| 1875 - 884 pagine
...from music. In the following passage from her diary we have a picture of the family at this time : " My brothers were often introduced as solo performers...philosophical subjects, which lasted frequently till morning, ia which my father was a lively partaker and assistant of iny brother William by contriving self-made... | |
| 1879 - 140 pagine
...sons, and the intellectual refinement of Frederick William. " My brothers," says Caroline Herschel, " were often introduced as solo performers and assistants...court ; and I remember that I was frequently prevented " — she was then a child about five years old — " from going to sleep by the lively criticism on... | |
| Edward Singleton Holden - 1880 - 256 pagine
...CAROLINA, on which we must depend for our knowledge of this early life, we take the following paragraph : " My brothers were often introduced as solo performers...lively criticism on music on coming from a concert, or by conversations on philosophical subjects, which lasted frequently till morning, in which my father... | |
| Edward John Chalmers Morton - 1882 - 370 pagine
...musicians. Some account of their life after they left school has been given by Carolina Herschel. She says, "My brothers were often introduced as solo performers...lively criticism on music, on coming from a concert, or by conversations on philosophical subjects. . . . Often I would keep myself awake that I might listen... | |
| Robert Stawell Ball - 1895 - 400 pagine
...the time we are speaking of, was an unnoticed little girl five or six. years old. She writes : — " My brothers were often introduced as solo performers and assistants in the orchestra at the Court, and I remember that I was frequently prevented from going to sleep by the lively criticisms... | |
| Fireside pictorial annual - 1876 - 814 pagine
...correspondence of Caroline Hcrschel, who was a distinguished assistant of her brother in his labours : — " My brothers were often introduced as solo performers...morning, in which my father was a lively partaker. Often I would keep myself awake that I might listen to their animating remarks, for it made me so happy... | |
| Agnes Giberne - 1908 - 424 pagine
...the recollections of one who, at the time, was a little girl of five or six years old. She writes : "My brothers were often introduced as solo performers and assistants in the orchestra at the court, and I remember that I was frequently prevented from going to sleep by the lively criticisms... | |
| Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1926 - 384 pagine
...became members of the Hanover foot guards. Years later, Caroline gave this picture of that early life : "My brothers were often introduced as solo performers...lively criticism on music, on coming from a concert; or by conversations on philosophical subjects, which lasted frequently till morning, in which my father... | |
| Charles Robert Gibson - 1926 - 392 pagine
...playing solos in the orchestra of the Court, she says : "I remember that I was frequently prevented going to sleep by the lively criticism on music on coming from a concert, or con189 versations on philosophical subjects which lasted frequently till morning, in which my father... | |
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