excerpt from 'A Memoir of Baron Bunsen Volume II' pp. 24 (96 words)
excerpt from 'A Memoir of Baron Bunsen Volume II' pp. 24 (96 words)
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With the opera stage, Bunsen had no patience, and though he visited it in London, in attendance on the Prince of Prussia, even Jenny Lind (although he entirely felt her power of grace as well as voice) failed to enable him to find pleasure or even amusement in that form of dramatic representation against which he peculiarly protested, as being the betrayal of a good cause, and the caricature of a kind of composition which he acknowledged to be founded in reason, and desired to see revived by a real master of combined verse and harmony. |
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