 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1840 - 658 pages
...wood produces on our feelings. Occasional glancing and disconnected tones appear to betoken light, breaking through the darkness of the grove ; and thus...person deprived of sight, who, on first hearing this introductioa, instantly exclaimed that the scene then actually represented on the stage must be a forest.'... | |
 | Boston professor - Music - 1850 - 420 pages
...wood produces on our feelings. Occasional glancing and disconnected tones appear to betoken light, breaking through the darkness of the grove ; and thus...the opera, the grove of sacrifice, fitly delineated. Assured by this, the striking qualities of this tone-picture will still more forcibly suggest themselves... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1858 - 460 pages
...wood produces on our feelings. Occasional glancing and disconnected tones appear to betoken light, breaking through the darkness of the grove ; and thus...actually represented on the stage must be a forest." It is well known that the crown- prince of Hanover is suffering under a temporary deprivation of sight,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1861 - 696 pages
...wood produces on our feelings. Occasional glancing and disconnected tones appear to betoken light, breaking through the darkness of the grove ; and thus...to the reader, when I mention the exclamation of a * Edinburgh Review, vol. Ixix. p. 199. t Ideen und Uetrachtungen iiber die Eigenschaften der Musik.... | |
 | Music - 1862 - 432 pages
...and disconnected tones appear to betoken light, breaking through the darkness of the grove ; and this is the first drop-scene of the opera — the grove...delineated. Assuredly the striking qualities of this tone picture will still more forcibly suggest themselves to the reader, when I mention the exclamation... | |
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Beginning with deep tones, it unfolds itself in gloom-inspiring harmonies, and truly reflects the impression which the gloom of an extensive wood produces on our feelings. Occasional glancing and disconnected tones appear to betoken light, breaking through... 