 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
 | Paul Milton Fulcher - 1927 - 336 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... | |
 | Max Schoen - 1928 - 164 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 1 I take refuge in the unpretending assemblance of honest common-life sounds ; — and the purgatory... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 sayfa
...Joseph Haydn, 1790, in Ian Crofton and Donald Fraser, A Dictionary of Musical Quotations (1985) 61:13 I have sat through an Italian Opera, till, for sheer...distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention! Charles Lamb, 1823, 'A Chapter on Ears', in The Essays of Elia 61:14 Music-hall songs provide the dull... | |
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