Moore, Sir John, monody on the death of, 321. 445. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 1, November, 1849-May, 1850 A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
The poem is a monody of nerveless, exhausted grief. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from Poe] Reference
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!. From Wordnik.com. [Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget] Reference
Kenway, the then Mayor, for the best monody on the death of Mr. Edward. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses] Reference
That monody would be shorn of its interest, if it were inserted anywhere else. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
Some years previously I published stanzas, or a monody, on the death of Lord Byron. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
To censure it in a monody or sonnet is almost as absurd as to dislike a circle for being round. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
With organ voice it has gloated over the joys of the moment, and its intoned monody on passing woes. From Wordnik.com. [Last Leaves from Dunk Island] Reference
In liturgical terms, an analysis of the monody in the Codex Calixtinus reveals several surprising features. From Wordnik.com. [Another early music site] Reference
The monody, and SUurus's description of Junius, note 200. From Wordnik.com. [Junius: Including Letters by the Same Writer, Under Other Signatures, (now First Collected) ; to ...] Reference
His music belongs entirely to the ancient period of monody. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
The monody, and Silurus's description of Junius, note 200 lv. From Wordnik.com. [Junius : including letters by the same writer, under other signatures, (now first collected) to which are added, his confidential correspondence with Mr. Wilkes, and his private letters addressed to Mr. H.S. Woodfall ; with a preliminary essay, notes, fac-similes, &c.] Reference
"There is a noble monody upon the death of Adondo," said Yoomy. From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)] Reference
The first movement of this is quite as much a monody as anything of. From Wordnik.com. [The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations] Reference
The Florentine inventors of monody told us that, Gluck echoed them. From Wordnik.com. [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference
To the inevitable monody of machine guns, we dozed until dusk came. From Wordnik.com. [Winning a Cause World War Stories] Reference
Circle of the Literati in Florence -- Galilei and his monody -- Peri's. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
Seward, and on one occasion was awarded for her monody on the death of. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield] Reference
I rather wish you had left the monody on C. concluding as it did abruptly. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference
Milton's "Lycidas" is a monody on the death of the poet's friend, Edward King. From Wordnik.com. [Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism] Reference
Tragedy was a monody, or solitary song in honour of Bacchus, improved afterwards into. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II] Reference
May not his monody, then, be a spontaneous melody, that has been with us since Mardi began?. From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)] Reference
For the monologue has sprung from the monody, and the chorus has developed into the ballet. From Wordnik.com. [Plays by August Strindberg, Second series] Reference
A monody to commemorate the author's friend, Arthur Hugh Clough, who died at Florence, 1861. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems] Reference
The fanaticism of the covenanter and the sad grace of Petrarch seem to meet in Milton's monody. From Wordnik.com. [Milton] Reference
Florentine coterie which brought the opera to birth was engaged in its experiments with monody. From Wordnik.com. [Some Forerunners of Italian Opera] Reference
The lips of Chingachgook had so far parted, as to announce that it was the monody of the father. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757] Reference
The chorus died; and we heard again the deep monody of the sea, like the admonitory voice of fate. From Wordnik.com. [Old Junk] Reference
There was the monody, confident but subdued, the most ancient song in the world, of invisible waters. From Wordnik.com. [London River] Reference
Stroke by stroke, the great familiar monody of that incomparable curfew rose and fell in the stillness. From Wordnik.com. [Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story] Reference
At length, one evening, Vincenzo Galilei, father of the astronomer Galileo, presented himself with a monody. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
"I composed a melody, or a monody, trying to illuminate the specificity, but the unspecificity came back very soon!". From Wordnik.com. Reference
Your monody is so superlatively excellent, that I can only wish it perfect, which I can't help feeling it is not quite. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference
E. (427) Lucy, daughter of Hugh Fortescue, Esq. of Filleigh; upon whose death, in 1746-7, Lord Lyttelton wrote his Celebrated monody. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
The programme included two of the six existing Delphic hymns, Byzantine monody, Greek folksong and songs by contemporary Greek composers. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
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