Anxious to throw some light on his own perplexity from the impressions of others, Levin began to walk about, looking for connoisseurs, and was glad to see a well-known
musical amateur in conversation with Pestsov, whom he knew.
"It is an evidence that we may some day have a musical telegraph, which will send as many messages simultaneously over one wire as there are notes on that piano."
You had better throw that idea out of your mind and go ahead with your musical telegraph, which if it is successful will make you a millionaire."
Her entrance had been conducted with such tact, that had she possessed the most
musical ear imaginable, it were impossible to disturb the party less; a circumstance that did not fail to impress Seymour agreeably, from its novelty.
I observed in the king's kitchen all sorts of mathematical and
musical instruments, after the figures of which they cut up the joints that were served to his majesty's table.
Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the
musical for its excellent acoustics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for the hearing of music.
And have to practice every day; But I've been
musical always, since first my life began.
And, had we no other reason to treasure it, we would still for its simple
musical language look upon it as one of the fine things in our literature.
Dashwood's sisters, she immediately concluded them to be staying in Harley Street; and this misconstruction produced within a day or two afterwards, cards of invitation for them as well as for their brother and sister, to a small musical party at her house.
The party, like other musical parties, comprehended a great many people who had real taste for the performance, and a great many more who had none at all; and the performers themselves were, as usual, in their own estimation, and that of their immediate friends, the first private performers in England.
The Bellman perceived that their spirits were low, And repeated in
musical tone Some jokes he had kept for a season of woe-- But the crew would do nothing but groan.
First, it is well known that the prologue serves the critic for an opportunity to try his faculty of hissing, and to tune his cat-call to the best advantage; by which means, I have known those
musical instruments so well prepared, that they have been able to play in full concert at the first rising of the curtain.
He's got a
musical ear, and your playing MAKES him howl."
Having already decided on adopting, as a means of living, the calling of a concert-singer, she has arranged to place her interests in the hands of an old friend of her late mother (who appears to have belonged also to the
musical profession): a dramatic and
musical agent long established in the metropolis, and well known to her as a trustworthy and respectable man.
My mother wants you to carry on their
musical education.
