Word: harps
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Harp of the Chase!" - (A long pause, then...
...full exultant strength to carry in the noblest harmony the lofty song; and anon. while the multitudinous air was still pulsing with rich vibrations, you have heard a rare, sweet strain floating from a single instrument, and, voicing itself among the lessening chords, like the notes of an AEolian harp above the diapason of the sea-waves, filling the air with tremulous beauty, and breathing into the soul of the listener the tearful happiness of perfect pleasure...
...harp with rustic cords is strung...
...size, and neighborhood to a centre of social, dramatic, and musical attractions. Is it far to seek that men with affinities of this description become indolent of thought and incapable of sustained effort? They do not labor up the Mountain because they choose to entertain themselves with dulcimer and harp in the valley below...
When the veil is drawn for the last time, and the sound of the harp, sackbut, and psaltery has ceased, tarry not, but hie ye quickly to your domiciles, lest after too great indulgence ye become unable to walk upright, and being unsteady in both extremities, ye act in a riotous and unbecoming manner and excite the wrath of the custodians of the highways, who will quickly deliver ye to the judge, and the judge will deliver ye to the officer, and ye be cast into prison. Verily, I say unto you, ye shall by no means come out thence...