 | Richard Alexander Streatfeild - Music - 1910 - 418 pages
...really cannot help thinking this kind of entertainment must necessarily have some effect in correcting the levity of the age ; and let an audience be ever...think, without being the better for an evening so spent."1 Samson was followed in due course by The Messiah, the first London performance of which took... | |
 | Marian Van Til - Composers - 2007 - 372 pages
...devotion. I really cannot help thinking this kind of entertainment must necessarily have some effect on correcting or moderating at least the levity of the...heartily wish you had been with me when I heard it. Handel and Middlesex apparently went head to head in June (1743). Handel stood his ground, but the... | |
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I really cannot help thinking this kind of entertainment must necessarily hare some effect in correcting or moderating at least the levity of the age ; and let an audience be ever so thoughtless, they can scarcely come, away, I should think, without being... 