Must yield to such inevitable shame, The master saw the madness rise; The Second combined vowel sound is marked by- and is compounded of the 9th and 3rd vowels. MUSE, use, fuse, bruise; fruit, suit, mute; blue, flue, glue, sue, true, new; supine, supinely, supineness, supreme, supremacy, supremely; super, superadded, supersede, superabundance, supercargo, superannuate, supercilious, superexcellent, superfices, superfine, superfluous, superintendent, superior, superiorly, superlative, supernatural, supernumerary, superscription, supervention, superstitious; salute, dilute, pollute, volute, absolute, resolute, irresolute, dissolute, (ue in) ague, argue, value, overvalue, undervalue; avenue, revenue, detinue, retinue, continue, discontinue, (duce in) traduce, abduce, educe, deduce, reduce, seduce, induce, superinduce, conduce, reproduce, introduce, (uble in) soluble, voluble, insoluble, indissoluble, dissoluble; (lude in) preclude, seclude, include, exclude, conclude, interlude, interclude. Lessons on the Second combined Vowel Sound. You that choose not by the view, O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste, Brought death into the world and all our woe, -Sing heavenly muse! EXERCISES ON THE HALF VOWEL SOUNDS. There are Nine Half Vowel Sounds. The First Half Vowel Sound is marked by Terminational 7, still, Initial L, list, love, lovely. MILL, still, fill, hill, will; milling, millwright, milliner, millstone; stilly, stillness; filling. filled fillip; willing, willingly; windmill, standstill, fulfill, fulfilling, fulfilled, (ile s I in) fub'ile, nub'ile, fac'ile, doc'ile, ag'ile, juvenile, febr'ile, pur'ile, vir'ile, tens'ile, miss'ile; (stle s sl in) cas'tle, forecas'tle, nes'tle, wres'tle, this'tle, whis'tle, epis'tle, bris'tle, gris'tle, jos'tle, apos'tle, thros'tle, bus'tle, just'le, rust'tle; (cial, and tial in) special, judicial, beneficial, superficial; initial, substantial, credential, prudential, circumstantial. Lessons on the First Half Vowel Sound. The semi-vocal sound 7, may be advantageously produced as an initial in such passages as these. List! List! O list! -Let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined, Let heav'n kiss earth, Let order die And let the world no longer be a stage To feed contention in a lingering act. When lovely woman stoops to folly, The Second Half Vowel Sound is marked by- SLUR, fur, cur; concur, demur, demurring, demurrer; circumstance, circumstantial, circumambient, circumambulate, circumcise, eircumcision, circumduct, circumference, circumventor, circumflex, circumfluent, circumfluous, circumfuse. Rage, revenge, raging, raged, revenging, revengeful; restore, retract, respect, request, recur, recourse, restoring, restorative, restoration, retracting, respecting, recurring, recurred, recurrence; recommend, reconcile, recollect, retrospect; recommending, reconciling, recollecting; recommended, reconciled, recommendation, reconciliation, recollection, retrospection, retrospective. Lessons on the Second Half Vowel Sound. I have no spur to prick the idea of my intent, but vaulting ambition. Truly; shepherd, in respect, of itself, it is a good life; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is nought. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well: but in respect that it is private, it is a very vile life. Now, in respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me well; but in respect it is not in the court, it is tedious. As it is a spare life, look you, it fits my humour well; but as there is no more plenty in it, it goes much against my stomach. Reputation, Reputation, Reputation! Oh, I have lost my Reputation! I have lost the immortal part Sir, of myself, and what remains is bestial. My Reputation, Iago, my Reputation !— N.B. The vibratory sound of the R is formed by elevating the tongue to the roof of the mouth near the teeth. The forcible pronunciation of it in certain cases is a great beauty; but it should not be too strongly so in the middle or at the end of words, a defect in Irish pronunciation in words where it precedes m and n; as in farm, charm, form, &c. The defect of not vibrating the R, removed by pro- nouncing such words as have the d connected with them, as tread, dread, dray, &c. The Third Half Vowel Sound is marked by— m, in drum, STRUM, mum, rum, gum, strumming, mumming, rummer, rummage, rummaging, rummaged; harm, farm, charm, alarm, disarm, warm, swarm, sperm, term, misterm, firm, affirm, infirm, confirm, form, deform, reform, conform, inform, cubiform, transform, platform. Murder, murderer, murdering, murdered; mischief, malice, monster, malignant, mischievous, malicious, monstrous, monstrosity; mirth, mirthfnl; music, musical, musician; melody, melodiously; misery, melancholy, miserable, melancholic; misanthropical. Lessons on the Third Half Vowel Sound. a drum, a drum! Macbeth doth come! Many a thousand widows Shall this mock, mock out of their dear husbands; That shall have cause to mourn the Dauphin's scorn. O, for the love of laughter, hinder not the honor of his design, let him fetch off his drum in any hand. How now, Monsieur? this drum sticks sorely in A plague on't, let it go, 'tis but a drum, But a drum! I'st but a drum? a drum so lost! Is to be recover'd; but that the merit of service is seldom Attributed to the true and exact performer; I would have that drum or another, or Hic Jacet. Nay, a mother; why not a mother? when I said mother, That you start at? I say, I am your mother, God's mercy, maiden, does it curd thy blood, To When music, heavenly maid, was young, Ring the alarm bell, murder! treason! The Fourth Half Vowel Sound is marked by n, tin. SIN, win, fin, pin, gin, thin; sinner, sinful, sinning; spin, spinster, spindle; begin, beginner, beginning; continue, contingent, contingency, continuation, continued, continual; pain, grain, slain; (as an initial in) nothing, nature, naturally, natural, name, naming, nameless, name, namesake; nothingless; new, newly, newness, novel, novelty, nevertheless. n is nasal in the terminational sound ing; as an initial it is more semi-vocal, see next lesson. Lessons on the Fourth Half Vowel Sound. All punished in the person of this child, No, no, no, no life? Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life? And thou no breath at all? Thoul't come no more, Is whispering nothing? Is leaning cheek to cheek? Is meeting noses? The Fifth Half Vowel Sound is marked by ng, ring, SING, bring, sling, wing, king; singing, bringing, slinging; singer, slinger; kingly, kingdom, kingston; walking, running, creeping, going, fetching, carrying, crying, weeping, laughing, quaffing, sporting, courting, riding chiding, abiding, gliding, taking, waking, shaking, making, baking, forsaking, overtaking; speaking, seeking, creaking, loving, hating, eating, drinking, thinking, slinking, winking, clinging, flinging, ringing, springing, stinging, winging, swinging. you did know to whom I gave the ring, If you did know for whom I gave the ring, And would conceive for what I gave the ring, When nought would be accepted but the ring, You would abate the strength of your displeasure. If you had known the virtue of the ring, Or your own honor to contain the ring, You would not then have parted with the ring;- I'll die for't but some woman had that ring. False king, why hast thou broke thy faith, King, did I call thee? no, thou art no king, I was anointed King at nine years old, My father and my grandfather were Kings And you were sworn true subjects unto me, King Edward, So would you be again to Henry, If he were seated as King Edward is, We charge you in God's name, and in the King's. In God's name lead, your King's name be obeyed, Think, my lord— Think, my lord, aye think The Sixth Half Vowel Sound is marked by th, the, these. THOU, this, thus, that, them, they, thence, thenceforth, thenceforward, there, thereabout, thereby, thither, thitherward; though, they, thyself, thine, thee, themselves, therefore, thine. D Lessons on the Sixth Half Vowel Sounds. The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The starving chemist in his golden views, These are thy glorious works, parent of good, Thus wond'rous fair, thyself how wond'rous then; O thou that with surpassing glory crown'd, These, as they change, Almighty Father! these Is this the region, this the soil, the clime, For that celestial light? Here are the wise, the generous, and the brave, |