 | John Milton - 1927 - 208 pagina’s
...tongue; but are observed by all other nations to speak exceedingly close and inward, so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as law French. Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar, and withal to season them and win them... | |
 | Hermann Martin Flasdieck - 1928 - 264 pagina’s
...tongue; but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward, so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as law French 2). Hier klingt eine Erinnerung durch an die Tage, da er in Florenz mitten in dem Treiben der Akademiker... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 pagina’s
...but are observed by all other nations, to speak exceeding close and inward: So that to ..; smatter Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing, as Law French.' ^ I would recommend the whole treatise to the Reader, as the best thing both for matter and stile,... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pagina’s
...tongue; but are observ'd by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward: So that to smalter Latin with an english mouth, is as ill a hearing as law French. John Millon, 1644, 'Of Education' 18:24 How many ways we have of speaking to our dogs and they of replying... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pagina’s
...tongue; but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward, so that to smarter" Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as law French.0 Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar, and withal to season them and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pagina’s
...unnecessarily repeated. About this time Elwood the quaker, being recommended to him as one who would read Latin to him for the advantage of his conversation,...Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as low French, required that Elwood should learn and practise the Italian pronunciation, which, he said,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 474 pagina’s
...and ii the trouble of lessons unnecessarily repeated. ...wide commended to him as one who would read Latin to him for the advantage of 'his conversation,...declared, that to read Latin with an English mouth is <aw ill a hearing as low French, required that El wood should learn and practise the Italian pronunciation,... | |
 | Frederic William Westaway - 1930 - 156 pagina’s
...and clear pronunciation, as near as may be to the Italians, especially in the vowels." " To smatter Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as law French." Nevertheless, Latin seems to have been pronounced in the English way until after the middle of the... | |
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Englishmen being far northerly, do not open our mouths in the cold air wide enough to grace a southern tongue; but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward; so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing... 
