Humbert was a great lover of languages, and encouraged linguistic studies among the Dominicans, primarily Arabic, because of the missionary work friars were pursuing amongst those led astray or forced to convert by Mohammedans in the Middle East.

Henry, who was a great lover of the instrument, frequently said that " this instrument made him remember the song of the birds ".

Lisabetta's brothers slay her lover: he appears to her in a dream, and shows her where he is buried: she privily disinters the head, and sets it in a pot of basil, whereon she daily weeps a great while.

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" Taylor later recalled, " I said to myself, Oy gevalt, here's the great lover, the great wit, the great intellectual of Wales, and he comes out with a line like that.

He founded the official Russian consulate in Danzig ( Gdańsk ) and became a great lover of Danziger Goldwasser.

* Bingham, H. The great lover: the life and art of Herbert Beerbohm Tree ( 1979 )

Theophilos, who had received an excellent education from John Hylilas, the grammarian, was a great admirer of music and a lover of art, although his taste was not of the highest.

Protrepticus ( Exhortation to the Greeks ) ( c. 190 ) IV-" Another new deity was added to the number with great religious pomp in Egypt, and was near being so in Greece by the king of the Romans, who deified Antinous 130CE, whom he loved as Zeus loved Ganymede, and whose beauty was of a very rare order: for lust is not easily restrained, destitute as it is of fear ; and men now observe the sacred nights of Antinous, the shameful character of which the lover who spent them with him knew well.

This trend also is evident in many Celtic myths, such as the ( Welsh ) mabinogi stories of Culhwch and Olwen, or the ( Irish ) Ulster Cycle, most notably the key facts to the Cúchulainn cycle that Cúchulainn gets his final secret training with a warrior woman, Scáthach, and becomes lover both to her and her daughter ; and the root of the Táin Bó Cuailnge, that while Ailill may wear the crown of Connacht, it is his wife Medb who is the real power, and she needs to affirm her equality to her husband by owning chattels as great as he does.

Clíodhna, who remains on the beach, is lulled to sleep by fairy music played by a minstrel of Manannán, when a great wave of the sea sweeps up and carries her back to Fairyland, leaving her lover desolate.

All accounts agree in representing Giorgione as a person of distinguished and romantic charm, a great lover and a musician, given to express in his art the sensuous and imaginative grace, touched with poetic melancholy, of the Venetian existence of his time.

The variety in such statues is as great as in other Madonna images ; one finds Madonnas holding grapes ( in reference to the Song of Songs 1: 14, translated as " My lover is to me a cluster of henna blossoms " in the NIV ), " immaculate " Madonnas in pure, perfect white without child or accessories, and Madonnas with roses symbolizing her life determined by the mysteries of faith.

Classical Meisterflötist and American cryptology pioneer Lambros D. Callimahos was a great lover of Dundee marmalade, establishing amongst his students an informal group he called the Dundee Society.

Frequenting the theater, he met the great actress Marie Dorval, and became her jealous lover until 1838.

Amenhotep III became a fine sportsman, a lover of outdoor life, and a great statesman.

Through Castelbarco she was introduced to Italy's great man of letters and notorious lover, Gabriele d ' Annunzio.

While Alfonso XI lived, his lover Eleanor gave a great many titles and privileges to their sons.

* Fabrice de Sauveterre, a wealthy French duke, Linda's final lover and the great love of her life

" The nuptials of our great Quixote and the fair Sophia " and Granville's ostentatious performance of the part of lover were ridiculed by Horace Walpole.

In the Brian Herbert / Kevin J. Anderson Legends of Dune prequel series ( 2002 – 2004 ), however, it is confirmed that his lover Norma Cenva, a mathematical genius with great psychic power, had in fact invented the space-folding ships which would eventually be called heighliners.

Bates was a great lover of the countryside and the people, as exemplified in two volumes of essays entitled Through the Woods and Down the River.

Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.

" One of his great supporters in Berlin was Walther Rathenau, later the German foreign minister, who greatly contributed to his success.

In 1902, he displayed his works thematically at the hall of the Berlin Succession, producing " a symphonic effect — it made a great stir — a lot of antagonism — and a lot of approval.

In imperial Germany, possessing a collection of medals or wearing a uniform was valued more than the size of one's bank account, and Berlin never became a great cultural center as London, Paris, or Vienna were.

The 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin – a great propaganda success for the Nazi regime

His reputation swelled further with the 1936 Summer Olympics, which were held in the same year in Berlin, and which proved another great propaganda success for the regime as orchestrated by master propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

But Americans who serve today in West Berlin -- your sons and brothers --[...] are the Americans who are bearing the great burden.

Abbadie continued to occupy his pastorate at Berlin until the death of the great elector, which took place 29 April 1688.

Firstly, Berlin ’ s medieval fortifications, recently rebuilt from 1658-74 in the form of a Dutch-style star fort, on an enormous scale and at great expense ( and similar to examples still in extant today in the Netherlands like Naarden and Bourtange ), became virtually redundant overnight ; and secondly, the already crowded city became even more congested.

His isolation was only compounded by articles published in the magazine alternative, which, following the lead of Hannah Arendt ’ s articles in Merkur, claimed Adorno had subjected Benjamin to pressure during his years of exile in Berlin and compiled Benjamin ’ s Writings and Letters with a great deal of bias.

With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of great ideologies and ultimately the Tangentopoli scandals, the heterogeneous nature of the party led it to its collapse.

Here he wrote the first of his great historical tragedies, Hakon Jarl, which he sent off to Copenhagen, and then proceeded for the winter months to Berlin, where he associated with Humboldt, Fichte, and the leading men of the day, and met Goethe for the first time.

After being educated at Düsseldorf and at the universities of Bonn, Heidelberg and Berlin he went to Paris in 1823, where he came under the influence of the great school of French geometers, whose founder, Gaspard Monge, was only recently dead.

Berlin, who lavished a great deal of effort on the song designed it as a pastiche of " The Carioca " from Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ) and " The Continental " from The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), and the lyric communicates its fake origin: " It was written by a Latin / A gondolier who sat in / his home out in Brooklyn / and gazed at the stars.

From 1925 Schnabel taught at the Berlin State Academy, where his masterclasses brought him great renown.

In parts of 1928 and 1929, Oberth also worked in Berlin, Germany as a scientific consultant on the first film ever to have scenes set in outer space, Frau im Mond (" The Woman in the Moon "), which was directed and produced by the great film pioneer Fritz Lang at the Universum Film AG company.

Much of what was found would fall into the hands of major European collectors travelling the country on behalf of the great museums of London, Paris, Berlin, and Turin.

However, the symphony was a great success when played in Berlin in 1896, contributing significantly to his reputation.

Those awards, together with her great success in the role of Pamina at Brussels, led to appearances in the Vienna State Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Berlin State Opera and Salzburg Festival, and to a contract with the Frankfurt Opera.

Holdheim was laid to rest among the great dead of the Berlin congregation, Abraham Geiger preaching the funeral oration.

In 1932 he returned once again to Berlin, succeeding his great contemporary Artur Schnabel in a teaching role at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik after Schnabel's departure from Nazi Germany.

Berlin is so liberal in so many different ways ; there ’ s an amazing club scene, there ’ s a great development software tech scene, there are so many resources here.

In 1817 he was offered the chair of law at Göttingen, and, preferring it to the Berlin professorship, taught there with great success till ill-health compelled him to resign in 1828.