"Street organ" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... seemed to have retained its everyday appearance. People came and went, bought and sold, chatted and laughed as usual. In the Rue Montorgueil I heard a street organ. Only on nearing the Faubourg St. Antoine the phenomenon which I had already noticed on the previous evening became more and more apparent; solitude reigned, and ...
— The History of a Crime - The Testimony of an Eye-Witness • Victor Hugo
... hear an unpretending street organ than such abominations; and, indeed, some of the itinerant music is, to our unsophisticated ears, sweet beyond expression, especially when accompanied, as it is sometimes, by a rich Italian or reedy German voice; for whose sake we can forgive the ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 • Various |
