The Original Rhythmical Grammar of the English LanguageGeorg Olms Verlag, 1976 - 348 páginas |
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... learned rhetoricians make no pretensions ; it is not even requir- ed as a qualification in their profession ; -and are they to be blamed because they do not study and teach what their patrons seldom understand , and never require ? We ...
... learned rhetoricians make no pretensions ; it is not even requir- ed as a qualification in their profession ; -and are they to be blamed because they do not study and teach what their patrons seldom understand , and never require ? We ...
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... learned sages cannot comprehend . But this ignorance , palpable as it is , does not prevent such from condemning , nay , laughing at the very idea of a notation of speaking sounds , nor hinder them from pro- nouncing such to be the ...
... learned sages cannot comprehend . But this ignorance , palpable as it is , does not prevent such from condemning , nay , laughing at the very idea of a notation of speaking sounds , nor hinder them from pro- nouncing such to be the ...
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... learned pro- sodians have described them , and not as the Greeks and Romans must have pronounced them . The Greek meters and our cadences agree in this , viz . that the numbers of meters made lines which they called tetrameters , or ...
... learned pro- sodians have described them , and not as the Greeks and Romans must have pronounced them . The Greek meters and our cadences agree in this , viz . that the numbers of meters made lines which they called tetrameters , or ...
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accidents of language acute accent acute and grave Anapest ancient applied Arsis and Thesis Artificial Feet artificial prosody beauty called circumflex composed dactyl degrees Demosthenes diphthong distinct elocution English English language equal Examples expression eyes force grace Grammar grammarians grave accent Greek and Latin Greek language guage heart heaven heavy and light heavy syllable honour iambus inflexions light syllables loud and soft marked meter monosyllables monotone nature nerally never nosyllables notes o'er organic emphasis organs of speech passion peculiar pleasure poet poetry poize pronounced pronunciation proper proportion prose prosodians quantity reader reading and speaking rhetorical pauses rhythm Rhythmical Cadences rules scanning semibrief sense sentence Shakespeare sing Slow song soul sound speaker spoken language spondee sweet syllabic emphasis taste thee thou tion tone triple cadences trochee varieties verse virtue voice vowel words