The Quarterly Review, Volume 18John Murray, 1818 |
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... Haydn and Mozart ; with Observations on the Genius of Metastasio , and the present State of Music in France and Italy , Translated from the French of L. A. C. Bombet . With Notes by the Au- thor of the Sacred Melodies - - · IV . The ...
... Haydn and Mozart ; with Observations on the Genius of Metastasio , and the present State of Music in France and Italy , Translated from the French of L. A. C. Bombet . With Notes by the Au- thor of the Sacred Melodies - - · IV . The ...
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... Haydn and Mozart ; with Observations on the Genius of Metastasio , and the present State of Music in France and Italy . Translated from the French of L. A. C. Bombet . With Notes by the Author of the Sacred Melodies . London . IN 1817 ...
... Haydn and Mozart ; with Observations on the Genius of Metastasio , and the present State of Music in France and Italy . Translated from the French of L. A. C. Bombet . With Notes by the Author of the Sacred Melodies . London . IN 1817 ...
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... Haydn , loaded with years and with glory , has often , in my presence , recalled the simple airs which she sang , so deep an impression had these first melodies made on his soul which was all music . A relation of the family , whose ...
... Haydn , loaded with years and with glory , has often , in my presence , recalled the simple airs which she sang , so deep an impression had these first melodies made on his soul which was all music . A relation of the family , whose ...
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... Haydn has often mentioned this anecdote to me , and he added , laughing , that whenever he happened to shake , he still thought he saw these beautiful cherries . ' These anecdotes , trifling as they may appear , bear upon the face of ...
... Haydn has often mentioned this anecdote to me , and he added , laughing , that whenever he happened to shake , he still thought he saw these beautiful cherries . ' These anecdotes , trifling as they may appear , bear upon the face of ...
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... Haydn was obliged to resort to artifice for that of the true Italian style of singing , and of accompanying the voice . The Venetian ambassador had a mis- tress passionately fond of music , who had given an apartment in his hotel to old ...
... Haydn was obliged to resort to artifice for that of the true Italian style of singing , and of accompanying the voice . The Venetian ambassador had a mis- tress passionately fond of music , who had given an apartment in his hotel to old ...
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Página 192 - That it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent man should suffer.
Página 378 - His limbs were in proportion and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!— Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.
Página 455 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Página 192 - I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead,(/) for the sake of two cases, one mentioned in my lord Coke's PC cap.
Página 379 - I beheld the wretch — the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed ; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks.
Página 326 - Sleep breathes at last from out thee, My little patient boy ; And balmy rest about thee Smooths off the day's annoy. I sit me down, and think Of all thy winning ways : Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink, That I had less to praise.
Página 459 - Shakespear was no moralist at all : in another, he was the greatest of all moralists. He was a moralist in the same sense in which nature is one. He taught what he had learnt from her. He shewed the greatest knowledge of humanity with the greatest fellow-feeling for it.
Página 327 - His voice — his face — is gone ; " To feel impatient-hearted, Yet feel we must bear on ; Ah, I could not endure To whisper of such woe, Unless I felt this sleep ensure That it will not be so.
Página 379 - Wandering spirits, if indeed ye wander, and do not rest in your narrow beds, allow me this faint happiness, or take me, as your companion, away from the joys of life.