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Rh them to be ilent, and not feign raptures they do not feel; for nothing can be more ridiculous.

In muic I prefer expreion to execution. The imple melody of ome artles airs has often oothed my mind when it has been harraed by care; and I have been raied from the very depths of orrow, by the ublime harmony of ome of Handel's compoitions. I have been lifted above this little cene of grief and care, and mued on Him, from whom all bounty flows. A peron mut have ene, tate, and enibility, to render their muic reting