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...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European ca...

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... early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New Y ork. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remot... ...to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acous- tics, always so problematic a quality in h... ... tics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for the hear- ing of music. It was Madame Nilsson’s first appearance that winter, and what the d... ...!” and not “he loves me,” since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world re- quired that the German text of French operas sung by Swed... ...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 ... ...s down Narragansett Avenue, crossed Spring Street and drove out toward the rocky moorland beyond. In this unfashionable re- gion Catherine the Great, ...

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...Accept this as my grateful acknowledgment of the readiness with which you tried--perhaps not very successfully-- to initiate me into the mysteries of musical knowledge. You have at least taught me what difficulties and what labor genius must bury in those poems which procure us transcendental pleasures. You have also afforded me the satisfaction of laughing more than once ...

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...tried—perhaps not very success- fully—to initiate me into the mysteries of musical knowl- edge. You have at least taught me what difficulties and what... ...e with ignorance, not knowing that I have taken counsel of one of our best musical critics, and had the benefit of your conscientious help. I have, pe... ...shelving gardens were full of the marvels where money has been turned into rocky grottoes and patterns of shells,— the very madness of craftsmanship,—... ...e when the palazzo Memmi poured out light from every window, and rang with music carried far away over the Adriatic tide; when hun- dreds of gondolas ... ...hall, filled with merry feast- ers, and the upper balconies furnished with musicians, seemed to harbor all Venice coming and going on the great stairc... ... and remind him of heaven, either by desire or enjoyment, is bound up with music, or rather with one of the many effects produced by music, the perfec...

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...ng wind, Calls to the few tired dogs that yet remain: Brach, Swift and Music, noblest of their kind, Follow, and weary up the mountain strain. ... ...tal spot, 25 Wordsworth Once liv’d a happy life! You stirr’d me on my rocky bed— What pleasure thro’ my veins you spread! The Summer long fro... ...lies made, The leaves in myriads jump and spring, As if with pipes and music rare Some Robin Good-fellow were there, And all those leaves, tha... ... And in a prison hous’d, And there, exulting in her wrongs, Among the music of her songs She fearfully carouz’d. Yet sometimes milder hours s... ...easure-house, which was to have been built Among the birch-trees of this rocky isle. But, as it chanc’d, Sir William having learn’d That from th... ... And clad in homely russet brown? He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own. He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountai... ...en-times When others heeded not, He heard the South Make subterraneous music, like the noise Of Bagpipers on distant Highland hills; The Sheph...

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................................................................. 33 TWILIGHT MUSIC ........................................................................ ..., Chillanwallah! Where our brothers fought and bled, O thy name is natural music And a dirge above the dead! Though we have not been defeated, Though ... ... thine, Such heart is mine, O thou of mortal visions most divine! TWILIGHT MUSIC Know you the low pervading breeze That softly sings In the trembling ... ...ice! How keenly I rejoice When in me with sweet motions slow The spiritual music ebbs and moans – Lives in the lustre of those heavenly eyes, Dies in ... ...es blow Round the sharp rocks and o’er the half-lifted wave, While all the rocky woodland branches rave Shrill with the piercing cold, and every cave,... ...e my masters: purely fed By their sustainment I likewise shall scale Some rocky steps between the mount and vale; Meanwhile the mark I have and I wil... ...ver darkened That had thee here obscure. III Water, first of singers, o’er rocky mount and mead, First of earthly singers, the sun-loved rill, Sang of... ... ridges, milkless round. T eeth of the giants marked she where thin ground Rocky in spikes rebelled Against the hand here slack as rotted net. VII The... ...or words, flung heel and set his hairy flight Through forest-hollows, over rocky height. The green leaves buried him three rounds of moons. A senatori...

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...f thus to the company—for the Queen’s time is never her own—and, while the music strikes up, read- ing Philip’s letter, as I do.’ She drew a real lett... ...oice. ‘All this while—hark to it—the wind blows through Brickwall Oak, the music plays, and, with the company’s eyes upon her, the Queen of England mu... ...t. What shall she do?’ Again her voice changed. ‘You are to fancy that the music of a sudden wavers away. Chris Hatton, Captain of her bodyguard, quit... ...Avila that destroyed the Huguenots? What d’you know of him?” she says. The music called from the house here, and they three turned back between the ye... ...o— Her voice shot up and she stamped her foot thrice. ‘Louder! Louder, the music in the gallery! Oh, me, but I have burst out of my shoe!’ She gathere... ... to where exactly we drifted. All I know is we found ourselves in a little rocky cove that had sprung up round us out of the fog, and a swell lifted t...

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...tionately Welcomed by a Sister, 28 -- A Mathematical Problem, 29 -- Honour, 32 -- On Imitation, 34 -- Inside the Coach, 35 -- Devonshire Roads, 36 -- Music, 37 -- Sonnet: On Quitting School for College, 38 -- Absence: A Farewell Ode on Quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge, 39 -- Happiness, 40 -- A Wish: Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792, 43 -- An Ode in the Mann...

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... . . . . . . 36 Devonshire Roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Music . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Sonnet: On Quitting School for College ... ... II . . . . . . . . . 222 Lines to W. L. while he sang a Song to Purcell’s Music . . . . . . . . . . . 223 Fire, Famine, and Slaughter A War Eclogu... ... healthful breeze, All Nature charm, and gay was every hour: — But ah! not Music’s self, nor fragrant bower Can glad the trembling sense of wan Dis... ...g, Alight upon thee, damnØd Bog! - 36 - Devonshire Roads Coleridge: Poems Music 1791 Hence, soul-dissolving Harmony That lead’st th’ oblivio... ...d while old Otter’s steeple rings, Clappest hoarse thy raven wings! - 37 - Music Coleridge: Poems Sonnet: On Quitting School for College 1791... ...ersuading stream; Or where his wave with loud unquiet song Dash’d o’er the rocky channel froths along; Or where, his silver waters smooth’d to rest... ...e eye, And to quick laughter change this peevish cry! Poor stumbler on the rocky coast of Woe, Tutor’d by Pain each source of pain to know! Alike ... ...ar beyond the storm with upright eye elate! Ye woods! that wave o’er Avon’s rocky steep, To Fancy’s ear sweet is your murmuring deep! For here she ... ...vere All bonds of natural love, and find them all Within the limits of thy rocky shores. O native Britain! O my Mother Isle! How shouldst thou pro...

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... to the great ocean flow. “Cymru, poor Cymru,” are the words softly spoken. “Your music’s forgotten, you live by the bow.” Chapter 1 Mount Oly... ...in. Raising her hands in the air, like a bird flexing its wings, Terpsichore drew music from her lyre with the plectrum. The notes rose and surroun... ...d surrounded her like a magical veil of sound. Languidly, she moved in time to the music, allowing the silken folds of her long white garment to fl... ... faeries and mages of their land. She smiled at the memory. “I inspired them with music and dancing which they embraced readily. I believe in times... ... carpeted the ground. Behind her rose a vast cliff, a waterfall spilling down its rocky face to combine with a deep pool below. Dancing With Fate ... ...ait. He had not walked far when he heard the sound of rushing water. Rounding the rocky promontory, he came upon a vast wall of water spilling down... ...he shadows of war had lifted for a while, and once more, the land was filled with music and the delight of movement. She’d finished her task. Of ...

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...whirl, sun-satiated, Athirst for shade, they sigh, they wed, They play the music made of two: Oldest of earth, earth’s youngest till earth’s end: Cunn... ... he has choice. Perchance his wound is deep; she listens long; Enjoys what music fills the plaintive song; And marks how he, who would be hawk at pois... ...varied strings. ’Tis taught him how for touch of mournful verse Rarely the music made of two ascends, And Beauty’s Queen some other way is won. Or it ... ...e fills, with laugh at shallow laws Forbidding love’s devised embrace, The music Beauty from it draws. Poem: A Reading of Life—The Test Of Manhood Lik... ... Poem: A Reading of Life—The Test Of Manhood Like a flood river whirled at rocky banks, An army issues out of wilderness, With battle plucking round i... ...r bosom shaken to speech, Burst the hot story out of throats of both, Like rocky head-founts, baffling in their glut The hurried spout. And as when d... ...nor ever squandered force. Is battle nature’s mandate, here it reigned, As music unto the hand that smote the strings; And she the rosier from their s... ...u hast the gift of strength, then know 26 L Like a flood river whirled at rocky banks, 14 Like as a terrible fire feeds fast on a forest eno 43 O O...

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...oes nearly all his think- ing through his nose, smells are as maddening as music and drugs are to human beings. Mowgli gentled the panther for a few m... ...est shore. In the spring he and his people retreated from the floes to the rocky mainland, where they put up tents of skins, and snared the sea-birds,...

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...eals will. Then he headed straight for Walrus Islet, a little low sheet of rocky island almost due northeast from Novastoshnah, all ledges and rock an... ...sky, Proud of the house that I sew— Over and under, so weave I my music—so weave I the house that I sew. Sing to your fledglings agai... ...ss the water, and made to carry a 107 mortar on his back in a strange and rocky country very far from India, and had seen the Emperor Theodore lying ... ...here that a mule can find a road, and they are very useful for fighting in rocky country. Behind the mule there was a camel, with his big 128 soft fe... ...setting the time for all his squadron, his legs going as smoothly as waltz music. Then the big guns came by, and I saw Two Tails and two other elephan...

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...Union flag that waved in the morning breeze, while a Union band played soothing music against a gentle north wind that wafted over the crowd. Small ... ..."let's hear it." "Well," he began, fidgeting like a school boy, "I put on some music, poured a glass of wine, sat down on the old rocker in front o... ...Champagne was being served. A six piece orchestra played non-descript classical music. The seats at the speaker's ta­ ble were rapidly filling up. Tw... ..., and various potential contributors. Alana was seated next to the podium. The music stopped. The audience quieted in anticipation of the press con... ...the point. "It has come to my attention that Han­ ford, Washington, Idaho Falls, Rocky Flats, and Los Alamos, just to name a few, have been experienc... ...f a rainbow that arched across the hundred-foot long stage. In a few hours the music would begin and start three days of non-stop entertain­ ment, s...

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... my hair as we rode to the top of the Ferris wheel and then stopped, hovering in midair. I breathed in, relaxed, and listened to the distant screams, music, and laughter echo below us. Sherry set down the stuffed pink pig I’d won for her in the ring toss and folded her hands in her lap, enjoying the silence. I dared a quick look at the stuffed animal, fighting with myself ...

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...59 STREAM AND SUN AT GLENDALOUGH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 WORDS FOR MUSIC PERHAPS 263 I CRAZY JANE AND THE BISHOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...shone, Around me shone keen eyes of men: I laughed aloud and hurried on By rocky shore and rushy fen; I laughed because birds fluttered by, And starlig... ...old. 16 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS THE STOLEN CHILD WHERE dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where ... ...is in the old man’s eyes, His fingers move and sway, And when the wandering music dies They hear him feebly say, ‘Huntsman Rody, blow the horn, Make th... ... 38 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS Did the kiss of Mother Mary Put that music in her face? Yet she goes with footstep wary, Full of earth’s old tim... ... of its sleep, And rode with little care. He rode now as he never rode, By rocky lane and fen; The sick man’s wife opened the door: ‘Father! you come ... ...g of its leafy head Has given the waves their melody, And made my lips and music wed, Murmuring a wizard song for thee. There the Loves a circle go, T... ...EMS OF W.B. YEATS When close to his right hand a heap Of grey stones and a rocky ledge Reminded him that he could make. If he but shifted a few stones... ... young A peasant girl commended by a Song, Who’d lived somewhere upon that rocky place, And praised the colour of her face, And had the greater joy in...