She was quite elderly at that time, but she had been a great singer.
If the gnatcatcher is not a great singer (his voice is slender, like himself), he is near the head of his profession as an architect and a builder.
She became an extravagant admirer of him as a teacher, thought him a genius, felt confident that he would make a great singer of her.
He wouldn't ask me if he didn't think I was going to be a great singer.
Now De Pretis is essentially a man of the people, and I am not; therefore he saw no objection in the way of a match between a great singer and a noble damigelia.
Well, Nino is a great singer now, of course, but he was little once; and when he palmed himself off on the old count for an Italian master without my knowledge, nobody had ever heard of him at all.
It seemed a strangely childish amusement for a great singer.
Nino began at the very beginning, and when all his capital was one shoe and a ragged hat, and certainly not more than a third of a shirt, he said he would be a great singer; and he is, though he is scarcely of age yet.
In the years which followed, if suffering could make her a great singer, now indeed was she great.
If this were true, Alice Westmore was now, indeed, a great singer; for now had she suffered.
Go home and suffer if you would be a great singer," he said, "for great songs come only with great suffering.
I want to go away and be a great singer, and he is not more to blame than I am.
If she were a great singer he would not mind, but he could not stand a mediocre singer about whom he would have to talk continual nonsense: conspiracies that were in continual progress against her at Covent Garden, etc.
But if he could persuade her to leave him for two years he would engage to bring her back a great singer.
Such an individual is Adelina Patti, whose fame as a great singer is not only yet undimmed, but bids fair to last as long as music itself.
My dear,’ he said, ‘you are going to be a great singer.
To be a great singer means, first, to be a great student.
But why should the reader be interested in a yearly record of the engagements of a great singer, after the narrative of the early struggles by which success is reached and the means by which success is perpetuated has come to an end?
She was born a great singer: I have only made her a great artist," said the father.
You should remember that you are the greatest singer in the world, and that to be a great singer is to be able to sway at will the souls of men.
Could not a shoemaker or a blacksmith take a few lessons and become a great singer?
It is this very point which adds so much fascination to the chances of becoming a great singer; and it is this very point upon which so many, many careers have been wrecked.
If my daughter were studying for grand opera, and if she were a very little girl, I should first watch her very carefully to see whether she manifested any uncontrollable desire or ambition to become a great singer.
It is generally thought that a pianist should attend many recitals and study the effects made by other pianists; I, on the contrary, feel I gain more from hearing a great singer.
The pianist can receive many ideas of tone color when listening to a great singer, and watching the infinite tonal gradations produced on the "greatest of all instruments," the human voice.
I was a great singer, and I acted as well as I sang.
My father began to believe that I might be a great singer: my voice was considered wonderful for a child; and he had the best teaching for me.
He says he does not want to be known in the matter at all; that the girl can regard the money as a loan, and return it to him if she becomes a great singer, of which resulting he seems to have no doubt.
My mother was a great singer, whose name I will not call.
The money is to be repaid when Katrine becomes a great singer.
He thinks it possible I may become a great singer.
And so he had refused, turning a deaf ear to her entreaties, and scoffing at her easy-going father; and she had gone off down the trail without once looking back, promising Bunker she would become a great singer.
But father and mother have spent all their money in training me to be a great singer and I just can't bear to disappoint them.
I know you've got it in you to be a great singer--and this'll take you back to New York.
There were legends already about the great singer's temper, as there are about all her fellow-artists.
I'd like best of all to be a great singer and to look and dress and talk like you.
I'm getting on well, though I'm beginning to see what a long, long time it will take before I become a great singer.
Of course, if I become a great singer I'll naturally have to live a life different from the narrow, restricted life of the farm.
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