 | Edward Heron-Allen - 1890 - 558 pagina’s
...power of art is shown so much as in playing on the | Fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first : any man will forge a bar of iron | if you...him a hammer ; not so well as a smith, but tolerably ; and make a box, though | a clumsy one ; but give him a Fiddle and a Fiddle-stick, and he can do nothing.... | |
 | Peter Davidson - 1895 - 324 pagina’s
...power of art is shown so much as in playing on the 224 Fiddle. In all other things, we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron, if you...Fiddle and a Fiddle-stick, and he can do nothing. A " STRAD " DEVOTEE. About a year ago there died in San Francisco an aged Musician who, though his... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1897 - 526 pagina’s
...example, he held to be an exceptionally meritorious performance. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron if you give him a hammer, not so well as a smith certainly, but still tolerably. A man will saw a piece of wood and make a box, though a clumsy one... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 502 pagina’s
...power of art is shown so much as in playing on the fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron, if you...hammer ; not so well as a smith, but tolerably. A n'.an will saw a piece of wood, and make a box, though a clumsy one ; but give him a fiddle and a fiddlestick,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 414 pagina’s
...power of art is shown so much as in playing on the fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron, if you...will saw a piece of wood, and make a box, though a to clumsy one; but give him a fiddle and fiddlestick, and he can do nothing." This, upon the whole,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 336 pagina’s
...power of art is shown so much as in playing on the fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron, if you give 25 him a hammer ; not so well as a smith, but tolerably. A man will saw a piece of wood, and make a... | |
 | Olga Racster - 1905 - 256 pagina’s
...power of art is shown so much as in playing on the fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first; any man will forge a bar of iron if you...him a hammer, not so well as a smith, but tolerably, and make a box though a clumsy one; but give him a fiddle and a fiddlestick and he can do nothing."... | |
 | 1882 - 816 pagina’s
...power of art is shown as much as in playing on the fiddle. In all other things we can ilo something at first ; any man will forge a bar of iron if you...him a hammer ; not so well as a Smith, but tolerably ; and make a box, though a clumsy one ; but give him a fiddle and a fiddlestick, and he can do nothing."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 626 pagina’s
...power of art is shown so much as in playing on the fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron, if you...April 19, he called on me with Mrs. Williams, in Mr. Stmhan's coach, and carried me out to dine with Mr. Elphinston, at lu's Academy at From a mezzotint... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 602 pagina’s
...power of art is shewn so much as in playing on the fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron, if you...fiddle and a fiddle-stick, and he can do nothing." fortune sufficient to keep his coach, was a good topick for the credit of literature. Mrs. Williams... | |
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That is indeed but little for a man to get, who does best that which so many endeavour to do. There is nothing, I think, in which the power of art is shown so much as in playing on the fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man... 
