The next two years saw the production of several exquisite works, in particular the epic of Thors Reise til Jotunheim, the charming poem in hexameters called Langelandsreisen, and the bewitching piece of fantasy Aladdin ( 1805 ).

Another famous piece of his of the same kind, La Belle Matineuse, is less exquisite, but still admirable, and Voiture stands in the highest rank of writers of vers de société.

After serving all his guests, he presented each piece of the tea-equipage for their inspection, along with an exquisite kakemono, which Okakura described as " a wonderful writing by an ancient monk dealing with the evanescence of all things.

The dam is an exquisite piece of architecture, an engineering marvel for that time, and provides water to lots of surrounding cities, towns and villages, which are largely dry lands of the Deccan area of Central Karnataka.

Lippold was an engineering genius, but we ’ ve been dealing with a piece that had reached the threshold of catastrophe ,... People ’ s mouths fall open when they see it going back up, like they ’ re watching a spider spin a web of blazing gold ,...“ The more that goes up, the more exquisite it gets.

.. Actress Jennifer Fahrni's Theresa is an exquisite piece of work, so authentic you can almost smell the lard in her diet, so innocent, she feels like a fairy who grew up in the wrong neighbourhood.

Because of their delicious taste, exquisite look and quality, this type of candy has a steady consumer base in the CIS, but the relatively high price (~ 30 US cents per piece ) and small amount of chocolate restricts it from more widespread popularity.

King's College Chapel is the chapel to King's College of the University of Cambridge, and is one of the finest examples of late Gothic ( Perpendicular ) English architecture, while its early Renaissance rood screen separating the nave and chancel, erected in 1532-36 in a striking contrast of style, has been called by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, " the most exquisite piece of Italian decoration surviving in England ".

If the piece of mantle should slip off the bead, a pearl forms of baroque shape about the mantle piece which is entirely nacre.

* When Chon Wang and Roy are entering the Jubilee party, the string quartet plays an uncredited baroque version of the Rolling Stones ' " Paint it Black " ( just before the piece by Boccherini ).

It is perhaps the best keyboard cuckoo piece in existence for it interestingly imitates the cuckoo's notes, which seems to have been a favourite device in early baroque music.

Initially built in a gothic style, it was later repaired and rebuilt featuring, among others, a baroque altar piece and paintings, a rococo pulpit, and 18th c. organ and bell tower.

Also, two arrangements of outside composers ' pieces figure on the Palmer side: one of Johann Sebastian Bach's baroque D Minor Invention # 4, BWV 775, and a piece titled ' The Enemy God Dances With the Black Spirits ', an excerpt of the 2nd movement of " The Scythian Suite " by Sergei Prokofiev ( 1891-1953 ), written in 1915.

" Horizons " ( performed solo by Steve Hackett ) starts with the central idea of the prelude from Bach's first cello suite and then develops its own piece, baroque style.

The term has been in use at least since the late baroque ; there is a one-page, one-movement harpsichord piece by Handel called " Sonatina ".

The piece uses baroque imitation as well as singing, whistling, fanfares, slides, and other extended techniques.

It is a festive piece, which holds much of the baroque style that is commonly found in preludes.

The white stucco works on a light gray background are composed of a large quantity of rocailles, a typical piece of decoration of the baroque style, mixed with images of real items, especially of military purpose.

Peter's classical roots were well hidden until he recorded " A Canon by Telemann " on the album Back In Line, multi-tracking with himself on this tricky baroque piece.

Mr. Garrison, while discussing great singers of the baroque period, goes on to say that " Nancy Sinatra was quite a choice piece of ass ".

Designed by the Italian architect Gian Maria Bernardoni ( 1541 to 1605 ), the church is considered the first Jesuit temple patterned after Il Gesù in Rome, the first domed basilica with Baroque facade in the world and the first baroque piece of architecture in Eastern Europe.

A recording of the piece on a baroque trumpet by Don Smithers was used as the show's theme for many years, until producers decided to replace the vinyl recording with a digital of a piccolo trumpet by former Tonight Show musical director Doc Severinsen.

A razo ( from Occitan for " reason ") was a similar short piece of Occitan prose detailing the circumstances of a particular composition.

Finally there is a short piece of prose summarizing the tale of Loki's binding, which is told in fuller form in the Gylfaginning section of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.

Poems and Fancies also includes The Animal Parliament, a prose piece consisting largely of speeches and letters.

Its nature is uncertain, but Ford scholars have suggested it may have been an elegy, prose piece, or pamphlet.

His inaugural address, De Arte interpretandi Grammatices et Critices Fundamentis innixa, has been called the most perfect piece of Latin prose written in the 19th century.

La Vita Nuova is a prosimetrum, as is the Convivio, meaning that it is a piece which is made up of both verse and prose, in the vein of Boethius ' Consolation of Philosophy.

Young himself reinforced his reputation as a pioneer of romanticism by precept as well as by example ; in 1759, at the age of 76, he published a piece of critical prose under the title of Conjectures on Original Composition which put forward the vital doctrine of the superiority of " genius ," of innate originality being more valuable than classic indoctrination or imitation, and suggested that modern writers might dare to rival or even surpass the " ancients " of Greece and Rome … The Conjectures was a declaration of independence against the tyranny of classicism and was at once acclaimed as such becoming a milestone in the history of English, and European, literary criticism.

Charles was the subject of a hortative piece of Latin prose, the Visio Karoli Grossi, designed to champion the cause of Louis the Blind and warn the Carolingians that their continued rule was not certain if they did not have " divine " ( i. e. ecclesiastical ) favour.

When the editor Paul Carroll published BIG TABLE Magazine ( Issue No. 1, Spring 1959 ) alongside former Chicago Review editor Irving Rosenthal, he was found guilty of sending obscene material through the U. S. mail for including " Ten Episodes from Naked Lunch ," a piece of writing the Judicial Officer for the United States Postal Service deemed " undisciplined prose, far more akin to the early work of experimental adolescents than to anything of literary merit " and initially judged it as non-mailable under the provisions of.

At one particular lecture, Foote extemporized a piece of nonsense prose to test Macklin's assertion that he could memorise any text at a single reading.

His prose piece Catharsis (' purification ') is characteristic of this.

A novelette ( or, rarely, novelet ) is a piece of short prose fiction.

His prose piece " Story for Sara " was translated and illustrated by Edward Gorey.

An 1893 depiction of Odin taking the dead Sinfjötli to Valhalla. Frá dauða Sinfjötla ( On the death of Sinfjötli ) is a short prose piece found in the Codex Regius manuscript of the Poetic Edda.

His other plays are: Clementina ( Covent Garden, February 23, 1771 ), a blank verse tragedy, given out to be the work of a young American clergyman in order to escape the opposition of the Wilkites ; The School for Wives ( Drury Lane, December 11, 1773 ), a prose comedy given out as the work of Major ( afterwards Sir William ) Addington ; a two-act piece, The Romance of an Hour ( Covent Garden, December 2, 1774 ), borrowed from Marmontel's tale L ' amitié à l ' épreuve ; and an unsuccessful comedy, The Man of Reason ( Covent Garden, February 9, 1776 ).

Ben Jonson remarked to Drummond of Hawthornden that “ so he had written that piece of, ' The Burning Babe ,' he would have been content to destroy many of his .” In fact, there is a strong case to be made for Southwell's influence on his contemporaries and successors, among them Drayton, Lodge, Nashe, Herbert, Crashaw, and especially Shakespeare, who seems to have known his work, both poetry and prose, extremely well.

A prose piece called South Kentish Town was written in 1951 by Sir John Betjeman, and told the fictional story of a passenger who became trapped in the disused station.

" However, the phrase itself was being employed in an absurdist and humorous context as early as the 1750s, when it appeared in a well-known piece of nonsense prose improvised by the English dramatist and actor Samuel Foote in order to test the memory of a rival: " So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf to make an apple-pie ; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop.

Upon reaching Xuchang, he wrote a prose piece putting down every eminent person there.