 | William Howitt - 1856 - 596 páginas
...published, and pamphlets made even of her sayings and jests. Furthermore, it drove out of England, for that season, the Italian opera, which had carried all before it for ten years." From that time to the present, the effect has been, to a certain degree, the same, in a certain class... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1856 - 340 páginas
...published, and pamphlets made even of her sayings and jests. Furthermore, it drove out of England, for that season, the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for tenyears." Dr. Johnson, in his life of the author, says, that Herring, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1861 - 660 páginas
...her published, and pamphlets made even of her sayings and jests. Furthermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried...performance, when it was printed," the reception was dif»" Spence by Singer, p. 150. " Mr. Cambridge was told by Quiun that during the first night of its... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1866 - 654 páginas
...her published, and pamphlets made even of her sayings and jests. Furthermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for tun years." Of this performance, when it was printed," the reception was dif" Spence by Singer, p.... | |
 | 1877 - 564 páginas
...their fans ; houses were furnished with it in screens ; furthermore, it drove out of England (for the season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.' Beyond the beauty of the music, much of this vast popularity was owing to its political significance.... | |
 | Belgravia - 1877 - 696 páginas
...their fans ; houses were furnished with it in screens ; furthermore, it drove out of England (for the season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.' Beyond the beauty of the music, much of this vast popularity was owing to its political significance.... | |
 | 1877 - 730 páginas
...their fans ; houses were furnished with it in screens ; furthermore, it drove out of England (for the season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.' Beyond the beauty of the music, much of this vast popularity was owing to its political significance.... | |
 | 1880 - 976 páginas
...songs of it on fans; houses were furnished with it on screens; furthermore, it drove out of England, for that season, the Italian opera, which had carried all before it for ten years." Swift wrote to Gay that " The Beggar's Opera hath knocked down Gulliver," adding that he hoped to see... | |
 | Henry Sutherland Edwards - 1886 - 320 páginas
...published, and pamphlets made even of her sayings and jests. Furthermore, it drove out of England, for that season, the Italian opera, which had carried all before it for ten years." The Beggar's Opera, like many other works which were destined to obtain enormous success, did not please... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 474 páginas
...her published, and pamphlets made even of her sayings and jests. Furthermore it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years." 2 Of this performance, when it was printed,3 the reception was different, according to the different... | |
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... person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers; her Life written, books of letters and verses to her published, and pamphlets made even of her sayings... 
