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That method is inadequate, not because it is too REALISTIC, but because it runs continual risk of being too VERBALISTIC. It has recently been applied to the translation of Dante by Mr. Rossetti, and it has sometimes led him to write curious verses. For instance, he makes Francesca say to Dante, "O gracious and benignant ANIMAL!" for "O animal grazioso e benigno!" Mr.
But Grazioso did not approach either to embrace or ask the old woman's blessing. "I wish my grandmother to live forever!" he cried. "Appear, Fairy of the Woods. Appear, Fairy of the Water!" And now in perfect silence Polly O'Neill made her entrance.
No one perceived his adroit under-meaning; but Eva bethought herself of her school-phrases, and venturously selected one. "È grazioso!" said she.
The other actor was the star, a young man of about twenty-six or seven, who was impersonating Grazioso, the hero of the fairy story. The stage was in semi-darkness, while the grandmother related to the boy the tale of her first meeting with the fairies. A small, shabby room revealed a low fire burning in the grate.
These playful words seem to have weighed considerably on the boy's mind and, sure enough, after a few years he died. But even more charming piu grazioso, the biographer calls it was the incident when he once asked a father whether he would give his son to Saint Pasquale. The fond parent agreed, thinking that the words referred to the boy's future career in the Church.
We can prolong your grandmother's life for some time. But to make her live forever you must find The Castle of Life." "Madam," replied Grazioso, "I will start at once." "It is four long days' journey from here," the Fairy of the Woods continued.
The "Pastorale" is rather Smithian than olden, with its mellow harmony, but the "Minuetto" is the perfection of chivalric foppery and pompous gaiety. The "Gavotte" suggests the contagious good humor of Bach, and the "Minuetto Grazioso," the best of the series, has a touch of the goodly old intervals, tenths and sixths, that taste like a draught of spring water in the midst of our modern liqueurs.
The story is that of a little boy, Grazioso, brought up by his grandmother, whom he loves better than all else in the world. Then one day he sees that the grandmother is growing old and fears that she must soon leave him. And so he sets out to find "The Castle of Life" in order once more to bring back youth to the old woman.
Each in turn rears a climax for the other's entrance; the first, lamenting, leads to the soothing hope of the second that, in the very passion of its refrain, loses assurance and ends in a tragic burst. Suddenly a very new kind of solace appears Dolce grazioso, in a phrase of the clarinet that leads to a duet of wood and cantabile strings, impersonal almost in the sweetness of its flowing song.
In Algiers he might easily have heard it recited by the tale-tellers. Kanmakan is the typical Arab Knight, gentle and valiant as Don Quixote Sabbah is the Grazioso, a "Beduin" Sancho Panza. In the "Romance of Antar" we have a similar contrast with Ocab who says: "Indeed I am no fighter: the sword in my hand-palm chases only pelicans ;" and, "whenever you kill a satrap, I'll plunder him."
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