Elements of Orthoepy: Containing a Distinct View of the Whole Analogy of the English Language; So Far as it Relates to Pronunciation, Accent, and Quantity |
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accent alfo almoft alſo ancient antepenult becauſe CHAP CHIG compounded confonants cuſtom derived Dictionary diffyllabic diffyllable diftinction diphthong diſtinguiſhed Dryden Engliſh Eriphyle eſtabliſhed etymology Exceptions to Rule Faery Queen faid fame feems fhort fhould filent fimilar fince fingle firft firſt fituation FMIC foft fome fometimes fpelt French ftanz fubft fubftantive fuch fyllable inftances Johnſon laft language laſt Latin letter lift Loft meaſure MIC UNIV MICHI Milton monofyllables moſt muſt nounced nouns obfcurely obferved occafionally orthography penult penultima perfons preferve preſent pronounced pronunciation racter Rape of Lucrece reafon regular found regularly Reprefentatives reſpect rhymed RSITY UNIVE Samf ſee ſeems ſenſe SHAKSP Shakspeare ſhall ſhort SITY ſome ſpeak Spenfer ſpoken ſtill termina thefe theſe words thofe thoſe tion triffyllable triphthong ufage ufually unaccented UNIV MIC UNIV RSITY uſed uſually verb verfe vowel words terminated write written СНАР
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Page 297 - in idlenefs. So Shakfpeare calls it in. Midfummer Night's Dream : Yet mark'dI where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little weftern flower, Before milk - white, now purple with love's wound; And maidens call it love in idlenefs.
Page 360 - Supportable. This very irregular accentuation has no patron but Shakfpeare: As great to me, as late; and fupportable To make the dear lofs, I have means much weaker Than you may call to comfort you ; for I Have loft my daughter. . Tempeft,
Page 364 - Typhcean rage more fell Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwinds: hell fcarce holds the wild uproar. Par. Loft, ii. 539. Confufion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood rul'd.
Page 352 - and found Already known what he for news had thought To have reported. • Par. Loft, vi. 19. Produce, fubftantive. Until any other authorities can be found, this muft pafs for a licence of Dryden's : You hoard not health for your own private ufe, But on the public fpend the rich produce. Product: To whom thus Michael—Thefe are the
Page 264 - external form of our language; and from its decifions few appeals have yet been made. Indeed fo convenient is it to have one acknowledged ftandard to recur to, fo much preferable, in matters of this nature, is a trifling degree of irregularity to a continual change, and fruitlefs purfuit of unattainable perfection, that it is
Page 334 - holds with her aflbciates now. WALLER, On the Death of Lady Richmond. Pope took 'advantage of the fluctuation of the accent in his time, and employed the word both ways': Gen'rous converfe, a foul exempt from pride. Alfo, Form'd by thy converfe happily to fteer, From grave to gay, from lively to
Page 139 - A£ts not by partial, but by gen'ral laws ; ' And makes what happinefs we juftly call Subfift not in the good of one, but all. There's not a blefling individuals find, But fome way leans and hearkens to the kind.
Page 349 - 130. But in the following paflage we find the accent of the verb placed as it now is ufed: The canker blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed
Page 365 - Is more vindicative than jealous love. Volubil. Milton fpells this word volubil, when he accents it thus ; and voluble when he accents it regularly. Whether the prime orb, Incredible how fwift, had thither roll'd Diurnal, or this lefs volubil earth By fhorter flight to th' eaft, had left him there. Par.
Page 362 - And we muft yearn therefore. SHAKSP. Henry V. Therefore to our beft mercy give yourfelves. Id. Henry IV. Traverfe, verb and prepofition : Darts his experienc'd eye, and foon traverfe The whole battalion views their order due. Par. Loft, i. 577. Nearer her drew, and many a walk