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- Title: Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850
- Author : Various Authors
- Release Date : January 01, 2012
- Genre: Study Aids,Books,Reference,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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It is a notes book. Most ingenious! most felicitous! but let no man despise little words, despite of the little man of Twickenham. He himself knew better, but there was no resisting the temptation of such a line as that. Small words he says, in plain prosaic criticism, are generally 'stiff and languishing, but they may be beautiful to express melancholy'. The English language is a language of small words. It is, says Swift, 'overstocked with monosyllables'. It cuts down all its words to the shortest possible dimensions: a sort of half-Procrustes, which lops but never stretches. In one of the most magnificent passages in Holy Writ, that, namely, which describes the death of Sisera.