The air was 'Away with melancholy'--a composition, which, when it is played very slowly on the
flute, in bed, with the further disadvantage of being performed by a gentleman but imperfectly acquainted with the instrument, who repeats one note a great many times before he can find the next, has not a lively effect.
When I seemed to have been dozing a long while, the Master at Salem House unscrewed his flute into the three pieces, put them up as before, and took me away.
When he had put up his things for the night he took out his flute, and blew at it, until I almost thought he would gradually blow his whole being into the large hole at the top, and ooze away at the keys.
So Fred was gratified with nearly an hour's practice of "Ar hyd y nos," "Ye banks and braes," and other favorite airs from his "Instructor on the
Flute;" a wheezy performance, into which he threw much ambition and an irrepressible hopefulness.
In the towns where no one listened to his
flute, and in Italy where almost every peasant played better than he, he entered the colleges and disputed.
But one evening when the moon was full they sat together watching their flocks, and the shepherd played upon his
flute. Then the shepherdess thought of that evening when she had sat at the full moon by the mill-pond and had played on the golden
flute; the recollection was too much for her, and she burst into tears.
"Really, I pretend to no reasoning upon the subject at all," said Charlotte, smiling; "but if you have such an intention, indulge in it freely, I beg of you, for you will not find a rival in me.--But, listen, he is about to play a solo on his flute."
The hearts of many throb at the very breathings of wealth through a flute, who would remain callous to the bitterest sighs of poverty.
"You will not attempt the flute to-night, George?" said Charlotte.
Seymour overheard this speech, which was really intended only for the ear of Charlotte, and he was instantly seized with an unaccountable desire to hear the flute of Mr.
A request from the mistress of the mansion now compelled George to make his appearance among the musicians, and in a few minutes his flute was heard alone.
Thus in the music of the
flute and of the lyre, 'harmony' and rhythm alone are employed; also in other arts, such as that of the shepherd's pipe, which are essentially similar to these.
Altisidora had by this time sat up on the catafalque, and as she did so the clarions sounded, accompanied by the
flutes, and the voices of all present exclaiming, "Long life to Altisidora!
The second course was two ducks trussed up in the form of fiddles; sausages and puddings resembling
flutes and hautboys, and a breast of veal in the shape of a harp.
Lord Krishna didn't play the
flute for timepass," he told ANI here.
