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But Eumæus rebuked the goatherd, and invoked the vengeance of heaven against him. "Would that our noble master were here!" he cried, "he would soon make an end of thee, thou braggart! Unfaithful herdsman, that rovest ever about the town, leaving thy flock to underlings!" "Go to, thou dog!" retorted Melanthius, with a savage laugh. "Wilt thou be ever harping on that string?
"Noo I reck'n we're in for bloody times amang the sheep for a while," said the Master, as Jim picked up his bags. "Better a sheep nor a mon," answered the postman, still harping on the old theme. THAT, as James Moore had predicted, was the first only of a long succession of such solitary crimes.
And some people were inclined to take inaction for impotence. At last, on the 4th of August, M. de Nion received an answer, and not an acceptable one, to his last note, still harping on "the punishment of the general." We had had enough of that sort of thing. On the 5th a despatch-boat brought me news of the safety of Mr.
All places resounded with music of pipes and flutes, with harping and singing, and women dancing as in the rites of Bacchus. For this disorderly, wandering march, besides the drinking part of it, was accompanied with all the sportiveness and insolence of bacchanals, as much as if the god himself had been there to countenance and lead the procession.
And I think poverty in marriage a thousand times worse than when one is alone." "Well, we agree in that. But why do you insist upon it just now? Are you beginning to be sorry that we ever met?" "Not a day passes but I feel sorry for it." "I suppose you are harping on the old scruple. Why will you plague me about it?"
That is hard to do, said Sir Launcelot, for by Sir Tristram I may have a warning, for when by means of treaties, Sir Tristram brought again La Beale Isoud unto King Mark from Joyous Gard, look what befell on the end, how shamefully that false traitor King Mark slew him as he sat harping afore his lady La Beale Isoud, with a grounden glaive he thrust him in behind to the heart.
He can have a pleasant time in Gafsa; he can marry an heiress if so disposed; then, when the place begins to bore him, the German Consul in Tunis will repatriate him at his Government's expense. 'He's a poor devil, they say. Why do I tell you all this? Because well I am also poor " Always harping on the old theme! "The cases are not quite parallel, are they?" "No.
Not only our preachers, but our friends the theosophists and mind-curers of various religious sects are also harping on this string. And with the doctors, the Delsarteans, the various mind-curing sects, and such writers as Mr. Dresser, Prentice Mulford, Mr. Horace Fletcher, and Mr.
Number of parts: nature of parts: rest of same inquiry. Begin in order of nature from first principles. Similarly the above arts all imitate by rhythm, language, and tune, and these either separate or mixed. Rhythm and tune alone, harping, fluting, and other arts with same effect e.g. panpipes. Rhythm without tune: dancing.
"Heardst thou ever the like?" said the king. "Did you ever, O king, hear a cat purring over a bowl of broth, or the buzzing of beetles in the twilight, or a shrill tongued old woman scolding your head off?" "That I have often," said the king. "More melodious to me," said the lank grey beggarman, "were the worst of these sounds than the sweetest harping of thy harpers."
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