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 ... To which are Added Terminational Vocabularies of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin Proper Names ... Concluding with Observations on the Greek and Latin Accent and Quantity ...T. Cadell, 1822 - 285 Seiten |
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... ACCENTS ; By which the General Analogy of Pronunciation may be seen at one view , and the Accentuation of each word more easily remembered . CONCLUDING WITH Observations on the Greek and Latin Accent and Quantity ; WITH SOME PROBABLE ...
... ACCENTS ; By which the General Analogy of Pronunciation may be seen at one view , and the Accentuation of each word more easily remembered . CONCLUDING WITH Observations on the Greek and Latin Accent and Quantity ; WITH SOME PROBABLE ...
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... Accent and John Walker. PREFACE . THE Critical Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language naturally suggested an idea of ... pronunciation of words they so frequently meet with in the learned languages ; but there are great numbers of ...
... Accent and John Walker. PREFACE . THE Critical Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language naturally suggested an idea of ... pronunciation of words they so frequently meet with in the learned languages ; but there are great numbers of ...
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... Accent and John Walker. ADVERTISEMENT ΤΟ THE SECOND EDITION . EDITION . THE favourable reception of the first edition of this work has induced me to attempt to make it still more worthy of ... accent and quantity depend so much on their a 3.
... Accent and John Walker. ADVERTISEMENT ΤΟ THE SECOND EDITION . EDITION . THE favourable reception of the first edition of this work has induced me to attempt to make it still more worthy of ... accent and quantity depend so much on their a 3.
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... Accent and John Walker. { their accent and quantity depend so much on their termination , such an arrangement appeared to give an easier and more comprehensive idea of their pro- nunciation than the common classification by their initial ...
... Accent and John Walker. { their accent and quantity depend so much on their termination , such an arrangement appeared to give an easier and more comprehensive idea of their pro- nunciation than the common classification by their initial ...
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... Accent and John Walker. CONTENTS OF THE INTRODUCTION . PAGE THE · ix . ibid . HE pronunciation of Greek and Latin not so ... quantity . .. . ibid . • No sufficient reason for altering the present pronunciation on these accounts Rule for ...
... Accent and John Walker. CONTENTS OF THE INTRODUCTION . PAGE THE · ix . ibid . HE pronunciation of Greek and Latin not so ... quantity . .. . ibid . • No sufficient reason for altering the present pronunciation on these accounts Rule for ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
a-chus a-des A-gas A-hi A-le a-mas a-mus a-nes a-res A-ris a-tes accent and quantity Accent the Antepenultimate Accent the Penultimate accented syllable acute accent analogy ancients antepenultimate accent antepenultimate syllable bi-us chus ci-a ci-us circumflex consonants di-a di-us diphthong E-li e-mus e-nes e-nus e-ra E-re e-us Gouldman grave accent Greek and Latin Greek language Hebrew Hesiod human voice i-cus i-das i-des i-on i-um i-us Idomeneus inflexion Initial Vocabulary Labbe language Latin languages Latin Proper Names Lempriere li-a li-us long quantity mi-a ni-a ni-us nounced o-chus o-lis o-nes o-pe o-ras observed penultimate syllable phis pi-a pi-us place the accent prefixed pronounced pronunciation prosodists ra-tes ri-a ri-um ri-us Rule short si-a si-us sound syllable termination the-nes Thra three syllables ti-a ti-um ti-us tone tra-tus unaccented vi-us voice vowel
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Seite 210 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Seite 274 - Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.
Seite 5 - Almighty Father, pleas'd With thy Celestial Song. Up led by thee Into the Heav'n of Heav'ns I have presum'd, An Earthly Guest, and drawn Empyreal Air, 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 i - 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 263 - ... hear in our own language : the third is, to pronounce the accented syllable with the falling inflexion, 'and the unaccented syllables with the rising, in a lower tone : and the fourth to pronounce the accented syllable with the rising inflexion, and the unaccented with the falling, in a lower tone. None of these modes, but the first and last, do we ever hear in our own language : the second and third seem too difficult to permit us to suppose that they could be the natural current of the human...
Seite 259 - ... with a flute in my hand, or rather with an organ before us, I would engage to convince them of the consistency of these two. I would take any two keys next to each other, one of which would consequently give a sound lower than the other : suppose the word...
Seite 276 - THE AUTHORITIES OF OUR BEST PRONOUNCING DICTIONARIES ARE FULLY EXHIBITED, THE REASONS FOR EACH ARE AT LARGE DISPLAYED, AND THE PREFERABLE PRONUNCIATION IS POINTED OUT.
Seite 238 - Suspends the infant audience with her tales, Breathing astonishment! of witching rhymes, And evil spirits; of the death-bed call Of him who robb'd the widow, and devour'd...
Seite 277 - Metaphor," Thought, XXX (Autumn 1955), 421-439. Vygotsky, Lev Semenovich. Thought and Language, trans, by Eugenia Hanfmann and Gertrude Vakar. Cambridge, MA, 1962. Walker, John. The Teacher's Assistant in English Compositon: or easy Rules for Writing Themes and Composing Exercises on Subjects Proper for the Improvement of Youth of Both Sexes at School. To which are added, Hints for Correcting and Improving Juvenile Composition.
Seite 244 - Sheridan's definition of accent : and this pronunciation certainly comes under the definition of singing ; it is singing ill, indeed, as Julius Caesar said of a bad reader, — but still it is singing, and therefore essentially different from speaking; for in speaking, the voice is continually sliding upwards or downwards ; and in singing, it is leaping, as it were, from a lower to a higher, or from a higher to a lower note; the only two possible ways of varying the human voice with respect to elevation...