Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" ... 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 our mouths in the cold air wide enough to grace a southern tongue;... "
Language as a Means of Mental Culture and International Communication: Or ... - Page 153
by Claude Marcel - 1853 - 432 pages
Full view - About this book

Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes ...

John Milton - 1753 - 374 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

REMARKS ON JOHNSON'S LIFE OF MILTON.

Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 444 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

Of the Origin and Progress of Language, Volume 4

Lord James Burnett Monboddo - 1787 - 526 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

Of the Origin and Progress of Language, Volume 4

Lord James Burnett Monboddo - 1787 - 534 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 12

English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

The Parents' Friend; Or Extracts from the Principal Works on ..., Volume 2

1803 - 456 pages
...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 our...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...
Full view - About this book

The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
..., » and speak , as it were , ore rotunda. Milton , in his Letter on Education , observes, that « we Englishmen , being far northerly , do not open...grace a southern tongue ; but are observed by all other nations , to speak exceedingly close and inward. » If this observation were duly regarded, if...
Full view - About this book

The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 436 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...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 our...to grace a southern tongue; but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward ; so- that to smatter Latin with an English mouth,...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF