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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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...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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...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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...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...

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...d Marianne, who sang very well, at their request went through the chief of the songs which Lady Middleton had brought into the family on her marriage,... ...as highly applauded. Sir John was loud in his ad miration at the end of every song, and as loud in his conversation with the others while every song ... ...d be diverted from music for a moment, and asked Marianne to sing a particular song which Marianne had just finished. Colonel Brandon alone, of all the... ...passed off in the equal indulgence of feeling. She played over every favourite song that she had been used to play to Willoughby, every air in which t... ...tive of such countless jokes, that its character as the wittiest letter in the alphabet had been long established with Elinor. The Miss Steeles, as sh...

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... for it was a long time after, and it was winter and a hard frost. With an alphabet on the hearth at my feet for reference, I contrived in an hour or ... ...in print, without having begun, when he were a unpromoted Prince, with the alphabet – Ah!” added Joe, with a shake of the head that was full of meanin... ...line and buzzingly passed a ragged book from hand to hand. The book had an alphabet in it, some figures and tables, and a little spelling -that is to ... ...arts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy!” There was a song Joe used to hum fragments of at the forge, of which the burden was Old... ...t; but, I believe Old Clem stood in that relation towards smiths. It was a song that imitated the measure of beating upon iron, and was a mere lyrical... ...to me everything she knew, from the little catalogue of prices, to a comic song she had once bought for a halfpenny. Al- though the only coherent part... ...AR BOY AND Pip’s comrade. I am not a-going fur to tell you my life, like a song or a story-book. But to give it you short and handy, I’ll put it at on... ...in the action of her fingers, as plainly as if she had told me in the dumb alphabet, that she perceived I had discovered my real benefactor. “Miss Hav...

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...time from the City , fresh and jocular, with a white waistcoat and a comic song, ready to spend the evening, and prepared for any amount of dissi- pat... ...ou!’ cried the Captain eyeing him sternly , ‘as don’ t know his own native alphabet! Go away a bit and come back again alternate—d’ye understand that?... ...pag- eant it has changed to—have a portion in the burden of the marvellous song. And gentle Mr T oots, who wanders at a distance, looking wistfully to... ...s, a flower-pot, a telescope, his cel- ebrated watch, a pocket-comb, and a song-book, as a small collection of rarities, that made a choice appearance... ...n before the little table where the Captain had arranged the telescope and song-book, and those other rarities, thought of Walter, and of all that was...

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...good tricking, shifting after piece, and a figure dance, and a horn pipe, and a song between the acts. If we do not out do Ecclesford, we do nothing.” ... ...y’s constant half holiday. Betsey too, a spoilt child, trained up to think the alphabet her greatest enemy, left to be with the servants at her pleasu...

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...nd for a while he sat with a little girl in his lap teaching the child her alphabet. If it were possible for him he would do his duty. He would spare ... ...that he should be called upon to pretend to love her. And he sang a little song as he went, ‘If she be not fair to me, what care I how fair she be.’ T... ...u must do without being prime minister.’ Then he attempted to sing the old song—’Shall I, sighing in despair, die because a woman’s fair? If she be no... ...hat care I how fair she be?’ But he did care, and he told himself that the song did him no good. As it was not time for him as yet to go to Lily, he t... ...e tedious as he discovered that he would have to begin again from the very alphabet. He would therefore abandon that idea. Greek was not the thing for...

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...................................... ..................... 156 A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET...................................................................... ... and it seemed to me that I must surely go crazy. O.M. And the new popular song? Y.M. Oh yes! “In the Swee eet By and By”; etc. Yes, the new popular s... ...o apart from you that it can conduct its affairs, sing Mark T wain 47 its songs, play its chess, weave its complex and ingeniously constructed dreams... ...or the con veying of feeling; but it seems to me that the chief virtue in song is melody, air, tune, rhythm, or what you please to call it, and that ... ...never have missed so much in my life. And Uhlic further says that Wagner’s song is true: that it is “simply emphasized intoned speech.” That certain... ... see, and in the second place to understand what he does see. A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET ( ( ( ( ( T T T T This ar his ar his ar his ar his article ticle t... ...ste; what was really needed was a new set of teeth. That is to say, a new alphabet. The heart of our trouble is with our foolish alphabet. It doesn’t... ...esn’t know how to spell, and can’t be taught. In this it is like all other alphabets except one—the phonographic. This is the only competent alphabet ... ...can spell and correctly pronounce any word in our language. That admirable alphabet, that brilliant alphabet, that inspired alphabet, can be learned i...

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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...

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...that a thousand languages may not flourish by board and cradle and in folk-songs and village gossip—Erse, the Taal, a hundred Indian and other Eastern... ...tions, institutions, sentiments, beliefs, superstitions, and fun- damental songs and stories of mankind. But since the very dawn of history at least t... ...tears in their eyes against association with any human being who sings any song but the “Red Flag” and doubts whether Marx had much experience of affa... ...ers and interpreters. If they express it well in law and fact, in book and song, they prosper under its mysteri- ous approval; if they do not, it revo... ..., a constituency in which candidates represented by all the letters of the alphabet struggle for twelve places. And let us suppose that A, B, C and D ...

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...he had been called upon to make a public statement; and the balanced sing- song neatness of his speech, occasionally corresponded to by a movement of ... ...h zeal for the glory? Perhaps even Hebrew might be necessary— at least the alphabet and a few roots—in order to arrive at the core of things, and judg... ...ies have a touching fitness. Few scholars would have disliked teaching the alphabet under such circumstances. But Dorothea herself was a little shocke... ...o sing to him, and she herself was-so kind as to propose a second favorite song of his—”Flow on, thou shin- ing river”—after she had sung “Home, sweet... ... she detested). This hard-headed old Overreach approved of the sentimental song, as the suitable garnish for girls, and also as fundamentally fine, se... ...rls, and also as fundamentally fine, sentiment being the right thing for a song. Mr. Featherstone was still applauding the last performance, and assur... ...m some cause looked rather out of temper. “Miss Rosy has been singing me a song—you’ve nothing to say against that, eh, doctor?” said Mr. Featherstone...

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...e man, like its keynote and regulator; now screwing itself aloft as into the Song of Spirits, or else the shrill mockery of Fiends; now sinking in cad... ...rms and Christmas carols,—did the Child sit and learn. These things were the Alphabet, whereby in aftertime he was to syllable and partly read the gra... ...and partly read the grand V olume of the World: what matters it whether such Alphabet be in large gilt letters or in small ungilt ones, so you have an... ...no tear; or once only when I, murmuring half audibly, recited Faust’s Death song, that wild Selig der den er im Siegesglanze findet (Happy whom he find... ...hing and the waving of the Whirlwind element come tones of a melodious Death song, which end not but in tones of a more melodious Birth song. Nay, loo... ...s, filling Earth with her music; or, as now, she sinks, and with spheral swan song immolates herself in flame, that she may soar the higher and sing the... ...and Writer is God. To read it! Dost thou, does man, so much as well know the Alphabet thereof? With its Words, Sentences, and grand descriptive Pages,... ... there not tones of Love and Faith, as from celestial harp strings, like the Song of beatified Souls? And again, do not we squeak and gibber (in our di...