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 : to which are Added, Terminational Vocabularies of Hebrew, Greek and Latiln Proper Names, in which the Words are Arranged According to Their Final Syllables, and Classed According to Their Accents : by which the General Analogy of Pronunciation May be Seen at One View, and the Accentuation of Each Word More Earily Remembered : Concluding with Observations on the Greek and Latin Accent and Quantity : with Some Probable Conjectures on the Method of Freeing Them from the Obscurity and Confusion in which They are Involved, Both by the Ancients and Moderns ...authors, 1804 - 285 Seiten |
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... lower clime ) Dismounted , on th ' Aleian field I fall , Erroneous there to wander , and forlorn . MILTON'S Par . Lost , b . vii . v . 17 . + Alexander . This word is as frequently pronounced with the accent on the first as on the third ...
... lower clime ) Dismounted , on th ' Aleian field I fall , Erroneous there to wander , and forlorn . MILTON'S Par . Lost , b . vii . v . 17 . + Alexander . This word is as frequently pronounced with the accent on the first as on the third ...
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... ; -- Never did I so much as sip , Or wet with Hippocrene a lip . This contraction is inexcusable , as it tends to embarrass pronunciation , and lower the language of poetry . E Hol'o - cron Ho - me'rus Homer , ( Eng HI 49 HI HO.
... ; -- Never did I so much as sip , Or wet with Hippocrene a lip . This contraction is inexcusable , as it tends to embarrass pronunciation , and lower the language of poetry . E Hol'o - cron Ho - me'rus Homer , ( Eng HI 49 HI HO.
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... lower , without any perceptible intervals , which is essen- tial to all speaking sounds . The two last may be called simple . slides or inflexions ; and these may be so combined as to begin with that which rises , and end with that ...
... lower , without any perceptible intervals , which is essen- tial to all speaking sounds . The two last may be called simple . slides or inflexions ; and these may be so combined as to begin with that which rises , and end with that ...
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... lower than the sus- ceeding syllables . This will be sufficiently exemplified in the following pages . In the mean time it may be observed , that if a degree of swiftness enters into the definition of force , and that the accented ...
... lower than the sus- ceeding syllables . This will be sufficiently exemplified in the following pages . In the mean time it may be observed , that if a degree of swiftness enters into the definition of force , and that the accented ...
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... lower tone of voice , is adopted at the end of almost every sentence , except the definite question , or that which begins with the verb . To express this inflexion , the grave accent seems adapted , thus ( ~ ) . The rising circumflex ...
... lower tone of voice , is adopted at the end of almost every sentence , except the definite question , or that which begins with the verb . To express this inflexion , the grave accent seems adapted , thus ( ~ ) . The rising circumflex ...
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accent and quantity Accent the Antepenultimate Accent the Penultimate accent this word accented syllable acute accent adjective adopted Ainsworth analogy ancients anglicised antepenultimate accent antepenultimate syllable chus ci-a circumflex consonants COOKE's Hesiod Critical Pronouncing Dictionary diphthong ending a syllable English pronunciation English words Forster Gouldman grave accent Greek and Latin Greek language Greek or Latin Greek word Hebrew Hesiod Holyoke human voice Idomeneus inflexion Initial Vocabulary Iphigenia Iphimedia Kir'jath Labbe last syllable LATIN ACCENT Latin languages Latin Proper Names Latin words learned Lempriere letters long quantity loud louder Milton Nemuel noun eye nounced observed penultimate accent penultimate syllable phis pi-a place the accent preceding prefixed pronun pronunciation pronunciation of Greek prosodists prosody Rule says Scotch second syllable she-a si-a singing soft speaking sounds suppose syllable Terminational Vocabulary Theog three syllables ti-a tone unaccented syllable verse vowel written
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Seite 218 - 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 60 - You all did see, that on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse.
Seite 284 - Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.
Seite 267 - In nnaqnaque parle orationis arsis et thesis sunt velut in " hac parte natura : ut quando dico natu, elevatur vox et est arsis in tu : " quando vero ra deprimitur vox et est thesis." Any one would conclude from this description of the rising and falling of the voice upon this word, that it could only be pronounced one way, and that there was no difference...
Seite 255 - It is well known, however, that the resistance to a change, whether from a low to a high, or from a high to a low range of prices, is at first very considerable, and that there is generally a pause of greater or less duration before the turn becomes manifest ; in the interval, while sales are difficult or impracticable, unless at a difference in price, which the buyer, in the one case, and the seller, in the other...
Seite 248 - 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 248 - O yes ! 0 yes ! in a perfect sameness of Voice. But however ridiculous the monotone in speaking may be in the above-mentioned characters, in certain solemn and sublime passages in poetry it has a wonderful...
Seite xxviii - Words of two syllables, either Greek or Latin, whatever be the quantity in the original, have, in English pronunciation, the accent on the first syllable : and if a single consonant come between...