The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20Atlantic Monthly Company, 1867 - American essays |
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Page 82
... piano in the nearest city , put them together , and sell the instrument in the neighborhood . The returns of the houses which sup- ply the ivory keys of the piano to all the makers in the country are confirmatory of this estimate ...
... piano in the nearest city , put them together , and sell the instrument in the neighborhood . The returns of the houses which sup- ply the ivory keys of the piano to all the makers in the country are confirmatory of this estimate ...
Page 83
... piano ranges from six dollars to twelve dol- lars a month , cartage both ways paid by the hirer , it may be inferred that this business , when conducted on a large scale , and with the requisite vigi- lance , is not unprofitable . In ...
... piano ranges from six dollars to twelve dol- lars a month , cartage both ways paid by the hirer , it may be inferred that this business , when conducted on a large scale , and with the requisite vigi- lance , is not unprofitable . In ...
Page 84
... pianos on the scale of Eng- land , France , and the United States . A business of five pianos a week ex- cites astonishment in a German state , and it is not uncommon there for one man to construct every part of a piano , - a work of ...
... pianos on the scale of Eng- land , France , and the United States . A business of five pianos a week ex- cites astonishment in a German state , and it is not uncommon there for one man to construct every part of a piano , - a work of ...
Page 85
... piano , though its recent develop ment has been so rapid , is the growth of ages , and we can , for three thousand years or more , dimly and imperfectly trace its growth . The instrument , in- deed , has found an historian , — Dr ...
... piano , though its recent develop ment has been so rapid , is the growth of ages , and we can , for three thousand years or more , dimly and imperfectly trace its growth . The instrument , in- deed , has found an historian , — Dr ...
Page 86
... piano . It was a piano , without its machinery . The next thing , obviously , must have been to contrive a method of striking the strings with certainty and evenness ; and , accordingly , we find indications of a keyed instrument after ...
... piano . It was a piano , without its machinery . The next thing , obviously , must have been to contrive a method of striking the strings with certainty and evenness ; and , accordingly , we find indications of a keyed instrument after ...
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Page 252 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright.
Page 425 - I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Page 109 - Yes, trust them not; for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you, and being an absolute Johannes factotum is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 215 - BY the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead ; — Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day ; — Under the one, the Blue ; Under the other, the Gray.
Page 253 - Leave me ! There's something come into my thought, That must and shall be sung high and aloof \ Safe from the wolf's black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof.
Page 30 - ... clime, And spreads the honey of his deep research At his return — a rich repast for me. He travels, and I too. I tread his deck, Ascend his topmast, through his peering eyes Discover countries, with a kindred heart Suffer his woes, and share in his escapes ; While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
Page 109 - Shakespeare's poems the creative power and the intellectual energy wrestle as in a war embrace. Each in its excess of strength seems to threaten the extinction of the other. At length in the drama they were reconciled, and fought each with its shield before the breast of the other.
Page 216 - Sadly, but not with upbraiding, The generous deed was done, In the storm of the years that are fading, No braver battle was won . Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Under the blossoms, the Blue, Under the garlands, the Gray.
Page 215 - From the silence of sorrowful hours The desolate mourners go, Lovingly laden with flowers Alike for the friend and the foe ; — Under the sod and the clew, Waiting the judgment day ; — Under the roses, the Blue ; Under the lilies, the Gray.
Page 159 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.