| 1891 - 912 páginas
...any relations out those of friendship with another man's wife.' Again, 'O God! let me find the woman who is destined to be mine, and who shall strengthen me in virtue.' He wrote no second opera because he could get no libretto of the virtuous, elevating cast which he... | |
| George Grove - 1896 - 422 páginas
...nor inclination. ' 0 God,' says he, in one of those passionate entries in his diary, ' let me at last find her who is destined to be mine, and who shall strengthen me in virtue.' The engagement appears to have taken place at Martonvasdr, the Count's castle, south of Buda-Pesth. Beethoven... | |
| Henry T. Finck - 1899 - 860 páginas
...corruption of the times, and protected my inner sanctum." " 0 God ! " wrote Beethoven, " let me at last find her who is destined to be mine, and who shall strengthen me in virtue." According to Dr. Abel, while love longs ardently to possess the beloved, to enjoy her presence and... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1899 - 882 páginas
...Beethoven, again, certainly had desires towards matrimony. ' Oh God ! ' he exclaims, ' let me at last find her who is destined to be mine, and who shall strengthen me in virtue.' But Beethoven had none of the arts and graces of the lover, and to the end he remained wedded only... | |
| Frederick James Crowest - 1899 - 364 páginas
...exterior, he was much encouraged by the other sex, whether high-born or low. " Oh, God ! let me at last find her who is destined to be mine, and who shall strengthen me in virtue," was his lifelong cry ; but withal he got no farther towards the married state. There is some reason... | |
| Daniel Gregory Mason - 1903 - 326 páginas
...doubtless was to the passing charm of a pretty woman, he yet wrote in his diary, " Oh God ! let me at last find her who is destined to be mine, and who shall strengthen me in virtue." Irritable as he might be under the petty annoyances of every day, when the sore affliction of deafness... | |
| Daniel Gregory Mason - 1915 - 644 páginas
...undoubtedly deeply moved at these successive disappointments. 'Oh, God!' he writes, 'let me at last find her who is destined to be mine, and who shall strengthen me in virtue.' But, though he was destined never to be happy in this way, his thwarted love wrecked neither his art... | |
| Olin Downes - 1922 - 440 páginas
...to his brothers and known as the "Will," seems more pathetic than his outcry, "O God, let me at last find her who is destined to be mine and who shall strengthen me in virtue!" Beethoven, worshiping the genius of Mozart, nevertheless regretted that Mozart's greatest operas, "Don... | |
| David Patrick, William Geddie - 1923 - 868 páginas
...any relations but those of friendship with another man's wife.' Again, 'O God! let me find the woman who is destined to be mine, and who shall strengthen me in virtue.' He wrote no second operji because he could get no libretto of the virtuous, elevating cast which he... | |
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