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As a poet he has been called the Spanish Sallust: as the author of the adventures of Lazarillo de Tormes he takes a high place among the lighter authors of romance; and as a patron of learning he will always be remembered for having enriched the Escorial with his transcripts from Mount Athos, and six chests of valuable MSS. which he received in return for ransoming from his captivity at Venice the son of Soliman the Magnificent.
"My fellow cave-men, fell in a rage: 'What hast thou done? cried Singh, the Sage, 'For I hear far off a battle-song, And the tree-men come, a hundred strong ... Long the battle and dread the fight; We hurled rocks down from our mountain height" I copy this from memory alone ... Hildreth has all my cave-poems. I gave them to her, holding no transcripts of them The upshot
Ay, marry, said Homenas, but you never saw these that are angelically written. Those in your country are only transcripts from ours; as we find it written by one of our old decretaline scholiasts. For me, do not spare me; I do not value the labour, so I may serve you. Do but tell me whether you will be confessed and fast only three short little days of God?
Transcripts of four of the Radisson Journals copied from the originals in the Bodleian Library, Oxford are possessed by the Prince Society, Boston. Of modern histories dealing with the early era Beckles Willson's The Great Company , George Bryce's Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company , and Laut's Conquest of the Great North-West are the only works to be taken seriously.
But some transcripts from classical operas were even more attractive, through the dignity with which these men invested them.
Hazlitt's Lectures on the English Poets. Dowden's Studies in Literature, and Dowden's Transcripts and Studies. Minto's Characteristics of English Poets. Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism. Leslie Stephen's Hours in a Library. Birrell's Obiter Dicta. Hales's Folia Litteraria. Pater's Appreciations. Pocket Classics, Golden Treasury Series, etc. Biography Dictionary of National Biography, 63 vols.
In Boston two important collections are to be found: the Massachusetts State Archives, which contain some original documents bearing on the relations between New England and Nova Scotia, and others connected with the disposal of those Acadians who were transported to Massachusetts, and many transcripts made from the French Archives; and the Parkman Papers, which are now in the possession of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
In transcribing I try to forget I am a violinist, in order to form a perfect picture of the musical idea its violinistic development must be a natural, subconscious working-out. If you will look at some of my recent transcripts the Albaniz Tango, the negro melody Deep River and Amani's fine Orientale you will see what I mean.
It is the figure of a lion, bearing date 1512, drawn with all that patient care which characterises his transcripts from nature.
But," and his smile was pathetic, "I do miss the uniform. I was so proud, wearing it." A moment, then Hawarden spoke. "Here are the transcripts of the Bohr notes," and soon the two SS men were deep in the study of them. When they had finished some time later, they agreed it was a very comprehensive plan.
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