Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Milton” in chapter 4, page 296 of James Russell Lowell, Among my books:
...he word bottomless on the second syllable would be too horrible.
Certainly not, if Milton so accented it, any more than blasphemous and twenty more which sound oddly to us now. However that may be, Milton could not have intended to close not only a period, but a paragraph also, with an unmusical verse, and in the only other passage where the word occurs it is accented as now on the first syllable:
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Entity | Corpus | Doc | Corpus | Doc | |||
† | John Milton | 589 | 246 | 5 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
Milton | 556 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
William F. Milton | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
W. H. Milton | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
C. Milton | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Jonathan Milton | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Joseph A. Milton | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Richard S. Milton | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
J. A. Milton | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
James Milton | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
R. Milton | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Richard Sweet Milton | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Thomas Slocum Milton | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
W. P. Milton | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Homer Virgil Milton | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
R. S. Milton | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
A. Milton | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
A. L. Milton | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Christopher Milton | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Cromwell Milton | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Ivey Milton | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
J. M. Milton | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
J. P. Milton | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
J. R. Milton | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Jackson Milton | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
S. W. Milton | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
W. O. Milton | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
William H. Milton | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
William Taylor Milton | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
G. Milton | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes |
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