... Handel has set up an oratorio against the operas, and succeeds. He has hired all the goddesses from farces and the singers of Roast Beef* from between the acts at both theatres, with a man with one note in his voice, and a girl without ever an one... The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford - Стр. 231авторы: Horace Walpole - 1857Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1833 - Страниц: 466
...note in his voice, and a girl without ever an one ; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs ; and the good company encore the recitative, if it...with a tone of saying sentences, " some men love to be particularly so, your petit-maitres — but they are not always the brightest of their sex." —... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1833 - Страниц: 450
...note in his voice, and a girl without ever an one ; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs ; and the good company encore the recitative, if it...with a tone of saying sentences, " some men love to be particularly so, your petit-maitres—but they are not always the brightest of their sex."—Do... | |
| 1840 - Страниц: 540
...one note in his voice, and a girl without ever a one ; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs ; and the good company encore the recitative if it happens to have any cadence like what they call a tune." Again, on the 3rd of March,he says :—"The oratorios thrive abundantly; for my part, they give me... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1842 - Страниц: 594
...one note in his voice, and a girl without ever an one; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs; and the good company encore the recitative, if it...with a tone of saying sentences, "some men love to be particularly so, your petit-maitres— but they are not always the brightest of their sex." —... | |
| 1842 - Страниц: 528
...one note in his voice, and a girl without ever a one ; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs ; and the good company encore the recitative, if it happens to have any cadence like what they call a tune.1' * The Italian Opera-House in the Haymarket itself went out of fashion in a few years, and the... | |
| Charles Knight - 1854 - Страниц: 362
...one note in his voice, and a girl without ever a one; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs ; and the good company encore the recitative, if it...happens to have any cadence like what they call a tune.' >- f The Italian Opera House in the Haymarket itself went out of fashion in a few years, and the nobility... | |
| Charles Knight - 1854 - Страниц: 324
...one note in his voice, and a girl without ever a one ; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs ; and the good company encore the recitative, if it happens to have any cadence like what they call a tune."-f- The Italian Opera House in the Haymarket itself went out of fashion in a few years, and the... | |
| Charles Knight - 1854 - Страниц: 366
...one note in his voice, and a girl without ever a one ; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs ; and the good company encore the recitative, if it happens to have any cadence like what they call a tune."f The Italian Opera House in the Haymarket itself went out of fashion in a few years, and the... | |
| Victor Schoelcher - 1857 - Страниц: 484
...one note in his voice, and a girl without ever an one, and so they sing and make brave hallelujahs, and the good company encore the recitative, if it...happens to have any cadence like what they call a tune." It is of the proud Handel, of nothing less than Samson, of the famous English tenor Beard, of Mrs.... | |
| Charles Knight - 1859 - Страниц: 604
...note in his voice, and a girl without e'ver a one ; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs ; and the good company encore the recitative, if it happens to have any cadence like what 1hey call a tune.'f The Italian Opera House in the Haymarket itself went out of fashion in a few years,... | |
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