Word: poetically
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...appeared in the Monthly. The metre in which it is written is a happy selection, the swing and rhythm suggesting the graceful evolutions and music of the ball-room. One or two slight errors of rhyme are noticeable, but they are pardonable in consideration of the wealth of poetic diction, delicacy of description, and aptness of similes which characterize the whole poem. "Tomorrow" is a meritorious epigram...
...them. These effects upon the emotional and imaginative natures are often regarded as the element of essential value in music. We conclude on the contrary that the aesthetic worth of what may be called the acoustic content of music is in no wise inferior to that of its poetic expression. Significance can give no higher beauty to a composition than that to which it can attain as empty sound...
...must be given to those of movement, of the force involved therein and even sometimes of the form which it describes. Especially are suggestions of human movement bodily, vocal or spiritual, a powerful element in musical expression. According to this view of its origin, the main characteristics of the poetic effect of music are its intensity and its vagueness. While music has no definite poetic meaning whatever, it has an infinite poetic content...
...Carl Faelton. This concerto, composed just fifty years ago, is incomparably finer than any concerto that has been composed since. It was last played in Cambridge in January, 1888, by Miss Aus der Ohe. It gave Mr. Faelton abundant opportunity to display his brilliant technical skill and poetic feeling...
...Salamicis" is a picturesque version of a poetic story, artistically wrought out. One effect is the introduction of the pronoun "I" in a solitary instance to help in a rhyme which evidently would come in no other...