The Wagnerian RomancesJohn Lane Company, 1907 - 414 páginas |
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Alberich Amfortas arms asks beautiful Beckmesser behold Brangaene breath bride bring Brünnhilde Brünnhilde's charm child comes cries Crown 8vo curse death dream drink earth Elsa Elsa von Brabant enemy eternal eyes face Fafner falls father fear Freia Fricka gazing girl give gods gold Grail Gunther Gurnemanz Gutrune Hagen hand hear heard heart hero honour Isolde King Kundry Kurwenal lady laugh light listen Loge Lohengrin look lovers master master-singers Mime Morold motif never Nibelheim Nibelung night noble Nothung once Ortrud Pall Mall Gazette Parsifal Pogner recognise replies Rhine ring Sachs Sachs's scene Senta ship Siegfried Siegfried's Sieglinde Siegmund sight sing sleep song sorrow soul speaks spear stands story sweet sword Tannhäuser Tarnhelm tell Telramund thing thought to-day Tristan truth turns Valkyrie voice Walhalla Wälsung Walther wild Wolfram woman wonder words Wotan young
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Página 417 - His work is illuminated with style, scholarship, and psychology ; but its outstanding features are the lambent wit, the gay mockery, the genial irony with which he touches every subject he treats.
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Página 418 - At all times he is the unrelenting foe of superstition and hypocrisy. Of himself he once modestly said : " You will find in my writings perfect sincerity (lying demands a talent I do not possess), much indulgence, and some natural affection for the beautiful and good.
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Página 417 - As Anatole Thibault, dit Anatole France, is to most English readers merely a name, it will be well to state that he was born in 1844 in the picturesque and inspiring surroundings of an old bookshop on the Quai Voltaire, Paris, kept by his father, Monsieur Thibault, an authority on eighteenth-century history, from whom the boy caught the passion for the principles of the Revolution, while from his mother he was learning to love the ascetic ideals chronicled in the Lives of the Saints. He was schooled...
Página 418 - He is in turn — like his own Choulette in THE RED LILY — saintly and Rabelaisian, yet without incongruity.