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Louis Glanville chose to give away anything belonging to his sister, she, Tabitha, had a right to take it without question, was soon checked by a resolve to carry the tempting strings of coral to her ladyship that evening, and inquire the truth about them. This decided on she slipped the bracelet into her pocket, and played her voluntaries with a light heart.
During this period Emerson contributed many articles in prose and verse to the "Atlantic Monthly," and several to "The Dial," a second periodical of that name published in Cincinnati. Some of these have been, or will be, elsewhere referred to. "Boston Hymn." "Voluntaries." Other Poems. "May-Day and other Pieces." "Remarks at the Funeral Services of Abraham Lincoln." Essay on Persian Poetry.
"And mamma bestows a good cup of coffee," said the mother; "you must also praise me a little!" "I give music after dinner!" cried Wilhelm; "and thus the whole family will have shown their activity!" "But no voluntaries!" said the Kammerjunker; "no voluntaries, dear friend! No, a brisk song, so that one can hear what it is! but none of your artificial things!"
The little Turdus Felivox, oho! ye ignorant children, that is he of the cat, it sits on the bough, ten feet from me, and sings and trills and whistles, and sends out little jets of music, little voluntaries, as if it were freely and irrepressibly singing a lovely hymn. This morning there is the slightest little drizzle, a mere tentative experimenting towards rain, no more,-I keep to facts.
It seems a long way from Dante to Emerson, and yet there are Dantean passages in "Woodnotes" and "Voluntaries." They are not in Dante's matchless measure, but they have much of his grace, and more of his inflexible will.
I used to think that for him all the drama of Admiral Guinea, one of the plays he wrote with Stevenson, was concentrated in the tap-tap of the blind man's stick. In his Hospital Verses, his London Voluntaries, his every Rhyme and Rhythm, the outward sign is the expression of the emotion, the thought that is in him.
I have thought often, when listening to British birds at their morning rehearsals, what a sensation would ensue if Master Bob, in his odd-fashioned bib and tucker, should swagger into their midst, singing one of those Low- Dutch voluntaries which he loves to pour down into the ears of our mowers in haying time.
Dr. Hutton, one of those advanced Voluntaries who had never been enthusiastic about the Union proposals, wrote to him at the close of the negotiations: "We have reached this stage through your vast personal influence more than through any other cause."
During this period Emerson contributed many articles in prose and verse to the "Atlantic Monthly," and several to "The Dial," a second periodical of that name published in Cincinnati. Some of these have been, or will be, elsewhere referred to. "Boston Hymn." "Voluntaries." Other Poems. "May-Day and other Pieces." "Remarks at the Funeral Services of Abraham Lincoln." Essay on Persian Poetry.
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