"After coasting the lake for a mile,we ascended for thirteen more by a moststeep and rugged road over the neck ofMount Gaughur, through a successionof glens, forests, and views of the mostsublime and beautiful description. Inever saw such prospects before, andhad formed no adequate idea of such.My attention was completely strained,and my eyes filled with tears; everything around was so wild and magnificentthat man appeared as nothing, andI felt myself as if climbing the steps ofthe altar of the great temple of God.The trees, as we advanced, were in alarge proportion fir and cedar; but manywere ilex, and to my surprise I still saw,even in these wild Alpine tracts, manyvenerable Peepul trees, on which thewhite monkeys were playing their gambols.Tigers used to be very commonand mischievous; but since the Englishhave begun to frequent the country,they have become very scarce. Thereare many wolves and bears, and somechamois, two of which passed near us.After wending up
Thus neglected by those who wouldhave been its most faithful depositariesand most effective champions, the fameof the musical composer has been leftto the guardianship of the few sound[Pg 575]and enlightened judges who thoroughlycomprehend him, to the humble buthonest admiration of professional performers,to the practice and imitationof effeminate amateurs, to the cantof criticism of the worthies on the freelist, and to the instinctive applause ofthe popular voice. Even with thesehumbler hands to build up his monument,the great master of music has aperpetual possession within the heartsof men, that the poet and the paintermay well envy. Every chord in the humanframe that answers to his strains,every tear that rises at the bidding ofhis cadences, every sob that strugglesfor an outlet at his touches of despairingtenderness, or at the thunders ofhis massive harmony, is a tribute tohis power and his memory, enough toconsole his spirit if it can still be consciousof them, or to have rewardedhis living labours in their progress bya bright anticipation of their effects.If nobles, and even nations, do notcontend for the possession of his works,or offer a ransom for their purchase,such as is daily given for the masterpiecesof the painter's power; it isthe pride of his genius that his compositionscannot be appropriated orpossessed. An oratorio of Handel, oran opera of Mozart, cannot becomeproperty like a picture of Raphael orGuido. They belong to mankind atlarge, open to all, and enjoyable byall who have the faculty to perceive,and delight in, their beauties; and inevery theatre and public place, inevery church and in every chamberthroughout Christendom, a portion oftheir divine and various influence,suited to the scene and occasion, isalways within reach, to make mengentler and better, happier and holier,than they would otherwise be withoutsuch manifestations of their Maker'swondrous gifts.
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"This being in all probability thelast letter that you will receive fromme at Mannheim, I address it to youalone. How deeply the wider separationwhich is about to take place betweenus affects me, you may partlyconceive, though not feel it in the samedegree with which it oppresses myheart. If you reflect seriously on whatI have undergone with you two childrenin your tender years, you will notaccuse me of timidity, but, on the contrary,do me the justice to own that Iam, and ever have been, a man with theheart to venture every thing, thoughindeed I always employed the greatestcircumspection and precaution. Againstaccidents it is impossible to provide, forGod only sees into futurity. Up to thistime we cannot be said to have beeneither successful or unsuccessful; but,[Pg 577]God be thanked, we have steered betweenthe two. Every thing has beenattempted for your success, and throughyou for our own. We have at leastendeavoured to settle you in some appointmenton a secure footing; thoughfate has hitherto decreed that we shouldfail in our object. This last step ofours, however, makes my spirit sinkwithin me. You may see as clearly asthe sun at noonday, that, through it, thefuture condition of your aged parents,and of your affectionately attached sister,entirely depends upon you. From thetime of your birth, and indeed earlier,ever since my marriage, I have foundit a hard task to support a wife, and,by degrees, a family of seven children,two relatives by marriage, and the mother,on a certain income of twenty-fiveflorins a month, out of this to pay formaintenance and the expenses of child-bed,deaths, and sicknesses; which expenses,when you reflect upon them, willconvince you that I not only never devoteda kreutzer to my own privatepleasure, but that I could never, in spiteof all my contrivances and care, havemanaged to live free from debt withoutthe especial favour of God; and yet Inever was in debt till now. I devotedall my time to you two, in the hope andindeed reliance upon your care in return;that you would procure for mea peaceful old age, in which I mightrender account to God for the educationof my children, and, without anyother concern than the salvation of mysoul, quietly await death. But Providencehas so ordered, that I must nowafresh commence the ungrateful task oflesson-giving, and in a place, too, wherethis dreary labour is so ill paid, that itwill not support one from one end ofthe year to the other; and yet it is tobe thought a matter of rejoicing if,after talking oneself into a consumption,something or other is got by it. 2ff7e9595c
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