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The music was adapted from Athaliah, which, so far, had only been heard at Oxford. Oratorio was also attempted by Handel's rival; Mrs. Pendarves heard a work of his at Lincoln's Inn Fields in March. "It is a fine solemn piece of music," she wrote, "but I confess I think the subject too solemn for a theatre.
Pendarves, whose judgment was probably more trustworthy, said that he had no voice at all. The first London performance of Messiah was given on March 23, but it had no more than two subsequent repetitions this season. There were many reasons why it should have fallen flat. Jennens himself was extremely dissatisfied with it.
They were gone when I got up, and I can't find them high or low!" "You mean Captain Pendarves and the other?" He's always restless in a storm. He goes down to the shore sometimes. I'm so afraid " her look said the rest. "Ask him ask Crump; maybe he's seen them," she added in a shriek, as I started to the carrier's help.
The Irish nation was practically divided into a "Protestant garrison" and a pariah caste. It would have been strange, therefore, if the faults incident to their position had not been developed in each of these classes. And yet when the beautiful and accomplished Mrs. Pendarves visited the island in 1731 she found social life in the capital worthy of commendation.
"First of all we must find Captain Pendarves we must go look for him," she said, answering my thought and making up my mind for me in a trice. "Lord love you, miss, you can't go out in this!" said Crump, aghast. "Why not? I've been out in it once already." "But, Mary!" I cried, and tried to withhold her. "What good can you do? Here is Crump, and here am I. We'll find them both.
Old Countess Granville, known to her younger relatives as "the Dragon," who had lived all through the age of Locke and Purcell, wrote, at the age of eighty, to her cousin Mrs. Pendarves Handel's child friend Mary Granville in 1734: "There is, I think, no accomplishment so great for a lady as music, for it tunes the mind."
She had certainly been outdoors already, as early as it was, in the teeth of all this blow, and I was startled by the pale anxiety of her look. "What is it? Who is there?" she cried again shrilly. "Nobody but Crump with my baggage," I cried back. "What's the matter?" "Oh, Mr. Pendarves, haven't you seen them? They are both gone! I've looked everywhere about the house.
"Four weeks next Wednesday," she answered nervously. "Then," said I, "maybe you can tell me something about the drift of things here. For not to boggle about it I am in some uneasiness, Miss Smith. These people this man and woman who I hear have settled themselves upon Captain Pendarves of late who are they? what are they?"
It was probably owing to this fact that opera in English was offered at the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where Marcantonio Buononcini's Camilla, first given in London in 1706, was revived by a mainly English cast of singers. Mrs. Pendarves went to see it, and her criticisms are significant for the taste of the time.
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