The words are simply monstrous and Scribe certainly would not have kept them.

This is the case in the passage in the great duet: O ma Selika, vous regnez sur mon ame! -- Ah! ne dis pas ces mots brulante! Ils m'egarent moi-meme....
The music stitched to this impossible piece, however, had its admirers--even fanatical admirers--so great was the prestige of the author's name at the time of its appearance.

We must not forget that there are, indeed, some beautiful pages in this chaos.

The religious ceremony in the fourth act and the Brahmin recitative accompanied by the _pizzicati_ of the bass may be mentioned as an indication of this.

The latter passage is not in favor, however; they play it down without conviction and so deprive it of all its strength and majesty.
* * * * * I said, at the beginning of this study, that we were ungrateful to Meyerbeer, and this ingratitude is double on the part of France, for he loved her.