Essays
Subtitle: philological and critical, selected from the papers.
Publisher: MacMillan
Published: 1873
Place of publication: London
Subjects: Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892.; Greek language -- Accents and accentuation; Greek language -- Grammar; English language -- Phonetics; Greek language -- Phonetics; Language; Latin language -- Grammar
Table of contents: title: The Ionian migration; The root prach in the Greek language; The Greek genitive as an ablative case; On Bekker's Digammated text of Homer; On ancient Greek rhythm and metre; On the nature and theory of the Greek accent; On the Byzantine Greek pronunciation of the tenth century, as illustrated by a manuscript in the Bodleian Library; Ross on Italicans and Greeks; On Indo-European aspirate mute; On the formation of Indo-European futures; On passive formations; Remarks on the uses of the Latin subjunctive; On the origin of the English possessive case; Ellis's early English pronunciation; on English vowel quantity in the thirteenth century and in the nineteenth; Tennyson's Princess; The number seven; Decisions of college class disputes; On the Hebrew chronology from Moses to Solomon; On the language of Palestine at the time of Christ.