Word: liking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first article in the magazine, "The builders of the Cathedral," it sounds like a well-written final paper in Fine Arts 4. including even a quotation from Professor Norton. The article itself would not be of so much interest were it not for the exquisite illustrations; these are really charming...
With Christianity came a softening influence, and though the war-like spirit did not for a long time die out, it took a milder course. Soon Northumbria took the lead in literature, and gave birth to one Caedmon, a monk in Whitby monastery, and the first true English poet. The other poets of this division of the Heptarchy were Aldhelm of Wessex, Bede, King Alfred and Cynewulf. Wessex took the lead in rose and produced King Alfred, St. Dunstan, and Abbots Wulfstan and Aelfric...
...they are accumulating for their magazine a great deal of disfavor by the endless continuation of that eternally pointless "drool" known as "Harry's Career at Yale." Patience ceases to be a virtue after the fiftieth chapter has been printed and the persistency of the publishers looks to us like obstinacy. It is time Mr. John Seymour would withdraw from the public gaze; let him retire and digest the notoriety his story has brought...
...movement has a very marked polka time. It begins in the minor and passes soon to the major on the same theme and then back again to the minor. The third is a very dainty, tasteful "Miuett" movement. The "Romanze" has a very mournful, pathetic character and suggests something like disappointed love. The fifth is a wild, furious climax to the whole story - perhaps a suicide in connection with the disappointed love. There is ample chance here for the play of feeling on the part of the musicians and feeling had its place...
...stirred to his very soul by the sorrows of life." An exceedingly odd effect is produced in the first movement by leading the mind gradually on and on till it demands a climax and dropping it just where the climax is expect d. This looks like a mood for occasional playfulness in the composer, a mood not at all inconsistent with the greatness of his genius. This playfulness shows itself again in the last movement. Here again the work of the orchestra was masterly...