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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 12 0 Browse Search
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t serves to indicate that the pronunciation was not heroes as it had formerly been. That you may tell heroes, when you come To banquet with your wife. Chapman's Odyssey, VIII. 336, 337. In the facsimile of the sonnet to Fairfax I find Thy firm unshak'n vertue ever brings, which shows how much faith we need give to the apostrophe. In the possessive singular of nouns already ending in s Mr. Masson tells us, Milton's general practice is not to double the s; thus, Nereus wrinkled look, Glaucus spell. The necessities of metre would naturally constrain to such forms. In a possessive followed by the word sake or the word side, dislike to [of] the double sibilant makes us sometimes drop the inflection. In addition to for righteousness' sake such phrases as for thy name sake and for mercy sake, are allowed to pass; bedside is normal and riverside nearly so. The necessities of metre need not be taken into account with a poet like Milton, who never was fairly in his element till he g