Something about Swans: EssaysUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1973 - 118 pàgines |
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Pàgina 38
... heard at its expected time , is as reassuring of the year's renewal as the swelling buds on the trees and as the ground- breaking by the first snowdrops . The absence of one voice is troubling , an uneasy riffling of smooth certainties ...
... heard at its expected time , is as reassuring of the year's renewal as the swelling buds on the trees and as the ground- breaking by the first snowdrops . The absence of one voice is troubling , an uneasy riffling of smooth certainties ...
Pàgina 40
... heard on his morning walk , will know that recordings may be as frus- trating as books . The reason , of course , is different from the inadequacy of notation , for this difficulty lies in the human ear and memory . The chief difficulty ...
... heard on his morning walk , will know that recordings may be as frus- trating as books . The reason , of course , is different from the inadequacy of notation , for this difficulty lies in the human ear and memory . The chief difficulty ...
Pàgina 78
... heard the light sweet trill of a desert sparrow . I recognized it readily enough , for I had several times heard it at a distance , but the singers had always proved elusive , moving farther up the hillside from one bush to another ...
... heard the light sweet trill of a desert sparrow . I recognized it readily enough , for I had several times heard it at a distance , but the singers had always proved elusive , moving farther up the hillside from one bush to another ...
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