The Spectator, Volumes 1-2Dent, 1930 |
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... Words of other Languages more Tunable and Sonorous . The Sounds of our English Words are commonly like those of String Musick , short and transient , which rise and perish upon a single Touch ; those of other Languages are like the ...
... Words of other Languages more Tunable and Sonorous . The Sounds of our English Words are commonly like those of String Musick , short and transient , which rise and perish upon a single Touch ; those of other Languages are like the ...
Page 192
... Words , drown'd , walk'd , arriv'd , for drowned , walked , arrived , which has very much disfigured the Tongue , and turned a tenth part of our smoothest Words into so many Clusters of Consonants . This is the more remarkable , because ...
... Words , drown'd , walk'd , arriv'd , for drowned , walked , arrived , which has very much disfigured the Tongue , and turned a tenth part of our smoothest Words into so many Clusters of Consonants . This is the more remarkable , because ...
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... Words , that in familiar Writings and Conversa tions , they often lose all but their first Syllables , as in mob , rep , pos . incog , and the like ; and as all ridiculous Words make their first Entry into a Language by familiar Phrases ...
... Words , that in familiar Writings and Conversa tions , they often lose all but their first Syllables , as in mob , rep , pos . incog , and the like ; and as all ridiculous Words make their first Entry into a Language by familiar Phrases ...
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