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- Author:
- Mitford, Mary Russell
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- Language:
- English
- Publication Title:
- Our Village
- Article Title:
- The Visit
- Page Numbers:
- 271
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- Place of Publication:
- London
- Date Published:
- 1824
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sparkling and fanciful as herself, singing pretty French romances, and Scotish Jacobite songs, and all sorts of graceful and airy drolleries picked up I know not where — an English improvvisatrice! a gayer Annot Lyle! whilst her sister, of a higher order of beauty, and with an earnest kindness in her smile that deepens its power, lends to the piano, as her father to the violin, an expression, a sensibility, a spirit, an eloquence, almost human — almost divine! Oh to hear these two instruments accompanying my dear companion (I forgot to say that she is a singer worthy to be so accompanied) in Haydn’s exquisite canzonet, “She never told her love,” — to hear her voice, with all its power, its sweetness, its gush of sound, so sustained and assisted by modulations that rivalled its intensity of expression; to hear at once such poetry, such music, such execution, is a pleasure never to be forgotten, or mixed with meaner things. I seem to hear it still.
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