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I have given my impression of the songlessness of Spain in Madrid as elsewhere, but if there was no street singing there was often street playing by pathetic bands of blind minstrels with guitars and mandolins.
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In one of his essays he is lamenting the songlessness of modern life and suggests one or two chanties.
G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study Julius West 1904
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I have given my impression of the songlessness of Spain in Madrid as elsewhere, but if there was no street singing there was often street playing by pathetic bands of blind minstrels with guitars and mandolins.
Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878
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