Yet, only an hour later, in the arbor by the fountain, I caught just the right motif, more happily than I could have found it in any other way, at any other time.

In the speeches of Jehovah he does not introduce an altogether new element, but emphasizes motifs already developed in the earlier dialogues.

Her technique appeals equally to the layman and the artist, and her color has all the tenderness and charm that accompanies so engaging a motif.

The courtship of my Uncle Toby forms the whole motif and indeed almost the entire substance, of the next volume.

BARBARA, the widowed heroine whose vacillations of devotion to her buried husband and the living cousin who might be his twin, furnish the motif for Amelie Rives's story, The Quick or the Dead?

And then, after contending that Brentano's Rheinmärchen, which, though written before 1823, were not published until 1846, must have given Heine the hair-combing motif, Thorn says: "Also kann nur Brentano das Vorbild geliefert haben."

Will He not come out and enjoy himself with us? (A voice is heard humming the motif of the Regensbogen: sol, si, re, sol, la, si,all flats.

PRÉTEXTE, f., raison apparente dont on se sert pour cacher le véritable motif.

It is a cosmopolitan community, tooas cosmopolitan as it can be and still retain its Senegambian motif.

" Through many others of his letters rings this vain "leit-motif" like the wail of Tristan.

(Siena, Palazzo Publico.) I imagine this action of Christ taking her hands in both his, must be founded on some ancient Greek model, for I have seen the same motif in other pictures, German and Italian; but in none so tenderly or so happily expressed.

These opinions do, in their various keys, sound a similar motif to mine.

Correggio, if not the very first, is certainly among the first of the Italians who treated this motif in the simple domestic style.