"Largo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to this. Instead he broke into the opening chords, the sweetly solemn, majestic harmony of the 'Largo'. He played it entirely from memory, very slowly, very softly at first, until the measured notes, swelling into volume, filled the room in a ...
— The Loyalist - A Story of the American Revolution • James Francis Barrett
... describes (Documentos ineditos, vol. X, p. 374) the circumstances as follows: 'Dijome un dia ansi por estas palabras que el Papa tenia gran noticia de su persona y le estimaba en mucho; y tras desto refiriome un largo cuento de un mercader y de un cardenal por cuyos medios florecia su nombre en la corte romana, lleno todo de su vanidad; y anadio que habia enviado al Papa un tratadillo que habia compuesto, porque Su Santidad tenia deseo ...
— Fray Luis de Leon - A Biographical Fragment • James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
... them) enjoyed privileges amounting to a quasi-independence, the Austrian chroniclers maintain that they were mere vassal retainers of the Court of Hungary. So, for example, they say that Bogdan, ruler of Marmaros, broke his allegiance to the King Louis of Hungary, and about 1359 descended, with a largo body of Wallachian followers, amongst whom were his sons, into the lower lands of what was already called Moldavia, and ...
— Roumania Past and Present • James Samuelson
... nine o'clock in the morning, in very clear weather, were installed on the booms of the mizzen-topmast. Thence they looked down on the whole ship and a portion of the ocean in a largo circumference. Behind, the perimeter of the horizon was broken to their eyes, only by the mainmast, carrying brigantine and fore-staff. That beacon hid from them a part of the sea and the sky. In the front, they saw the bowsprit stretching over ...
— Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen • Jules Verne
... the city's musical welfare as a society that encourages and supports all that is high and fine in music. Among the selections given at the Sunday services are Gounod's "Sanctus," the magnificent "Pilgrim's Chorus," the "Gloria," from Mozart's "Twelfth Mass," Handel's beautiful "Largo," the "St. Cecilia Mass," and others of ...
— Russell H. Conwell • Agnes Rush Burr
... to rot, it is of great importance to thin out young wood as early as possible, so that, when the rot season arrives, the trees may have a moderate amount of well-matured young wood, with fully-developed hardened leaves, instead of a largo number of small succulent shoots covered with succulent leaves, which are very apt to be rotted bodily away. And the importance of this is equally great with reference to leaf disease, and Mr. Ward, in his "Report" (p. 15), points out that pruning and manuring should be ...
— Gold, Sport, And Coffee Planting In Mysore • Robert H. Elliot
... the old man did roll his eyes with ecstasy and raise his hands with unutterable joy as he listened for the first time to the wonderful mellow music of the British Grenadier Guards' band as it played in the bandstand in the square. Handel's largo, the overture to Tannhauser, and a fantasia on British airs,—each brought forth a different series of gestures. "Monsieur, I have not heard such fine music since I heard the Republican Guards' band at Paris; in fact, monsieur, this is finer—the ...
— On the Fringe of the Great Fight • George G. Nasmith
... too largo, too deep, Her love could neither laugh nor sleep, And thus it tired him: his desire Was for a less consuming fire. He wished that she should love him well. Not wildly; wished her passion's spell To charm her heart, but leave her fancy free; To quicken ...
— Ellen Middleton—A Tale • Georgiana Fullerton
... pacificos y asise yra rrepartiendo lo qe se pacificare ase hecho tasacion delo qe Cada tributao a se dar e Vn ano que es vna manta de algodon de qe ay mucha abundancia en esta ysla de diez varas de largo y dos de ancho es rropa de que vsan los naturales pa bestirse delgada asi mismo an de dar dosas. de arroz y vna gallina entiendese lo daran sin pesadunbre porla mucha abundancia qe de todo tienen ay mucha jente, asi se entiende seran algos muy principales ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 - Volume III, 1569-1576 • E.H. Blair
... subsequently disappeared: and the first words of actual French heard spoken, and the first dinner at "Quillacq's," remain after twenty years as clear as on the first day. Dear Jones, can't you remember the exact smack of the white hermitage, and the toothless old fellow singing "Largo al factotum"? ...
— Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo • William Makepeace Thackeray
... foreigner, in attendance on some august personage from Spain or Portugal (and later from Ostend), warmly and publicly complimented the signore on "his admirable rendering of 'Largo al factotum'—which, as his dear old friend Rossini had once told him (the General), he (Rossini) had always modestly looked upon as the one thing he had ever written with which he ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier
... of Serse. Faramondo had only six performances, and Serse did not appear on the stage until April 15, when it ran for five nights only. It is remembered now, if at all, by the fact that the first song in it is the so-called "celebrated Largo," but the opera as a whole is of curious interest. "He was neither in health, prosperity, or spirits," says Burney, "when it was composed; appearances remain in his foul score [i.e. rough copy] of a mind disturbed, if not diseased. ...
— Handel • Edward J. Dent
... prelude she chose a piece of pure organ music—the exquisitely simple Largo of the Second Sonata. From that she passed on to the Pastoral itself, opening it, as of custom, with the fine Andante ...
— Captain Desmond, V.C. • Maud Diver
... from whom some of these historical facts are quoted, has been at great pains to trace the wanderings of the Quivira myth. Bandelier mentions an ancient New Mexican Indian called Tio Juan Largo, who told a Spanish explorer about the middle of the eighteenth century that Quivira was Tabira. Otherwise history is silent concerning the process by which the myth finally settled upon that historic city, far indeed from its authentic ...
— The Book of the National Parks • Robert Sterling Yard
... sombra vela 20 Que entre la sombra se ofusca. Frente por frente a sus ojos Un balcon a poca altura Deja escapar por los vidrios La luz que dentro le alumbra; 25 Mas ni en el claro aposento, Ni en la callejuela obscura El silencio de la noche Rumor sospechoso turba. Paso asi tan largo tiempo, page 89 Que pudiera haberse duda De si es hombre, o solamente Mentida ilusion nocturna; Pero es hombre, y bien se ve, 5 Porque con planta segura Ganando el centro a la calle Resuelto y audaz pregunta: —?Quien va?—y a corta distancia El igual compas se escucha 10 De un caballo ...
— Modern Spanish Lyrics • Various
... my line in Largo Bay, And fishes I caught nine: There's three to boil, and three to fry, And three ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 56, June, 1862 • Various
... high and blue, And the new mune glints through, On the bonnie corn-fields o' Strathairlie; Ma ship's in Largo Bay, And I ken weel the way Up the steep, steep ...
— Penny Plain • Anna Buchan (writing as O. Douglas)
... were turned, and a commission of agricultural labourers were sent into the city to make report of the sort of lives led there, not by poor citizens or the lowest order of tradesmen, but by the very class who are occupied in preparing largo folio reports of their own distressful condition. Suppose they were to enter into the chambers of the student of law—of the conveyancer, for example. They make their way through obscure labyrinths into a room not quite so dark, it must be allowed, nor quite so dirty as the interior of a coal-mine, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 • Various
... he said. He pushed the man, searching his brain for the Spanish equivalent. "What the mischief—oh," he glared at the trembling prisoner. "Vayase Vd! Largo de aqui!" ...
— Dan Merrithew • Lawrence Perry |
