Word: dying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Immortales Di!" shrieked the Blot, and disappeared beneath the inrushing flood. The jester used his baton to paddle his chair to the Ibis, who was singing a last swan-song. As the weight of his bells capsized Lampy into the angry waters, the wise bird gurgled, "Though we may die to prove it, we shall never be funny...
...follow exactly the events of history. His object is to create the atmosphere of the decadent court, to develop the characters logically from what is known of them without necessarily adhering to the minor details of fact. Madame de Montespan, for example, is made to take poison and die, in his play; in reality, she survived this episode by twenty-seven years. But no one can read the play and not be convinced that her suicide was the logical, certainly the most artistic ending for her glittering career. The author show an ambitious, ruthless woman, frightened by the approach...
What the Germans call die hohenzollerne Frage (The Hohenzollern Question) trespassed upon the private property of international politics and caused grave disorientation among the Allies...
...Die Meistersinger is Wagner's " human " opera. In The Ring he is accused of megalomania; in Tristan of hysteric; in Parsifal of religiosity. But in Die Meistersinger his only fault is length. And that perhaps is the fault of a restless and rapid age rather than of the master...
Wandered back to their native land to die in its bosom...