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Updated: July 17, 2025
Sachs loves her dearly, that she knows, and she has, in the innocent presumption of her young beauty, not questioned that he would enter the song-tournament for her; and until yesterday she rested in placid contentment upon the intention of crowning this affection which never since her birth has failed her.
The Dutchman's recitative-like beginning declamation of the same type, and with the same accent, as some recitative in the song-tournament in Tannhäuser is noble in the highest degree; we have a recurrence of the dream-atmosphere at Senta's words, "Versank ich jetzt in wunderbares Träumen?" for though her fanaticism is all too real, when her opportunity comes she is for the moment incredulous.
Was ever poet, king, or even emperor, housed more sumptuously than this, he thought? ... as his eyes wandered to the domed ceiling, wreathed with carved clusters of grapes and pomegranates, the walls, frescoed with glowing scenes of love and song-tournament, the groups of superb statuary that gleamed whitely out of dusky, velvet-draped corners, the quaintly shaped book-cases, overflowing with books, and made so as to revolve round and round at a touch, or move to and fro on noiseless wheels, the grand busts, both in bronze and marble, that stood on tall pedestals or projecting bracket; and, while he dimly noted all these splendid evidences of unlimited wealth and luxury, the perfume and lustre of the place, the glitter of gold and azure, silver and scarlet, the oriental languor pervading the very air, and above all the rich amber and azure-tinted light that bathed every object in a dream-like and fairy radiance, plunged his senses into a delicious confusion, a throbbing fever of delight to which he could give no name, but which permeated every fibre of his being.
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