A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names ...: To which are Added, Terminational Vocabularies of Greek, Hebrew, and Latin Proper Names ... Concluding with Observations on the Greek and Latin Accent and QuantityT. Cadell [and 7 others], 1830 - 305 páginas |
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Página vi
... short merely as chance directs ; and secondly , from sounding double consonants as only one letter . The remedy of ... short sound , totally different . Thus the short sound of e lengthened is expressed by the letter a , and the short ...
... short merely as chance directs ; and secondly , from sounding double consonants as only one letter . The remedy of ... short sound , totally different . Thus the short sound of e lengthened is expressed by the letter a , and the short ...
Página vii
... short , we accent the antepenultimate . The Rules of the Latin Accentuation are comprised in a clear and concise manner by Sanctius within four hexameters : Accentum in se ipsa monosyllaba dictio ponit . Exacuit sedem dissyllabon omne ...
... short , we accent the antepenultimate . The Rules of the Latin Accentuation are comprised in a clear and concise manner by Sanctius within four hexameters : Accentum in se ipsa monosyllaba dictio ponit . Exacuit sedem dissyllabon omne ...
Página viii
... short , the accent is placed on the antepenultimate , exactly as if they were Latin . ' As these languages have been long dead , they admit of no new varieties of accent like the living languages . The common accentuation of Greek and ...
... short , the accent is placed on the antepenultimate , exactly as if they were Latin . ' As these languages have been long dead , they admit of no new varieties of accent like the living languages . The common accentuation of Greek and ...
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... short sound as in English : thus , Man ' lius , Pen ' theus , Pin ' darus , Col ' chis , Cur ' tius , & c . have the short sound of the accented vowels , as in man'ner , plen ' ty , prin ' ter , col ' lar , curfew , & c . 3. Every final ...
... short sound as in English : thus , Man ' lius , Pen ' theus , Pin ' darus , Col ' chis , Cur ' tius , & c . have the short sound of the accented vowels , as in man'ner , plen ' ty , prin ' ter , col ' lar , curfew , & c . 3. Every final ...
Página 10
... short , and therefore uttered with greater rapidity . This is evident from words common both to the Greeks and Romans ; with the former of whom the pro- nunciation of r never varies , In Latin names also , the Greeks always retain the ...
... short , and therefore uttered with greater rapidity . This is evident from words common both to the Greeks and Romans ; with the former of whom the pro- nunciation of r never varies , In Latin names also , the Greeks always retain the ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
accent and quantity Achaia Ægean sea Æneas Ætolia Argolis Argos Armenia Athenian Athens Attica Boeotia Cæsar Campania Caria celebrated Cilicia consonants country of Asia Crete deity Diana diphthong emperor English Epirus Etruria Euboea famous father festival in honour Gaul Germany goddess Greece Greek Greek and Latin Hercules historian I-DES I-US Illyricum inflexion island Italy killed king of Sparta Labbe Lacedæmonian Laconia language Latin Proper Names Latium LI-A Messenia mother mountain Mysia NI-A NI-US nymph Oceanides patronymic Peloponnesus penultimate syllable Persian philosopher Phocis Phrygia place the accent prince promontory pronounced pronunciation RI-A Roman consul Roman knight Rome Scythia Sicily sound surname of Jupiter syllable Syria Thespius Thessaly Thrace TI-A TI-US town of Arcadia town of Campania town of Gaul town of Italy town of Latium town of Macedonia town of Peloponnesus town of Sicily town of Spain town of Thessaly Trojan tyrant vowel wife word writer
Passagens conhecidas
Página 163 - 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...
Página 22 - 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.
Página 75 - You all did see, that on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse.
Página vi - The only difference we make in pronunciation between vinea and venia is, that to the vowel of the first syllable of the former, which ought to be long, we give a short sound ; to that of the latter, which ought to be short, we give the same sound but lengthened. U accented is always, before a single consonant, pronounced long, as in humerus, fugiens. Before two consonants no vowel sound is ever made long, except that of the diphthong aw; so that whenever a doubled consonant occurs, the preceding...
Página 175 - 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.
Página 177 - 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...
Página 13 - 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...
Página 145 - Israel in Sittim on their march from Nile To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe.
Página 104 - Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence Equall'd in all their glories, to enshrine Belus or Serapis their gods, or seat Their kings, when Egypt with Assyria strove In wealth and luxury.
Página 175 - 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 t were tolerable, but no one can patiently bear the death of Clodius.