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Consider!—He, who is being punished is no longer the same who has done the deed. He is always the scapegoat.
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Appearances.—Alas! Alas! Appearance requires the clearest and most persistent proof. Far too many lack eyes to perceive it. But it is so tedious to prove it!
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The anticipating ones.—The characteristic but also hazardous feature of poetical natures is their exhaustive fancy which anticipates, pre-enjoys, pre-suffers that which will and might be and is already worn out at the decisive moment of the event and action. Lord Byron, who was but too familiar with all this, wrote in his diary: “If ever I shall have a son, he shall choose a very prosaic profession—that of a lawyer or a pirate."
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Conversation on music.—{{italic|A.:}] What do you say to this music?—B.: It has overpowered no, I cannot find words for it. Hark! There it begins again.—A.: So much the better! Let us, this time, try our best to master it. May I add a few words to this music? And
