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Living Age Volume 190

Living Age Volume 190

Littell, Eliakim

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General ReferenceGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 1153679175
ISBN13: 9781153679176
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 658
Weight: 2.55
Height: 1.32 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...or end, but of which the delicate handwriting, no less than internal evidence, proclaims it to be the expression of a very different mood on the part of the same writer. It is addressed to a musician. How do you find it in music, he says, which 1 take to be your deepest taste? Does a sense of exceeding beauty enliven your spirits, or does it seem rather to oppress them? I do not know why it should be; but the contemplation of a perfectly beautiful thing--whether a perfectly fine day, or Taglioni, or Coniston Waterhead, or one of Shakespeare's women--affects me (physically) very much like a fit of indigestion. It lays a weight upon my animal spirits like lead. As we went up the hill from Coniston--and it was this which made me think of asking you a question, not otherwise particularly appropriate to your peculiar soul--I could do nothing but break out every three minutes in a fragment of Charles Tennyson's, which broke out of him while wandering about the wolds of Lincolnshire in autumn, and which I always have recourse to on these occasions, being all I have to say, --Ah, woody hills and autumn tints divine I Ah, mournful eyes I ah, sad, poetic soul I Ah, beauteous thoughts, with fatal sorrows trained I To twine forever round this cumbered heart. Or Taglioni! On the opposite page--forty years between--lies a valentine presented by a gentle, courteous old dancing mistress, whose friendly grace has charmed the heart of the awkward schoolgirl pupils, whom, week by week, she instructs at a watering-place boardingschool. Deloin n'allez pas m'oublier, is the inscription borne by the souvenir, and the name written, in the trembling characters of old age, under the gay painted flowers--pansies and forget-menots-...

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