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I wish it were not customary to write of one art in the terms of another, and I use the words "music" and "musical" under protest, because the world … - Alice Meynell
" "I wish it were not customary to write of one art in the terms of another, and I use the words "music" and "musical" under protest, because the world has been so delighted to call any verse pleasant to the ear "musical," that it has not supplied us with another and more specialised and appropriate word.
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About Alice Meynell
Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell (11 October 1847 – 27 November 1922) was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.
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Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson
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