144 examples of rhapsody in sentences

Mr. M'Aulay began a rhapsody against creeds and confessions.

Especially was she interested in Eugenie, and as the subject was one upon which I was equally interested in talking it ended in a rhapsody upon my part, amid little sympathetic ejaculations from the Empress and titterings from Madame de Remusat.

That self-contained completeness, which is one of the most essential peculiarities of the dramas of Shakespeare for instance, was foreign to ancient poetry; a person unacquainted with the cycle of Greek legend would fail to discover the background and often even the ordinary meaning of every rhapsody and every tragedy.

A RHAPSODY OF TYRE.

" CHAPTER VIII A RHAPSODY OF TYRE Sidon, the stage of the moving events so far recorded, though it makes much of possessing a separate importance, is really a cross-river residential suburb of Tyre, the great seaport in which all the ships of the world come to and fro.

On Chopin's death Liszt sprang into print with a rhapsody which led Fontana to defer his work.

Sylvia fell into a rhapsody over her new acquaintance and found to her surprise (it was always a surprise to Sylvia that Judith's tastes and judgments so frequently differed from hers) that Judith by no means shared her enthusiasm.

Prose fledges into poetry, cold compliments warm into praise, eulogy rarifies into panegyric and goes off in rhapsody.

The former expresses a claim that, except for prejudice, a woman is as capable a citizen as a man and differing only in her sex; the latter consist of a long rhapsody upon the mystical superiorities of women and the marvellous benefits mankind will derive from handing things over to these sacred powers.

"I durst not ride down that hill; and Jem is holding my horse, so I may not stay very long; now begin, Maggie, at once, and go into a rhapsody about Frank.

The following is the rhapsody referred to by Mr. Butler: (The words to be used were Mosquito, Brigadier, Moon, Cathedral, Locomotive, Piano, Mountain, Candle, Lemon, Worsted, Charity, and Success).

And one of the minor pieces: A RHAPSODY ON NATURE.

H after r, is always silent; as in rhapsody, rhetoric, rheum, rhubarb.

Or will you forgive the child for poor George's sake?" Osborne broke into a rhapsody of self praise and imprecations.

Those who judge of Pater's writing by a few purple passages such as the famous rhapsody on the Mona Lisa, conceiving it as always thus heavy with narcotic perfume, know but one side of him, and miss his gift for conveying freshness, his constant happiness in light and air and particularly running water, "green fieldsor children's faces."

I tried to nail him down to externals, but he only went off into another rhapsody.

" I leaned over the oars, panting from my exertions, indifferent to his rhapsody.

[120] [Footnote 120: This strange rhapsody is verily Mr. Landor's.

SEE Schelling, Felix E. SCHINNERER, OTTO P., tr. Rhapsody.

Rhapsody in death.

MAURO, JOHN F. Rhapsody in death.

These are strange words for an English statesman to address to the English public in the year 1790; the thought they embody seems more in keeping with its surroundings when we hear it thundered out anew forty years later by the raw Scotch preacher-philosopher in the chapter he calls "Organic Filaments" in his odd but strangely stirring mystical rhapsody, Sartor Resartus.

The Way V. Onus Probandi Del Cascar Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves Ironic: LL.D Scintilla Sic Vita Rhapsody GEORGE REGINALD MARGETSON Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and the Poetry Society JAMES WELDON JOHNSON

RHAPSODY I am glad daylong for the gift of song, For time and change and sorrow; For the sunset wings and the world-end things Which hang on the edge of to-morrow.

I shall end this Rhapsody with a Letter to an excellent young Man of my Acquaintance, who has lately lost a worthy Father.

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