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" Johnson praised its humour, and seemed much diverted with it. He repeated the following passage : " In strains more exalted the salt-box shall join, And clattering and battering and clapping combine ; With a rap and a tap, while the hollow side sounds.... "
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1803 - 568 pages
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THE MONTHLY REVIEW

SEVERAL HANDS - 1763 - 604 pages
...baflbon, or tinkling harpfichord. AIR, to the Salt-box. , In {trains more exalted the falt-box mail join, And clattering, and battering, and clapping combine: With a rap and a tap while the ho!low fide founds, Up and down leaps the flap, and with rattling rebounds, RECITATIVE, to the Jews...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal, Volume 28

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1763 - 618 pages
...tinkling harpfkhord. AIR, to the Salt-box. In ftrains more exalted the {alt-box (hall join, And chttering, and battering, and clapping combine: With a rap and a tap while the ho, low fide founds, Up ar.d down leaps the flap, and with rattling rebounds. RECITATIVE, to the Jews-harp....
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Annual Register, Volume 6

Edmund Burke - History - 1764 - 582 pages
...bellowing horn,. Rumbling baflbon, or tinkling harpfichord. AI R. Ih ftrains more exalted the falt-box mail join, And clattering, and battering, and clapping combine: With a rap and a tap while the hollow fide founds, Up and down leaps the flap, and with rattling rebound:* RECITATIVE. Strike, ftrike the...
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A Collection of the Most Esteemed Pieces of Poetry, that Have Appeared for ...

Moses Mendez - English poetry - 1770 - 334 pages
...bellowing horn, Rambling baflbon, or tinkling harpfichord. AI R. In ftrains more exalted the falt-box mall join, And clattering, and battering, and clapping combine, With a rap and a tap while the hollow fide founds, Up and down leaps the flat, and with rattling rebounds. RECITATIVE. Strike, ftrike the...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1791 - 554 pages
...diverted with it. He repeated the following paflage : " In ftrains more exalted the falt-box fhall join, " And clattering and battering and clapping combine ; " With a rap and a tap, while the hollow fide founds, " Up and down leaps the flap, and with rattling rebounds." JEtat. 54. Gg 2 I mentioned...
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Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry ..., Volumes 16-18

John Bell - English poetry - 1794 - 574 pages
...bellowing horn, Rumbling bassoon, or tinkling harpsichord. AIR. In strains more exalted the salt- box shall join, And clattering, and battering, and clapping...while the hollow side sounds, Up and down leaps the flat, and with rattling rebound. RECITATIVE. Strike, strike the soft Judaic harp, Soft and sharp, By...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 6

History - 1796 - 554 pages
...Rumbling baffoon, or tinkling harpfichord. AIR. "::'л, ; In flrains more exalted the falt-box fliall join, And clattering, and battering, and clapping combine With a rap and a tap while the hollow fide founds, Up and down leaps the flap, and with rattling rebounds. RECITATIVE. • Strike, ftrike...
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...Gotham, Bk. iii, there is a passage of great beauty and tenderness. humstrum or hurdy-gurdy, &c. Johnson praised its humour, and seemed much diverted with...down leaps the flap, and with rattling rebounds'.' I mentioned the periodical paper called 77*4' Connoisseur*. He said it wanted matter. — No doubt...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...and tenderness. humstrunt Aetat. 54.] Boimell Thorntons ODE. 487 humstrum or hurdy-gurdy, &c. Johnson praised its humour, and seemed much diverted with...sounds, Up and down leaps the flap, and with rattling rebounds1.' I mentioned the periodical paper called The Connoisseur*. He said it wanted matter. —...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ...

James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...salt-box, the jew's-harp, the marrow-bones and cleaver, the- hum-strum or hurdy-gurdy, &c." Johnson praised its humour,, and seemed much diverted with...exalted the salt-box shall join, " And clattering and batteringand clapping combiner " With a rap and a tap while the hollow side sounds," Up and down leaps...
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