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Alliteration is so liable to be abused that we can scarcely be too sparing of it; and yet it is a trick that seems to grow upon the author with years. It is a pity to see fine verses, such as some in "Demos," absolutely spoiled by the recurrence of one wearisome consonant. Salvini closed his short visit to Edinburgh by a performance of Macbeth.
"A most effective alliteration," he murmured, but without spontaneity. It was evident that the doldrums were very real with him, for he made no effort to take part in the ensuing conversation, in spite of the fact that the subject was one which might have aroused him to his best endeavours.
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!
After descanting, at some length, on the great expense and danger attending his capture and training, I offered a programme of the performance, of the "Infant Phenomenon of Sierran Solitudes," drawn up into the highest professional profusion of alliteration and capital letters. A few extracts will give the reader some idea of his educational progress:
There had been overmuch of the party platform, and an absence of the wit which is the soul of political speaking; and, though the average Virginia Convention is able to breast triumphantly the most encompassing wave of oratory, the present one had shown unmistakable signs of suffocation. At the end of the third speech, metaphor had failed to move it, and alliteration had ceased to evoke applause.
No flushes that most irrational of all pleas that a reasonable being can set up: that any one should claim four by virtue of holding cards of the same mark and colour, without reference to the playing of the game, or the individual worth or pretensions of the cards themselves! She held this to be a solecism; as pitiful an ambition at cards as alliteration is in authorship.
And what could prove more clearly that the old metrical form was dead? The rough rhythm of early English poetry, it is true, is kept; but alliteration is dropped, and its place is taken by rhyme. Nor were the efforts to impose classical measures on English poetry more blest in their results.
The inexpressible beauty of some lines of verse comes doubtless from a fugitive melody which we now grasp, now lose. The existence of speech melody and the tonalities of rime, assonance, and alliteration suggest an analogy between verse and music. For some people, this analogy is decisive.
You are a splendid lot!" and her honest admiration touched him. "I don't know. I've never felt very splendid." "You are solid, and strong, and sensible. What a pity that alliteration won't do in a poem!" and she laughed in her joyous manner. "I don't care if you never are rich, so long as we have good times.
Even that comprehensive monosyllable was far from satisfactory. "Oh, what's the use?" P. Sybarite despaired. Alliteration could no more; his mother-tongue itself seemed poverty-stricken, his native wit inadequate. With decent meekness he owned himself unfit for the task to which he had set himself. "I'm only a dub," he groaned "a poor, God-forsaken, prematurely aged and indigent dub!"
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