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Her place in art is, therefore, as the finest contemporary interpreter of Wagner's greater predecessor. Elizabeth Weichsel's Runaway Marriage. Début at Covent Garden. Lord Mount Edgcumbe's Opinion of her Singing. Her Rivalry with Mme. Mara. Mrs. Billington's Greatness in English Opera. She sings in Italy in 1794-'99. Her Great Power on the Italian Stage. Marriage with Felican.
Since the ever-memorable night of Thursday the 29th of July 1588, three hundred and sixteen years before, when "The beacon blazed upon the roof of Edgcumbe's lofty Hall," and the answering fires sprang up "From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, from Lynn to Milford Bay," to tell that the Spanish Armada was in sight, there had been no such night in England, nor had men ever dreamed that there should be.
Its front is protected by a redoubt, and to the eastward are the tasteful grounds of the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe's winter villa. The marine barracks, which have the finest mess-room in England, will accommodate fifteen hundred men; the naval hospital, northward of Stonehouse, will furnish beds for twelve hundred.
Lord Mount Edgcumbe's Opinion of her as an Artist. In the mouth of Saint Preux, the hero of the latter novel, he puts some very animated sketches: "The opera at Paris passes for the most pompous, the most voluptuous, the most admirable spectacle that human art has ever invented.
In spite of Lord Mount Edgcumbe's somewhat severe judgment as given above, she appears to have pleased by her acting as well as singing, if we can judge from the wide diversity of characters in which she appeared so successfully. We are justified in this, especially from the character of the English opera, of which Mrs.
He was the son of the headmaster of Plympton School a school that can boast connection with three other famous artists: Northcote, Eastlake, and Haydon; and as a boy young Reynolds became a frequent companion of the second Lord Edgcumbe, then a lad of about his own age. The two between them painted a portrait of Thomas Smart, Vicar of Maker, who was the young Edgcumbe's tutor.
Forthwith a guard at every gun was placed along the wall; The beacon blazed upon the roof of Edgcumbe's lofty hall; Many a light fishing bark put out to pry along the coast; And with loose rein and bloody spur rode inland many a post.
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