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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 10 0 Browse Search
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Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 4 0 Browse Search
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Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 7: marriage: tour in Europe (search)
auty of his voice or the refinement of his intonation. I still feel a sort of intoxication when I recall his rendering of Coma é gentil. Grisi sang several times. She was then in what some one has termed, the insolence of her youth and beauty. Mlle. Persiani, also of the grand opera, gave an air by Gluck, which I myself had studied, Pago fui, Fui lieto un di Lord Lansdowne told me that this lady was the most obliging of artists. I afterwards heard her in Linda di Chamounix, which was then closing line:— And measure what we owe by what she gave. I saw Grisi in the great role of Semiramide, and with her Brambilla, a famous contralto, and Fornasari, a basso whom I had longed to hear in the operas given in New York. I also saw Mlle. Persiani in Linda di Chamounix and Lucia di Lammermoor. All of these occasions gave me unmitigated delight, but the crowning ecstasy of all I found in the ballet. Fanny Elssler and Cerito were both upon the stage. The former had lost a little