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"There be a devil inside o' me sometimes a devil as even old Azor was afeard of an' most o' the men " "Then I think this must be rather a good devil, Diana." "Ah no no!" she cried. "'Tis a devil as drives me to wild thoughts an' ways things as do shame me. 'Tis very fierce and strong!" "Still, I do not think I fear this devil or ever should, Diana." "You? But you calls yourself a coward!"
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.
"No, no!" replied the duc de Richelieu, "let us employ the remaining hours in pleasing and social converse," and with a tremulous voice he began that charming trio in "Selina and Azor," "<Veillons mes soeurs>." We joined chorus with him, and the echoes of the palace of Louis XV resounded with the mirthful strain.
In 1815 he made a concert tour in France and Italy, during which he met Rossini and Paganini, playing at Venice a sinfonia concertante of his own composition, with the latter. On his return to Germany in 1817 Spohr was appointed conductor of the Opera at Frankfort-on-the-Main, where his opera "Faust" was now produced, also "Zemire and Azor."
As is the case with the ignorant, when beaten by their antagonist in fair argument, they shake the chain of rancor; like Azor, the idol-maker, when he could no longer contend with his son Abraham in words he fell upon him with blows, as God has said in the Koran "If thou wilt not yield this point, I will overwhelm thee with stones:" He gave me abuse, and I retorted upon him with asperity; he tore my collar, and I plucked his beard: He had fallen upon me and I upon him, and a crowd had gathered round us enjoying the sport.
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