How are we to know that a Dracula is a key-pounding pianist who lifts his hands up to his face, or that a bass fiddle is the dogho...use, or that shmaltz musicians are four-button suit guys and long underwear boys?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the artist extends his world with... one gratuitous flourish--a stroke of white or a run on the clarinet above the bass tones of the orchestra ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At it in its familiar twang: "My friend, Cut your own throat. Cut your own throat. Now! Now!"... September twenty-second, Sir, the bough Cracks with the unpicked apples, and at dawn The small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, curses ...mix with tears; and the sigh and the sob furnish the bass to the shrill octave of those who laugh to drown buried griefs of their own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ring out, ye crystal spheres, Once bless our human ears... (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time, And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This autumnal festival, when men are gathered in crowds in the streets as regularly and by as natural a law as the leaves cluster ...and rustle by the wayside, is naturally associated in my mind with the fall of the year. The low of cattle in the streets sounds like a hoarse symphony or running bass to the rustling of the leaves. The wind goes hurrying down the country, gleaning every loose straw that is left in the fields, while every farmer lad too appears to scud before it ... to country fairs and cattle-shows, to that Rome among the villages where the treasures of the year are gathered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He plays o'the viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the good gifts of natu...re.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »