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Mr. Styrax 1
Mr. Hecatomb Styrax, the owner of a large estate and of large muscles,
A 'blue' and a climber of mountains, has married at the age of 28,
He being at that age a virgin,
The term Virgo' being made male in mediaeval latinity;
His ineptitudes
Have driven his wife from one religious excess to another.
She has abandoned the vicar
For he was lacking in vehemence;
She is now the high-priestess
Of a modern and ethical cult,
And even now Mr. Styrax
Does not believe in asthetics.

2
His brother has taken to gipsies,
But the son-in-law of Mr. H. Styrax
Objects to perfumed cigarettes.

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poem by Ezra Pound
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I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

quote by Cecilia Bartoli
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I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.

quote by Placido Domingo
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I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

quote by Bernie Worrell
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I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

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After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory.

quote by Mark White
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

quote by Billy Joel
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Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.

quote by Ryan Sypek
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There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice.

quote by Charlie Haden
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Wildflowers And Hot-House Plants

'GOOD Heavens, man, what a freak of taste!
What blindness to form and feature!
The girl's no beauty, and might be placed
As a hoydenish kind of creature.'

No doubt it were more in the current tone
And the tide today we move in,
If I could but choose me to make my own
A type of our average woman.

Like winter blossoms they all unfold
Their primly maturing glory;
Like pot-grown plants in the tepid mould
Of a window conservatory.

They sleep by rule and by rule they wake,
Each tendril is taught its duties;
Were I worldly-wise, yes, my choice I'd make
From our stock of average beauties.

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poem by Henrik Johan Ibsen
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