As to the origin of this song--whether it came in its actual state from the brain of a single
rhapsodist, or was gradually perfected by a school or succession of
rhapsodists, I am ignorant.
Hearken to me, friends, nor heed that accursed
rhapsodist. As I was saying, we have sacrificed all things, and have come to a land whereof the old world hath scarcely heard, that we might make a new world unto ourselves, and painfully seek a path from hence to heaven.
This fixed idea of the
rhapsodist was delivered with animated enthusiasm, in a manner entirely declamatory, for he had plainly no skill as a dialectician.
The painter, the sculptor, the composer, the epic
rhapsodist, the orator, all partake one desire, namely to express themselves symmetrically and abundantly, not dwarfishly and fragmentarily.
Now will the city have to fill and swell with a multitude of callings which are not required by any natural want; such as the whole tribe of hunters and actors, of whom one large class have to do with forms and colours; another will be the votaries of music--poets and their attendant train of
rhapsodists, players, dancers, contractors; also makers of divers kinds of articles, including women's dresses.
It also seems like a Mariano Azuela character: the improbable
rhapsodist Papasquiaro, captain of the North Division or invisible beggar of Torreon, Chihuahua, Durango....
The mapping and practicing of freedom constitute an uncertain, precarious, pragmatic operation analogous to the operation of the Homeric
rhapsodist, the Heideggerian skier, the Certeauan urban pedestrian, textual poacher, tactician, and operator, the nomadic, rhizomatic writer who uses short-term memory or the nomad artist who relies on close-range vision (as distinguished from long-range vision) as promoted by Deleuze and Guattari, Claude Levi-Strauss's bricoleur, Edward T.
Patti Smith: America's punk rock
rhapsodist. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
The Past, like an inspired
rhapsodist, fills the theatre of everlasting generations with their harmony.
Godolphin's Frankie Dettori has won the race three times in the past with Central Park (1997),
Rhapsodist (1998) and Seba (2001).
After discussing the pond's ambience, the
rhapsodist's intentions move further: either he is praising the ruler for promising his people a peaceful time, or he is lamenting the reality that rulers are sometimes unable to put peace and life before war.