Some say, compar'd to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny ; Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.' Strange all this difference should be Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee. St. Nicholas - Página 520editado por - 1885Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| John Bartlett - 1903 - 1186 páginas
...graces Will soon fill up their proper places.1 Advice to Preach Slow. Some say, compar'd to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel 's but a ninny ; Others aver that...all this difference should be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee. On the Feudi between Handel and Bononcinl.t As clear as a whistle. Epistle to Lloyd, t.... | |
| John Stephen Farmer - 1904 - 396 páginas
...e. 1730. BVROM, Fevds between Handel, etc. Some say. compared to llononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny. Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely...candle. Strange all this difference should be 'Twixt TWKEDLEUUM and TWEEDLEDBE. TWEENIE, subs, (colloquial). — A ' bet ween -maid.' 1888. Notts and Queries,... | |
| John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 930 páginas
...digest it. Merchant of Venice, Act iii. Sc. 5. SHAKESPEARE. TASTE. Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel 's but a ninny ; Others aver,...this difference should be, 'Twixt tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee ! On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini. J. BYROM. What 's one man's poison, signer,... | |
| Charles Hubert Hastings Parry - 1904 - 256 páginas
...epigram of Byrom : — Some say, compared with Buononcini That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny ; Others vow that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle....all this difference should be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee. However, his departure and the death of his most prominent patron, the Duchess of Marlborough,... | |
| George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland - 1906 - 818 páginas
...S'iïiie say, conipar'd to Bononcini, Tliat Mynheer Handel's but a Ninny ; Others aver, that he to Hiindel Is scarcely fit to hold a Candle : Strange all this Difference should he, - 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee ! Handel worked on, unmoved, amid the general strife, and... | |
| John Knowles Paine - 1907 - 328 páginas
...ridicules this dispute in the well-known lines : Some say, compar'd to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny; Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely...all this difference should be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee. But posterity has awarded immortal fame to the one and a mere remembrance to the other.... | |
| 1908 - 500 páginas
...Swift, but really written by John Byrom : " Some say, compar'd to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny ; Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely...all this difference should be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee." 1 Whether Pope was a Freemason, see Bro. Sadler's Masonic Reprints and Revelations, 1898,... | |
| Katharine Dorothea Ewart Vernon, Katharine Dorothea Ewart - 1909 - 542 páginas
...than the verses of Byrom would indicate : " Some say, compared to Buononrini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny ; Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely...all this difference should be Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee." Much in the same way the Italian Piccini (1718-1800) was invited to Paris to rival Gluck.... | |
| Ernest Markham Lee - 1909 - 328 páginas
...Byrom neatly sums up the situation: — 45 " Some say, compared to Buononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny; Others aver, that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle ; Strange all the difference there should be 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee. ' The sentiment of the two last... | |
| Richard Alexander Streatfeild - 1910 - 418 páginas
...as it is, is too witty to be omitted : — " Some say, compar'd to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny; Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely...all this difference should be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee ! " 2 1 Swift, Correspondence. 1 John Byrom was a facile and fluent writer of verse, and... | |
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