...of language-teaching therein detailed was doubtless, however, to a considerable extent carried out. Their speech is to be fashioned to a distinct and clear pronunciation [of Latin], as near as may be to the Italian, especially in the Vowels. For we Englishmen being far...

...that the speech of his ideal students should be ' fashion'd to a distinct and clear pronuntiation, as near as may be to the Italian, especially in the Vowels', he would have 'some easie and delightful Rook of Education' read to them, such as ' Cebes, Plutarch,...

...that the speech of his ideal students should be ' fashion'd to a distinct and clear pronuntiation, as near as may be to the Italian, especially in the Vowels', he would have 'some easie and delightful Book of Education ' read to them, such as ' Cebes, Plutarch,...

...exercise, and their diet. For their studies: first, they should begin with the chief and necessary rules of b b b f b ia doing, their speech is to be fashioned to a distinct and clear pronunciation, as near as may be...

...first: "First, they should begin with the chief and necessary rules of some good grammar .... and .... their speech is to be fashioned to a distinct and...may be to the Italian, especially in the vowels." He is speaking, of course, of Latin grammar. He proceeds with a lengthy list of readings in Greek and...

...First they should begin with the chief and necessary rules of some good Grammar, either that now us'd, or any better: and while this is doing, their speech is to be fashion'd to a distinct and clear pronuntiation,#j- near as may be to the Italian, especially in the...

...first: 'First, they should begin with the chief and necessary rules of some good grammar . . . and . . . their speech is to be fashioned to a distinct and...may be to the Italian, especially in the vowels.' He is speaking, of course, of Latin grammar. He proceeds with a lengthy list of readings in Greek and...

...order to speak, we must open our mouths and use our lips. Milton wrote that the speech of boys should " be fashioned to a distinct and clear pronunciation,...Italian, especially in the vowels. For we Englishmen," he thought, " being far northerly, do not open our mouths in the cold air wide enough to grace a southern...

...distinct and clear pronunciation." He is speaking of Latin, and would have their speech fashion'd " as near as may be to the Italian, especially in the vowels." That good counsel of a learned man and a poet was offered nearly three hundred years ago, yet our schoolmasters...

...throughout to ' I' and ' i.' It is clear from the letter "Of Education " that Milton preferred in Latin " a distinct and clear pronunciation as near as may be to the Italian, especially in the vowels," although he was driven to the conclusion that ' ' few will be persuaded to pronounce xxxii Latin otherwise...