 | Thomas Moore - 1826 - 570 pages
...DEAR SIR, " We received your songs to-day, with which we are exceedingly pleased. I shall profit by your proposed alterations; but I'd have you to know...spring inspires. We dare not propose a peep beyond the ankle on any account ; for the critics in the pit at a new play are much greater prudes than the ladies... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1835 - 504 pages
...dated in October, 1775, about a month or flve weeks before the opera was brought out : — " DEAR Sin, account : for the critics in the pit at a new play are much greater prudes than the ladies in the hoxes. Betsey intended to have troubled you with some music for correction and I with some stanzas... | |
 | George Hogarth - 1851 - 396 pages
...Linley : " We received your songs to-day, with which we are exceedingly pleased. I shall profit by your proposed alterations, but I'd have you to know...spring inspires. We dare not propose a peep beyond the ankle on any account ; for the critics in the pit at a new play are much greater prudes than the ladies... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1858 - 326 pages
..."DEAR SIR, " We received your songs to-day, with which we are exceedingly pleased. I shall profit by your proposed alterations ; but I'd have you to know that we are much too chaste in-London to admit such strains as your Bath spring inspires. We dare not propose a peep beyond the... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 418 pages
...interesting letters, detailing the joint progress of the work. Sheridan, writing to Linley in Bath, says : "I'd have you to know that we are much too chaste...much greater prudes than the ladies in the boxes." " Harris is extravagantly sanguine of its success as to plot, dialogue, &c." "A rehearsal of the music... | |
 | William Fraser Rae - 1896 - 478 pages
...London to admit such strains as your Bath spring inspires. We dare not propose a peep beyond the ankle on any account; for the critics in the pit at a new...much greater prudes than the ladies in the boxes. Betsy [Mrs. Sheridan] intended to have troubled you with some music for correction and I with some... | |
 | Walter Sichel - 1909 - 732 pages
...correspondence, too, with Linley, his fatherin-law, about the songs for " The Duenna," he tells the composer that " we are much too chaste in London to admit such strains as your ' Bath Spring' inspires." Sheridan to T. Linley, October, 1775, transcribed by Moore, Vol. I., p. 157. 1 Cf. " Memoirs of Mrs.... | |
 | Walter Sydney Sichel - 1909 - 728 pages
...correspondence, too, with Llnley, his fatherin-law, about the songs for " The Duenna," he tells the composer that " we are much too chaste in London to admit such strains as your ' Bath Spring1 inspires." Sheridan to T. Linley, October, 1775, transcribed by Moore, Vol. I., p. 157. J Cf.... | |
 | James Morwood, David Crane - 1995 - 226 pages
...in October 1775; Letters, i. 86), when he wrote about their upcoming production of The Duenna that 'We dare not propose a peep beyond the ancle on any...much greater prudes than the ladies in the boxes.' If he understood the necessity of avoiding bawdry and sexual suggestion lest the audience rebel before... | |
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We received your songs to-day, with which we are exceedingly pleased. I shall profit by your proposed alterations; but I'd have you to know that we are much too chaste in London to admit such strains as your Bath spring inspires. 