 I sing, but an eunuch, or an Italian woman. Everybody is grown now as great a judge of music, as they were in your time of poetry; and folks, that could not distinguish one tune from another, now daily dispute about the different styles of Handel, Bononcini,...  The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin - Стр. 93авторы: Jonathan Swift - 1801Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - Страниц: 632
...to say, I sing, but an eunuch, or an Italian woman. Everybody is grown now as great a judge of Music as they were, in your time, of Poetry ; and folks,...different styles of Handel, Bononcini, and Attilio. . . ." 1 Lord Carteret had boon appointed to the Viceregal post in 1723. ' Mrs. Sheridan and Swift... | |
 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - Страниц: 634
...to Bay, I sing, but an eunuch, or an Italian woman. Everybody is grown now as great a judge of Music as they were, in your time, of Poetry ; and folks, that could not distinguish one tuno from another, now daily dispute about the different styles of Handel, Uononcini, and Attilio.... | |
 | Walter Sichel - 1902 - Страниц: 654
...eight years before. " Folks," writes Gay, who had just been made State Lottery Commissioner in 1723, "that could not distinguish one tune from another,...different styles of Handel, Bononcini, and Attilio. . . . In all polite conversation Senesino is daily voted to be the .greatest man that ever lived."... | |
 | William James Henderson - 1904 - Страниц: 232
...to say ' I sing' but an eunuch or an Italian woman. Everybody is grown now as great a judge of music as they were in your time of poetry, and folks that...styles of Handel, Bononcini and Attilio. People have forgot Homer and Virgil and Caesar; or at least, they have lost their ranks. For in London and Westminster,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1912 - Страниц: 508
...say, " I sing," but an eunuch, or an Italian woman. Everybody is grown now as great a judge of music, as they were in your time of poetry, and folks, that...one tune from another, now daily dispute about the differ1 These letters in my opinion never reached Swift. See Appendix II. " Pope had then been residing... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1921 - Страниц: 196
...to say, I sing, but an eunuch or an Italian woman. Everybody is grown now as great a judge of music, as they were in your time of poetry, and folks that...daily dispute about the different styles of Handel, Bononcine, and Attilio. People have now forgot Homer and Virgil and Caesar, or at least they have lost... | |
 | Harold C Schonberg - 1997 - Страниц: 664
...to say / sing but an eunuch or an Italian woman. Every body is grown now as great a judge of singing as they were in your time of poetry; and folks, that...from another, now daily dispute about the different stiles of Handel, Bononcini and Attilio. ... In London and Westminster, in all polite conversations,... | |
 | Mita Choudhury - 2000 - Страниц: 236
...instance, that as for the reigning Amusement of the town, tis entirely Musick. . . . Theres nobody allow 'd to say I sing but an Eunuch or an Italian Woman. Every...another now daily dispute about the different Styles of Hendel, Bononcini, and Attilio. People have now forgot Homer, and Virgil & Caesar, or at least they... | |
 | Fredric V. Bogel - 2001 - Страниц: 280
...Musick. real fiddles, Bass Viols and Hautboys not poetical Harps, Lyres, and reeds. Theres nobody allow'd to say I sing but an Eunuch or an Italian Woman. Every...another now daily dispute about the different styles of Hendel, Bottoncini, and Attillio. People have now forgot Homer, and Virgil & Caesar, or at least they... | |
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