Littell's Living Age, Volume 164Living Age Company Incorporated, 1885 |
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... beautiful melody , " said Rossini to an En- glishman ( who agreed with him ) , “ is ' The girl I left behind me ' ! It does honor to Ireland . " But Rossini was wrong . That beautiful melody is pure English - pub . lished in England ...
... beautiful melody , " said Rossini to an En- glishman ( who agreed with him ) , “ is ' The girl I left behind me ' ! It does honor to Ireland . " But Rossini was wrong . That beautiful melody is pure English - pub . lished in England ...
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... beautiful , for instance , are " Tom Bowling , " " Lovely Nan , " " The Sailor's Journal , " and a score of others that might be cited ! Dibdin said of his songs , with pardonable pride , " that they had been considered an object of ...
... beautiful , for instance , are " Tom Bowling , " " Lovely Nan , " " The Sailor's Journal , " and a score of others that might be cited ! Dibdin said of his songs , with pardonable pride , " that they had been considered an object of ...
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... beautiful to read , but not always well adapted to be sung . These poets have either not known , or have forgotten , that the essential ele- ment of a song is to be singable , and that a fine thought , if expressed by words containing ...
... beautiful to read , but not always well adapted to be sung . These poets have either not known , or have forgotten , that the essential ele- ment of a song is to be singable , and that a fine thought , if expressed by words containing ...
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... beautiful steel en- gravings there was one of these stand- ing on a chair , with the hanging - cord drawn through its rings , but not yet knotted . This was Landseer's touching presentment of the faithful dog resting its head on its ...
... beautiful steel en- gravings there was one of these stand- ing on a chair , with the hanging - cord drawn through its rings , but not yet knotted . This was Landseer's touching presentment of the faithful dog resting its head on its ...
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... beautiful Molly Lepell " as one of that gay group of maids of honor , more merry than wise , so prominent in the memoirs of their time , who attended Caroline of Anspach when the " young court " of the Prince and Princess of Wales drew ...
... beautiful Molly Lepell " as one of that gay group of maids of honor , more merry than wise , so prominent in the memoirs of their time , who attended Caroline of Anspach when the " young court " of the Prince and Princess of Wales drew ...
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