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I am constitutionally susceptible of noises. A carpenter's hammer, in a warm summer's noon, will fret me into more than midsummer madness. But those unconnected, unset sounds are nothing to the measured malice of music.
I am constitutionally susceptible of noises. A carpenter's hammer, in a warm summer's noon, will fret me into more than midsummer madness. But those unconnected, unset sounds are nothing to the measured malice of music.
Approximate author period: c. 1804 AD · industrial
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- Author or tradition
- Charles Lamb
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- Approximate author period: c. 1804 AD · industrial
author lifetime midpoint (1775–1834)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 33 · printed citation: Lamb · subject: Bores
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