 | John Gay - 1728 - 102 pages
...for the celebrating the Marriage of James Chanter and Moll Lay, two moft excellent Ballad-Singers. I have introduc'd the Similes that are in all your...Operas: The Swallow, the Moth, the Bee, the Ship, jhe Flower, &c. Befides, I have a Prifon Scene which the the Ladies always reckon charmingly pathetick.... | |
 | 1777 - 380 pages
...marriage of James Chanter and Moll Lay, two moil excellent ballad-fmgers. I have introduced the fimilies that are in all your celebrated operas : the Swallow, the Moth, the Bee, the Ship, the Flower, &c. Befides I have a prifon fcene, which the ladies always reckon charmingly pathetic. As to the parts,... | |
 | John Bell - 1777 - 374 pages
...marriage of James Chanter and Moll Lay, two moft excellent ballad-fingers. I have introduced the limilies that are in all your celebrated operas : the Swallow, the Moth, the Bee, the Ship, the Flower, &c. Befides 1 have a prifon fcene. which the ladies always reckon charmingly pathetic. As to the parts,... | |
 | John Milton, John Dalton - 1791 - 498 pages
...marriage of James Chanter and Moll Lay, two most excellent ballad-singers. I have introduced the similies that are in all your celebrated operas, The Swallow, The Moth, The Bee, The Ship, The Flower, &c. besides, I have a prison scene, which the ladies always reckon charmingly pathetic. As to the parts,... | |
 | 1861 - 740 pages
...have not made my opera unnatural, like those in vogue, for I have no recitative ; I have introduced the similes that are in all your celebrated operas,...Swallow, the Moth, the Bee, the Ship, the Flower, &c.," and, "as I have consented to have neither prologue nor epilogue, it must be allowed an opera... | |
 | George Grove - 1880 - 778 pages
...to the latter, because the style of the music of Italian operas is not burlesqued, but the fact is apparent from the introductory dialogue between the Beggar (the assumed author of the friet*) and the Player, in which the former is made to say, ' I have introduc'd the similes that are... | |
 | 1886 - 768 pages
...prologue, which is now usually omitted, but which gives the keynote to the whole : " I have introduced the similes that are in all your celebrated operas...swallow, the moth, the bee, the ship, the flower, &c. Besides, I have a prison scene which the ladies always reckon charming, pathetic. As to the parts,... | |
 | 1890 - 790 pages
...to the latter, because the style of the music of Italian operae is not burlesqued, but the fact is apparent from the introductory dialogue between the...introduc'd the similes that are in all your celebrated operae ; the Swallow, the Moth, "the Bee, the Ship, the Flower, etc. Beside«, I have a prison scene,... | |
 | Andrew Deakin - 1892 - 94 pages
...celebrating the marriage of James Chanter and Moll Lay, two most excellent ballad-singers. I have introduced the similes that are in all your celebrated operas...Swallow, the Moth, the Bee, the Ship, the Flower, etc. Besides I have a prison scene, which the ladies always reckon charmingly pathetick. As to the parts,... | |
 | John Gay - 1898 - 256 pages
...for the celebrating the Marriage of James Chanter and Moll Lay, two most excellent Ballad-Singers. I have introduc'd the Similes that are in all your...Swallow, the Moth, the Bee. the Ship, the Flower, &c. Besides 1 have a Prison Scene which the Ladies always reckon charmingly pathetick. As to the Parts,... | |
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I have introduced the similes that are in all your celebrated operas: the swallow, the moth, the bee, the ship, the flower, etc. 
