In these recitals they gave Méhul's Joseph, which had disappeared from the stage for a long time.
We also used to have dramatic recitals which were excellent both for the performers and the audiences as they gave works which were not in the usual repertoire.
No one to-day takes any of these recitals seriously, as a matter of course; but, on the other hand, they possess an abiding interest as historical documents.
The recitals of the fabulous wonders of Australia are not more fascinating or more marvellous than the narratives Professor Petrie has been enabled to give of the long lost and long forgotten mysteries of Egypt.
Great as this monarch was, little was known of him beyond the prejudiced recitals of the Hebrews, until our own time, when the decipherment of the monuments has brought to light the record of many of his warlike deeds.
If for nothing else, they have interest as illustrating the advance of human knowledge during the comparatively brief period since these strange recitalsfound currency.
They mingle with the scholars of many lands, and listen to their recitals of the annals of their respective peoples.
Who would give up the Homeric legends, with their records of gods and supernatural heroes, for the realistic recitals of a Thucydides?
The recitals explain the circumstances of the title, the interests of the parties in relation to the property, and the agreement or object intended to be carried into effect by the conveyance.
When his dramatic recitals to the winds which sweep over Ladugardsgardet had been followed by the prosaic training at the school of the Dramatic Theatre, the conflict between dream and reality was followed by the usual tragic results.
Pray spare us these recitals from gazettes, Which we ourselves beheld with deepest horror.
The dependence of the family on the department for entertainment, as well as for sound instruction in musical culture, was something tremendous, and the fame of the college concerts and recitals went abroad in the land.
From the beginning there was musical talent of high order among the students, and their recitals and concerts were far above the common.
When scarcely out of the nursery he loved the council chamber, and delighted in the recitals of foreign wars.
It was thought by them that such recitals would accustom the mind of the prisoner to the apparatus and formalities that would attend his death, and that these would lose their influence over his mind.
Recitals of these domestic tragedies, proofs of the unrelenting spirit of government, tended to break the firmness of some of those who survived.
In the midst of our tour around the hall his Majesty met something that again reminded him of scenes he had witnessed in his rambling life in the backwoods of America, and he held us still for half an hour during his recitals of them.
Sindbad's narrative is so manifestly based on the recitals of Abou-zeyd and Massoudi, that although the author may have lived shortly after, it is scarcely possible that he could have been a contemporary of the great ruler of Bagdad.
Now and again the recitals were interrupted by the roaring of forty-five revolvers as the more fervid celebrants showed their expertness at marksmanship by shooting the French heels from the shoes of the dance-hall girls.
Here facts are almost entirely wanting, and the history of the art we are studying, can only be followed in the recitals of historians, to control whose veracity we have no longer those monuments which Egypt offers us in such great numbers.
The preceding recitals have been the subject of numerous commentations, discussions, and researches.
We were fascinated by Scandinavia, and though I went to sing with the orchestra in one concert only, I remained in Bergen to give three recitals by myself.
I went back in the spring for another series of recitals and felt that I was returning to old friends.
What do you think of continuing your recitals of travel?
A respectable and intelligent person, willing to devote several hours a day to listening to the recitals of a traveler.
In my recitals to Walkirk I had gone much more into detail regarding my experiences, and had talked about a great many things which it had been pleasant to talk about, but which I did not consider good enough to put into my book.
Among the most interesting of those recently published are those of Marshal Canrobert, taken down from his verbal recitals by M.
Noussanne is obliged to omit the termination of one of his recitals of the amusements of the caserne: "No; it is better to slide over this passage.
It seems to be probable that much the same tendency inspired the recent recitalsof Servian atrocities.
I have generally found the task of drawing out old soldiers on their war experiences to result in recitals too romantic for use in anything but a work of fiction, or else quite fruitless.
The prior listened to these recitals with sorrowful attention.
Lord Ruthven was yet musing, in fearful anxiety, on Wallace's solemn adieu, and the confirmation which the recitals of Grimsby and Hay had brought of his determined exile, when he was struck with a new consternation by the flight of his son.
But ’Lizabeth’s hobgoblin and vampire recitalshad enkindled within me a burning curiosity to inspect a charnel-house.
Supposing that, instead of having had your musical horizon bounded by coon songs and comic operas, you were an attendant at orchestral concerts, song and pianoforterecitals and grand opera.
Often, when I went to pianoforte recitals and heard these compositions played, I grieved over what I had lost--through sacrificing the pianoforte to the pen.
We then gave a series of recitals for piano and violin, the programs including the above mentioned transcriptions as well as the Duo Concertant.
As now recited they take the form of chants or of long monotonous recitals like the Laieikawai, which take on the heightened form of poetry only in dialogue or on occasions when the emotional stress requires set song.
His recitals had inspired an admiration for cow men rather than the reverse.
Such recitals as this, and the sad story of the Tonquin related to Ross Cox and his companions, naturally increased their nervousness as to penetrating the interior.
These recitals of legislative enactments are sufficient to prove that the fishing bounties and allowances are bottomed upon the salt duty, and must stand or fall with that duty.
The expunging resolution, which is to blot out or enshroud the four or five lines in which the resolution of 1834 stands recorded, or rather the recitals by which it is preceded, are spun out into a thread of enormous length.
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