The Quarterly Review, Volum 245William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1925 |
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Pàgina 114
... benefit , and both England and America will be better equipped to do their share in leading the destinies of the world . FREDERIC G. KENYON . Art . 8. - RICHARD WAGNER AND THE MUSIC DRAMA 114 THE CLASSICS IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
... benefit , and both England and America will be better equipped to do their share in leading the destinies of the world . FREDERIC G. KENYON . Art . 8. - RICHARD WAGNER AND THE MUSIC DRAMA 114 THE CLASSICS IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
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... WAGNER AND THE MUSIC DRAMA . 1. Richard Wagner , a Critical Biography . By George Ainslie Hight . Two vols . Arrowsmith , 1925 . 2. Richard Wagner . By Houston Stewart Chamberlain . Translated ( from the German ) by George Ainslie Hight ...
... WAGNER AND THE MUSIC DRAMA . 1. Richard Wagner , a Critical Biography . By George Ainslie Hight . Two vols . Arrowsmith , 1925 . 2. Richard Wagner . By Houston Stewart Chamberlain . Translated ( from the German ) by George Ainslie Hight ...
Pàgina 116
... Wagner's character . Mr Newman , on the other hand , has fewer illusions about Wagner the man : he makes full use of the testimonies of friends and their letters in order to construct the many - sided personality of the master . The ...
... Wagner's character . Mr Newman , on the other hand , has fewer illusions about Wagner the man : he makes full use of the testimonies of friends and their letters in order to construct the many - sided personality of the master . The ...
Pàgina 117
... Wagner displayed a profusion that must have shocked the townsfolk . He had his Grail room hung in the richest yellow satin , and in that sanctum he composed . Abnormally sensitive to colour and smell , he recalls nobody so much as ...
... Wagner displayed a profusion that must have shocked the townsfolk . He had his Grail room hung in the richest yellow satin , and in that sanctum he composed . Abnormally sensitive to colour and smell , he recalls nobody so much as ...
Pàgina 118
... Wagner the man is an incomprehensible paradox , a paradox that will not diminish as the mists of legend envelop him . Nowadays , when there is a reaction against his mighty influence , we may leave Wagner the man with his vices and ...
... Wagner the man is an incomprehensible paradox , a paradox that will not diminish as the mists of legend envelop him . Nowadays , when there is a reaction against his mighty influence , we may leave Wagner the man with his vices and ...
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Pàgina 269 - em. But what I always says to them as has the management of matters, Mrs Harris"'- here she kept her eye on Mr Pecksniff - '"be they gents or be they ladies, is, don't ask me whether I won't take none, or whether I will, but leave the bottle on the chimley-piece, and let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged.
Pàgina 228 - And, like th' old Hebrews, many years did stray, In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last : The barren wilderness he past ; Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it. But life did never to one man allow Time to discover worlds and conquer too ; Nor can so short a line sufficient be To fathom the vast depths of Nature's sea. The work he did we ought t...
Pàgina 225 - I took coach, having first discoursed with Mr. Hooke a little, whom we met in the streete, about the nature of sounds, and he did make me understand the nature of musicall sounds made by strings, mighty prettily; and told me that having come to a certain number of vibrations proper to make any tone, he is able to tell how many strokes a fly makes with her wings (those flies that hum in their flying) by the note that it answers to in musique during their flying. That, I suppose, is a little too much...
Pàgina 268 - The cataract of the cliff of heaven fell blinding off the brink As if it would wash the stars away as suds go down a sink, The seven heavens came roaring down for the throats of hell to drink, And Noah he cocked his eye and said, 'It looks like rain, I think, The water has drowned the Matterhorn as deep as a Mendip4 mine But I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.
Pàgina 235 - Swallows certainly sleep all the winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lie in the bed of a river.
Pàgina 173 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
Pàgina 66 - Thou, who Man of Baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake, For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened — Man's forgiveness give — and take!
Pàgina 222 - I am now going to tell you the horible and wretched plaege (plague) that my multiplication gives me you can't conceive it the most Devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itself cant endure.
Pàgina 269 - ... said Mrs Gamp with emphasis, '"being a extra charge - you are that inwallable person." "Mrs Harris," I says to her, "don't name the charge, for if I could afford to lay all my feller creeturs out for nothink, I would gladly do it, sich is the love I bears 'em.
Pàgina 132 - Lord for counsel and guidance in this, in itself, and to me so important affair, I felt a word sweetly arise in me, as if I had heard a voice, which said,