The Spectator, Том 1Alexander Chalmers D. Appleton and Company, 1853 |
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... opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lav- ish in its decorations , as its only design is to gratify the senses , and keep up an indolent attention in the audience . Common sense , however , requires that there should be nothing in ...
... opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lav- ish in its decorations , as its only design is to gratify the senses , and keep up an indolent attention in the audience . Common sense , however , requires that there should be nothing in ...
Сторінка 105
... opera . Sparrows for the opera ! says his friend , licking his lips ; what , are they to be roasted ? No , no , says the other ; they are to enter towards the end of the first act , and to fly about the stage . This strange dialogue ...
... opera . Sparrows for the opera ! says his friend , licking his lips ; what , are they to be roasted ? No , no , says the other ; they are to enter towards the end of the first act , and to fly about the stage . This strange dialogue ...
Сторінка 106
... opera ; that it had been proposed to break down a part of the wall , and to surprise the audience with a party of an hundred horse ; and that there was actually a project of bringing the New - river into the house , to be employed in ...
... opera ; that it had been proposed to break down a part of the wall , and to surprise the audience with a party of an hundred horse ; and that there was actually a project of bringing the New - river into the house , to be employed in ...
Сторінка 107
... opera in a fortnight . Such are the wits to whose tastes we so ambitiously conform ourselves . The truth of it is , the finest writers among the modern Italians express themselves in such a florid form of words , and such tedious ...
... opera in a fortnight . Such are the wits to whose tastes we so ambitiously conform ourselves . The truth of it is , the finest writers among the modern Italians express themselves in such a florid form of words , and such tedious ...
Сторінка 108
... opera " are taken , I must entirely agree with Monsieur Boileau , that one verse in Virgil is worth all the clinquant or tinsel of Tasso . Χ But to return to the sparrows . There have been so many flights of them let loose in this opera ...
... opera " are taken , I must entirely agree with Monsieur Boileau , that one verse in Virgil is worth all the clinquant or tinsel of Tasso . Χ But to return to the sparrows . There have been so many flights of them let loose in this opera ...
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Сторінка 87 - THE first of our society is a gentleman of Worcestershire, of an ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger.