"Fantasia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as the Agha's guest, being introduced to Tahar Ben Hadj and several caids invited for the bridegroom's part of the festivities. There was much feasting, with music and strange dances in Tahar's tent at night, and outside, fantasia for the douar in honour of the wedding; sheep roasted whole, and "powder play." What was going on in the bride's half of her father's great tent Max did not know, but he fancied that, above the beating of Tahar's tomtoms and the wild singing of an imported ...
— A Soldier of the Legion • C. N. Williamson
... imitando gemidos y lamentos, y en lontananza el castillo tradicional,[1] coronado de almenas obscuras, que parecian fantasmas asomadas a los muros, senti una impresion angustiosa, mis cabellos se erizaron involuntariamente, y la razon, dominada por la fantasia, a la que todo ayudaba, el sitio, la hora y el silencio de la noche, vacilo un punto, y casi crei que las absurdas consejas de las brujerias y los ...
— Legends, Tales and Poems • Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
... trembling bimbashi, whose lips were now pale with terror at the loss of his mascot, Mahommed Seti was drummed out of line, out of his regiment, out of the Beit-el-Mal. It was opera boufe, and though Seti could not know what opera boufe was, he did know that it was a ridiculous fantasia, and he grinned his insolent grin all the way, even to the corner of the camel-market, where the drummer and the sergeant and his squad turned back from ministering a disgrace they ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... monk, published at Venice his L'Organo suonarino, a work "useful and necessary to organists,"—thus runs the title-page. At the end of the volume there are some pieces, vocal and instrumental (a Concerto for soprano or tenor, with organ, a Fantasia, Ricercata, etc.), among which are to be found two sonatas, the one entitled, "Prima Sonata, doppio soggietto," the other "Seconda Sonata, soggietto triplicato." They are written out in open score of four staves, with mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor, ...
— The Pianoforte Sonata - Its Origin and Development • J.S. Shedlock
... I said, "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." And my guide said, I thought well, of the French that they are a people of great gifts and of most generous mind, but that their rulers have often showed "un po' di volubilita, un po' di fantasia." ...
— With British Guns in Italy - A Tribute to Italian Achievement • Hugh Dalton
... of placing both bow and instrument under his arm, while he threw his hands behind him, elevated his head, his features almost distorted with a smile of ecstasy, and his very hair instinct with life, at the conclusion of an unparalleled fantasia! And there he stood, immovable and triumphant, while the theatre rang again with peals on peals of applause, and shouts of the wildest enthusiasm! None who witnessed this will ever forget it, nor are they likely again to see the same effect produced ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 • Various
... 6. Toccatas: the Toccata was a form of musical composition for the organ or harpsichord, somewhat in the free and brilliant style of the modern fantasia or capriccio; clavichord: "a keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the ...
— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson
... un habitante Introdujo el comerlos estrellados. iOh, que elogios se oyeron a porfia De su rara y fecunda fantasia! Otro discurre hacerlos escalfados... ...
— A First Spanish Reader • Erwin W. Roessler and Alfred Remy |
