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guitar etc sometimes affect me profoundly
It is not wholly due to my ignorance and bad ear, for other instruments—the violin, organ, zither, guitar, etc., sometimes affect me profoundly.
— from The Letters of Ambrose Bierce, With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce

grows ever stronger and more passionate
The feeling of despondency and despair grows ever stronger and more passionate.
— from Stories of Symphonic Music A Guide to the Meaning of Important Symphonies, Overtures, and Tone-poems from Beethoven to the Present Day by Lawrence Gilman

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