 It will strive — mine at least will — 'spite of its inaptitude, to thrid the maze; like an unskilled eye painfully poring upon hieroglyphics. I have sat through an Italian Opera, till, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into...  Mind - Sayfa 3271892Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Charles Lamb - 1879 - 444 sayfa
...passive to those single strokes ; willingly enduring stripes while it hath no task to con. To music it cannot be passive. It will strive — mine at least...distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention ! I take refuge in the unpretending assemblage of honest commonlife sounds ; — and the purgatory... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1882 - 464 sayfa
...passive to those single strokes ; willingly enduring stripes while it hath no task to con. To music it cannot be passive. It will strive — mine at least...distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention ! I take refuge in the unpretending assemblage of honest common-life sounds ; and the purgatory of... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1884 - 546 sayfa
...passive to those single strokes; willingly enduring stripes while it hath no task to con. To music it cannot be passive. It will strive — mine at least...distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention ! I take refuge in the unpretending assemblage of honest common-life sounds ;— and the purgatory... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1885 - 296 sayfa
...unskilled eye painfully poring upon hieroglyphics. I have sat through an Italian Opera, till, for iheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out...solace myself with sounds, which I was not obliged I to follow, and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention ! I take... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1888 - 320 sayfa
...it hath no task to con. To music it cannot be passive. It will strive—mine at least will—'spite of its inaptitude, to thrid the maze ; like an unskilled...distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention ! I take refuge in the unpretending assemblage of honest commonlife sounds ;—and the purgatory of... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1890 - 246 sayfa
...passive to those single strokes; willingly enduring stripes while it hath no task to con. To music it cannot be passive. It will strive — mine at least...distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention ! I take refuge in the nupretending assemblage of honest common-life sounds ; and the purgatory of... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1890 - 584 sayfa
...no task to con. To music it cannot be passive. It will strive— mine at least will — spite of ita inaptitude, to thrid the maze ; like an unskilled...distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention ! I take refuge in the unpretending assemblage of honest common-life sounds ;— and the purgatory... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1892 - 604 sayfa
...passive to those single strokes ; willingly enduring stripes, while it hath no task to con. To music it cannot be passive. It will strive — mine at least...distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention ! I take refuge in the unpretending assemblage of honest common-life sounds ; — and the purgatory... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1897 - 228 sayfa
...passive. It will strive — mine at least will — 'spite of its inaptitude, to thrid the maze ; 5 like an unskilled eye painfully poring upon hieroglyphics....with sounds, which I was not obliged to follow, and 10 get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention ! I take refuge in the... | |
 | 1898 - 540 sayfa
...midsummer madness. But those unconnected unset sounds are nothing to the measured malice of music. I have sat through an Italian opera till for sheer...torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention." — ' Essays of Elm,' 1884 (Macmillan), p. 52, et seq. are the swine before whom he casts his pearls.... | |
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