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Pepusch she could please Betty Higgins. "Them old songs," went on Betty, warming to her subject, "touches the 'eart and makes the tears come. But you don't hear 'em at the fine concerts. I'll go bail as there beant a woman now-a-days as can make a man fall in love with her 'cause of her singin'." "I wonder," said Lavinia musingly.
This manuscript was a rough draft of the "Beggar's Opera." Pepusch had before him the music of a number of tunes, most of them well known, selected by Gay and himself as suitable for the songs in the opera. Poet and musician had had repeated differences as to the choice of melodies but things had now fairly settled down.
Pepusch said of him that he was "a good practical musician," which is what one might well expect of Pepusch, whose devotion to antiquarian learning aroused the amusement rather than the admiration of his contemporaries.
Spiller bestowed the greatest pains upon his "make up", and so identified himself with the part he was playing as completely to lose his own personality, and bewildered his audience as to whether he was their favourite they were applauding. He had the art of acting at his fingers' ends. "Child," said he when Lavinia had finished, "Mr. Gay and Dr. Pepusch did not mistake.
Pepusch is right," rejoined Gay. "That is why I favoured Cibber. But from his reception of me I doubt if he'll take the risk of staging the play." "Cibber likes not you, Mr. Gay, and he hates me," said Pope with his acid smile. "He's a poet or thinks he's one and poets love not one another. Nothing is so blinding to the merits of others as one's own vanity." "Nay, Mr.
"'Well, gentlemen, said my great-uncle Zachary, looking at his tompion, 'it is ten minutes past nine. Shall we wait more for Dr. Arne?" "'Let us give him another five minutes' chance, Master Hardcastle, said Colley Cibber; 'he is too great a genius to keep time. "'Let us put it to the vote, said Dr. Pepusch, smiling. 'Who holds up hands?
It is supposed, that the origin of 'The Beggar's Opera' is due to a remark of Swift's that 'a Newgate pastoral might be made a pretty thing. Gay borrowed the idea, and constructed 'The Beggar's Opera' round a cut-throat highwayman of the name of Macheath, while Dr. Pepusch arranged the music from old English and Scotch melodies, together with some of the most popular tunes of the day.
'I take this early visit as a great kindness. "'A delightful morning for the water, said Colley Cibber. "'Pray, did you come with oars or scullers, Mr. Handel? said Pepusch. "'Now, how gan you demand of me dat zilly question, you who are a musician and a man of science, Togder Peepbush?
The following anecdote does equal credit to Hasse's heart and penetration: In after-years, when he had left England, he was again sent for to take Handel's place as conductor of opera and oratorio. Hasse inquired, "What! is Handel dead?" On being told no, he indignantly refused, saying he was not worthy to tie Handel's shoe-latchets. There are also Dr. Pepusch, the Anglicized Prussian, and Dr.
Hughes, that "agreeable poet," wrote of it: "Music has learned the discords of the State, And concerts jar with Whig and Tory hate." Retiring in 1722 with a fortune of ten thousand pounds, Margarita married the learned Dr. Pepusch, who was enabled by her means to pursue with ease his scientific studies. London was divided by another pair of rival queens of song in 1725-6.
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