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The parallel plots, one running to Louisiana and the other to Canada, are tied together by this consideration, and not by any real necessity to each other. There is no doubt that Mrs. Stowe was wholly possessed by her theme, rapt away like a prophet in a vision, and that, in her feeling at the time, it was written through her quite as much as by her.
"Thank you, dear Nell," she said; "I know it is you who have got me this piece of good fortune. I shall have some delicious hours over the work." "Now, mind you make it beautiful," cried Nell; "for I have staked my reputation on you!" Hetty thought she had never been so happy in her life before, as she went out to pick and choose among the flowers, looking for a theme for her composition.
More of the same wild images were thrown out, each bearing some analogy, however fanciful and remote, to the theme, which occurred like a chorus at the close of each stanza; so that the poetry resembled a piece of music, which, after repeated excursions through fanciful variations, returns ever and anon to the simple melody which is the subject of ornament.
The effect produced by the descriptions, by the suggestions, by the general tone, by the subtle modulations of the verse in adaptation to its theme, is less one of literary and intellectual than of direct emotional perception, producing the immediate physical impression of an actual presence.
She had always had a private theory that Lord Leonard, after performing the same feat, had bragged about it for the rest of his life. "No, no, nothing," said George, who had since wondered why he had ever made such a to-do about climbing up a perfectly stout sheet. "It was splendid!" George blushed. "We are wandering from the main theme," he said. "I want to help you.
The warm panegyrics that have been lavished on her constitution and laws the songs chaunted to celebrate her glory the lustre of her arms, as the glowing theme of her warriors the thunder of her artillery in proclaiming her moral prowess, her flag being unfurled to every breeze and ocean, rolling to her shores the tribute of a thousand realms show England to be the greatest nation in the world, and speak volumes for the great departed, as well as for those of the living present.
Why repetition should be musical we already know: music is an art which seeks to draw out and elaborate pure emotion; repetition serves this end by constantly bringing the mind back to dwell upon the same theme.
A long merriment ensues in the jovial trip, where the former theme of horns has a rising cadence; or the tripping tune sings in united chorus and again through its variants. In the later tumult we rub our eyes to see a jovial theme of the bass take on the lines of the wistful melody.
Their genial hospitality and simple good-nature, together with their utter ignorance of the outer world, formed the theme of various amusing anecdotes during the remainder of the passage. Favored by a southerly wind and a stock of good coal, we made the southeastern point of Iceland in a little over two days from Thorshavn.
And during the whole passage of the bridge, he had not once cast thought on a secret so palpitating, the cause of the morning's expedition and a long year's prospect of the present day! It seemed to have been knocked clean out of it punctilioed out, Fenellan might say. Nor had any combinations upon the theme of business displaced it.
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