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A Grammar of the English Tongue 66When terrible tempests assail us. And mountainous billows affright, Norpower nor wealth can avail us, But skilful industry steers right. Ballad.To these measures and their laws, may be reduced every species of Englishverse.Our versification admits of few licences, except a synaloepha, or elision ofe in the before a vowel, as th' eternal; and more rarely of o in to, as t'accept; and a synaresis, by which two short vowels coalesce into onesyllable, as question, special; or a word is contracted by the expulsion of ashort vowel before a liquid, as av'rice, temp'rance.Thus have I collected rules and examples, by which the English languagemay be learned, if the reader be already acquainted with grammatical terms,or taught by a master to those that are more ignorant. To have written agrammar for such as are not yet initiated in the schools, would have beentedious, and perhaps at last ineffectual.End of Project Gutenberg's A Grammar of the English Tongue, by SamuelJohnson*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A GRAMMAR OFTHE ENGLISH TONGUE ******** This file should be named 15097-8.txt or 15097-8.zip ***** Thisand all associated files of various formats will be found in:http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/9/15097/Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins and the PG Online DistributedProofreading Team.Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will berenamed.Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no oneowns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and