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... rounded , the lips protruded , and the mouth has a wider compass than in any other vowel sound . Mr Knowles states that the mouth is opened wider in sounding the second a , as în art , than in the first ; but I would say that it is not ...
... rounded , the lips protruded , and the mouth has a wider compass than in any other vowel sound . Mr Knowles states that the mouth is opened wider in sounding the second a , as în art , than in the first ; but I would say that it is not ...
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... round sound , as in fall , is unknown in several pro- vincial dialects ; in others it is given nearly the same as o in note . The following table arranges these various sounds in their natural order , beginning with the vowel produced ...
... round sound , as in fall , is unknown in several pro- vincial dialects ; in others it is given nearly the same as o in note . The following table arranges these various sounds in their natural order , beginning with the vowel produced ...
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... round sound of a requires a considerable rounding of the mouth , and when they are asked to give it quickly , as in not , they cannot unite exertion with rapidity . Even good speakers , who pronounce the word accurately and fully when ...
... round sound of a requires a considerable rounding of the mouth , and when they are asked to give it quickly , as in not , they cannot unite exertion with rapidity . Even good speakers , who pronounce the word accurately and fully when ...
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... rounded in certain sounds ; and he can easily discern by the distension of the throat whether they are emitted with practi- cable fulness . In the first exercise on inflexion , the vowels should be inflected according to the foregoing ...
... rounded in certain sounds ; and he can easily discern by the distension of the throat whether they are emitted with practi- cable fulness . In the first exercise on inflexion , the vowels should be inflected according to the foregoing ...
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... round as the shield of my fa- thers ! whence are thy beams , O sun ! thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon , cold and pale , sinks in the western wave . But thou ...
... round as the shield of my fa- thers ! whence are thy beams , O sun ! thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon , cold and pale , sinks in the western wave . But thou ...
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Popular passages
Page 117 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer Being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Page 332 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Page 216 - And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Page 100 - Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 154 - The hunter's call, to Faun and Dryad known ; The oak-crowned sisters, and their chaste-eyed queen, Satyrs and sylvan boys were seen Peeping from forth their alleys green ; Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear, And Sport leaped up, and seized his beechen spear.
Page 77 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 123 - I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas and the streams. I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun.
Page 98 - An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent Mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Page 292 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Page 152 - WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Thronged around her magic cell...