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Updated: June 16, 2025
The skin-flint skipper carried no medicine; the water shocking stuff it was was getting so low, that there was only a pint a day served out to each, and though all of us Alcestes clubbed every drop we could spare for him it was bad work! Owen and I never were more glad in our lives than when we heard we were to cast anchor at the Loyalty Isles! Such a place as it was!
Happy Paris! At that time the interests of art alone busied all spirits, and the battle of opinions was conducted only with the pen. Gluck owed it to the mighty influence of the queen that his opera "Alcestes" was brought upon the stage; but at its first representation the Lullyists gained the victory, and condemned it. In despair, Gluck left the opera-house, driven by hisses into the dark street.
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