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The type of poetry commonly known as heroic is one which makes its appearance in various nations and in various periods of history.
Most importantly, he is the antithesis of the heroic.
He is best described as a character tenor, but he was popular as a teacher of heroic tenors in the 1920s and 1930s.
Is the search for panacea an identification with a heroic struggle?
Part of the explanation is, of course, the sheer weight of poetic simplexes appearing in this poem, which are due to the poem's heroic content.
There is a whole number of themes on the grand scale, heroic and epic, which music can provide.
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone!
The vivid description of the surrounding chaos makes the heroic efforts of these individuals who rescued the imperial documents even more compelling.
In years past, these pages witnessed a heroic struggle between symbolists and connectionists.
The 1680s, notwithstanding this heroic endeavour, still contain many unexplored tracts.
Sublime genres, such as the ode, the historical novel, and the heroic biography, were in demand in many empires.
In all of this, the broad simple strokes of the heroic and monumental are absent.
In essence, the mere desire for mental culture was the sufficient foundation for heroic achievement.
What renders a performance authentic or convincing is the degree to which it reflects the pianist's conscientious, heroic attempt at performance itself.
The heroic sacrice of the missionary spirit, in the face of this seemingly intractable reality, was true nobility.
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