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'Alzira' (1845), and 'Attila' (1846), were almost total failures.
The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. J. A. [Commentator] Fuller-Maitland 1892
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The same year was acted, at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, another Tragedy of his translating from the same French author, called Alzira, which was likewise dedicated to the Prince. ”
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753
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She grew close to the Brazilian writer Érico Veríssimo, then working for the Organization of American States, and his wife Mafalda, as well as to the wife of the ambassador, Alzira Vargas do Amaral Peixoto, daughter of the former Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas.
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Would to God that these barbarians, the enemies of the finest of arts, had the piety of Polyeucte, the clemency of Augustus, the virtue of Burrhus, and would die like the husband of Alzira!
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On the night of the 15th the main body marched from Alzira, and appeared next morning before Valencia and summoned the town to surrender.
The Bravest of the Brave — or, with Peterborough in Spain 1867
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Alzira, where they were joined by many of the principal inhabitants, and a detachment of the dragoons under Nebot's brother, Alexander, surprised and routed three troops of the enemy's horse, captured their convoy of ammunition, and pursued them to the very gates of
The Bravest of the Brave — or, with Peterborough in Spain 1867
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The son of Alzira, — the only surviving child, as I then supposed, of that suffering martyr, was known to be confined in the state prison, — subject to a criminal prosecution, and in daily expectation of a dreadful fate!
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Alzira; and this idea gathered strength from the opinion he had formed, that
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This gave much satisfaction to the venerable Castilian, who declared Frederico presumptive heir to his estates in right of the deceased Alzira; while Count Theodore confessed his intention of leaving his whole property to the two heiresses; settling upon each of them, a sum adequate to the situation of both.
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You are ready to call this assertion the effusions of insanity: no, my dear, it is that of love, — pure, sacred, and never to be forgotten love; for Frederico is also the son of Alzira!
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