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Updated: May 15, 2025
You will find, as you advance in the knowledge of art, that its laws of self-restraint are very marvelous; that its peace of heart, and contentment in doing a simple thing, with only one or two qualities, restrictedly desired, and sufficiently attained, are a most wholesome element of education for you, as opposed to the wild writhing, and wrestling, and longing for the moon, and tilting at windmills, and agony of eyes, and torturing of fingers, and general spinning out of one's soul into fiddle-strings, which constitute the ideal life of a modern artist.
Ordinarily speaking, the men would have taken no notice; but their nerves were fretted to fiddle-strings. They jumped up, and three or four clattered into the barrack-room only to find Simmons kneeling by his box. 'Ow! It's you, is it? they said and laughed foolishly. 'We thought 'twas Simmons rose slowly. If the accident had so shaken his fellows, what would not the reality do?
No enemy appeared, however, and at length Rayner, who came last, reached the bottom in safety. They waited and waited. Le Duc kept fiddling away with as much vehemence as at first. But they could not ascertain whether their guards were still dancing the scraping of the fiddle-strings drowning all other sounds.
The not very refined monosyllable in the text may, however, be tolerated as having a technical relation to the fiddle-strings by hypothesis. This patrician Bawdrons is not forgotten in Southey's verse; thus Our good old cat, Earl Tomlemagne, Is sometimes seen to play, Even like a kitten at its sport, Upon a warm spring-day.
Mrs Gamp replied in the affirmative, and softly discharged herself of her familiar phrase, 'Turn and turn about; one off, one on. But she spoke so tremulously that she felt called upon to add, 'which fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night! Jonas stopped to listen. Then said, hurriedly: 'We shall not quarrel about terms. Let them be the same as they were before.
The fiddler said, "He that avoideth all that is forbidden is over fearful. He hath not the right hero's heart." Hagen approved the word of his comrade. But Wolfhart cried, "Give over mocking, or I will put thy fiddle-strings out of tune, that thou mayest have somewhat to tell, if ever thou ridest again to Burgundy. I can no longer, with honour, endure thine insolence."
Both sails were snow-white, semi-transparent and supple in movement, like the ivory sails on the model ships in Rosenborg Palace. The mast seemed to bend slightly and the stays were as taut as fiddle-strings. The boat quivered like a leaf. The waves pounded hard against the thin strakes of the boat's side.
"Why, to Old Calabar Cottage, in course!" he replied, indignantly. "Do you think Jane won't be glad to see you? Why, she's been fretting her heart into fiddle-strings arter you all these last six months that you never wrote, thinking you was gone down to Davy Jones's locker!" "I'm very sorry I couldn't write from Melbourne," I said. "We were so hurried that I had hardly time to get once ashore.
Lashman had taken to his bed six weeks before with scurvy, and complained incessantly; and though they hardly knew it, these complaints were wearing his comrades' nerves to fiddle-strings doing the mischief that cold and bitter hard work and the cruel loneliness had hitherto failed to do.
The aforesaid fiddle-strings, rosin, and music-paper were supplied by a pedlar, who travelled exclusively in such wares from parish to parish, coming to each village about every six months.
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