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Updated: May 21, 2025
Lucy then explained "that the masked ball suggested by Mr. Talboys' beautiful dresses was to be very soon, and she wanted Mr. Dodd to practice quadrilles and waltzes with her; it will be so much better with the violin and piano than with a piano alone, and you are such an excellent timist will you, Mr. Dodd?" "That I will," said David, his eyes sparkling with delight; "thank you."
During a remarkable wet summer, Joe Vernon, whose vocal taste and humour contributed for many years to the entertainment of the frequenters of Vauxhall Gardens, but who was not quite so good a timist in money matters as in music, meeting an acquaintance who had the misfortune to hold some of his unhonoured paper, was asked by him, not uninterestedly, how the gardens were going on?
As for me, I derived but one benefit from my old violin accompanier, that of becoming a good timist; in every other respect I received nothing but injury from our joint performances, getting into incorrigible habits of bad fingering, and of making up my bass with unscrupulous simplifications of the harmony, quite content if I came in with my final chords well thumped in time and tune with the emphatic scrape of the violin that ended our lesson.
Those whose musical creed is Time before Sentiment might have put up with this night-bird; for to do her justice she was a perfect timist one crake in a bar the livelong night; but her tune ugh! She was the mother of all files that play on iron throughout the globe. Crake! crake! crake! untuning the night.
Urania smiled, and felt meritorious in that, after being chosen as one of the four for this very 'Zampa, she had failed ignominiously as a timist, and had been compelled to cede her place to another pupil. 'I might have toiled for six weeks at the horrid thing, she thought, 'and papa would have only called it a row.
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