November 30, 2007
- So I think I must be dreaming when I read, from time to time, that Ingres was more appreciative of
- It was extremely interesting to see him dissect one of Fontaine"s fables or a passage from Racine,
November 29, 2007
- At the same time I was learning to read
- I first met Louis Gallet in 1871
- Ordinarily such a method would produce a harsh, shaky voice and all freshness would be lost
- Victor Hugo, in his marvellous ode, _La Lyre et La Harpe_ brings Paganism and Christianity face to
- The most serious, but the most excusable, is his contempt for prosody and his indifference to the
- The subscription did not go fast enough to suit the master, and he had it stopped
- But there are beautiful and wonderful things in this vast work
- Modern peoples are not artistic