212 notes to chapter 1
- Sheridan, A Course of Lectures on Elocution Together with Two Dissertations on
Language and A General Dictionary of the English Language . . . to which is prefixed A
Rhetorical Grammar (London: J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall, C. Dilly, and J. Wilkie, 1780). - Coote, Elements of English Grammar, 278–83.
- Woods, “The Cultural Tradition of Nineteenth-Century ‘Traditional’ Gram-
mar Teaching,” 8. - On Murray, see Read, “The Motivation of Lindley Murray’s Grammatical
Wo r k .” - Murray, English Grammar, 146.
- Ibid., 1839, 71.
- Ibid., 1867, 224.
- This wholesale lifting of Sheridan’s text only appears in the 4th edition of Mur-
r a y ’s English Grammar, in 1798, and is not in the first three editions (1795, 1796,
1797). - Ibid., 1798, 203.
- This allegory of walking, predating the Wordsworthian walking composition,
will be taken up in Coventry Patmore’s theory of isochronous intervals, though Pat-
more’s pace does not come from footsteps themselves but from the regular appearance
of an accompanying fence-post—the mind, for Patmore, must perceive the metrical
grid for the body to follow. - Murray, English Grammar Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners, 203. This
text is identical in all editions following ; it appears on p. 252 of the sixth American
edition, English Grammar Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the Language
(New York: Collins & Co., 1829), and the fifty-eighth edition, (London: Longman,
Hurst, 1867), 203. - Sheridan, The Art of Reading, 27.
- Murray, Grammar, 190.
- Ibid., 203.
- Murray and Flint, Abridged Grammar, 78.
- Saintsbury gives only passing notice to Murray in his History of English Prosody,
stopping to reprimand him for relying too much on accent and not enough on quan-
tity, but admits that his doctrine that “we have all that the ancients had, and something
they had not” is “uncommonly near the truth, though I dare say he did not know how
true it was. For the fact of the matter is that we have the full quantitative scansion by
feet, which is the franchise and privilege of classical verse, without the limitations of
quantitative syllabisation with which that verse was hampered. We have their Order
and our own Freedom besides” (156). - Guest, A History of English Rhythms, 111.
- There is no record in the history of linguistics for the study of prosody, nor is
there a survey like Fussell’s extremely useful Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth Century
England. For useful histories of language study in nineteenth-century England, see
Anna Morpurgo Davies, History of Linguistics and Aarsleff, The Study of Language in
England 1780–1860. - Potter, The Muse in Chains.
- Prins, “Victorian Meters,” 93.
- Hollander, Vision and Resonance: Two Senses of Poetic Form, 19.
- Prins, “Victorian Meters,” 90–91.