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Women as well as men, with their little children, thronged the streets, sorrow and trouble and distress depicted on their countenances and in their bearing. The vacant holiday expression had given way to real grief." The body was borne into the rotunda, amidst funeral dirges and military salutes; and the religious exercises of the occasion were concluded.
He was at that hour most happily unhappy over the late disappearance of his Glorious Lady. The peerless beauty of Padua, the incomparable Ippolita, was gone. His business was to devise dirges, monodies, laments, descortz in the Provençal manner; to cry "Heigho!" and "Well-a-day!" not "Ban!" or "Out, haro!"
The Dreamer's thoughts dwelt constantly upon these scenes and details until finally the "dirges of his hope one melancholy burden bore of Never Nevermore." Under the influence of the state of mind that was thus induced, a new poem began to take shape in his brain a poem of the death of a young and beautiful woman and the despair and grief of the lover left to mourn her in loneliness.
Towards this most unhappy Moddle, Miss Pecksniff conducted herself at first with distant haughtiness, being in no humour to be entertained with dirges in honour of her married sister. The poor young gentleman was additionally crushed by this, and remonstrated with Mrs Todgers on the subject. 'Even she turns from me, Mrs Todgers, said Moddle.
Ere long the laughter of Ulpius, while he moved slowly hither and thither in the darkness of the temple, was overpowered by the sound of her voice deep, groaning, but yet steady as she uttered her last words words poured forth like the wild dirges, the fierce death-songs of the old Goths when they died deserted on the bloody battle-field, or were cast bound into deep dungeons, a prey to the viper and the asp.
They wait for the mind large enough to harbor them in all their variety, and serene enough not to be annoyed because their contradictions are not at once reconciled. The catalogue of ills may be never so long, but it fails to depress one who sees everything in the making. "I heard a poet answer Aloud and cheerfully, 'Say on, sweet Sphinx! thy dirges Are pleasant songs to me.
But it seems certain that these poets, predecessors of Theocritus, liked to mingle with their own composition strains of rustic melody, volks-lieder, ballads, love-songs, ditties, and dirges, such as are still chanted by the peasants of Greece and Italy.
"Well, the world would be in a bad way if we ALL of us spent our time in chanting dirges for Italy. I should think the neighbourhood of our host of this evening and his wife would make anybody frivolous, in self-defence. Oh, yes, I know what you're going to say; you are perfectly right, but they are both so deliciously funny with their patriotism. Are you going in already? It is so nice out here!"
As a poet correctly describes him, using one of the names commonly applied to him, Pindar, that eagle, mounts the skies, While virtue leads the noble way. The poems of Pindar were numerous, and comprised triumphal odes, hymns to the gods, paeans, dirges, and songs of various kinds.
"I know; but yours was a freak formation," he maintained gravely. "It DID go up and down. Honestly, Billy, we did care lots. Will and I were inconsolable, and even Cyril played dirges for a week." "Did he?" gurgled Billy, with sudden joyousness. "I'm so glad!" "Thank you," murmured Bertram, disapprovingly. "We hadn't considered it a subject for exultation." "What? Oh, I didn't mean that!
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