"Etude" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 101: Low, The Governance of England, Chap. 9; M. Sibert, Etude sur le premier ministre en Angleterre depuis ses origines jusqu'a l'epoque ...
— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg
... masterpieces. Less interesting, though still important, are the 'Scenes of Private Life,' which consist of twenty-four novels, novelettes, and tales, under the following titles: 'Beatrix,' 'Albert Savarus,' 'La Fausse maitresse' (The False Mistress), 'Le Message' (The Message), 'La Grande Breteche,' 'Etude de femme' (Study of Woman), 'Autre etude de femme' (Another Story of Woman), 'Madame Firmiani,' 'Modeste Mignon,' 'Un Debut dans la vie' (An Entrance upon Life), 'Pierre Grassou,' 'Memoires de deux jeunes mariees' (Recollections ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various
... its sentiment. At Munich he played his second concerto and pleased greatly. But he did not remain in the Bavarian capital, hastening to Stuttgart, where he heard of the capture of Warsaw by the Russians, September 8, 1831. This news, it is said, was the genesis of the great C minor etude in opus 10, sometimes called the "Revolutionary." Chopin exclaimed in a letter dated December 16, 1831, "All this caused me much pain—who could have foreseen it!" and in another letter he wrote, "How glad my mamma will be that I did not go ...
— Chopin: The Man and His Music • James Huneker
... je dois a Mr. de Redden, perfectionnee par l'etude des phenomenes, donnera peut-etre un jour le mot ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton
... two letters, but French words like "etude" have accents, you have the latin-1 version. Apostrophes and quotation marks will be straight ("typewriter" form). Again, if you see any garbage in this paragraph and can't get ...
— Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley (1712) and The British Academy (1712) • John Oldmixon
... the proof of some literary talents might introduce me to public notice. The work was printed and published under the title "Essai sur l'Etude de la Litterature." It is not surprising that a work of which the style and sentiments were so totally foreign should have been more successful abroad than at home. I was delighted by the warm commendations and flattering predictions of the journals of France and Holland. In England it was received ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol IX. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton
... G. Tarde's book (itself a work of genius), Les Lois de l'Imitation, Etude Sociologique (2me Edition, Paris, Alcan, 1895), is the best possible commentary on this text,—'invention' on the one hand, and 'imitation' on the other, being for this author the two sole factors of ...
— The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James
... upon himself the management of an English piano factory, he extended the keyboard, in 1793, to five and a half octaves. Seven octaves were not reached until 1851. His "Gradus ad Parnassum" became the parent of Etude literature. Carl Tausig said: "There is but one god in technique, Bach, and Clementi ...
— For Every Music Lover - A Series of Practical Essays on Music • Aubertine Woodward Moore
... "Musical Forms" is often used, somewhat carelessly and erroneously, with reference to Styles or Species of composition, instead of to the structural design upon which the music is based. The "Barcarolle," "Mazurka," "Etude," "Anthem," and so forth, are styles of composition, and not necessarily identified with any of the structural designs we have been examining. Read, again, our FOREWORD. The general conditions which enter into the distinctions of style are enumerated ...
— Lessons in Music Form - A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and - Designs Employed in Musical Composition • Percy Goetschius
... les premieres difficultes de l'etude des plantes et vous me faites l'honneur de me consulter sur les moyens d'aller en avant; connaissant votre gout et votre talent pour les sciences les plus relevees je ne craindrai point de vous engager a sortir ...
— Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville • Mary Somerville |
