The New Universal Biographical Dictionary, and American Remembrancer of Departed Merit: Containing Complete and Impartial Accounts of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation, But More Particularly of Those who Have Signalized Themselves in America. In Four Volumes. Embellished with a Number of Portraits of the Most Distinguished Characters, Engraved from Original Drawings, 3-4. kötetJohnson & Stryker, at the Literary Printing-Office No. 29 Gold-Street, 1802 |
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9. oldal
... performed 27 nights successively , with the most extravagant applause . From Venice our musician proceeded to Rome , where he became acquainted with cardinal Ottoboni , and many other dignitaries of the church , by which means he was ...
... performed 27 nights successively , with the most extravagant applause . From Venice our musician proceeded to Rome , where he became acquainted with cardinal Ottoboni , and many other dignitaries of the church , by which means he was ...
10. oldal
... performed with un- common success . He now found the nobility desir- ous that he should resume the direction of the opera house in the Hay - market , and the queen having con- ferred a pension on him of 888 dollars per annum , he ...
... performed with un- common success . He now found the nobility desir- ous that he should resume the direction of the opera house in the Hay - market , and the queen having con- ferred a pension on him of 888 dollars per annum , he ...
12. oldal
... perform them at a play house . In consequence of this prejudice , the oratorios met with very indifferent success ; and in ... performed with great ap- plause , and his Messiah , which had before been but coolly received , became a most ...
... perform them at a play house . In consequence of this prejudice , the oratorios met with very indifferent success ; and in ... performed with great ap- plause , and his Messiah , which had before been but coolly received , became a most ...
69. oldal
... performed , resumed all his former activity , continued the action , if possible , with redoubled fury , and obliged the French ships , notwithstanding their prodigious superiority in men and metal , to sheer off , leaving the Baltimore ...
... performed , resumed all his former activity , continued the action , if possible , with redoubled fury , and obliged the French ships , notwithstanding their prodigious superiority in men and metal , to sheer off , leaving the Baltimore ...
71. oldal
... performed it . " We are now to consider Lord Howe , as command- er in chief on the American station , a very critical part of his life , and which , at the time , was subject to the censure and praise of contending parties : but leaving ...
... performed it . " We are now to consider Lord Howe , as command- er in chief on the American station , a very critical part of his life , and which , at the time , was subject to the censure and praise of contending parties : but leaving ...
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