 Roast Beef* from between the acts at both theatres, with a man with one note in his voice, and a girl without ever an one ; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs ; and the good company encore the recitative, if it happens to have any cadence like...  Letters of Horace Walpole - Page 47by Horace Walpole - 1890Full view - About this book
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1833 - 436 pages
...an one ; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs ; and the good company encore the recitative, if it happens to have any cadence like what they call...sentences, " some men love to be particularly so, your petit-maitres — but they are not always the brightest of their sex." — Do thank me for this period... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1833 - 466 pages
...an one ; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs ; and the good company encore the recitative, if it happens to have any cadence like what they call...sentences, " some men love to be particularly so, your petit-maitres — but they are not always the brightest of their sex." — Do thank me for this period... | |
 | Arts - 1840 - 540 pages
...ever a one ; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs ; and the good company encore the recitative if it happens to have any cadence like what they call a tune." Again, on the 3rd of March,he says :—"The oratorios thrive abundantly; for my part, they give me... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 596 pages
...an one ; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs ; and the good company encore the recitative, if it happens to have any cadence like what they call...sentences, "some men love to be particularly so, your petit-maitres — but they are not always the brightest of their sex." — Do thank me for this period... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 592 pages
...an one ; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs ; and the good company encore the recitative, if it happens to have any cadence like what they call...sentences, "some men love to be particularly so, your petit-maitres — but they are not always the brightest of their sex." — Do thank me for this period... | |
 | English periodicals - 1842 - 528 pages
...a one ; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs ; and the good company encore the recitative, if it happens to have any cadence like what they call a tune.1' * The Italian Opera-House in the Haymarket itself went out of fashion in a few years, and the... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 362 pages
...ever a one; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs ; and the good company encore the recitative, if it happens to have any cadence like what they call a tune.' >- f The Italian Opera House in the Haymarket itself went out of fashion in a few years, and the nobility... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 324 pages
...a one ; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs ; and the good company encore the recitative, if it happens to have any cadence like what they call a tune."-f- The Italian Opera House in the Haymarket itself went out of fashion in a few years, and the... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 366 pages
...a one ; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs ; and the good company encore the recitative, if it happens to have any cadence like what they call a tune."f The Italian Opera House in the Haymarket itself went out of fashion in a few years, and the... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1857 - 586 pages
...The great Lord Peterborough. Died 1735. — CUNNINGHAM. and the good company encore the recitative, if it happens to have any cadence like what they call...with a tone of saying sentences, "some men love to he particularly so, your petit-maitres — but they are not always the brightest of their sex." —... | |
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