Rambles in Italy; in the years 1816 – 1817 By an American

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The Italians delight in a musick that speaks more to the heart than to the ear. It is for this reason, that a person of any musical sensibility, one entering one of their theatres, finds himself transported into an ideal world, where,

Fancy dreams
Of sacred fountains and Elysian groves,
And vales of bliss.

Such commonly was the effect produced in my own mind by the Italian Opera, and such I believe to be its influence generally on every mind, not wholly insensible to the charms of musick, not wholly insensible to the charms of musick, or which is not excluded from its pleasures by some defect in the organ of external sensation.    

excerpt from 'Rambles in Italy; in the years 1816 – 1817 By an American' pp. 91 (113 words)

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