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The only colours catalogued are white, cray, gridelin, musk and red; the only "music's instruments" -- a flagelet, a dreum, and a hurdy-gurdy.
Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893
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Homer plays it on a bassoon; Pope on a flagelet. '
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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I once bought me a flagelet; but I never made out a tune. '
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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The only colours catalogued are _white, cray, gridelin, musk_ and _red_; the only ` ` music's instruments '' -- _a flagelet, a dreum_, and a _hurdy-gurdy_.
Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1877
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Homer plays it on a bassoon; Pope on a flagelet. '
Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767
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I once bought me a flagelet; but I never made out a tune. '
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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Homer plays it on a bassoon; Pope on a flagelet. '
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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I once bought me a flagelet; but I never made out a tune. '
Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767
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_ It was something of a flagelet, that a shepherd played upon so sweetly, that three women followed him for his music, and still one of them snatched it from the other.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 John Dryden 1665
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_ That flagelet was, by interpretation, -- but let that pass; and
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 John Dryden 1665
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