excerpt from 'Diary of Hester Lynch Piozzi, July 1790' pp. 774 (118 words)
excerpt from 'Diary of Hester Lynch Piozzi, July 1790' pp. 774 (118 words)
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What read you in that Book My Lord? cries Rosencrans to Hamlet; the pretended Madman replies––Words, Words, Words. When I am looking into Gray’s Poems, and Merry’s Diversity, I am apt to think that the Answer given wd be well suited to their Readers; for ’tis all about nothing […] ’Tis much the same with modern Musick for ought I find; Clementi’s Lessons and Dusseck’s Sonatas so fashionable now––serve but to whet my Appetite and sharpen my Delight in a Concerto of Bach, a Chorus of Handel, and a single Song of Sacchini. What hear you my Lady? one might ask with Rosencrans––Marchesi’s Admirers might reply with Truth Notes, Notes, Notes. |
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