George Frideric Handel: His Personality & His TimesHoughton Mifflin, 1923 - 378 pàgines |
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... probably have shocked his father , the barber- surgeon , into disowning him . All that his parents demanded was that he should become a good citizen and pay his way in some respectable craft ; be God - fearing , if not God - chosen ...
... probably have shocked his father , the barber- surgeon , into disowning him . All that his parents demanded was that he should become a good citizen and pay his way in some respectable craft ; be God - fearing , if not God - chosen ...
Pàgina 14
... probably no one felt the relief more than Anna . Only for a space did Fate allow the barber - surgeon any respite . Scarcely a year after the new distinction had been given , Anna Handel died suddenly . If the barber - surgeon was ...
... probably no one felt the relief more than Anna . Only for a space did Fate allow the barber - surgeon any respite . Scarcely a year after the new distinction had been given , Anna Handel died suddenly . If the barber - surgeon was ...
Pàgina 16
... probably have lived and died a celibate but for ulterior reasons that made him respond in luke- warm fashion to their charms . Either of the two women who married him could and did always count on extreme fidelity , whatever his ...
... probably have lived and died a celibate but for ulterior reasons that made him respond in luke- warm fashion to their charms . Either of the two women who married him could and did always count on extreme fidelity , whatever his ...
Pàgina 18
... probably have sent young George Frideric to one of the lesser places of wor- ship of simple faith which existed in Halle at the time , and at which music was unknown . It is not easy to understand immediately this dislike of the Febr ...
... probably have sent young George Frideric to one of the lesser places of wor- ship of simple faith which existed in Halle at the time , and at which music was unknown . It is not easy to understand immediately this dislike of the Febr ...
Pàgina 23
... Probably if there had been no Áunt Anna there might have been no Westminster Abbey for George Frideric , though it is hard to believe that a soul so strewn with melody would have failed to find its destined and appointed place . The ...
... Probably if there had been no Áunt Anna there might have been no Westminster Abbey for George Frideric , though it is hard to believe that a soul so strewn with melody would have failed to find its destined and appointed place . The ...
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Pàgina 168 - The dress of the Queen on this occasion was as fine as the accumulated riches of the City and suburbs could make it ; for besides her own jewels (which were a great number and very valuable) she had on her head and on her shoulders all the pearls she could borrow of the ladies of quality at one end of the town, and on her petticoat all the diamonds she could hire* of the Jews and jewellers at the other...
Pàgina 289 - I went last Friday to Alexander's Feast, but it was such a melancholy pleasure as drew tears of sorrow to see the great though unhappy Handel, dejected wan and dark, sitting by, not playing on the harpsichord, and to think how his light had been spent by being overplied in music's cause.
Pàgina 332 - Hush ! Strife and Quarrel, over the solemn grave ! Sound, trumpets, a mournful march. Fall, dark curtain, upon his pageant, his pride, his grief, his awful tragedy.
Pàgina 198 - Israel, and Strada gave us a Hallelujah of half an Hour long; Senesino and Bertolli made rare work with the English Tongue you would have sworn it had been Welch; I would have wish'd it Italian, that they might have sang with more ease to themselves, since, but for the Name of English, it might as well have been Hebrew.
Pàgina 235 - If the puppy should, in one of his impertinent affected airs of duty and affection, dare to come to St. James's, I order you to go to the scoundrel and tell him I wonder at his impudence for daring to come here; that he has my orders already, and knows my pleasure, and bid him go about his business; for his poor mother is not in a condition to see him act his false, whining, cringing tricks now, nor am I in a humour to bear his impertinence; and bid him trouble me with no more messages, but get out...
Pàgina 198 - Oratorio you see nothing,' says t'other ; so away goes I to the Oratorio, where I saw indeed the finest assembly of People I ever beheld in my...
Pàgina 120 - Work more usefull, which if it meets with a favourable Reception ; I will Still proceed to publish more, reckoning it my duty, with my Small Talent, to serve a Nation from which I have receiv'd so Generous a Protection GF HANDEL.
Pàgina 158 - Allegiance, but hath constantly professed the Protestant Religion, and hath given Testimony of his Loyalty and Fidelity to His Majesty and the Good of this Kingdom. Therefore the Petitioner humbly prays That he may be added to the Bill now pending entitled 'An Act for Naturalisating Louis Sechehaye.
Pàgina 104 - Two fierce black eyes, large and rolling beneath two lofty arched eye-brows, two acres of cheeks spread with crimson, an ocean of neck that overflowed and was not distinguished from the lower part of her body, and no part restrained by stays — no wonder that a child dreaded such an ogress...
Pàgina 285 - Lost, to give Mr. Handel to compose to ; it has cost me a great deal of thought and contrivance...