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...unused to it. " The music of our language," says Lord Monboddo, " is nothing better than the music of a drum, in which we perceive no difference except that of louder or softer, according as the instrument is more or less forcibly struck."* The French language, although...

...of Language, had declared 'that the music of the English language was nothing better than the music of a drum, in which we perceive no difference, except that of louder or softer.' This view seems to have been shared by many of Monboddo's contemporaries, but Steele showed...

..." of any word? And if there be none, then is the mufic of our " language, in this refpect, notbing better than the mufic of a " drum, in which we perceive no difference except that of " louder or/ofter" PART I. T "% JE fuppofc the reader to have fome knowledge of the mo* * dern fcale and notation...

...4. fyllables of any word ; and if there be . none, then is the mufic of our language in this refpect nothing better than the mufic of a drum, in which...except that of louder or fofter, according as the inftrument is more or lefs forcibly ttruck. This fort of accent is, if I am not much miftaken, a peculiarity...

...the opinion of Lord Monboddo that 'the music of our language [is] . . . nothing better than the music of a drum, in which we perceive no difference except that of louder and softer, according as the instrument is more or less forcibly struck'.103 (Monboddo did agree that...

...thing as intonation in English. The music of our language, he argued, is 'nothing better than the music of a drum, in which we perceive no difference except that of louder or softer.' Steele rebutted this point of view in an original manner. He pasted a piece of paper to the...