Jack, adding, 'He got the name into his head at Oxford, and has been harping upon it ever since.
I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.
Harper, And again of thy harping let us hear; And weel payd sall thy cowt-foal be, And thou sall have a far better mare.
Come into my hall, thou silly blind Harper, And of thy harpinglet me hear!
Caylesham smiled at their blindness, and took care not to disturb Tom's mind, or to rally him about his harping on Suzette's name and Suzette's advice.
For he seemes Proud and disdainfull, harping on what I am, Not what he knew I was.
But the newspapers kept harping on my insanity and paralyzed my efforts.
And as angels are harping their songs-- Sweet songs of a heavenly birth-- I'll listen to hear the same touch That played us this prelude on earth.
The sentiment in Childe Harold is one that Byron never tires of harping on: I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee.
This theme Rupert Brooke is constantlyharping upon, notably in Dead Men's Love, which begins, There was a damned successful poet, There was a woman like the Sun.
We are not told from whom it comes; but it is there, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder, and as the voice of harpers harping with their harps.
Fat was the feasting and loud was the harping in the halls of Alef the Cornishman, King of Gweek.
And so Tristram learned to be an harper passing all other, that there was none such called in no country, and so in harping and on instruments of music he applied him in his youth for to learn.
And to go from a paradise like this to such a den as that," exclaimed Dopsy, still harping on the unloveliness of the Pimlico lodging.
He stands amongst them as the King, and the music of His words, deep as the roll of thunder, and sweet as harpers harping with their harps, makes all comment or paraphrase sound thin and poor.
The harping sound leaped up, became a melody of weird notes filling the night air.
One mounted to the sky to the triumphant harping of the Jezbro.
Ted, you are far from amusing when you keep onharping on the same string in this way.
Towards the euening also we caught in the Golden Hinde a very mighty Porpose, with a harping yron, hauing first striken diuers of them, and brought away part of their flesh, sticking vpon the yron, but could recouer onely that one.
No joy ofharping is there, nor mirth of stringed instruments, nor does the goodly hawk swing through the hall, nor doth the swift horse paw in the courtyard.
