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while care must be
taken that the majority are of a pleasing character,
and that the inferior feet are lost in the surrounding
crowd of their superior kindred. The nature of
letters and syllables cannot be changed, but their
adaptability to each other is a consideration of no
small importance. Long syllables, as I have said,
[p. 559]
carry the greater dignity and weight, while short
syllables create an impression of speed: if the latter
are intermixed with a few long syllables, their gait
will be a run, but a gallop if they are continuous.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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