The Metropolitan, Volume 1James Cochrane and Company, 1831 |
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... English music is low , and that nothing is admissible into good com- pany but what bears a name dropping from the tongue with Italian soft- ness , or rattling in the throat with German gutturals . A familiar English name must not be ...
... English music is low , and that nothing is admissible into good com- pany but what bears a name dropping from the tongue with Italian soft- ness , or rattling in the throat with German gutturals . A familiar English name must not be ...
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... English symphony , however excellent , because English music is not the fashion . Of this spirit , they have exhibited more than one instance : even that lesser kind of symphony , the opera - overture , has suffered a decay . An ...
... English symphony , however excellent , because English music is not the fashion . Of this spirit , they have exhibited more than one instance : even that lesser kind of symphony , the opera - overture , has suffered a decay . An ...
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... English composer , could do for them . Since then , the stage has depended for its support on adaptations of foreign operas ; the works of Mozart , Rossini , Weber , Paer , Winter , Auber , and Boieldieu , having been successively laid ...
... English composer , could do for them . Since then , the stage has depended for its support on adaptations of foreign operas ; the works of Mozart , Rossini , Weber , Paer , Winter , Auber , and Boieldieu , having been successively laid ...
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... English is received . It is unlucky , too , that the most recent attempts have been made by composers of an inferior class , who , by their clumsy mimicry of the German masters , have given too much reason for their failure ; while our ...
... English is received . It is unlucky , too , that the most recent attempts have been made by composers of an inferior class , who , by their clumsy mimicry of the German masters , have given too much reason for their failure ; while our ...
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... English philosophers . My great grandfather was soon disgusted with the folly and cruelty of what is called civilised life ; and having seen an Indian roasted alive for a false religion's sake , he thought that some day they might take ...
... English philosophers . My great grandfather was soon disgusted with the folly and cruelty of what is called civilised life ; and having seen an Indian roasted alive for a false religion's sake , he thought that some day they might take ...
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Page 192 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt. 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
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