From pride and prejudice chapter 6
“I am going to open the instrument(piano), Eliza, and you know what follows.”
“You are a very strange creature by way of a friend!—always wanting
me to play and sing before anybody and everybody! If my vanity
had taken a musical turn, you would have been invaluable; but as it
is, I would really rather not sit down before those who must be in the
habit of hearing the very best performers.” On Miss Lucas’s persevering,
however, she added, “Very well, if it must be so, it must.” And
gravely glancing at Mr. Darcy, “There is a fine old saying, which everybody
here is of course familiar with: ‘Keep your breath to cool your
porridge’; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.”
what does she mean by "swell my song" here?
thanks in advance
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anonymous W hat does she mean by "swell my song" here? It's in the dictionary. swell: (transitive verb) 1 : to affect with a powerful or expansive emotion 2 : to increase the size, number, or intensity of So 'swell my song' means 'make my song more powerful (perhaps loud), and full of feeling (emotion)'.
- anonymous W hat does she mean by "swell my song" here?
- It's in the dictionary.
- swell: (transitive verb) 1 : to affect with a powerful or expansive emotion 2 : to increase the size, number, or intensity of So 'swell my song' means 'make my song more powerful (perhaps loud), and full of feeling (emotion)'.
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anonymousWhat does she mean by "swell my song" here?
It's in the dictionary.
swell: (transitive verb)
1: to affect with a powerful or expansive emotion
2: to increase the size, number, or intensity of
So 'swell my song' means 'make my song more powerful (perhaps loud), and full of
0The OED saw fit to provide a separate definition for transitive "swell" in this sense: "To utter with increase of force, or with increasing volume of sound." They cite Washington Irving, among others, "The choir swelling an anthem in that solemn building." They call it "rare", and rare it is, and old-fashioned. I looked it up because it rang a bell, but I was thinking of the intransitiv
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