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WR.731.001
27 Sep 1731:11,12 ([1])
[In editorial on writing] . . . Should I therefore ever
venture beyond the limits of a Rehearsal, this would be my
pica and vindication: and should I fail in the attempt,
what a great pleasure and obligation would it be for some of
my better readers to imitate the example of the Oxford
scholar, who altho' he had acquired an excellent hand at
music yet afterwards falling into melancholy, grew averse to
it, and could not be prevail'd upon by his friends to touch
it. They had but one way to excite him, and that, for some
unskillful hand to take his violin and scrape upon it. He
would then immediately snatch it from him, and in a kind of
resentment, give it the utmost elegance of sound and
harmony.
. . . this paper . . . is intended to be a narrative of
whatever shall occur in commerce in the civil or learned
world as far as it deserves our attention, and comes within
notice.
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