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He could not understand its popularity, any more than Campbell could that of Ye Mariners of England, which he pronounced "d d drum-and-trumpet verses." Gray used to say, "with a good deal of acrimony," that the Elegy "owed its popularity entirely to the subject, and the public would have received it as well had it been written entirely in prose."
This kind of professional fame is usually far more profitable than the drum-and-trumpet variety of the same article; or at least we found it so; and often, from blush of morn to far later than dewy eve which natural phenomena, by the way, were only emblematically observed by me during thirty busy years in the extinguishment of the street lamps at dawn, and their re-illumination at dusk did I and my partner incessantly pursue our golden avocations; deferring what are usually esteemed the pleasures of life its banquets, music, flowers, and lettered ease till the toil, and heat, and hurry of the day were past, and a calm, luminous evening, unclouded by care or anxiety, had arrived.
It would be deplorable indeed if, as a result of our present experience, children were to be taught what J. R. Green called a "drum-and-trumpet history," and were made to believe that the triumphs of war are the highest achievements of the human spirit. As long as there is an Established Church, the State, in some sense, offers religion.
"I am speaking of the people that are not seen, like the tailoress and shirtmaker, in your drum-and-trumpet State." "Well, you may be right," said George, drily. "But I confess if I may be quite frank that I don't altogether trust you to judge.
This was neither a "drum-and-trumpet history" designed to tickle the vulgar ear, nor a blank four-wall depository of dry facts, names, dates, statistics, such as pedants mustily adore; but a living thing, seen and felt.
Innumerable memories of this kind beat on Julie's mind as she sat dreamily on her bench among the Swiss meadows. How natural that in the end they should sweep her by reaction into imaginations wholly indifferent of a drum-and-trumpet history, in the actual fighting world. ... Far, far in the African desert she followed the march of Warkworth's little troop.
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