An Essay on the Different Nature of Accent and Quantity: With Their Use and Application in the English, Latin, and Greek Languages: Containing Remarks on the Metre of the English; on the Origin and Aeolism of the Roman; on the General History of the Greek; with an Account of Its Ancient Tones, and a Defense of Their Present Accentual Marks. With Some Additions from the Papers of Dr. Taylor and Mr. Markland. To which is Subjoined, the Greek Elegiac Poem of M. Musurus, Addressed to Leo X, with a Latin Version and NotesJ.F. Dove, 1820 - 388 Seiten |
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Seite 35 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequered shade...
Seite 72 - Scholiast, whose unweary'd pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. Turn what they will to Verse, their toil is vain, Critics like me shall make it Prose again. Roman and Greek Grammarians! know your Better: Author of something yet more great than Letter; While tow'ring o'er your Alphabet, like Saul, Stands our Digamma, and o'er-tops them all.
Seite 88 - The schools of ancient sages; his, who bred Great Alexander to subdue the world, Lyceum there, and painted Stoa next : There shalt thou hear and learn the secret power Of harmony, in tones and numbers hit By voice or hand, and various-measured verse, JEolian charms and Dorian lyric odes...
Seite 42 - ... aut proxima extremae aut ab ea tertia. trium porro, de quibus loquor, media longa aut acuta aut flexa erit, eodem loco brevis utique gravem habebit sonum, ideoque positam ante se, id est ab ultima tertiam, acuet.
Seite 306 - can read prose or verse according to both accent and quantity. For every accent, if it is any thing, must give some stress to the syllable upon which it is placed; and' every stress that is laid upon a syllable must give some extent to it. For every elevation of the voice implied) time, and time is quantity.
Seite 7 - It may be remarked that accent, though closely united with quantity, is not only distinct from it, but in the formation of the voice really antecedent to it. The pitch, or height of the note is taken first, and then the continuance of it is settled ; by the former of these the accent is determined, by the latter the quantity.
Seite 12 - Superest lectio: in qua puer ut sciat, ubi suspendere spiritum debeat, quo loco versum distinguere, ubi claudatur sensus, unde incipiat, quando attollenda vel submittenda sit vox, quo quidque flexu, quid lentius celerius, concitatius lenius dicendum, demonstrari nisi in opere ipso non potest.
Seite 191 - The learned and able Dr. Foster, in his Essay on Accent and Quantity, animadverts upon the violence done to the quantity of the ancient languages by the English mode of pronunciation. After commenting on the attachment to quantity professed by modern scholars, he says : — " And yet this very quantity they do all (most of them without knowing it,) most grossly corrupt. This assertion, I am aware, is very repugnant to the prejudices of many persons, who have long flattered themselves with an opinion,...
Seite 25 - The case is, we English cannot readily elevate a syllable without lengthening it, by which our acute accent and long quantity generally coincide, and fall together on the * same syllable.