A Complete History of the English Stage Introduced By a Review of the Asiat
A Complete History of the English Stage Introduced By a Review of the Asiat
Charles Dibdin
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BEARD was very fenfibly ap- pointed manager; who, dreading, perhaps the fu- perior power and ability of GARRICK, whom he both loved and feared, determined to raife as for- midable an opposition as poflible upon the only ground on which he was able to make any thing like an effectual (land. Italian fmging was at that time rationally and judicioufly tafted. He therefore thought that if opera could be attempted upon a grand fcale to a grand effect it might give our theatres a confequence as to muf...ic, which it had never known before. He knew there was an Englifhman in whom were united the great requifites of all the Italian fchool; whofe genius, mind, underflanding, and knowledge were iuperlative. He knew the coaipofition of this man could be greatly fupportcd with but very little aux- iliary affiftance, and the world were thus obliged by, perhaps, the greateft mufical production in it* THE STAGE. '3' way in this or any other country, the Artaxerxts of ARNE. Other mufical pieces followed, as we fhall pre- femly fee in their place, till the property of Covent Garden became fo valuable that it was at length eagerly purchafed in 1767 forfixty thoufand pounds.
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