synopsis

Updated: May 8, 2025

It was performed at a concert under his direction while he was a political refugee at Zurich, and for the programme of the concert he wrote a synopsis of its musical and poetical contents which I shall give here in the translation made by William Ashton Ellis, but with the beginnings of the themes which are referred to reproduced in musical notes:

Henry Edward Krehbiel - A Book of Operas : Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music

He gives a synopsis of all the sciences he had ever studied Theology, Dialectics, Arithmetic, Music, Optics, Astronomy, Astrology, Geometry, Chiromancy, Agriculture, Medicine, passing on to treat of Magic, portents and warnings, and of his own experience of the same at the crucial moments of his life.

W. G. (William George) Waters - Jerome Cardan: A Biographical Study

We have read the story of the political mistakes. Only too soon we shall come to the broken heads. This, then, is a synopsis of what had occurred up to the signing of the Convention, which finally established, or failed to establish, the position of the South African Republic.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Great Boer War

The Logia hypothesis in fact carries us at once into the very nodus of Synoptic criticism, and, in the present state of the question, must be regarded as still some way from being established. The problem in regard to St. Mark and the triple synopsis is considerably simpler.

William Sanday - The Gospels in the Second Century: An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion'

Richard, however, did not care to enlighten him on his own concerns, but confined his conversation to the one topic that was common between them jails. Rolfe gave him a synopsis of the annals of Lingmoor, to which he was bound not for the first time.

James Payn - Bred in the Bone

I append to this message, for convenient reference, a synopsis of administrative events and of all recommendations to Congress made by me during the last seven years. Time may show some of these recommendations not to have been wisely conceived, but I believe the larger part will do no discredit to the Administration.

Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant - State of the Union Address

It is an affirmation of the principle that the pure spirit of religion, apart from external dogma, is the really precious factor of life. He follows the same strain in his "What I Believe," and his "Christianity of Christ." The following synopsis is translated and summarised from the original Russian. I. Evil Early Years

- The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters

Copies of this correspondence have been carefully made from the originals at Simancas by order of the Belgian Government, under the superintendence of the eminent archivist M. Gachard, who has already published a synopsis or abridgment of a portion of it in a French translation.

John Lothrop Motley - History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609)

Copies of this correspondence have been carefully made from the originals at Simancas by order of the Belgian Government, under the superintendence of the eminent archivist M. Gachard, who has already published a synopsis or abridgment of a portion of it in a French translation.

John Lothrop Motley - PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete

When the scene is out of doors, it is set vaguely in a conventional landscape: when it is indoors, it is set vaguely in a conventional palace. Because of this, his narrative is lacking in visual appeal. Most of his novelle read like summaries of novels, setting forth an abstract synopsis of the action rather than a concrete representation of it.

Clayton Meeker Hamilton - Materials and Methods of Fiction: With an Introduction by Brander Matthews