Note 32 — HASSAN OR THE CHILD OF THE PYRAMID (continued 2)

The reader may perhaps not have heard, or may have forgotten, a reply attributed to Dr Johnson, who being once present at a concert where an Italian singer was executing some bravura ornaments at, if not beyond, the highest notes of her voice, his neighbour observed to him, “How wonderful are those trills.” “Would to Heaven they were impossible!” was the Doctor’s surly answer.