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Page 27
... in natural Speech , any further than as the last Sylla ble may be lefs forcible or emphatical than the reft . Nothing would be more pre- pofterous pofterous than fuch a Sinking , merely for the Sake Of the Modulation of Speech . 27.
... in natural Speech , any further than as the last Sylla ble may be lefs forcible or emphatical than the reft . Nothing would be more pre- pofterous pofterous than fuch a Sinking , merely for the Sake Of the Modulation of Speech . 27.
Page 34
... Sylla- bles ; it being impoffible to pronounce all the different articulate Voices of a Lan- guage in the fame Tone , and equally di- ftinct , without making them proportion- ably longer or fhorter . * At the fame Time , the Distinction ...
... Sylla- bles ; it being impoffible to pronounce all the different articulate Voices of a Lan- guage in the fame Tone , and equally di- ftinct , without making them proportion- ably longer or fhorter . * At the fame Time , the Distinction ...
Page 44
... Sylla- bles . This double Sound in Monofyllables is extreamly obfervable when they end with two Confonants , and particularly two Li- quids ; as in curl , furl , harm , warm , balm , calm , helm , turn , burn , morn , thorn , & c . If ...
... Sylla- bles . This double Sound in Monofyllables is extreamly obfervable when they end with two Confonants , and particularly two Li- quids ; as in curl , furl , harm , warm , balm , calm , helm , turn , burn , morn , thorn , & c . If ...
Page 55
... Sylla- ble may be very forcibly accented , and preferve the very fame Tone of every other unaccented Syllable in the Sentence . • If there be fo great a Difference between the Profody of the Ancients , and that of modern Languages ...
... Sylla- ble may be very forcibly accented , and preferve the very fame Tone of every other unaccented Syllable in the Sentence . • If there be fo great a Difference between the Profody of the Ancients , and that of modern Languages ...
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... Sylla bles , he is greatly mistaken ; for , as I have shewn above , the Quantity of a Syl- lable in Pronunciation , is the whole Mo- mentum of the Sound producing it , and not merely the Time of its Utterance . I should be glad alfo to ...
... Sylla bles , he is greatly mistaken ; for , as I have shewn above , the Quantity of a Syl- lable in Pronunciation , is the whole Mo- mentum of the Sound producing it , and not merely the Time of its Utterance . I should be glad alfo to ...
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Accent alfo almoſt alſo ancient articulate Sounds becauſe bles Cafe compofing Compofition confifts Confonant Conftruction Converfation Cuſtom Deſcription Difcourfe diftinct diſtinguiſhed Emphaſis emphatical Engliſh equally Expreffion exprefs faid fame feem ferve fhall fhort Syllables fhould fimple fingle firft firſt foft fome fometimes ftill fuch fufficient fuppofe Glottis Harmony hath himſelf impoffible Inftance itſelf juſt lables laft Language laſt leaſt lefs Length loud Mafon Manner Meaning Meaſure metrical Feet Mode moft moſt Mufic muft muſt natural neceffarily neceffary nounced Numbers obferved Paffage Paffions Paufe Pauſe Perfons phatical Poetry Poets poffible prefent Profe pronounced Pronunciation Propriety Purpoſe Quantity racter Reader Reading Reaſon reciting refpect reft Rhime Rules ſay Senfe Senſe Sentence ſeveral Sheridan ſhort ſpeak Speaker Speaking Speech Spondee Strefs Succeffion ſuch ſuppoſe Sylla Syllables tence thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion Tone Trochees Underſtanding Uſe Verb Verfe Verſes Voice Vowel Words Writer