Word: magic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Lion, having married the Bishop's ward, would be pronounced heir apparent. Before their plans can be carried out, however, the King with one faithful friend returns from the Holyland in disguise. As the two tramps, Tatters and Robbie, they impose upon the credulous Bishop by a pretense of magic knowledge, and discover his hate for the King. They so far win his confidence that he entrusts to the disguised King the task of persuading the unwilling Mirabelle to marry Dan de Lion. To this end the King is again disguised, this time as the Bishop; and he and Robbie...
Overture, "Magic Flute," Mozart...
...embalming the body and in the construction of the tomb. It was thought possible to increase the chance of the continuance of the double by placing in the tomb statues of the dead. Then arose the practice of covering the walls with representations of offerings of food, with magic formulae for transforming these representations into food...
...magically vivid and near interpretation of nature; since it is this which constitutes the special charm and power of the effect I am calling attention to, and it is for this that the Celt's sensibility gives him a peculiar aptitude. But Europe tends constantly to become more and more one community, and we tend to become Europeans instead of merely Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Italians, so whatever aptitude or felicity one people imparts into spiritual work, gets imitated by the others, and thus tends to become the common property of all. Therefore anything so beautiful and attractive as the natural...
...Celt's quick feeling for what is noble and distinguished gave his poetry style; his indomitable personality gave it pride and passion; his sensibility an nervous exaltation gave it a better gift still,- the gift of rendering with wonderful felicity the magical charm of nature. The forest solitude, the bubbling spring, the wild flowers, are everywhere in romance. They have a mysterious life and grace there; they are Nature's own children, and utter her secret in a way which makes them something quite different from the woods, waters, and plants of Greek and Latin poetry. Now of this delicate...