Elements of Orthoepy: Containing a Distinct View of the Whole Analogy of the English Language; So Far as it Relates to Pronunciation, Accent, and QuantityT. Payne and son, 1784 - Počet stran: 372 |
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Strana x
... tion of it are ftill more troublesome and difgraceful this arifes from the very great imperfectness of our literal nota- tion . What correfpondence there ought properly to be between the written form of of a language and its vocal ...
... tion of it are ftill more troublesome and difgraceful this arifes from the very great imperfectness of our literal nota- tion . What correfpondence there ought properly to be between the written form of of a language and its vocal ...
Strana xix
... tion which prevailed in England towards the end of the 18th century . Could we hope by fuch an effort to fix what we thus delineate , there might indeed be reason to exult . The mutability of hu- man speech has been perceived and la ...
... tion which prevailed in England towards the end of the 18th century . Could we hope by fuch an effort to fix what we thus delineate , there might indeed be reason to exult . The mutability of hu- man speech has been perceived and la ...
Strana xxii
... tion over a prodigious extent of terri- tory , where it flourishes in purity and vigour , the English language ( could it be fecured from internal depravation ) seems to defy the effects of any thing less than a political convulfion as ...
... tion over a prodigious extent of terri- tory , where it flourishes in purity and vigour , the English language ( could it be fecured from internal depravation ) seems to defy the effects of any thing less than a political convulfion as ...
Strana xxv
... tion of bestowing upon it the labour in which it has fince involved him ; fo that the merit , whatever it be , of embarking in an arduous defign , does not of right belong to him . The first outlines of it were sketched with very ...
... tion of bestowing upon it the labour in which it has fince involved him ; fo that the merit , whatever it be , of embarking in an arduous defign , does not of right belong to him . The first outlines of it were sketched with very ...
Strana 6
... tion is here noted . A flight review of the above lift will shew that this effect is chiefly produced * Not fo paste , & c . + To scathe regular long 4. Both are nearly , if not quite obfolete . by by combinations of particular letters ...
... tion is here noted . A flight review of the above lift will shew that this effect is chiefly produced * Not fo paste , & c . + To scathe regular long 4. Both are nearly , if not quite obfolete . by by combinations of particular letters ...
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Strana 306 - Typhoean rage more fell, Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind ; hell scarce holds the wild uproar.
Strana 261 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it Love-in-idleness.
Strana 4 - A frequently has a found which by many writers has been called its open found. It is the found proper to that vowel in Italian, and frequently given to it in French, as in the termination -age, -and in many other inftances. In the old orthography of our language, it was often reprefented by au ; as in daunce, graunt, &c.
Strana 295 - The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses: But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade; Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made...
Strana 295 - That landfcape : and of pure now purer air Meets his approach, and to the heart infpires...
Strana xix - The whole Book, if it performs what its Compiler intends, will offer a clear and intelligible view of the externals of the English language, as they stand at present: and, should it exist for any length of time, will...
Strana 289 - And fpeak, tho' fure, with feeming diffidence : Some pofitive, perfifting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always fo ; But you, with pleafure own your errors paft, And make each day a Critic on the lafl.
Strana 287 - But what can be contrary to the mind, Which holds all contraries in concord still? She lodgeth heat, and cold, and moist, and dry, And life, and death, and peace, and war together: Ten thousand fighting things in her do lie, Yet neither troubleth or disturbeth either.
Strana 241 - ... on ffight grounds be tempted to innovate. Dr. Johnfon is every where the declared enemy of unneceffary innovation. The principles on which he founds his improvements, are the ftable ones of etymology and analogy : the former...