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5144''Is she seriously ill?''
5144''What is to become of my poor wife and children,''he wrote,''if that is really the case?''
5144As I had not looked after my best friends, such as M. Lucy, was not the ill- success of that evening to be ascribed to my own conduct?
5144I could not help wondering whether I should have to give up my Penzing establishment, but, on the other hand, what alternative was open to me?
5144The young man, completely unabashed, answered,''Que voulez- vous?
5144Wagner?''
5144le Pape ne vient pas en scene?
16840Forgettest thou what is engaged?''
16840Know''st thou the fate of that unhappy man?
16840Look, canst thou feel the pain, the grief, With which his gaze on me he bends?
16840Or yet-- is''t new error?
16840Say, what is love?
16840So wounds him nowhere a weapon?
16840Still to be faithful thou hast vowed, Yet has not God thy promise?
16840What can thy sorrow be?
16840Whom shall I summon Hither to help me?
16840by what signs shall we know it?
3512810] WALTER''S PRIZE SONG Do you wonder that with such lovely music Walter wins the contest and the hand of Eva whom he loves?
3512814. Who composed_ Oberon_?
351286. Who sings it?
351288. Who was the jolly cobbler singer?
35128Can you guess his name?
35128Can you name some of the musicians who lived when Richard Wagner was a boy?
35128Can you tell one fact about each of the men whose pictures come next?
35128How long did Wagner study music?
35128How many characters from the Dickens''novel can you name from memory?
35128In what opera by Richard Wagner is_ The Prize Song_?
35128What happened to Beckmesser in the contest with Walter?
35128What is the name of the house in which Richard Wagner was born?
35128What kind of music did Richard Wagner compose?
35128What other opera did this composer write?
35128What should we remember about childhood thoughts?
35128What sort of characters occur in the operas?
35128When was he born?
35128Who were the great musicians when he was a boy?
14441How could I hear that if the horns were near?
14441Siebererbot("Liebesverbot"?)
14441Tansig("Tausig"?)
14441Waltrante("Waltraute"?)
14441Wilt thou be true?
14441You remember your mother''s art,says Brangaena:"do you think she would have sent me over- seas with you without a means of helping you?"
14441But one would like to ask the sages how many songs are there which do not afford a finer artistic enjoyment when the words are understood?
14441He presses home to them their sin and his suffering, his affection and their indifference to it; and he ends up with the question,"Why?"
14441In fancy she sees the swan returning to carry off her lover; and, wholly terrified, she asks,"Who are you and where do you come from?"
14441Some years ago an excited discussion took place on a very momentous question--"Did Isolda marry King Mark or not?"
14441They must talk about something-- what should it be?
14441Underlying this is the profounder truth that when men-- and we will even say women-- fall off high places, they get killed or seriously hurt"?
14441and he says,"Where are we?"
15141Are there notasks this Junius,"in the ideal world of tones many dissonances?
15141Have you been patient with every one to- day?
15141In what part of me am I not injured and torn?
15141Is a blind painter to be imagined?
15141After he had been playing for some time Beethoven interrupted him with the question,"When are you going to begin?"
15141And you wish me to deliver it?
15141At the conclusion of the service the Prince made the rather inane remark,"but my dear Beethoven, what have you been doing now?"
15141CHAPTER III THE NEW PATH I tremble to the depths of my soul and ask my dæmon:"Why this cup to me?"
15141Does not the mind instantly revert to the C minor Symphony?
15141How could they, we naturally ask, get an audience, when so many performances were in progress, and how could the people get around to so many places?
15141In speaking of him in after years, he said,"Who can thank sufficiently a great poet?
15141Muss es sein?
15141On one occasion, however, she was playing his_ Kennst Du das Land?_ when he came in unexpectedly.
15141This art of improvising, as these masters practised it,--who can explain it or tell how it is done?
15141Why should these not also exist in the actual world?"
15141and do you think you could fill a post that has been offered to me?''
18138But what words am I to use in describing my happiness?
18138Can you send me by bearer sixty thalers? 18138 Was I right in calling her a Musical fairy''?"
18138And Therese?
18138And why should she not love it?
18138B."?
18138Beethoven was a man of noble nature, yet what had he to offer her in return for her love?
18138But how should he, an exile, secure its production?
18138Decadence?
18138Does it seem possible now that he had to struggle for twenty- five years before he could secure the production of his"Ring of the Nibelung"?
18138For was it not the incomparable Delphine who was destined to"soothe the bitterness of sorrow"during his final hours on earth?
18138How long did Delphine survive Chopin?
18138If she was unable to discover his genius in these, how could she be expected to follow its loftier flights in his later works?
18138In fact, has any woman, professional musician or not?
18138Is it a wonder that but little more than a year after they met, the Princess decided to burn her bridges behind her and leave her husband?
18138Is it not true-- those from the last year of his life are just as tender as those written during the first year of our marriage?"
18138Realizing that his lame finger rendered him incapable of playing, he called out despairingly:"Who will lend me fingers?"
18138Tell me if I could ask a better wife for myself?"
18138Was it Fate-- or fatality-- that led him thither with Cosima?
18138What did Wagner do?
18138What drew him to Constance?
18138What shall I do?"
18138What would have become of them both, and of his genius with him?"
18138When they finished singing, Minna asked Praeger:"Is it really as beautiful as you say?
18138exclaimed the lady,"do you really love me so deeply?"
31526What shall I now tell you? 31526 _ Who better than the poet can guide?_"CHICAGO: JANSEN, McCLURG& COMPANY.
31526A Saxon poet, Apel, imitated the Greek tragedies, why should he not do the same?
31526After all, was it the mere gratification of the senses that he really longed for?
31526And after the style of youthful inexperience:"You likewise do not like women?
31526And what of the Catholic syllabus and Protestant"Culturkampf"as well?
31526But have we also by this time a German spirit that sways the nation''s life?
31526But what of the real goal?
31526But why take note of time when great and grand things are to be accomplished?
31526Could German art then remain in the background?
31526Did he, while at work on his grand tragedy, occupying him fully two years, neglect his studies?
31526For is not religion divided into warring factions and science into special cliques, jealous of each other?
31526Had he not once before beheld a being wasting away in the constant longing for the eternal home and yet destined never to find rest?
31526Have we come to detest mere might which we have hitherto worshipped and that yet"bears within its lap evil and thralldom?"
31526Herodias thou wast and what more?
31526His disposition is indicated by the words:"You are a Protestant?
31526How could it be otherwise amid such a public as then existed in Germany?
31526How could such common treasures be heeded by him who had at his disposal the Holy Grail?
31526How does our poet interpret the legend?
31526In it was the question:"Will this prince be found?"
31526Of what importance in this direction was Germany at that time?
31526The boy heard him say to his mother in an undertone:"Can it be that he has a talent for music?"
31526These tones utter anew a world- saving prophesy, and shall we not then appropriate them fully and forever?
31526To which shall be the victory?
31526What could inflict more injury to our higher nature, to our real culture?
31526Where would such pretensions, such extravagance lead?
31526Who is there to- day who will doubt that Faust denial of the curse and the prophetic presentment of a new world?
31526Who that was present does not think with joyous emotion of those Munich May- days of 1868?
31526Why should not he then, this youth of twenty- one, ready for any deed and every pleasure, earnestly longing for success, enter upon the same course?
31526recognized the theatre as"contributing to the refinement of manners and of taste"?
5197''Are you going to write scores for the barricades?''
5197''But what do you expect to get out of the revolution?''
5197''Has it come too early or too late?''
5197''Is Monsieur Meyerbeer here?''
5197''Provisional government?''
5197''What does this mean for me?''
5197''What is the matter?''
5197''What on earth am I to wear as Venus?''
5197''Where are you going?''
5197''Will you undertake my business?''
5197(''Are you on our side against the foreign troops?'').
5197And, after all, what nation could produce the composer who could surpass HIM?
5197But what was I to do next?
5197Do you really think the performance of an opera by an unknown composer can be anything but a matter of money?''
5197Had I done anything criminal in the eye of the law or not?
5197He hoped that I was not thinking of the so- called romantic style a la Freischutz?
5197How could we expect the kindlers of such a fire to retain any consciousness after so vast a devastation?
5197How was this to be done?
5197I played Ueb''immer Treu und Redlichkeit, and my father said to her,''Is it possible he has musical talent?''
5197Lending money again?''
5197Suddenly turning towards them he called in a sepulchral tone,''Are the violas dying?''
5197Tell me frankly, so that I may know if I can rely on your friendship in the future?''
5197To all this I said not a word, but finally with a smile asked him whether he would like to go over to Zurich?
5197Very much astonished he asked:''Est- ce que je n''ai pas de trombones?''
5197Was any one of us so mad as to fancy that he would survive the desired destruction?
5197What would be the consequence?
5197Why do I deserve such favour?''
5197With a ring of compassion in his voice, he replied that my question was wholly mistaken; in what would the novelty consist?
5197have you come to me again with your Rienzi?''
16431Are you not conducting the opera to- night?
16431Have had it,Reissiger replied;"how''s that for smart conducting?"
16431What more shall I write? 16431 Who would not yield who heard the heavenly maid?"
16431("Was ever poet so trusted?"
16431But supposing that he did wish to teach us something in the_ Dutchman_, what on earth can it be?
16431But was it?
16431But what am I saying?
16431Can we wonder that both sides were disappointed?
16431Did they or the still mightier Beethoven dream of creating a Bayreuth?
16431Do you happen to know anything definite about the state of the police inquiry?
16431Finely endowed personalities like Mozart and Chopin did much: did they write a_ Ring_ or a_ Tristan_?
16431For instance: does the general management propose to place my work upon the stage with the outlay indispensable to a brilliant effect?
16431Had ever such a life so perfectly beautiful an ending?
16431He begins a long expostulation:"How is it that the two people dearer to him than all the world have so betrayed his trust?"
16431He replies that he can not answer Mark''s"Why?"
16431How few men care more for themselves than for their stomachs?
16431I have written to Herr Tichatschek, and commended myself to his amiability: shall I be able to count on this gentleman?"
16431In vain Fricka expostulates, repeating( in homely phrase),"What about Freia?"
16431In_ Hamlet_ the hero has been philosophizing to his heart''s content, when a funeral procession approaches--_ Hamlet_: What, the fair Ophelia?
16431King Ludwig was supposed to do it; but where on earth was Ludwig''s money to come from if not out of the taxpayers''pockets?
16431Krebs is clever-- so is Michalesi-- what more do you want?
16431Not any casuistry or splitting of hairs can alter the plain fact--"Wirst du des Vaters Wahl nicht schelten?
16431Not, surely, that one should not swear rash oaths in a temper?
16431One asked,"Are you afraid?"
16431Presently the shepherd looks over the wall and asks how the master fares, does he still sleep?
16431The red dawn slowly breaks; Tristan hides Isolda with his cloak; Melot turns to Mark and says,"Did I not tell you so?"
16431The salary lifted a burden off his shoulders for a while; and was he not appointed to the very post his idol Weber had occupied?
16431The theme is, What is love, and how do we recognize it?
16431They have only a few minutes to live and to love: why not speak?
16431Wann wirst du, bleicher Seemann, sie finden?
16431Was er versprach, wie?--dürft''es gelten?"
16431Was it the only way to get rid of the lady-- a_ pis aller_?--a last remnant of the old- fashioned technique?
16431Well, do I seem quite mad to you?
16431What could possibly happen?
16431What did the luxury amount to?
16431What is the meaning of it all?
16431What is the ordinary care about the so- called future of citizen life compared with the feeling that we are not tyrannized over in our noblest aims?
16431What then?
16431Which is the nearer approach to an ideal of noble manhood?
16431Yet, I say, how can we feel surprise?
16431and Tristan, bewildered, asks,"Where are we?"
16431and, above all, what is any one called on to renounce?
16431and, if so, in what sense?
16431but Mark continues, putting in a dozen ways the same question,"Why, why have they done this?"
16431or loses anything by not renouncing?
16431was he to run the chance of failure by writing, or copying, one really expressive measure?
16431who gains anything by renouncing?
44767But is it not good?
44767But where is better music to be got, then?
44767Der Fliegende Holländer: Dutchman theme, 245; Senta, the redeeming element, 245; Yearning, 246;"Wie, hor''ich recht?"
44767Do I hear the light? 44767 Kurvenal, siehst du es nicht?"
44767Then why do they not give his operas?
44767What dreamed I of Isolde''s shame?
44767What dreamed I of Tristan''s honour?
44767What has befallen the eternal gods?
44767What matters it for me? 44767 Who is he?"
44767( How was it that the Devil was so often mistaken about women?)
44767("Kurvenal, seest thou it not?")
44767("What watches yonder darkly concealed in chaste Night?")
44767And was it not a good omen when at last there fell across his childhood the shadow of his artistic progenitor, Weber?
44767And with this Wagner ushers in a very Italian duet:[ Music: Wie?
44767Before this society on June 16 Wagner read a paper entitled"What is the Relation of our Efforts to the Monarchy?"
44767Brünnhilde says:"What man art thou?"
44767But he felt that only a monarch could afford to give the financial support to such a scheme, and he wrote,"Will that king be found?"
44767But how about the few who love these works?
44767But how was the necessary money to be raised?
44767CHAPTER I THE LYRIC DRAMA AS HE FOUND IT What was this man Wagner trying to do?
44767Daland,"joyful yet perplexed,"exclaims:"Wie?
44767Does she forget her mother''s magic art, which has provided her with potions of strange power?
44767Dost thou not see what I see?
44767Finally the god asks:"What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son before he ascended the funeral pile?"
44767HENDERSON AUTHOR OF"THE STORY OF MUSIC,""PRELUDES AND STUDIES,""WHAT IS GOOD MUSIC?"
44767He wrote to Liszt in the fall of 1849:"How and whence shall I get enough to live?
44767Hence, though struck to the heart by more than mortal wound, Elizabeth thinks first of her lover''s sin:"Was liegt an mir?
44767How can I endure the anguish?"
44767How shall the King endure?
44767How was it that the French romantic poets were engaged in celebrating the doings of English heroes?
44767Hör ich recht?
44767Hör''ich recht?
44767In a letter of March 30, 1853, he says to Liszt:"What can help me?
44767Indeed I believe I have done my best to state both things distinctly: but who has yet heeded?
44767Is my finished work''Lohengrin''worth nothing?
44767Is not Melot Tristan''s friend?
44767Is the opera which I am longing to complete worth nothing?
44767Kurvenal, man, art thou blind?
44767Meine Tochter sein Weib?
44767Meine Tochter sein Weib?
44767Seest thou it not?"
44767Should not they be allowed to offer to the poor suffering creator-- not a remuneration, but the bare possibility of continuing to create?...
44767Siegmund calls upon his father and says,"Where is the promised sword?"
44767Staring vacantly into space she murmurs:"Unloved by the noblest of men, must I stand near and see him?
44767The giant recognises Odin by this question, and says,"Who can tell what thou didst whisper of old in the ear of thy son?
44767The words of Wolfram''s poem here are nearly the same as those of Chrétien, which are these:"Knowest thou not the day, sweet youth?
44767What is this?
44767What though it outraged the rules of the masters and even puzzled him?
44767When he says,"Was dort in keuscher Nacht dunkel verschlossen wacht?"
44767When shall it be night for these two?
44767When will the blazing of the torch cease to keep him sundered from Isolde?
44767Whence came the lovely character, one of the noblest of all Wagner''s heroines, Elizabeth, the Landgrave''s niece?
44767Whence did they procure them?
44767Where, then, was Wagner to find eternal ideas suitable for dramatic treatment except in their personifications in mythology?
44767Who was he, this unknown young composer, to trouble the darlings of the public?
44767Who, then, is this Venus, and what is she doing in the subterranean world of the 12th century?
44767Why had Wagner selected Bayreuth as the scene of the crowning labour of his career?
44767Why has she broken Wotan''s command against visiting Brünnhilde?
44767Why?
44767Why?
44767Will Brünnhilde give back the ring?
44767Wollt Ihr sein ewig Heil ihm rauben?"
44767Wotan at once falls into the trap, and says:"What pratest thou there?
44767Would you rob him of his eternal salvation?"
44767Yet was there nothing in all this to show the bent of the young mind?
44767[ Footnote 37: This explains the meaning of Kothner''s question to Walther in the first act,"What master taught you the art?"
44767_ Isolde._--"Was träumte mir von Isolde''s Schmach?"
44767_ Tristan._--"Was träumte mir, von Tristan''s Ehre?"
46982And Siglinda, will she come also?
46982And who obtained it?
46982Are we not enough already?
46982Art thou timid in the presence of women?
46982Can I believe myself delivered, since once again I hear the rustling of this forest, and salute thee again, thou good old man?
46982Can it be an angel sent by God?
46982Dost thou not see it yet? 46982 Dost thou repel me?"
46982From whence came this mysterious phial?
46982Greeting, my guest,says Gurnemanz:"Dost thou not know what day this is?
46982Intoxication of the soul, rapture without measure, impetuous and overheated, blood, how shall I support you chained to this couch? 46982 Is it thou who hast killed the swan?"
46982It is so difficult then?
46982It was my kiss which rendered thy eyes clear? 46982 Knowing by compassion, was it not thus?"
46982Must I again thank thee, indefatigable and unknown maid? 46982 My son, Amfortas,"he says,"doest thou officiate?
46982Perhaps you have made a good pair of buskins?
46982So you wish to become master?
46982Tell me, to whom should the path which thou seekest lead?
46982Well, does the shoe fit at last?
46982Were those who menaced me wicked? 46982 What dost thou ask, cursed woman?"
46982What fragrant perfume you exhale,says Parsifal, with tranquil gayety;"are you flowers?"
46982What has struck down him whom even God protected?
46982What is it?
46982What is that?
46982What is the matter with you?
46982What, thou knowest me yet? 46982 What,"they reply,"thou knowest naught of the marvellous gold?
46982Who art thou,he says,"who appearest to me so beautiful and so grave?"
46982Who is it?
46982Who prevented him from beholding the Grail and its blessings?
46982Who wounded it?
46982Whom does this casket that you bear in sorrow enclose?
46982Why dost thou chide?
46982A cry is immediately heard:"In what school have you studied?
46982And approaching two knights who descend from the castle he cries:"Greetings to you: how does Amfortas find himself to- day?
46982Are the enchantments of music capable of working this miracle?
46982Behold the snowy plumage stained with blood, the drooping wings, the dying glance,--Dost thou recognize thy fault?"
46982But Isolde?
46982But Wagner had not ceased to think of it, and who knows if at this moment Paris was not the aim of his dreams?
46982But how should I be received?
46982But the rules, what has he done with them?
46982Can repose exist for such a mind, always pushing irresistibly forward and higher?
46982Does a theatre exist in Paris, this world''s capital, where the great works, lyrical and dramatic, of the entire world may be represented?
46982Does he laugh now, and does he jeer at me by thy month, thou bride of the devil?
46982Has the new generation ever seen the representations of this master''s greatest works?
46982How earnest thou here, and from what place?"
46982How is that?"
46982I already feel the shadow of death upon me, and must I return once again to life?
46982I hoped and waited for an answer with extreme anxiety: would it come?
46982I remember, among others, this phrase:"Since the public at the opera do not like my music why inflict it upon them?"
46982Is it not in her arms that the King of the Grail forgot his holy duties?
46982Is it not on her account that he now suffers and writhes in the cruel flame of guilty desire?
46982Is she not his twin sister, formerly carried off from the devastated fireside?
46982Is there any sort of indignity or outrage which has been spared him in his own country?
46982May it not be his mother''s soul?
46982Must I behold the Grail yet again to- day and live?
46982Must I die, no longer sustained by my Saviour?"
46982Of what good is this balm?
46982Oh, eternal sleep, thou only blessing, how attain thee?"
46982Tell us thou hast known Klingsor?
46982They all fear the valiant youth"--"Who fears me, say?"
46982They question him:"From whence dost thou come?
46982Too audacious Amfortas, who could''st have restrained thyself when armed with this lance, thou resolvedst to attack the magician?
46982Was this letter really from him?
46982Well, where do you imagine I am now?"
46982Well, where is Victor Hugo''s theatre?
46982What had this faithful swan done to thee?
46982What is it now to thee?
46982What is the wound and its agony of pain compared with the infernal suffering of being damned here to officiate?
46982What is thy name?
46982Where may he find strength with which to defend himself?
46982Which of you would force me to live since you can give me nothing but death?
46982Who has sent thee?"
46982Who is good?"
46982Who troubles himself about Calderon, Schiller, Goethe, Shakspeare?
46982Who will come to his aid in this bitter distress?
46982Who will do combat with me?"
46982and the tabulature,--the rules laid down in the tables?
46982can no one measure the torment which the sight that transports you awakens in me?
46982cried Elsa,"thou who defendest me in my distress, how could I do other than faithfully keep to the law thou imposest upon me?"
46982dost thou remember him, whom grief and distress have bent so low?
46982she cries with a harsh laugh,"would''st thou be chaste?"
46982what have I ever remembered?
46982who are you masters?"
46982who is the criminal?"
46982who says that?"
7834Cornwall? 7834 Did you not slay my uncle?"
7834No, no,she replies,"I dare not-- yet how I should like to!--but what would Masetto say?"
7834What land?
7834What would King Marke say were I to slay_ his best servant_?
7834Why do you hate me?
7834Are we to suppose that after all that happened on board the ship she consented to become the wife of King Marke?
7834But I can not hope to make my own position clear without descending to the foundations of all art, of all life, without asking: what is drama?
7834Can we apply this distinction to music?
7834Can we wonder that the world''s head was turned by such a gigantic personality?
7834Does it not tell us more than all the outpourings of Oulibichef?
7834Does she love Tristan before they drink the potion?
7834Does, for example,"one revolution of the sun"mean twelve hours or twenty- four?
7834Dost thou ask of Tristan, beloved lady?
7834Has Isolde started on the voyage to be the bride of King Marke with her own consent?
7834He continues: How has this foretaste( of eternal night) departed from me?
7834He replies:"Our love?
7834Him there who shirks my gaze, and looks on the ground in shame and fear?
7834His moral sense tells him that this ought not to be; there must be some delusion; is it in nature or is it in his own understanding?
7834How can death ever destroy that?
7834How could Isolde be mine in the bright light of day?
7834How else could we endure to contemplate the failure and destruction of a Lear, a Wallenstein, a Deianira, an Antigone?
7834How is such a miracle possible?
7834How many have inherited his spirit?
7834How then can it be possible for music to be a vehicle of thought?
7834In all the vast mass how much is there which was worth the writing, or can be read with any profit by reasonable people?
7834Is that what is troubling you?
7834Is this life to count for nothing?
7834Isolde, scarcely yet realizing that this is indeed the only possible ending, asks( 139''4):"Must then daylight and death together end our love?"
7834Now he calls her to his own, to show her his possession and heritage; how should she refuse?
7834Now_ he_ turns to her smiling and asks:"_ Soll ich lauschen_?"
7834Or that Tristan''s reasons for carrying off Isolde are clear to him from Marke''s account?
7834Or the_ Upanishads_?
7834Or this, in speaking of the formation of the opera and the demand for better libretti after the period of Spontini?
7834Popule meus, quid feci tibi?
7834Shall I call thee a yearning memory that has driven me once more to the light of day?
7834Shall I request him to wait upon you?
7834She has now attained full insight, and when he finally and seriously puts the question to her:"Shall I return once more to the day?"
7834She recalls Isolde''s strange and cold behaviour on parting from her parents in Ireland, and on the voyage; why is she thus?
7834She turns to Brangäne, and with a look of the utmost scorn, indicating Tristan, she asks: What thinkst thou of the slave?
7834Sick and weary in my power, why did I not then smite thee?
7834The wound?
7834Tristan has taken her lover from her, and does he now dare to mock her?
7834Tristan, shall I have atonement?
7834Under which heading are we to class, for example, Plato''s_ Republic_?
7834Was she not thine who chose thee?
7834Was this a fault in Wagner?
7834Were mighty death standing before me threatening body and life-- that life which so gladly I resign to my love-- how could its stroke reach our love?
7834What can it have to do with"temperance, courage, liberality"?
7834What did the wicked day lie to thee that thou shouldst betray thy beloved who was destined for thee?
7834What didst thou vow, oh woman?
7834What else but the art- collections and musical performances?
7834What hast thou to answer?
7834What sane- minded person can possibly take an interest in a succession of childish tricks played by two lovesick boobies upon a half- witted old man?
7834What would King Marke say if I were to slay his best servant who has preserved for him crown and realm?
7834What, for example, could be more admirable than this description of Mozart?
7834When Morold lived, who would have dared to offer us such an insult?...
7834Where are we?
7834Whither, oh mother, hast thou bestowed the might over the sea and the storm?
7834Who has never had the memory of his home or of some place familiar to his childhood recalled by the scent of a flower or a plant?
7834Who has not met with such?
7834Who shall say?
7834Why could he not have lowered the curtain on the lovers united with Marke''s full approval?
7834Why did not the poet take the opportunity offered and spare us the harrowing scenes at the end?
7834Why did the very name of Italian opera become a by- word for all that is frivolous and inartistic in dramatic art?
7834Why may we not accept it as it is evidently intended?
7834Why, for example, should a given melody in thirds on two bassoons denote a ring?
7834Why, then, did it not succeed?
7834and why should it bear a thematic kinship to another melody denoting Walhall?
7834aut in quo contristavi te?
7834how seems she to thee as a bride?
7834or the book of_ Job_?
7834the wonder of all lands, the much- belauded man, the hero without rival, the guard and ban of glory?
7834what are its aims, and how does it express them?
7834what is human life which it reflects?
7834where?
7834who has not felt their power?
54426How now, ye secret black and midnight hags; what is''t ye do?
54426If Tristan is under any obligation to you, how can he discharge it better than by making you Mark''s queen? 54426 Unloved by the lordliest man, yet always near him, how could I bear that anguish?"
54426Will the gold make pretty ornaments for women?
54426A backward gaze on earth they fix, And ask,"Where doth dear Music go?
54426A harmony?
54426AUX ITALIENS I.--ITALIAN OPERA OF TO- DAY What do ye singing?
54426And Loge?
54426And then we wonder if the musically unprogressive will still be clinging to their jingling classic,"Lucia di Lammermoor"?
54426Are not those, with the matchless comedy of manners,"Die Meistersinger,"enough for one mind to have created?
54426Are these things beautiful?
54426Are they sincere, or does Wagner shadow forth just a suspicion of the dishonesty which lurks in the utterance?
54426Are we afraid of it?
54426Brünnhilde complains:"Why are you angry at me, father?"
54426But does it tell all?
54426But if he failed( and who can doubt that he did after studying the bloodless philosophy of the last product of his genius?
54426But what can we ask?
54426But what do we find in"Parsifal"?
54426But who ever expected to find a consistent logic in the mind of fair woman, even a resident of high Olympus?
54426But who thinks of all this while the performance is in progress?
54426But why go farther with this catalogue?
54426Call ye this a hero of all the world?
54426Can any one show that it has a direct connection with the development of the story?
54426Did Joseph of Arimathea catch the precious drops in it; and was it really the vessel used at the Last Supper of Jesus and his apostles?
54426Did Wagner realize the fathomless depths of his own sarcasm here?
54426Did he see the ridiculous aspect of it?
54426Did the blood of Christ ever sanctify it?
54426Did you ever chance to hear his"Chansons de Miarka,"settings of texts of Jean Richepin''s"Miarka, the Bear''s Foundling"?
54426Do they need a model?
54426Even if he himself did the wooing for his uncle, why should you object?
54426From this Wagner could not escape, even in his"Parsifal,"for Kundry, in the final scene, dies of what?
54426Having turned upon the hand that sought to benefit her, what does she?
54426How came Wagner not to remember the law of operatic tradition?
54426How came Wagner to fail in his puerile attempt to make a drama out of a supposed incident in the life of Christ?
54426How can the dotard Wotan sit by the hearthstone playing at riddles with Mime and not feel the breath of Loge on his neck?
54426How did Siegfried learn his own musical theme?
54426How long did it take the musician to discover that the Virgin was not such inspiring musical material as Mary Magdalen?
54426How long was it before the musicians ceased to content themselves with their tone pictures of ocean waves and murmuring streams?
54426How many of our ultra- refined orchestral studies in logic will stand examination in the searching light of that proclamation?
54426How many viewless ages yet shall run before the process be complete?
54426How much introspection is there in Wotan''s interesting interview with the unseen Fafner?
54426How much more necessary is it to read Maeterlinck''s"Death of Tintagiles"in order to understand Charles Martin Loeffler?
54426How much more of German mystic philosophy, of mediævalism, of the teachings of Siddartha, and lastly of pure paganism?
54426How much of all this did Wagner perceive when he was constructing his extraordinary drama in four plays?
54426How often shall we who are treading the downward slopes of life croon that old couplet and yearn for the cradle songs of Schubert and Beethoven?
54426Howsoever these things be, the ultimate question remains: Will the compositions of Mr. Strauss and his kind stand the test of Ambros?
54426II.--THE CLASSIC OF THE UNPROGRESSIVE But how may he find Arcady Who hath nor youth nor melody?
54426III.--WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
54426If the lovers of"Lucia"are unprogressive, is, then, a great singer who still sings this part their leader?
54426If we may go so far, how are we to be estopped from prying further into the mysteries of musical depiction?
54426Is Kundry to be explained?
54426Is Parsifal to be analyzed?
54426Is Strauss not a maker, but a product?
54426Is he not only a musical Rabelais, but also that malodorous jest of a Rabelaisian brain, Gargantua himself?
54426Is it art?
54426Is it not a purely Wagnerian touch?
54426Is that a heroic act?
54426Is the embodiment of craft absent?
54426Is the embodiment of subtle psychologic problems in tone hostile to unaffected beauty?
54426Is the green glass chalice which now reposes peacefully in Genoa a holy vessel?
54426Is their æsthetic basis lofty and wholesome?
54426Is their æsthetic centre of gravity within themselves?
54426It is Loge''s triumph, is it not?
54426It was a long way round, was it not?
54426More bitter wars than that have been waged for the sake of acquiring wealth and power, and to what end?
54426Must husbands have had outings in the elemental days even as now?
54426Must the lyric drama follow the march of symphonic music into the screaming regions of the Strauss soul analysis?
54426Now what happens?
54426Now, what has Edward Elgar accomplished, and what does the character of his work indicate as the present tendency of oratorio?
54426Oh, Siegfried and Fafner, Fafner and Siegfried, which of ye is the more comic?
54426Or is it all a beautiful chance?
54426Or is it all, this music of Strauss, a monstrous joke, and does the man laugh in his sleeve at the troubled world?
54426Or is it simply that certain good people to whom the theatre is a place accursed must have their dramatic excitements in some other form?
54426Or was the curse imposed solely that this theatrical picture might be introduced?
54426Shall we say that therefore Beethoven''s psychometry was saner and more artistic than that of Strauss and his few brothers in art?
54426She cries:"The drink, for whom?
54426So he turns to Loge, who comes waving and caracoling upon the scene-- to what theme?
54426The only question that remained to be solved after this was, How far would the musician go?
54426The wound certainly existed; but who can vouch for the preservation of the spear as an object of reverence?
54426These songs have atmosphere, and if it is painted in familiar and safe tints, who shall blame a man for assuring himself of correct methods?
54426Tristan?
54426WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
54426Was it strange that the primitive mind could not conceive a god who was himself the law?
54426Was the epic man inconstant of soul?
54426Was there any touch of Schopenhauer or Buddha in this?
54426Was there ever a Holy Grail?
54426We are driven inward upon the central and all- important question, How far can music go in the direction of depicting things which lie outside itself?
54426What does all this mean?
54426What does the man mean?
54426What effect has the disappearance of the futile gods upon the dramatic development of the story?
54426What evidence is there that Wagner perceived the full significance of the final triumph of Loge over the erring Wotan?
54426What had the Greek?
54426What has Strauss done in these works to"so get the start of the majestic world"?
54426What has become of the enlightenment by pity?
54426What has so got the start of the majestic art of music as to lead it to the grave?
54426What is it?
54426What is the real truth about this huge ragoût of mysticism and orchestration which in the looming shadows of the Festspielhaus is called"sacred"?
54426What is the result?
54426What is this work, after all, but a summary of the blind gropings of the imaginative Wagner after a philosophy beyond his reach?
54426What is this ye sing?
54426What kind of impression did this drama make upon the unprejudiced and equipoised mind?
54426What majestic development of the Erda theme is this we hear in the Dusk of the Gods motive?
54426What more can one say to recommend it to the general reader?
54426What music has Wagner evolved to body forth the traits and accessories of this godless deity?
54426What was a god to do who was short of power?
54426What was really in Wagner''s mind when he wrote that extraordinarily beautiful passage of song for Loge in the first scene of"Das Rheingold"?
54426What was to be done?
54426What will he do with her?
54426What, then, becomes of this manifestation of Wagnerian philosophy, this joyous tempter of wooden gods?
54426When she has tacitly consented to the theft of the gold, what does she?
54426Where are Brangäne''s heroics in the drama?
54426Where is Italian opera?
54426Which is the truer tale, the more convincing art?
54426Whither is it going?
54426Who are we, to make final conclusions and splutter our puny"Quod erat demonstrandum"?
54426Who was it said recently that the good Mr. Loeffler of Boston thought music in a scale of his own?
54426Who writes now an"overture, scherzo, and finale"?
54426Whoever before heard the lascivious harmony of the third made to chant a psalm of mischief?
54426Why all this pother about the sacrilege of putting the Holy Grail on the stage?
54426Why enact"Parsifal"and not this?
54426Why should it?
54426Why should we believe it incumbent upon us to uphold all that Wagner did?
54426With what heroine is she to be compared?
54426Would not a heroic nature have grasped the significance of the moment, and, foreseeing the approaching shame, have acquiesced in Isolde''s decision?
54426Yet how far beyond Liszt has the psychologic composition of to- day advanced?
54426Yet shall not Idea, subtle, crafty, remorseless, triumph at last?
47080''Who is there?'' 47080 A charade?
47080And does not that exasperate him?
47080And what is there so attractive about it?
47080Are these thine eyes?
47080At what hour?
47080But how is he able to maintain order and harmony in his harem, and to keep down jealousy and rivalry?
47080But the King, what does the King say?
47080Did he speak in the name of his Master?
47080Do you know how we were occupied when you arrived?
47080Do you know who she was?
47080Do you not see that she is fainting?
47080Do you recall that sentence of_ King Lear_,he asked me,"''The worst is not yet,''when they had said:''this is the worst''?
47080Dost thou still belong to me?
47080How can I, in the open streets? 47080 How,"said I,"could you believe that I would bring such a rabble here?"
47080In what way, and why?
47080Is he asleep?
47080Is this thy mouth?
47080It is incredible, is it not? 47080 Madeira at his age?"
47080May we have supper?
47080My beloved?
47080My darling, art thou truly mine?
47080My friends,I said to them,"in the face of a delicate situation do you feel the moral force to do something unusual, grand, heroic?"
47080Not in the service of the Master?
47080Oh, did you see?
47080Then Master, what will you be able to do here before Thursday?
47080Then there is a connection between you?
47080Then there was an original?
47080Thy heart?
47080True enough, but what?
47080What can such a word mean?
47080What dost thou seek, thou who comest up from below?
47080What is the matter? 47080 What on earth is that extraordinary word,''Dampfschifffahrtgesellschaft?''"
47080What people?
47080What time is it?
47080What will become of this precious paper, then?
47080What, do you imagine that I am intoxicated? 47080 Where do these beings come from?"
47080Where is the Alte Pferdestrasse?
47080Who is that young man?
47080Who is that?
47080Who is this Scheffer, then?
47080Will you come to see my gallery?
47080Would you like it?
47080''[ 2] The melancholy of the hour, the clear evening, the shining star and the pastoral life, it is all there; why seek for anything further?"
47080("Fidi, how big are you?")
47080******** De quel mica de neige vierge, De quelle moelle de roseau, De quelle hostie et de quel cierge A- t- on fait le blanc de sa peau?..."
47080A mystification?
47080A wager?
47080Adhere can I get the information necessary in order not to be misleading?"
47080Before Wagner, we two alone?"
47080But can I not persuade you to prolong your stay in Lucerne for a little, in order that the pleasure you grant me may not be too soon over?
47080But how can I feel any ill- will toward the King for his impatience?
47080But how should I be received?
47080But how?
47080But what architect would be capable of constructing this monument according to the ideas of the Master?
47080But what serious thing can have happened to bring you to my house so late?"
47080But why should we cause such a commotion amid the placid population of Lucerne?
47080But, all the same, we must not arrive too soon at Tribschen, and how should we pass the time until the fitting moment arrived?
47080By the lake?
47080Can you imagine my emotion in listening to them?
47080Could anything be going wrong?
47080Could it be possible that a tenor acclaimed by all should have so little vanity and be so nobly conscious of his artistic mission?
47080Could it be that he was a saint?
47080Could it be that we were surrounded by a luminous mist, visible to less fortunate mortals?
47080Could we be dreaming?
47080Did that ill- omened ship come to roam by night upon this impassable stream?
47080Do you love the Florentine style?
47080Do you not understand?
47080Does not his habit make a difference to them?"
47080Does not the staff still burden our hands?
47080For what purpose?
47080Greatly surprised and relieved I cried out, impulsively--"Will you authorise me to write that to Cosima?"
47080How could he foresee that this little slip of paper marked the end of all his troubles, and that happiness was in store for him?
47080How did they know?...
47080I demanded,"and whither do they go?"
47080I find that he has the very suave manners of a priest-- but how can he be a priest, and why are all these women so taken with him?
47080I have composed one myself, very absurd, but who could find a rhyme to add to it?
47080I was evidently out of the running, I was ignorant of everything: why that long black cassock?
47080I was greatly moved, troubled, even frightened, for was it not a presumption, almost a sacrilege, to surprise in this way the sacred mystery?
47080In fact, as soon as we were alone, he said to me in a low voice:--"You have seen Cosima?"
47080In whom could I confide?
47080Is n''t that magnificent?
47080Is not the drinking horn of the pilgrim still hanging from our shoulders?
47080Is that in the play?
47080Is that why he grew so pale?"
47080Of this character one did not ask,"Who is he?"
47080Poet, musician, philosopher-- what, indeed, was he not?
47080Shall I let him go?
47080So the barbers of Lucerne were Wagnerians?
47080The first telegram which arrived the next day was for Richter:"Will they really offer me such an insult as to give my work to- morrow?"
47080The lady starts:"Who can be ringing at my house at such an hour?"
47080The management was stubborn: nevertheless it would have to concede one point; who would conduct the orchestra, if not Richter?
47080They ask him:"Fidi, wie gross bist du?"
47080To be sure, we had never before seen him, but how could anyone fail to recognise him?
47080Toward him who has endeavoured in every way to put through the theatre project which would have permitted the bringing out of my work as a whole?
47080Truly it was very terrifying; what would come of all this mystery?
47080Was he a priest?
47080Was it because he had an intimation of some change, or had they sent him to bear us a last salute?
47080Was it because they knew us to be friends of Richard Wagner, and because the jealously- guarded retreat in which he lived was open for us?
47080Were his enemies still so implacable, and what could they do?
47080What can I say?
47080What can he mean?
47080What can that word mean?"
47080What could be happening?
47080What could he wish to say?
47080What could one add to that?
47080What could result from all these artful under- hand dealings?
47080What had he to fear?
47080What has happened?
47080What has she done to you?"
47080What in the world could it be?
47080What is happening?
47080What plans of future glory have they already formed for him?"
47080What would it be in French?
47080What would they say, and what attitude of mind would they reveal?"
47080Where is he going?"
47080Who would not feel the fascination and submit joyfully to the supremacy of such a genius?
47080Why are you so late?
47080With that smooth- shaven face, had he also a tonsure in the locks that fell long and straight to his shoulders?
47080Would attention be paid to the author''s suggestions?
47080Would everything be ready?
47080Would there still be boats at that hour?
47080You could find time for that?"
47080You will come presently to''Tribschen,''will you not, as soon as you have rested a little?
47080[ 3] But since there are no airs?
47080and did they really imagine that we would proceed to play at charades in the city?
47080asked Villiers,"always so silent and buried in his beard?
47080cried I,"have you not sent it yet?
47080do they really believe so?
47080he said,"are you there?
47080was he already so far advanced in that tremendous work?"
47080what does it matter?
47080where have you been?
47080without seeing even one rehearsal of your work?"
6443''And might not a widower try?'' 6443 ''And shall this woman here,''he asks,''whom I love, go with me and with you there?''
6443''And what people,''asks the dwarf,''live upon the mountains?'' 6443 ''And who live up among the clouds?''
6443''But could I pass through the fire?'' 6443 ''But suppose,''says the Fire God,''that some one should steal the ring from you while you were asleep?''
6443''Fear?'' 6443 ''What must I give you?''
6443''Who is that,''he thinks,''covered with the shield? 6443 Ambrosia?
6443And did you really, really see it all in the fire?
6443And is that all?
6443And what became of the princess?
6443And what now of the hero? 6443 And whom do you think I see now?
6443And will the knight get well again?
6443And wo n''t the knight come back at all?
6443And you can see all those things in the fire?
6443Are there any marshmallows left?
6443But how can anybody see such things? 6443 But oh, what of those to whom the letters were sent?
6443But the new year will begin to- morrow,I said,"and it will be just as good as the old one, will it not?"
6443But what is this more wonderful sight still that he sees? 6443 But what made the man who was wrong ever fight at all,"the little girl asked,"if everybody believed that he was sure to get beaten?"
6443But why ca n''t I see such things as you see?
6443Can you? 6443 Did you want to know more about the Daughter of the God and the Hero who knew no fear?"
6443Do you mean Jupiter and Juno?
6443Do you see how very wrong it is for the knight to go away after the goddess into the mountain? 6443 Do you think anybody could see anything in a fire like that?"
6443Do you want him to be a knight?
6443Does she, indeed? 6443 He sees all this just as plainly as I see it here in the fire; but do you think he is afraid?
6443Is he a knight?
6443Is he braver than the one that killed the dragon?
6443Is n''t it time,she said,"that the daughter of somebody else was asleep, too, if she wants to grow to be a woman?"
6443Is she Venus then?
6443Is she the one that had the apples?
6443It ends just like''The Sleeping Beauty,''does n''t it?
6443Now the stranger looks stern and says:''But who shall mend the sword that it may be fit for the fight?'' 6443 Oh, I believe anything you say,"said the child,"but where is the green knight?"
6443Oh, that''s the way they always are,said the little girl;"is she beautifuller than the one that had the fire all round her?"
6443Perhaps you know what this is, but I am afraid you do n''t Do you remember what I told you once about the Holy Grail? 6443 The town clerk hobbles away, and now who should come in but the goldsmith''s daughter herself?
6443Were the apples like that-- oh, what was it? 6443 What are you two doing here all alone?
6443What can you see in it?
6443What do you mean by''the people in those days''?
6443You can see things all around the fire, just the same as in it, ca n''t you?
6443''A pleasant- looking fellow you are,''he says;''can you teach me what fear is?
6443''And what will you give us now,''they cry,''if we will untie you and let you go?''
6443''But why should he not win?''
6443''Can it be,''he thinks,''that this is the Fool, taught by pity, for whom we were to wait?''
6443''Did you kill this poor bird?''
6443''Do you know what you have seen?''
6443''Do you not know,''the old knight asks him,''what holy day this is, and that none now should come here bearing arms?''
6443''Have you ever known fear?''
6443''Have you not a daughter?''
6443''Is the knight awake?''
6443''Is the ransom ready for us?''
6443''Is the ship nowhere in sight?''
6443''This is my daughter,''he says;''is she not all and more than all that I told you?''
6443''What is the matter?''
6443''What people, then,''he asks for his first question,''live under the ground?''
6443''Why should we try all these things,''he thinks again,''when none can help him but the simple Fool?''
6443''Why, do you see this magic helmet of mine?
6443Ah, when will her hero come back to her?
6443And because of that did his sweetheart perhaps lose a ribbon or a trinket?
6443And how does your mother know what I can see in the fire or what I ca n''t see?"
6443And is there any thing that such a hero loves better than a good sword?
6443And what do you see in the fire now?"
6443And who do you think is working at the forge?
6443And whom do you think the king''s new bride sees in all this happy crowd?
6443Are the King''s men coming then to carry back the princess, perhaps to kill the knight?
6443Are the flowers alive, and are they running about and playing together?
6443Are they the sea fairies, dancing and playing together and calming the water, to bring the sailors safe back to their homes, do you think?"
6443But a harder task than all is to come for the Father of the Gods; how shall he deal with his own daughter, who has disobeyed him?
6443But how do you suppose the minstrel knight likes it?
6443But what was this other music that followed it?
6443But who would do it and give up her own life?''
6443Can he save her and go back again to the rage of the storm and live in it forever, live in it till doomsday?
6443Can you hear that too?"
6443Can you not see her yet?''
6443Can you see them all the time?"
6443Can you see them?
6443Can you think how a bunch of sweet, fresh, red and white roses would look if it should get terribly angry?
6443Can you think of anything more horrible?
6443Did he catch at this very stick as he sank?
6443Did his wife wait and wait for him at home, till his shipmate came and told her?
6443Did the captain''s daughter and the young mate sit under it and whisper stories to each other in the calm evenings of the voyage?
6443Did you ever hear of such absurd conduct from a young man dressed in green?
6443Did you ever hear of the Holy Grail?
6443Did you see the big, bright spark that flew up the chimney?
6443Do n''t you know you''ll catch your death o''cold sitting here so long?"
6443Do you know who Davy Jones is?
6443Do you see, then, why he has kept him and fed him and brought him up so carefully?
6443Does everything in the place know that he is here, too, and feel sad to see him lying sick and wounded and weak and weary?
6443Does it not tell of green palm- groves and sunny skies and warm breezes?
6443For what was he to any woman that she should give her life, or even an hour of it, for him?
6443How could anybody sing when he was thinking of that?
6443How do you see them?"
6443I mean can anybody?"
6443Is it a pleasant thing to have or to know or to do?
6443Is it something I ought to know how to do, something you ought to have taught me and have not?
6443Is that all you care for a promise?
6443Is this the promise that the Father of the Gods made to his daughter?
6443It must be a knight, but is it not hard for him to lie there all dressed in armor?''
6443Now can you?
6443THE HERO WHO KNEW NO FEAR"Do n''t you think the fire is very good to- night?"
6443That he is a fool the old man thinks is clear enough, but how could he kill the swan?
6443That is enough, is it not?"
6443The Father of the Gods hesitates; how can he get the treasure?
6443The child came to me with a face full of perplexity and said:"What do you suppose mamma just told me?"
6443The king asks, just as everybody always asks when he is told that,''Whom do you want me to have?''
6443This is a good answer, and the stranger asks again:''What sword must he use to kill the dragon?''
6443Was his life or his peace better than another''s, that another''s should be given for his?
6443Was it again the bells of Monsalvat, this soft chime that came on the still air?
6443Was it blown away from the mast in a gale?
6443Was the net torn when it broke away, and did the fisherman lose some fish?
6443What can she do?
6443What do the nymphs say to the dwarf?
6443What do you think became of her?"
6443What does it look like to you?"
6443What does it to you?"
6443What has he done?
6443What is it like?''
6443What is there in her face that could melt into a woman''s compassion and pity?
6443What man cruel enough to kill this beautiful, harmless swan can have found his way here, where none can come who is not chosen by the Grail?
6443What right had he to expect anything when he meant to give nothing?
6443What shall he do now?
6443What shall he do?
6443Where are his thoughts now?
6443Where is he?
6443Where is he?"
6443Where is the sweetness of a woman''s lips?
6443Who is he that has done it?
6443Who is the strongest of heroes whom the Father of the Gods loves?''
6443Why should any woman love him when there were so many others for her to love?
6443Why should her coming bring him hope?
6443Why should they love such men as these and never him?
6443Will it not be good for her to remember Brünnhilde''s fearless truth, Senta''s sacrifice, Elizabeth''s constancy?
6443Will she give up the ring?
6443Will she help the gods to find the rest that they long for?
6443Will their great father let the Goddess of Love be taken from them again, and must they all grow old and die, that he may keep this ring?
6443With her to help him, what can he not do?
6443Would he find and help her in her greatest need, like Lohengrin?
6443Would he only love her and sing a song for her, like Walter?
6443Would he seek her out and come to her like Siegfried, through struggles and through fire?
6443Yet where is the tenderness that one would seek in a woman''s eyes?
6443You can puff yourself up like a dragon, of course, but can you make yourself small as easily?
6443he answers;''no, what is fear?
6443who''s attending to the fire?
6443you know the name of it-- that the other gods used to eat?"
51710But what do I see? 51710 This is a defect,"he cries,"but can you believe that it may also appear as an advantage?"
51710Where are my natural allies, with whom I may struggle against the ever waxing and ever more oppressive pretensions of modern erudition?
51710Where are they who are suffering under the yoke of modern institutions?
51710--but over whom?
51710A seeming dance of joy enjoined upon a sufferer?
51710Airs of overbearing pride assumed by one who is sick to the backbone?
51710Am I therefore to keep silence?
51710An accident?
51710And are n''t you accustomed to criticism on the part of German philosophers?
51710And how would it console a workman who chanced to get one of his limbs caught in the mechanism to know that this oil was trickling over him?
51710And is it your own sweet wish, Great Master, to found the religion of the future?
51710And now ask yourselves, ye generation of to- day, Was all this composed_ for you_?
51710And will not the Meistersingers continue to acquaint men, even in the remotest ages to come, with the nature of Germany''s soul?
51710And, thirdly, how does he write his books?
51710And, viewed in this light, how does Strauss''s claim to originality appear?
51710Answer us here, then, at least: whence, whither, wherefore all science, if it do not lead to culture?
51710Are we still Christians?
51710At this stage we bring the other side of Wagner''s nature into view: but how shall we describe this other side?
51710Belike to barbarity?
51710But for whose benefit is this entertainment given?
51710But the question,"Are we still Christians?"
51710But what is the oil called which trickles down upon the hammers and stampers?
51710But what were his feelings withal?
51710But where does this imperative hail from?
51710But whoever can this Sweetmeat- Beethoven of Strauss''s be?
51710But why not, Great Master?
51710But would anybody believe that it might equally be a sign of something wanting?
51710But, in any case, would not complete annihilation be better than the wretched existing state of affairs?
51710Dare ye mention Schiller''s name without blushing?
51710Did Nietzsche, perchance, spare the Germans?
51710Do you, Master Metaphysician, perhaps intend to instruct the social democrats in the art of getting kicks?
51710Does it not seem almost like a fairy tale, to be able to come face to face with such a personality?
51710For are we not in the heaven of heavens?
51710For do we not all supply each other''s deficiencies?
51710For_ it_ no one has time-- and yet for what shall science have time if not for culture?
51710Granted; but what if the carters should begin building?
51710Had he such a purpose, such an ideal, such a direction?
51710Had not even Goethe, in his time, once grown tired of attending the rehearsals of his Iphigenia?
51710Has not a haven been found for all wanderers on high and desert seas, and has not peace settled over the face of the waters?
51710Have we still a religion?
51710Hence, if it be intended to regard German erudition as a thing apart, in what sense can German culture be said to have conquered?
51710How are they resuscitated?
51710How can I still bear it?"
51710How can we protect this homeless art through the ages until that remote future is reached?
51710How can ye, my worthy Philistines, think of Lessing without shame?
51710How could it have been possible for a type like that of the Culture- Philistine to develop?
51710How is it possible for any one to remain faithful here, to be completely steadfast?
51710How is this possible?
51710If now the strains of our German masters''music burst upon a mass of mankind sick to this extent, what is really the meaning of these strains?
51710In sooth, Great Master, why have you written such fusty little chapters?
51710In this, we have the answer to our first question: How does the believer in the new faith picture his heaven?
51710In what other artist do we meet with the like of this, in the same proportion?
51710In what work of art, of any kind, has the body and soul of the Middle Ages ever been so thoroughly depicted as in Lohengrin?
51710Influence-- the greatest amount of influence-- how?
51710Is it a shadow?
51710Is it reality?
51710Is this a sign that Strauss has never ceased to be a Christian theologian, and that he has therefore never learned to be a philosopher?
51710It can not matter so very much, therefore, even if one do give oneself away; for what could not the purple mantle of triumph conceal?
51710Let us imagine some one''s falling asleep while reading these chapters-- what would he most probably dream about?
51710Let us regard this as_ one_ of Wagner''s answers to the question, What does music mean in our time?
51710Now, however, our second question must be answered: How far does the courage lent to its adherents by this new faith extend?
51710Now, in this world of forms and intentional misunderstandings, what purpose is served by the appearance of souls overflowing with music?
51710Now, to whom does this captain of Philistines address these words?
51710Or is"new belief"merely an ironical concession to ordinary parlance?
51710Really?
51710Scaliger used to say:"What does it matter to us whether Montaigne drank red or white wine?"
51710Secondly, how far does the courage lent him by the new faith extend?
51710See the flashing eyes that glance contemptuously over your heads, the deadly red cheek-- do these things mean nothing to you?
51710Should one not answer: Music could not have been born in our time?
51710Should real music make itself heard, because mankind of all creatures_ least deserves to hear it, though it perhaps need it most_?
51710So the asceticism and self- denial of the ancient anchorite and saint was merely a form of_ Katzenjammer_?
51710Surely their object is not the earning of bread or the acquiring of posts of honour?
51710This is Wagner''s second answer to the question, What is the meaning of music in our times?
51710Thus his thoughts concentrated themselves upon the question, How do the people come into being?
51710Was it possible that we were the victims of the same hallucination as that to which our friend had been subjected in his dream?
51710We have our culture, say her sons; for have we not our"classics"?
51710What can it matter to us whether or not the little chapters were freshly written?
51710What does our Culture- Philistinism say of these seekers?
51710What is our conception of the universe?
51710What is our rule of life?
51710What is so generally interesting in them?
51710What merit should we then discover in the piety of those whom Strauss calls"We"?
51710What part did myth and music play in modern society, wherever they had not been actually sacrificed to it?
51710What power is sufficiently influential to deny this existence?
51710What secret meaning had the word"fidelity"to his whole being?
51710What then does its presence amongst us signify?
51710What, for instance, must Alexander the Great have seen in that instant when he caused Asia and Europe to be drunk out of the same goblet?
51710Whatever does he do it for?
51710Where is that number of souls that I wish to see become a people, that ye may share the same joys and comforts with me?
51710Where is the Strauss- Darwin morality here?
51710Which of us can exist without the waters of purification?
51710Which of us has not soiled his hands and heart in the disgusting idolatry of modern culture?
51710Whither, above all, has the courage gone?
51710Whither?
51710Who among you would renounce power, knowing and having learned that power is evil?
51710Who could now persist in doubting the existence of this incomparable skill?
51710Who does not hear the voice which cries,"Be silent and cleansed"?
51710Who, indeed, will enlighten us concerning this Sweetmeat- Beethoven, if not Strauss himself-- the only person who seems to know anything about him?
51710Whoever would have desired to possess the confessions, say, of a Ranke or a Mommsen?
51710Why are there no eyes to see, no ears to hear, no hearts to feel, no brains to understand?
51710Why did this star seem to him the brightest and purest of all?
51710Why is there no male audience in England willing to listen to a manly and daring philosophy?
51710Why should one, without further ceremony, immediately think of Christianity at the sound of the words"old faith"?
51710Why, pray, art thou there at all?
51710Will they not do more than acquaint men of it?
51710and Whence?
51710and even granting its development, how was it able to rise to the powerful position of supreme judge concerning all questions of German culture?
51710and of what order are his religious documents?
51710and where are the Siegfrieds, among you?
51710and where are the free and fearless, developing and blossoming in innocent egoism?
51710if, for example, the Creator Himself had shared Lessing''s conviction of the superiority of struggle to tranquil possession?"
5652But what do I see? 5652 This is a defect,"he cries,"but can you believe that it may also appear as an advantage?"
5652Where are my natural allies, with whom I may struggle against the ever waxing and ever more oppressive pretensions of modern erudition? 5652 Where are they who are suffering under the yoke of modern institutions?"
5652--but over whom?
5652A defeat?
5652A seeming dance of joy enjoined upon a sufferer?
5652Airs of overbearing pride assumed by one who is sick to the backbone?
5652Am I therefore to keep silence?
5652An accident?
5652And are n''t you accustomed to criticism on the part of German philosophers?
5652And how would it console a workman who chanced to get one of his limbs caught in the mechanism to know that this oil was trickling over him?
5652And is it your own sweet wish, Great Master, to found the religion of the future?
5652And now ask yourselves, ye generation of to- day, Was all this composed for you?
5652And will not the Meistersingers continue to acquaint men, even in the remotest ages to come, with the nature of Germany''s soul?
5652And, thirdly, how does he write his books?
5652And, viewed in this light, how does Strauss''s claim to originality appear?
5652Answer us here, then, at least: whence, whither, wherefore all science, if it do not lead to culture?
5652Are we still Christians?
5652At this stage we bring the other side of Wagner''s nature into view: but how shall we describe this other side?
5652Belike to barbarity?
5652But for whose benefit is this entertainment given?
5652But the question,"Are we still Christians?"
5652But what is the oil called which trickles down upon the hammers and stampers?
5652But what were his feelings withal?
5652But where does this imperative hail from?
5652But whoever can this Sweetmeat- Beethoven of Strauss''s be?
5652But why not, Great Master?
5652But would anybody believe that it might equally be a sign of something wanting?
5652But, in any case, would not complete annihilation be better than the wretched existing state of affairs?
5652Dare ye mention Schiller''s name without blushing?
5652Did Nietzsche, perchance, spare the Germans?
5652Do you, Master Metaphysician, perhaps intend to instruct the social democrats in the art of getting kicks?
5652Does it not seem almost like a fairy tale, to be able to come face to face with such a personality?
5652For are we not in the heaven of heavens?
5652For do we not all supply each other''s deficiencies?
5652For it no one has time-- and yet for what shall science have time if not for culture?
5652Granted; but what if the carters should begin building?
5652Had he such a purpose, such an ideal, such a direction?
5652Had not even Goethe, m his time, once grown tired of attending the rehearsals of his Iphigenia?
5652Has not a haven been found for all wanderers on high and desert seas, and has not peace settled over the face of the waters?
5652Have we still a religion?
5652Hence, if it be intended to regard German erudition as a thing apart, in what sense can German culture be said to have conquered?
5652How are they resuscitated?
5652How can I still bear it?"
5652How can we protect this homeless art through the ages until that remote future is reached?
5652How can ye, my worthy Philistines, think of Lessing without shame?
5652How could it have been possible for a type like that of the Culture- Philistine to develop?
5652How is it possible for any one to remain faithful here, to be completely steadfast?
5652How is this possible?
5652If now the strains of our German masters''music burst upon a mass of mankind sick to this extent, what is really the meaning of these strains?
5652In sooth, Great Master, why have you written such fusty little chapters?
5652In this, we have the answer to our first question: How does the believer in the new faith picture his heaven?
5652In what other artist do we meet with the like of this, in the same proportion?
5652In what work of art, of any kind, has the body and soul of the Middle Ages ever been so thoroughly depicted as in Lohengrin?
5652Influence-- the greatest amount of influence-- how?
5652Is it a shadow?
5652Is it reality?
5652Is this a sign that Strauss has never ceased to be a Christian theologian, and that he has therefore never learned to be a philosopher?
5652It can not matter so very much, therefore, even if one do give oneself away; for what could not the purple mantle of triumph conceal?
5652Let us imagine some one''s falling asleep while reading these chapters-- what would he most probably dream about?
5652Let us regard this as one of Wagner''s answers to the question, What does music mean in our time?
5652Now, however, our second question must be answered: How far does the courage lent to its adherents by this new faith extend?
5652Now, in this world of forms and intentional misunderstandings, what purpose is served by the appearance of souls overflowing with music?
5652Now, to whom does this captain of Philistines address these words?
5652Or is"new belief"merely an ironical concession to ordinary parlance?
5652Really?
5652Scaliger used to say:"What does it matter to us whether Montaigne drank red or white wine?"
5652Secondly, how far does the courage lent him by the new faith extend?
5652See the flashing eyes that glance contemptuously over your heads, the deadly red cheek-- do these things mean nothing to you?
5652Should one not answer: Music could not have been born in our time?
5652Should real music make itself heard, because mankind of all creatures least deserves to hear it, though it perhaps need it most?
5652So the asceticism and self- denial of the ancient anchorite and saint was merely a form of Katzenjammer?
5652Surely their object is not the earning of bread or the acquiring of posts of honour?
5652This is Wagner''s second answer to the question, What is the meaning of music in our times?
5652Thus his thoughts concentrated themselves upon the question, How do the people come into being?
5652Was it possible that we were the victims of the same hallucination as that to which our friend had been subjected in his dream?
5652We have our culture, say her sons; for have we not our"classics"?
5652What can it matter to us whether or not the little chapters were freshly written?
5652What does our Culture- Philistinism say of these seekers?
5652What is our conception of the universe?
5652What is our rule of life?
5652What is so generally interesting in them?
5652What merit should we then discover in the piety of those whom Strauss calls"We"?
5652What part did myth and music play in modern society, wherever they had not been actually sacrificed to it?
5652What power is sufficiently influential to deny this existence?
5652What secret meaning had the word"fidelity"to his whole being?
5652What then does its presence amongst us signify?
5652What, for instance, must Alexander the Great have seen in that instant when he caused Asia and Europe to be drunk out of the same goblet?
5652Whatever does he do it for?
5652Where is that number of souls that I wish to see become a people, that ye may share the same joys and comforts with me?
5652Where is the Strauss- Darwin morality here?
5652Which of us can exist without the waters of purification?
5652Which of us has not soiled his hands and heart in the disgusting idolatry of modern culture?
5652Whither, above all, has the courage gone?
5652Whither?
5652Who among you would renounce power, knowing and having learned that power is evil?
5652Who could now persist in doubting the existence of this incomparable skill?
5652Who does not hear the voice which cries,"Be silent and cleansed"?
5652Who, indeed, will enlighten us concerning this Sweetmeat- Beethoven, if not Strauss himself-- the only person who seems to know anything about him?
5652Whoever would have desired to possess the confessions, say, of a Ranke or a Mommsen?
5652Why are there no eyes to see, no ears to hear, no hearts to feel, no brains to understand?
5652Why did this star seem to him the brightest and purest of all?
5652Why is there no male audience in England willing to listen to a manly and daring philosophy?
5652Why should one, without further ceremony, immediately think of Christianity at the sound of the words"old faith"?
5652Why, pray, art thou there at all?
5652Will they not do more than acquaint men of it?
5652and Whence?
5652and even granting its development, how was it able to rise to the powerful Position of supreme judge concerning all questions of German culture?
5652and of what order are his religious documents?
5652and where are the Siegfrieds, among you?
5652and where are the free and fearless, developing and blossoming in innocent egoism?
5652if, for example, the Creator Himself had shared Lessing''s conviction of the superiority of struggle to tranquil possession?"
27265A gigantic dragon I slew for the ring, and I am to part with it in exchange for the paws of a worthless bear?
27265Already I feel the night of death closing around me, and must I be forced back into life? 27265 Am I alive?..."
27265Am I in the way?
27265Am I, dwarf, in the second instance still to retain my head?
27265Among what heathen have you lived, not to be aware that this is the most holy Good- Friday? 27265 And I would endure it, do you think?
27265And how, my good fellow, shall you accomplish this?
27265And was your father indeed Wolf?
27265And what enemy?
27265And what may the great thing be,the dull august shrew inquires,"that a hero can do which the gods can not, through whose grace alone a hero acts?...
27265And what, Hagen, are we to do after that?
27265And when we have slaughtered the animals, what shall we do?
27265And you I ask, Elsa von Brabant, will you entrust your cause to a champion who shall fight for you under the judgment of God?
27265And you brought away no part of it?
27265And you took from the Hort nothing further?
27265Are we all here?
27265Are you asleep, Hagen, my son? 27265 Are you at your post?
27265Are you concerned for that?
27265Are you not afraid? 27265 Are you not one?"
27265Are you so niggardly?... 27265 Are you the one who killed the swan?"
27265Are you then dead?
27265As a foe? 27265 Ay,--why should you so particularly care?"
27265Beloved, where are your thoughts?
27265But can you not see, there is no more gold?
27265But how, Loge, should I learn the art to shape it?
27265But is he not, by reason of his perjury, reserved for my spear?
27265But my mother spoke the name?
27265But the Serpent- Worm which you slew, a fearsome fellow, was he not?
27265But this drink...falters the appalled girl,"for whom?"
27265But where loiters,he is inquiring,"the one whom God sent to the glory, the greatness of Brabant?"
27265But,remarks Wotan,"of what use is all that wealth in cheerless Nibelheim, where there is nothing to buy?"
27265Can you understand, too, the croaking of these ravens?
27265Dare you to mock me?
27265Dear little Eva, are you making a fool of me?
27265Did I not say so? 27265 Did I order you to fight for the Wälsung?"
27265Did I say anything of the sort?
27265Did my fate, sister, allure you? 27265 Did you gather anything from that torrent of words?"
27265Did you hear his affectionate greeting?
27265Did you hear nothing? 27265 Did you mean the name you spoke for me, who have no name?"
27265Do I find you in this hall which for so long time you have avoided? 27265 Do you acknowledge me as your rightful judge?"
27265Do you ask? 27265 Do you believe so?"
27265Do you doubt my heart?
27265Do you feign not to understand me?
27265Do you forget your mother''s magic? 27265 Do you hear it?"
27265Do you imagine it? 27265 Do you know that road?"
27265Do you know what it is Wotan wills? 27265 Do you know,"he asks further,"whereof you are accused?"
27265Do you not know my wish, when the dread of fulfilling it has kept you afar from my glance?
27265Do you see it, friends,--do you not see it?
27265Do you see me?
27265Do you swear it to me, Hagen, my hero?
27265Does it strike you as judicious?
27265Elsa, have you perfectly understood?
27265Erik, what is it?
27265For you I shall go to this trouble?
27265Friendly bird, I ask you now: will you assist my quest for a good comrade? 27265 Ha, child, dear Evchen, out so late?
27265Ha? 27265 Hagen, what have you done?"
27265Has he broken his word? 27265 Has not a shoe- maker his fill of troubles?"
27265Have you a daughter?
27265Have you finished? 27265 Have you met the ship on the seas,"sings Senta,"blood- red of sail and black of mast?
27265Have you really?
27265Have you taken leave of your senses... with you bond?
27265Heinrich, you?... 27265 Here, in this chair?"
27265Hopelessly, you say? 27265 Horn in hand,--what then?"
27265How dare you venture here, in danger as you are from the hand of every churl?
27265How did my father look?
27265How have I endured it?
27265How now, my lord, what is this you say? 27265 How shall I contrive to teach him fear?"
27265How shall I reward you for so much kindness, powerless and destitute as I am? 27265 How should you have received the ring from him?"
27265How then shall his followers further help him?
27265How you got here? 27265 How-- how could you commit such a wrong?"
27265How? 27265 How?...
27265I am come to look on, not to act,Wotan replies, grandly mild and unruffled;"who shall deny me a wanderer''s right of way?"
27265I ask you, therefore, Friedrich, Count von Telramund, will you, in life and death combat, entrust your cause to the judgment of God?
27265I hear you, harassed spirit; what message have you for my sleep?
27265If Evchen''s voice can strike out the candidate, of what use to me is my supremacy as a master?
27265If I rightly recognise the power,he speaks,"which has brought you to this land, you come to us sent by God?"
27265If I utter it aloud, shall I not be loosing the grasp of my will?
27265If it is an art, why am I unacquainted with it? 27265 If, of your graciousness, you call yourself happy, do you not give to me too the very happiness of Heaven?
27265In the hall of Walhalla shall I find none but the Father of Battles?
27265In the solitary forest, where I lived quiet and at peace, what had I done to you,Ortrud upbraids,"what had I done to you?
27265In what can you fail,speaks Siegfried''s brisk assurance,"if I stand by you?"
27265In what direction shall I go?
27265Is he in trouble? 27265 Is he pursued by the hostile kindred of the maid?"
27265Is it a practical joke you are playing on me? 27265 Is it already the slayer of the dragon?"
27265Is it the effect of tasting the blood?
27265Is it truly yourself?
27265Is she dreaming?
27265Is that your hand?
27265Is this insolence?
27265Is this your manner of hastening to set aright the evil bargain concluded by you?
27265Kurwenal... is it you? 27265 May I not rather go as your groom''s- man?
27265Might not a widower be successful?
27265Mr. Marker, how are you getting on?
27265Must I live?
27265My Kurwenal, you faithful friend, whose loyalty knows no wavering, how shall Tristan ever thank you? 27265 No weapon then can hurt him?"
27265Now where have you barbarian lived,they reply,"never to have heard of the Rhine- gold?"
27265Now, where, Mime, is your loving mate, that I may call her mother?
27265Oh, Elsa, what have you done to me? 27265 Oh, tell me, what shall your child do?"
27265Shall I in Walhalla be greeted gladsomely by a woman?
27265Shall I in Walhalla find Wälse, my own father?
27265Shall I see you again?
27265Shall I see you again?
27265Shall such a braggart go on bragging? 27265 Shall we descend through the Rhine?"
27265Shall we see whether neighbour Sachs be at home? 27265 She is a shrew, no doubt?...
27265Siegfried, winged hero, whence do you come so fast?
27265Siegfried?... 27265 So little do you care for eternal joy?"
27265So you are meditating harm to me?
27265Tell me, Elsa, what have you to impart to me?
27265That curious little bird there, hark, what is he saying to me?
27265That she should open her eyes?
27265The Rhine- daughters, then,speaks wicked Loge,"may look to have their prayer granted?"
27265The Rhine- daughters?
27265The breast heaves with the swelling breath, shall I break the cramping corslet?
27265The danger then is past? 27265 The master- singer?..."
27265The people?... 27265 The reef?..."
27265The ring? 27265 The ring?...
27265The ring?...
27265The stern one has not forgiven? 27265 The sword?..."
27265Then do you tell us, how?...
27265Then it is not far from the world?
27265Then, I ask you, what was my father''s name?
27265This is the place where I am to learn fear?
27265This ring?...
27265Those who threatened me were wicked? 27265 To me-- this?
27265To share the tumult which, insensate, possesses you? 27265 To the Rhine- daughters, I, this ring?
27265Tristan, my lord, are you mocking me? 27265 Tristan, shall I obtain amends?
27265We are not expecting any guest, are we?
27265What I do not own, I shall bestow upon you shameless louts?
27265What about fear?
27265What ails me, coward? 27265 What am I to do?"
27265What am I to think?
27265What are you laughing at me? 27265 What are you prating?"
27265What concern of Master Sachs''s is it on what sort of feet I go? 27265 What delusion is this?
27265What do I see? 27265 What do we see?"
27265What do you require?
27265What do you trouble me with them?
27265What do you want this very day of the sword?
27265What does it matter to you that I should sing? 27265 What does the woman mean?"
27265What dreadful charge is this you bring?
27265What have I heard?
27265What have you to reply to the accusation?
27265What is it, you sleek ones,he asks in awed curiosity,"glancing and gleaming up there?"
27265What is that you say, Wolfram? 27265 What is that?
27265What is that?
27265What is the matter?
27265What is this?
27265What is your name?
27265What makes you look like that?
27265What more do I want? 27265 What the master can not do,"Siegfried aptly retorts,"the apprentice might, if he had always minded him?
27265What was I dreaming,he falters,"of Tristan''s honour?"
27265What was I dreaming,she wonderingly asks,"of indignities to Isolde?"
27265What was my mother''s name?
27265What will you give us, Siegfried, if we find your game for you?
27265What would King Mark say if I were to slay his best servant, the most faithful of his retainers, who won for him crown and land? 27265 What''s this?...
27265What, dear heart, have you so long been concealing from me? 27265 What?
27265What? 27265 What?"
27265What?... 27265 When she had born me, wherefore did she die?
27265Where am I?
27265Where are we?
27265Where are you? 27265 Where do you come from?"
27265Where do you conceal the ring,Brünnhilde presses him,"which you robbed from me?"
27265Where is his lair?
27265Where were my eyes? 27265 Where you are?
27265Wherefore to me this hell which no heaven can deliver me from? 27265 Wherefore?"
27265Which is the son of Gibich?
27265Whither Tristan now departs, will you, Isolde, follow him? 27265 Who I am?"
27265Who are you, dreadful one? 27265 Who are you, tell me, appearing to me, so beautiful and grave?"
27265Who bade you seek the rock? 27265 Who calls me?
27265Who directed you here?
27265Who disturbs my sleep?
27265Who enters the lists as a candidate? 27265 Who is it that has forced his way to me?"
27265Who is the Grail?
27265Who is this unparalleled champion?
27265Who is your father?
27265Who prevented him from beholding the glory of the Grail?
27265Who slew him, whom God Himself held in His care?
27265Who went out?... 27265 Who will match his life against mine?"
27265Who, then, is to be the bridegroom?
27265Whom do you bring, with tokens of mourning, in the dark casket?
27265Whom do you choose for your champion?
27265Whom do you mean?
27265Why did you not help us at that time?
27265Why do I suffer such a mean report of myself? 27265 Why does the horn sound?
27265Why should I, after all? 27265 Why, surely, the Knight?"
27265Why, why, what is that we hear? 27265 Why,"it occurs to Siegfried,"did not you, Hagen, join in the oath?"
27265With broken weapon the coward has fled?
27265Would her glance not blind me? 27265 You all heard,"he proceeds, steeled to severity,"how she promised me never to ask who I am?
27265You find me in straits myself, how should I help others?
27265You have a mind to fresh wine, have you not? 27265 You have it no doubt in safe keeping?"
27265You know me, childish elf? 27265 You know nothing about it, and you are thinking of going from the woods out into the world?
27265You repulsing me?
27265You sing the praise of my love, and wish at the same time to flee from it? 27265 You surely are not having any more trouble with the shoes?"
27265You wanted to come to us? 27265 You were sunk quite under the seat,"laughs Siegfried;"what of great importance did you discover there?"
27265You will keep your hand from the treasure?
27265You will take away then the victory from Siegmund?
27265Your work?
27265(_ Machst mir blauen Dunst?_ Are you blinding me with blue haze?)
27265(_ Machst mir blauen Dunst?_ Are you blinding me with blue haze?)
27265(_ Neidliches Schwert_ is literally"covetable sword") Why must you of old be shattered?
27265--"A beautiful song, and a master- song, how am I to seize the distinction between them?"
27265--"A knight?
27265--"Afflict your heart?..."
27265--"All- merciful God,"exclaims Elsa,"What is the meaning of this?"
27265--"Am I in Cornwall?"
27265--"Am I to bid him come and offer his duty?"
27265--"And I?..."
27265--"And if I should please my audience?"
27265--"And suppose I made use of it?"
27265--"And the other?"
27265--"And yet you are to wear them to- morrow as a bride?"
27265--"And you will give me such a one?"
27265--"And you wish to become a master, off- hand, like that?"
27265--"Are you a poet?"
27265--"Are you a singer?"
27265--"Are you gone mad?"
27265--"Are you moved at last,"he asks kindly,"to open your heart to me?"
27265--"At the instep?"
27265--"At the singing- school, do you mean?"
27265--"Because I used to be fond of carrying you in my arms?"
27265--"Because for an hour I forgot my proper worth,"Radbot''s daughter continues violently,"do you think that I am fit only to crawl before you?
27265--"But my sufferings, Senta, do they no longer move you?"
27265--"But our wind?"
27265--"But the Day must rouse Tristan?"
27265--"But what?
27265--"But yet, suppose your dream contained the magic spell by which you might win over the guild?"
27265--"But you have at least been a''school- frequenter''and a''pupil?''"
27265--"Can I keep from my face the compassion I feel?"
27265--"Can you tell us whether his lineage, his nobility, be well attested?
27265--"Come,"replies Pogner sensibly,"if you have no hopes of the daughter''s regard, how do you come to enter the lists as her suitor?"
27265--"Could he betray me?
27265--"Day- break shall never more frighten us apart?"
27265--"Did I not know it?"
27265--"Did you not see him to- day?"
27265--"Do I understand aright,"asks Kothner;"that we are placed in the hands of the young lady?
27265--"Do you ask me?"
27265--"Do you come as friend or foe?"
27265--"Do you threaten me?
27265--"Don''t you know?
27265--"Elsa, is my voice so strange to you?
27265--"Elsa, what are you daring to do?"
27265--"For him who betrayed me!"--"Tristan?"
27265--"For what reason?"
27265--"From Sachs, perhaps?"
27265--"Give it up?...
27265--"Hans Sachs, my friend?"
27265--"He failed?..."
27265--"Here, at the left?"
27265--"Ho, ho, from finches and tomtits you acquired the art of master- singing?"
27265--"How can you know then that I am to be a bride?"
27265--"How could I prevent it,"says Sachs, not upset apparently by the fearful thought,"if he is successful?
27265--"How did I get here?"
27265--"How is that?"
27265--"How should I know?"
27265--"How should I tie you to me?"
27265--"I may sing it, then?"
27265--"I suppose you call it a biblical lay?"
27265--"I worked on your shoes until late at night,"Sachs disingenuously replies;"is that the sort of consideration one shows an enemy?"
27265--"If you fail, there is still left the expedient of violence."--"Violence?"
27265--"Must the Day rouse Tristan?"
27265--"My flocks?..."
27265--"Nay, did you not hear?
27265--"Nay, it is you, why do you torture me?
27265--"No, the heel."--"What?"
27265--"Not in the contest?
27265--"Of my fathers?"
27265--"Of what, in God''s name, do you accuse me?"
27265--"Oh, Senta,"he goes on, subdued by her shocked amazement, sorrowfully to explain the simple rhetoric of his misstatement,"will you deny it?
27265--"Or perhaps a widower?"
27265--"Ortrud, is it you?
27265--"Say,"the girls continue addressing the unresponding crew,"have you no sweethearts on land?
27265--"Shall I awake?"
27265--"Should I not be moved by the terrible doom of that unhappiest man?"
27265--"Tell us what is implied by your return?"
27265--"The pennant?...
27265--"The ship?...
27265--"The shoe- maker?..."
27265--"Then you have not been?...
27265--"To what land?"
27265--"Unhappy woman?..."
27265--"Was she not yours, whose elect you were?
27265--"We will brave then the threats of the Day?"
27265--"Well, then?"
27265--"Were you not present at the holy festival?"
27265--"What can justify such a hope?"
27265--"What did you swear, lady?"
27265--"What do you mean, too old?
27265--"What do you mean?"
27265--"What do you mean?"
27265--"What do you think, masters,"inquires Kothner, upon this hopeless revelation,"shall I proceed with the questions?
27265--"What does it matter about me?"
27265--"What draught do you mean?"
27265--"What else so meet?
27265--"What enormous difficulty does the matter present?"
27265--"What frightens you so?"
27265--"What have you in mind?"
27265--"What high duty?
27265--"What is it?"
27265--"What is it?"
27265--"What is it?"
27265--"What is it?"
27265--"What is that?"
27265--"What is the good?
27265--"What king?"
27265--"What land?"
27265--"What man is that?"
27265--"What manner of man are you?"
27265--"What other road can we take?"
27265--"What road do you mean?"
27265--"What should I know?"
27265--"What was it then that brought you back?"
27265--"What would you give to know?
27265--"What would your answer be?"
27265--"What, Sachs?
27265--"What, so unconditionally?
27265--"What, the Marker?
27265--"What--"the sick man asks after a vague glance,"what was the sound I heard?"
27265--"Where am I?"
27265--"Who is it?
27265--"Who is the Marker?"
27265--"Who lied?"
27265--"Why exactly alike?"
27265--"Will you renounce your extravagant imaginings?"
27265--"Woe, what have you done?"
27265--"Yes,"Sachs owns, amused;"Was that it?"
27265--"You acknowledge then your guilt?"
27265--"You believe so?
27265--"You bestow the sheet on me then outright?"
27265--"You see?
27265--"You shrink from me?"
27265--"You shrink from the wound which yourself you made, the madness of love you inspired?
27265--"You would be glad of a mistress in the house?"
27265--"You, lost to me?"
27265--"Younger than I, too?...
27265--"_Ach_, master,"she exclaims,"do you know better than I where my shoe pinches me?"
27265--Not a god, Wotan?--"What are you come, wild and turbulent spirit, to disturb the Wala''s sleep?
27265... Are you flowers?"
27265A burning chill shakes your frame, your senses swim and fail; the alarmed heart trembling in your breast hammers to the point of bursting?
27265A murmur runs through the assembly:"What ails her?
27265A shepherd looks over the wall and, after a moment watching, calls to Kurwenal, asking if_ he_ does not yet awake?
27265After that, how dare he trust her?
27265Alberich turns an angry eye upon the intruders:"What do you want?"
27265Already at work?"
27265Am I misled by a dream?
27265Am I never to hear them, never to see them more?"
27265Am I not from any one of you to have a hearing?"
27265Amazement reigns among master- singers and people:"A song of Sachs''s?
27265And do you make it into a reproach to him?
27265And do you now haughtily demand precedence of me, you, the wife of a man convicted by God?"
27265And do you, finding no mercy anywhere, come seeking love now in my arms?"
27265And have I understood at last what it is you want of me?...
27265And how can he, poor belaboured wretch, find the necessary peace of mind to compose a new one?
27265And if my heart breaks with its misery, tell me, Senta, who is there will speak a word for me?"
27265And if through him you are to we d Mark, how should you find fault with the choice?
27265And is not your neighbour to have something too?
27265And is that what will be Brünnhilde''s prophesied world- delivering act?
27265And music is shed from this luminous ascending form...."Am I alone to hear it?"
27265And shall I see the daughter this very day?"
27265And she speaks, to herself, half- aloud:"Have I sunk into a wonderful dream?
27265And the raw boy, acquitting himself rather neatly for such a beginner:"Ought I not to have beaten them?
27265And this, who could conquer it back?
27265And was he admitted?"
27265And what does this teach-- but that one must be great?
27265And when in his effort to grasp the situation exactly he continues asking questions, she answers his interrogative:"The bride then chooses?..."
27265And you, Senta, how should I count upon you?
27265Approach me not with ardent approach.... Constrain me not with shattering constraint.... Have you not seen your own image in the clear stream?
27265Are the liquor and the feast to be solely for you?"
27265Are they your eyes?
27265Are they your lips?
27265Are they_ good runes_ which I read in her eye?..."
27265Are you a bird or a fox?"
27265Are you a mortal?
27265Are you afraid of a song, a picture?"
27265Are you alone?"
27265Are you asleep and deaf to my voice, whom sleep and rest have forsaken?"
27265Are you mad?"
27265Are you not coming on board yourselves?"
27265Are you not my enemy?"
27265Are you planning flight?
27265Are you so bold as, unabsolved, to have let your feet take the road to this region?"
27265Are you there?...
27265Are you, too, a flower in this garden of flowers?"
27265As he revives a little, he asks faintly:"Shall I be taken to- day to Amfortas?"
27265As he said in answer to Kothner, what should be put into his song unless the essence of all he had known and lived?
27265As he turns to the door she detains him with the quick cry:"What pursues you, that you should thus flee?"
27265As she is moving towards the hut, he asks:"Have you no word for me?
27265At the end of the second verse, the masters inquire of one another,"What does it mean?
27265At the greeting he speaks from the threshold to the"wise smith,"Mime starts up in affright:"Who is it, pursuing me into the forest wilderness?"
27265At the sound of Elsa''s voice calling:"Ortrud, where are you?"
27265At the spectacle of his emotion, Wolfram turns to the Landgrave:"Have I your leave, my lord, to be the herald to him of his good fortune?"
27265At this she recovers her voice to hurl at him startlingly:"I-- to Gunther?...
27265Because you are blind, do you believe the eyes of the world dulled to your actions and his?"
27265Before starting upon a new voyage, he is sure to wish to carry out what he so often has spoken of..."--"And what is that?"
27265Brünnhilde''s madness clamours to heaven:"Did you appoint this in your councils?
27265But how can you, Mime, bring it about?"
27265But how should I have promised to perform the impossible?"
27265But how should I hope to grasp that which struck me as illimitable?
27265But never should I be audacious to the point of boasting that so fine a song had been written by me, Hans Sachs."--"What?...
27265But she, how should she in this moment not promise whatever he asked or do whatever be required?
27265But speak, you went on the pilgrimage to Rome?"
27265But tell me the truth, old friend, what has happened to our master?"
27265But to- day, at her father''s"the master of your choice"she wistfully inquires,"Dear father,_ must_ it be a master?"
27265But you?
27265But,"How shall we find him?"
27265But,--he suddenly holds in, and puckers his forehead,--if this were a trap?
27265But-- may I ask what is the cargo of your ship?"
27265But... this information he desires of me-- How am I to say it?
27265Ca n''t you hear?"
27265Can I believe myself at last delivered from them, since I hear once more the rustle of this forest, and behold you, worthy elder?
27265Can I waken the bride?"
27265Can it be fact?"
27265Can it be that your secret is of such a nature that your lip must keep it from the whole world?
27265Can it be truth?
27265Can the voice of deepest pity deceive?
27265Can this be true, this which seems like the most madly impossible of beautiful dreams?
27265Can you fail to prize and honour the man?
27265Cast it from me?"
27265Certainly, he wrested a ring from this woman, in the twilight.... What became of it?...
27265Could I endure the light?..."
27265Could any doubt be more culpable than that which should disturb my faith in you?
27265Could anything be easier?
27265Could you forever give yourself to me?
27265Dare you lay hands on Gutrune''s inheritance?"
27265Did I not say she lived and knit me still to life?
27265Did he not find among the masters a single friend?"
27265Did he sing so badly, so faultily, that there is no possibility more of his becoming a master?"
27265Did not my hero overcome your husband by the power of God in singular combat?
27265Did you find rest?
27265Did you instruct him to some purpose?
27265Discontented so soon with being a god?
27265Do I deserve, Senta, such a welcome?"
27265Do I find you here?
27265Do I hear the light?"
27265Do I hold you close?
27265Do human mothers always die of their sons?
27265Do n''t you know that?"
27265Do our ears deceive us?"
27265Do you call your own cowardice God?"
27265Do you come from Hella''s army of the night?"
27265Do you create ignominy for me such as never was endured?
27265Do you dare to brave us?
27265Do you ever grant one of my requests?
27265Do you grudge me the dear sound of yours?
27265Do you hear?
27265Do you imagine that she, who ponders all things so sagely, has sent me void of counsel along with you to a strange land?"
27265Do you impose upon me sufferings such as never were suffered?
27265Do you intend to dream away your whole young life before that portrait?"
27265Do you know how this came to be?..."
27265Do you know what the fate is of that poor soul?"
27265Do you make no distinction between the night and the day?"
27265Do you need lights?
27265Do you not daily hurt and afflict my heart?"
27265Do you not hear jubilant music?"
27265Do you not hear me?...
27265Do you not know her power, her miracles?
27265Do you not know the Lady of Love?
27265Do you not know what holy day it is?"
27265Do you not recognise the castle of your fathers.?"
27265Do you not see her yet?...
27265Do you not see it?...
27265Do you not smell exquisite odours?...
27265Do you not wish to come and dance on the friendly shore?"
27265Do you punish me so with ruthless sentence?
27265Do you refuse to drink to our peace- making?"
27265Do you refuse to remember that day when you called me to you in the valley?
27265Do you remember how from the steep rocks on the shore we watched your father departing?
27265Do you see her again?"
27265Do you see her self?"
27265Do you see her?...
27265Do you see not the light?...
27265Do you shut your heart to my complaint?...
27265Do you wish to make me really cross?"
27265Do you wish to question me?"
27265Do you wish to waken my father?
27265Do you, in such stress of weather, deny me anchorage?"
27265Does his lordship,"to Walther,"choose a sacred subject?"
27265Earnestly she asks this other guest:"Is your name in very truth Wehwalt?"
27265Elizabeth?
27265Elsa shrinks back a little, murmuring,"Disaster?"
27265Everything looks changed....""What road is it you seek?"
27265Fine?...
27265First: What race reigns in the depths of the earth?
27265For a full year he has been learning, and how far does Walther suppose he has got?
27265From the world which for me contains her only, how should Isolde have departed?"
27265From whence the river brought him and whither he will go when he leaves?
27265Go then and ask himself, the presumably free man, whether he dare to venture near me?
27265God knows how it all came about?"
27265Good care have you taken of a young fellow-- not so?--who cunningly shall pluck the fruit which you dare not yourself break off?"
27265Gunther''s mediocrity and his sense of it stand ingenuously confessed in his question:"Is my courage sufficient for the test?"
27265Gurnemanz approaches him hopefully:"Well, did you understand what you saw?"
27265Gutrune catches her breath:"Deceit?..."
27265Gutrune''s husband?"
27265Had it not been that which was forcing tears from him at the moment of the Wanderer''s arrival?
27265Had you ever seen us before?"
27265Hardly might such music come from_ her!_"--"Who are you, pilgrim, wandering thus alone?"
27265Has Wotan''s disposition softened toward me?
27265Has a water- sprite bothered you?...
27265Has he gone mad?
27265Has he lost his senses?
27265Has he smirched Gunther''s honour?"
27265Has he so soon forgotten the old unhappiness?
27265Has it not gladdened you, glad one?
27265Has the world condemned and rejected you?
27265Has your ship sustained damage?"
27265Have I Wotan''s oath?"
27265Have I here your hand?
27265Have I here your heart?
27265Have I hit the mark?
27265Have I the hardihood?
27265Have I waked for this?
27265Have you come to pasture your sight upon my bliss, to share that which has befallen me?"
27265Have you fallen into the unrest of doubt?
27265Have you finished?
27265Have you never been to a song- trial?"
27265Have you no letters, no commissions for shore?
27265Have you succumbed to the curse?"
27265Haye you forgotten so soon?
27265He drops privately to Hagen his interpretation of the friend''s gloom:"Brünnhilde is giving him trouble?"
27265He goes quietly to the woman and asks:"What trouble burdens Brünnhilde''s gaze?"
27265He has come forth victorious from the encounter?"
27265He is stopped by the Wanderer''s voice:"Whither, boy, does your way lead you?"
27265He is willing to win an advantage by a deception, let him follow his head, why should honest Sachs be tender of him?
27265He tries by questions to complete the dwarf''s bare account:"Whence am I named Siegfried?"
27265He turns quickly, inquiring naïvely,"Do you mean me?"
27265He turns upon her a vaguely pleased wonder:"Who is afraid of me?
27265He watches them, smiling, and replies in their own vein:"Have you charmed into your dwellings the shaggy fellow who disappeared from my sight?
27265He, too?...
27265Heartbreak much more than resentment stamps Brünnhilde''s cry:"Where is my wisdom against this enigma?
27265Heinrich, Heinrich, what had you done to me?"
27265Her heart- broken murmur:"Siegfried.... knows me not?"
27265Here is one who does not know fear; can he learn it from you?"
27265Here shall you never prevail!--Tell me, Elsa,"he bends over her tearful face,"tell me that she tried vainly to drop her venom into your heart?"
27265Here we are with our weapons.... Hagen, what danger threatens?
27265Hey, David, are n''t you coming?"
27265His sword was well- tested and was feared-- But yours, tell me, who that is present knows him?
27265His voice comes very faint:"The ancient tune.... what does it wake me?"
27265His voice is heard, faint, from his hiding- place:"Is it you, child?
27265How can this be an agent of Heaven''s at all?
27265How can you ask?
27265How can you stultify yourself till you neither can see nor hear?
27265How come they in my house?"
27265How could I suppose it was a source of affliction to you?"
27265How could I, poor wretch, believe that my faithful devotion would suffice you?
27265How did you derive the meaning of his song?"
27265How did you know what was weighing on my heart?"
27265How is it that after all the troubles between us you are to- day kindly disposed toward me?"
27265How shall I bring this fear to an end?
27265How shall I find the way to her rock?"
27265How shall I gain back my courage?
27265How shall he, Beckmesser, avoid a disappointment, a public defeat?
27265How should I avoid the realm which lies about the whole world?
27265How should I be able to attach Siegfried to me?"
27265How should you grasp it, unfeeling maid?
27265How then can I the most quickly spend and scatter all my strength and blood in gratitude to you?"
27265How then should it fare but ill with me?
27265How will he obtain the Ring for me?
27265How"--he faintly wails, with a beginning of restlessness--"how have I lost the sense of it?
27265How, in the brilliant light of the Day, how could Isolde be mine?"
27265How, my precious child, should you not care for them?
27265How, now, shall I hide my endangered head?
27265How, she asks him, very humanly, how could he do to her the thing he did, betray her as he had done, claim her for another, give her over to death?
27265How?..."
27265I am awake.... Who is the hero that has awakened me?"
27265I believe I have finally succeeded, eh?
27265I feel as if I were dreaming-- He wishes to know whether I am already betrothed?"
27265I gave him none.... Are you sure that is the one?"
27265I might, after a life of torment, find in your truth the long craved- for peace?"
27265I shall have something further to communicate to you then, a message which a certain person charged me with privately."--"Who?..
27265I speak rightly, do I not, in calling you lovely?"
27265I will avenge you on him who betrayed you....""On whom?..."
27265I would not fall upon them all, sword in hand?"
27265If I am chosen as your champion, will you without doubt or fear entrust yourself to my protection?"
27265If I should forsake the helm at this moment, how could I safely guide the keel to King Mark''s land?"
27265If Tristan then has betrayed me, am I to hope that my honour, which his treason has struck at, has been loyally defended by Melot?"
27265If he be protected by supernal power, of what use to you is your gallant sword?"
27265If it troubles you, how should it leave me untroubled?
27265If the master- singers''verdict then does not agree with hers, how is it to operate?"
27265If then you apply to the question a grateful mind: how can that art be of no account which holds such prizes?
27265If we punish her husband so, with what face shall we stand before her?"
27265If you are the wisest woman in the world, tell me now: how shall the god overcome that care?"
27265In Morold''s lifetime who had ventured to offer us such an affront?
27265In the cold hollow where you lay shivering, how would you have had light and cheering warmth, if Loge had never laughed for you?..."
27265In the silence of recollection which falls upon all, a voice is heard, as if from the grave:"My son Amfortas, are you at your post?"
27265Is Gunther in need of us?"
27265Is Gutrune awake?"
27265Is he among the pardoned?
27265Is he hard pressed by the foe?"
27265Is it I?
27265Is it a case for rejoicing?
27265Is it a delusion?
27265Is it chagrin to see the greyness of age creeping over Wotan?"
27265Is it no dream?
27265Is it no fancy?
27265Is it not a higher duty still to observe that which you once swore to me,--eternal constancy?"--"What?..."
27265Is it not holiday- time for you, too?"
27265Is it one whom verily she need fear?
27265Is it possible,"he cries despairingly,"that you do not see it yet?"
27265Is it possible?
27265Is it possible?
27265Is it the force of thy sighs which fills my sails?"
27265Is it the influence of the holy day?"
27265Is it true?"
27265Is it you again, unforgotten longing, driving me back to the light of the day?
27265Is it you, singing about love, grim wolf?
27265Is it you?
27265Is it your mind to disclaim all acquaintance with the wretch whom you have driven forth to exile and misery?"
27265Is my saying dark to you?
27265Is not he Tristan''s dearest friend?
27265Is not the best afforded by kitchen and cellar, cupboard and store- room, deserving of any gratitude whatever?"
27265Is she out of her mind?"
27265Is that the bearing of arrogance?
27265Is this fear?
27265Is this love?...
27265Is this my thanks for having waked you once more out of the sleep of death?"
27265Is this which I see an illusion?
27265Is your home here in the forest?..."
27265Isolde inquires, reached in her trance by the clamour;"Brangaene, what cry is that?"
27265It grows, it swells, it penetrates, uplifts.... And what is this enfolding her?
27265It is an answer, this enigmatic pledge, to her wistful question:"What have you to say to me?"
27265It is the soft purling of the fountain whose music comes so sweetly borne to us; how could I hear it, if hunting- horns were still blaring near by?
27265Its beam scorches the heart within my breast-- Gunther, what is your sister''s name?...
27265Joining the stranger ashore,"Who are you?"
27265Kothner passes thereupon to the question:"Of what master are you a disciple?"
27265Kothner proceeds without comment to the next question:"In what school did you learn to sing?"
27265Kurwenal, do you not see it?"
27265Let us see, now, what it attracts this time, whether a dear comrade will come to the call?"
27265Loge returning his attention to the gods, voices his amazement at the sight which meets him:"Am I deceived by a mist?
27265May he not be permitted, after the fight, to refresh the victor with a drink?
27265May they not also be hungering for redemption now?...
27265Melot steps forward and points at him:"You shall now tell me,"he speaks to Mark,"whether I rightfully accused him?
27265Melot?
27265Might he be a confederate of Melot''s?"
27265Mime becomes cross:"What has come over you, mad boy?
27265Mime watches him, and at this which looks like folly, can not restrain the exclamation:"What are you doing?
27265Murmurs fly from one to the other:"What?
27265Must I add more still to my overflowing praise?
27265Must I count the days during which I still may keep you?
27265Must I lend a hand?
27265Must I, indeed?...
27265Must I?"
27265Must she give up her hopes because of him?
27265My beauty, is it possible, has brought surfeit?"
27265My heart with its unchanging love, my humble fortune, my hunter''s luck, these things being all I have to offer, will not your father repulse me?
27265My sorrows, is it possible, have moved you to such deep compassion?"
27265Nay, but can you?"
27265No competition- song?"
27265No embrace?
27265No kiss?
27265No sooner has Magdalene caught sight of him than she becomes absent- minded, and when Eva urges,"What am I to tell him?
27265Nothing beside do you deem of high value?"
27265Now you see her in person, does she rightly please you?
27265Now, if I intend to offer myself as a suitor for her to- morrow, can you not see how I might be destroyed by her not taking kindly to my song?
27265Now, if the Marker go on lover''s feet, how should he not yield to the temptation of bringing a rival to derision before the assembled school?"
27265Now, what is wrong with it?"
27265Of great lineage and gentle nature, where is his equal in power and splendour?
27265Of what avail to me is the treasure?
27265Of what use to you would be the strongest sword, if you had no knowledge of fear?...
27265Oh, eternal sleep, only balm, how, how shall I win you?"
27265Oh, tell me, how long is it that I hear them no more?
27265Oh, when, pale sea- farer, when shall you find her?
27265Open your eyes.... Who sealed you again in sleep?...
27265Or am I still baffled in my search for the right road?
27265Or have I until this moment lived in a world of dream, and is this the day of awakening?
27265Or is there danger in it?...
27265Or renewed battle?"
27265Or why, she asks, when that counsel is rejected, why does he not, still mote aptly, consult Brünnhilde, wise child of Wotan and Erda?
27265Or, is the latter act Brünnhilde''s supreme vengeance?
27265Or, was I actuated peradventure-- by vanity?"
27265Or,--this seems more likely,--an act of supreme benevolence, the result of at last understanding"everything, everything, everything!"?
27265Or-- how?
27265Ortrud listens till it has died away; then asks, with cold quiet:"What makes you waste yourself in these wild complaints?"
27265Ought not on this day everything which blooms and breathes to be steeped in mourning and tears?"
27265Passionately you clung to him, and kissed him ardently...."--"And then?"
27265Pogner''s courtesy interferes:"One word, friend Marker, are you not out of temper?"
27265Reproachful questions succeed on her part: Of what neglect has her love been guilty, of what can he accuse her?
27265Restoring the Ring to the Rhine, thus saving the world definitely from Alberich and the army of the night?
27265Sachs looks up, joyfully surprised, at her greeting:"Good- evening, master; still so diligent?"
27265Sachs still excuses himself;"How should so much honour accrue to me?
27265Sachs, what you say is nonsense.... Are the rules of art to be set aside for the people?"
27265Scarce arrived in Nuremberg, were you not hospitably received?
27265Scornfully calm and cold as before,"Friedrich, you Count of Telramund, for what reason,"she asks,"do you distrust me?"
27265Second: What race rests upon the back of the earth?
27265Senta answers gently, still without taking her eyes from the pale face:"Why did you tell me who he is, and relate his story?...
27265Shall I go in?..."
27265Shall I guide you?"
27265Shall I lend myself to gibes of the sort?
27265Shall I look upon the Grail once more and live?"
27265Shall Siegmund clasp Sieglinde there?"
27265Shall the bride and sister accompany the brother?
27265Shall you endure this outrage?"
27265She considers this quietly:"Day and death then with a simultaneous stroke shall overtake our love?"
27265She does not hear this time the sailor at the topmast singing over again the song she had before resented;"O Irish maid, where tarriest thou?
27265She presses fondly against this unaccountably humble- minded mistress:"What are you dreaming, perverse one?
27265She presses rapid questions upon her:"You dared then for love of Brünnhilde brave Walvater''s commandment?
27265She, indeed, asks him, does he not fear?...
27265Siegfried interrupts Mime''s meditations;"what is the name of the sword which I have ground into filings?"
27265Siegfried''s love- token?
27265Siegfried, however, replies:"What do I know?
27265Siegmund gazes quietly and long and inquiringly into her eyes, and:"The hero who must follow you, whither do you take him?"
27265Since the men are all your adherents, who is to smite Tristan?"
27265So higgling at a bargain?...
27265So late at night?"
27265So long as the tailor has done his work successfully, who ever will divine where I suffer inconvenience, where secretly my shoe pinches me?"
27265So you too were driven by the hurricane on to the bare rocky coast?
27265So, from the question,"Who prompted you to attack the strong Worm?"
27265Some one of great consequence, I suppose?"
27265Some sketch of a project for winning her it must be prompting his next words:"Have you, Gunther, a wife?"
27265Speak to me again, charming singer: shall I break through the fiery wall?
27265Speak, Senta, should you be sorry that the stranger should dwell with us?"
27265Starting awake at the ring of her own words, she laughs unpleasantly and, turning to Brangaene:"What do you think of the lackey yonder?"
27265Still up?
27265Surely you are thirsty?"
27265Suspiciously he observes him:"I do not like him.... What is he doing here?
27265Tell me now who it was that sought for election?"
27265Tell me now, what little corner in it do you intend as a kennel for me?"
27265Tell me, did you not go to Rome?"
27265Tell me, does it still hurt?"
27265Tell me, how does he impress you?"
27265Tell me, whence are you come?
27265Tell me, you soul of courage, have you learned fear?"
27265That crazy rubbish?
27265That is for my precious treasure, but first, quick, tell me, what success had the Knight?
27265That is one of the suitors?
27265That is where the surf rages, the ships founder.... Who is at the helm?"
27265That one?
27265That unhappy woman at your side?"
27265That which he promised-- what?
27265That which thrilled me at the pressure of your hand, tell me, was it not the assurance of your constancy?"
27265The King''s herald asks if the court of justice shall be held on the spot?
27265The Knight has caught sight of him and is instantly at Elsa''s side, crying astonished,"Elsa, with whom are you conversing?"
27265The Knight?"
27265The Marker in my power?
27265The Rhine, with its infesting nymphs?...
27265The cleverer brother asks Loge,"What great advantage is involved in the possession of the gold, that the Nibelung should find it all- sufficient?"
27265The conscience- smitten girl flings her arms around him again:"Oh, Sachs, my friend, oh, noble heart, how can I ever repay you?
27265The dreadful, deep, undiscoverable, thrice- mysterious reason,--who will reveal it to the world?"
27265The evil wound, how to heal it?
27265The father smiles:"You are eager to know?
27265The guest whom I once helped to nurse...?"
27265The light... when will it go out?...
27265The masters exchange glances:"Anoble?...
27265The new shoes?"
27265The one who is waiting for me in the hushed night, are you determined to keep him away from me as if horns were still close at hand?"
27265The pennant?"
27265The possession of it will doom you to dark ruin...."Wotan, struck, inquires in awe,"Who are you, warning woman?"
27265The question he proposes is: How may a rolling wheel be arrested in its course?
27265The quickly roused suspicion of the crowd takes up Brünnhilde''s word:"Treachery?...
27265The song is yours?
27265The sullen glow which I feel burning in my breast, should I, unhappy man, call it love?
27265The terror which drove me forth from Walhalla, drives me back thither....""What has happened to the eternal gods?"
27265The unhappy man whom a potent dreadful enchantment holds bound, what, shall he never come to Heaven through repentance and expiation in this world?
27265The words penetrate through Isolde''s absorption; she starts up in sudden fury, crying:"Who dares to mock me?"
27265The wound,--where?
27265Then Gunther inquires whom should he we d that lustre might be added to the glory of the House?
27265Then, say, who am I, that you should be surly?
27265There is some sternness apparently in Hunding''s tone as he inquires:"Have you offered him refreshment?"
27265There was no way then by which he might have been saved?
27265These treasures?--But who is so rich as to have an equivalent to tender?"--"Equivalent?
27265They adopt with him the playful, teasing tone of pretty girls with a likely- looking young fellow:"What are you grumbling into the ground?....
27265They vent themselves in such childish, fond, incredulous exclamations as: Is it you yourself?
27265Third: What race dwells on the cloudy heights?
27265This sorrow which burns within my bosom, this going out of desire toward him, what must I call it?
27265This, Tristan, to me?
27265Threaten a woman?"
27265To what destiny?...
27265To what purpose, any expression of mine?
27265To whom?..."
27265Tristan asks, dazed:"Who approaches?"
27265Tristan by a great effort brings his mind to consider these sounds, and with great effort speaks:"Who... calls me?"
27265Tristan murmurs,"Do you not see it yet?"
27265Unloved?
27265Upon the last note of it, he addresses the shoe- maker with what sickly civility he can summon:"How is this, master?
27265Upon which thought naturally follows the other:"The victor whom I now must fall back upon, who knows if my child will care for him?
27265Wanderer, with a laugh for his antics, felicitates him:"The most keen- witted are you among the wise; who can equal you in acuteness?
27265Was he made a master?"
27265Was it not he who considered that I went too far?
27265Was it not your testimony, your report, which induced me to accuse that innocent girl?
27265Was it too small a reward that the King had made him his heir?
27265Was it your father?
27265Was not that question the very hub around which turned all his troubled reflections?
27265What about fear?"
27265What ails Fricka?
27265What are wounds from your swords beside the death- stroke I have received from him?"
27265What are you doing here, unhappy woman?"
27265What bargain concluded by me?..."
27265What brings you in this neighbourhood?
27265What can there be but warfare forever between him and them?
27265What do you think of her as a wife?
27265What draught was that?"
27265What else have I forgotten?
27265What enemy is near?
27265What falsehoods did the evil Day tell you, that you should betray the faithful one, who had preferred you?"
27265What force so quickly prevailed with you to make you break this devoted heart?
27265What good will it do?
27265What have you forged and furbished to- day?"
27265What have you to say to me?"
27265What idle raving?
27265What if this dream now should contain a hint how you may to- day be made a master?"
27265What imp excites your ire?...
27265What is he doing so late at night?"
27265What is it rushing so wildly through my heart and senses?...
27265What is it, tell me, makes you so unhappy?
27265What makes men brave?
27265What more do you require of the masters?...
27265What more is necessary?"
27265What proper work can you do now?"
27265What security for you can I hold?"
27265What shall the wages be?
27265What success with the sword?"
27265What suspicion darkens your mind?"
27265What sword now must Siegfried wield, if he is to deal death to Fafner?"
27265What unholy power swept you along?
27265What was the purpose, she asks, of that provision made by her mother for their assistance in a strange land?
27265What were I, without you?
27265What, indeed, have I ever remembered?
27265What, is he so soon weary of the marvels with which her love surrounds him?
27265What, the question asks itself, what is this still familiar surrounding scene, when they ought, by true working of the drug, to be dead?
27265What, you poverty- stricken wight-- what pleasure of love may have fallen to your share?
27265What-- never return?
27265Whatever debt of gratitude Sir Tristan owes you, tell me, could he better repay it than with the most magnificent of crowns?
27265When Tristan is forced to keep afar from her, with whom does he spend the time but Sir Melot?
27265When a man undertakes a course out of the usual, how should he accept advice?...
27265When he stops at last, for lack of breath, Sachs asks artlessly:"Was that your song?...
27265When in order to gather the upland flowers for you I endured dangers and labours innumerable?
27265When my heart is breaking with anguish, will not Senta herself speak a word for me?"
27265When shall it sound, the trump of doom, at which the earth will crumble away?
27265When shall you dawn upon my night?
27265When will the house be wrapped in rest?"
27265When your arm encircled my neck, did you not own once more your love for me?
27265Where am I?"
27265Where are my runes?
27265Where are you going?"
27265Where are you?
27265Where did you tarry so long?"
27265Where does the man live who would not love you?
27265Where have I been?...
27265Where is your sword?..."
27265Where look for honour and uprightness, since the pattern of all honour, Tristan, has lost them?
27265Where now shall one look for truth, since Tristan has deceived me?
27265Where shall I find a sword with which to cut the thongs?"
27265Where shall you find her who will be your own true and loyal love until death?"
27265Where to turn to find out something?"
27265Where were you roaming when our master lost the Spear?"
27265Wherefore to me this indignity which no suffering can wash out?
27265Whether I am to retain my head which I placed at stake?
27265Whither has virtue fled, since she is gone from Tristan, who had made her into his shield and defence, yet has now betrayed me?"
27265Whither must I follow you?"
27265Whither, blithesome hero?"
27265Who am I, if not your will?"
27265Who among you will fight with me, casting slur upon my honour?"
27265Who attacks us?
27265Who bound you in joyless slumber?
27265Who came in?"
27265Who could be silent hearing you?
27265Who could persist in violence after hearing the supplications of an angel?
27265Who could see Isolde and not blissfully dissolve in love for her?
27265Who did it?"
27265Who incited the child to the murderous deed?
27265Who is good?"
27265Who is he, who came to shore guided by a wild swan?
27265Who is there unacquainted with that fountain?
27265Who is this, she asks herself, that has overcome her husband, that has placed a term to her power?
27265Who shall compel me to live?
27265Who shall find a name for it?
27265Who taught you to wish for the woman?"
27265Who will inherit from him?
27265Who will stand up against him when he is in command?"
27265Who would have thought it?"
27265Who would not wish to be a bachelor?..."
27265Who would not wish to share his good fortune, as consort to tarry beside him, whom the greatest of heroes so devotedly serves?"
27265Who, indeed?
27265Why Tristan''s innumerable services, the greatness he had won for his King, if they were to be paid with the receiver''s dishonour?
27265Why are we called to arms?
27265Why did you beat our beloved?"
27265Why did you do us this injury?
27265Why did you wrest from me my secret?
27265Why do I not leave you alone, and flee by myself away, away, where my conscience may find rest?
27265Why do we continue to call?"
27265Why do you hang back there in dejection?"
27265Why does he not consult them?
27265Why does it hang down so over your face?...
27265Why indeed should not his dishonesty be turned to use?
27265Will Tristan defraud her, defraud Isolde of this single infinitely- short last earthly joy?
27265Will he, on the ground of insufficient nobility, refuse likewise to answer you?"
27265Will the illustrious Hort come once more into the possession of the Nibelung?
27265Will you deny that it was your own stratagem which guided him to the spot where he should find it?"
27265Will you guide me to the right one?
27265Will you therefor chide your wife?"
27265With whispered laughter they vanish into the house, and Parsifal, in the once more solitary garden, asks himself:"Was it all a dream?"
27265With your own eyes seen how Elsa drowned her brother in the tarn?
27265Without giving Tristan time to hesitate, Kurwenal jumps up:"May I frame an answer?"
27265Without your love, what were I?
27265Wotan calms the maiden in distress, and asks, as one fancies, a little uneasily,"Have you seen nothing of Loge?"
27265Wotan pauses with his foot on the bridge:"What wail is that?"
27265Would you not trust Brangaene?
27265Would you rob him of his soul''s eternal salvation?"
27265Would you take away the hope of the sinner?
27265Yet, in forsaking the beaten track, was I not doing even as he does?
27265You are anxious, are you not, to have your shoes finished?"
27265You are lured at last by the song- festival we are preparing?"
27265You are not listening?
27265You could hold out your hand to the stranger?
27265You give your hand to the man who has hardly more than crossed your doorstep?"
27265You have, no doubt,"he insinuates,"committed the thing perfectly to memory?"
27265You shall see her, and if she pleases you..."--"She shall be my wife.--Will she prove to be my angel?"
27265You stand in terror of his anger?"
27265You stand in your place as if bewitched?
27265You were up late-- you did, however, finally sleep?"
27265You who are so strong in the pure faith, do you apprehend so ill the mind of the Most High?
27265You, living in the dusky woods, did you not mendaciously aver to me that from your wild castle you had seen the dark deed committed?
27265Your country?"
27265and when Siegfried replies that he did this himself, insists further:"But who shaped the strong pieces, out of which you forged the sword?"
27265ask some, under- breath, and others,"Is she mad?"
27265asks the King, in natural doubt;"How were guilt so prodigious possible?"
27265asks the Landgrave;"Have you come back to the community which you forsook in impatient arrogance?"
27265calls down to them,"You, down there in the water, what are you complaining about?
27265complains Elsa,"Was I duped by your feigning, when you stole to me last night with your pretended grief?
27265cries Elsa, painfully startled;"What sudden change has taken place in you?"
27265cries Eva, in acute exasperation,"If I were to come to your house, should I so much as be made at home?"
27265cries Siegfried, amazed,"who are you, trying to prevent me?"
27265do you know what the ring is to me?
27265he asks incredulously,"Something wrong too with the heel?"
27265he asks trembling,"Is there danger in it?...
27265he cries in incredulous anguish;"O God, what have I seen?
27265he cries, in a moment, to Wolfram wrestling all unheeded to turn him from his deadly purpose,"Ha, do you not feel soft gusts of air?...
27265he cries,"What is it keeps me still bound to you?
27265he goes on to show the jealous core of his unhappiness;"That picture..."--"What picture?..."
27265he murmurs, now as absent- minded as she,"What is this buzzing in my head?"
27265he passes to the question:"Who shaped the sword, so sharp and hard, that the strongest enemy should succumb to its stroke?"
27265he replies, studying her face dubiously;"Tell me, have I no reason to be afraid?"
27265he replies:"How shall I tell you what I would be willing to undertake for your sake?
27265he sighs aside;"Do I still permit myself the folly of an illusion that an angel''s heart will pity me?
27265he unceremoniously flings at her;"Has not God because of it, through his judgment, brought me to shame?"--"God?..."
27265he weeps,"Do you still live?...
27265he wonders;"is it he, already, who shall kill Fafner?"
27265her uncle argues with her, and the others add their voices to his,"What must I hear?
27265or"Do you imagine that you can deceive me, who night and day have been hard upon your heels?"
27265persist the girls;"Do you not wish for golden wine?
27265rails the irritated god,"For you I shall circumvent this enemy?
27265says Daland, impressed;"Am I to take you at your word?
27265says the minstrel Biterolf;"Reconciliation?
27265shall it hold good?
27265she asks reassuringly;"Do you doubt that it is full of kindness toward you?
27265she cries, almost impatiently;"What can your sufferings be?
27265she cries, in utmost dismay;"You say that I swore eternal constancy to you?"
27265she moans,"How do I still endure it?"
27265she pursues undeterred her fatal train of thought;"How might I hope for such power?
27265she taunts the shocked, pale- grown bride, who has found no more than force to gasp,--"What does she say?
27265snaps Beckmesser;"How could he learn the canons from him?"
27265the Valkyrie asks wistfully;"all in all to you is the poor woman who, tired and full of trouble, lies strengthless in your lap?
27265the handmaid asks, not understanding, yet half frightened;"What are you meditating?
27265the pious knight shudders;"Where have you been?
27265their wondering question runs,"What?
27265they continue calling to the invisible Dutch crew;"Are you so lazy as to have gone already to bed?
27265wails her passionate alarm,"What must I hear?
27265who would have thought it of you?"
27265you?..."