The Original Rhythmical Grammar of the English LanguageGeorg Olms Verlag, 1821 - 348 pages |
Contents
CHAP I | 1 |
CHAP II | 17 |
CHAP III | 40 |
CHAP IV | 65 |
CHAP V | 82 |
CHAP VI | 91 |
Rhythm Ancient Rhythm whatEssentials | 100 |
CHAP IX | 116 |
Three hundred and eightyeight questions | 232 |
CHAP XV | 251 |
Set to the Music of Specch | 252 |
The Soldiers Dream Ditto | 260 |
The Contented Miller | 266 |
The Swollen Torrent | 274 |
Hohenlinden an Epic Song | 280 |
Set to the Music of Speech | 299 |
CHAP X | 128 |
CHAP XI | 142 |
CHAP XII | 153 |
CHAP XIII | 183 |
CHAP XIV | 222 |
Battle of Waterloo | 325 |
The Rainbow | 332 |
The Temple of Jerusalem | 338 |
Hamlets Directions to the Players | 345 |
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Common terms and phrases
accents accidents according acute applied artificial beauty begin cadence called common composed consequence considered distinct effect elocution emphasis English equal Examples expression eyes fall feeling feet five force four give grace Grammar grave Greek heart heaven heavy heavy syllables iambus kind language learned length light light syllables look loud manner marked means measure melody meter mind mode monotone nature necessary never notes o'er object observed organs passion pauses poetry present principles produce pronounced proper properly proportion prose prosody quantity reader reading and speaking reason require rest rhetorical rhythm rhythmical rising rules sense sentence short sing Slow soft song soul sound speaker speech spoken sweet syllables thee thing thou thought tion tone triple varieties verse voice written