 | John Milton - 1750 - 666 pages
...Shakefpear and others of our old poets, and in imitation of the Greeks and Latins Hurl'd often cuts off the vowel at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel; though he does not like the Greeks wholly drop the vowel, but lull retains it in writing like... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1750 - 674 pages
...Shakefpear and others of our old poets, and in imitation of the Greeks and Latins Hurl'd often cuts oft" the vowel at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel; though he does not like the Greeks wholly drop the vowel, but ftill retains it in writing... | |
 | Nathan Bailey - English language - 1756 - 716 pages
...Grammarian,) the cutting off a vowel or confonant, efpecially the letter (ra) in Latin or Greek verfe, at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel, or (¿) as dm incido for divttia, incido j ßiiAoyu1 í-/ta for ßtf\OUatiyti. ECTYLOTl'CKS... | |
 | John Milton - 1763 - 670 pages
...Shakefpear and others of our old poets, and in imitation of the Greeks and Latins often cuts off the vowel at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel ; though he •does not like the Greeks wholly drop the vowel, but rtill retains it in writing... | |
 | John Milton - 1767 - 448 pages
...Shakefpeare and others " of our old poets, and, in imitation of the Greeks " and Latins, often cuts off the vowel at the end of " a word, when the next word begins with a vowel ; " though he does not, like the Greeks, wholly drop " the vowel, but ftill retains it in writing,... | |
 | William Mitford - English language - 1774 - 306 pages
...Shakefpear and others of kt our old poets, and in imitation of the Greeks " and Latins often cuts off the vowel at the *' end of a word when the next word begins " with a vowel ; thd he does not like the Greeks, 1 wholly drop the vowel, but retains it in writing, " like... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1801 - 614 pages
...specimens, which we could produce, to his hypothesis, * that legitimate instances of a lengthened syllable at the end of a word, when the next word begins with two consonants, which would permit that syllable to be short, can scarcely be produced.' We are not... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Greek language - 1820 - 286 pages
...another vowel or diphthong, is sometimes shortened ; as, '¿Y¡VOCE\TCI 1. This happens most frequently at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel ; in. the beginning of a word rarely ; and still more rarely in the middle. 2. The particles... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1822 - 240 pages
...or diphthong, is sometimes shortened ; as, yop|o& Apvlou/roç wjoç 1. This happens most frequently at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel ; in the beginning of a word rarely ; and still more rarely in the middle. The particles Ss,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...Shakespeare and others of our old poets, and in imitation of the Greeks and Latins often cuts oif the vowel at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel; though he does not like the Greeks wholly drop the vowel, but slill retains it in writing... | |
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Hurl'd often cuts off the vowel at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel... 
