"Set to music" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Austria, of Schoenbrunn, of the Burg, of Laxenburg, by the wonderful panorama. There were many bands stationed among the trees, playing waltzes, and dancers from the opera, dressed as German shepherds and shepherdesses, were dancing. An interlude, "The Village Festival," words by Etienne, set to music by Nicolo, was given in the open air, on the grass. When the Empress came to a column supporting a basket of flowers, a dove alit at her feet and offered ...
— The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise • Imbert De Saint-Amand
... a choice Collection of the newest English Songs, most of which have been set to Music, and sung at the public Theatres and Gardens. Pr. ...
— The True Life of Betty Ireland • Anonymous
... the letter then for the first time, and she was sure it was from Sandy. Her heart beat painfully and her eyes widened. Looking about to make sure of privacy she tore open the envelope and lo! at the first words the gray autumn day glowed like gold, and the world was set to music. Poor Sandy, distracted by the noise and confusion of the big city, had permitted himself, when writing to Cynthia, the solace ...
— A Son of the Hills • Harriet T. Comstock
... more moments set to music than most of us, and I'll bet, too, he has hidden way in him a list of 'Thou shalt nots.' I read a book once by a man named Stevenson that was sure virgin gold. He showed how every man, no matter how low he falls, has somewhere in him a light that burns, some rag of honor for which ...
— Bucky O'Connor • William MacLeod Raine
... Lesson of Confucius and other Poems." Of which book I can say truly that it had a succes d'estime, though it had a very small sale. There were in it ten or twelve ballads only which were adapted to singing, and all of these were set to music by Carlo Pinsutti, Virginia Gabriel, or others. There was in it a poem entitled "On Mount Meru." In this the Creator is supposed to show the world when it was first made to Satan. The adversary finds that ...
— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland |
