 | James Harris Earl of Malmesbury - 1870 - 552 pàgines
...poor Handel got the better of this and my indolence, and 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,1 dejected, wan, and dark, sitting by, not playing on the harpsichord, and to think how his... | |
 | 1870 - 870 pàgines
...century. Of the series itself it is enough to say that it begins with Lady Shaftesbury's picture of Handel, " dejected, wan, and dark, sitting by, not playing on, the harpsichord," and closes in the midst of Queen Caroline's trial. It would require a much larger space than a weekly journal... | |
 | Richard Alexander Streatfeild - 1910 - 418 pàgines
...was the father of Handel got the better of my indolence, and I went last Friday to Alexanders Feast, but it was such a melancholy pleasure as drew tears...harpsichord, and to think how his light had been spent by being overplied in music's cause. I was sorry, too, to find the audience so insipid and tasteless... | |
 | 1871 - 866 pàgines
...indolence and iny propensity to stay at home, and I went last Friday to see the ' Alexander's Feast; ' but it was such a melancholy pleasure as drew tears of sorrow, great though unhappy Handel, dejected, wan, and dark, sitting by, not playing on the harpsichord, and... | |
 | Winton Dean - 1983 - 212 pàgines
...January 1753 he had 'quite lost his sight'. The well-known letter in which Lady Shaftesbury wrote that 'it was such a melancholy pleasure, as drew tears...harpsichord, and to think how his light had been spent by being overplied in music's cause\ which has been dated 1745 and 1751, unquestionably belongs to... | |
 | Hans Joachim Marx - 1998 - 350 pàgines
...Aufführung im März 1753 berichtet Lady Shaftesbury, es sei traurig gewesen „to see the great th'unhappy Handel dejected, wan and dark sitting by, not playing on the harpsichord; and to think how his light has been spent by being overply'd in musicks cause" (zit. Dunhill, Handel and the Harris Circle, S.14f).... | |
 | Donald Burrows, Rosemary Dunhill, James Harris - 2002 - 1268 pàgines
...to poor Handel got the better of this and my indolence, and I weut last Friday to Alexanders Feast, but it was such a melancholy pleasure as drew tears of sorrow to see the great th'unhappy Handel dejected, wan and dark5 sitting by, not playing on the harpsichord, and to think... | |
 | Julien Bogousslavsky, François Boller - 2005 - 201 pàgines
...received a letter from the Countess of Shaftesbury: '...1 went last Friday to 'Alexander's Feast' ; but it was such a melancholy pleasure, as drew tears...unhappy Handel, dejected, wan, and dark, sitting by, Georg Friedrich Handel's Strokes not playing on the harpsichord. . . ' [Deutsch, 1955]. And - strange... | |
 | Marian Van Til - 2007 - 372 pàgines
...chided those of her society who were too arch and superficial to support Handel in his need: [He was] sitting by, not playing on the harpsichord, and to think how his light has been spent by being over-ply 'd in musicks cause; I was sorry too to find the audience so insipid... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1871 - 670 pàgines
...indolence and my propensity to stay at home, and I went last Friday to sec the ' Alexander's Feast;' but it was such a melancholy pleasure as drew tears of sorrow, great though unhappy Handel, dejected, wan, and dark, sitting by, not playing on the harpsichord, and... | |
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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... 