 Grammar, either that now used, or any better; and, while this is doing, their speech is to be fashioned to a distinct and clear pronunciation, as near as may be to the Italian, especially in the vowels; for we Englishmen, being far northerly, do not open...  The Popular Science Monthly - Página 1111890Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | John Milton - 1753 - 374 páginas
...and clear pronunciation, as near as may be to the Italian, efpecially in the vowels. For we Englimmen being far northerly, do not open our mouths in the cold air, wide enough to grace a fouthern tongue ; but are obferv'd by all other nations to fpcak exceeding clofe and inward: G gx fo... | |
 | Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 444 páginas
...Italian, efpecially in the vowels. For we Englifhmen being farre northerly, doe not open our mouthes in the cold air, wide enough to grace a Southern tongue ; but are obfer-v'd by all other nations to fpeak exceeding clofe and iiv.vard: So that to fmatter Lafiri with... | |
 | Lord James Burnett Monboddo - 1787 - 526 páginas
...pronunciation, as near as may be to the Italian, efpecially in the vowels. For we Englifhmen, being northerly, do not open our mouths in the cold air wide enough to grace a Southern tongue; but are obferved by all other nations, to fpeak exceeding clofe and inward: So that to fmatter Latin \vith... | |
 | Lord James Burnett Monboddo - 1787 - 534 páginas
...pronunci' ation, as near as may be to the Italian, efpecially in * the vowels. For we Englifhmen, being northerly, * do not open our mouths in the cold air wide enough i to grace a Southern tongue ; but are obferved by all ' other nations, to fpeak exceeding clofe and... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 páginas
...pronunciation, as near as may be to the Italian, efpecially in the vowels. For we Englifhmen being fir northerly, do not open our mouths in the cold air, wide enough to grace a fouthcrn tongue; but are obfcrved by all other nations to fpeak exceeding ctofs and inward; fo that... | |
 | 1803 - 456 páginas
...clear pronunciation, as near as may be to the Italian, especially in the vowels. For we Englishmen, being far northerly, do not open our mouths in the...cold air wide enough to grace a southern tongue ; but we are observed by all nations to speak exceeding close and inward; so that to smarter Latin with an... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 páginas
..., as it were , ore rotunda. Milton , in his Letter on Education , observes, that « we Englishmen , being far northerly , do not open our mouths , in...; but are observed by all other nations , to speak exceedingly close and inward. » If this observation were duly regarded, if children were instructed... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 436 páginas
...clear pronunciation, as near as may be to the Italian, cfpecially in the vowels. For we Englifhmen being far northerly, do not open our mouths in the' cold air, wide enough to grace a fouthern tongue ; but are obferved by all other nations to fpeak exceeding clofe and inward ; fo that... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 páginas
...as may be to the Italian, efpecially in, the vowels. For we Englifhmen being far northerly, do lfot open our mouths in the cold air, wide enough to grace a fouthern tongue ; but are obferved by all other nations to fpeak exceeding clofe and inward; fo that... | |
 | 1819 - 532 páginas
...as the quiescence of their gestures. ' We Englishmen,' says Milton, in his Treatise on Education, ' being far northerly, do not open our mouths in the...by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inwards, so that to smaller Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as law-French.' The English... | |
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