"Lion" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... corresponding to it, as, for example, in the recitative describing the creation of the world, where the phrase relating to the horse is immediately answered by an orchestral gallop; that of the tiger by certain slides and leaps in the melody remotely answering it; while the roar of the lion is immediately answered by a vigorous snort of the bass trombone. This is by no means of the same nature as the dramatic arioso of German opera during the nineteenth century. Haendel came nearer to this type of musical formation, for example, in the "Messiah," at the ...
— A Popular History of the Art of Music - From the Earliest Times Until the Present • W. S. B. Mathews
... lion in a fight, asks no man to go whar he won't go himself. And he knows what the boys are thinkin' about, an' just how to ...
— Rodney, the Ranger - With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield • John V. Lane
... that time much larger than they are now; and of the trees, which were many, at that time many more than now. And every part of the park had its own attraction. The Hercules pavilion was mysterious; Hercules with the lion, instructive and powerful. A pity that it had become such ...
— Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth • George Brandes
... upper proprietors a chance of having good fish, and a corresponding inducement to take care of them. Nobody would be so much benefited as the owners of fisheries at the mouths of rivers; they would be the first takers, and would still get the lion's share of all the fish that ascended the river. If this regulation were enforced, the expenses of conservators might be defrayed by levying a small tax, in the shape of a licence for angling, which all true sportsmen ...
— Essays in Natural History and Agriculture • Thomas Garnett
... horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion roar, And gallop'd off with all his might, As ...
— Graded Poetry: Seventh Year • Various
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