Enlightened England: An Anthology of Eighteenth Century LiteratureW.W. Norton, 1947 - 1248 pages |
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... Italian opera , improperly called an academy ; but they have at the same time shown no small partiality in ... Italy , the mother of music , the nurse of Corelli , Handel , Bononcini , Geminiani ; but then we ought not to be so ...
... Italian opera , improperly called an academy ; but they have at the same time shown no small partiality in ... Italy , the mother of music , the nurse of Corelli , Handel , Bononcini , Geminiani ; but then we ought not to be so ...
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... Italian music . The great success this opera met with produced some attempts of forming pieces upon Italian plans , which should give a more natural and reasonable entertainment than what can be met with in the elaborate trifles of that ...
... Italian music . The great success this opera met with produced some attempts of forming pieces upon Italian plans , which should give a more natural and reasonable entertainment than what can be met with in the elaborate trifles of that ...
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... Italian actors into our opera ; who sung their parts in their own language , at the same time that our countrymen performed theirs in our native tongue . The king or hero of the play generally spoke in Italian , and his slaves answered ...
... Italian actors into our opera ; who sung their parts in their own language , at the same time that our countrymen performed theirs in our native tongue . The king or hero of the play generally spoke in Italian , and his slaves answered ...
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