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... Italy to secure the fair sex from the contingencies of circumstances and situations . Angelica , how- ever , discovered such superior powers during her novitiate in singing the praises of her Creator , that her parents were induced by ...
... Italy to secure the fair sex from the contingencies of circumstances and situations . Angelica , how- ever , discovered such superior powers during her novitiate in singing the praises of her Creator , that her parents were induced by ...
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... Italian singers in Europe . The fascinating Grassi- ni , and the still more enchanting Crescentini , were among its prin- ipal ornaments ; and to the in- structions of the latter , who was deemed a prodigy in his art , Ma- dame Catalani ...
... Italian singers in Europe . The fascinating Grassi- ni , and the still more enchanting Crescentini , were among its prin- ipal ornaments ; and to the in- structions of the latter , who was deemed a prodigy in his art , Ma- dame Catalani ...
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... Italian , with a yearly salary of £ 7,000 sterling . This Theatre , which was then by far the most elegant in Paris ... Italy , both male Munich , but , in consequence of and female . The receipts , how - some trifling misunderstanding ...
... Italian , with a yearly salary of £ 7,000 sterling . This Theatre , which was then by far the most elegant in Paris ... Italy , both male Munich , but , in consequence of and female . The receipts , how - some trifling misunderstanding ...
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... Italy , France , the audience were assembling , or and England have produced sing- rather after the greater part of ers of whom , perhaps , it would them had assembled . The effect have been said , " the force of na- of her illness ...
... Italy , France , the audience were assembling , or and England have produced sing- rather after the greater part of ers of whom , perhaps , it would them had assembled . The effect have been said , " the force of na- of her illness ...
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... ITALIAN OF PANANTI . " Pentiti a un dissoluto moribondo . ” To the sick patient on his bed . " Repent , my son , " a friar said " I saw the demon on the watch " What was he like ? " the sick man At the stairs ' foot thy soul to catch ...
... ITALIAN OF PANANTI . " Pentiti a un dissoluto moribondo . ” To the sick patient on his bed . " Repent , my son , " a friar said " I saw the demon on the watch " What was he like ? " the sick man At the stairs ' foot thy soul to catch ...
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Abydos accor admiration Angelica appeared avarice beams beautiful behold birth bliss Bloomfield breast brood called Calmuck Catalani owed celebrated Chaplain Constantinople court dame Catalani dear death delight Doctor duce England fame fectionate feel flowers fond forty females four French cards genius gilding give ten concerts Greece hath heart honourable infidel isles of Greece Italy King King of France Lady land letter Lisbon London Lord Byron Lordship Madame Catalani maid memoir mind Missolonghi Moscow mountain Muses night o'er once OXFORD Entertaining Miscellany persons Petersburgh poems poet poetry Portugal pow'r Princess of Brazil produced racter refused residence ROBERT BLOOMFIELD roubles Samian wine scene shade Shakspeare Shefford shore sing smile Snowy-neck'd Maiden soul Spaniards spirit stanzas sweet talents Taylor's offer thee thine Thomas Moore thou tion toast village virtues vocal powers waiter wild wish
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Página 36 - ... loved the man, and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed; honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped.
Página 21 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sat on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set, where were they ? And where are they ? and where art thou, My country?
Página 36 - The latter part of his life was spent, as all men of good sense will wish theirs may be, in ease, retirement, and the conversation of his friends. He had the good fortune to gather an estate equal to his occasion, and, in that, to his wish ; and is said to have spent some years before his death at his native Stratford. His pleasurable wit and good nature engaged him in the acquaintance, and entitled him to the friendship, of the gentlemen of the neighbourhood.
Página 34 - Warwickshire for some time and shelter himself in London. It is at this time, and upon this accident, that he is said to have made his first acquaintance in the playhouse. He was received into the company then in being, at first in a very mean rank...
Página 35 - D'Avenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, I should not have ventured to have inserted, that my lord Southampton at one time gave him a thousand pounds, to enable him to go through with a purchase which he heard he had a mind to...
Página 21 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Página 22 - Trust not for freedom to the Franks They have a king who buys and sells; In native swords, and native ranks, The only hope of courage dwells: But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad.
Página 34 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and, amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlcote, near Stratford.
Página 35 - He had the honour to meet with many great and uncommon marks of favour and friendship from the earl of Southampton, famous in the histories of that time for his friendship to the unfortunate earl of Essex.
Página 34 - Upon his leaving school, he seems to have given entirely into that way of living which his father proposed to him ; and in order to settle in the world after a family manner, he thought fit to marry while he was yet very young. His wife was the daughter of one Hathaway, said to have been a substantial yeoman in the neighbourhood of Stratford.