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42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Nursery Rhymes of England."
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is not a mere abridgment of the large Dictionary, but almost an entirely new work. In this compendious one will be found, at a very moderate price, all that is most practical and valuable in the former expensive edition, with a great accession of new words and matter."
}
... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To those who wish to possess a critical knowledge of their own native English, some acquaintance with Anglo-Saxon is indispensable; and we have never seen an introduction better calculated than the present to supply the wants of a beginner in a short space of time. The declensio... |
220403 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My feet's killin' me,"
}
] |
58733 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you feel, Lieutenant?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fine, doctor. It's no worse than I was expecting. How long will it before we can contact White Sands?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nearly an hour. You'll be all right."
},
{
"from": "... |
58733 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lieutenant Britton, you're either careless or brainless; I don't know which! Your husband may be the finest rocket jockey in the Space Service, but that doesn't give him the right to come blasting up here on a supply rocket just to get you pregnant!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
58733 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two hundred and eighty days, he had said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Luckily, we can pinpoint it almost exactly. And at a maximum of half of Earth gravity, you shouldn't weigh more than seventy pounds then. You're to report to me at least once a week, Lieutenant.... |
58733 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Something wrong, doctor?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Incubator,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beg your pardon?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Incubator. We can't deliver a seven-month preemie without an incubator."
},
{
"from":... |
58733 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want a direct open telephone line to my office in case I have to get another message to the base before we get out of range again."
}
] |
58733 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How's it coming, Lieutenant?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm doing fine, but you look as if you'd been through the mill. What's eating you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing but the responsibility. You're going to be a very famous woman, you kno... |
58733 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a message for you in your office, doctor. I'll send a nurse in to be with her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stiff uppah lip, and all that sort of rot,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, raw_ther_, old chap,"
}
] |
58733 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two hours. It isn't soon enough. She'll never hold out that long. And we don't have an incubator."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't we build something that will do until the rocket gets here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What would we build it out ... |
58733 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Am I glad to see you! It won't be long now. She looked at him analytically."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say! Just what _is_ eating you? You look more haggard than I do!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing serious. I just want to make sure everythi... |
58733 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know whether to congratulate you or take a poke at you, Captain, but I suppose congratulations come first. Your son, James Edward Britton II, is doing fine, thank you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You mean--_already_?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"val... |
12127 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Queen Anne --a mere beershop--without pausing, and after a glance apiece at the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Royal George and the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Trusty Anchor, kept on his way to where the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gol... |
12127 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brandy and water, said the stranger;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The coffee-room is for gentlemen staying in the house,"
}
] |
12127 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brandy and water, hot, repeated the stranger;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stop! said the other, imperiously."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the name of the landlord here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mullet,"
},
{
"from":... |
12127 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you want?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Send that fat rascal of yours away,"
}
] |
12127 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You didn't expect to see me, Rogers,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My name's Mullet, said the other, sternly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you want?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Mullet? said the other, in surprise."
},
{... |
12127 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My old friend Captain Rogers, he said, solemnly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "From what jail have you come?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "said the other,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have been in so many--looking for Captain Rogers--t... |
12127 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm busy, my dear,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our business, said Gunn, with another bow,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My stepdaughter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One of your father's oldest friends, he said smoothly;"
},
{
... |
12127 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You insist upon staying, then?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "More than ever, replied Gunn, with a leer toward the door."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, you don't think I'm _afraid,_ Captain? You should know me better than that."
},
{
"from"... |
12127 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As soft a bed as ever I slept in,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope that you slept well,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Like a child, said Gunn, gravely;"
}
] |
12127 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A sweet girl, he remarked, as she withdrew at the end of the meal;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No mother,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A sad case, truly, he murmured."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No mother and such a guardian. Poor so... |
12127 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Golden Key."
}
] |
12127 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The man was rude to my friend, my dear,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If he was rude, it was because Mr. Gunn deserved it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gad, my dear, I like you! he cried, slapping his leg."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Y... |
12127 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A fine girl, said Gunn, his thin lips working;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She is young yet,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will soon age her if she looks like that at me again, said Gunn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By ---, I'll tur... |
12127 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have but to speak, said Gunn, regarding him with much satisfaction,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't think too much of that, said Gunn, in a hard voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was never one to be baulked, as you know."
},
{
"from... |
12127 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Golden Key grew steadily worse and worse. Gunn dominated the place, and his vile personality hung over it like a shadow. Appeals to the innkeeper were in vain; his health was breaking fast, and he moodily declined to interfere. Gunn appointed servants of his own choosing-brazen ... |
12127 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Four days I give him, she said, calmly;"
}
] |
12127 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're cheating the hangman, after all, snarled Gunn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm off to swear an information."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mercy! he whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For her sake--give me--a little time!"
... |
12127 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come to-night, he muttered, slowly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Give me--time--I will make your --your fortune. But the nurse-watches."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll see to her, said Gunn, with a grin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "... |
12127 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wake, you fool,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The nurse,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's safe enow, said Gunn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've seen to that."
}
] |
12127 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dead?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Drugged, said Gunn, shortly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now speak up, and be lively."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The men, he whispered;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dead drunk and a... |
12127 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You dog! hissed a fierce voice in his ear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've got you--Captain Rogers at your service, and now you may tell his name to all you can. Shout it, you spawn of hell. Shout it!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought you wer... |
528764 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Shearrow has the receipt,"
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge,"
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My little John, we are left all alone now, and you must hurry up and become a man as soon as you can; for I need you to help me. Mama has gone away and left us, and she cannot teach you the things that she had planned that you should know; so we will have to do the best that we ... |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for they had been made by the buffalos in wallowing. These basins were usually kept filled with water by the rains. Some of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "were rather deep, and were treacherous because of sudden"
... |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, boys, did you ever hear the story about the man who walked upon the water? I don't remember just how the story went; but I heard somebody say that the man's name was Jesus, and that another man got out of a boat to go and meet Him. The first fellow did all right, but the se... |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, Charley, what do you suppose held Will up the other day on that water? That wallow must have been deep out in the middle. Let's try it some time for ourselves when Will isn't around. I believe we could do it as well as he did."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll... |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, why does he use it himself? Will reasoned."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you suppose that he would use it if he thought that it was going to hurt him? Now, John, look here; you said that you wanted to become a man. Here's your chance. If you get to where yo... |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Will, he said, as he gave the pipe to his cousin,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am so sick! Let's get out of here. I feel as though I was going to die!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Will, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, ... |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "John, I feel that I must tell you something more about certain bad habits that so many boys form while they are young. You remember I told you that smoking and chewing tobacco ruin many a life. Now, I am not going to say that you cannot use tobacco; but I wish that for my sake, ... |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "had, of course, a certain horror to John because of the picture his aunt had described of a prison and a thief; but he soothed his conscience by saying,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There isn't anything else in the world except tobacco that I would think of stealin... |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, if we could think up some way to get into that chest when the old folks are gone away to town, he suggested,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hooray, that's just it!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When will they go to town again? This is only Wednesd... |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we just cut a little piece from each plug, Uncle won't be so apt to miss the tobacco."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's just it again! emphatically assented Will."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I declare, John, you surprise me! And now, we must h... |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's the tools, Charley said, as he brought forth the screw-driver, hammer, and sharp knife."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where shall I put them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, anywhere so they'll be handy!"
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you please, I am here to protect my master's property from the hand of any thieves; and to the extent that it is within my power, I shall perform my duty."
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank goodness, this chest is old! Will exclaimed as he brushed from his forehead the large beads of perspiration."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If these screws turned any harder, I never could get them out. Guess we'll earn our tobacco this time all right!"
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now that ain't so bad, is it, boys? That ought to last quite a spell; and when it's gone, we can come back here, or maybe something else will turn up. And then, when he saw the boys rearranging the tobacco in the chest, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look ou... |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Turn that thing away, or you'll shoot me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You needn't be afraid, John. This revolver isn't loaded."
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pull up the first."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, pull up the second."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And now the third."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And now, said his master,"
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This, my son, he said,"
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for the"
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is all because he has never had a chance. He has grown up here on the prairie like a wild thing. He has never been to school, and I must send him at once."
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps it may be all right."
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "John, here are the two little turkeys that you have liked so well all summer. You may take them with you. They will help you to forget that you are alone when your father is away at his work"
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Winter is coming with his cold, bleak storms to rob the earth of her summer splendor; but he will bring his beautiful coverlet of snow to protect her fields and to prepare them for the coming year."
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Was she like my aunt? Would she take me and hold me in her arms while she smoothed my hair with her hand? Would she bind my bruises? And would she sit by my bedside at night and hold my hand in hers while telling me stories that she had read?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"va... |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, boys, who's goin' fer the roast tonight? Some one ought to be off fer it's nigh onter the midnight hour, and I, fer one's got a big job ahead a me tomorrer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll go, Bill, someone answered;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"val... |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What brought me here? What keeps me here? Why am I here? Tobacco! tobacco! tobacco! God help, help! I will never use it again!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To smoke is a secret delight, serving to steal away men's brains."
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll just tell you, if it wasn't for Pa, I'd run away from home! As for being a man, I don't think that it is so wonderful after all. The men that I know are all so bad. Just look at Ed! I'm getting so that I can hardly endure Ed!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hav... |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a long way, Will, he said;"
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will stay in this home no longer! he cried in his distress."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My father may miss me; but if I stay here, I shall die!"
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He could have said:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "John, we have drifted apart. We are not to one another what we used to be. Stop, my boy; sit down here. Let us carefully talk these things over before you take such a step. Out in the world you will meet many temptat... |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have orders today to work for Farmer Z, explained the boss one morning a few weeks after John's arrival."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And the captain says we must be sure and get around there early in the morning, for we are to get our breakfast over there."
}... |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We always have reading and prayer immediately after breakfast and would be glad to have you all join with us,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now I lay me down to sleep,"
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We always have our help come in with us for worship."
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us pray."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dear Lord, bless the help today, and keep them from accidents and danger."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Amen,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why didn't I act unconcerned like the boss?"
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alcohol has a great attraction for water; and when swallowed, it draws the water to itself, thus depriving the tissues of the body of that merit necessary inorganic food. Again, alcohol causes a rush of blood to the skin, which causes a sensation of warmth to be felt upon the su... |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, I would give everything that I have in the world to be able to say such things about myself!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This ... |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a filthy habit! And to think of the time and money that it has cost me! Why have I been so foolish?"
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved (John 3:16, 17); also,"
},
... |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "John, I only wish that I possessed the joy in my own heart that I can see written in your face!"
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Life is real! life is earnest. And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest Was not spoken of the soul."
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I was a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him."
}
] |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lord, thou seest how I am afflicted because of the sinful habits that I formed in my childhood. Thou hast now taken from me the desire for these things, but the suffering in my back and lungs is so intense. Lord Jesus, heal me! Make me well, and I will work for Thee all the days... |
12493 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been hearing wonderful stories about you of late, my boy, the farmer said as John approached him; and as he took the young man's hand, his hearty handshake sent the blood tingling through John's veins."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, the farmer continued,... |
239841 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One would hardly suppose you thought so,"
}
] |
42097 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hohe Messe ) 3 The"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "St. Matthew Passion"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pastoral ) 13 Symphony No. 7 14 Symphony No. 3 ("
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Eroica ) 16 Symphony No. 2 18"
},
{
"from": "human",... |
42097 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "English Music during the 19th Century 182 Centenary Article:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Music in England during the 19th Century"
}
] |
42097 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nap with them; soon he began losing and knew that he was being cheated. They were using the ordinary conjuror's cards with plain white backs, of which he had a supply in his pocket. He soon found an opportunity of replacing their pack with one of his own, won back his losses wit... |
42097 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he would say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He did not ask for religious solutions or consolations. Since nearly all he printed was on musical subjects, only his letters and our memories can give the impression of what he wanted. It was a sufficiently rare ambition ... |
42097 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as Swinburne was admiringly called, was the poet of the young men. Another very important factor in the mental development of our generation--and for Johnstone, perhaps, the strongest of all--was supplied by the French literature of the century, from the Romantic School onwards.... |
42097 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jenny also struck upon what may be mentioned now as the deepest chord in Johnstone's sympathies; it is heard sounding in the letters, quoted below, that review the stories of Ruth, Fantine, and Tess of the D'Urbervilles. His attitude in this matter was free from conventional eth... |
42097 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How can we escape from Swinburne? Does not modern society drive one to his school, at least the sort of society that I am _supposed_ to have been brought up in, whose moral atmosphere is a sort of perpetual afternoon tea, where all the men are pale young curates and the women di... |
42097 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The 'pale Galilean' has banished Beauty; and only here and there, disguised almost beyond recognition, has it ventured with infinite apology to return.... Yet let us not be all unthankful to the pale Galilean and his lessons of suffering; there are too many of us who see in thei... |
42097 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was certainly evident that he had never had a musical training before his arrival in Cologne. Johnstone's fingers were stiff and he had to begin almost at the very beginning. And this he had the courage to do. At that time I was one of the advanced pupils, I offered to help, ... |
42097 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As regards intentions, I am quite resolved now (and quite contented) to become a modern language teacher for life. During this year I have obtained some insight into the musical profession, with the conclusion that for all but the very few of quite the first rank it is a wretche... |
42097 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He wags his little _tête de Polichinelle_ over his victuals, and converses with them in several languages. Sometimes his mother interrupts him and asks if he knows what he is saying, when he swears that he hasn't spoken for a quarter of an hour. _Pauvre petit bijou_ she calls hi... |
42097 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rhyme and Reason Club,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Relation of Music to the Words in Songs,"
}
] |
42097 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He will not, like the composer of drawing-room ballads, capture some wretched cadence, threadbare with much use, and trick it out, dragging up the melody into long high notes, crowing and shouting as though he had discovered America, whereas all he has really discovered is an ol... |
42097 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "About Schumann's Etudes Symphoniques I can only say this: For a long time past I have privately held the opinion that the work is on the whole, the finest composition for pianoforte solo in existence. This will no doubt seem to you exaggerated, but such is my feeling about it. T... |
42097 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No doubt you will regard this statement with my 'personal equation' looming large. I mean you will consider there is no more in it than that these are the teachers with whom I happen to agree. But I shall be surprised if you do not admit Nietzsche's honesty and the extraordinari... |
42097 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and was even too severe in revulsion. Intentional obscurity irritated him. Mallarmé and his school he would not attempt to understand. His suspicions indeed were well founded, for at the last Mallarmé in his lecture on"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "La Musique et les... |
42097 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rhoda Fleming, he writes,"
}
] |
42097 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, 'Les Misérables,' notwithstanding incidental impossibilities, albeit ever in extremes, looms in my mind as incomparably the greatest thing in fiction with which I am acquainted, and the longer ago it gets since I read it and the more I read, the stronger this impression gro... |
42097 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry, * * * * * And maiden virture rudely strumpeted!"
}
] |
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