Word: tempest
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...verse is "Poet and Philistine." This is so long and circumstantial that one is tempted, forgetting the point, to look on it merely as an enumeration of fair women, and to exclaim "Yes, but you have forgotten Anne Hathaway and Manon Lescaut!" Among the other pieces of verse, the "Tempest" is worth mentioning...
...Dane gift, some twenty-five English plays. Among the more important of these may be mentioned: Marlowe's "Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta," 1633, first edition; Beaumont and Fletcher's "Knight of the Burning Pestle," 1635, second edition; Davenant's "Siege of Rhodes," 1670; Dryden's "Tempest," 1670, first edition, "Tyrannick Love," 1670, first edition, and "King Arthur," 1691, first edition, with the prologue and epilogue which are not in the edition of the same date already in the Library; Shadwell's "Sullen Lovers," 1690, and "Humorists," 1691. From English dealers the Library has lately bought with...
...Beethoven overture we have a most striking contrast, for here the descriptive suggestion is not of the elements of the outward world, but of the emotions and passions of a human soul. The agitated opening theme strongly typifies the tempest-tossed soul of the hero, and the beautiful lyrical second theme, the supplicating appeals of his mother. The overture as a whole is doubtless a tone picture of a scene in the Volscian camp, before the gates of Rome, between Coriolanus, Volumnia, and Virgilia, which ends with the hero's, death...