A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...: To which is Annexed a Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names, &c |
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accent adopted affection analogy animal appearance authority beginning Belonging body bring called cause close common compounds Consisting consonant containing contrary cover derived Dictionary diphthong direct distinction draw English equal express fall followed force French frequently give given ground grow hand hard head heard hold horse Johnson join Kenrick kind language Latin letter light manner mark matter mean measure ment mind move nature ness noun observed opinion original pass Perry person plant preceded Principles produce pronounced pronunciation quantity reason Relating rhyme rule Scott seems sense separate sharp Sheridan short side sometimes sound speaking syllable term termination thin thing tion unite verb vowel word writing written
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Página 68 - They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Página 24 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A...
Página 55 - Over thy decent shoulders drawn : Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Página 175 - The Ember days at the four Seasons, being the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, the Feast of Pentecost, September 14, and December 13.
Página 234 - Mark by what wretched steps their glory grows, From dirt and sea-weed as proud Venice rose; In each how guilt and greatness equal ran, And all that rais'd the hero, sunk the man : Now Europe's laurels on their brows behold, But stain'd with blood, or ill exchang'd for gold : Then see them broke with toils, or sunk in ease, Or infamous for plunder'd provinces.
Página 62 - Caravan, complaisant, violin, repartee, referee, privateer, domineer," may all have the greater stress on the first, and the less on the last syllable, without any violent offence to the ear : nay, it may be asserted, that the principal accent on the first syllable of these words, and none at all on the last, though certainly improper, has nothing in it grating or discordant ; but placing an accent on the second syllable of these words would entirely derange them, and produce great harshness and...
Página 48 - Grammar, says it is sounded firm in the beginning of words and more liquid in the middle and ends, as in rarer and riper, and so in the Latin.
Página 239 - Some unmark'd fibre, or some varying vein. Shall only man be taken in the gross ? Grant but as many sorts of mind as moss.
Página 54 - As emphasis evidently points out the most significant word in a sentence ; so, where other reasons do not forbid, the accent always dwells with greatest force on that part of the word which, from its importance, the hearer has always the greatest occasion to observe : and this is necessarily the root or body of the word.
Página 225 - A kind of walk along the floor of a house, into which the doors of the apartments open ; the upper seats in a church ; the scats in a playhouse above the pit, in which the meaner people sit.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...: To which is Annexed a Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names, &c |
| Autor | John Walker |
| Editor | Collins & Hannay, 1819 |
| Procedencia del original | Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York |
| Digitalizado | 30 Oct. 2007 |
| Largo | 712 páginas |
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