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Scan 23
Chats on violins, 1905
10 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 9. See the scan on archive.org.
1so surrounded with beautiful and delicious things, that any invention of science or art would have diminished, instead of augmented, these charms; and after his fall, he was too sad and hopeless to think of any kind of diversion to lighten his miseries. With Adam's children it was different: they had never known a Paradise to regret, nor felt the disgrace of expulsion, so they were ready and willing to invent for themselves a small Paradise in the shape of a fiddle.
3Jean Rousseau's intense love of the viol, of which he was a distinguished professor, probably led him to devise the foregoing delightful story.
5The Rebec.
7The rebec, I am sorry to say, had nothing of the Vere de Vere about it. A common, loud, harsh, little thing, it mixed with common, loud, harsh people. Nobody admired it, nobody loved it; like the ugly duckling it was looked upon with disfavour, and snubbed on every opportunity.
9Originally Arabian it was brought into Spain by the Moors in the eighth century. From thence it passed into Italy, and it is
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