 | John Milton - 1750 - Počet stránok 666
...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 the Latins.... | |
 | John Milton - 1750 - Počet stránok 674
...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 like the... | |
 | Nathan Bailey - 1756 - Počet stránok 716
...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 (wTuXrr,^,... | |
 | John Milton - 1763 - Počet stránok 670
...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 like... | |
 | John Milton - 1767 - Počet stránok 448
...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 - 1774 - Počet stránok 306
...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 the Latins;... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1801 - Počet stránok 614
...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 - 1822 - Počet stránok 238
...Apocope is taking from the end of a word ; as, Saxgu for 8. Apostrophe (') cuts off a, e, i, o, from the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel ; as, rair ' sXcyov for «tura íXsyov. 1. .ïiy and -,7'jü, with datives in /, are not affected by... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - Počet stránok 646
...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 like the... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1827 - Počet stránok 272
...Apocope is taking from the end of a word ; as, for 5ax£u»v. 8. Apostrophe (')cuts off a, s,i, o,from the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel ; аз, таит' è'Xeyov for таита s'Xsyov. 1. rrtpí, п-рб and on, with datives in i, arc... | |
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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; though he does not like the Greeks wholly drop the vowel, but lull retains it in writing like the Latins. 
