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    160 BETTINA.

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    not a musician's soul . True musicians are too exalted to weep . " And lie sat down and sang , " Trocknet nicht reserved , Thrdnen and ewi wrapt ger Liebe in _"

    himself Beethoven unfolded , the his hermit very , generall thoughts y to so Bettina . The result up of a walk they , took together next morning has given to us the following

    effusion exercise concerning a great sway Goethe over the me , great not onl genius y from . their " Goethe meaning 's poeni , but s

    also embodie from s all their the rh mysteries ythm . Their of harmony language , so urges that me I need to compose only follow . It - to find in

    the up those centre radiations from which emanating melodies from evolve his themselves poetry , spontaneousl myself y .

    life Yes . , Bettina Melod , y , music lends a is pal the pable link existence between to intellectual poetry . Fancy and to sensuous manifest a mind

    perennial them eager to in embrace one stream from all thoug of which sensations hts , they high ; spring and it must low and , wishing seek without melod * the y as aid the of

    source , which honies they : would numberless be doomed streamlets to die manifesting in oblivion an . endless Such are variety my ,

    tell but symp all him converg to hear ing my into symp one honies common , and bed he . will Speak agree of me with to me Goethe that ,

    music alone discloses to man the portal of an intellectual world , ready to encompass Mm , but which he may alone never under encompass stands the . The

    teries mind , whose of music very and thoug its hts divine are rh insp ythm irations , . who How few love are these while mys- !

    love Like will thousan single ds out who but marry one for among love them and , thousands profess court , music ,

    while it turns a deaf ear to all but the chosen few . Music , like its sister artsis based upon morality , the fountain head of genuine

    invention to their immutability ! The , only way to lay by which all assions the arts and may vexation be won is of to sp bow irit

    strate at their feet , and to approach p their divine presence with a pro mind calm and so void , of littlenessas to be ready to receive the

    so- , dictates " And of there Fantasy he stood and , the " Bettina revelations tells , of " with Truth an !" expression of

    resolute willhis countenance the completion of his productions , his whole future appearance state , of existence so majestic , a mind that like one his must will believe reappear , if to there become be a

    bhe bained Great ruler for as of each the a world admiration other . " they was which became Goethe friends and . Beethoven To prove enter how

    hi _ind short ghl how y extract the much latter from he valued cherished a letter , Bettina which never lier remembrance in ' s intuitive 1812 he sent c , omprehension we will her from give another Tep of l art itz . ,

    Having spoken of a conversation with Goethe , he writes : — " I gave no quarter to him . dearest I flung Bettina in his face Had all his it been sins , and lot most to of

    ill _io much his behaviour time with towards you as you he did , , I should have . produced many my more great pass

    vorks . "

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    160 BETTINA .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1859, page 160, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051859/page/16/