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The topsy-turvy nature of a this theme made Ibsen as nearly "rollicking" as he ever became in his life. We can imagine than as he wrote the third act of The Wild Duck, where so horrible a luncheon party "we'll all keep a corner" gloats over the herring salad, he indulged again and again in those puffs of soundless and formidable mirth which Mr.
And the sunset, which was now in its final glory, flung far over all of them a red flush and glitter like the gigantic firelight of Dickens. In that strange evening light every figure looked at once grotesque and attractive, as if he had a story to tell. I stood and listened for more, but my friend went away. XIV. In Topsy-Turvy Land
"Schiller, it appears, at one time thought of writing an Epic Poem upon Friedrich the Great, 'upon some action of Friedrich's, Schiller says. Happily Schiller did not do it. By oversetting fact, disregarding reality, and tumbling time and space topsy-turvy, Schiller with his fine gifts might no doubt have written a temporary 'epic poem, of the kind read an admired by many simple persons.
Vanstone, entering the room while Miss Garth was making her quotation, with the dogs at his heels. "Well; live and learn. If you're all rakes, Miss Garth, the sexes are turned topsy-turvy with a vengeance; and the men will have nothing left for it but to stop at home and darn the stockings. Let's have some breakfast." "How-d'ye-do, papa?" said Magdalen, taking Mr.
I am sure that you haven't eaten soup 'au fromage' for a long while." He turned the closet topsy-turvy to find her a spoon and a napkin; and she took her seat opposite him, assisting him and laughing a little at the difficulties attending her entertainment. She was less pale already, and there was a pretty sparkle in her eyes, composed of the tears of a moment before and the present gayety.
It leaves them high and dry, and tilted sometimes at an angle which suggests that everything within must be topsy-turvy, until the vessel is afloat again. With a strong wind blowing from the north-east the bay is likely to be, at high tide, an extremely lively place for the mariner; a fact which helps perhaps to explain the sinister French name of Malbaie.
The second, scored, interlined, altered, cut, interleaved, rewritten, reversed, turned inside out and topsy-turvy one long, hopeless confusion from beginning to end was the opera, as, everybody helping, we had "knocked it into shape." "That's your opera," I said, pushing across to him the bulkier bundle.
He lived in Dorking, and, becoming convinced that the world had been turned topsy-turvy, selected his grave, and gave instructions that he should be buried head downward, so that at the final setting right of mundane affairs he would rise correctly.
"M. Gustave has been here three times already; he was very angry when he found that there was no one at home he went on terribly. Besides, the workmen have turned everything topsy-turvy." However, Marguerite had already reached her own room, and thrown herself on the bed. She was suffering terribly. Her brave spirit still retained its energy; but the flesh had succumbed.
"Then you did not take the bird home to its owner and you are a bird-stealer? With all my heart: be a dog-stealer, if you will only go on." "But, my lady, you hurry me so, it puts every thing topsy-turvy in my head; I could tell it as fast as possible my own way." "Do so, then."
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