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( "O tempio sontuoso"), and at the close develops into a passionate outcry of joy ( "O douce extase").
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876
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I do not know that I can explain the fact why the more "barbarous" music is, the more it is beloved of man; but I think that the principle of the _refrain_, or repetition in music, which as yet governs all decorative art and which Mr. Whistler and others are endeavoring desperately to destroy, acts in music as a sort of animal magnetism or abstraction, ending in an _extase_.
The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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Le soir du second jour nous touchâmes sa base: Là, tombant à genoux dans une sainte extase, Elle pria long-temps, puis vers l'antre inconnu, Dénouant se chaussure, elle marcha pied nu.
The Paris Sketch Book William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Comment leur âme ne s'élève-t-elle pas cent fois le jour avec extase à l'Auteur des merveilles qui les frappent? ...
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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The Eastern and African orders soufis developed art to use the respiratory poems, music, dance and techniques which makes them fall in extase, as well as the assembly, reaching the union with God then.
WeLove-music MiOd 2010
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The Eastern and African orders soufis developed art to use the respiratory poems, music, dance and techniques which makes them fall in extase, as well as the assembly, reaching the union with God then.
WeLove-music MiOd 2010
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The first travellers who went in the East were already fascinated by the meditation and the mystical extase which find the their expression most visible in released whirlings of any gravity of the dancing dervishes.
WeLove-music MiOd 2010
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The first travellers who went in the East were already fascinated by the meditation and the mystical extase which find the their expression most visible in released whirlings of any gravity of the dancing dervishes.
WeLove-music MiOd 2010
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En plus d'être magnifique comme toujours, je reste en extase devant sa patte avant droite
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Le soir du second jour nous touchâmes sa base: Là, tombant à genoux dans une sainte extase, Elle pria long-temps, puis vers l’antre inconnu, Dénouant se chaussure, elle marcha pied nu.
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