(4.) “Quantity is the Length or Shortness of Syllables; and the Proportion, generally speaking, betwixt a long and [a] short Syllable, is two to one; as in Music, two Quavers to one Crotchet.—­Accent is the rising and falling of the Voice, above or under its usual Tone, but an Art of which we have little Use, and know less, in the English Tongue; nor are we like to improve our Knowledge in this Particular, unless the Art of Delivery or Utterance were a little more study’d.”—­Brightland’s Gram., p. 156.

(5.) “ACCENT, s. m. (inflexion de la voix.) Accent, tone, pronunciation.”—­Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel, 4to, Tome Premier, sous le mot Accent.

“ACCENT, subst. (tone or inflection of the voice.) Accent, ton ou inflexion de voix.”—­Same Work, Garner’s New Universal Dictionary, 4to, under the word Accent.

(6.) “The word accent is derived from the Latin language and signifies the tone of the voice.”—­Parker and Fox’s English Gram., Part III, p. 32.

(7.) “The unity of the word consists in the tone or accent, which binds together the two parts of the composition.”—­Fowler’s E. Gram., Sec.360.

(8.) “The accent of the ancients is the opprobrium of modern criticism.  Nothing can show more evidently the fallibility of the human faculties, than the total ignorance we are in at present of the nature of the Latin and Greek accent.”—­Walker’s Principles, No. 486; Dict., p. 53.

(9.) “It is not surprising, that the accent and quantity of the ancients should be so obscure and mysterious, when two such learned men of our own nation as Mr. Foster and Dr. Gaily, differ about the very existence of quantity in our own language.”—­Walker’s Observations on Accent, &c.; Key, p. 311.

(10.) “What these accents are has puzzled the learned so much that they seem neither to understand each other nor themselves.”—­Walker’s Octavo Dict., w.  Barytone.

(11.) “The ancients designated the pitch of vocal sounds by the term accent; making three kinds of accents, the acute (e), the grave (e), and the circumflex (e), which signified severally the rise, the fall, and the turn of the voice, or union of acute and grave on the same syllable.”—­Sargent’s Standard Speaker, p. 18.

[460] “Interrogatio, Graece Erotema, Accentum quoque transfert; ut, Ter. Siccine ais Parmeno? Voss.  Susenbr.”—­Prat’s Latin Grammar, 8vo, Part II, p. 190.