The spirit of the polka1845 - 80 páginas |
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Página 1 - I must paint it. Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Página 35 - those effeminate; dances which announce voluptuousness and corruption of manners, but those manly animated dances in use among their ancestors, which even their enemies might witness without abating their respect.
Página 57 - There is a tide in the affairs of men, That, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Página 32 - Several of our monarchs are praised for their skill in dancing, and none of them more than Henry VIII., who was peculiarly partial to this fashionable exercise. In his time and in that of his daughter Elizabeth, the English in general are said to have been good dancers ; and this commendation is not denied to them even by foreign writers. Polydore Virgil praises the English...
Página 45 - Go to the raging sea, and say, " Be still!" Bid the wild lawless winds obey thy will; Preach to the storm, and reason with Despair, But tell not Misery's son that life is fair. Thou, who in Plenty's lavish lap hast roll'd, And every year with new delight hast told, Thou, who recumbent on the...
Página 50 - When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.
Página 11 - ... entirely deserted its bed, and left the Affek marshes by Niffer absolutely dry. For a long time we were obliged to subsist on a scanty supply of bad water from wells dug in the dry canal beds. The drought also seriously affected our food supplies and our transport. Then followed a deluge of rain, the like of which had not been known within the memory of man. This did much damage to our trenches, and enforced a direct loss of two weeks
Página 26 - How ill the motion to the music suits ! So Orpheus fiddled, and so danced the brutes.