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  • The discord at the fifth bar seems to have given him the relief gained by cutting oneself when in severe pain; and how intense Mozart's pain was may be estimated by the vigour of the reaction when the reaction comes; for though the "Te decet hymnus" is like a gleam of sweet sunshine on black waters, the melody is immediately snatched up, as it were, and, by the furious energy of the accompaniment, powerful harmonic progressions, and movement of the inner parts (note the tenor ascending to the high G on "orationem"), made expressive of abnormal glowing ecstasy.

    Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians John F. Runciman 1891

  • [For a reinterpretation of Leibniz, with an eye to tropes inter alia, see C. Schneider (2001), bearing in mind Leibniz's own words: “Interpretari est docere circa orationem seu orationem non satis cognitum facere cognitum.”]

    Tropes Bacon, John 2008

  • Non oportet orationem sapientis esse politam aut solicitam.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Cujuscunque orationem vides politam et sollicitam, scito animum in pusilis occupatum, in scriptis nil solidum.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Rulandus adjungit optimam orationem ad finem Empyricorum.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Hinc satis propè habetur et capella medio montis, vbi Christus sedens prædicauit octo beatitudines, vbi et creditur docuisse discipulos orationem Dominicam, scilicet, Pater noster, &c. Ab eo quoque loco non distat multum Ecclesia beatæ Maaiæ Aegyptiacæ, in qua et eius tumba videtur: et haud procul inde est vicus

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Atque interim aues regionis rapaces, et immundæ, vt corui, vultures, et aquilæ, quæ pro consuetudine optimè morem norunt, aduolant magno numero in aere: Tuncque Relligiosi cum sacerdotibus detruncant corpus in frusta velut in macello, proijcientes pecias in altum auibus, ac decantantes certam ad hoc compositam orationem, tanquam si nostri sacerdotes cantarent.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Et L. Martium in Hispania, interfectis Scipionibus, concionem seu orationem ad milites habentem, atque ad vltionem exhortantem, conflagrasse, Valerius Antias narrat.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Eusebium, Lactantium, et similes, familiarissimos habuit, et hanc ad Deum orationem indi鑣 ipsis in eius vita testibus fudit.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Atque interim aues regionis rapaces, et immund�, vt corui, vultures, et aquil�, qu� pro consuetudine optim� morem norunt, aduolant magno numero in aere: Tuncque Relligiosi cum sacerdotibus detruncant corpus in frusta velut in macello, proijcientes pecias in altum auibus, ac decantantes certam ad hoc compositam orationem, tanquam si nostri sacerdotes cantarent.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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