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Speaking of the lovely melodies of the Italian opera he says: "_Nicht das schlagende Herz der Nachtigall begriff man, sondern nur ihren Kehlschlag_."
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight
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