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A contemporary note in connection with Charles IX and the Tuileries is found in Ronsard's "Épitre
Primary EPITRE; written, I perceive, in that interval of waiting for Keith and the magazines, though the final date is "Bernstadt, August 24th." Concerning which, Smelfungus takes, over-hastily, the liberty to say: "Strange, is it not, to be on the point of fighting for one's existence; overwhelmed with so many businesses; and disposed to go into verse in addition!
It may be worth while to add that Diderot and D'Alembert received 1200 livres a year apiece for editing the Encyclopædia. Sterne received £650 for two volumes of Tristram Shandy in 1780. Walpole's Letters, in. 298. Conf., viii. 154-157. Ib. viii. 160. Conf., viii. 160, 161. Ib. viii. 159. Réveries, iii 168. Rêveries, iii. 166. See the Epître
Your not being such, confirms me in the sentiments expressed at the end of my EPITRE. In conclusion, believe that I adore you, and that I would give my life a thousand times to serve you. WILHELMINA'S ANSWER, by anticipation, as we said: written "15th September," while Friedrich was dining at Gotha, in quest of Soubise. "BAIREUTH, 15th SEPTEMBER, 1757.
He speaks French very ill, yet one likes to hear him speak it; and as for his English, he pronounces it so quick, there is no possibility of following him. He promised that he" But Baltimore, promise or not, is the chief figure at present. What Baltimore said in answer to the EPITRE, we do not know; probably not much: it does not appear he ever saw or spoke to Friedrich a second time.
It has been supposed that Wagner intended to subordinate the music to the poetry, as if the function of music were to illustrate and vivify the more definite thought contained in the words. This view has been held by many critics, from Aristotle onwards. It was the view of Gluck, and will be found formulated in the epitre dedicatoire prefixed to his Alceste.
My dearest Brother, your Letter and the one you wrote to Voltaire, my dear Brother, have almost killed me. What fatal resolutions, great God! Ah, my dear Brother, you say you love me; and you drive a dagger into my heart. Your EPITRE, which I did receive, made me shed rivers of tears. I am now ashamed of such weakness.
Some other storms raised by his works, such as his Lettres Philosophiques and his Epitre a Uranie, he weathered by flight, or by unscrupulously denying their authorship. The rest of his works, contained in seventy volumes, do not concern our present purpose. Our English poet James Montgomery began life as a poor shop-boy.