Monday, November the 8th, 2004
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“To my mind one of the most beautiful words in the English language is pavement. Enunciate it, study its sound, and see what you think. It is also indubitable that certain combinations of words have a more beautiful sound than certain other combinations. Thus Tennyson held that the most beautiful line he ever wrote was: The mellow ouzel fluting in the elm. Perhaps, as sound, it was. But does it live in the memory as one of the rare great Tennysonian lines? It does not.” — Arnold Bennett, Literary Taste : How To Form It