A Grammar of the Greek Language: A Practical Grammar of the Attic and Common Dialects, with the Elements of General Grammar. Part firstCrocker and Brewster, 1841 - 239 |
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accent accusative adjectives adverbs affixed antepenult Attic becomes belonging called circumflexed commonly compound consonants contraction crasis dative denote dialect diphthong distinction dual enclitic English euphonic euphonic changes future gender genitive grammar grave accent Greek Greek language Hence ictus imperfect inflection labial language letters likewise lingual liquid long vowel mark masculine and feminine MIDDLE AND PASSIVE middle mute names neuter nominative nouns orthography OXYTONE palatal paroxytone participle penult perfect person or thing Pluperfect poetic preceding precession prepositions present proclitics pronouns pronunciation reduplication root rough breathing rules second aorist second declension sentence short vowel singular sometimes sound Subj subjunctive substantive syllable syncope tenses termed terminations theme third declension tion tive ultima verbs vocal power vocative words αι ει καὶ οἱ ου ΡΓ Ρί τὰ τὸ τοῦ
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Strona xviii - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold, Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.
Strona xviii - Of bees' industrious murmur, oft invites To studious musing ; there Ilissus rolls His whispering stream : within the walls then view The schools of ancient sages ; his, who bred Great Alexander to subdue the world, Lyceum there, and painted Stoa next...
Strona xviii - The schools of ancient sages ; his, who bred Great Alexander to subdue the world, Lyceum there, and painted Stoa next : There shalt thou hear and learn the secret power Of harmony, in tones and numbers hit By voice or hand, and various-measured verse, jEolian charms, and Dorian lyric odes, And his who gave them breath, but higher sung, Blind Melesigenes, thence Homer called, Whose poem Phoebus challenged for his own.
Strona xviii - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions, and high passions best describing : Tbonce to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes...
Strona xiv - ... serious and hearty love of truth; and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...
Strona 4 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Strona 13 - Thou mak'st thy slave), canst subtilely pervade The yielded avenues of sense, unlock The close affections, by some fairy path Winning an easy way through every ear...
Strona 72 - And I will visit the world for its evil, And the wicked for their iniquity : And I will put an end to the arrogance of the proud ; And I will bring down the haughtiness of the terrible.