Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Ophelia, Tristan and iseult, can thus be made to serve as decorations.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
The opera of "Tristan and iseult," first performed in 1865, announced Wagner's absolute emancipation, both in the construction of music and poetry, from the time-honored and time-corrupted canons, and, aside from the last great work, it may be received as the most perfect representation of his school.
"The Great German Composers"
George T. Ferris
Yet I will tell you of some if only for the beauty of their names, passing the names of all women but ours, as Thames itself, and Medway, Stour, and Ouse and Arun and Rother; Itchen and Test, Hampshire streams; and those five which are like the fingers of an outstretched hand about Salisbury in the meads, Bourne and Avon and Wylye and Nadder and Ebble; and those of the West, Brue, which is holiest of all, though all be holy, Exe and Barle, Dart and Taw, Fal under the sloping woods, Tamar, which is an eastern girdle to a duchy, and Camel, which kissed the feet of iseult, and is lost ere it finds the sea.
"England of My Heart--Spring"
Edward Hutton