Word: legends
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interesting story, which he fails to do full justice in the working up. "The Pale Stranger" betrays a lack of originality; for the unknown princely guest who sings a mysterious song and then disappears, leaving the fair maiden dead behind him, is hardly without parallel in fairy tale and legend...
...Legend Beautiful. Longfellow...
...Class - Legend and Tradition. Two Prizes...
...first number, Wagner's Overture to the "Flying Dutchman," is based on an old legend, well-known in seafaring nations, in which the action centres about a spectral seaman, whose appearance to a ship's company was a signal for great confusion and fright. The weird quality, of which Thayer is such a master, is very prominent in this whole opera, and readily suggests his subject. Like most of his music this Overture cannot be described, as so much music is nowadays, by comparison with a smooth, gliding stream; there are in it several themes separate and distinct...
...Iron Fountain" is a well told story, a simple legend of Antwerp which has woven itself about a small iron fountain which the present visitor may see. "In the Moonlight," by the same author, is a graceful account of an Indian legend...