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So, I hope I am in the right, in being desirous to leave it to those to whom the Gods have given a Soul tun'd and set to such a Key, as can either find or make Musick in this
Exilius 2008
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Agreement in their wild Notions, and these express'd in the very self-same Cant, may easily convince any one, that the Instruments of both were strung and tun'd by the same Hand.
The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail
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-- Seeing his distress, I went to him, and repeated a few lines applicable to the occasion, which he caught in a moment, and tun'd away with the best of them.
Barford Abbey Susannah Minific Gunning
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That nurs'd thy muse, and tun'd thy soul to rhyme;
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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That lyre, which sweetly tun'd its polish'd strain,
Poetical Sketches 1795
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To virtuous themes, her well tun'd lyre she strung;
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753
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To virtuous themes, her well tun'd lyre she strung;
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II Theophilus Cibber 1730
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Instruments that are tun'd high; the Pain of reaching them not only affecting the Hearer, but the Singer.
Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni. English Pier Francesco Tosi 1692
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And these vibrations or motions to and fro between the two limits seem so swift, that 'tis very probable (from the sound it affords, if it be compar'd with the vibration of a musical string, tun'd unison to it) it makes many hundreds, if not some thousands of vibrations in a second minute of time.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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Ceased warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays:
Paradise Lost John Milton 1641
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