He thought of one of the first pieces he had ever heard, a rhapsody which had grown and grown, since it was first improvised by a Tzigany in Hungary.
Try and understand that this is a British town, and we don't settle our affairs by jumping from a violin rhapsody to a knife or a gun.
Each was pretty well satisfied with her own rhapsody till she heard the seven or nine others read.
Such a mass of rhapsody and rhodomontade as we presented to our master!
To begin with the two extremes: the Bach transcription at the beginning and the Liszt Rhapsody at the end are long out of date.
French and Spanish, a Liszt Rhapsodyto end up with.
A howl of laughter greeted this rhapsodyfrom all but Helen, who bridled and protested: "Oh, you girls may laugh, but you had to walk a chalk line under the eyes of a half dozen chaperones every minute.
Stella's laugh held wholesome ridicule of this rhapsody and she replied: "Don't waste your emotion upon my hands.
Wherever opportunity occurs, English models suffer in comparison with French throughout the work, which closes with an extravagant rhapsodyon Alfred de Musset, and this line: “I prefer Alfred de Musset to Tennyson.
He grasped the speaker by the hand firmly, and as his enthusiasm broke its bounds, he poured forth his gratitude in a rhapsody of thanks.
Curran used to declaim eloquently on her unhappy fate, and Mr. Charles Phillips wrote a glowing rhapsody on this victim of legal dulness.
He takes a peep under one of the seats, and with a rhapsody of laughter draws forth a small jug.
Lesbia, whose faultless features were of the aquiline type, regarded the bard's rhapsody as insufferable twaddle, and began to think Mr. Smithson almost a wit when he made fun of the bard.
Mr. Meander fell into another rhapsody over those classic cups and shallow little bowls of absinthe-coloured jade.
This we know from their language, in which a Gospel Harmony, in alliterative metre, a fragmentary translation of the Psalms, and a heroic rhapsody called Hildubrant and Hathubrant have come down to us.
Thirdly, it has the character, to no small extent, not only of a rhapsody, but of a rhapsody of which the elements are heterogeneous.
This rhapsody of honest Edwards warmed my heart, and put me in mind that I had neglected to inquire after this worthy housekeeper, who had lived with my grandfather, and was at his death transplanted into the family of Mr. Stanley.
Not less useless is it to write a rhapsody which has nothing to do with the notes, and to present this as an interpretation of what the notes have said in an unknown language.
It is a mere figment of the human imagination, a rhapsody of the transcendently unintelligible.
It is a mere figment of the human imagination, a rhapsody of the transcendent unintelligible.
Himself but a gray shadow, scarce visible in the early light, he pours out his soul and the soul of the sage in a rhapsody of holy joy.
In the next flat someone began to play very brilliantly a Hungarian Rhapsody of Liszt's.
At intervals the faint sound of the Hungarian Rhapsodymingled with her reveries.
And this, we think, is the gist of Khalid's rhapsody on flounces and ruffles.
And was this fantastic, phantasmagoric rhapsody all inspired by Najma's simple remark on his hair?
I, my feelings rising into a rhapsody of affection for him: 'Give us yer hand.
The point is that in all Browning's rhapsody there is nowhere a hint of any break between the lower and the higher nature of man, or between the human and the celestial character.
The thought that God had set all human life and work to music overpowered me, and coming home I had a rhapsody of thanksgiving for the wonderful gift.
Don't think from this rhapsody that I am undergoing a fit of pietistic exaltation.
It was his habit, he explained, to jot down from time to time brief hints such as could be expanded into Spectator papers, and a sheetful of such hints would naturally look like a "rhapsody of nonsense" to any one save the writer himself.
But the Celestial rhapsody was interrupted by Mr. Tibbs, who wanted to know the plan of campaign for the evening.
But the declaration is a rhapsody of inconsistency.
In the rhapsody of his imagination he has discovered a world of wind mills, and his sorrows are that there are no Quixots to attack them.
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