"Largo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ryo de Malaca, em hum citio de Raya Mudiliar, que depois possuyo Dona Helena Vessiva, entre os Mangueiraes cavando ao fundo quasi 2 bracas, descobrirao hua floreada de cobre pouco carcomydo, da forma como de cavaleyro de Calatrava de 3 palmos de largo, e comprido sobre hua pedra de marmor, quadrada de largura e comprimento da ditta , entra huas ruynas de hua caza sobterranea de tijolos como Ermida, e parece ser a de algum christao de Meliapor, que veo em companhia de mercadores de Choromandel a Malaca." (Godinho de Eredia, ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... music before and thro' the act, Haydn's Sieben Worte. Largo No. 1. "Pater dimitte illis." Same scene. Curtains are drawn, lighted up by electric light in the street. The hanging lamp is lighted. On dining table a small lamp, also lighted. There is a glimmer from ...
— Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter • August Strindberg
... compositions, but the words which they have employed have changed in sense with time. Formerly the difference between the slowest movement and the most rapid movement was much less than at present. The "largo" was only an "adagio" and the "presto" would ...
— On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music • Camille Saint-Saens |
