The Seventh Half Vowel Sound is marked by— v, prove, f, of. GROVE, wove, love; move, rove, prove, groove, loving, proving, moving; give, giving, given; valid, valour, valient, valorous; vote, votary, votaress, vote, voter, votive, vacant, vacate, vacation, vague, vagrant, vagrancy, villain, villany, villanous, villanously; value, valuer, valueless, vamp, vamper, vampire, vapour, vaporous. Lessons on the Seventh Half Vowel Sound. -Myself am mov'd to woo thee for my wife. -Mov'd in good time; let him that mov'd you hither, -Why, what's a moveable? -And thou hast talk'd Of sallies, and retires; of trenches, tents, Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin: of prisoners' ransom, and of soldiers slain. Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood, and field; Of hair breadth 'scapes i' th' imminent deadly breach, And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence, And 'portance in my travels' history. O villain, villain! his very opinion in letter, abhorred villain; unnatural, detested brutish villain! worse than brutish; go sirrah, seek him, abominable villain; where is he? Villany! villany! villany! I think upon't-I think I smell't-O villany! I thought so then; I'll kill myself with grief, The Eighth Half Vowel Sound is marked by— z, buz, 8, rose. Muz, coz; muzzy; buzzing, buzzard, cozy, dozy, dozing, pozing, razing, blazing, amazing, glazing, grazing, grazier, zest, zany, zion, zinc, zorliack, zestful, zionward, zebedee, zebulun. (In proper names of Greek origin, x also sounds like z in the following words,) viz. Xanthe, Xantho Xanthus, Xanticles, Xantippe, Xantippus, Xenagoras, Xenarchus, Xenares, Xenetus, Xeniades, Xenoclea, Xenades. Com'pose, dis'close, dis'pose, com'posing, dis'closing, dis'posing, dis'poser, dis'posal, dis'position. Lessons on the Eighth Half Vowel Sound. Come coz; come coz; we stay for you; A word with you, coz. Marry this, coz; there is, as 'twere, a tender, a kind of tender, made afar off by Sir Hugh here;-Do you understand me? Aye Sir, you shall find me reasonable ; Couzin Abraham Slender, can you love her? I will do a greater thing than that upon your request, couzin, in any season. Nay, conceive me, conceive me, sweet coz; what I do is to pleasure you, Can you love the maid? COZ. I will marry her, Sir, at your request. The rose had been wash'd, &c. Now rosy morn her steps, &c. O, be some other name! What's in a name? that which we call a rose, The Ninth Half Vowel sound is marked by s, pleasure. (sounded as, zhur in)—PLEASURE, displeasure, measure, outmeasure, treasure, intreasure, incis'ure, exposure, reasure, lei'sure, era'sure, closure, inclosure, disclosure, composure, discomposure, disposure. (sion, preceded by a, e, i, o and u, is sounded zhun) occasion, evasion, invasion, persuasion, dissua'sion, adhe'sion, inhe'sion, cohe'sion, exe'sion, decision, division, preci'sion, inci'sion, colli'sion, division, provision; effusion, displo'sion, explo'sion, corro'sion, arro'sion; fu'sion, diffu'sion, infu'sion, confu'sion, conclu'sion. Lessons on the Ninth Half Vowel Sound. Bacchus, blessings are a treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Through the clouds ; And following showers, with explosion vast, But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, Sir; if my judgment you'll allow, ASPIRATES. The First Aspirate is marked by th-birth, death, SHEATH, Wreath; worth, mirth, birth; death, breath, path, wrath; breadth, width, length, strength; zenith, herewith, therewith, wherewith, forthwith; thane, thank, thankful, thankless, thanksgiving, thatch, thatcher, thaw, theatre, theft, thief, theocracy, theodolite, theologian, theory, thermometer, thesis, (with r in,) thrall, thraldom, thrapple, thrash, thrasher; thread, threadbare, threat, threaten, three. Lessons on the First Aspirate. As man, perhaps, the moment of his birth The young disease that must subdue at length Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. Then dreams he of another benefice; To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside, A Daniel, still I say; a second Daniel! The Second Aspirate is marked by f, if, Ph, Philip, gh, laugh. BRIEF, leaf, oaf, proof, grief, deaf, (with ul in) dread'ful, venge'ful, time'ful, grace'ful, change'ful, need'ful, hand'ful, peace'ful, guile'ful, hope'ful; form, deform, re'form, tri'form, multiform, in'form, misin'form, con'form, perform, trans' form, platform; fool, fooling, foolish, foolery; favour, favouring, favourite, (as ph in) phaeton, phalanx, or phalanx, phantasm, phantom, pharmacy, pharos, pharoah, phasis, phænomenon, phænomenon, phænomena, philanthropy, phillip, phil'lipic, philology, philomel, philosophy, philter, phosphorus, phrase, physic, (as gh in) laugh, laughing, laughter; cough, trough, chough, enough. Lessons on the Second Aspirate. If ever you have look'd on better days, my sword. -I never yet saw man; If speaking, why a vane blown with all winds; Philip, Sir, I did dislike the cut of a certain courtier's beard; he sent me word, If I said his beard was not well cut, he was in the mind it was; I am bewitch'd; behold my arm Is, like a blasted sapling, wither'd up: And this is Edward's wife-that monstrous witch, Talk'st thou to me of Ifs? Thou art a traitor :- And I did laugh, sans intermission An hour by his dial. The Third Aspirate is marked by s, so; c, face; t, satiety. Kiss, bliss, miss, hissing, kissed, kissing, history, historical, historian; blissful; mistake, mistaken, mistook, mislead, misinformed; science, scimitar, scion, scission, scissors, scissure; sieve, sighed, siliquous, silly, simile, similar; sinewy, single, singular, sinister; sapphire, sapphira, sceva, schechem, Scythians, Scythipolis. Face, pace, race, grace; facing, pacing, racing; graceful, graceless; ice, dice, spice, slice, mice, rice, thrice, price, trice, vice; entice, advice, device, suffice; cease, ceaseless, ceased, ceded, cyclopædia, cylinder, cymbal, cynic, cypress, satiate, satiety, satiating. Lessons on the Third Aspirate. E'vn such a man, so faint, so spiritless, Drew Priam's curtains in the dead of night. This thou wou'dst say: thy son did thus, and thus, Some there be that shadow's kiss, Some have but a shadow's bliss: Silver'd o'er, and so was this. What have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony? And what ar't thou idol ceremony? O ceremony! shew me but thy worth. This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This fortress built by nature for herself, This blessed spot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. The aspirate s after b, d, g, l, m, n, r and v, is pronounced like z. The defect of pronouncing th, instead of s; may be removed by repeatedly pronouncing such monosyllables as have hissing sound, joined with the name, sound of the vowel a, viz. ace, face, case, &c. The Fourth Aspirate is marked by ch, chaise, sh, she, ss, passion, t, nation, c, social. BUSH, rush, tush, thrush; bushy, rushy, rushing, rushed; shy, shyly, shyness, shingle; shipboard, shipwreck, shipmate, shittlecock, shoemaker, shone, shook, shop, shopkeeper, short'ned shoulder, shoulderknot, shouting, show, showman, showery, shrank, shrewdly, shrugged, shuffler. NATION, creation, mention, potion, lotion, promotion, convention, prevention; fiction, fictious, captious, cautious, vexatious, ambition, proposition; social, glacial; cruciate; judicial, official, provincial, artificial; (ciate in) depreciate, officiate, enunciate, consociate, associate, excruciate, (cious in) gracious, voracious, audacious, sagacious, fallacious, tenacious. CHAISE, chagrin, champaign, chandelier, chivalry, chevalier, chicanery. So sit two kings of Brentford on one throne; Close pack'd, and smiling, in a chaise and one. That nature rides upon, maintains her health, An instant's pause, and lives but while she moves. Is it not monstrous, that this player here, Could force his soul so to his own conceit ? Of my nation? What ish my nation? Ish a villain and a bastard, and a knave, and a rascal? What ish my nation? Who talks of my nation ? -but kindly still Compensating his loss with added hours Of social converse and instructive ease. The Fifth Aspirate is marked by h, horse. HEARSE, heart, heartless, hearten, hearteasing; heaven, heavenborn, heavenly, here, herewith; hero, heroic, heroically, heroine, heroism, how, howmuch, however, howbeit, howsoever, hope, hopeful, hopeless, host, hostage, hostess, hostile, hostility, hostler; hill, hillock, hilly, hist, history, historical, historian; honey, honeybag, honeycomb, honeydew, honeyless, honeymoon, honeysuckle, honor, honorably, hush, hushmoney, hysteric, hysterical. Lessons on the Fifth Aspirate. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, |