A MUSICIAN'S COMPLIMENT.
All _ people ' enjoy being complimented,; though many say they 'do not'. Really, thero is no conceivable subject on which people do not take pleasure iu.a well-turned compliment; on their good looks, their wit, their, grace, the bookj they have written, their- touch' on tho pjanOj the puddings - or pies, they-make, their babies, their sermons; in fact, anything that is''theirs.'-! ' When Sir Joshua Reynolds was painting the portrait of Mrs. Billington (an entrancing singer in her day), in the., character of Cecilia listening to the celestial music on high, she. took with hor.the great composer Haydn and showed him tho picture. : The musician paid as graceful a compliment as it v/p.s possiblo for a man to mako. "It is like," said he, "but there is a strange mistake." • "AY hat is that' ?'. hastily inquired Reynolds. . " You-have painted her listening to the angels.- You ought,to'have, painted the an-; gels listening to her," replied Haydn. 1 Mrs. Billington was s'i •delighted that it is recorded ' she sprang'';- .and threw her arms round the neck oti j tho composer.— "Liverpool Post." , .
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 239, 2 July 1908, Page 5
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180A MUSICIAN'S COMPLIMENT. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 239, 2 July 1908, Page 5
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