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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of John Milton, Vol. 1
Akenside uses the word Hyperion, ' with the penultimate syllable long, and Gray with it, short; the former adhering to the true quantity, the latter adopting the more agreeable or convenient pronunciation; but Milton had authority, though inferior, on his side.
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