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Updated: May 8, 2025
"Taste not when the wine-cup glistens, Speak not when the people listens," she continued. "Here's Mr. Beebe." "Mr. Beebe knows my rude ways." "It's a beautiful song and a wise one," said he. "Go on." "It isn't very good," she said listlessly. "I forget why harmony or something." "I suspected it was unscholarly. It's so beautiful." "The tune's right enough," said Freddy, "but the words are rotten.
When he had finished and opened his eyes to discover what effect his vocal exertions had produced, his audience was of course fast asleep. "Well, I never!" said Bob. "The tune's too awful lively," said the little old woman, when she woke up. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Now, hear me sing."
They deplored the making of vocal ornaments and the display of ingenuity in the interweaving of parts for their own sakes, just as Wagner decried the writing of tune for tune's sake, and on one of the same grounds, namely, that nothing could result but a tickling of the ear. Yet these young reformers had no intention of throwing overboard all the charms of floridity in song.
Doyle wanted some, if not all, of the dirt removed from the floor beforehand. "What tune's that young Kerrigan's playing?" said Gallagher. "I don't know," said Doyle. "I've more to do than to be listening to tunes. Mary Ellen, can you not see that there's three corks out of porter bottles underneath the table? Will you take them out of it now, like a good girl?"
"I don't believe it's much more than long-range firing yet," said the soldier. "Our batteries on the Chickahominy and they are answering from somewhere beyond Beaver Dam Creek. No musketry. Hello! The tune's changing!" It changed with such violence that after a moment's exclamation the people sat or stood in silence, pale and awed. Speculation ceased.
You have been moistening your own throat to some purpose, and using it to gabble tunes very suitable to the times, to be sure!" "Faith, the tune's a pretty tune enough, Mark, only out of fashion a little the more's the pity." "What could I expect," said Everard, "but to meet some ranting, drunken cavalier, as desperate and dangerous as night and sack usually make them?
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