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She began nervously, she knew not why; but as she was an excellent musician, her fear soon passed away, and it was then that she executed so brilliantly that piece from Armida, which had been heard with so much astonishment by the chevalier and the Abbe Brigaud. We have said how the following morning the chevalier had seen Buvat, and become acquainted with Bathilde's name.
The Queen at last commanded her; she then exerted her fine voice in the solo of Armida 'At length he is in my power. The change in her Majesty's countenance was so obvious that the ladies present at this scene had the greatest difficulty to keep theirs.
I soon found myself in the midst of my favourite hills, upon slopes covered with clover, and shaded by cherry-trees. Bending down their boughs I gathered the fruit, and grew cooler and happier every instant. We dined very comfortably in a strange hall, where I pitched my pianoforte, and sang the voluptuous airs of Bertoni's Armida.
He meditated and dreamed in the rustling of the trees, by the murmuring of the little waterfall, how softly his soul melted away, and his resolution, like that of Rinaldo's in the enchanted garden of Armida, lost all its strength.
And yet the very best hounds of Squire John's Cziczke, the two white ones, and Rajkó, Matyi, big Ordas, Michael Kis's Fecske, and Count Gregory's Armida, to say nothing of the whole canine army behind them, were hard upon his traces. The fox began to go slower and slower.
Do you not see that the prince has availed himself of our absence to go there, and has not yet returned?" "What!" shrieked Woellner, clasping his hands "you do not mean that " "That Rinaldo has returned to the enchanted garden of Armida." "Oh, let us hasten to release him at once, and revue his soul from perdition!" cried Woellner, springing up.
She still had on her fairy costume in which she had danced in the opera of "Armida," and had come, with a joyous face, to take leave of her parents, and tell them that a rich Russian count loved her, and wanted to marry her; that in the intervening time he had taken a beautiful apartment for her, where she would remove that very evening.
"Gluck's consciousness of the merit of his own works, and of their dignity, excited no small jealousy, during the getting up of Armida, in his rival with the public, the great Vestris, to whom he scarcely left space to exhibit the graces of his art; and many severe disputes took place between the two rival sharers of the Parisian enthusiasm.
But Gluck, whose German obstinacy would not give up a note, told Vestris he might compose a ballet in which he would leave him his own way entirely; but that an artist whose profession only taught him to reason with his heels should not kick about works like Armida at his pleasure. 'My subject, added Gluck, 'is taken from the immortal Tasso.
Maltravers paused a moment, and suggested the Influence of Praise on Genius. The improvvisatrice nodded assent, and after a short prelude broke forth into a wild and varied strain of verse, in a voice so exquisitely sweet, with a taste so accurate, and a feeling so deep that the poetry sounded to the enchanted listeners like the language that Armida might have uttered.
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