"Tristan" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... caution necessary. The Royalists, flushed with victory, had recaptured the towns of Salta and Jujuy, and Belgrano retired for a while in the face of their advances. The forces under the Spanish General, Tristan, followed him. ...
— South America • W. H. Koebel
... 129). He remarks that in birds of the oceanic islands "not persecuted by any enemies, the reduction of their wings has probably been caused by gradual disuse." After comparing one of these, the water-hen of Tristan d'Acunha, with the European water-hen, and showing that all the bones concerned in flight are smaller, he adds—"Hence in the skeleton of this natural species nearly the same changes have occurred, only carried a little further, as with our domestic ducks, and in ...
— Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer
... area: 410 sq km land area: 410 sq km comparative area: nearly two times the size of Washington, DC note: includes Ascension, Gough Island, Inaccessible Island, Nightingale Island, and Tristan da Cunha ...
— The 1996 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... be Wagner's ideal Bruennhilde and introduced the role at Bayreuth in 1876. She was also the creator of Kundry at the same place in 1882. She aroused unbounded enthusiasm as Elizabeth in "Tannhaeuser," and as Isolde in "Tristan and Isolde." She is not forgotten by those who heard her in various cities ...
— For Every Music Lover - A Series of Practical Essays on Music • Aubertine Woodward Moore
... love story, while marble and canvas have caught the external expression of it. In its portrayal, actual history has taken on legendary character, and so "Francesca da Rimini" now ranks as a theme with the history of Lancelot and Guinevere, of Tristan and Isolde. It has become the inspiration for Maeterlinck in "Pelleas and Melisande," who has viewed the Italian passion through a mirage ...
— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini • George Henry Boker
... to the episode in Tristan L'Hermite's romance titled "Le Page disgracie," treating of "The Monkey and Master ...
— The Fables of La Fontaine - A New Edition, With Notes • Jean de La Fontaine |
