 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1905 - 536 pages
...thoughts upon paper, which I did after he was gone, and sent him. FREE THOUGHTS ON SOME EMINENT COMPOSERS Some cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites....man live free and easy, Without admiring Pergolesi I Or thro' the world with comfort go That never heard of Doctor Blow ! So help me God, I hardly have... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1906 - 514 pages
...thoughts upon paper, which I did after he was gone, and sent him. "FREE THOUGHTS ON SOME EMINENT COMPOSERS Some cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites....world with comfort go That never heard of Doctor Blow I So help me God, I hardly have ; And yet I eat, and drink, and shave, Like other people, (if you watch... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English essays - 1907 - 264 pages
...Compare the admirably humorous verses, "Free Thoughts on Several Eminent Composers," beginning — "Some cry up Haydn, some Mozart. Just as the whim...live free and easy Without admiring Pergolesi ? Or through the world with comfort go That never heard of Dr. Blow?" A. " Lamb was not so utterly without... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1913 - 508 pages
...thoughts upon paper, which I did after he was gone, and sent him. FREE THOUGHTS ON SOME EMINENT COMPOSERS Some cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites....man live free and easy, Without admiring Pergolesi 1 Or thro" the world with comfort go That never heard of Doctor Blow ! So help me God, I hardly have... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Karl Young, James Francis Augustine Pyre - English literature - 1915 - 538 pages
...for music in this essay, as in his verses, Free Thoughts on Several Eminent Composers, beginning: ' Some cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites;...farthing candle For either of them, or for Handel.' As a matter of fact he was a fervent admirer of Braham, whose singing of Handel's oratorio, Israel... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - Electronic journals - 1917 - 746 pages
...present generathey are not so familiar as they should be. Free Thoughts on Some Eminent Composers. Some cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites. For my part, I do not care one farthing candle For either of them, nor for Handel. Cannot a man live free and easy Without admiring... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - Authors, English - 1917 - 690 pages
...inclined to harmony, but organically I am incapable of a tune," he says. Elsewhere in verse he writes: " Some cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites...man live free and easy Without admiring Pergolesi? The devil, with his foot so cloven, For all I care, may take Beethoven. Of Doctor Pepusch old Queen... | |
 | Welsh - 1905 - 560 pages
...so, and the bit of verse is not in any of the standard editions of Charles Lamb's published works: Some cry up Haydn, some Mozart — Just as the whim...do not care a farthing candle For either of them, nor for Handel. Cannot a man live free and easy, Without admiring Pergolesi? Or thro' the world with... | |
 | Fanny Anne Burney Wood, Mrs. Fanny Anne Burney Wood - Belgium - 1926 - 428 pages
...whilst his clothes were dried ! him his amusing Free Thoughts on Composers, in which occur the lines : " Some cry up Haydn — some Mozart, Just as the whim...man live free and easy Without admiring Pergolesi," etc. WS Ayrton was a musical critic and director of the King's Theatre, Haymarket. 1 As for " Mr. P.,"... | |
 | W. H. Auden - Poetry - 2004 - 604 pages
...general conflagration. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. J75 Free Thoughts on several eminent Composers [OME cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites;...farthing candle For either of them, or for Handel. — 324 S( Cannot a man live free and easy, Without admiring Pergolesi ? Or thro' the world with comfort... | |
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EMINENT COMPOSERS. SOME cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites ; for my part, I do not care a farthing candle For either of them, or for Handel. 
