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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: song, in which you will detect no monotony, no repetitions of means
and effects. It is one, but many; the characteristic of all that is
truly great and natural.
"I breathe more freely; I find myself in the elegant circle of a
gallant court; I hear Isabella's charming phrases, fresh, but almost
melancholy, and the female chorus in two divisions, and in
/imitation/, with a suggestion of the Moorish coloring of Spain. Here
the terrifying music is softened to gentler hues, like a storm dying
away, and ends in the florid prettiness of a duet wholly unlike
anything that has come before it. After the turmoil of a camp full of
errant heroes, we have a picture of love. Poet! I thank thee! My heart
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