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But it stopped short of us in a very business-like manner when we reached the canal; and, before we left the wharf, went panting up this hill again, with the passengers who had waited our arrival for the means of traversing the road by which we had come." * * Op. cit.
His choice was three manuscripts of Chopin's, one of them being this nocturne. A letter from Mr. Polinski on the subject of this nocturne is in the possession of Miss Janotha. Is this the nocturne of which Tausig spoke to his pupil Joseffy as belonging to the Master's "best period," or did he refer to the one in E minor? The Berceuse, op. 57, published June, 1845, and dedicated to Mlle.
In it Chopin is made to call the critic "really a very bad man." Niecks demonstrates that the Polish pianist was not the writer. It reads like the effusion of some indignant, well meaning female friend. The B flat major Mazurka which opens op. 7 is the best known of these dances. There is an expansive swing, a laissez-aller to this piece, with its air of elegance, that are very alluring.
Still, thus much at least we may assume to be certain: Gutmann played the Scherzo, Op. 39, on this occasion, and his rendering of it was such as to induce his master to dedicate it to him.
In noting the death of a boy whom his parents believed bewitched, he wrote, "Oh that they saw the lords hand." Diary, I, 287. Compare Drage, op. cit., 36, 39, 42, with The Lord's Arm Stretched Out, 17. Mary Hall, whose cure Drage celebrates, had friends among the Baptists.
John Fortey's brass and William Greville's brass are conveniently reproduced in G.W. Morris and L.S. Wood, op. cit., pp. 28, 32, together with several other illustrations, pertinent to the wool trade. Gower, Mirour de l'Omme in The Works of John Gower. I. The French Works, ed. G.C. Macaulay , p. 280-1. The Paston Letters, ed. See also H.S. Bennett, The Pastons and their England .
The Alla Polacca for piano and 'cello, op. 3, was composed in 1829, while Chopin was on a visit to Prince Radziwill. It is preceded by an introduction, and is dedicated to Joseph Merk, the 'cellist. Chopin himself pronounced it a brilliant salon piece. It is now not even that, for it sounds antiquated and threadbare.
'Dere's some off the Gristmas goots it is too late for me to use, but we'll fix op de Spring shipment som vay. "When Morris and I looked over my copy, he cut out a few items of the December 1st shipment but added to the February 1st order a great deal more than he canceled from the other one. "'Say, said Morris, 'do you know vy I reinsdadet dot orter. It vas dot letter you sent me.
"Pleasure" is a property of a sensation or other mental occurrence, consisting in the fact that the occurrence in question either does not stimulate any voluntary or reflex movement, or, if it does, stimulates only such as tend to prolong the occurrence in question.* * Cf. Thorndike, op. cit., p. 243.
It was his claim that the rail was rolled direct from the ingot, something Bessemer himself could not do at that time. Mining Journal, 1857, vol. 27, p. 871, and 1858, vol. 28, p. 12. Ibid. , p. 34. Mushet, op. cit. The phrase quoted is typical of Mushet's style. This was the beginning of a series of claims by Mushet as to his essential contributions to Bessemer's invention.
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