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Rely upon it, for every crime which is brought to light, and made the subject of commitment and trial by the institution of a police force, ten previously existed, undetected and unpunished, before men were driven to the _flebile remedium_, the

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various

His frottole are distinguished by uncommon grace and gaiety, for the frottola was generally rather passionate and melancholy, and full of what Castiglione called "flebile dolcezza."

Some Forerunners of Italian Opera 1896

The melody of the C minor portion of the first is very expressive, and the second has in the C sharp minor portion the peculiar Chopinesque flebile dolcezza.

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

Regarding the first nocturne (in F minor) of Op. 55, we will note only the flebile dolcezza of the first and the last section, and the inferiority of the more impassioned middle section.

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

Fratres Thebani, et flebile fatuin Pompeii quem non delaflavere legentem?

The Works of the English Poets 1779

517-18 'Aeacus ingemuit tristique ita uoce _locutus_:/"flebile principium melior fortuna secuta est"'.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

[Et memor JEnea lux mea, seddare tantum Est desiderium flebile suavioli.

Kisses:: Being a Poetical Translation of the Basia of Joannes Secundus Nicolaius. With the ... Secundus Janus, John Nott 1812