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A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 232 — Chapter V · ELIZABETHAN CRITICISM.

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See Mitford, Harmony of Language, p. 105, who thinks the licence just the other way, and indeed roundly pronounces the pronunciation in one syllable “impossible.” A little later, again, Guest thinks the dis-syllable “uncouth and vulgar.” A most documentary disagreement!

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