A Grammar of the Greek Language: A Practical Grammar of the Attic and Common Dialects, with the Elements of General Grammar. Part firstCrocker and Brewster, 1841 - 239 Seiten |
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accent accusative adjectives adverbs affixed antepenult Attic becomes belonging called circumflexed classes commonly compound consonants contraction crasis dative denote dialect diphthong distinction dual enclitic English euphonic euphonic changes future gender genitive grammar grave accent Greek Greek language Hence ictus imperfect inflection labial language letters likewise lingual liquid long vowel mark MIDDLE AND PASSIVE middle mute names neuter nominative nouns orthography oxytone palatal paradigms paroxytone participle penult perfect person or thing Pluperfect poetic preceding precession prefixed prepositions present proclitics pronouns pronunciation reduplication root rough breathing rules second aorist second declension semivowels sentence short vowel singular sometimes sound Subj subjunctive substantive syllable syncope tenses termed terminations theme third declension tion tive ultima verbs vocal power vocative words ει καὶ ον ου ΡΓ Ρί τὰ τὸ τοῦ
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Seite 2 - Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Seite 2 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In Chorus or Iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions and high passions best describing : ' Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancients, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes...
Seite 74 - For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Seite 2 - Look once more ere we leave this specular mount Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence...
Seite xvi - ... serious and hearty love of truth; and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...
Seite 2 - Of bees' industrious murmur, oft invites To studious musing ; there Ilissus rolls His whispering stream : within the walls then view The schools of ancient sages; his, who bred Great Alexander to subdue the world, Lyceum there, and painted Stoa next : There...
Seite 2 - Artaxerxes' throne : To sage Philosophy next lend thine ear, From Heaven descended to the low-roofed house Of Socrates ; see there his tenement, Whom, well inspired, the oracle pronounced Wisest of men ; from whose mouth issued forth Mellifluous streams, that watered all the schools Of Academics old and new, with those Surnamed Peripatetics, a-nd the sect Epicurean, and the Stoic severe...
Seite 6 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Seite ii - Greek — the shrine of the genius of the old world; as universal as our race, as individual as ourselves ; of infinite flexibility, of indefatigable strength, with the complication and the distinctness of nature herself; to which nothing was vulgar, from which nothing was excluded ; speaking to the ear like Italian, speaking to the mind like English ; with words like pictures, with words like the gossamer film of the summer...
Seite 2 - The schools of ancient sages ; his, who bred Great Alexander to subdue the world, Lyceum there, and painted Stoa next : There shalt thou hear and learn the secret power Of harmony, in tones and numbers hit By voice or hand, and various-measured verse, jEolian charms, and Dorian lyric odes, And his who gave them breath, but higher sung, Blind Melesigenes, thence Homer called, Whose poem Phoebus challenged for his own.