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... opera in which both stars could sing , and in which neither could claim that the other's role was better than her own . The job seems to have taken him nearly a month ! and a handsome piece of work it was , in which the arias were ...
... opera in which both stars could sing , and in which neither could claim that the other's role was better than her own . The job seems to have taken him nearly a month ! and a handsome piece of work it was , in which the arias were ...
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... opera . Not more intimate , in my opinion , than the probabilities warrant . That Gay was himself musical admits of no dispute . All his life he wrote ballads and lyrics to be sung , and from first to last his works display a wide ...
... opera . Not more intimate , in my opinion , than the probabilities warrant . That Gay was himself musical admits of no dispute . All his life he wrote ballads and lyrics to be sung , and from first to last his works display a wide ...
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... opera was killed , not so much by the 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 ...
... opera was killed , not so much by the 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 ...
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A Note in Defence of Satire 12 L | 12 |
The Authenticity of Anna Sewards Published Correspondence | 50 |
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