text:  The nearest approach to any such enthusiastic tribute is that which sometimes awaits the successful tragic poet at the representation of his dramas; but besides the lion's share of applause which the actor is apt to appropriate what dramatic writer in our own experience or history has been greeted with such homage as that paid to Handel when the king and people of England stood up in trembling awe to hear his _Hallelujah_ chorus?--that which hailed Mozart from the enraptured theatres of Prague when listening to his greatest operas?--that which fanned into new fire the dying embers of Haydn's spirit when the _Creation_ was performed at Vienna to delight his declining days before an audience of 1500 of the Austrian nobility and gentry? The ancient poets felt the force of those emotions which musical sound produces and shadowed out under its name the great principles of human harmony and social order