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a word or two more about their com-
position, and I have done with their
music for some time, at least with their
expression; and here it is necessary to
discriminate, for they have some com-
posers of great merit among them, who
imitate very successfully the Italian style.
But it is in vain, at least for the na-
tives of France; other nations may in-
deed be the better for it; but let this
detestable and unnatural expression be
given to any music in the world, and
it becomes immediately French.
"Sound pass'd thro' them, no longer is the same,
"For Food digested takes another name."
It seems however to be with the seri-
ous French opera here, as it is with our
oratorios in England; people are tired
of the old, by hearing them so often;
the style has been pushed perhaps to its
utmost boundary, and is exhausted; and
yet they cannot relish any new attempts
at pleasing them in a different way: what
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