 | William John Lawrence - 1912 - 322 páginas
...Excellency that the Duke's house are preparing an Opera and great machines. They will have dansers out of France, and St. Andre comes over with them,...patent of master of the compositions for ballets, etc.1 The opera here referred to as in preparation was undoubtedly Shadwell's version of Psyche, which... | |
 | 1928 - 432 páginas
...excellent writer.2 James Vernon gives Sir Joseph Williamson the awkwardlyexpressed information that 'the King hath granted them what boys of his Chappell they shall have occasion for to sing'.3 Clarendon himself falls into redundant awkwardness: 'the damage by the plague which nobody... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1874 - 236 páginas
...Those wicked engines, called machines, are come. will have dangers out of France, and St. Andre" comea over with them, who is to have a pension of the King,...Excellencyes most obedient and most faithfull servant, J. VERNON. U Sept. T44. No. 88. — FROM ROBERT YARD. May it please your Excellency, Whitehall, 22 August,... | |
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Opera and great machines. They will have dansers out of France, and St. Andre comes over with them, who is to have a pension of the King, and a patent of master of the compositions for ballets... 