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That at one weak period I was bitten, my honesty would scorn to deny; but fortunately for my peace of mind, "Melpomene looked upon me with an aspect of little favour," and sturdy truth-telling Tacitus made me at last but lightly regardful of my subject.
The "Melpomene" is a work of infinitely more specific gravity. It is one of the most important of American orchestral works. As his "Thalia" was an "overture to an imaginary comedy," so this, to an imaginary tragedy. It has been played by the Boston Symphony and many other orchestras.
Thalia and Melpomene say truth, Witness Arcadia penned in his youth, Are not his tragick Comedies so acted, As if your ninefold wit had been compacted. In all Records his name I ever see Put with an Epithite of dignity, Which shows his worth was great, his honour such, The love his Country ought him, was as much.
If one might believe the names of the streets, there were Naiads on the left and Dryads on the right; a little farther on, Hercules; yonder corner the dark trysting-place of Bacchus and Melpomene; and here, just in advance, the corner where Terpsichore crossed the path of Apollo. They came now along a high, open fence that ran the entire length of a square.
She is tall, lank, lean, and lackadaisical, dressed in the deepest black, with a battered black gauze hat, and the air of a regular Melpomene. I am the reverse of all this, and sans vanite, the best-dressed woman wherever I go.
The newspaper-writers transformed her into Melpomene, yet so rapid was her decline, that presently she was scarcely more than a waiting woman to Thalia. Characters, or foolish Mothers. Mesdemoiselles LACHAISSAIGNE and THENARD. The latter of these titles explains the former. In fact, this cast of parts consists of characters, that is, foolish or crabbed old women, antiquated dowagers in love, &c.
His talk, indeed, was one long invocation; and the little white-haired lady in the armchair was doing her best to play Melpomene. Her speech was very soft. But it made for battle; and Fontenoy was never so formidable as when he was fresh from Castle Luton.
Father, friend to lyric song, Please to show him out!" Father Phoebus laughing hears The complaint they've brought; "Don't be frightened, pray, my dears, We'll soon cut them short! "One must hasten to hell-fire, Go, Melpomene! "Let her meet, in this array, One of these vile crews, As though she had lost her way, Soon as night ensues.
"When I was quarter-master on board of the Melpomene, we had an old chap for first lieutenant whose name was Fletcher.
To the R. of the Salle de la Venus de Milo is the Salle Melpomene, with a fine colossal figure of the Tragic Muse, and, No. 419 , an excellent Head of a Woman.
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