It was inevitable that his wits should often wander from the dramatictheme and its scenic presentation to the features of some woman on the stage or in the auditory.
Arthur Constant's death was already the theme of every hearth, railway-carriage, and public-house.
Quickly he seized paper and wrote down the theme that flowed out at the point of his pen--a reverie full of the haunting magic of quiet waters and woodland sunsets and the gracious innocence of maidenhood.
This gayety of speech on such a theme was painful to the Doctor.
Meekly replies the other - "The theme of my work, sir, is a History of England before the Flood.
Theme the first: The period of Bach-Haendel, 1720.
After the last theme he inquired: "How long ago may it be that I wrote that?
At the same time I said to them that the solution of the theme which the teacher and I should consider the best, I would inscribe in my musical album as a souvenir of their performance.
My diary states: "I never remark the progress I have made in playing, more than when, from time to time, I take up some old theme and remember how I used to execute it.
For instance, the introductory theme of the very first passage is wanting in that dignity which according to my feeling the commencement of a Symphony should of a necessity possess.
It was in this form: [Music] and I immediately took it as a theme for a new violin-quartett, which is the first of the three quartetts published in Vienna by Mechetti as op.
The general theme upon which the book of Daniel treats is Babylon, both ancient and modern.
No poet who valued his reputation would touch such a theme as that.
Everything which love could devise or money procure was purchased for her, and the elegance of her outfit was for a long time the only theme of village gossip.
Woodburn was the principal theme of conversation in the evening also, the entire family being gathered together in the parlor, and no visitors present.
I love to tell the story: 'Twill be my theme in glory, To tell the old, old story, Of Jesus and his love.
And all the more, because his voice resembled a music that was playing a melody suggested by the themeof his face.
His panic was somewhat allayed by the soothing remark in a kindly paper in Blackwood's Magazine for January, that the writer had discussed histheme "by no means unfairly or disrespectfully.
The theme had complete possession of her, and chapter after chapter flowed from her pen as easily as one would write a letter to a friend; and she had an ever fresh and vigorous delight in it.
These men had one theme only, to which they always recurred with enthusiasm--their hope in personal immortality for all eternity.
The theme in itself did not particularly fascinate me; but I was not ignorant of the subject, and it was one that allowed of being looked at in a wide connection, i.
This seems to be a favorite theme with the sages; there are a great many pages.
The devotion and care of Stephen, himself a small boy, for his baby brother, is the theme of the simple tale.
Professor Howe would surely excuse her when she explained; explained that she had tried to write the themeand failed--she felt sure of that.
How she was to write a theme and get ready to go to Cambridge by three o'clock, was beyond her ability to calculate.
And now methinks 't were best to change a theme I am a sad fool to have stumbled on.
Buononcini's work is theme For fit laudation of the impartial few: (We stand in England, mind you!
Not to prolong a theme I thoroughly hate, I have pursued this plan with all my strength; And having failed therein most signally, Cannot object to ruin utter and drear As all-excelling would have been the prize Had fortune favored me.
So, in high civilizations, especially material, Art is not only a fashion but a great enjoyment, a lofty study, and a themeof general criticism and constant conversation.
The Master then continues: Change is the universal law of mortality, and the theme of every page of its history.
Surely a theme of magnificent possibilities--a theme more fertile in romance even than the central idea of 'The War of the Worlds.
Julia was not of an age to mingle much in society, and Anna had furnished her with a theme for her meditations, that rather rendered her averse from the confusion of company.
No, no, George, this is too melancholy a theme for us both just now; let us talk of your returning health.
He follows Decamps and Marilhat to the Orient, which he paints with the utmost freedom, so far as the choice of theme is concerned--descending even to the danse du ventre of a Turkish café.
He will be known chiefly as a portraitist, but such a masterpiece as his "Diana" shows how admirable he was in the sphere of purely imaginative theme and treatment.
Mercié "David" was simply a classictheme to be treated, which is exactly what it of course was not with Donatello, it is undeniable that he has expressed himself very distinctly in his treatment.
He will appreciate it very readily, to return to Chapu, by contrasting the "Jeanne d'Arc" at the Luxembourg Gallery with such different treatment of the same theme as M.
He, whose favourite theme had been the injustice of requiring civil functionaries to take religious tests, established in Scotland, when he resided there as Viceroy, the most rigorous religious test that has ever been known in the empire.
Her favourite theme was the doctrine of non-resistance.
Lastly the story is one which, long before Kirke was born, had been told of many other oppressors, and had become a favourite theme of novelists and dramatists.
The whole story is a fitting theme for tragedy, and was at one time dramatised by Mary Mitford.
Though love was the constant theme of these books, as yet no true love story had been written.
Her infatuation for Lord Byron had long been a theme for gossip throughout London.
