Antonio Rotta renders comic episodes from the life of Venetian cobblers and the menders of nets.
At a time when others rendered dramas and historical episodes by colours and gestures, Marees composed idylls.
Spanish painting does not merely adorn the citizen's house or the boudoir of the fair sex with easel-pieces; by its productions it recalls the greatepisodes of popular history, which are able to excite men to glorious deeds.
Every advance and every retreat of a continental glacier has been marked by a complex series of episodesin the history of every river whose territory it has invaded.
Series of diagrams to illustrate in succession the episodes involved in the historical development of an angular unconformity.
The stages or episodes in the history of the beds represented in Fig.
Of the early episodes of Niagara’s history, our knowledge is not as perfect as we could desire, but the later events are fully and trustworthily recorded.
Episodes of the glacial lake history within the St. Lawrence valley.
Episodes of Niagara’s history and their correlation with those of the Glacial Lakes.
The several episodes of this lake history will be clear from a study of the three successive idealistic diagrams in Fig.
Because of the varied episodes in the history of composite cones, they lack the regular lines characteristic of the two simpler types.
Diagrams to illustrate the episodes in the recent history of the Still River tributary to the Farmington in Connecticut.
He reads the lessons in what he calls a devotional way, which consists in reciting all episodes alike, the song of Deborah or the victories of Gideon, as if they were melancholy and pathetic reflections.
The dramatic episodes at Warwick were not always dramatic, and the dialogue and acting were perhaps not quite worthy of the superb surroundings; but the setting of the spectacle was absolutely perfect.
The first of these episodesdeals merely with a part, and that the least important, of the tribes settled in Central Canaan.
Hastily prepared copies of these were sold by unscrupulous scribes, often badly written and almost always incomplete, in which were hurriedly set down haphazard theepisodes of the course of the sun with explanatory illustrations.
These were, however, comparatively unimportant episodes in the general history of the Hebrew race.
Its different incidents and episodes were probably separate poems, which from the earliest age were sung by the people, and later, by degrees, collected in one complete work.
Splendid examples of didactic poetry may be found in the episodes of the epic poems, and more particularly in the collections of fables and apologues in which the Sanskrit literature abounds.
The last and most generous patron of Dante was Guido di Polenta, lord of Ravenna, and father of Francesca da Rimini, whose fatal love forms one of the most beautifulepisodes of this poem.
There are manyepisodes in the Shah Namah of great beauty, and the power and elegance of its verse are unrivaled.
In the next circle, appropriated to those whose souls had been lost by the indulgence of guilty love, the poet recognizes the unhappy Francesca da Rimini, whose history forms one of the most beautiful episodes of the poem.
Many of his dramas contain episodes selected from the epic poems, and are founded on the principles of Brahmanism.
The Dutch Nation," which, with some faults, abounds in beautiful episodesand magnificent passages.
But there is, in truth, no other leading subject than the country, and no episodes except such parts as are not immediately connected with her glory.
At a later period other epic poems were written, either as abridgments of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, or founded on episodes contained in them.
Of the Mahabharata we possess only a few episodestranslated into English, such as the Bhagavad-Gita, by Wilkins.
The episodes are, generally speaking, ordinary actions of common life--all the quiet incidents of the phlegmatic life of the Chinese, coupled with the regular and mechanical movements which distinguish that people.
Five of its most esteemed episodes are called the Five Precious Stones.
But the good craftsman wastes no space on unnecessary talk, even though certain scenes and episodes may be of less importance than others.
In the second part, the scheme or plot is developed; complications and side issues, contrasting episodes and by-play may be introduced.
The Franciscan church carries us back to 1539, and the palace of Cortes and the gardens of Maximilian bring into recollection episodes of the history of this romantic region of the Pacific slope.
Many deeds of Mexican arms, of self-abnegation in times of peril, and of heroic acts in the face of deadly odds, have left glorious episodes in their history.
Yet it was through the adaptation of this very chant to the delineation of episodes in religious history that the path to the opera was opened.
It was composed of mythologic episodes spectacularly treated.
He combined the episodes so as to furnish the musician with the motives for a dance and in a manner permit of the use of numerous and varied instruments, from the organ to the Spanish guitar.
Stanley Pool has always been associated in my mind with one of the most picturesque episodes in Stanley's life.
Conspicuous among them was Captain Deane, an Englishman who fought the Arab slave traders at Stanley Falls and who figured in a succession of episodes that read like the most romantic fiction.
In one of the most beautiful episodes of the Georgics, Virgil had briefly touched on the subject of gardening, and left it to be treated by others who might come after him: praetereo atque aliis post me memoranda relinquo.
But before a deeper and more appreciative study of the Aeneid these great episodes cease to present themselves as detached eminences.
For anomalies and uncharacteristic episodes in Napoleon's career we must go to books; the playhouse is not the place for them.
The episodesmay grow out of each other plausibly enough, but by no pre-ordained necessity, and with no far-reaching interdependence.
It is impossible to conceive any episodes more pitiful than the cases of this sort which have been detailed to me by drug victims, doctor-made.
Isolated, buried in thought, in the midst of that teeming throng, the various episodes in the drama of which my mysterious neighbor was the principal character, passed before my mind.
Swift, although an ogre at heart, had his chapter of love matters, which never fail to give us the horrors when we bring them to mind, and the episodes of Stella and Vanessa are among the minor tragedies in life's great drama.
The episodes in mining warfare left an impression of horror with those who were lucky enough to survive.
It seems to have been common to incorporate a Laieikawai episode into the popular romances, and of these episodes Haleole may have availed himself.
And in the midst of it all there came one of the most pathetic little episodes I have seen in the House of Commons of recent years.
So ended one of the most remarkable episodes of the campaign, and the career of a young enthusiast, whose curious ambition renders more convincing the old aphorism that every blackguard is a hero spoilt.
Knox, who captured a Krupp gun and a waggon-load of ammunition, and kept up a running fight in the direction of Reddersburg; which was said to be one of the most exciting episodes in the whole war.
It is to these jousts, as one of the most characteristic episodes of the reign of John II.
In their five-act plays, whether serious like Fanny Lear or comic like La Vie Parisienne, the interest is scattered, and we have a series of episodes rather than a single story.
It would be weary and exasperating to recount in detail the remaining principal episodes of McClellan's operations to gain possession of the Confederate capital.
The constant change of scene, the romantic episodes of adventure, the kaleidoscope of characters, the crisp dialogue, the quaint reflection and comment relieve each other without a break.
The Book, although essentially one of fiction, contains many episodes of an historical character.
And similar battles in the clouds are found in several other episodes of the Ramayanam.
Goat, the Fox, the Wolf, and the Duck, where other episodes of this legend are found again.
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