Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . e chiefly on the modelof Corelli; and his zeal in the study of music induced his sister(afterwards celebrated as Mrs. Cibber) to cultivate her excellentvoice. He wrote for her a part in his first opera, Bosamoiul, whichwas first performed with great success in 1733. Next followedhis comic operetta, Tom Thumb, or the Opera of Operas; and after-wards his Comus (1738), which displayed greater cultivation oJstyle. He married a singer, Cecilia Young (1740); and after asuccessful visit to Ireland, was engaged as composer
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . e chiefly on the modelof Corelli; and his zeal in the study of music induced his sister(afterwards celebrated as Mrs. Cibber) to cultivate her excellentvoice. He wrote for her a part in his first opera, Bosamoiul, whichwas first performed with great success in 1733. Next followedhis comic operetta, Tom Thumb, or the Opera of Operas; and after-wards his Comus (1738), which displayed greater cultivation oJstyle. He married a singer, Cecilia Young (1740); and after asuccessful visit to Ireland, was engaged as composer to DiuryLane Theatre, and wrote many vocal pieces for the Vauxhall con-certs. The national air. Rule Britannia, which was originallygiven in a popular performance. The Masgue of Alfred, was of hiscomposition. He composed also two oratorios, the opera Eliza,and another, Artaaerxes, in the Italian style; but his genius wasbetter adapted to simple jiastoral melody than to gieat dramaticcompositions. He died in London, 1778. ARNEE, or ARNA, the largest animal of the ox kind yet. Arnee :~[From an Indian picture.] known. It is a native of India, and is found chiefly in the forestsof the Himalayas and in the north-eastern provinces, never de-scending to the low plains. It isusually regarded by naturalists asa wild variety of the buffalo; butMr. Vasey thinks our informa-tion on the subject not 3et suffi-ciently precise to determine thispoint. It is named Bos Arnee, asa distinct species, by some pair of horns in the British Mu-seum measure more than six feeteach along the outer curve. Whenthe head of an A. is placed withthe muzzle on the ground, it re-quires the outstretched arms of aman to hold the points of thehorns. From the manner in which the A. is introduced in Indianpaintings, it would seem to have been sometimes tamed.
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