This would open up to me a tempting picture of wandering as a minstrel boy from place to place, reciting and singing.
In one of the rooms a Pandit was reciting some Sanskrit verses of his own composition and explaining them in Bengali to the audience.
My preoccupation with this question, amidst the hum of the boys reciting their lessons, comes back to me even now.
But when I thought of what Father had said about my reciting my lessons to him every day in the library--I wasn't so sure whether I'd won out or not.
Mr. Barwell, afterreciting the above letter, returned in answer what follows.
The crowds were reverentially silent and recollected, reciting the Rosary and the Litany of the Blessed Virgin.
Determined that the Rebel officials should not enjoy much peace of mind, I addressed them letter after letter, reciting their various subterfuges.
I was foolish to talk to him as I did;-- it only set him to reciting the sutras on behalf of my soul!
Having heard of your skill in reciting the story of the battle, he now desires to hear your performance: so you will take your biwa and come with me at once to the house where the august assembly is waiting.
To go near him while he is reciting would be difficult; and we cannot touch him so long as he is praying.
A petition reciting their grievances against the Tzar was framed in due form and placed in the hands of a member of the community who had just died, with the request that the deceased present it to the Almighty, the God of Israel.
My arrangement with Hill was that I should go on reciting Welsh poetry until he got on his feet, which would be the signal that the camera was safely back in his pocket.
I seemed to go on reciting for ages, and wondered what was up, and why the third click was so long in coming.
The act (the full name of which is An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and settling the Succession of the Crown), after reciting the unconstitutional proceedings of James II.
A bill consists of a preamble, reciting the necessity for legislation, and clauses which contain the enactments.
It is unmetrical though not unrhythmical; it follows the phrasing, the emphasis, and the natural inflections of the voice in reciting the text, at the same time that it idealizes them.
The endings which follow the recitation do not fall into musical measures, but are as unrhythmical as the reciting tone itself.
As to the mode of performing divine service, the strict parochial mode consists in reciting all parts of the liturgy in the speaking tone of the voice unaccompanied by music.
Some years ago, after reciting a long time with much effort, he raised blood; so I sent him to Egypt, from whence he returned a short time since greatly strengthened by the long journey.
The custom universally prevailed of poets reciting their verses to a select circle, before they were published.
Mr. Adams sent in a message reciting the facts and hinting pretty plainly that he intended to carry out the laws by force unless Georgia desisted.
He was a bright, active child, making rhymes when he was five years old, and reciting them at the Christmas gatherings.
I immediately knelt down, and holding my head near the ground, in a position as near as may be prostrate, began beating my drum, and reciting my songs or incantations.
He attributed all his ability in deceptive arts to the agency of the Evil Spirit; and he spoke of it with the same settled tone that he had manifested in reciting other points in his personal experience.
Military Academy; when reciting upon the movements in tactics, all the commands and explanations of the instructor to the troops are repeated “verbatim et literatim,” and in the tone and pitch of voice used in the field.
The object of thus reciting is to teach the pupils the proper tone and pitch of voice, to accustom them to hear their own voices, and to enable them to repeat the text literally at this pitch of voice, without hesitation or mistake.
It begins with recitingpart of a note entered by Mr. Macpherson in the Consultations of the Council, at the time when the orders of the Court of Directors which I have just alluded to were taken into consideration.
We closed by reciting to you the false pretence on which this pillage was defended, namely, that it was the work of the Nabob.
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