SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Thos French"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Thos French")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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We found 4506 matches on Event Comments, 1444 matches on Performance Comments, 1064 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Having for a Series of Years received the greatest Obligations from the Nobility and Gentry of this Nation, I have always retained a deep Impression of their Goodness. As I perceived, that joining good Sense and Significant Words of Musick, was the best Method of recommending this to an English Audience; I have directed my Studies that way, and endeavour'd to shew, that the English Language, which is so expressive of the sublimest Sentiments, is the best adapted of any to the full and solemn Kind of Musick. I have the Mortification now to find, that my Labours to please are become ineffectual, when my Expences are considerably greater. To what Cause I must impute the Loss of the Publick Favour, I am ignorant, but the Loss itself I shall always lament. In the mean time, I am assur'd that a Nation, whose Characteristic is good Nature, would be affected with the Ruin of any Man, which was owing to his Endeavours to entertain them. I am likewise persuaded, that I shall have the forgiveness of those noble Persons, who have honour'd me with their Patronage, and their Subscription this Winter, if I beg them Permission to stop short, before my Losses are too great to support, if I proceed no farther in my Undertaking; and if I intreat them to withdraw three Fourths of their Subscription, one Fourth part only of my Proposal having been perform'd. I am, etc. G. F. Handel. Attendance will be given at Mr Handel's House in Brook's St., Hanover Square, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday next, in order to pay back the Subscription money. [Two poems in honor of Handel in the 21 Jan. issue of the Daily Advertiser. A letter in the 25 Jan. issue indicates that the subscribers would not accept the proferred refund; Handel announced he would resume performances in view of this response.

Performances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: The two Masters Granier, Miss Granier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: Rosamond

Dance: III: Shepherd's Dance-Muilment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pope John Viii

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: II: Lowe

Dance: III: Muilment; V: Sga Bettini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joseph

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joseph

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Afterpiece Title: The Schoolboy

Song: ( B By desire )Mad Bess-Beard; The Charms of Polly Willis-Mrs Clive

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: King Pepin's Campaign

Song: I: Gentle Shepherd-Mrs Arne

Dance: II: Muilment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: Tragedy of Tragedies; or, Tom Thumb the Great

Song: I: Nanny O-Lowe; III: Gentle Shepherd-Mrs Arne; IV: Early Horn-Lowe

Dance: II: Sga Bettini; V: Muilment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: II: Muilment; III: Sga Bettini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens; Or, Man-hater

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Woman Dwarf Actor: a French Boy

Dance: SScotch Dance, as17441012

Song: II: A Duet-Beard, Miss Edwards

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: I: Sga Bettini; III: Muilment

Song: II: Lowe; V: Nanny O (By Desire)-Lowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17450423 IV: Le Gondalier-Cooke

Song: Between Play and Farce: the celebrated song Ellen/a/Roon-Mrs Clive

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: Sga Bettini; III: Muilment

Song: II: Gentle Shepherd-Mrs Arne; IV: Mrs Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: CComic Dance, as17450423 Scotch Dance, as17441012

Song: Scotch Ballad beginning And we are Gayly yet-Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Argalus And Parthenia

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Whim; or, A True Touch of the Times

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Schoolboy

Dance: As17450514