h'-dropping

Updated: May 11, 2025

Yes, surely the true way of contemplating these undistinguished masses of humanity, this 'h'-dropping, garlic-eating, child-begetting bourgeois, is Shakespeare's, Dickens', Whitman's way through the eye of a gentle sympathetic beholder one who understands Nature's trick of hiding her most precious things beneath rough husks and in rank and bearded envelopes and not through the eye-glass of the new critic.

Richard Le Gallienne - Prose Fancies