Physiology of the Opera

I both compose and perform Sir: and though I say it, perhaps few even of the profession possess the contra-punto and the chromatic better.
Connoisseur. No. 130.
I see, Sir—you Have got a travell'd air, which shows you one To whom the opera is by no means new.
Byron.
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PHILADELPHIA. WILLIS P. HAZARD, 178 CHESNUT ST. 1852.