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Lexicographically close words:
drains; drakes; drale; dram; drama; dramatic; dramatical; dramatically; dramatick; dramatics
  1. It was also there that some of Wagner's later music dramas were heard for the first time in French.

  2. A similar method has been employed with success in dramas for which incidental music has been written.

  3. The poet's popularity is indicated by the number of his extant dramas and fragments, both of which exceed in bulk the combined work of Aeschylus and Sophocles.

  4. Surely, such dramas are a natural development of this Nineteenth Century.

  5. The famous Dramas are gorgeous stage poems; but are they so exceptionally and extraordinarily elevating to the mind?

  6. If on no other account, it will live as that of the creator of the complex art of instrumentation in its modern sense, which was assimilated by Wagner and developed by him in his dramas with vitalizing energy.

  7. If we now pass on to the first novels and dramas of Gorky, we shall be struck by the fact that, in spite of the talent shown in them, they are very inferior to his short stories.

  8. These few lines retrace one of the thousands of daily dramas which compose modern Russian history.

  9. In spite of their dark pessimism, the actors in these little dramas have an appearance of gaiety which deceives.

  10. His stories and dramas give us a long procession of people who succumb to the monotony, to the platitudes, to the desolation, of existence.

  11. Even in England, on the rare occasions when his dramas are acted, they awaken great interest among intelligent playgoers.

  12. In short, his dramas are the very antipodes of all those which it has been the fashion of late years at once to abuse and enjoy, under the name of the German drama.

  13. The greater part, if not all, of his dramas were, as far as the names and the main incidents are concerned, already stock plays.

  14. To sketch, however, the plan of the other dramas of the trilogy would be to trespass too far upon our space and time.

  15. Novalis beautifully remarks of him, that those Dramas of his are Products of Nature too, deep as Nature herself.

  16. The basic background of his stories and of his dramas is a dark-grey, sometimes streaked with fiery-red.

  17. There are walls between the closest relatives in the stories and dramas of Andreyev.

  18. The idea of most of these stories and of most of his dramas is the conflict of the personality with fate and with the falsehood which man introduces into his fate.

  19. My sources shall be dramas of Dumas And Hugo, the immoral ones of course.

  20. Magarinos Cervantes was born in Montevideo in 1825, and, besides the novels of Caramuru and The Star of the South, has written the dramas of Vasco Nuñez and the Two Passions, besides the comedy of Percances Matrimoniales.

  21. On nature's stage many dramas are being played at once, and without any reference to the lookers-on, unless it be to escape their notice.

  22. One rarely has the patience to let these little dramas or tragedies be played to the end; one cannot look quietly on, and see a snake devour anything.

  23. The little dramas and tragedies that are being enacted by the wild creatures in the fields and woods are more or less veiled and withdrawn; and the actors all stop when a spectator appears upon the scene.

  24. At these dramas enacted by high-born artists for the purpose of touching the hearts and awakening the zeal of the lowly, there are no private boxes and reserved seats.

  25. What dramas of the soul were played through to the end in those barn-like buildings, where the musket, perhaps, stood in the corner of the pew!

  26. They have turned into the dramas and tragedies of labor, as portrayed with the swift and fierce insistence of the short story, illustrated by the Kodak.

  27. Cibber's dramas are coarse in incident, and often offensive in suggestion.

  28. The modern reader will find little worthy of attention in the dramas of Steele.

  29. In this new form introduced by Pomponius the Atellane dramas continued to enjoy great popularity in Rome, till they were in some measure superseded by the Mimes of Laberius and Publius Syrus.

  30. Little, however, except the titles, remains to us, from the dramas of Livius.

  31. The old Latin plays were also the models of the earliest dramas in Spain, previous to the introduction of the comedy of intrigue, which was invented by Lopez de Rueda, and perfected by Calderon.

  32. The above-mentioned plays are the twenty dramas of Plautus, which are still extant.

  33. Comic dramas have been divided into those of intrigue and character, and the Aulularia is chiefly of the latter description.

  34. Moliere has availed himself of a number of other Italian dramas of the same description for scattered remarks and situations.

  35. Naevius, while inventing plots of his own, had tried to introduce on the Roman stage the style of the old Greek comedy; but his dramas did not succeed, and the fate of their author deterred others from following his dangerous career.

  36. This overcharged character, along with that of the slave and parasite, were transferred into the dramas of Plautus, the faithful mirrors of the new Greek comedy.

  37. Such names also evince that most of his dramas were translated or imitated from the works of his countrymen of Magna Graecia, or from the great tragedians of Greece.

  38. It appears, however, that the characters represented in the Atellane dramas were chiefly provincial, while those introduced in the Mimes were the lowest class of citizens at Rome.

  39. Not one of the dramas of Ennius has been imitated from AEschylus.

  40. This is one strong proof that Ollantay, differing so completely in all respects from the Quichua religious dramas prepared by Spanish priests, is of pure native origin.

  41. Padre Francisco Ituri also speaks of the “Quichua dramas transmitted to our day by an unbroken tradition.

  42. At first all pieces in which kings and queens appeared were prohibited, but the dramas of sans culottes origin were so stupid that the Republic was absolutely obliged to return to the old monarchical repertory.

  43. In like manner the patients and attendants act together in the comedies and dramas which are sometimes represented.

  44. Their principal delight was acting, and in their little plays, queer compounds of Grecian dramas and childish dreams, each one had his regular part.

  45. Mr. Buchanan is a brilliant improvisatore, and could doubtless produce dramas and epics to order on any subject to which the revolutionary mind is akin.

  46. The family went frequently to the theatre, and in the letters we find critical observations on most of the new dramas of the time.

  47. Goldoni composed rapidly (once he wrote sixteen comedies in a year), and has left behind him one hundred and sixty plays and eighty musical dramas and opera texts.

  48. The literature of the first half of the nineteenth century was dominated by this political and patriotic spirit; Monti, Foscolo, Manzoni, and Pellico, all wrote dramas in the spirit of Alfieri.

  49. All the dramas and comedies are splendidly mounted and are performed by admirably trained actors.

  50. We have two poetic dramas dealing with Dante's love, by G.

  51. Leopold Damrosch, the conductor of the festival, told me that Rubinstein had told him that the impulse to use Biblical subjects in lyrical dramas had come to him while witnessing a ballet based on a Bible story many years before in Paris.


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