Excerpt from Clara Novello's Reminiscences: Compiled by the Daughter Contessa Valeria Gigliucci, With a Memoir Every child, I fancy, invents its own idea of what the stars are - those wonders, fascinating to every age. My belief was that they were holes, pricked in the blue sky, through which one saw the glory of God, and I used even to listen if any sounds of angels' Singing, or harps, could be audible. From these delights I was often called away by my father's pupil, Mr. Edward Holmes, who amused himself teaching me to ...
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Excerpt from Clara Novello's Reminiscences: Compiled by the Daughter Contessa Valeria Gigliucci, With a Memoir Every child, I fancy, invents its own idea of what the stars are - those wonders, fascinating to every age. My belief was that they were holes, pricked in the blue sky, through which one saw the glory of God, and I used even to listen if any sounds of angels' Singing, or harps, could be audible. From these delights I was often called away by my father's pupil, Mr. Edward Holmes, who amused himself teaching me to sing Boyce's anthem, So shall we rejoice, and other things, after he discovered me singing Di tanti palpiti, in imitation of a barrel-organ's performance of the same, and my making some sort of cadence to join it on to Cherry ripe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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