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... Opera he could have pointed equally to several of Händel's opera prison scenes that the ladies might have considered " charmi pathetick . " Silla ( 1714 ) has an affecting one ; Tamerlano ( 17 a fine and popular opera , of which the ...
... Opera he could have pointed equally to several of Händel's opera prison scenes that the ladies might have considered " charmi pathetick . " Silla ( 1714 ) has an affecting one ; Tamerlano ( 17 a fine and popular opera , of which the ...
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... opera . Not more intimate , in my opinion , than the probab warrant . That Gay was himself musical admits of no dispu his life he wrote ballads and lyrics to be sung , and from f last his works display a wide familiarity with popular ...
... opera . Not more intimate , in my opinion , than the probab warrant . That Gay was himself musical admits of no dispu his life he wrote ballads and lyrics to be sung , and from f last his works display a wide familiarity with popular ...
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... opera was killed , not so much by he fact that The Beggar's Opera made its conventions ridiculous ( for its conventions could at that time have been ridiculous only to quite unmusical people ) , as by the incontestable attraction of the ...
... opera was killed , not so much by he fact that The Beggar's Opera made its conventions ridiculous ( for its conventions could at that time have been ridiculous only to quite unmusical people ) , as by the incontestable attraction of the ...
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istolary Technique in Richardsons Novels 1 | 198 |
he Muse of Satire 2 | 218 |
he Search for English Literary Documents 23 | 232 |
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