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If you will compare this poetry with that of Layamon, you will see that there is something in it quite different from his. This no longer rests, as that does, upon accent and alliteration, but upon rhyme. The English, too, in which it is written, is much more like the English of to-day. For Havelok was written perhaps a hundred years after Layamon's Brut.
Perhaps the exaltation had mounted to my head; or nature and the perfect morning joined to him at disaffection; anyhow, having breakfasted, and triumphantly repeated the collect I had broken down in the last Sunday 'twas one without rhythm or alliteration: a most objectionable collect having achieved thus much, the small natural man in me rebelled, and I vowed, as I straddled and spat about the stable-yard in feeble imitation of the coachman, that lessons might go to the Inventor of them.
'They bring the body, and we pay the price, he used to say, dwelling on the alliteration 'QUID PRO QUO. And, again, and somewhat profanely, 'Ask no questions, he would tell his assistants, 'for conscience' sake. There was no understanding that the subjects were provided by the crime of murder.
Cleveland. Nomination by President McKinley. Light thrown upon his methods by appointments of second secretary and military attache. Secretary Sherman; his reference to President Johnson's impeachment. Judge Harlan's reference to Dr. Burchard's alliteration. Discussions with the German ambassador and others. Change of the American legation into an embassy; its advantages and disadvantages.
I shall gain immensely by such a connection; but I lose everything and gain nothing by her marrying Maltravers of opposite politics too whom I begin to hate like poison. But no duke shall have her Florence Ferrers, the only alliteration I ever liked yet it would sound rough in poetry." Lumley then deliberately drew towards him his inkstand "No penknife!
Opposite to another obviously of Mrs. St. Leonard, and with instinct for alliteration is scribbled; "Too terribly true. She'd twig it." Another character is that of a gent: "With a certain gift. For telling stories. Some of them NOT BAD." A promising party, on the whole. He is the grown-up of a little girl: "Not beautiful. But strangely attractive. Whom we will call Enid."
I could see Macdona among the doctors "Hope in Harley Street" Mac had always a weakness for alliteration. "Interview with Mr. Soley Wilson." "Famous Specialist says 'Never despair!" "Our Special Correspondent found the eminent scientist seated upon the roof, whither he had retreated to avoid the crowd of terrified patients who had stormed his dwelling.
"Why, that was just my case when I first began," said Parkinson. "I think I have been tolerably successful in the first verse, and that I have not only gotten the sense of the author, but that alliteration, which, as you may perhaps be aware, is one of the most peculiar features of Welsh poetry.
Alliteration and assonance are the natural ornaments of poetry in a rude age. In Anglo-Saxon literature alliteration is one of the chief ways of distinguishing poetry from prose. But when a strict prosody is formed, it is no longer needed. Thus in almost all civilised poetry, it has been discarded, except as an occasional and appropriate ornament for a special purpose.
You feel he does not strain after effect epigram, antithesis, or alliteration. Of course he uses such things like all real speakers but he does not go out of his way for them. His words caught the attention, and lived in the memory; they revealed such a nature; they were so living and unforgettable. Remark once again his preference for the actual and the ordinary.
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