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He found them in a quiet acceptance of the fortune which had brought them together, so contented that they appeared to ask nothing more of it. The divine patience and confidence of their youth might sometimes have had almost the effect of indifference to a witness who had seen its evolution from the moods of the first few days of their reunion in Weimar.
"Can sub-prefects replace the poetic, gallant, warlike race of the Thibaults who made Provins what Ferrara was to Italy, Weimar to Germany, what Munich is trying to be to-day." "Was Provins ever a capital?" asked Rogron. "Why! where do you come from?" exclaimed the archaeologist.
But Vienna and Berlin did not call him until it was too late, until patronage was needless; and Weimar did. A miniature State, but so much the greater his power and freedom and the opportunity of beneficent action.
'Very well; the next time you hear him say it, do you tell him he lies, and that I say so." During a six weeks' vacation there is a pleasant tour through Germany, and at Weimar Mr. Ticknor makes the acquaintance of Goethe, who talked about Byron, and "his great knowledge of human nature." And now in the November of 1816, there comes an intimation that Harvard College wishes to recall Mr.
In 1842 Liszt visited Weimar, Berlin, and then went to Paris; he was meditating a tour in Russia. Pressing invitations reached him from St. Petersburg and Moscow. The most fabulous accounts of his virtuosity had raised expectation to its highest pitch. He was as legendary even among the common people as Paganini. His first concert at St. Petersburg realized the then unheard-of sum of £2,000.
We had hoped to see you for a moment at Weimar, and I clung to that hope all the more as I wanted to express to you my thanks for the kindness you showed me during my stay at Dresden.
In order to do this I felt that I must free myself from all obligations to the management of the Weimar theatre. I had already drawn six hundred marks salary from this source, but Karl was enchanted to place this sum at my disposal in order that I might return it.
Avowed Belief in the New School of Music, and Production of Works of this School. Wagner's Testimony to Liszt's Assistance. Liszt's Resignation of his Weimar Post after Ten Years. His Subsequent Life. He takes Holy Orders. Liszt as a Virtuoso and Composer. Entitled to be placed among tire most Remarkable Men of his Age.
Very naturally Goethe and Schiller, who were strongly in sympathy with Lessing's tendency, were desirous of domesticating 'Nathan' on the Weimar boards. So Schiller undertook an adaptation, taking the task very seriously.
To the Landgrave of Hesse the abbacies of Paderborn, Corvey, Munster, and Fulda were promised, to Duke Bernhard of Weimar the Franconian bishoprics, to the Duke of Wurtemburg the ecclesiastical domains and the Austrian counties lying within his territories, all to be held as fiefs of Sweden.
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