A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin and Scripture Proper Names: In which the Words are Accented and Divided Into Syllables. To which are Added Terminational Vocabularies of Hebrew, Greek and Latin Proper Names, Concluding with Observations on the Greek and Latin Accents and QuantityJ. M'Creery, 1807 - 285 Seiten |
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... vowel " , tells us , it is a sound between the e and the a , and that Eustathius , who lived towards the close of the twelfth century , says , that B , Bĩ , is a sound made in imitation of the bleating of a sheep ; and quotes to this ...
... vowel " , tells us , it is a sound between the e and the a , and that Eustathius , who lived towards the close of the twelfth century , says , that B , Bĩ , is a sound made in imitation of the bleating of a sheep ; and quotes to this ...
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... vowels , but of violating the quantity of these languages more than the people of any other nation in Europe . The author of the Essay upon the Harmony of Language gives us a detail of the particulars by which this accusation is proved ...
... vowels , but of violating the quantity of these languages more than the people of any other nation in Europe . The author of the Essay upon the Harmony of Language gives us a detail of the particulars by which this accusation is proved ...
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... vowel " characters to the vowel sounds of our own language , we pro- " ceed to the application of vowel sounds to the vowel charac- " ters of the Latin . Thus in the first syllable of sidus and no- men , which ought to be long ; and of ...
... vowel " characters to the vowel sounds of our own language , we pro- " ceed to the application of vowel sounds to the vowel charac- " ters of the Latin . Thus in the first syllable of sidus and no- men , which ought to be long ; and of ...
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... vowel , and then the vowel of the antepenulti- " mate is with as little regard to true quantity pronounced long , " as in maneo , redeat , odium , imperium . Quantity is however ❝vitiated to make i short even in this case , as in ...
... vowel , and then the vowel of the antepenulti- " mate is with as little regard to true quantity pronounced long , " as in maneo , redeat , odium , imperium . Quantity is however ❝vitiated to make i short even in this case , as in ...
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... vowels a " long sound or a short sound , as the quantity may require ; and , " when doubled consonants occur , to ... vowel : but if by distinctly he means separately , that is , as if what is called in French the schéva or mute e ...
... vowels a " long sound or a short sound , as the quantity may require ; and , " when doubled consonants occur , to ... vowel : but if by distinctly he means separately , that is , as if what is called in French the schéva or mute e ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
a-chus a-des a-mas A-ris accent and quantity Accent the Antepenultimate Accent the Penultimate accent this word accented syllable acute accent analogy ancients antepenultimate accent antepenultimate syllable Ba'al chus ci-a ci-us circumflex consonants di-a diphthong E-li e-nes E-re e-us English pronunciation English words Gouldman grave accent Greek and Latin Greek language Hebrew Hesiod Holyoke human voice i-cus i-des i-um i-us Idomeneus inflexion Initial Vocabulary Iphimedia Kirjath Labbe language last syllable Latin languages Latin Proper Names learned Lempriere li-a li-us long quantity ne-us ni-a ni-us nounced o-chus o-cles o-lis o-nes o-pe o-ras observed penultimate syllable pi-a place the accent prefixed pronunciation prosodists ra-tes ri-a ri-us Rule says short si-a si-us sound speaking syllable termination the-nes three syllables ti-a ti-um ti-us tone tra-tus unaccented verse vi-us voice vowel
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Seite 267 - Pyrrhic and Spondaic and other feet, in a manner which leaves no doubt as to his meaning. Priscian fully agrees with him, and explains himself yet more clearly : ' Nam in unaquaque parte orationis arsis et thesis sunt, non in or dine syllabarum, sedin pronunciation, velut in hac parte, natura ; ut quando dico natu, elevatur vox et est arsis in tu ; quando vero ra, deprimitur vox, et est thesis.
Seite 248 - Breathing astonishment, of witching rhymes, And evil spirits ; of the death-bed call To him who robb'd the widow, and devour'd The orphan's portion ; of unquiet souls Risen from the grave, to ease the heavy guilt Of deeds in life conceal'd ; of shapes that walk At dead of night, and clank their chains, and wave The torch of hell around the murderer's bed.
Seite 7 - Thy temp'ring; with like safety guided down Return me to my Native Element: Lest from this flying Steed unrein'd, (as once Bellerophon, though from a lower Clime) Dismounted, on th' Aleian Field I fall Erroneous there to wander and forlorn.
Seite 182 - Rear'd in Azotus, dreaded through the coast Of Palestine, in Gath and Ascalon, And Accaron and Gaza's frontier bounds.
Seite xx - De'cii, has the long open sound, as in vi'al ; and this sound we give to this vowel in this situation, because the Latin i final in genitives, plurals, and preterperfect tenses of verbs, is always long ; and consequently where the accented...
Seite 276 - Can any thing give us a more ludicrous idea than the practice of the ancients in .sometimes splitting a word at the end of the line, and commencing the next line with the latter part of the word ? This must have been nearly as ridiculous as the following ^nglish verses, in imitation of this absurd practice. Pyrrhus, you tempt a danger high., , When you would steal from angry \\One&s her cubs, and soon shall fly inglorious...
Seite iii - A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin and Scripture Proper Names ; in which the words are Accented and Divided into Syllables exactly as they ought to be pronounced, according to Rules drawn from Analogy and the best usage.
Seite xxviii - Latin words of two syllables, whatever may be their quantity in the original, have, in English pronunciation, the accent on the first syllable ; and if a single consonant come between...
Seite 249 - This turn of the voice is marked in this manner (v). But it is foolish in us to compare Drusus, Africanus, and ourselves with Clodius ; all our other calamities were tolerable, but no one can patiently bear the death of Clodius.
Seite xxiii - Ch before a vowel are pronounced like k, but when these letters come before a mute consonant at the beginning of a word, as in Chthonia, they are mute. In Latin, c before n and t, and g before n, are mute.