As the result of his continual researches he too frequently turned good ideas into inferior ones.

Note for example, in _L'Etoile du Nord_, the passage, _Enfants de l'Ukraine fils du desert_.
The opening passage is lofty, determined and picturesque, but it ends most disagreeably.
He always lived alone with no fixed place of abode.

He was at Spa in the summer and on the Mediterranean in the winter; in large cities only as business drew him.

He had no financial worries and he lived only to continue his Penelope-like work, which showed a great love of perfection, although he did not find the best way of attaining it.

They have tried to place this conscientious artist in the list of seekers of success, but such men are not ordinarily accustomed to work like this.
Since I have used the word artist, it is proper to stop for a moment.
Unlike Gluck and Berlioz, who were greater artists than musicians, Meyerbeer was more a musician than an artist.