The Musical World, Volumen39J. Alfredo Novello, 1861 |
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Página 246 - It is the great failing of a strong imagination, to catch greedily at wonders. He was misinformed, and was perhaps unwilling to learn, by a second inquiry, a truth less splendid and amusing.
Página 195 - The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one! Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill...
Página 56 - The way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the bards was he Who sung of Border chivalry ; For, well-aday! their date was fled; His tuneful brethren all were dead; And he, neglected and oppressed, Wished to be with them, and at rest.
Página 246 - World, whether that site ought not rather to be sought near the orb of the moon, — he might well be allowed also to believe in El Dorado, without prejudice either to his sincerity or mental sanity.
Página 246 - Jamblicus and others, are the following : adore the sound of the whispering wind. Stir not the fire with a sword. Turn aside from an edged tool.
Página 293 - Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well: Even though unforgiving, never 'Gainst thee shall my heart rebel. Would that breast were bared before thee Where thy head so oft hath lain, While that placid sleep came o'er thee Which thou ne'er canst know again: Would that breast, by thee glanced over, Every inmost thought could show!
Página 314 - ... from, was omitted altogether. Did the director, assured of success, follow this unprecedented mode of securing a sensation ? Or did he fear for the result, and so hold his peace ? We think the latter most probable, as the temptation to disclosure involved in the complete conviction of having something great to exhibit would be almost too much for managerial forbearance. Mile. Adelina Patti, we may therefore conclude, came out without any extraordinary...
Página 173 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Página 246 - Of things palpably fabulous in our eyes, it is not enough to say that they could not possibly be believed by this or that man of great intellectual endowments. To what absurd conclusions would not this principle carry us ! We should be obliged by it to hold that no instructed man ever believed in witchcraft, in judicial astrology, or the philosopher's stone! If the steady mind of the great discoverer of America could be seduced by the belief that he had there found the site of the terrestrial paradise...
Página 325 - Describing the debut last week of Mile. Patti, whose performance seemed to promise us a second Jenny Lind, one of the critics made a remark that she " raised the house en masse to a high pitch of excitement.