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Columbia College.
My own brothers, three in number, were among its graduates.
New York parents in those days looked upon Harvard as a Unitarian institution, and shunned its influence for their sons.
The venerable Lorenzo Da Ponte was for many years a resident of New York, and a teacher of the Italian language and literature.
When Dominick Lynch introduced the first opera troupe to the New York public, sometime in the twenties, the audience must surely have comprised some of the old man's pupils, well versed in the language of the librettos.
In earlier life, he had furnished the text of several of Mozart's operas, among them ‘Don Giovanni’ and ‘Le Nozze di Figaro.’
Dominick Lynch, whom I have just mentioned, was an enthusiastic lover of music.
His visits to my father's house were occasions of delight to me. He was without a rival as an interpreter of ballads, and especially of the songs of Thomas Moore.
His voice, though not powerful, was clear and musical, and his touch on the pianoforte was perfect.
I remember creeping under the instrument to hide my tears when I heard him sing the ballad of ‘Lord Ullin's Daughter.’
Charles Augustus Davis, the author of the ‘Letters of J. Downing, Major, Downingville Militia, Second Brigade, to his old Friend Mr. Dwight, of the New York Daily Advertiser,’ was
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