The "Freischütz" is the first masterwork, as Wagner's operas are the last, up to date, of the romantic school; and it embodies admirably two of the principal characteristics of that school: one, a delight in the demoniac, the supernaturalwhat the Germans call gruseln; the other, the use of certain instruments, alone or in combination, for the sake of securing peculiar emotional effects.

"Lohengrin," the last one of what are usually called Wagner's "operas," as distinguished from his "music-dramas" (comprising the last seven of his works), betrays very strongly the influence of Weber's other masterwork, "Euryanthe."

It was by utilizing these "possibilities" and hints, and at the same time avoiding the errors and blemishes of his predecessors, that his superlative genius was enabled to create such unapproachable masterworks as "Siegfried" and "Tristan and Isolde.

The orchestral compositions of our John K. Paine are masterworks, and the songs and pianoforte pieces of MacDowell are equal to anything produced in Europe since Chopin and Franz.

We pass to a consideration of Darwin's masterworks, the "Origin of Species," the "Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication," and the "Descent of Man."

For the construction of this masterwork, a colossal block was separated from the solid rock by a passage 240 feet long and 100 broad.

Surely, you would say, the creator of this masterwork must have had a heart thrilled with mighty passion for womankind; surely he must have lived a life of strange devotion.

I am surrounded by masterworks of art,statues, pictures, matchless specimens of ceramics, chased works by Benvenuto.

In my feeling for her there is neither affection nor tenderness,nothing but rapture at the sight of nature's masterwork, and the attraction natural in a man when that masterwork is a woman.

In my feeling for her there is neither affection nor tenderness,nothing but rapture at the sight of nature's masterwork, and the attraction natural in a man when that masterwork is a woman.

She had felt friendship for my father, not because of his social position, but because she had looked upon him as a masterwork of nature.

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As I have said, Götz and Werther had a spirited reception, but more on account of the subject-matter than their artistic merits, which very few appreciated in these masterworks.

If I had been a Greek sculptor and had been commissioned to design as my masterwork the world's Frieze of Love, it should have been one long array of marble shapes, each in pursuit of some one fleeing.