The Night Before the Bridal: A Spanish Tale. Sappho, a Dramatic Sketch, and Other Poems |
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The Night Before the Bridal: A Spanish Tale: Sappho, a Dramatic Sketch and ... Catherine Godwin No preview available - 2017 |
The Night Before the Bridal: A Spanish Tale: Sappho, a Dramatic Sketch and ... Catherine Godwin No preview available - 2017 |
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arms art thou ATTHIS beauteous beauty blood bloom bosom bower breast breath bright brow calm charms cheek CLEIS couch crime dark death deem'd deep despair Diocles doth droop'd earth eyes faint fair fatal fatal dowry Father fearful fell felt fix'd fling flowers fond gaze glare gleam'd glorious glory glow grief grove guilt hand hast hath heard heart heaven Helena HIPPARCHUS hope hour hues IMBRIUS Inez knew Leontio Lesbian Lesbos light linger'd lips look look'd lute LYNCEUS lyre of Orpheus MEGARA Methymna midst Miguel mind Mitylene Moorish Mozart mute night o'er pale pass'd passion PHAON pray'd pride priest proud repose rich rose rush'd SAPPHO scene Scythian Seville shade shame shone shores shrine Sicily sleep smile sought soul Spain spirit stood sweet tears thee thine thought tomb tresses turn'd Twas Valasco's vales veil voice vows watch'd waves wild wild hope worshipp'd young
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Page 216 - I have found it impossible,' said Mozart, ' to keep my word ; the work has interested me more than I expected, and I have extended it beyond my first design. I shall require another month to finish it.' The stranger made no objection ; but observing, that for this additional trouble it was but just to increase the premium, laid down fifty ducats more, and promised to return at the time appointed. Astonished at his whole...
Page 215 - One day when his spirits were unusually oppressed, a stranger of a tall, dignified appearance, was introduced. His manners were grave and impressive. He told Mozart, that he came from a person who did not wish to be known, to request he would compose a solemn mass, as a requiem for the soul of a friend whom he had recently lost, and whose memory he was desirous of commemorating by this solemn service. Mozart undertook the task ; and engaged to have it completed in a month. The stranger begged to...
Page 202 - Empire should once more appear before him, covering with a funeral veil his head and his horn of abundance, and slowly retiring from the imperial tent. The monarch started from his couch, and stepping forth to refresh his wearied spirits with the coolness of the midnight air, he beheld a fiery meteor which shot athwart the sky and suddenly vanished. Julian was convinced that he had seen the menacing countenance of the god of war...
Page 79 - Think'st thou I mean to live ? to be forgiven? Oh, thou hast known but little of Calista ! If thou hadst never heard my shame, if only The midnight moon and silent stars...
Page 107 - Banderilla, literally, little flag, from which they take their name, is a shaft of two feet in length, pointed with a barbed steel, and gaily ornamented with many sheets of painted paper, cut into reticulated coverings. Without a cloak, and holding one of these darts in each hand, the fighter runs up to the bull, and stopping short when he sees himself attacked, he...
Page 107 - ... dangerous from robbers, that few but the young and adventurous retire home from the Tertulia without being attended by a servant, sometimes bearing a lighted torch. The free access to every house, which prevails in summer, is now checked by the caution of the inhabitants. The entrance to the houses lies through a passage with two doors, one to the street, and another called the middle-door (for there is another at the top of the stairs) which opens into the Patio. This passage is called Zaguan...
Page 215 - ... departed. The mystery of this visit seemed to have a very strong effect upon the mind of the musician. He brooded over it for some time ; and then suddenly calling for writing materials, began to compose with extraordinary ardour.
Page 216 - Mozart ordered a servant to follow this singular personage, and, if possible, to find out who he was. The man, however, lost sight of him, and was obliged to return as he went. Mozart, now more than ever persuaded that he was a messenger from the other world, sent to warn him that his end was approaching, applied with fresh zeal to the Requiem ; and, in spite of...
Page 181 - Orpheus, whose songs wrought so many prodigies, having been torn to pieces by the Bacchantes, his head and lyre were thrown into the Hebrus, a river of Thrace, and conveyed by the waves of the sea to the shores of Methymna/ In its passage the voice of Orpheus sent forth enchanting sounds, accompanied by the lyre, the strings of which were gently agitated by the wind.* The Methymnians buried the head in a place which they showed me, and hung up the lyre in the temple of Apollo. As a recompense, the...
Page 216 - ... of the musician. He brooded over it for some time ; and then suddenly calling for writing materials, began to compose with extraordinary ardour. This application, however, was more than his strength could support ; it brought on fainting fits; and his increasing illness obliged him to suspend his work. ' I am writing this Requiem for myself...