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rhapsody

In music, an instrumental fantasia, often based on folk melodies, such as Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies (1853-54).

In ancient Greece, rhapsodes were a class of reciters of epic poems, especially those of Homer, who performed at festivals. The title means ‘stitchers of songs’.



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It is enough to say, without applying this poetical rhapsody to Aouda, that she was a charming woman, in all the European acceptation of the phrase.
Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context
And probably the half-unconscious rhapsody was a Fetichistic utterance in a Monotheistic setting; women whose chief companions are the forms and forces of outdoor Nature retain in their souls far more of the Pagan fantasy of their remote forefathers than of the systematized religion taught their race at later date.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
Martin paused from his rhapsody, only to break out afresh.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
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