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They are not, it is said, very brilliant, in a musical point of view, but contain numberless good-natured, simple appeals to the affections, which people understood better than the milk-and-water lagrime, sospiri, and felicita of the eternal Donizettian music with which we are favoured now-a-days.
Vanity Fair 2006
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And then there was a burst of ‘gemiti, sospiri ed alti guai.’
Lavengro 2004
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Stradella's divine air of "I miei sospiri," has nothing more moving, or more profoundly tender.
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Quivi, secondo che per ascoltare, non avea pianto, ma 'che di sospiri, che l'aura eterna facevan tremare.
The Waste Land Thomas Stearns 1922
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They are not, it is said, very brilliant, in a musical point of view, but contain numberless good-natured, simple appeals to the affections, which people understood better than the milk-and-water lagrime, sospiri, and felicità of the eternal Donizettian music with which we are favoured now-a-days.
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And then there was a burst of 'gemiti, sospiri ed alti guai.'
George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891
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And then there was a burst of 'gemiti, sospiri ed alti guai.'
Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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And then there was a burst of "_gemiti_, _sospiri ed alti guai_".
Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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And then there was a burst of "gemiti, sospiri ed alti guai."
Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842
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And then there was a burst of "gemiti, sospiri ed alti guai."
Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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