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Page 53
... Converfation , is accounted long in the Measure of poetical Quantity . And the Words hand and lord are accounted long , in the fame manner as the last Syllables in the Words command and afford , for the fame Reasons . That these ...
... Converfation , is accounted long in the Measure of poetical Quantity . And the Words hand and lord are accounted long , in the fame manner as the last Syllables in the Words command and afford , for the fame Reasons . That these ...
Page 69
... Converfation , the long and fhort Sound of the Vowels are frequently thus confounded . Hence , People may fometimes fay empir for empire , ensin for en'sign ; but then no Difference is made bé + tween the long Sound of the i in that ...
... Converfation , the long and fhort Sound of the Vowels are frequently thus confounded . Hence , People may fometimes fay empir for empire , ensin for en'sign ; but then no Difference is made bé + tween the long Sound of the i in that ...
Page 87
... Converfation . There is a very wide Difference , however , between Formality and Slovenlinefs ; between a starched and * As by fo doing , we should fall into the Vice of what Mr. Sheridan calls the Cockney Pronunciation , and for which ...
... Converfation . There is a very wide Difference , however , between Formality and Slovenlinefs ; between a starched and * As by fo doing , we should fall into the Vice of what Mr. Sheridan calls the Cockney Pronunciation , and for which ...
Page 170
... Converfation . This is , by no Means , the Cafe with the Latin and Greek , as they were written in the Times of Homer , and of Virgil . It was , therefore , with great Propriety ob- ferved by the late ingenious Dr. Byrom , that that the ...
... Converfation . This is , by no Means , the Cafe with the Latin and Greek , as they were written in the Times of Homer , and of Virgil . It was , therefore , with great Propriety ob- ferved by the late ingenious Dr. Byrom , that that the ...
Page 296
... Converfation . When the Perfons are noble , the Subject important , and the Spirit of Altercation well fup- ported , it is the most interefting and af- fecting of all others . The Scene between Brutus and Caffius , as reprefented in ...
... Converfation . When the Perfons are noble , the Subject important , and the Spirit of Altercation well fup- ported , it is the most interefting and af- fecting of all others . The Scene between Brutus and Caffius , as reprefented in ...
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