Word: ear
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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While the lesson resounds in my ear...
...have been well appreciated by those in front, although nothing but the poetical cadence of her voice reached the farther seats. Maggie was so natural, so straightforward, that every one was pleased to have her turn out the Cinderella of the girls. Simon's music suggested to the college ear the opening strains of D. Pratt's poem "Sound the hugag!" etc. All the parts were well taken, and the play went off with a creditable freedom from hitches...
...voice of the Glee Club is heard in the Chapel," - at least the ear of faith is supposed to have detected its presence there. But why, in the name of all that is musical, must we be afflicted with such a rendering of Coronation as was given in Appleton one morning last week? Let our Glee Club extend their acquirements by the mastering of such difficult music as Coronation and Old Hundred...
Assail my ear with an unwonted power...
...these signs is that, by their combination, a clear form of the word is presented and taken in at once by the eye, without being separated into its different parts, any more than the ticks of the telegraphic-sounder in expressing a word are separated by a practised ear. The signs are combined according to easily understood principles, and abbreviations, such as small circles and hooks, are added in so methodical a way that the mind is not burdened by their remembrance, but accepts them readily as developments of a general plan. The only arbitrary marks are the "word-signs...