 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1833 - 466 páginas
...turn out that there is any thing great in this match, but the greatness of the secret. Poor Hervey, J the brother, is in fear and trembling, for he apprehends...everybody is to sing whether they have voices or not. * Anna Maria of Medicis, daughter of Cosmo III. widow of John William Elector Palatine. After her husband's... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1833 - 436 páginas
...turn out that there is any thing great in this match, but the greatness of the secret. Poor Hervey,J the brother, is in fear and trembling for he apprehends...for my part, they give me an idea of heaven, where every body is to sing whether they have voices or not. The Board (the Jacobite Club) have chosen his... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1833 - 450 páginas
...turn out that there is any thing great in this match, but the greatness of the secret. Poor Hervey,J the brother, is in fear and trembling for he apprehends...other with as little ceremony. The Oratorios thrive abundantly—for my part, they give me an idea of heaven, where every body is to sing whether they... | |
 | 1840 - 540 páginas
...recitative if it happens to have any cadence like what they call a tune." Again, on the 3rd of March,he says :—"The oratorios thrive abundantly; for my part,...everybody is to sing whether they have voices or not." These passages bear testimony to the success of Handel's oratorios ; but they do not prove either the... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 596 páginas
...turn out that there is any thing great in this match, but the greatness of the secret. Poor Hervey ,b the brother, is in fear and trembling, for he apprehends...for my part, they give me an idea of heaven, where every body is to sing whether they have voices or not. The Board (the Jacobite Club) have chosen his... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 476 páginas
...turn out that there is anything great in this match, but the greatness of the secret. Poor Hervey, the brother, is in fear and trembling, for he apprehends...some fortune or other with as little ceremony."— Walpole s Letters, vol. ip 263. A love of display,—originating apparently in the notion that it rendered... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 482 páginas
...turn out that there is anything great in this match, but the greatness of the secret. Poor Hervey, the brother, is in fear and trembling, for he apprehends...to some fortune or other with as little ceremony." — Walpole '* Letters, vol. ip 263. A love of display, — originating apparently in the notion that... | |
 | William Watts - 1872 - 114 páginas
...awakened as one out of sleep." — Psalm xliv. and Ixxviii. § " Our oratorios," says Horace Walpole, " give me an idea of heaven, where everybody is to sing, whether they have voices or not." — Letters to H. Mann, vol. i. 255. But surely, if our Billingsgate lubbers and fish-fags (who on... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1882 - 376 páginas
...tune.' The general effect can scarcely have been harmonious. 'For my part,' says Horace Walpole, ' they give me an idea of heaven, where everybody is to sing, whether they have voices or not.' CHAPTER IX. The Rising in Scotland — Jacobite Toasts — Lord Lovat's Execution — George Selwyn's... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1882 - 324 páginas
...tune.' The general effect can scarcely have been harmonious. 'For my part,' says Horace Walpole, ' they give me an idea of heaven, where everybody is to sing, whether they have voices or not.' CHAPTER IX. The Rising in Scotland— Jacobite Toasts — Lord Lovat's Execution — George Selwyn's... | |
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Phipps,' grandson of the Duchess of Buckingham. They sent for the boy but the day before from Oxford, and bedded them at a day's notice. But after all this mystery, it does not turn out that there is any thing great in this match, but the greatness of... 
