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There are more than one hundred concessionaires, with two hundred and twenty buildings devoted to refreshment or pleasure, including a few in other places on the grounds. Here are all sorts of divertissements, from roller coasters to really great educational sights like the Panama Canal or the Grand Canyon. By common consent the Panama Canal is the most noteworthy feature of the Zone.
It is one of the most popular operas in the modern repertory. It was first performed in Paris, Dec. 7, 1824, as "Robin des Bois," with a new libretto by Castile Blaze and Sauvage, and many changes in the score, such as divertissements made up of the dance-music in "Preciosa" and "Oberon," and of "The Invitation to the Dance," scored by Berlioz.
At home, perhaps, she has found it impossible to get a husband, but in the remoter marches of China, Senegal and Somaliland, with no white competition present, it is equally impossible to fail. Piety as a Social Habit What remains of the alleged piety of women is little more than a social habit, reinforced in most communities by a paucity of other and more inviting divertissements.
Lulli made such rapid progress that he soon commenced to compose music of a style superior to that before current in divertissements of the French court. The name of Philippe Quinault is closely associated with the musical career of Lulli; for to the poet the musician was indebted for his best librettos. Born at Paris in 1636, Quinault's genius for poetry displayed itself at an early age.
At these primitive tea parties the utmost propriety and dignity of deportment prevailed. No flirting nor coquetting no gambling of old ladies, nor hoyden chattering and romping of young ones no self-satisfied struttings of wealthy gentlemen with their brains in their pockets nor amusing conceits and monkey divertissements of smart young gentlemen with no brains at all.
A son of the desert, I could no more swim than fly, and so far from being able to sail a boat, I cannot even manage a pair of oars. I could only watch the others indulge in their divertissements, a lonely and wistful outsider. "Yet despite all this, I could perceive that I was not without interest to the young ladies.
I am sorry, on your account, you should employ these talents in a work which is so little worthy of them. A few months ago the Duke de Richelieu commanded me to make, absolutely in the twinkling of an eye, a little and bad sketch of a few insipid and imperfect scenes to be adapted to divertissements which are not of a nature to be joined with them. I obeyed with the greatest exactness.
Archie murmured. "Yes, up there, where they're young and hungry. These people down here have dined too well. They won't mind, however. They like fires and accidents and DIVERTISSEMENTS. Two SIEGLINDES are more unusual than one, so they'll be satisfied." After the final disappearance of the mother of Siegfried, Ottenburg and the doctor slipped out through the crowd and left the house.
He brought down the duckiest presents divertissements for dinner, and that knitted robe, and some real René Bleuzet perfume I was all out of it And after the grime of the road " "Do you really care for things like that, all those awfully expensive luxuries?" begged Milt. "Of course I do. Especially after small hotels." "Then you don't really like adventuring?" "Oh yes in its place!
Among the number of the latter was the dramatic piece of Voltaire, entitled 'La Princesse de Navarre', the music by Rameau, the name of which has just been changed to that of 'Fetes de Ramire'. This new subject required several changes to be made in the divertissements, as well in the poetry as in the music. A person capable of both was now sought after.
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