a something of a sound, on these heaths the birds
an inexpedient variety in form and arrangement, and
occasionally I fear, a something of repetition ₁ But
again there was a something of hardness
so that the music told ₂ It shows the
sound of the bell, in a word, as
a something which sounds wherever it is, and is wherever there is sound. ₃
a something of pain, a thick and swelling sigh, fraught ₄
a something of regret in her voice, as if another thought was in her mind ₅
a something of feeling that belied all the carelessness
She is a loss, and a gain... It is a decided mix ₆
—
a something of night fell; that moment was
such as none else ₇ a something of,
sparkles like, all a floating about,
and I wished to ax yer sir, if that aint a something of heaven, ₈
which seems to concentrate all the sun and the warmth of the sands;
It seems to me that on these heaths the birds sing more beautifully than elsewhere. ₉
sources
- T. Hewitt Key, The Alphabet; Terentian Metres; Good, Better, Best, Well; and Other Philological Papers (London, 1844) / more
- from preview snippets, concert programs, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (ca 1927) : 329
more - It shows the sound of the bell, in a word, as a particular manifestation of something infinitely vaster — a something which sounds wherever it is, and is wherever there is sound. On this, if you really mastered it, you could build up a system of expectations which would put you in possession of the whole sounding universe.
J. W. Scott, “On the common-sense distinction of appearance and reality.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. (Containing the Papers read before the Society during the Thirty-Seventh Session, 1915-1916). (London, 1916) : 63-103 (88) : link
John Waugh Scott (1878-1974)
University of Glasgow Special Collections : GB 247 MS GEN 1461
archiveshub : link - Charles Whitehead, Smiles and Tears; or, the Romance of Life (London, 1847) / more
- Edward Willoughby : A Tale, by the author of... (London, 1854) / more
Lady Emily Charlotte Mary Ponsonby (1817-1877)...
wikipedia : link - In Love’s Domains : A Trilogy by Marah Ellis Ryan (1889) / more
- OCR error (involving Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur : A Tale of the Christ (1880)), result from The World’s Greatest Literature, Volume 10 (1936)
sorted out at : more - Notes and Narratives of a Six Years’ Mission, Principally Among the Dens of London. By R. W. Vanderkiste. (London: J. Nisbet, 1852) / more
- Chapter 8, “The Storm of October, 1859,” The Sea (La Mer.), From the French of M. J. Michelet; translated from the latest Paris edition. (New York, 1864) /
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Athénaïs Michelet (1926-99, wikipedia), Michelet’s second wife, must surely have been involved in creating this book