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...a syllable in long words which ought to have none, as in a couplet of Pope's Essay on Criticism : " False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, " Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place.** Here a foreigner would be apt to place an accent on the last syllable of rieguen ce as well as the...

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...never mind him; never speak till you've something to say, and then say only what you have to say. ' Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of solid sense is seldom found.' " Friend now congratulated Alfred with all his honest affectionate heart,...

...and never mind him ; never speak till you've something to say, and then say only what you have to ' Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of solid sense is seldom found.' " Friend now congratulated Alfred with all his honest affectionate heart,...

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