You said, "The time you think lost should be but time improved.

Penetrate your mind with other songs than the trash of Libretti.

The more you habituate yourself to the forms, the more you imbue yourself with the spirit, in which passions have been expressed and character delineated by great writers, the more completely you will accomplish yourself in your own special art of singer and actress." So, then, you allured me to a new study.

Ah! in so doing did you dream that you diverted me from the old ambition?
My knowledge of French and Italian, and my rearing in childhood, which had made English familiar to me, gave me the keys to the treasure-houses of three languages.

Naturally I began with that in which your masterpieces are composed.