Quotes:Arne, Thomas Augustine

Zirkoff, Boris

Arne, Thomas Augustine. English composer, b. in London, 1710; d. March 5, 1778. Author of a number of operas, he was connected with both Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatres, and produced a large number of plays. In 1740 he wrote the music for Thomson and Mallet’s Masque of Alfred which contained the now famous *Rule, Britannia!

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 620