The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1857-1858, 1857-08-05

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TIT bities ofths OperA have met WlsA -.
bulz&1 a very unoxpeeesd uonftar. fke ~,
rihto e. q ftdMAs uArlyle scoees their lenue.
ciatein The Dsmfries Albtm) u such words
= !. wen said 70 be tho speech Or angels;
IN yhothing among the utierances allowed
20 N Is felt TO be 80 divine Il brings us near
= NJ Infinite We look Tor moments scross he
r. Ady elementss INTO the eternal sea 81 Light
hen song leads and inspires -. Serious M
hons--aii nations that can still listen TO the
aAndates OF nature-have priced song and mu-
the highest; a. vehicle for worship, for
ptoFecy, and for whatsoever In them waI di-
| vine. Their singer was admitted to the council
OF to universe. friend Of the gods, and choicest
bencf&tor to man. Reader, 1t was actually 50
in Gr01k, in Roman, in Moslcm, Christian, most
Of oil Did Hebrew times; and, il you look how
It is qBw, YOU will find change that should a..
soni53 you. Good Heavens from psalm Of
AsapAto seat in the London Opera In the
Hay merket-~hat road have men travelled |!
The waste that Is made in music 10 probably
among The saddles: Of eli our sgusndering's OF
Gods etsfs. Music has, fora long time past,
been ayowedly mad, divorced from sense and
fact, A. runs about now as an open Bedlamite.
for goOd many generation back, brag jying that
she h13 nothing to do with sense aud TACT, but
with netion and delirium only; and stares with
unamseaed amazcment, not able to suppress an
elegant burst of witty laughter, at nv suggest.
ing the old fact to her. Fact, nevertheless il
q; forgotten and fallen, ridiculous az it may be.
TO sing the praise Of God that, you
VIII lind. if you can interpret old word, and see
Wnat new things they mean, was always and
VIII always be, the business OF the singer. He
who forsakes that business, ana wasting our d.
vinest gifts, sings the praise of chaos, what shall
we say of him? David, King Of Judah, 4 soul
inspired with divine music, and much other he.
| roism, was wont 10 pour himself in song he.
with seer's eye and heart, discerned the godlike
amid the human, struck tones that were an echo
OF the sphere harmones, and are still felt to be
| sucn Reader, art thou one of thousand able
still to read a psalm Of David aud catch some
echo oft through the old dim centuries feeling
tar oil, in thine own heart, what it once was to
other hearts made as thine. To sing il at
tempt not, for it is impossible at this late time
only know That It was once sung. Then 70 the
opera, and hear with unspeakable reflections.
what men - sing. Ofthe Haymarket Opera,
my accod fne, is this: Lusters, Candida
bras, paints gliding, at discretion a hall as
OF the Caliph Alraschid. or him that command.
eth the slaves ofthe Tampa hall as If fitted up
oy the genii, regardless ofexpensc. Upholstery
more. Artists, too, as they are called, have
been got together from the ends Of the world,
regardless likewise of expense TO do dancing
and singing; some OF them even geniuses in |
their craft.
All OF them had aptitudes perhaps, Of dis |
tinsuished kind, and must, by their own and |
other peoples labor, have got training equal |
or superior in ,oilsomeness, earnest assduty
and patient travail, to what breeds men to the |
most arduous trades. lspeak not Of kings,
sraRdees, or the like show figures; but few SOL
diers, judges, men ofletters, can have had such
pains taken with them The very ballet girls
with their muslin saucers round them. were
perhaps little short OF miraculous, whrling and
'pinhing there in strange, mad vortexes and
lheh suddenly liking themselves motionlcss.
each upon her lett or great right toe, with the
other leg stretched out an angle Of ninety de.
srees, as If you had suddenly pricked into the
ioor. by one OF their points, pair, or rather
nuiutudinous cohort OF mad, restlcssy Jumping
AID chipping scissors. and SO bilden them to |
rest, with open blade, and stand still in the dew
is name! truly notable motion-marvelous,
almost miraculous, were not the people there so
lsed to 1t, motion peculiar 10 the OPERA per-
laps the uelest, and surely one OF the most uifi.
'uit ever taught IA female in this world. S
Alas. and OF all these notable or noticeable HUI s
nan talents, and excellent perseverance,, and e
.nergies, backed by mountains of wealth. and Il
ed by the divine art OF music and rh, tim, j
by Heaven TO them and us. what 5
sas'to be the issue here this evening? An hours t
not amusing either, bur wearisome v
md dreary, to high defined select popuace OF t
Male and female persons, who seemed 10 me NO: il
ndch worth amusing. Could any one have c
ea' ed into Their hearts once, one true thought h
nd glimpse OF self vision; high dIzenel most d
ApensiVe prisons, artsfocracy, SO called or best
] TIE world beware, beware what proofs YOU O
re giving here OF BITTERNESS and sestness And e
ne sanitary fang OF conscience in reply. A Il
'iect popuiaee, With money in its purse, and
ri'ed little by the posture-inaker; good hea- v
en-! II that were what, here ever, where in r,
od creation, am. Aud world all diving il
ecause am, and show myself to be, and TO d
ave long been, even that. John, the carriage Il
1.-The carriage, swift. Let me 20 home IN 81 ii
nee, to reflection, perhaps to sackc,oth and cl
shes! This, and not amusement would have ii
rohted these persons Q, Heavens! p
hen think that music, too, is condemned to "a
mad, and to burn 0rseif to this end on such D
funeral pile, your celestial opera.house grows 81
ark and internal to me. Behind this glitter m
alas the shadow of eternal death. Through cl
too, look not 'up into the Divine eye," as vi
lcnter has 1t, 'bat down into the bottomless as
ie- socket'..not upward toward God, heaven sa
I'd the throne OF truth, but, too truly, down, W
ward falsity, vanity, and the dwelling place OF re
eriasting despair" pr