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The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

by Samuel Butler

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Handel’s Shower of Rain

The falling shower in the air “As cheers the sun” in Joshua is, I think, the finest description of a warm sunny refreshing rain that I have ever come across and one of the most wonderfully descriptive pieces of music that even Handel ever did.

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