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Un. This is very strange, Captaine; the man is certainely enchanted. Tho. Master, master, tis Shrovetuesday and the prentices are pulling downe Covent Garden; the Brickes come as whole out as if he had swallowed Cherristones.
24 George II. c. 40. June 1751. Middlesex Records. General Advertiser. Sept. 9. 1751. Middlesex Records. October, 1751. "of all my Offspring she is my favourite Child." The Covent Garden Journal. No. 8. On the 2nd of December 1751 the General Advertiser announces that On Wednesday the 18th of this Month will be published By HENRY FIELDING, Esq; Beati ter et amplius Quos irrupta tenet Copula.
And you have so many flowers. I like these little yellow irises." "Rooms always look better by lamplight in London, at least. Though Marie is clean really clean, as the French are. Why do you look at the flowers so critically? Marie got them all fresh in Covent Garden market yesterday morning." "I'm glad," said Alexander simply.
The immense success of "Der Freyschütz," and the important assistance it brought to the funds of the theater, induced my father to propose to Weber to compose an opera expressly for Covent Garden. The proposal met with ready acceptance, and the chivalric fairy tale of Wieland's "Oberon" was selected for the subject, and was very gracefully and poetically treated by Mr.
Whatever may have been Lord Castlewell's general sins among actresses and actors, his feelings hitherto in regard to Miss O'Mahony had not done him discredit. He had already heard her name frequently when he had seen her in her little carriage before the steps of Covent Garden Theatre, and had heard her sing at "The Embankment."
She meditates a novel, she plans an opera, 'Cupid and Psyche. At last, better times began to dawn, and she receives 150 pounds down for a new novel and ten guineas from Blackwood as a retaining fee. Then comes a letter from Charles Kemble giving her new hope, for her tragedy, which was soon afterwards produced at Covent Garden.
At Covent Garden that evening he met the noble lord, having searched for him in vain at Westminster. He was much more likely to find Lord Castlewell among the singers of the day, than with the peers; but of these things Mr. O'Mahony hardly understood all the particulars. "Well, O'Mahony, how is your charming daughter?" "My daughter is not inclined to be charming at all.
Here he composed the beautiful Overture to "Oberon" which was only completed a few days before the first performance of the opera. "Oberon" was given at Covent Garden on April 12. The house was packed from pit to dome, and the success was tremendous.
The school was kept by ladies of the name of Guinani, sisters to the wife of Charles Young the Julia so early lost, so long loved and lamented by him. It was while we were still living in Covent Garden Chambers that Talma, the great French actor, came to London. He knew both my uncle and my father, and was highly esteemed and greatly admired by both of them.
Princess Anne left England on October 21, and her last words at parting were to beg Lord Hervey to do all he could to help Handel. The chief attraction to the public at Covent Garden was probably not Handel but Mlle Salle, a French dancer who had been engaged by Rich. The first performance at the new theatre was a ballet, Terpsichore, in order that she might inaugurate the season.
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