The Teacher's Manual: The sounds of English

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Macmillan, 1913
 

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Página 28 - Retirement then might hourly look Upon a soothing scene, Age steal to his allotted nook Contented and serene ; With heart as calm as lakes that sleep, In frosty moonlight glistening ; Or mountain rivers, where they creep Along a channel smooth and deep, To their own far-off murmurs listening.
Página 75 - It seems that, in no other place with which he was acquainted, except London, did the buildings completely shut out the woods and fields. Large as Bristol might then appear, it occupied but a very small portion of the area on which it now stands. A few churches of eminent beauty rose out of a labyrinth of narrow lanes built upon vaults of no great solidity. If a coach or a cart entered...
Página 75 - If a coach or a cart entered these alleys, there was danger that it would be wedged between the houses, and danger also that it would break in the cellars. Goods were therefore conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs ; and the richest inhabitants exhibited their wealth, not by riding in gilded carriages, but by walking the streets with trains of servants in rich liveries, and by keeping tables loaded with good cheer. The pomp of the christenings and burials far exceeded...
Página 22 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Página 75 - Goods were therefore conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs; and the richest inhabitants exhibited their wealth, not by riding in gilded carriages, but by walking the streets with trains of servants in rich liveries, and by keeping tables loaded with good cheer. The pomp of the christenings and burials far exceeded what was seen at any other place in England. The hospitality of the city was widely renowned, and especially the collations with which the sugar refiners regaled...
Página 75 - ... in the cellars. Goods were, therefore, conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs ; and the richest inhabitants exhibited their wealth, not by riding in gilded carriages, but by walking the streets with trains of servants in rich liveries, and by keeping tables loaded with good cheer. The pomp of the christenings and burials far exceeded what was seen at any other place in England. The hospitality of the city was widely renowned, and especially the collations with which...
Página 18 - I* is generally formed by closing the breath passage in the centre with the point of the tongue against the upper gums, and letting the breath escape at the two sides, so that the stream of breath is divided, and it is often called a divided consonant. But some persons, myself among IP D the number, let the breath escape on one side only, so it seems better to call it a lateral or side consonant.
Página 24 - ... not opened as a slit, but with the corners drawn together, and the back of the tongue is raised towards the soft palate. So they may be called back-round continuants.
Página 56 - ... husband (hAzband), (3) an, like an in organ (o:gan) ; as in pen and ink (and), go and see (an), whilst in some familiar phrases, as in bread and butter, it is invariably weakened to (4) n. The d need not disappear before every consonant, but only before those with which it could not combine at the beginning of a word. We can use the form and in strong and well, cp. dwell, cold and raw, cp.

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