 Handel has set up an oratorio against the operas, and succeeds. He has hired all the goddesses from farces and the singers of 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...  The Life of Handel - Page 292by Victor Schoelcher - 1857 - 443 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1833 - 466 pages
...the operas, and succeeds. He has hired all the goddesses from farces and the singers of Roast Beef* from between the acts at both theatres, with a man...happens to have any cadence like what they call a tune. I was much diverted the other night at the opera ; two gentlewomen sat before my sister, and not knowing... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1833 - 450 pages
...the operas, and succeeds. He has hired all the goddesses from farces and the singers of Roast Bee/t from between the acts at both theatres, with a man...happens to have any cadence like what they call a tune. I was much diverted the other night at the opera; two gentlewomen sat before my sister, and not knowing... | |
 | Arts - 1840 - 540 pages
...the opera, and succeeds. He has hired all the goddesses from farces, and the sing-ers of 'Roast-beef* from between the acts at both theatres, with a man...with one note in his voice, and a girl without ever a one ; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs ; and the good company encore the recitative if... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 592 pages
...against the opera and succeeds. He has hired all the goddesses from farces and the singers of Roast Beef* from between the acts at both theatres, with a man...happens to have any cadence like what they call a tune. I was much diverted the other night at the opera ; two gentlewomen sat before my sister, and not knowing... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 594 pages
...against the opera and succeeds. He has hired all the goddesses from farces and the singers of Roast Beef* from between the acts at both theatres, with a man...happens to have any cadence like what they call a tune. I was much diverted the other night at the opera; two gentlewomen sat before my sister, and not knowing... | |
 | English periodicals - 1842 - 528 pages
...tne operas, and succeeds. He has hired all the goddesses from farces, and the singers of Roast Beef from between the acts at both theatres, with a man...with one note in his voice, and a girl without ever a one ; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs ; and the good company encore the recitative,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 362 pages
...between the acts at both theatres, with a man with one note in his voice, and a girl without ever a one; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs...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
...the operas, and succeeds. He has hired all the goddesses from farces, and the singers of Roast Beef from between the acts at both theatres, with a man...with one note in his voice, and a girl without ever a one ; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs ; and the good company encore the recitative,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 366 pages
...the operas, and succeeds. He has hired all the goddesses from farces, and the singers of Roast Beef from between the acts at both theatres, with a man...with one note in his voice, and a girl without ever a one ; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs ; and the good company encore the recitative,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1857 - 586 pages
...the Operas, and succeeds. He has hired all the goddesses from farces and the singers of Boast Beef from between the acts at both theatres, with a man...one ; and so they sing, and make brave hallelujahs; 1 This alludes to an engagement, which took place on the 8th of February, near Bologna, between the... | |
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