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The admission of such people to a respectable house, and the entertainment of them as at a music hall, could have its origin only in some wild semi-political scheme of the old fellow, who had more crotchets in his head than brain could well hold! It was a proceeding as disgraceful as extraordinary! Puh! Could the tenth part of the air present be oxygen?
Dresden life at last flowed more easily with Hasse and Faustina on the advent of Augustus III., who possessed his father's connoisseurship without his crotchets and favoritism. Here he remained, with the exception of a short Venetian sojourn, till late in life.
As the various notes by frequent repetitions become connected in the order, in which they are produced, a new catenation of sensitive exertions becomes mixed with the voluntary ones above described; and not only the musical symbols of crotchets and quavers, but the auditory notes and tones at the same time, become so many successive or synchronous links in this circle of catenated actions.
We are to have an illumination and ringing of bells. Sir Claude Scott and myself will not illuminate, but I have promised the ringers twenty shillings if they will muffle the bells. Rejoice! Landor had many queer crotchets about spelling, and always absolutely declined to follow any rule but his own.
Some say he does not care enough, and others, that he has too many crotchets. 'Just so! Public men are not made of that soft, scrupulous stuff, which only hardens and toughens when principle is clear before him. Well, as to society
Yet who that had ever known ye, could have wished you other than ye were, ye guileless, affectionate, honest, simple creatures? simple both, in spite of all the learning of the one, all the prejudices, whims, irritabilities, and crotchets of the other.
He fixed her with a hostile glare and at her he aimed a blunt gimlet of a forefinger. "Are you quite sure you are entirely sane yourself?" "I trust I am fairly normal." "Got any little funny quirks in your brain? Any little temperamental crotchets in which you differ from the run of people round you? Think now!" "Well," she confessed, "I don't like cats I hate cats.
Wylder's crotchets were chiefly 'mare's nests. We had read the draft of the settlement, preparatory to its being sent to senior counsel to be approved. Wylder's attorney had done his devoir, and Mr.
Another in December contains an instance of that dislike to history, which long before its publication careful students of his works had always noticed in him. The fact is, that to a man of ideas, as Mr Arnold would have liked to be called a man of theories or of crotchets, as in extending order of unkindness people actually did call him history must be an annoying study.
You will clearly perceive the truth of this, if you prick the musical characters above mentioned under the verses. The common time of musicians is divided into bars, each of which contains four crotchets, or a proportional number of their subdivision into quavers and semiquavers.
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