And the attempt to raise the dead, even if only figuratively so as to reenact their lives on stage, can always fall hopelessly flat, the possibility of which Shakespeare was acutely aware: But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that hath dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object.
Give them their due, the Irish mustered a cheer for Ebaziyan as he enjoyed his victory stroll past the stands, but the 40-1 shot's welcome back to the winner's enclosure was more routine than rapturous, the roof as yet unraised. Willie Mullins might have felt a little miffed if he hadn't been so chuffed.
Many of these excerpts originate in music composed for or copied at the Vatican, suggesting that composers in Rome apparently developed a taste for the sound of simultaneous raised and unraised forms of the leading tone at cadences and must have been driven to construct melodic lines to make their preferences explicit.
Spalding continued that to live in such environment, to kneel at the tombs of saints, to dwell amid the ruins of the mightiest works of man, to look on the face of pure religion illumined by whatever of most divine human genius has wrought, is to have all that is noblest in one's being, stirred and thrilled; and they who return from this fountainhead of what on earth is greatest and most holy, unregenerate and unraised, must surely be hopelessly common or altogether frivolous.
Theatre can raise the dead, although the Chorus, ever modest, says they are only "fiat, unraised spirits" on this "unworthy scaffold" and that it is the audience who must do much of the work to "piece out our imperfections with your thoughts" (Prologue 9, 10, 23).