The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 17. köideThomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... produce a spatulate appearance , such as is afforded by certain humming - birds known as " Racquet- tails " ( HUMMING ... produced by the Motmot itself nibbling off the barbs , and this extraordinary statement , though for 2 The same ...
... produce a spatulate appearance , such as is afforded by certain humming - birds known as " Racquet- tails " ( HUMMING ... produced by the Motmot itself nibbling off the barbs , and this extraordinary statement , though for 2 The same ...
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... produced with an effect which com- pletely eclipsed Hasse's new opera , Ruggiero , composed for the same festivity . The empress Maria Theresa was so delighted with it that in addition to his fee she pre- sented Wolfgang with a watch ...
... produced with an effect which com- pletely eclipsed Hasse's new opera , Ruggiero , composed for the same festivity . The empress Maria Theresa was so delighted with it that in addition to his fee she pre- sented Wolfgang with a watch ...
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... produced at Florence ) had already attracted immense atten- tion in Paris , and was everywhere producing good fruit . It was impossible that it should do otherwise , for it was founded on pure dramatic truth . But what Gluck worked ...
... produced at Florence ) had already attracted immense atten- tion in Paris , and was everywhere producing good fruit . It was impossible that it should do otherwise , for it was founded on pure dramatic truth . But what Gluck worked ...
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... produced at Schön- brunn , 7th February 1786. Not quite three months later , on 1st May , he produced his marvellous Le Nozze di Figaro , the libretto for which was adapted from Beaumarchais by | the abbé Da Ponte . The reception of ...
... produced at Schön- brunn , 7th February 1786. Not quite three months later , on 1st May , he produced his marvellous Le Nozze di Figaro , the libretto for which was adapted from Beaumarchais by | the abbé Da Ponte . The reception of ...
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... produce of two creatures of different species , and is synonymous with hybrid , yet in its ordinary accepta- tion it is ... produced , owing to the antipathy of the stallion to the female ass , that many authorities deny its existence ...
... produce of two creatures of different species , and is synonymous with hybrid , yet in its ordinary accepta- tion it is ... produced , owing to the antipathy of the stallion to the female ass , that many authorities deny its existence ...
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