So with Hardy; of one passage I remember him to have often spoken with particular admiration--that in which Sergeant Troy thralls a woman by sword play and the swinging of his flashing steel round and round her person.
There was a Bengali, who showed me how to play poker; there was a convert parson, a dramatic critic, and a man who acted.
A needless anxiety, since I desired nothing better than to play with them.
Although he resumed his playand make-believe with his sisters, he was growing further and further apart from a good understanding with any of his fellow-creatures.
This play was again unfavourably received when, in 1903, he submitted it to T.
On the 14th of May the battery on Mont Guinevert was opened, and the enemy's cannon began to play upon the little fort and bastions, which, being only of dry stones, were soon dismantled.
Here he passed his boyhood and youth, and received from his admirable mother those lessons which formed his mind and character, and fitted him for that great part which he was to play in public life.
One of the girls soon proposed that the old fiddler should play a few tunes to the animals, which were now whining in their cage.
If you want to be sure of hearing something rational from me, come to me and play all your things to me, especially the Crusaders' chorus (splendid!
Tausig is to work your Erard thoroughly, and to play all manner of things to you.
I feel a strong desire to communicate some of it to some one, and I fear I shall be tempted to play some of it to Berlioz one of these days, although my beautiful performance will probably terrify and disgust him.
Klindworth astonished me by his playing; no lesser man could have ventured to play your work to me for the first time.
This would be done with lightning rapidity if you could play them to me.
I believe if I had such an instrument I should still learn to play the piano.
For that purpose it would, of course, be necessary for me to hear your poems, or for you to play them to me.
For the present you will have your hands full enough with your own things, and during the first year you ought to play a waiting game.
In any case, I shall visit you before that at Lucerne, or wherever you like, and will play to you a lot of my stuff if, as you tell me, it amuses you.
Klindworth was to play a concerto by Henselt yesterday at the last New Philharmonic concert, conducted by Berlioz.
He leads it by a bast rope, with which he gives it full play so that it can make a dash at Mime.
She herself meanwhile will seek to enter the kemenate and playupon her credulousness.
When the boy was eight years old, he had learned to play on the pianoforte the chorus of bridesmaids from "Der Freischuetz," then quite new.
Music] Thus the Vorspiel depicts both the religious duties which play so prominent a part in the drama, and unhappiness which Amfortas's sinful forgetfulness of these duties has brought upon himself and his knights.
A moving splendor in the play of the varying greens.
The trees droop lower here, and in these tranquil meadows the spirit may play hide-and-seek.
Looking down at my feet I saw a sparkling play of meshes of rainbow light.
Bunny Brown and his sister Sue were so excited because of the first snow storm and because of thinking of the play they were to see, that they could hardly dress.
I can't have her in the play with me, though I did at first, before the puppy chewed her.
And now I'll start to work writing the playand we can soon begin to practice.
Even Mr. Treadwell helped look, for he knew the play would not go right unless Charlie was dressed as had been planned for him.
You know in the play I do some tricks in front of the stage barn to make the farmers laugh.
But he was so excited about the play there is no telling what he might do.
It's early yet, even if it is dark, and maybe he went out to play in the snow, though of course he shouldn't at this hour.
Oh, I don't want to play if there's going to be an old twamp in it!
I have told you something of what the play was to be about, but changes were made in it from time to time, during practice, just as changes are made in real plays.
Now for the last grand chorus then the final curtain and the play will be over!
Excuse me for getting so excited," he said, "but when you spoke about a farm play I remembered that we have some farm scenery in our show that failed.
The naturalist studies the play of his apparatus, and if he has the right of admiring most of its parts, he has likewise that of showing the imperfection of other parts, and the practical uselessness of those which fulfill no functions.
I use poor illustrations in giving my own experience, but I do assure you that both in courts and Parliament, and even to mobs, I have never made so much play (to use a very modern phrase) as when I was almost translating from the Greek.
When Cuvier speaks of the combination of organs in such order as to adapt the animal to the part which it has to play in nature, Geoffroy Saint Hilaire replies, "I know nothing of animals which have to play a part in nature.
The man who can make another capable of rule, clearly can teach him how to play the master; and if can make him play the master, he can make him what is grander still, a kingly being.
To take an instance, a flute may be wealth to him who is sufficiently skilled to play upon it, but the same instrument is no better than the stones we tread under our feet to him who is not so skilled.
But here is a different one, in which subconscious suggestion cannot play any part whatever.
I went to bed, but, after being in bed a short time, I was not exactly asleep, but thought I saw a scene as if from a play before me.
Mr. Parker's fingers seemed to play with it for a moment and I noticed at that moment what a strong and capable hand he seemed to have, with fingers of unusual length and suppleness.
He had no sooner left me than I found I was absolutely compelled to devote myself to one or two of my guests who wished to play bridge, and others of whom I had seen little at dinner time.
My sister was able to come and play hostess, and Eve was charmed with my house and its surroundings.
I can't help my appearance; but let me assure you I am willing to play the Bohemian to any extent so long as I can be with you.
Now if I could institute a real big affair in the shape of a bucketshop swindle, in which your father and I could play the principal parts and you become merely a subordinate, such as a typist or something--what about that, eh?
Just play the part of assistant audience and stick this into your pocket, will you?
Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "play is over for to-night.
There is not in the universe such an areopagus for fair play and abhorrence of all crooked ways, as an English mob, or one of the English time-honoured public schools.
The love of justice and fair play were predominant traits of most Oregon pioneers.
This nature did not play him false in the selection of the site of his Mission.
Who that reflected what it was to Renounce the World, the Flesh, and the Devil, wou'd playwith the sharpest Weapons of these, and offer themselves to such apparent Danger in Sport?
In short, The Disposition of the playis to be such that all the Characters have a proper Effect with us.
Such taboos still play a great part in savage society, and exert no little moral force in preserving honesty and order.
In the popular religion demonology and magic play a constant part, and numerous growths out of the worship of ancestors provide ever fresh additions to the higher ranks of spirits.
An old miracle-play directed Adam to pass across the stage "going to be created.
Tell me--there were always three of you, Sonia was there--what kind of a role did the little prude play between you?
Sit up straight, andplay something for us, now, before the people come.
But with girls like you, who are too old to play with dolls, too young to go into society, it is hard.
You should only hear himplay when we are quite alone in the same room.
As soon as you are better, we will play a great deal together," he begins, after awhile.
Mascha invited her father to play bezique with her.
Frequently he let her play to him alone on the piano, listened to her with the greatest patience, yes, with true pleasure.
But Maschenka, whose mood has completely changed, and who has now become immoderately gay, is not at all content to play the role of silent listener.
As Lensky cannot remain unoccupied for a moment without being nervous, he has proposed to Monsieur Paul to play a game of piquet.
In the course of time allegory will be applied by the Jew Philo of Alexandria to the Pentateuch; and one or two centuries later it will play a great role in Christian polemics against Jew and then against Manichean.
Perhaps nothing in the garden has become so subtly in and of the race as this play of light and shade.
Now no man, as thou knowest, can get full play for his natural gifts, nor conduct and administer government, unless he hath fit tools, and the raw material to work upon.
Other Italians of his time and after him crossed the Alps to learn and teach and play the orator.
Pleaseth him, the Eternal Child To playhis sweet will--glad and wild.
The world is the ring of his spells, And the play of his miracles.
But I see that little Patty to play out in the barn with one of her rag babies.
But Erpingham, on the other hand, did not play the hypocrite either to himself or to others; he was definite and decided, and he took to himself some little credit for the unblushing honesty of his conduct and character.
The Amateur fee for each and every representation of this play is five guineas, payable in advance to the Author's Sole Agents, Messrs.
He’s a lovely boy to play around with, but not to take for a life partner.
She ought to have something to play with,” decreed Patty.
This is as it should be, for--for better or worse--England and America will play together a great part in the future history of the world.
In other words, man still dominated the machine, and there was still full playfor his physical and mental faculties.
They will play with it until it becomes a burning, absorbing, national topic, and when the wind of popular approval blows that way, they will outrival each other in its advocacy.
And it may be noticed, in proof of this, how {140} instantly we detect the stamp of foreign thought and manners, when any play that is not English is represented.
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