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...Mary Godolphin was the pseudonym of Lucy Aikin who undertook translating great literature into single-syllable words so that young readers could enjoy plots that were considerably more interesting than, say, the McGuffey readers of the 1880's or the Dick and Jane primers of the 1950s (still around today as decodable readers i...

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...rom the cold rim of the bunk (Even if I awaken The idiots below). With non-syllables and vowellessness A pitch that is language enough To keep this ma...

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...rom the windowpane, to exit and meet him in the dusk. My grandmother didn't utter a single syllable as she fastened the blinders in his face. Janusz... ...nd everyone hummed in consent. "Poor Dinah" – sighed another aunt, summing in these three syllables her entire shrivelling misery. It was stuffy a... ...e doesn't even notice Mayer who occupies a seat beside him. His lips give shape to writhing syllables. Mayer regards his efforts with nauseated fasc... ...my first words? Silence. I said zilch, nada, nothing. Having deconstructed her introductory syllables, I began to survey her, limb by limb. It goes ...

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...Sound me ---------- Sound me. Am I not round in your mouth? Do I split your lips? Make you spit? Do I make you bite your tongue? Push the syllables out wrongly? Do I make you gnash? Tangle you in a toothed trap? Sound me. I am round in your mouth. I make yours’ open with a pout. Make you lovingly form me And long to breathe me out. ...

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... Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, emphasizing the accent of each German vowel and syllable exaggeratedly. She internally debated the merit of giving her c... ...what he will say to her at all times but I can guarantee that the vowels and syllables he uses will be benign. They will be creative and not hateful....

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... XCV COULD mortal lip divine The undeveloped freight Of a delivered syllable, ’T would crumble with the weight. 58 XCVI MY ... ... For, lift them, pound for pound, And they will differ, if they do, As syllable from sound. CXXVII THE bone that has no marrow; Wha... ...a word Which bears a sword Can pierce an armed man. It hurls its barbed syllables,— At once is mute again. But where it fell The saved will tell... ...he quiet nonchalance of death No daybreak can bestir; The slow archangel’s syllables Must awaken her. VI MY cocoon tightens, colors teas... ...told As far as cannon dwell, Or flag subsist, or fame export Her deathless syllable. XLV MORNS like these we parted; Noons like these she ros... ...ence is dead; He were superfluous every day, For every day is said That syllable whose faith Just saves it from despair, And whose “I ’ll meet y... ...XXXI THE future never spoke, Nor will he, like the Dumb, Reveal by sign or syllable Of his profound T o-come. But when the news be ripe, Presents it i... ... TO tell the beauty would decrease, T o state the Spell demean, There is a syllableless sea Of which it is the sign. My will endeavours for its word A... ...And they’ll slant, Straighten, look cautious for their breath, But make no syllable— Like Death, Who only shows his Marble disc— Sublimer sort than sp...

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...e consequence of which was, that I put this and that together. A number of syllables, that each for itself separately might have meant nothing at all,... ...estral crash bursts upon the ear in that all- shattering question! And one syllable of apologetic prepara- tion, so as to meet the suggestion of Horac... ...of sim- plicity at any rate it has)—repeat the vowel or diphthong of every syllable, prefixing to the vowel so repeated the letter G. Thus, for exampl... ...s offence) at something we had said, done, or omitted, and never spoke one syllable to either of us again. Being both of us amiably disposed, and inca... ...is—that I should have directed the accent to be placed on the intercalated syllable: thus ship becomes shigip, with the emphasis on gip; run becomes r...

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...tion of understanding he is to do it. The Romans, by reason that this poor syllable death sounded so harshly to their ears and seemed so ominous, foun... ...o this effect ordinarily frequented this prince’s house), discovered not a syllable of this intelligence to any one whatever; but going the next day t... ...there establish them like oracles, 207 Montaigne of which the letters and syllables are of the substance of the thing. To know by rote, is no knowled... ... came to be vassals to one only, for not having been able to pronounce one syllable, which is No. Which saying of his gave perhaps matter and occasion... ...hey know nothing of navigation, and so simple that they understand not one syllable of the religion they profess and wherein they are so devout: a thi...

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...mend you to go home, sir, and to keep out of the night-air.” Never another syllable did that officer say to the Commis- sioner, but turned away to his...

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...animation, what beautiful unpremeditated pantomime, explaining to us every syllable that passes, in these ingenuous girls! By the sudden start and rai... ...I see too certainly and too instantly its entire expan- sion; in the first syllable of the dreadful sentence I read al- 49 Thomas De Quincey ready th...

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...o this hour I have never heard a 36 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater syllable about her. This, amongst such troubles as most men meet with in th...

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...here is here no choice. Y ou must at once quit this country, and get to France, or Holland, or, indeed, to Madagascar.’ ‘There may be two words to tha...

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...ters -- 8 —10 -- Of the Vowel Sounds -- 11 -- Of the Consonant Sounds -- 13 -- Of the Sounds of Foreign Consonants -- 14 Of Diphthongs -- 15—18 -- Of Syllables -- 19—23 -- Of Words -- 24—26 -- Formation of Words -- 27—36 -- Peculiarities in the Use of Words -- 37—40 -- Of Accents—General Law -- 41—45 -- Letters Dropped -- 46 -- Letters Inserted -- 48 -- Etymology Definitio...