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Sallenauve pressed the doctor's hand gratefully, and started for London without delay. Arriving there at five o'clock, the travellers were unable to leave before midnight; meantime their eyes were struck at every turn by those enormous posters which English puffism alone is able to produce, announcing the second appearance in Her Majesty's theatre of the Signora Luigia.
"To whatever height you rise," said Luigia, passionately, "you will ever be below your past and the noble future that was once before you Ah! stay; I think that I have lied to you; had you remained a sculptor, I believe I should have borne still longer your coldness and your disdain; I should have waited until I entered my vocation, until the halo round a singer's head might have shown you, at last, that I was there beside you.
"Yes," said Bixiou, "and I mean to cultivate his acquaintance; I could make a good deal out of him in the Charivari." "You have better find out first," said Desroches, "whether he has enough French humor to like being caricatured." Presently the first notes of the piano gave notice that the Signora Luigia was about to mount the breach.
She paints portraits and figure subjects; has a broad, swinging brush and great love of 'tone. Miss Bowen has recently built a studio, in Kensington, after her own design. She is in London from Christmas time to August, when she makes an annual journey for sketching." <b>BOZZINO, CANDIDA LUIGIA.</b> Silver medal at Piacenza. Born at Piacenza, 1853. Pupil of her father.
She writes very modestly that so many are sold and in private hands that she will give no list of subjects. <b>MASSARI, LUIGIA.</b> Medal at Piacenza, 1869, and several other medals from art societies. Born at Piacenza, 1810. Pupil of A. Gemmi. Her works are in a number of churches: "St. Martin" in the church at Altoé; "St. Philomena" in the church at Busseto; the "Madonna del Carmine" and "St.
After a frugal dinner with my old acquaintances Tessarin and the Wesendoncks, whom I invited to the Albergo San Alarco, and once more exchanging friendly greetings with Luigia, my former attendant at the Palazzo Giustiniani, to the astonishment of my friends I suddenly left Venice.
"Certainly I had not thought it," he repeated to himself. "Why, what did you suppose it was?" she heedlessly asked. "Luigia!" said he. And his low, rapt tone was indescribably simple, sweet, and intense. Eve did not know what the boy himself was called. "I wish it were," said she. "That is a pleasant sound."
"What, three hearts devoted to you," cried Luigia, "and not one accepted? A strange star is yours! No doubt I suffer from its fatal influence, and therefore I must pardon you." "You are good to be merciful; will you now let me ask you a question? Just now you spoke of your future, and I see it with my own eyes.
Pohl, closely followed by Haydn's recent biographer, Schmidt, describes Luigia Polzelli as a Neapolitan who was nineteen when she was engaged to sing at the theatre of the Prince Esterházy. She was the wife of Anton Polzelli, an insignificant and sickly violinist, with whom she was apparently not in love.
Portraits of the Countess Canossa-Portalupi and her son, of Luigia Codemo, and of Luigi Giacomelli are thought to possess great merit; while those of Dr. Her sacred pictures, strong and good in color, are full of a mystical and spiritual beauty. Her drawing is admirable and her treatment of detail highly finished. <b>BORZINO, LEOPOLDINA.</b> Milanese water-color painter.
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