THE ITALIAN OPERA IN ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

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  THERE are few things more curious in literary history than the almost universal opposition the Italian opera met with from men of letters on its introduction into this country. " The taste for Italian music," says Mr. Elwin, whose knowledge of the literature of the eighteenth century is surpassed by no living writer, "was a standing theme for ridicule among the authors of the time, who ignoratly judged the musical by the rules of tho literary drama...