"Balthasar" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Spirit gives me to understand them. You each spoke particularly of your countries; in that there was a great object, which I will explain; but to make the interpretation complete, let me first speak of myself and my people. I am Balthasar ...
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace
... kind smile he offered his hand to the jailer who stood at the door with a gloomy, sullen air. "Do not look so gloomy, Balthasar," he said. "You always used to be so merry a companion and have often agreeably enlivened the long and dreary hours of my confinement by your entertaining conversation. Accept my thanks for your kindness and clemency; you might ...
— LOUISA OF PRUSSIA AND HER TIMES • Louise Muhlbach
... in four acts, words by Royer and Waetz, the subject taken from the French drama, "Le Comte de Commingues," was first produced at the Academie, Paris, Dec. 2, 1840, with Mme. Stolz as Leonora, Duprez as Fernando, and Baroelhst as Balthasar. Its success in England, where it was first produced Feb. 16, 1847, was made by Grisi and Mario. The scene of the opera is laid in Spain, and the first act opens in the convent of St. James, of Compostella, where the young novice, Fernando, is about to take ...
— The Standard Operas (12th edition) • George P. Upton
... BALTHASAR, That *held the regne* after his father's day, *possessed the kingdom* He by his father coulde not beware, For proud he was of heart and of array; And eke an idolaster was he aye. His high estate assured* him in pride; *confirmed But Fortune ...
— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer |
