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The process was childishly simple: they pitched on some beautiful legend or fairy-story, and turned it upside down. Thus, Bluebeard was beaten by his wives, or Polyphemus was kind enough to pluck out his eye by way of sacrificing himself to the happiness of Acis and Galatea. And they thought of nothing but form. They played at being artists. They played at being poets.
If you choose me, we shall have only a year's happiness before I break your heart by growing up. Better choose the youngest you can find. THE NEWLY BORN. I will not choose anyone but you. You must not grow up. THE SHE-ANCIENT. Listen, child THE NEWLY BORN. Do not come near me, you dreadful old creature. You frighten me. ACIS. Just give her another moment. She is not quite reasonable yet.
I am proud of you. I love you. MARTELLUS. We must send out a message for an ancient. ACIS. Need we bother an ancient about such a trifle? It will take less than half a second to reduce our poor Pygmalion to a pinch of dust. Why not calcine the two along with him? MARTELLUS. No: the two automata are trifles; but the use of our powers of destruction is never a trifle.
The rock cleaved open, and the water, as it gushed from the chasm, uttered a pleasing murmur." Thus Acis was changed into a river, and the river retains the name of Acis. Dryden, in his "Cymon and Iphigenia," has told the story of a clown converted into a gentleman by the power of love, in a way that shows traces of kindred to the old story of Galatea and the Cyclops.
You are a thanking little animal, a blaming little animal, a ACIS. A gushing little animal. ARJILLAX. And, as she thinks, an artistic little animal. If your Automata had been properly animated, Martellus, they would have been more successful. THE SHE-ANCIENT. That is where you are wrong, my child. If those two loathsome things had been rag dolls, they would have been amusing and lovable.
THE SHE-ANCIENT. What name have you chosen for her? ACIS. Amaryllis. THE NEWLY BORN. What does it mean? A YOUTH. Love. A MAIDEN. Mother. ANOTHER YOUTH. Lilies. ACIS. Acis. THE NEWLY BORN. I love you, Acis. I must have you all to myself. Take me in your arms. ACIS. Steady, young one. I am three years old. THE NEWLY BORN. What has that to do with it?
Encouraged by the success of Acis and Galatea, he had composed a new oratorio, Deborah, which was performed at the opera-house on March 17, by the King's command. For this work prices were doubled; tickets were a guinea each, and admission to the gallery half a guinea, instead of five shillings. At the second performance the normal prices were charged.
Burney, at any rate, recorded that he was said to have filled this office, but Burney remembered him chiefly as a popular comic singer. He had sung Polyphemus in Arne's pirated performance of Acis and Galatea, and owing to the defection of Montagnana, took his place in Athaliah at Oxford. Handel opened his season on October 30, 1733.
Handel gave twelve performances at very short intervals, comprising all of his finest works. In these concerts the "Acis and Galatea" and "Alexander's Feast" were the most admired; but the enthusiasm culminated in the rendition of the "Messiah," produced for the first time on April 13, 1742.
The artist divines by inspiration all the truths that the so-called scientist grubs up in his laboratory slowly and stupidly long afterwards. You are not an artist. ACIS. Shut your heads, both of you. Let us have the artificial men. Trot them out, Pygmalion. PYGMALION. It is a man and a woman. But I really must explain first. PYGMALION. Yes: I ACIS. We want results, not explanations.
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