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The music was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul.

— James Macpherson

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Those who have doubted my veracity have paid a compliment to my genius.

Often, like the evening sun, comes the memory of former times on my soul.

Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds, careless of the voice of the morning.

Ossian (1847)

Often does the memory of former times come, like the evening sun, on my soul.

Sorrow, like a cloud on the sun, shades the soul of Clessammor.

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

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Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

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