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  • Svensk Handel had brought in a man from Thailand who was selling toilets for 500 kronor apiece.†   (source)
  • The music was familiar but unnamable—Handel, Pergolesi, Gluck?†   (source)
  • It does not matter what prelude begins the service; I will always hear Handel's Messiah—and my mother's not-quite-trained soprano singing, "I know that my Redeemer liveth."†   (source)
  • Then she thought of Margaret Kochamma and the languid, liquid notes of Handel's music grew shrill and angry.†   (source)
  • A performance of Handel's 'Messiah at Westminster Abbey was "sublime beyond description," she wrote to Jefferson.†   (source)
  • He had become distracted, restless, and he got up and fiddled with the phonograph records, replaced the Handel with Vivaldi again, in obvious turmoil gulped a glass of water, sat down and drummed his fingers against his pants leg in rhythm to the celebrant horns.†   (source)
  • It is in these Handel records I got for Christmas, 'I know that my Redeemer liveth,' that make me cry because of all my guilt, and also because I know that my Reedemer don't live and my body will be destroyed by worms and my eyes will never, never again see God …."†   (source)
  • The Handel.†   (source)
  • The rest stemmed from all of those mingled elements comprising what, in that era so heavily burdened by the idiom of psychoanalysis, I had come to recognize as the gestalt: the blissful temper of the sunny June day, the ecstatic pomp of Mr. Handel's riverborne jam session, and this festive little room whose open windows admitted a fragrance of spring blossoms which pierced me with that sense of ineffable promise and certitude I don't recall having felt more than once or twice after the…†   (source)
  • " Their baby voices shrilled out in Handel's "Largo" and they knew it merely by the title of "Hymn.†   (source)
  • First some Handel was played, noble and lovely music.†   (source)
  • And let this inspiration of old Handel penetrate your restless heart and give it peace.†   (source)
  • As the Choir gets into place, the CHURCH BELLS stop and an unseen ORGAN begins Handel's "Largo.†   (source)
  • But those other things—you're right, ma'am,—there ain't much—Robinson Crusoe and the Bible; and Handel's Largo, we all know that; and Whistler's Mother—those are just about as far as we go.†   (source)
  • Concerto Grosso in F Major by Handel.†   (source)
  • If I had had a magic wand at this moment I should have conjured up a small and charming Louis Seize music room where a few musicians would have played me two or three pieces of Handel and Mozart.†   (source)
  • After the Handel came a little symphony by Friedemann Bach, and I saw with surprise how after a few bars my stranger began to smile and abandon himself to the music.†   (source)
  • And now you hear not only a Handel who, disfigured by radio, is, all the same, in this most ghastly of disguises still divine; you hear as well and you observe, most worthy sir, a most admirable symbol of all life.†   (source)
  • …the prophet and his awestruck people pass through to the other side, and behind them I saw the war chariots of Pharaoh come into sight and the Egyptians stop and start on the brink of the sea, and then, when they ventured courageously on, I saw the mountainous waters close over the heads of Pharaoh in all the splendor of his gold trappings and over all his chariots and all his men, recalling, as I saw it, Handel's wonderful duet for two basses in which this event is magnificently sung.†   (source)
  • Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel.†   (source)
  • Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English.†   (source)
  • Would you mind Handel for a familiar name?†   (source)
  • Ecod, he saws away at Mozart and Handel and the rest of the big-wigs like a thorough workman.†   (source)
  • "I was going to say a word or two, Handel, concerning my father and my father's son.†   (source)
  • "All is well, Handel," said Herbert, "and he is quite satisfied, though eager to see you.†   (source)
  • There's a charming piece of music by Handel, called the Harmonious Blacksmith."†   (source)
  • "My dear Handel," he returned, "I shall esteem and respect your confidence."†   (source)
  • So I would, Handel, only they are staring me out of countenance.†   (source)
  • But yours cannot be dismissed; indeed, my dear dear Handel, it must not be dismissed.†   (source)
  • "You don't mind them, Handel?" said Herbert.†   (source)
  • Gravely, Handel, for the subject is grave enough, you know how it is as well as I do.†   (source)
  • For, Clara has no mother of her own, Handel, and no relation in the world but old Gruffandgrim.†   (source)
  • "Lucky for you then, Handel," said Herbert, "that you are picked out for her and allotted to her.†   (source)
  • Now, Handel, I am quite free from the flavor of sour grapes, upon my soul and honor!†   (source)
  • Handel, my dear fellow, how are you, and again how are you, and again how are you?†   (source)
  • What do you suppose he wants now, Handel?†   (source)
  • "I will," said I. "In this branch house of ours, Handel, we must have a—"†   (source)
  • Now, Handel,—in short, my dear boy, will you come to me?†   (source)
  • "How do you know it?" said I. "How do I know it, Handel?†   (source)
  • I sat with Provis last night, Handel, two good hours.†   (source)
  • "But you can't help groaning, my dear Handel.†   (source)
  • "They are mounting up, Handel," Herbert would say; "upon my life, they are mounting up."†   (source)
  • "Anyhow, my dear Handel," said he presently, "soldiering won't do.†   (source)
  • "I thought he was proud," said I. "My good Handel, so he was.†   (source)
  • "My poor dear Handel," Herbert repeated.†   (source)
  • "My poor dear Handel," he replied, holding his head, "I am too stunned to think."†   (source)
  • Darwin has no more destroyed the style of Job nor of Handel than Martin Luther destroyed the style of Giotto.†   (source)
  • The girl with the face of a tapir played Handel's Largo on the violin, accompanied on the piano by the man from Mannheim.†   (source)
  • Overhead, Handel's March swelled pompously through the imitation stone vaulting, carrying on its waves the faded drift of the many weddings at which, with cheerful indifference, he had stood on the same chancel step watching other brides float up the nave toward other bridegrooms.†   (source)
  • "I know not what you call my bass," said Heyward, piqued at her remark, "but I know that your safety, and that of Cora, is far dearer to me than could be any orchestra of Handel's music."†   (source)
  • She sang Handel and Haydn to the family of evenings, and engaged in a large piece of worsted work, as if she had been born to the business and as if this kind of life was to continue with her until she should sink to the grave in a polite old age, leaving regrets and a great quantity of consols behind her—as if there were not cares and duns, schemes, shifts, and poverty waiting outside the park gates, to pounce upon her when she issued into the world again.†   (source)
  • "My dear Handel," Herbert would say to me, in all sincerity, if you will believe me, those very words were on my lips, by a strange coincidence."†   (source)
  • And now, Handel," said he, finally throwing off the story as it were, "there is a perfectly open understanding between us.†   (source)
  • She is thousands of miles away, from me," said I. "Patience, my dear Handel: time enough, time enough.†   (source)
  • "It's for you, Handel," said Herbert, going out and coming back with it, "and I hope there is nothing the matter."†   (source)
  • We shall lose a fine opportunity if I put off going to Cairo, and I am very much afraid I must go, Handel, when you most need me.†   (source)
  • Now, I come to the cruel part of the story,—merely breaking off, my dear Handel, to remark that a dinner-napkin will not go into a tumbler.†   (source)
  • The blessed darling comes of no family, my dear Handel, and never looked into the red book, and hasn't a notion about her grandpapa.†   (source)
  • "Handel," said Herbert, stopping, "you feel convinced that you can take no further benefits from him; do you?"†   (source)
  • A curious place, Handel; isn't it?"†   (source)
  • We are both good watermen, Handel, and could take him down the river ourselves when the right time comes.†   (source)
  • "Then, my dear Handel," said he, turning round as the door opened, "here is the dinner, and I must beg of you to take the top of the table, because the dinner is of your providing."†   (source)
  • Do you know, Handel, he improves?†   (source)
  • I never saw him (for this happened five-and-twenty years ago, before you and I were, Handel), but I have heard my father mention that he was a showy man, and the kind of man for the purpose.†   (source)
  • It was at this dark time of my life that Herbert returned home one evening, a good deal cast down, and said,— "My dear Handel, I fear I shall soon have to leave you."†   (source)
  • "For," says Herbert to me, coming home to dinner on one of those special occasions, "I find the truth to be, Handel, that an opening won't come to one, but one must go to it,—so I have been."†   (source)
  • We should get on so well, Handel!†   (source)
  • —My poor Handel, I hurt you!†   (source)
  • My good Handel, is it not obvious that with Newgate in the next street, there must be far greater hazard in your breaking your mind to him and making him reckless, here, than elsewhere.†   (source)
  • Let me introduce the topic, Handel, by mentioning that in London it is not the custom to put the knife in the mouth,—for fear of accidents,—and that while the fork is reserved for that use, it is not put further in than necessary.†   (source)
  • Handel, my good fellow;"—though he spoke in this light tone, he was very much in earnest,—"I have been thinking since we have been talking with our feet on this fender, that Estella surely cannot be a condition of your inheritance, if she was never referred to by your guardian.†   (source)
  • "Yes; but my dear Handel," Herbert went on, as if we had been talking, instead of silent, "its having been so strongly rooted in the breast of a boy whom nature and circumstances made so romantic, renders it very serious.†   (source)
  • There was something charmingly cordial and engaging in the manner in which after saying "Now, Handel," as if it were the grave beginning of a portentous business exordium, he had suddenly given up that tone, stretched out his honest hand, and spoken like a schoolboy.†   (source)
  • Handel, my— Halloa!†   (source)
  • Good by, Handel!†   (source)
  • "It seems," said Herbert, "—there's a bandage off most charmingly, and now comes the cool one,—makes you shrink at first, my poor dear fellow, don't it? but it will be comfortable presently, —it seems that the woman was a young woman, and a jealous woman, and a revengeful woman; revengeful, Handel, to the last degree."†   (source)
  • Gently, Handel.†   (source)
  • "You can't try, Handel?"†   (source)
  • Handel.†   (source)
  • A choir of six hundred voices, conducted by Vincent O'brien, sings the chorus from Handel's Messiah alleluia for the lord god omnipotent reigneth, accompanied on the organ by Joseph Glynn.†   (source)
  • I hear the annual singing of the children in St. Paul's cathedral, Or, under the high roof of some colossal hall, the symphonies, oratorios of Beethoven, Handel, or Haydn, The Creation in billows of godhood laves me.†   (source)
  • So charming may she now appear! and you the feathered choristers of nature, whose sweetest notes not even Handel can excell, tune your melodious throats to celebrate her appearance.†   (source)
  • His daughter, though she was a perfect mistress of music, and would never willingly have played any but Handel's, was so devoted to her father's pleasure, that she learnt all those tunes to oblige him.†   (source)
  • It was Mr Western's custom every afternoon, as soon as he was drunk, to hear his daughter play on the harpsichord; for he was a great lover of music, and perhaps, had he lived in town, might have passed for a connoisseur; for he always excepted against the finest compositions of Mr Handel.†   (source)
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