olson-syllables

March 8, 2025

It is by their syllables that words juxtapose in beauty, by these particles of sound as clearly as by the sense of the words which they compose. In any given instance, because there is a choice of words, the choice, if a man is in there, will be, spontaneously, the obedience of his ear to the syllables. The fineness, and the practice, lie here, at the minimum and source of speech.

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“Pleasure and pride are not, as duty knows,
(Though parsons think them) virtue’s deadliest foes;
The vice which always serves the Devil best
(Perhaps the parson) is self-interest.”

J.E. Thorold Rogers | “A Vulgar Error”

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