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The rest of his works, with the exception of a few scattered airs, such as 'Rose softly blooming, from 'Zemire und Azor, seem to be completely forgotten. He was a man of vivid imagination, and revelled in uncanny legends of the supernatural.
"No, he's not," said the colonel; "I don't like to see dogs taught to play the fool; there's none of that nonsense about him, sir!" "Ah, remark him well, then. Azor, mon chou, danse donc un peu!" And, on the foreigner's whistling a lively air, that infernal poodle rose on his hind legs and danced solemnly about half-way round the garden! We inside followed his movements with dismay.
Moreover, as though a peasant's cot and a shattered donjon were not enough to stir the sensibilities of his customers, the owner had raised a tomb beneath a weeping-willow, a column surmounted by a funeral urn and bearing the inscription: "Cléonice to her faithful Azor."
A great deal of the poetry set to music by Gretry is by Marmontel. The day after the first performance of "Zemira and Azor," Marmontel and Gretry were presented to the Queen as she was passing through the gallery of Fontainebleau to go to mass.
So you are quite free: the words of old Azor cannot bind me " "But they do bind me, young man, now and hereafter. Besides, you have bought me away from the tribe and I may never go back and you can never leave me solitary." Here I groaned and she sighed, but with that quiver of red lips that might mean tears or laughter. "A truly terrible situation!" said I. "It is, young man, it is!
"You pays over to old Azor fourteen guineas, a florin, one groat and three pennies." "The act was slightly involuntary, as I remember!" said I. "Talk plain, young man, talk plain! You buys me, and what's more, old Azor weds us and makes me your mort according to the law o' the Folk." "But not according to the laws of the English Church," said I, "and I am not one of the Folk.
"Yes, I repeat you are a wonderful cook! But then everything seems so wonderful to me this place, for instance so strange and so solitary!" "It is!" she answered, leaning her chin on her hands and staring at me across the table. "That's why I runs away here to hide from the chals or when in any trouble wi' old Azor yes, 'tis a very lonely place, which do make me wonder if you be afeard o' ghosts?"
"Well I sees strange things among the Romans; there's the dukkerin and dukkeripen, an' the Walkers o' the Heath. They're a strange folk, the Romans 'specially old Azor!" "But you are not afraid never have been?" "No," she answered, shaking her head slowly, "I've never been afeard of anything or any one yet except old Azor."
A great deal of the poetry set to music by Gretry is by Marmontel. The day after the first performance of "Zemira and Azor," Marmontel and Gretry were presented to the Queen as she was passing through the gallery of Fontainebleau to go to mass.
The South Carolina organization had the threefold purpose of emigration, missionary activity, and commercial enterprise, and to these ends it purchased a vessel, the Azor, at a cost of $7000. The vessel at length made one or two trips, however, on one voyage carrying as many as 274 emigrants.
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