Word: gems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lost sight of, and indeed was supplanted by the antagonistic error, namely, that if we would cultivate and develop the soul, we must oppress and dishonor the tabernacle in which it dwells. To consider the dilapidation of the casket as indispensable to the increase of the brilliancy of the gem, is an unnatural paradox, to say the least. As a consequence of this strange logic the body was disparaged, vilified, cursed, macerated and mutilated by a set of theologians, scholastic and mystical, who had wedded a religion divorced from science. The Olympic games were suppressed by an imperial decree. Manly...
Pretentious things are not always the best, nor are small things the worst; the Greek gem is far more truly a work of art than the nineteenth century plaque. This is the case with the February "Monthly," where by far the best two things are the little epigrammatic verses, "Ben Jonson and the Stage," by F. S. Palmer, and "Landor," by H. S. Sanford, These are at the same time highly finished and pointed melodious and witty. Mr. Palmer has produced little better than this in all his previous writings...
...gavotte by Bach. Schubert's fantasia in C for piano and orchestra and Volkmann's symphony in D minor. The overture has seldom been performed so well; it is a very exacting work, but was given with the greatest delicacy and finish. The Bach pieces were perhaps the gem of the evening; and their beauties were admirably brought out with a breadth and solidity which were charming. The soloist was Mr. Sherwood, who played the great Schubert fantasia magnificently, overcoming the technical difficulties with apparent ease. His strength was scarcely equal to some of the heaviest passages with the orchestra...
...rendered. Mr. Osgood sang his solo with great spirit, but his voice was scarcely equal to the part. We cannot venture on a criticism of the composition, but we must mention the exquisite theme which appears at the end of the second chorus and elsewhere, and is indeed the gem of the opera. It shows the same sympathetic spirit which animates the slow movement of Mr. Paine's First Symphony, though the latter has more of voluptuous tranquillity and less of tear-starting pain. Let those who did not appreciate the passage pronounce this expression fantastic...
...conjur'd away by a gem...