The testament of beauty : a poem in four books / by Robert Bridges.

  • Robert Bridges
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[1930]
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Credit: The testament of beauty : a poem in four books / by Robert Bridges. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion, u retained for that purpose: and this allows the useful distinction of the demon¬ strative pronoun thatt, from the other thats which have no proper accented vowel. Inconsistencies (except for possible over¬ sights such as shear for sheer in IV. 241 and ethic for ethick in IV. 353) are intentional, any rule being stayed at that point where it would needlessly distract the reader: thus nature appears in two spellings, of which the explanation is that the final syllable (whether the word be pronounced as may be indicated by the spelling na^ur, or by nacher as recog¬ nized by our Southern-English authorities) is always light and unaccented; but since the syllable tur has an uncertain value and is very offensive to the eye, the common full spelling, ture, is always maintained, except
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