The Quarterly Review, Volume 245William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1925 - English literature |
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... Italian Sophocles , was the last to sing the beauties of the shepherds and the shepherdesses of the old literature . Mozart , however , followed the sprightly intermezzi , ' and it was only later in his short life that he produced a ...
... Italian Sophocles , was the last to sing the beauties of the shepherds and the shepherdesses of the old literature . Mozart , however , followed the sprightly intermezzi , ' and it was only later in his short life that he produced a ...
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... Italy that has taught clear- thinking men from the misty north to see clearly . • In the relation between music and drama Wagner has many interesting points for us . He considers that music stands apart from the other arts , because its ...
... Italy that has taught clear- thinking men from the misty north to see clearly . • In the relation between music and drama Wagner has many interesting points for us . He considers that music stands apart from the other arts , because its ...
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... Italian melody , easy to be sung by the prima - donna ; others it charms by the opportunities it offers to the great virtuoso , for the age of Farinelli and his baroque ' fioriture ' of vocalism is not yet dead ; others again in fewer ...
... Italian melody , easy to be sung by the prima - donna ; others it charms by the opportunities it offers to the great virtuoso , for the age of Farinelli and his baroque ' fioriture ' of vocalism is not yet dead ; others again in fewer ...
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... Italian works of Puccini or Mascagni with their sugary melodies , we are struck by the influence of Wagner on their orchestral scores . It is as if they had digested all the master's tricks of orchestration and popularised them . In ...
... Italian works of Puccini or Mascagni with their sugary melodies , we are struck by the influence of Wagner on their orchestral scores . It is as if they had digested all the master's tricks of orchestration and popularised them . In ...
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... Italian history , sweeping together the events of six Papacies into two . Of this lapse Acton took full advantage , but Shorthouse must , nevertheless , have breathed again . For his critic acci- dentally revealed by what he wrote that ...
... Italian history , sweeping together the events of six Papacies into two . Of this lapse Acton took full advantage , but Shorthouse must , nevertheless , have breathed again . For his critic acci- dentally revealed by what he wrote that ...
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Page 269 - em. But what I always says to them as has the management of matters, Mrs Harris"'- here she kept her eye on Mr Pecksniff - '"be they gents or be they ladies, is, don't ask me whether I won't take none, or whether I will, but leave the bottle on the chimley-piece, and let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged.
Page 228 - And, like th' old Hebrews, many years did stray, In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last : The barren wilderness he past ; Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it. But life did never to one man allow Time to discover worlds and conquer too ; Nor can so short a line sufficient be To fathom the vast depths of Nature's sea. The work he did we ought t...
Page 225 - I took coach, having first discoursed with Mr. Hooke a little, whom we met in the streete, about the nature of sounds, and he did make me understand the nature of musicall sounds made by strings, mighty prettily; and told me that having come to a certain number of vibrations proper to make any tone, he is able to tell how many strokes a fly makes with her wings (those flies that hum in their flying) by the note that it answers to in musique during their flying. That, I suppose, is a little too much...
Page 268 - The cataract of the cliff of heaven fell blinding off the brink As if it would wash the stars away as suds go down a sink, The seven heavens came roaring down for the throats of hell to drink, And Noah he cocked his eye and said, 'It looks like rain, I think, The water has drowned the Matterhorn as deep as a Mendip4 mine But I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.
Page 235 - Swallows certainly sleep all the winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lie in the bed of a river.
Page 173 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
Page 66 - Thou, who Man of Baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake, For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened — Man's forgiveness give — and take!
Page 222 - I am now going to tell you the horible and wretched plaege (plague) that my multiplication gives me you can't conceive it the most Devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itself cant endure.
Page 269 - ... said Mrs Gamp with emphasis, '"being a extra charge - you are that inwallable person." "Mrs Harris," I says to her, "don't name the charge, for if I could afford to lay all my feller creeturs out for nothink, I would gladly do it, sich is the love I bears 'em.
Page 132 - Lord for counsel and guidance in this, in itself, and to me so important affair, I felt a word sweetly arise in me, as if I had heard a voice, which said,