I'll for the future hope I may
Not be among the present!
Mario's farewell benefit, on July 19, 1871, when he played Fernando in La Favorita for the last time in London, was a scene of "roaring and wreaths" described with mingled humour and emotion by Punch, who hailed the retiring idol as the Prince of Lyric Artists:—
Though lost to ear
To memory dear
I ne'er shall look upon his like again!
TO ARTISTS, COMEDIANS, AND OTHERS
Anyone who wishes to study the true dramatic expression of the Tragic Muse in the act of drinking the last bitter cup of despair to the very dregs, should watch a young mother teaching the elements of music to her first-born.
Popular Songs in 1858