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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Princes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in the score. The number called" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On the Way to Chertsey is in the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Old English style, and foreshadows the famous" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Henry VIII. Dances that followed." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When griping grief (sung by Peter in Act iv., Scene 4) are not Shakespeare's, but quoted by him from Richard Edwards's _Paradise of Daintee Devices_, and sung to a so-called traditional tune. But if there is no song like" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sigh no more, l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not only did they praise the music, but also the libretto. Italians as a rule care so little for the words of an opera that I was surprised, and thought--at last I shall hear an opera worthy of that glorious play. What a subject it is! Simply made for music. The ball at Capulet'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He composed a cantata for the Birmingham Festival of 1829, and, as he could not take it to England himself, entrusted it to his pupil Costa. This was Michael Costa's first introduction to the English public. Hence the Philharmonic pitch and loud orchestral playing from which we ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "However, the public loved it, and other critics say it had power and originality and distinguished voluptuous melody. Juliette's song," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The calm of the night, and the quartet," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Graces, virtues,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a pity that the author has not corrected in his poem those vulgar expressions that disfigure it, and in his music those old-fashioned formulas (_peu nouvelles_)." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Favourite Prayer, and is quite a good example of the conventional operatic music of the period; as is Romeo's song with chorus, in which he strives to quiet the street-quarrel between the rival houses. The love duets with Juliet are thoroughly vocal; and the trios, called" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Should he upbraid" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Devil is loose in the house." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where the bee sucks and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Full fathom five." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come unto these yellow sands was one of the additional numbers. In both of these adaptations the words are very much altered, or" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where the bee sucks" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come unto these yellow sands, for Ariel, being the next Shakespearian lyric taken--this for high soprano with strings, very florid but melodious; and the music for" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Full fa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where the bee sucks and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come unto these yellow sands," }, { "from": "human", "value": "O, bid your faithful Ariel fly, sung in Prospero's cave {136} by Ariel (the words by Dr Laurence). Then follows a very simple so-called s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Parmi una voce mormore ; the duet," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "S' odio, orror di me non hai" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Parle encore, que ta voix m'enivre, the dramatic trio," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Courbe-toi, vaincu sous la ch...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Full fathom five," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr Hale has written vocal parts {141} in the style of an intoned conversation; no really vocal phrases are apparent, but the text is moaned to a vague backing of orchestral activity. Occasionally one heard snatches of _Tristan_ or _Pelléas_. All is vast, vague, and vacuous. Mr H...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Storm Chorus by Haydn, supposed to have been inspired by his first (a bad) crossing to England; at least, this was the tradition in the Benson company. Then he went on to Taubert for" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come unto these yellow sands and" }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where the bee sucks" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was a man, Horatio. I cannot do better than transcribe the composer's interesting account of the first performance, taken from his _Autobiography_:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All went splendidly at rehearsal; everything seemed to smile, when, with my usual luc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Orrido monstro, which, I believe, means" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "After another long orchestral bit, the chorus again begins about Miranda, and sings a farewell chant to her as she is leaving the island. The coda is marked _più animato confuoco_, and keeps up _a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Prospero is a very good example of the composer's work. It was produced in 1885, and the _motto_ is from _The Tempest_, Act iii., Scene 3:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What harmony is this? My good friends, hark!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come unto these yellow sands and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Full fathom five" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No more dams I'll make for fish, and the setting is quite appropriately grotesque. The second is elaborate. It was first sung by Sir Charles Santley, to whom it was dedicated, and is for high baritone. The words begin," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Art thou afeared?...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ariel. He has taken as his motto Shakespeare's words," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On the bat's back I do fly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ariel, which is really very interesting. The work is divided into eight sections, {147} each one expressing some Ariel episode in the play. The episodes are described in a few words, such as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On a ship in a storm," }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The History of Timon of Athens, the Man Hater, made into a play by Thomas Shadwell. Of the atrocities committed by the adapter on Shakespeare in this version it is not easy to speak with restraint. Suffice it to say that ten years after the production Shadwell became Poet Laurea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come away, Death," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O mistress mine, or" }, { "from": "human", "value": "When that I was." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O mistress mine on the stage; and if it is impossible to obtain a viol-da-gamba, the composer...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come away, Death." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hey, Robin, jolly Robin and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am gone, sir, to specially composed music still accompanied by the guitar, and there are two settings by Humperdinck of the epilogue song," }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By my life, this is my lady's hand." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, thou hast put him in such a dream that when the image of {153} it leaves him he must run mad. Then comes, to my idea, the triumphal music of Malvolio. This is quickly followed by a label, Act ii., Scene 3, Sir Toby," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shall we rouse ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Full many a glorious morning from the 33rd Sonnet. The first half is very unlike the composer's usual manner, but in the second he soon gets back to his original style. The next number is a quintet with words from _The Two Gentlemen {154} of Verona_--" }, { "from": "gpt"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Crabbed age and youth, set by Bishop for Olivia, has a fine cadenza duet with the flute, but is otherwise not notable; and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bid me discourse, which follows, is too well known to need mention. An old setting of the Clown's song," }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come away, Death, from _Twelfth Night_, for trio of female voices, harp, and two horns. This is an exquisite little work, very complete; there is hardly any repetition of the words: just at the end Brahms repeats" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Roses, their sharp spines being gone," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come away, Death," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Clown's songs in _Twelfth Night_ were not written for any special production, and were first sung by Mr Plunket Greene. There is no needless repetition of the words, every syllable being given its exact musical value; so, from several points of view these versions are nearly per...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O mistress mine is quite one of his most effective songs; and there is a beautiful flowing _obbligato_ in the accompaniment which suggests that Sir Andrew, who played on the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When that I was is quite pretty, but he plays the deuce with t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O mistress mine" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is Sylvia? composers have left this play severely alone; but +Sir Henry Bishop+ certainly produced a pasticcio opera on _The Two Gentlemen of Verona_ at the Royal, Covent Garden, in 1821. The work is the usual jumble of words from the plays, poems, and sonnets, set to music ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, never say that I was false of heart, a poem that any {159} decent-minded pirate or burglar would have left alone. Still, Sir Henry rushes in with what is officially described as a bravura song. Certainly only lines 1-4 and 13-14 are set to music, but how the few words are co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is Sylvia?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is Sylvia?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tafelmusik" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When daffodils begin to peer." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sunday Bells." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lawn as white as driven snow ; this also is very carefully set. The next number is very interesting. It is a trio, sung by Autolycus, Dorcas, and Mopsa, accompanied by a _bouche fermée_ male-voice chorus--not singing the usual slow, sustained harmonies, but a quick four-part syn...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Music, awake not; strike!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Though there is a whimsical point about them, they are not inelegantly written. (This of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come away, Death !) Linley proceeds:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Shakespeare evidently meant that it should be sung with pathetic ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come away, Death, come away, and continues his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take, oh take those lips away, from +Measure for Measure+, has been set, according to Roffe (1867), seventeen times; and, according to a work not quite truthfully describing itself as _A Li...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Orpheus with his lute. Roffe gives it sixteen settings, and _A List of all the Songs, etc._, twenty-two; the latter boldly states," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By John Fletcher. Act iii., Scene 1 is part of the Fletcher portion of _Henry VIII_." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you willing, cried Wesley," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you notice the two men who were sitting at the middle table?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nevermore." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Put a bishop in my clothes, and you'd ask 'im to 'ave a 'arf-pint as soon as you would me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's from my old uncle, George Goodman, he ses, staring." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, I ain't seen 'im for over twenty years." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you owe 'im any money?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's up in London, h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Goodman came in a four-wheel cab with a big bag and a fat umbrella." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I ain't seen Peter for twenty years, ses Mr. Goodman--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I happened to go and see Peter's sister--my niece Polly, ses Mr. Goodman," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't think it was so long as that, ses Peter." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We was just thinking you'd be dull up there all alone," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Sam, wot are you thinking of? ses Peter, who didn't want anybody to 'ave wot he couldn't." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, the shop's shut." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think so, ses Sam, glaring at 'im." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very likely thought it was doing you a kindness, Sam," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't want to spile your evening, he says, very perlite." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must get 'ome to mend a pair o' trowsis o' mine, but there's no need for you to come." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll come and watch you," }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They've gone up there," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who's gone up there?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Peter and Mr. Ginger Dick, ses Mr. Good-man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But don't you trouble. You go 'ome and mend your trowsis." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was nice tea we 'ad this arternoon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "De-licious," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Trust a teetotaller for knowing good tea, ses Mr. Goodman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I expect Peter enjoyed it. I s'pose 'e...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't want Peter to know, 'cos it might alarm 'im, he ses," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll come in with you, in case you want help, ses Sam." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't mind wot people think." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I s'pose we shall 'ave to 'ave something, he ses in a whisper to Sam;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I--I'll 'ave a small ginger-beer, he ses at last," }, { "from": "human", "value": "One small ginger, ses Mr. Goodman to the bar-maid," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I dessay it seems very shocking to you, ses Mr. Goodman, putting down 'is glass and dryin' 'is lips on each other," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I s'pose the flavor's very nasty?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not exactly wot you could call nasty, s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It ain't so 'orrid as I 'ad fancied," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They're going to amuse theirselves, I expect, ses Sam--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Music-'alls ain't so bad as some people try to make out," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look 'ere; I took some drink to see what the flavor was like; suppose you go t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder wot Peter and Ginger is doin'?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know, ses Mr. Goodman," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He ain't so bad," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bad! ses Mr. Goodman." }, { "from": "human", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are we going to tell Peter and Ginger?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell 'em? ses Mr. Goodman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tell 'em the truth. How we follered 'em when they got off the bus, and 'ave been looking for 'em ever since. I'm not goi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Small see you as plain as what I did," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Plainer," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I tell you we come straight 'ome, ses Ginger," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Say no more about it, he ses, in a kind voice."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't take up your troubles afore they come, he ses." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Orsepittles are dangerous places." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've got seven shillings and fourpence and two stamps left, he ses." }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder if I might be so bold as to ask a favor of you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Certainly, ses Peter's uncle," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thankee, ses Sam." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The fact is, I've run a bit short owing to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I could just do it for a couple o' days, Sam, he ses at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's right, ses his uncle, smiling." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My nevvy, Peter Russet, will lend it to you, Mr. Small, of 'is own free will. He 'as offere...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He reached acrost the table and shook 'ands with Peter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's nice to 'ave money agin, he ses." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's enough for a week's enjoyment here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, ses S...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mind Reading. Development Practices. The" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Willing Game." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Psychic Scent. Magnetic Affinity. Distant En Rapport. Psychic Underground Explorations. Psychic Detective Work. How to Psychometrize. De...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Memory of Nature." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Home Circle." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Psychic Force. Human Magnetism." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Zoether." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Prana. Mental Phenomena. The Value of Phenomena. Trance Condition Not Essential. Scientific Reports on Phenomena. Phenomena Without Darkness. Test Con...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stage Fright." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in general, is that which may be expressed by the term" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This term, as you know, is used to express the idea of" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "around the boundaries of the Kingdom of Nature which mortals cannot pass, no matter how high may be their degree of development and advancement. Even those great mystics whose writings are filled with the startling revelations of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "for that of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The term" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Subnormal means:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Beyond, above, or exceeding that which is NORMAL; extraordinary, inexplicable perhaps, but NOT supernatural. Now, the term" }, { "from": "human", "value": "means:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "C...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "ABNORMAL," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "SUPERNORMAL, that is to say, such a person would be SUPERIOR to the ordinary run of individuals--above them, in fact. The term" }, { "from": "human", "value": "ABNORMAL means MINUS the ordinary standard quality; an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and that which is" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All our sensations are due to the impact upon our sense-organs of vibrations in some form. Variations in the strength and rapidity of these vibrations constitute the difference in our perceptions. Our range of response is but a limited one. Some vibrations are too rapid and some...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as employed in the occult teachings. His first impression, usually encouraged by the use of the dictionary, is that each" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "is one of a series of strata or layers, above and below which are present other layers or strata. Even after the st...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as somewhat visionary, theoretical, or imaginary, we would say:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go to modern science, and verify this statement. The following quotation from a writer on the subject will serve to illustrate this fact, viz.:" }, { "from": "human...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How is it possible for the human being, with his ordinary senses, to 'sense' things or being, dwelling on finer planes of being? If this were all that there is to the question, we might well echo" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How, indeed? and agree with the critic. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Psychologists have pointed out to us the fact that if a human being were born without sense organs, no matter how perfect a brain he might have, his life would be little more than that of a plant. Such a person would exist merely in a dreamlike state, with only the very faintest...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All the senses have been evolved from the elementary sense of Touch. All of our senses are but modified, specialized, and more complex forms of the sense of Touch. The elementary life-forms possessed merely the sense of Touch; and that but faintly developed--but a faint sensitiv...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mind" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A force that is transmitted meets other forces, and if it is transformed only little by little it usually limits itself to modifying another force at its own cost, though without suffering materially thereby. This is the case particularly with forces that are persistent, concent...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of these waves of mental force, we can only say that their general character is that of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "as opposed to" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is much food for speculation in the thought that there exists sound waves that no human ear can hear, and color waves that no eye can see. The long, dark, soundless space between 40,000 and 400,000,000,000,000 vibrations per second, and the infinity of range beyond 700,000...