Morse, Frances Clary · New York, the MacMillan Co. · leaf 309
ency upon thepiano and spinet wouldappear to have comprisedthe chief accomplishmentsin instrumental music ofthe young ladies of theeighteenth and early nine-teenth centuries, as far aswe can judge by mentionof such accomplishments.But it seems reasonableto suppose that where afew English ladies… … 284 Furniture of the Olden Time playing the grace and beauty of a rounded armand wrist. Even in our own day, the list of thosewho play the harp is restricted, and it must havebeen the same in early days, hence the lack ofallusions to the harp. When Lady Morgan, thewild Irish girl, was creating such…
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