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    Or through the world m comfort go , Who nevrer heard of Doctor Blow B For my own part I ndver have ; And yet I eat , and drink , and shave , Like other people . If you watch it , I know no more of stave or crotchet

    Than did the unspaniardized Peruvians , Or those o ) d , queer antediluvians , Who lived in th * unwashed world with Tubal , Before that dirty blacksmith , Jubal , By stroke on anvil , or by summ ' , Found out , t * his great surprise , the gamut . I know no more of Cimarosa ,

    Than he did of Salvator Rosa , Being no painter : and , bad luck Be mine , if I can bear that Gluck I Old Tycho Brahe , or modern Herschel , Had something in them , but what ' s Purcell ? The devil , with his foot so cloven , For aug-ht I care , may take Beethoven ; And if the bargain doesn ' t suit , I'll throw him Weber in to boot !

    There ' s not the Bplitting of a splinter To choose ' twixt him last-named , and Winter Qf Dr . Pepusch , old Queen Dido Knew just as much , . God knows , as I do . I would not go four miles to visit Sebastian Rack , or Bof ; which is it ? No more I would for Bononini . As for Noveilo and Rossini ,

    I will not say a word about ' em ; Except that we might do without '

    Larob made the following report of the Westminste r * Abftpy Festival , in a letter to a friend : We heard the music in the Abbey , at Winchmore Hill ! and the notes were incomparably softened by the distance . Novello ' s chromatics were distinctly audible . CHara was faulty in b flat ; otherwise she sang like an angel . The trombone and Beethoven ' s waltzes were the best . Who played the oboe V The following letter is of a long anterior date , an 4 re | ates ( t $ very different topics ; we subjoin \ % in , the assurance of provjcUflg a gratification for our readers :

    * Dear Hazlitt , * I was very glad to hear from you , and that your journey was so picturesque . We miss you , as we foretold we should . One or two things have happened , which are beneath the dignity of epistolary communication , but which , seated about our . fire at night , ( the winter hands of pork have begun , ) gesture and emphasis might haVe talked into dome importance . Something about R—— -a Wife , for instance , how

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1835, page 235, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2644/page/11/