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Then of course there was or wasn't Salieri.....................
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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
not a lot !!
if AG is correct with Salieri, the only relevant Vs I can find are Verona, Venice and Vienna
your "airy" V word I think I'm taking to be vent ?????
if it is a male poet, the only one I can find so far is Louys
and so far the only widowed bride I have is Lucia di Lammermoor, but with calorgas's dislike for opera that doesn't seem a likely candidate
nothing connecting at all for me ..........................
However, Caliban said this was a "fictional character". He may therefore expect legal representations from the city of Verona - after all, the tourist board there proudly point to the very balcony from which Juliet spoke - so she must have been a real person, mustn't she??
Well you are there, by team effort .... but I'm not sure who gets the next letter.
It is Verona, indeed - birthplace of Catullus ("My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love") and Salieri (nb slight cheat - he was born in the province of Verona, rather than the town) and where Juliet and indeed Romeo (who married her and then killed himself mistakenly thinking her dead) lived.
It seems to me anton shades it - he got Salieri and the R&J connection, and picked out Verona...
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
Yes she was for a few seconds - she wakes up after Romeo has taken the fatal poison, and lives long enough after he dies to take her own life. A matter of a few seconds. I said it was brief
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
oh, beg pardon, I didn't think they'd reached marriage-hood
Friar Laurence and all that...
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
I hardly feel I deserve it..........................
On balance I think so though mercia first pronounced the word Verona, vinsanto having seemingly pulled up despite clearing the first fence by impliedly twigging Catullus without pronouncing his name....
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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