The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 14, No. 393, October 10, 1829 by Various
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singers of the present day sing these songs! "Bay of Biscay," "When
Vulcan forged," the second of "All's Well," "Bet, sweet blossom," "Will Watch," "Last Whistle," &c. &c. Alas! alas! and all this over! He has piped his last whistle, and poor Charles "sleeps in peace with the dead!" In concluding, I cannot but observe, that no singer has so completely identifies himself with particular songs. Those in which he most excelled, he stamped as his own--no one can touch them "while his memory be green." When the race who heard him has faded away, some one may attempt them; but I should as soon think of going to see Mr. Kean play Coriolanus, as to hear another sing "Black-eyed Susan." My mind is filled--I have Kemble's noble patrician _perfect_ before me; I have Gay's ballad in Incledon's notes as fully in "my mind's _ear_," and I would not have them displaced. _Blackwood's Magazine._ * * * * * THE GATHERER. A snapper up of unconsidered trifles. Shakspeare. |
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