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But it is to be wonne with Custome, and rough words must be subdued with Vse. For why a God's name may not we, as else the Greekes, have the kingdome of our owne Language, and measure our Accentes by the Sounde, reserving the Quantitie to the Verse?" The amiable Edmonde seems to be smiling in his sleeve as he writes this sentence.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859

But it is to be wonne with Custome, and rough words must be subdued with Vse. For why a God's name may not we, as else the Greekes, have the kingdome of our owne Language, and measure our Accentes by the Sounde, reserving the Quantitie to the Verse? The amiable Edmonde seems to be smiling in his sleeve as he writes this sentence.

James Russell Lowell - The Function of the Poet and Other Essays