 | H.C. Colles - 1912 - 544 pagina’s
...so much as in playing on the fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man can forge a bar of iron if you give him a hammer; not...fiddle and a fiddlestick, and he can do nothing.' So concerted music for stringed instruments flourishes wherever the musical perception is not only... | |
 | Wayne C. Booth - 2008 - 252 pagina’s
...the power of art is shown so much as in playing the fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron, if you give him a box, though a clumsy one; but give him a fiddle, and a fiddle-stick and he can do nothing. SAMUEL JOHNSON,... | |
 | Olga Racster - 2003 - 236 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"... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - 1918 - 762 pagina’s
...Dr. Samuel Johnson must have met with the experience, for he says, "In all things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron, if you...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."... | |
 | 1884 - 1112 pagina’s
...power of art is shown so much as in playing on the Fidd.e. 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."—... | |
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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... 
