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It was this that made him so bold in railing at those authors qui mettent leur Apollon aux gages d'un libraire, and he declared that he had only inserted these verses, Je sai qu'un noble esprit peut sans honte et sans crime Tirer de son travail un tribut légitime, to console Racine, who had received some profits from the printing of his tragedies.
Some continued a month, some more and some lesse, which is the tribut that one must pay for the changment of climat. Some dayes after we had news that another company of Iroquoits weare arrived att mont Royall.
There are some noble pages in the work, but as a whole it is distressingly dull, and 'Le Tribut de Zamora' was also an emphatic failure. Gounod's later works, as has already been pointed out, show a distinct falling off from the standard attained in 'Faust, as regards form as well as in ideas. As he grew older he showed a stronger inclination to return to obsolete models.
'Le Tribut de Zamora' reproduces the type of opera which was popular in the days of Meyerbeer. It is cut up into airs and recitatives, and the accompaniment is sedulously subordinated to the voices.
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