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... sounds and dreams ! Homely old orchestra , dear hast thou ever been to my heart ! thou , the single homely , honest thing amid all the gilding and the gewgaws , the flare and glare , of many a splendid theatre ! It is but a meagre strip ...
... sounds and dreams ! Homely old orchestra , dear hast thou ever been to my heart ! thou , the single homely , honest thing amid all the gilding and the gewgaws , the flare and glare , of many a splendid theatre ! It is but a meagre strip ...
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... sound of some old fable which we loved to hear when we were children ? It is the horn . Thank heaven ! the true Waldhorn - no new- fangled mechanical cornet - à - pistons . Now the sounds seem straining into unison . You half ...
... sound of some old fable which we loved to hear when we were children ? It is the horn . Thank heaven ! the true Waldhorn - no new- fangled mechanical cornet - à - pistons . Now the sounds seem straining into unison . You half ...
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... sound , and assume a movement and a meaning not their own . Reader , this digression is not idle . It closely con- cerns every incident of this history , throughout which , if you have a musical ear , you who read will recog- nize again ...
... sound , and assume a movement and a meaning not their own . Reader , this digression is not idle . It closely con- cerns every incident of this history , throughout which , if you have a musical ear , you who read will recog- nize again ...
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... sounds from my imagin- ary orchestra ; but throughout every phase of it , con- stantly recurring , dominating all ... sound of it . For years I have heard it , after long intervals of forgetfulness , at moments when I least expected ...
... sounds from my imagin- ary orchestra ; but throughout every phase of it , con- stantly recurring , dominating all ... sound of it . For years I have heard it , after long intervals of forgetfulness , at moments when I least expected ...
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... hear , with the same uncomfortable sensa- tion , sharp and shrill , from some undistinguishable world of inner sounds , the long - drawn note of the hautboy . CHAPTER V. THE LORELEY IN PERSON . YES , it 36 THE DOCTOR .
... hear , with the same uncomfortable sensa- tion , sharp and shrill , from some undistinguishable world of inner sounds , the long - drawn note of the hautboy . CHAPTER V. THE LORELEY IN PERSON . YES , it 36 THE DOCTOR .
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ALEXANDER WILLIAM KINGLAKE Amasis amethyst apparition appeared arms beautiful boat body Bois de Boulogne brain Breslau brother CHAPTER chateau child Cloth cold consciousness Count Edmond countenance countess croupiers DANIEL BUTTERFIELD dark dead death Divine door dream Dutch Republic ed balls Egyptian eternity face fancy fatal ring father feel Felix felt finger forever Gentleman in Black hand haps hast heard heart honor hour human imagination Juliet Kabyl least light lips living look Loreley man's melancholy ment mind mond mother mysterious nature never night noble object once pain papyrus passed passion patient perhaps physician poor ring rock seemed seize sensation sense Sethos side sight silent Silesia soul sound spectre strange stretched suddenly swimmer thee Theresa thing tion Trente et Quarante turned valet voice words young
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