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... Italians , were en- gaged ! " and folks were to pay six- pence a - piece more for the admission . When - mark the uncertainty of all 66 sublunary " enjoyments , especially in a climate like that of England ! On the morning of the 29th ...
... Italians , were en- gaged ! " and folks were to pay six- pence a - piece more for the admission . When - mark the uncertainty of all 66 sublunary " enjoyments , especially in a climate like that of England ! On the morning of the 29th ...
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... Italy , then understood and relished only by a few amateurs , or fashionables who pretended to be amateurs , had select- ed for his opera several of the most favourite and well - known national airs , to which he skilfully adapted the ...
... Italy , then understood and relished only by a few amateurs , or fashionables who pretended to be amateurs , had select- ed for his opera several of the most favourite and well - known national airs , to which he skilfully adapted the ...
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... Italian . It is , indeed , an ex- ample that should be followed in every new opera ; for few performers possess the happy gift of true marked expres- sion , -of making the words as clear to the understanding , as the sound is pleasing ...
... Italian . It is , indeed , an ex- ample that should be followed in every new opera ; for few performers possess the happy gift of true marked expres- sion , -of making the words as clear to the understanding , as the sound is pleasing ...
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... Italian story of the Pot of Basil ? I'll read it to you this evening . And we'll bury your poor faithful bird ; and your brother Henry shall write its epitaph . Think how he'll celebrate the tender bird that died of love and grief ...
... Italian story of the Pot of Basil ? I'll read it to you this evening . And we'll bury your poor faithful bird ; and your brother Henry shall write its epitaph . Think how he'll celebrate the tender bird that died of love and grief ...
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... Italy . Civil people , Jack , and a fine cli- mate ; but nothing like old friends and old England . The women , to be sure , are handsome , and tight rigged . Cor . Handsome ! Zounds , you have never seen my Sophy ! If you had only come ...
... Italy . Civil people , Jack , and a fine cli- mate ; but nothing like old friends and old England . The women , to be sure , are handsome , and tight rigged . Cor . Handsome ! Zounds , you have never seen my Sophy ! If you had only come ...
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Page 261 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Page 10 - Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon ; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Page 276 - There sometimes doth a leaping fish Send through the tarn a lonely cheer; The crags repeat the raven's croak, In symphony austere; Thither the rainbow comes - the cloud And mists that spread the flying shroud; And sunbeams; and the sounding blast, That, if it could, would hurry past; But that enormous barrier holds it fast.
Page 226 - Will either quite consume us, and reduce To nothing this essential ; happier far Than miserable to have eternal being : Or, if our substance be indeed divine, And cannot cease to be, we are at worst...
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Page 278 - Oh ! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine ; .Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse...
Page 276 - Rides high ; then all the upper air they fill With roaring sound, that ceases not to flow, Like smoke, along the level of the blast, In mighty current ; theirs, too, is the song Of stream and headlong flood that seldom fails ; And, in the grim and breathless hour of noon, Methinks that I have heard them echo back The thunder's greeting...
Page 408 - Their notion of its perfect rest. A convent, even a hermit's cell, Would break the silence of this dell : It is not quiet, is not ease ; But something deeper far than these : The separation that is here Is of the grave ; and of austere Yet happy feelings of the dead : And, therefore, was it rightly said That Ossian, last of all his race ! Lies buried in this lonely place.
Page 246 - While richest roses, though in crimson drest, Shrink from the splendour of his gorgeous breast. What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly ! Each rapid movement gives a different dye. Like scales of burnished gold they dazzling show — Now sink to shade — now like a furnace glow.
Page 244 - In his domesticated state, when he commences his career of song, it is impossible to stand by uninterested. He whistles for the dog ; Caesar starts up, wags his tail, and runs to meet his master.