The Orthoëpist: A Pronouncing Manual Containing about Three Thousand Five Hundred Words, Including a Considerable Number of the Names of Foreign Authors, Artists, Etc., that are Often MispronouncedD. Appleton, 1880 - 201 pàgines |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 81 - But he that goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow, Lives as he ought to do, lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow...
Pàgina 197 - Let them be free, marry them to your heirs? Why sweat they under burdens? let their beds Be made as soft as yours, and let their palates Be season'd with such viands? You will answer The slaves are ours.
Pàgina 201 - For sale by all booksellers; or sent by mail, post-paid^ on receipt of price. New York: D. APPLETON & CO., 1, 3, & 5 Bond Street.
Pàgina 116 - But it was so far from having generally obtained, that Lord Chesterfield strictly enjoins his son to avoid this pronunciation as affected. In a few years, however, it became so general that none but the lowest vulgar ever pronounced it in the English manner ; but upon the publication of this nobleman's Letters, which was about twenty years after he wrote them, his authority...
Pàgina 189 - tis true, as you say, that I've injured a letter, I'll change my note soon, and I hope, for the better. May the just rights of letters as well as of men, Hereafter be fixed by the tongue and the pen ; Most devoutly I wish that they both have their due, And that I may be never mistaken for u.
Pàgina 197 - The slaves are ours. So do I answer you : The pound of flesh, which I demand of him, Is dearly bought, 'tis mine, and I will have it : If you deny me, fie upon your law ! There is no force in the decrees of Venice. I stand for judgment : answer ; shall I have it ? Duke.
Pàgina 3 - The manner in which one speaks his mother-tongue is looked upon as showing more clearly than any other one thing what his culture is, and what his associations have been.