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What he does must be done at once, and done thoroughly. He has an ardent hatred of shams, and despises all clap-trap. Both in sermons and debate, he strikes home, and woe be to the luckless pate that has the temerity to dash under his well-aimed strokes. And yet under all this seeming severity, there dwells a spirit as kind and manly as ever throbbed in a human bosom.
Some time after this exhibition, 'the hesitation reigning among the troops, says Bourrienne, 'still continued. And in reality it was a mere accident of pantomime, and a clap-trap of sentiment, which finally gave a sudden turn in Napoleon's favor to their wavering resolutions.
But to sit down to the piano and plan a whole sonata or symphony in your head, and play it while planning it, is a thing they do not and will not understand. They come to hear, and they wonder and go away, and the critics declare it to be CLAP-TRAP." "Exactly!" replied Heliobas. "But you are to be congratulated on having attained this verdict.
Plenty of people there will be without us, country gentlemen in search of a club, demagogues in search of a tub, lawyers in search of a place, industrialists in search of gentility, who will come from the east and from the west, and will sit down at that Thyestean banquet of clap-trap, which English public life for these many years past has been.
When two other walls were exposed they too resolved themselves into clearly reflecting surfaces. "Clap-trap again," muttered Kendric, beginning to feel a strange dread in his heart and growing angry with it and determined that Zoraida should not guess. "Be seated," commanded Zoraida sternly. "If you would see what amusement is being offered a friend of yours!"
This appeals to the eye, to the ear, and to all of the outer senses. Spirituality depends upon a cultivation of the spiritual senses that Grace has opened up within the soul. Hence, the spectacular is directly opposed to the spiritual. The deep, contemplative, spiritual soul could find little or no food in the false, clap-trap representations of the modern stage.
When you stood near me, looking so beautiful with wings in your hair, the wings of glory they seemed to me, I could not thank you, but we kissed each other and you understood! "Clap-trap" was the verdict passed by many on the Lyceum "Faust," yet Margaret was the part I liked better than any other outside Shakespeare. I played it beautifully sometimes.
'It's the bond holders, who want big dividends, that stand in the way of the development of the country, that's what it is, said he, as he sat down, to those around him, but loud enough to be heard all over the room. Mansfield asked the protection of the Court against these clap-trap interruptions. The judge said it was altogether irregular, and Uncle Jerry begged pardon.
Jonah listened spellbound to the clap-trap arrangement. He had the native ear for music, and he recognized that he was in the presence of a born musician. Ray crept near, and listened with open mouth to this display of musical fireworks. When she had finished, Clara turned to Jonah with a languid smile, the look of the artist conscious of divine gifts.
I suppose the row wasn't his fault." "It was about him though, and the low blackguard that murdered him. Webb was talking about him, making a speech in the public-room, taking the fellow's part, as I'm told he's always doing, and going on with all the clap-trap story about protecting his sister; as if every one in the country didn't know that she'd been Ussher's mistress for months back.
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