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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
I love the way PGW's stuff is accurate - like Ian Fleming writing about Bond's cars and guns - such as Anatole's French expressions... and (as anyone who watched Michel Roux Jr on the recent Professional MasterChef will know) Anatole's 'Agnès Sorel' recipe is a real thing, a French classic of the Escoffier school http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPZ1MiF5IA8
And what a fantastic description, to say that Anatole's French expressions came "fluttering from him like bats out of a barn" ... ... it even suggests the excitable hand movements accompanying the words...
Hats off to PGW - a genius!
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
... of course it couldn't be "Green" - Verdi was a Josef not a Johannes... :hits own head with non-existent emoticon:
[and blames it on additional unnecessary glass of a particularly undistinguished 2002 Haut-Bages-Libéral, not featuring currently on "what was your last bottle wine which you want to show off about" thread... ]
Some people say that we get the politicians we deserve
Wodehouse, on the other hand, wrote:
"He realized too late that George was in public relations, and the brains of people in public relations are like the soup in poor restaurants: It's never a good idea to stir them up."
[and blames it on additional unnecessary glass of a particularly undistinguished 2002 Haut-Bages-Libéral, not featuring currently on "what was your last bottle wine which you want to show off about" thread... ]
[and blames it on additional unnecessary glass of a particularly undistinguished 2002 Haut-Bages-Libéral, not featuring currently on "what was your last bottle wine which you want to show off about" thread... ]
- "Echézeaux!"
- "Bless you!"
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
Just looked at the G - and looking at one Edward came across the rather astonishing fact that RVW's music was banned in Germany in 1939. Can this be true?
Just looked at the G - and looking at one Edward came across the rather astonishing fact that RVW's music was banned in Germany in 1939. Can this be true?
Anna - you keep doing this - getting the answer by accident!
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