Identifier: birdseyeviewsofs00doyl (find matches)
Title: Bird's eye views of society
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883
Subjects: Great Britain
Publisher: London : Smith, Elder

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fuddenly, at a concert, in themiddle of a fonata of Beethovens, and under the idea thatit was all over, commence applauding vigoroufly with bothhis hands and feet, while the reft of the company lookedon with furprife and curiofity. The expreffion of his faceindicated anything rather than pleafure as the truth dawnedupon him. -It is a miftake to afk people indifcriminatelyto mufic, but the difficulty is that few like to confefs toindifference on the fubject, perhaps from fear of being fetdown amongft thofe who are fit for treafons, ftratagems,and other bad practices, which is the fate, according toa well-known poet, of thofe who are wanting in mufic.There might be fome one fpecially retained to conduct theaudience if they will not conduct themfelves, who mightwave a baton capable of being applied to other kinds ofbeating befides time, and who would infpire a wholefometerror in thofe who prefer the found of their own voices tothat filence which at a concert is more than ever golden. 44
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Science and Art Converfazione. UPB CONVERSAZIONE: SCIENCE AND ART. HE rooms are fitted up withall kinds of novel, curious,interefting, and inftructiveobjects, Models of fteam-engines, and fleam-boats,printing-prefTes, and iron-clad fhips, railway fignals,life-boats, new lighthoufesfor faving veffels, and rifledguns juft invented for de-ftroying them, balloons for the air and diving-bells for thebottom of the fea. There are huge maps hung uponthe walls, mowing the whereabouts of the moft recently-difcovered tract of the world, and perhaps there is a fur-viving officer of the exploring expedition which made thedifcovery prefent to tell all about it. Another travellermay be feen explaining, to an intenfely eager and interefted

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