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... comic miser , Euclio , who finds a pot of gold and lives in a state of fantastic terror lest it be discovered by someone and stolen from him . Through a series of ridiculous complications a pair of lovers , to whose match he has been an ...
... comic miser , Euclio , who finds a pot of gold and lives in a state of fantastic terror lest it be discovered by someone and stolen from him . Through a series of ridiculous complications a pair of lovers , to whose match he has been an ...
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Edmund Fuller. ment , with a riotous comic play of face and gesture ; his rather awkwardly set head was poised between hunched shoulders , his hands were eloquent , his voice ringing every change of comic effect that could be wrung from ...
Edmund Fuller. ment , with a riotous comic play of face and gesture ; his rather awkwardly set head was poised between hunched shoulders , his hands were eloquent , his voice ringing every change of comic effect that could be wrung from ...
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... comic opera , of which Wagner has made Hans Sachs the leading figure , the composer pokes fun at the stodginess of the Master - singers and their narrow rules . It is the story of a young knight named Walter von Stolzing 174 A Pageant ...
... comic opera , of which Wagner has made Hans Sachs the leading figure , the composer pokes fun at the stodginess of the Master - singers and their narrow rules . It is the story of a young knight named Walter von Stolzing 174 A Pageant ...
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