Word: quaint
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...touching melody written to it many years ago by Silcher is much better adapted to its character, and will scarcely be superseded by this modern version. In the Scotch Symphony the orchestra was at its best. This tone-poem has all the wild picturesqueness of Highland scenery, and the quaint scherzo, especially, with its bagpipe melody, is very suggestive of its theme. As in the case of Brahms' first symphony, the several movements of this work were written at different periods of the composer's life, and yet the unity of thought and treatment is well preserved throughout. There...
...June number of the Abbott Courant. Though somewhat erratic as to its times of appearing, the Courant ranks among the best of its contemporaries. Bright, sensible, and unpretending, it has a strong personality which is its own best recommendation. The bright adaptations of "Mother Goose's Party" are both quaint and original, and the two poems of the number good...
Prof. Everett by his eloquence and intense enthusiasm makes the past live again, and we are irresistibly carried along with him, listening with attention, only equalled by the lecturer's earnestness, to the story of Nisus and Euryaius, or enjoying the quaint humor of Aristophanes...
...North, or perhaps to show your ideas of good form to the great king" - the monarchy of Persia, by the way, I shall compare to Yale; it was a place where loud-dressed and loud-talking people lived, who never accomplished much, and who wore jewels and charms of quaint, mysterious, and barbaric shapes. But, to come back to my subject, the delight that I feel in imagining the ostracism of Swiddle is only equalled by that which I feel when I sometimes imagine for a moment that the new regulations about required church and fifty per cent are nothing...
These legends, in poetry or prose, are well worth careful reading, not only for the quaint simplicity of the style, but also for the many really noble thoughts, and the high ideas of duty and honor characteristic of a time the chief creed of which seems to have been "to drede god, and loue ryghtwiseness, feythfully and courageously to serue your souuerayne prynce...