"Largo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is not very favourably coloured. The streets are dirty, and the houses, even the public buildings, insignificant. The Imperial Palace has not the slightest architectural pretensions. The finest square is the Largo do Roico, but this would not be admitted into Belgravia. It is impossible to speak in high terms even of the churches, the interior of which is not less disappointing than their exterior. And as is the town, so are the inhabitants. Negroes and mulattoes do not make up attractive pictures. ...
— The Story of Ida Pfeiffer - and Her Travels in Many Lands • Anonymous
... tarde el cabrero Francisco vio que un hombre, vestido a la malaguena, con pantalon largo y chaquetilla de lienzo, y liado en una manta de muestra,[101-2] se habia 10 metido en el corral nuevo por la parte que todavia no tiene tapia, y rondaba la Torre del Moro, estudiandola y midiendola come si fuese un maestro de obras.[101-3] Preguntole Francisco que significaba ...
— Novelas Cortas • Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
... insisting on sadly sentimental music, was fast turning festivity into gloom. It played Handel's "Largo"; it threw its whole soul into the assurance that the world, after all, was only a poor place, that Heaven was a better. It preached resignation with every deep vibration of the cello. ...
— The Street of Seven Stars • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... Andrew Lang's lines, "the thunder and surge of the Odyssey," when listening to the G minor Ballade, op. 23. It is the Odyssey of Chopin's soul. That 'cello-like largo with its noiseless suspension stays us for a moment in the courtyard of Chopin's House Beautiful. Then, told in his most dreamy tones, the legend begins. As in some fabulous tales of the Genii this Ballade discloses surprising and delicious ...
— Chopin: The Man and His Music • James Huneker
... (departamentos, singular - departamento); Artigas, Canelones, Cerro Largo, Colonia, Durazno, Flores, Florida, Lavalleja, Maldonado, Montevideo, Paysandu, Rio Negro, Rivera, Rocha, Salto, San Jose, ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... 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 ...
— Modern Spanish Lyrics • Various
... 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
... 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 ...
— Gold, Sport, And Coffee Planting In Mysore • Robert H. Elliot
... 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, ...
— Penny Plain • Anna Buchan (writing as O. Douglas)
... Nevertheless individual fragments remain, such as the famous alto air, "Lascio Pianga," and many others. From his instrumental works also many charming bits have survived and still please the public, such, for instance, as the famous "Largo." Of the oratorios, his greatest are the "Messiah" and "Israel in Egypt." The most complete biography of Haendel is ...
— The Masters and their Music - A series of illustrative programs with biographical, - esthetical, and critical annotations • W. S. B. Mathews
... and after a few moments spent in carefully tuning up, began with Handel's immortal Largo, then he wandered into the Adagio Movement in Haydn's third Sonata, from thence to Schubert's Impromptu in C Minor, after which he began the Serenade, when he was ...
— The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land • Ralph Connor
... before and thro' the act, Haydn's Sieben Worte. Largo No. 1. "Pater dimitte illis." Same scene. Curtains are drawn, lighted up by electric light in the street. The hanging lamp is lighted. On dining table a small lamp, also lighted. There is a glimmer from the lighted stove. Elis and Christine are sitting at ...
— Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter • August Strindberg
... proveer e presentar para las dignidades de la Iglesia hombres capazes e idoneos para la buena administracion del servicio del culto divino, e a la buena ensenanza e utilidad de los Christianos sus vasallos; y entre todos los varones de sus Reynos asi por largo conoscimiento como per larga e secreta informacion acordaron encojer e elegir," etc. Quincuagenas, MS., dial. ...
— History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella V1 • William H. Prescott
... along the opposite coast; and the hills inclose the view, except to the farthest east, where the haze of the horizon rests upon the open sea. There lies the road to Norway: a dear road for Sir Patrick Spens and his Scots Lords; and yonder smoke on the hither side of Largo Law is Aberdour, from whence they sailed to seek ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition - Vol. 1 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... whole of the rugged line of coast from Fast Castle on the east to Tantallon and North Berwick Law on the west. In the middle distance are the tower of Dunbar Church, the Bass Rock, and the Isle of May; and farther off is the coast of Fife, with Largo Law and the Lomonds in the background. The land is mostly bare of trees, but there is a notable exception to this in the profound ravines which come down from the hills to the sea, and whose banks are thickly clothed with fine ...
— Principal Cairns • John Cairns
... the eighteenth century that authors have indicated the movements of their compositions, but the words which they have employed have changed in sense with time. Formerly the difference between the slowest movement and the most rapid movement was much less than at present. The "largo" was only an "adagio" and the "presto" would be scarcely ...
— On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music • Camille Saint-Saens
... containing, I should think, about four thousand inhabitants. It was pitchy dark when we landed, but rockets soon began to fly about in all directions, illuming the air far and wide. As we passed along the dirty unpaved street which leads to the Largo, or square in which the inn is situated, a horrible uproar of drums and voices assailed our ears. On inquiring the cause of all this bustle, I was informed that it was the eve of the Conception ...
— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow
... quadruple time on four flats minor, it renders the first stanza in flowing concords largo affettuoso, and a single bass fugue, Then suddenly shifting to one flat, major, duple time, it executes the second stanza, "Hark! they whisper" ... "What is this, etc.," in alternate pianissimo and forte phrases; and finally, changing to triple ...
— The Story of the Hymns and Tunes • Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth
... the immortal air in the opera of Xerxes, universally known as the "Largo of Handel," also revised and edited by d'Indy, may ...
— Style in Singing • W. E. Haslam
... the hot dusk in Nannie's parlor; Elizabeth was there, and the two girls, in white dresses, were fanning themselves languidly; Blair, at the piano, was playing the Largo, with much feeling. The windows were open. It was too warm for lamps, and the room was lighted only by the occasional roar of flames, breaking fan-like from the tops of the stacks in the Yards. Suddenly, in the midst of their idle talk, Mrs. Maitland came in; she paused for a moment ...
— The Iron Woman • Margaret Deland
... the chair and the Doctor's hand stole mechanically to the matches. He smoked and she played—quiet, large music, tranquilly filling the room: Bach fugues, German Lieder, fragments of weird northern harmonies, fragments of Beethoven and Schubert, the Largo of Handel,—and all the time she played she looked at the man who lay back in the chair, half turned from her, the cigar drooping from his fingers. There was no sound in the room but the music and light leaping of little flames in the fireplace,—no motion but theirs and ...
— Life at High Tide - Harper's Novelettes • Various
... too grave, 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 converse, ...
— Ellen Middleton—A Tale • Georgiana Fullerton |
