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rhapsodyIn music, an instrumental fantasia, often based on folk melodies, such as Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies (1853–54).
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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. 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. Martin paused from his rhapsody, only to break out afresh. |
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