The Music, Or Melody and Rhythmus of the English Language: In which are Explained ... the Five Accidents of Speech ... and a Musical Notation ... |
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୮ ୮ accent accidents of language Æneid affections anapest ARSIS and THESIS beauty breath cadence or bar called CHAPTER choriambic cretic dactyl dread earth Elocution emphasis of sense English example eyes five cadences following lines grace Greek feet Hail hath hear heart heaven heavy and light heavy syllable hexametres iambus joys Latin languages light syllables Lord loud manner mark metre mode of scanning molossus nature never night notes or syllables o'er poetry poize primus ab pronounce prose prosodians prosody pulsation and remission Pyrrhic quantity Quintilian Rationalis reading and speaking rests or pauses rhyth rhythmus rules of prosody SELECTED AS EXERCISES shades sing six cadences soft song soul sound speech spondee sweet teach thee Thesis and Arsis Thou shalt thro tion trochee variety virtue voice Whig words Δ Δ Δ ՐՐ