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Had I learnt to fiddle, I should have done nothing else. BOSWELL. 'Pray, Sir, did you ever play on any musical instrument? JOHNSON. 'No, Sir. I once bought me a flagelet; but I never made out a tune. BOSWELL. 'A flagelet, Sir! so small an instrument? I should have liked to hear you play on the violoncello.
Had I learnt to fiddle, I should have done nothing else . BOSWELL. 'Pray, Sir, did you ever play on any musical instrument? JOHNSON. 'No, Sir. I once bought me a flagelet; but I never made out a tune. BOSWELL. 'A flagelet, Sir! so small an instrument ? I should have liked to hear you play on the violoncello.
Homer plays it on a bassoon; Pope on a flagelet. HARRIS. 'I think Heroick poetry is best in blank verse; yet it appears that rhyme is essential to English poetry, from our deficiency in metrical quantities.
Homer plays it on a bassoon; Pope on a flagelet. HARRIS. 'I think Heroick poetry is best in blank verse; yet it appears that rhyme is essential to English poetry, from our deficiency in metrical quantities. In my opinion, the chief excellence of our language is numerous prose. JOHNSON. 'Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose.
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