 | Walter Swain Hinchman - 1915 - 488 страници
...move it strangely. So does " In Infancy." But they were used to be sung at her harpsichord. . . . ming it over to myself in solitary corners ; and am not...Yet hath the loyalty of Elia never been impeached. If Lamb's city life and his choice of familiar, " unromantic " subjects would seem to contrast strangely... | |
 | William Alfred Quayle - 1916 - 320 страници
...appliances, there it should ever bubble. Bridget and I should be ever playing. He hath scant music in him: I even think that sentimentally I am disposed to harmony....save the King" all my life; whistling and humming it over to myself in solitary corners; and am not yet arrived, they tell me, within many quavers of... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 страници
...absorbing sentiment which was afterwards destined to overwhelm and subdue his nature quite for Alice W n. 3 s. 3: The sanguine sunrise, with his meteor eyes....outspread, Leaps on the back of my sailing rack, When saw the King" all my life; whistling and humming of it over to myself in solitary corners; and am not... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - 1920 - 134 страници
...red-letter days now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days." — Oxford in the Vacation. "Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune." — A Chapter on Ears. "Presents endear absents." — A Dissertation on Roast Pig. 17. Wordsworth,... | |
 | Detroit Public Library - 1917 - 820 страници
...great majority who are potential if not actual singers; and the few who can say with Charles Lamb, "I think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But, organically, I am incapable of a tune." During Music Week, community sings will be held for those who sing and concerts for those who do not.... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1920 - 492 страници
...subdue his nature quite, for Alice W — n.0 I even think that sentimentally I am disposed to harmony. 7 But organically I am incapable of a tune. I have been...save the King" all my life; whistling and humming it over to myself in solitary corners; and am not yet 2. Defoe. The reference is to a famous but inaccurate... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 страници
...ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. КЕАТЗ — Ode on a Grecian Urn. er dies. LONGFELLOW — Nuremberg. 6 Here lie I, Martin Elginbrodde: Have mercy o' my soul, Lord God; LAMB — A Chapter on Ears. 15 A velvet flute-note fell down pleasantly, Upon the bosom of that harmony,... | |
 | Eleanore (Sister Mary) - 1923 - 284 страници
...inlets — those indispensable side-intelligencers." And how we sympathize with him when he confesses: "I even think that sentimentally I am disposed to...organically I am incapable of a tune. I have been practicing 'God save the King1 all my life ; whistling and humming of it over to myself in solitary... | |
 | Harold Workman Williams - 1916 - 516 страници
...my way here, but I could stand another." Music is the universal language of mankind. — Longfellow. I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to...harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune. — Charles Lamb. There's music in the sighing of a reed ; There's music in the gushing of a rill ;... | |
 | Albert Croll Baugh, Paul Cliff Kitchen, Matthew Wilson Black - 1924 - 246 страници
...borrow and those who lend; and "A Chapter on Ears" is Lamb's confession that he has no ear for music. "I am incapable of a tune. I have been practising...God Save the King all my life; whistling and humming it over to myself in solitary corners ; and am not yet arrived, they tell me, within many quavers of... | |
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