The Monthly Review or Literary Journal Vol.XI

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1754. Excerpt: ... can reconcile it with a due observation of quantity, they art free to retain it: but I must sincerely confess, I.cannot fee how they can. On the contrary, we plainly fee that, in fact, they do not: and that in verse they do not so much as pretend to it.--And therefore, if we would preserve unifor mity, and keep to what we can safely rely on, we must not admit of any use of accents in the antient Greek language, ' but what is consistent with quantity. And if we have lost the nicer part of the antient pronunciation, we have the - more reason to adhere to that essential part which still subststeth.' Thus have we attempted such an abstract of this curious and critical piece, as we hope will excite those admirers of Greet literature, who maintain the opposite system of accents, or are yet undetermined on this head, to peruse the whole. The ingenious and learned author has well observed, in a former part of his treatise, that the nature of accents had not been sufficiently considered; and that there was but one accent, viz. an acute in nature, the grave being a privation of acs'cent.' He has entered throughout the sequel into as analytical an investigation of the subject, as it admitted; and discovers not only a critical knowledge of the Greek tongue, but a taste of the abstruser nicieties of language in general; while he conducts the whole in such a manner, as to join some entertainment with his information.-rr Monthly Catalogue for December, 1754. Miscellaneous. I. J IT Iscellanies in prose and verse. Containing, The General SX Refurreflion, a satire, --fables, songs, epitaphs, epigrams, ts'c: all entirely new. By Charles Hallifax..8vo. is. Hooper, csV. This performance ranks with the Fourth Grace, mentioned in our last month's catalogue, ...