I agree with Mr. Spence that monosyllables are the most sympathetic.
In her reply to Swift she repeats all the stock defenses of the English monosyllables and consonants, but, by presenting them in combination, and in a manner at once scholarly and forceful, she makes the most convincing case against Swift.
Monosyllables were also very convenient for the formation of compound words, and, it was argued, should, when properly managed, be an asset rather than a handicap to the English rhymester.
But it is when she writes as a literary critic, defending the English language, with its monosyllables and consonants, as a literary medium, that she is most interesting.
If it was difficult to maintain that English was as smooth and euphonious as Italian, it could be maintained that its monosyllables and consonants gave it a characteristic and masculine brevity and force.
It is pronounced by Dryden, that a line of monosyllables is almost always harsh.
To the engineer's attempts at conversation the other answered only in monosyllables or not at all.
A business transaction," said he, "was not something to be put through with a nod and wink or at most a half dozen monosyllables between as many bites of a sandwich.
In those simple monosyllables the union was pledged, the identity of their lots in the dark urn was implied.
His words are these: "Monosyllables are sometimes accented, sometimes not.
Monosyllables are long or short, according to the following Rules:--1st.
In monosyllablesthe Comparative is regularly formed by adding r or er.
It does not appear that stress laid on monosyllablesis any more fitly termed accent, when it occurs in the reading of poetry, than when in the utterance of prose.
Monosyllables are exceedingly variable, and, for the most part, may be either long or short, to suit the demand of the rhythm.
Most of our Monosyllables either take this Stress or not, according as they are more or less emphatical; and therefore English Words of one Syllable may be considered as common; i.
Monosyllables or words accented on the last syllable, ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant before adding a suffix beginning with a vowel.
Name other monosyllables ending in e and containing the long a sound.
Monosyllables ending in silent e usually contain a long vowel sound, which becomes short when the final e is dropped.
Find other monosyllables ending in e and containing a long vowel that becomes short if the e is dropped.
This variation of stress affects monosyllables only in connected speech, where they receive an accentuation relative to the other words of the sentence.
Even with these modifications a certain harshness now and then is inevitable in hexameters both in German and particularly in English, where many lines occur consisting nearly throughout of monosyllables only, as e.
Aloud he answered in monosyllables as he continued to take possession of her.
She's got to make up her mind to speak out and quit answering me by monosyllables and guarded phrases as she did yesterday.
She answered only bymonosyllables to the remarks of her companions, and her mind wandered away to that stately place where life might well seem a love-lay of the Renaissance.
He devoted his remarks mainly to Cornelia, and cheerfully received her frozen monosyllables in exchange.
She had replied in monosyllables so long that he was discouraged with his own efforts at conversation, and lapsed into silence.
These monosyllables fly with amazing rapidity; then they are continually disguised by elisions, which sometimes hardly leave anything of two monosyllables.
She answered him in monosyllables or never at all.
In other words, the Chinese may be described not simply as a language purely monosyllabic, but as one in which the monosyllablesare of the most elementary and infantine character, viz.
The long sound in monosyllables is always marked by the e final, as thĭn, thīne.
Dozing off with this idea uppermost, he used to wake with his eyes shut and his ears wide open; but it was to hear drowsy monosyllables dropping out at intervals like minute-guns, or to find Lucy gone and Talboys reading the coals.
Her brow curved over her eyes, her face grew dark as if the light had gone out of the morning, and she spoke the two monosyllables in a sharp imperative tone, so that they seemed to cut like a knife.
She had to speak in monosyllables with her labouring breath.
Monosyllables ending in the sound of ic represented by c usually take k after the c, as in back, knock, etc.
A few monosyllables ending in two vowels, one of which is silent e, are exceptions: duly, truly; also wholly.
Monosyllables ending in oe usually retain the silent e in derivatives, and we have shoeing, toeing, etc.
Milton also sometimes places two Monosyllables at the End of the Line, stopping at the 4th Foot, to adapt the Measure of the Verse to the Sense; and then begins the next Line in the same manner, which has a wonderful Effect.
Milton likewise uses his Monosyllables very artfully in placing them at the Conclusion of a Line, so as to divide the last Foot of the Verse, which has a very extraordinary Effect.
Long second persons singular Of second conjugation are, And monosyllables in e.
The Chinese seem always to have spoken in monosyllables, and these monosyllables seem always to have been incapable of inflection, agglutination, or change of any kind.
The Chinese, although their language is monosyllabic, do not make an extensive use of monosyllables in speech to express a single thing or idea.
She answered him with eager monosyllables and ejaculations expressive of interest.
Alex felt as though she were being put to the torture of the Inquisition, but was utterly unable to do more than reply in monosyllables to Cedric's level, judicial questions.
X—— was very reserved, and, being probably afraid lest I might make some discoveries, would answer in monosyllables only.
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