knew most of the “fellows who wrote,” the musicians and the painters: he met them at the Century, or at the little mu... ...harming. But I was re- ally thinking of dramatic artists, singers, actors, musicians. My husband’s house was always full of them.” She said the words ... ...impor- tant. The things that had filled his days seemed now like a nursery parody of life, or like the wrangles of mediaeval schoolmen over metaphysic...

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...he chasubles of the priests, the mitres of the singers, the persons of the musicians; an old lame car- penter who played the counter-bass, a little fa... ...er mass, M. Venture received the highest com- pliments from the canons and musicians, which he answered jokingly, though with great grace. M. le Maitr... ...ribe my uneasiness, or to own how much I deserved it. Next day, one of the musicians, named Lutold, came to see me and was kind enough to congratulate... ...ctually employed a great part of my time to select the music, assemble the musicians, look to the instruments, and write out the several parts. Madam ... ...197 Rousseau ers of the customs. This paper contained an insipid Jansenist parody on that beautiful scene in Racine’s Mithridates: I had not read ten ... ... Rousseau was sorry to see me thus impoverish myself to no purpose. “Since musicians and the learned,” said he, “do not sing by your scale, change the...

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...it was into knells and sand-pits, would permit me to obtain a sight of the musicians before I should be observed by them. As I advanced, the old ditty... ...the bacchanalian spirit which they celebrated, and showed plainly that the musicians were engaged in the same joyous revel as the Menyie of old Sir Th... ...tastic complication of tones which I had produced, and made so whimsical a parody of my performance, that, although somewhat angry, I could not help l... ...the present audience, or that caprice which so of- ten tempts painters and musicians and great actors, in the phrase of the latter, to walk through th...

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...allen as they were from their high estate, and weltering —I will carry the parody no further—uttered divers inarticulate sounds, intimating their asse... ...s high birth and lofty pretensions. An hour had hardly flown away when the musicians played the signal for parting, so well known in Scotland.’ [Which...

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...moment when the Count found himself waver- ing between the sublime and its parody, the farcical extremes of human life. Ignoring the chain of incredib... ...f musical effort before the seventeenth cen- tury, proves to me that early musicians knew melody only; they were ignorant of harmony and its immense r... ...armony. “Now, if a knowledge of mathematical laws gave us these four great musicians, what may we not attain to if we can discover the physical laws i... ...which he would invite Giardini for the sake of keeping the tragedy and the parody side by side, and afterwards take the party to the first performance... ...ten a sublime opera without troubling himself with theo- ries, while those musicians who write grammars of harmony may, like literary critics, be atro... ...And much good it has done her!” she added in Giardini’s ear. All that year musicians took especial care of their instru- ments, and repairs did not br...

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...ld volcano smokes. Edinburgh has but partly abdicated, and still wears, in parody, her metro- politan trappings. Half a capital and half a country tow... ...arrowly between the weekly and the annual observance. A party of convivial musicians, next door to a friend of mine, hung suspended in this manner on ...

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...amp-de-Mars Federation, with three hundred drummers, twelve hun- dred wind-musicians, and artillery planted on height after height to boom the tidings... ... equally with mixed tactics, in- clusive, singular to say, of much profane Parody, (See Hist. Parl. vii. 51.) are blowing for Altar and Throne. As for... ...09 Thomas Carlyle Monsieur replies nothing; or indeed replies by Newspaper Parody, inviting the august Legislative ‘to return to com- mon sense within...

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...-doggy-foxy circle down there. We want enliven- ing. If we had your set of musicians and talkers!’ Nataly smiled in vacuous kindness, at a loss for th... ...ations; and these are but one at a time-and a quotation may remind us of a parody, to convulse the sacred dome! Established plain prose officials do b... ...h still a little objects to see their born gentle- man acting as leader of musicians. A people of slow move- ment, developing tardily, their country i... ...t earnestness worn as a cloak, but issuing, we see; not simply a leader of musicians, 190 One of Our Conquerors a leader of men. The halo of the mill... ...’s amateur instrumental- ists? Amateurs, they are not to be named: perfect musicians. Mr. Radnor is the perfection of a host. Yes, yes; Mrs. Radnor; M...

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... gallantry and policy of this, and disposes one to say of it with a slight parody on the words of Burns, that “Its ‘prentice han’ it tried on man, And... ...y no difference. The painters’ art has four or five such institutions. The musicians’ art, so generously and charmingly represented here, has likewise...

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...e Erl King, for instance,” put in Dolores Mohun. “If Anna would append the parody,” suggested Gillian. “Oh, parodies are—are horrid,” said Mysie. “Man... ...ed in Whitehall’s favoured way.” There was a good deal of laughter at this parody of Jane T aylor’s Village Girl, though Mysie was inclined to be shoc... ...your face! What did he send you? Have you got it still?” “We have really a parody of his which is going in—The 53 Yo n g e Girton Girl. Now, Emmie, w... ... wreath on the page, sober Mysie looked grave. “Do you think it profane to parody Jane T aylor?” said Gerald. 86 The Long Vacation “No, but I thought... ...it, or accept it so far as the future is concerned, and to play at it as a parody of fortune-telling seems to me utterly inadmissible.” “And to be squ... ... and had sold their children to the managers of German or Italian bands of musicians. One brother had come back a broken man, who had learnt vices and...

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...els, appointed in 1544 by Henry VIII. T o keep order among the players and musicians of that day when they performed at Court. This first appearance o... ...soldier. The Lord Chamberlain licensed this play, but refused to license a parody of it. Shortly afterwards he refused to license another play in whic...

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...t as those of the good, or even greater. Not merely rhetoricians, but poets, musicians, and other artists, the whole tribe of statesmen, past as well ... ...alled after him: (5) the speech at the beginning of the Phaedrus, which is a parody of the orator Lysias; the rival speech of Socrates and the recanta...

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...es, clarinets, trumpets, and cornets played upon by the military, the city musicians, and whoever else might furnish his tones. The New-Year’s gifts, ... ...cal pieces in the taste of Piron: they partook some- what of the nature of parody, and were much liked. These representations particularly attracted m... ... my aim. He took the matter severely; and as he did not notice the tone of parody, which nevertheless lay in the notion, he declared the great expendi...

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...essure from him;’ for all Versailles is crowding and shouting. The Chateau Musicians, with a felicitous promptitude, strike up the Sein de sa Famille ... ...smus shav- ing, so do these Amazons hold, in mock majesty, some con- fused parody of National Assembly. They make motions; de- liver speeches; pass en... ...Champ-de-Mars Federation, with three hundred drummers, twelve hundred wind-musicians, and artillery planted on height after height to boom the tid- in... ...s, equally with mixed tactics, inclusive, singular to say, of much profane Parody, (See Hist. Parl. vii. 51.) are blowing for Altar and Throne. As for... ... which invitation Monsieur replies nothing; or indeed replies by Newspaper Parody, inviting the august Legislative ‘to return to common sense within t... ...ugh, head sunk on breast; Red Nightcaps shouting round him, in fright- ful parody of his Newspaper Articles, “Grand choler of the Pere Duchene!” Thus ...

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...ts the moral principle, and the place of practical wisdom is taken by that parody of itself which Aristotle calls “cleverness”— the “wisdom” of the un... ...they have the respective virtues already, just as men are gram- marians or musicians when they do the actions of either art.” May we not reply by sayi...

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...essure from him;’ for all Versailles is crowding and shouting. The Chateau Musicians, with a felicitous promp- titude, strike up the Sein de sa Famill... ... Erasmus shaving, so do these Amazons hold, in mock majesty, some confused parody of National Assembly. They make motions; deliver speeches; pass enac...

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... of mortals, “while the gods of the lower heaven and the band of celestial musicians are engaged in studying the primary code.”— “A number of glosses ... ...hely, singing by the way. The best ode may be parodied, indeed is itself a parody, and has a poor and trivial 241 HenryDavidThoreau sound, like a man...

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...he romance in verse by Baudouin de Sebourc, printed in recent years, was a parody of the Chan- sons de Geste. In the Moniage Guillaume, and especially... ...rs, as Timotheus did to his disciples, who had been instructed under other musicians. To do this the better, they brought him into the company of lear... ...ithe calves; clapping down their ears like Arcadian asses at the melody of musicians, who with their very countenances in the depth of silence express... ...he two bands of nymphs four rows of squares stood empty. Each band had its musicians, eight on each side, dressed in its livery; the one with orange-c... ...f Germanicus, Tiberius’s nephew. Some of them were learned elephants, some musicians, others philosophers, dancers, and showers of tricks; and all sat...

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...view. It’s a framed Constable,” her hus- band cried. “No; it’s a Morland—a parody of a Morland. But about that couch, George. Don’t you think Empire m... ...ncestors’ banqueting hall. Her grey and silver dress disappeared under the musicians’ gallery; two electrics broke out, and she stood backed against t...

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...dance in the large hall, and the sound of the feet and the coughing of the musicians were heard from the gallery. Pierre was sitting in the drawing-ro... ...e slender little girl. While the couples were arranging themselves and the musicians tuning up, Pierre sat down with his little part- ner. Natasha was... ...as the last figure of the ecossaise was ended, he clapped his hands to the musicians and shouted up to their gal- lery, addressing the first violin: “... ...tervals of the dance the count, breathing deeply, waved and shouted to the musicians to play faster. Faster, faster, and faster; lightly , more lightl... ...ation, it would have been necessary to invent him,” said the wit Shinshin, parody- ing the words of V oltaire. Kutuzov no one spoke of, except some wh...