Climaces

He must penetrate to the idea of the astronomer and the artist, and then he will be in a condition to criticise the manner in which it is set forth—a necessity which is equally applicable to the eloquent climaces of the writer, and to the highly ideal designs of the painter.

The flowers of his rhetoric as the garlands of Eden; and the climaces of his eloquence as the echoes of the skies.

Carlyle is the climax (or, at least, one of the climaces) of that Germanic influence which first appeared in general literature about the time of Scott, and which, indeed, Scott himself helped on, just about a year after Carlyle was born, by his translations of “Burger’s Ballads,” and Göthe’s “Götz von Berlichengen.”

Her [Maria Edgeworth’s] Moral Tales are a series of climaces of instances, an enlargement of [Louis-Claude Chéron de] La Bruyère’s idea, a method allowable to creations of fancy, but not quite justifiable when applied to the probable.

Few things in choral praise can be imagined more thrilling than the ‘roar’ of a congregation, here in unison, especially occurring immediately after the more subdued harmony by the choir of those verses of penitential character, which, with musicianlike craft, the psalmist always makes to precede and to lead up to the four fine climaces of the words quoted.

The distinction here made between climatic and physiographic climaces is admittedly somewhat arbitrary, but the underlying idea is one of great practical as well as theoretical importance.[…]In other words, physiographic climaces of this description represent the climatic climax.[…]The climatic climax is attained on the better sites, but on much of the area coniferous forests occur, which represent physiographic climaces due to local edaphic or topographic factors.[…]Elsewhere, owing to the effect of factors which preclude the development of the regional type, the succession of vegetation may be halted lower down in the successional series and physiographic climaces result.

Yet if the intense emotions of these crises, which must inevitably form the climaces of the plays in which they arise, are left inadequately expressed the audience is not able to experience the most vital revelations which the situations have in them to reveal and, consequently, the plays fail in their fullest possibilities.

In the serclimax and quasiclimax there are some species common to climaces, but they show great differences in analytic characteristics. In accordance with this the transformations suffered by the habitats must have altered the present climate somewhat, as the devastation which affects the analytic composition of the vegetation demonstrates a modification of the microclimates of the association which, in their turn must have influenced the differentation^([sic]) found between the climaces and the cycle of climax, vegetation and soil.[…]As a rule the abundance of species in the subclimaces and climaces in Virginia is much greater than in those of the same type at Ilheus.[…]The fossils found show that the species have not undergone great change but the climate altered enough to bring about a deep change in the structure of climaces.

In these storm scenes Mozart reveals himself as a composer of considerable dramatic power; they remind of the great orchestral climaces of later operas.

At present we shall take up only the dramatic climaces of the work.