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The arrangement of the verse is not easy: perhaps we should read 'Wishes for husband. Our author usually makes a trisyllable of "gentleman"; here it counts only as a monosyllable. Between this word and the next there is a mark of omission in the MS., and the words "t'were Sir" have been written above. What follows, to the entrance of Thurston, is marked to be omitted.
The passage might be tortured into verse, somewhat as follows: "Nay but Shall I not be acquainted with your designe? When we must marry, Faith, to save charges of two wedding dinners, Lets cast so that one day may yield us bridegroome, I to the daughter, thou to the mother." We ought, no doubt, to read "professed," a trisyllable.
Vanity eludes recognition by its victims in more shapes, and more pleasing, than any other passion, and perhaps had Mr. Burke been able imaginatively to translate Swiss Jean Jacques into Irish Edmund, he would have found no juster equivalent for the obnoxious trisyllable than "righteous self-esteem."
When she calls, he must go; and before she calls, let him, if possible, prepare himself to serve her in the best manner. As things are now at Harvard, college boys are scarcely better than cow-boys for the army. Their costly education runs greatly to waste. It gives no them direct advantage over the clod who stumbles against a trisyllable.
As with Mutineer once, he had dropped his bridle, but there was no use in uttering, as he had, then, the trisyllable which had reduced the horse to order. He had a very different kind of a creature with which to deal, than a Kentucky gentleman of lengthy lineage, a creature called sometimes a "tiger."
The family had been ousted some eighteen months ago on account of failure to pay their rent and of the frequent intoxication of Mrs. Candy. Pennyloaf's legal name was Penelope, which, being pronounced as a trisyllable, transformed itself by further corruption into a sound at all events conveying some meaning.
That the first and fourth scenes of the third act were not by the same hand as the third scene he should have no difficulty in proving to the satisfaction of all capable and fair-minded men. In the first and fourth scenes the word "virtuous" was used as a dissyllable; in the third it was used as a trisyllable. "Is, that she will to virtuous Desdemona." iii. 1.
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