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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26536

    A quick U linking a happy pair, holy beams and the heavenly host
    "...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..."

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    • antongould
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8782

      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      A quick U linking a happy pair, holy beams and the heavenly host
      .....might be quick to you Rumpole ....see you in 2015....

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26536

        Originally posted by antongould View Post
        .....might be quick to you Rumpole ....see you in 2015....
        Touché, o nocturnal one... perhaps I was indeed using "quick" in the gouldian sense .... although I did wonder if some deft googling might create an opportunity for completion!
        "...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..."

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        • antongould
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8782

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          Touché, o nocturnal one... perhaps I was indeed using "quick" in the gouldian sense .... although I did wonder if some deft googling might create an opportunity for completion!
          Everything leads me to Unle Joe's Creation....

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26536

            Originally posted by antongould View Post
            Everything leads me to Unle Joe's Creation....
            There you are you see! You may have to forgo resting on the seventh day! Spit the 'slaw, Tone

            A propos: cf the Horlicks I'm about to post on the TTN thread. It definitely AIN'T the Creation on now!
            "...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..."

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            • antongould
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8782

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              There you are you see! You may have to forgo resting on the seventh day! Spit the 'slaw, Tone

              A propos: cf the Horlicks I'm about to post on the TTN thread. It definitely AIN'T the Creation on now!
              So are we saying the answer is Uncle?

              If so my coleslaw will have to be easily the poorest ever i.e. I put the 3 elements into Google and when I got past the adverts the page was awash with Uncle Joe?


              Yours
              Anton (lost)

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26536

                Originally posted by antongould View Post
                So are we saying the answer is Uncle?

                If so my coleslaw will have to be easily the poorest ever i.e. I put the 3 elements into Google and when I got past the adverts the page was awash with Uncle Joe?


                Yours
                Anton (lost)
                No.... look into the Creation more deeply. Who are the participants?
                "...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..."

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                • antongould
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8782

                  There's your Uriel .........

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26536

                    Originally posted by antongould View Post
                    There's your Uriel .........


                    So what might the three references be?

                    ......

                    Shall I dish up so anton can moVe on?

                    Among Uriel's recitatives/arias in The Creation are:

                    a happy pair - No. 33. O glücklich Paar, und glücklich immerfort (O happy pair, and ever happy henceforth)

                    holy beams - No. 2. Nun schwanden vor dem heiligen Strahle (Now vanished by the holy beams)

                    the heavenly host - No. 9. Und die himmlischen Heerscharen verkündigten (And the Heavenly host proclaimed the third day)
                    Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 21-12-14, 16:39.
                    "...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..."

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                    • antongould
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8782

                      I may be some time as my hectic weekend continues but Ferney's may be over, and he, or indeed anyone else, can Vault in.....

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                      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                        Gone fishin'
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 30163

                        Originally posted by antongould View Post
                        I may be some time as my hectic weekend continues but Ferney's may be over, and he, or indeed anyone else, can Vault in.....
                        Fair dos. (? "Fair does"? "Fair do's"??? "Fair di"?!)

                        How about:

                        A V to link Semiramide, Dido, and Artaserse (but not, disappointingly, La Gioconda).
                        Last edited by ferneyhoughgeliebte; 22-12-14, 12:44. Reason: Less ambiguous punctuation.
                        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                        • antongould
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8782

                          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                          Fair dos. (? "Fair does"? "Fair do's"??? "Fair di"?!)

                          How about:

                          A V to link Semiramide, Dido and Artaserse, but not, disappointingly, La Gioconda.
                          Could I produce such a class question? - Verily NO

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                          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                            Gone fishin'
                            • Sep 2011
                            • 30163

                            Originally posted by antongould View Post
                            Verily NO
                            Is the correct answer.

                            - not really
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                            • vinteuil
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12828

                              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                              Fair dos. (? "Fair does"? "Fair do's"??? "Fair di"?!)

                              How about:

                              A V to link Semiramide, Dido and Artaserse, but not, disappointingly, La Gioconda.
                              ... is this {Semiramide} & {Dido} & {Artaserse}

                              or

                              {Semiramide} & {Dido-and-Artaserse}

                              ??


                              [Now you see the point of the Oxford comma... ]

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                              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                                Gone fishin'
                                • Sep 2011
                                • 30163

                                Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                                ... is this {Semiramide} & {Dido} & {Artaserse}

                                or

                                {Semiramide} & {Dido-and-Artaserse}

                                ??


                                [Now you see the point of the Oxford comma... ]

                                ... and I usually use it - I got into the habit when I wanted to annoy Miss Kirkstall, my English Teacher; a Cambridge graduate (ours was a charity school) - but lapsed here.

                                "Dido, Artaserse, and Semiramide." (The order of the names isn't significant.)
                                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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