Gounod's Operas in London (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Gounod's Operas in LondonThe following pages contain the story of the most important events of my artistic life, of the mark left by them on my personal existence, of their in¿uence on my career, and of the thoughts they have suggested to my mind My story bears witness to my love and veneration for the being who bestows more love than any other earthly creature - my mother Maternity is the most perfect re¿ection of the great Providence the purest, warmest ray He casts on earthly life, its inexhaustible solicitude is the direct effiuence of God's eternal care for his own creatures. If I have worked any good, by word or deed, during my life, I owe it to my mother, and to her I give the praise. She nursed me, she brought me up, she formed me, not in her own image, alas - that would have been too fair. But the fault of what is lacking lies with me and not with her. She sleeps beneath a stone as simple as her blameless life had been. May this tribute from the son she loved so tenderly form a more imperishable crown than the wreaths of fading immortelles he laid upon her grave, and clothe her memory with a halo of reverence and respect he fain would have endure long after he himself is dead and gone.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.