The influence of the forests on the chemical composition of the atmosphere is, in a word, of the highest importance.
The testimony of the Nibelungen-Lied is not conclusive evidence that these quadrupeds existed in Germany at the time of the composition of that poem.
At certain points on the coast of Normandy they are found to be purely calcareous; they are of mixed composition on the shores of Brittany and Saintonge, and generally quartzose between the mouth of the Gironde and that of the Adour.
Above the iron is a stratum of sand differing in composition from ordinary sea sand, and on this, growing woods are always found.
The elevation, configuration, and composition of the great masses of terrestrial surface, and the relative extent and distribution of land and water, are determined by geological influences equally remote from our jurisdiction.
The memory of Josias is like the composition of a sweet smell made by the art of a perfumer: 49:2.
Exodus Chapter 30 The altar of incense: money to be gathered for the use of the tabernacle: the brazen laver: the holy oil of unction, and the composition of the perfume.
You shall not make such a composition for your own uses, because it is holy to the Lord.
Heap together the bones, which I will burn with fire: the flesh shall be consumed, and the whole composition shall be sodden, and the bones shall be consumed.
It would appear that he was appointed to lead a composition of Scarlatti's, and on arriving at an air in C minor he led off in C major, which mistake he twice repeated, till Scarlatti came on the stage and showed him the difference.
The closing years of Spohr's active life as a musician were devoted to that species of composition where he showed indubitable title to be considered a man of genius, works for the violin and chamber music.
It was left to Emanuel Bach to make the first step toward the proper treatment of the piano, and to adapt a style of composition expressly to its requirements, though even he continued to prefer the clavichord.
A sojourn at Parma, where he had complete repose and a course of sea-bathing, partially restored his health, and he gave himself up to musical composition again.
De Bériot became identified with the Royal Conservatory of Music at Brussels in the year 1840, and thenceforward his life was devoted to composition and the direction of the violin school.
But this species of composition was so obviously unsuited to his abilities that he quickly forsook it, and thenceforward devoted his efforts exclusively to the instrument of which he was such an eminent master.
But Ole Bull gradually formed a style of his own which was the outcome of his passion for descriptive and poetic playing, and the correlative of the mode of composition which he adopted.
He took lessons in counterpoint from Albrechts-burger, and in composition from Salieri, and in all ways indicated that serene, tireless industry which marked his whole after-career.
He prosecuted his studies with great zeal under the ablest masters, and his genius for composition as well as for playing displayed a rapid development.
Without doubt the simplest narration is the hardest kind of compositionto write, chiefly because we do not realize how hard it is.
The difficulties will not appear to the one who tries original composition by way of practice, since there is no way of “checking up” his work.
But often a long composition will lack harmony of structure, a fault very different from any we have mentioned, Hitherto we have spoken of definite faults that must be cut out.
Reserve is a negative quality, and so it has not been emphasized by writers on composition as it ought to be.
These books should be read and re-read many times; and whenever any compositionis to be tested, it may conveniently be compared as to style to some part of one or other of these books.
The ambitious writer will not learn harmony of style from any single short selection, however perfect such a composition may be in itself.
We are presenting pure types; but very seldom does it happen that any composition ordinarily produced belongs to any one pure type.
At present there is not a single spot in the garden itself which gives a view of the composition as a whole.
As a composition it may lack inspiration, but it is exceedingly elegant, and scholarly like the Lord High Treasurer himself.
But, letting Milton go, it may be necessary to say that my writing to-day has nothing to do with my theory of composition in an elevated position; for this is the laziest place that I have yet found.
These elements have not only abandoned their form, however, but in most instances have also changed their character; which in their original composition may have been of a discordant, violent, and even dangerous nature.
As all sciences, in a general, though in some instances perhaps somewhat remote, sense, centre in the science of life, so do the controlling elements in our composition centre in the tip of the tongue.
There is nothing very decidedly different in the situation and composition of these various nations and the individuals of which they are composed, except their language.
Until then, the soul-stirring depth (der Zauber) of the nativecomposition will always be wanting.
The Knickerbocker Press, New York "There is nothing in our composition either purely material or purely spiritual.
We listened vainly for some token in his spoken composition of the epigrammatic, often antithetical style, that gives nerve and point to his published writings.
There is a metrical epitaph, sixteen lines in length, presumably thecomposition of the lady at whose expense the stone was raised.
His habitual employment of Bible phrases has lent to his own composition a quaint savor.
Coleridge's, so far as the date of the composition of the original was concerned; but of course it was not his.
That it was written in a single night seems extraordinary when viewed in relation to its sustained beauty; but it is done in a breath, and has all the excellencies of fervour and force that result upon that method of composition only.
The time taken in composition reminds me of the fact (so long ago!
Now he studied the composition of glue, and gradually learned the secret of making the best possible article which brought the highest price in the market.
The composition of one editorial of the first class is a very hard day's work, and one that leaves to the writer but a small residue of vital force.
The decoration and cover are left to the taste and ingenuity of the teacher or the child.
Measure one inch again and draw a fourth line parallel to the other three.
You have now a 6×8-inch rectangle marked off, leaving a one-inch space around the edge of the tag-board.
Such creative writers as have a definite philosophy of composition are equally categorical.
Every honest composition is a step forward in the cause; and every clear-minded criticism.
And not only is the bare outline thus composed mentally, but the whole compositionwith all its involved harmonies and varied orchestral colors is present in the composer's mind before he puts it down on paper.
I assure you, my dear friend, no one has expended so much labor on the study ofcomposition as I have.
Holmes remarks, "having commenced composition without recourse to the clavier, his powers in mental music constantly increased, and he soon imagined effects of which the original types existed only in his brain.
Mozart, as many witnesses have testified, was especially attuned to composition by the sight of beautiful scenery.
The composition of "Der Freischütz" affords a remarkable confirmation of this statement.
This was sufficient subsequently to recall the whole composition to his memory.
Such specimens are shown, but they are produced by some chemical action of the gum used to fasten them to letters, or of the composition of the paper or other accidental causes.
This style was deemed the most eligible, because it not only afforded the best opportunity for the exercise of the highest grade of artistic skill in composition and execution, but also appeared to be the most difficult to counterfeit.
Both its compositionand style are poor, and mistakes in spelling and writing abound.
It is a very good type of the style andcomposition of the Mindanao dialect.
The handwriting is fair and plain, but thecomposition and grammar are very poor.
The first prize composition was a hunting frieze, modelled, in which were introduced fanciful combinations of leaf and scroll work, dogs, hunters, and children.
The idea of artistic symmetry pervades every thing, from the arrangement of the simplest room to the composition of a picture.
Aitken An architectural composition telling the story of human life in its many phases.
The whole compositionis enjoyable for its many fine pieces of detail.
In the physical center of the composition nothing of interest happens, and the composition breaks almost in two.
Court of Abundance: Groups on the altar in the main tower - Chester Beach These groups constitute the historical composition in the tower on the north side of the court.
The whole composition of those two friezes shows Mrs. Whitney as a very skillful and imaginative artist.
This composition of "California," taken by itself, is one of the very best passages in the whole decoration, and could very effectively be used all by itself.
The composition of his decorations is frugal in every sense, largely owing to the small scale of his figures.
The bronze is the same as that of an antique poniard brought from Egypt and analysed by Vauquelin, from which it would appear that the composition of ancient Gallic bronze came from Egypt.
That Moses was the author of this sublime composition seems now almost universally agreed upon by learned commentators.
Indeed, we know that the ancient philosophers were a ridiculous compositionof arrogance, disputation, and contradictions!
Bion died shortly after writing his objections to the allegorical figure, and if anything could have changed Saint-Gaudens' decision regarding his composition of the Shaw monument, his friend's letter would certainly have done so.
He has commenced another picture of his wife, this time with all the children and himself, and it is already a stimulating thing, the composition is so fine and what there is of it that is drawn, is so splendidly drawn.
More than once, too, he completed an opera within a fortnight; but this fortnight was usually the last and never the first of the space of time assigned to him for the composition of a given work.
A comic poem, a comic picture, may be a masterpiece of artistic expression, but it is difficult to imagine a perfect musical composition which would afford matter for merriment.
It has already been seen that Luigi Zamboni, Rossini's fellow-lodger during the composition of the work, was the original Figaro.
His later years he devoted to thecomposition of sacred poetry, and published his collected works 405 A.
Alcohol injures the blood by changing the color and chemical composition of its corpuscles.
This alcohol, with its affinity for water, changes the composition of every substance in the body into which water enters, and there are seven hundred and ninety parts of water in every thousand of blood.
They are made up of cells with densely and coarsely granulated reddish colored contents--shape, size, and composition are very variable, as shown in the figures.
If towards the close of his life he less frequently went wrong from negligence, it was only because long habits of composition rendered it more easy to go right.
It must be owned that to do justice to any composition of Mr Mill is not, in the opinion of his admirers, a very easy task.
But in France, during the reign of the Convention, the old laws of composition were held in as much contempt as the old government or the old creed.
The highest kind of poetry is, in a great measure, independent of those circumstances which regulate the style of composition in prose.
The grotesque conceits and the tuneless numbers of Donne were, in the time of James, the favourite models of composition at Whitehall and at the Temple.
