"Assai" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 370 Where endles paines and hideous heavinesse Is round about me heapt in darksome glades. For there huge Othos sits in sad distresse, Fast bound with serpents that him oft invades, Far of beholding Ephialtes tide, 375 Which once assai'd to burne this world ...
— The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 • Edmund Spenser
... in three movements, some commence with a slow movement followed by two quick movements.[25] (In one instance, in E. Bach's sonatas, the 1st Collection, No. 2, in F, we even find two slow movements followed by a quick one, Andante, Larghetto, Allegro assai.) But the greater number had the usual order:—Allegro or Allegretto, Andante or Adagio, and Allegro or Presto. Thus Hasse, Nichelmann, Benda, and other composers. Now in E. Bach's Wuertemberg sonatas we found all three movements were in the same key, and there are similar ...
— The Pianoforte Sonata - Its Origin and Development • J.S. Shedlock |
