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... Accent chiefly determines the Quantity of English Syllables , where is the Im- propriety Certain it is , that a ... Accent and Quantity , in direct Oppofition to our own Ears , and the Dictates of com- mon Sense ? + If Quantity be , as ...
... Accent chiefly determines the Quantity of English Syllables , where is the Im- propriety Certain it is , that a ... Accent and Quantity , in direct Oppofition to our own Ears , and the Dictates of com- mon Sense ? + If Quantity be , as ...
Page 78
... Accents , or that English " Words , properly pronounced , have no " more than one Accent . " The Advocates for this Scheme may ftickle , indeed , for the Inequality of the Accent placed on two different Syllables of the fame Word ...
... Accents , or that English " Words , properly pronounced , have no " more than one Accent . " The Advocates for this Scheme may ftickle , indeed , for the Inequality of the Accent placed on two different Syllables of the fame Word ...
Page 80
... accented . Nothing , indeed , can be more deftruc- tive of the principal End and Institution of Accent and Emphasis , than the Prac- tice of huddling the fignificant Syllables of a Word together , in order to lay a fingle Accent on one ...
... accented . Nothing , indeed , can be more deftruc- tive of the principal End and Institution of Accent and Emphasis , than the Prac- tice of huddling the fignificant Syllables of a Word together , in order to lay a fingle Accent on one ...
Contents
Obfervations on the Defects and Perfection | 1 |
The Analysis of SPEECH | 19 |
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Accent according admit alfo alſo ancient appear articulate Attention Author better bles Cafe called common Compofition conceive confidered confifts Confonant depends diftinct divided Effect Emphaſis emphatical Engliſh equally evident Expreffion fall fame Feet fhall fhort fhould fimple firſt fome Force former frequently fuch fuppofe give greater hand Harmony hath Hence Idea Importance Inftance Kind laid Language latter laying Length Line loud Manner Meaning Meaſure merely Method Mind Mode moft moſt Mufic muſt natural never Note Numbers obferved Objects Order Paffage Paffions particular Paufe Pauſe Perfons Place Poetry Poets Point Power pronounced Pronunciation Propriety Quantity Reader Reading Reaſon reciting regard require Rhime Rules Senfe Sentence Sheridan ſhort Sound Speaker Speaking Speech Subject Succeffion Syllables thefe theſe Thing thofe thoſe tion Tone Tongue true Utterance Verfe Verſes Voice Vowel whole Words Writer written