Front Rounded Vowel

Famous quotes containing the words front, rounded and/or vowel:

    “Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The rounded world is fair to see,
    Nine times folded in mystery.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)