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Swedish Nightingale

noun

  1. nickname of Jenny Lind.


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She had, however, heard the Swedish Nightingale sing "avant de mourir."

It was not that the "Swedish Nightingale" was supremely great in any chief quality of the lyric artist.

Malibran appears, however, to have been a more impassioned singer, and was certainly a finer actress than the Swedish Nightingale.

Can you describe the habits and haunts of the "Swedish Nightingale?"

Her trills are as sweet and bird-like as those with which the 'Swedish Nightingale' once entranced the world.

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