The Letters of Sir Thomas Fitzosborne [pseud.] On Several Subjects ..
The Letters of Sir Thomas Fitzosborne [pseud.] On Several Subjects ..
Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc [from Old Catalog]
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To twiddle fignifies to make a certain ridiculous motion with the fingers : what word therefore could be more proper to exprefs this epigram- writer's contempt of the performances of thofe muficians, and of the folly of his contemporaries in running into parties up- on fo abfurd an occafion ? The drum was a certain martial inftrument ufed in thofe times; as the word key is a technical term in mufic, importing the fundamental note which regulates the whole compo- sition. It means alfo thofe litt...le pieces of wood # which the fingers ftrikc again ft u in Digitized by Google LETTER LXIIL 325 44 in an organ, &c. in order to make the in- 44 ftrument found. The alteration here 44 propofed is fo obvious and natural, that I 44 am furprifed none of the commentators 44 hit upon it before. L. CD* « TiveedJe-dum and Tweedfe-dee.*) Thefe " words have greatly embarrafled the cri- 44 tics, who are extremely expert in finding '• a difficulty where there is none. Tweedle- " dum and Tweedle-dee are moji undoubted- 4€ ly the names of the two muficians: and " tho* they are ftyled by different appel- 44 lations in the title of this epigram, yet 44 this is no objection > for it is well known 4i that perfons in thofe times had more fur- " names than one.
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