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Updated: June 16, 2025
When he had arrived at the Isle of Fantaisie he begged to inform his Majesty that man was born for something else besides enjoying himself.
However, we heard music in an adjoining hall. "It is a surprise," said the President to us, "they are the musicians from the Opera." A minute afterwards programmes written with a pen were handed round. They indicated that the following five selections were being played: 1. Priere de la "Muette." 2. Fantaisie sur des airs favoris de la "Reine Hortense." 3. Final de "Robert Bruce". 4.
As the Fantaisian Ambassador and his suite entered their carriages, the sky, if it had not been for the smoke, would certainly have been rent by the acclamations of the mob. 'Popanilla for ever! sounded from all quarters, except where the shout was varied by 'Vraibleusia and Fantaisie against the world! which perhaps was even the most popular sentiment of the two.
The purest religions would never have been established had they not been supported by sinners who felt the burthen of the old faith; and the most free and enlightened governments are often generated by the discontented, the disappointed, and the dissolute. Now, in the Isle of Fantaisie, unfortunately for our revolutionizer, there was not a single grumbler.
La fantaisie d'un millionnaire! And I must say he made a magnificent figure in his rags, or perhaps I should say in my rags; they are an old suit I got in Spain. 'Baron Hausberg! cried Hughie. 'Good heavens! I gave him a sovereign! and he sank into an armchair the picture of dismay. 'Gave him a sovereign! shouted Trevor, and he burst into a roar of laughter.
The most remarkable of these poems, which refuse to take their places in a group, is that forlorn romance of weary and depressed heroism, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came. It is in the main a fantaisie of description; but involved with the descriptive study is a romantic motive.
A piano sonata, a polonaise for four hands and a fantaisie for piano belong to this year. After that he aspired to make piano arrangements of great works, such as Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony." Then came his own symphony, which was really performed at Gewandhaus, and is said to have shown great musical vigor. Instrumental music no longer satisfied this eager, aspiring boy; he must compose operas.
He informed the travellers that the whole island was in a state of the greatest commotion, and that martial law universally prevailed. He said that this disturbance was occasioned by the return of the expedition destined to the Isle of Fantaisie.
The want of directness, the absence of candor, the non-recognition of truth in its broad and deep sense, is, indeed, a characteristic phase of life, of expression, and of manners in France. A lover of his nation confesses that even in "galantes aventures l'esprit prenait la place du coeur, la fantaisie celle du sentiment."
He sat down, and for the first time in that house he was seized with irresistible uneasiness, a sort of paralysis of ideas, still greater than that which had seized him that day as he sat before his canvas. "You may go on, my child; it will not annoy him," said the Countess to her daughter. "What was she doing?" "She was studying a fantaisie." Annette rose to go to the piano.
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