John Bird, Grounds of Grammar Penned and Published (1639)
Date
1639
Author
Book title
Grounds of Grammer Penned and Published
Publication place
Oxford
Printer
Leonard Lichfield
Text type
printed book
Genre
Grammars
Subject area
grammar
Summary
A substantial glossary of grammatical terminology within a treatise
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: A Foot is the setting together of two syllables or more, according to the observation of the quantity thereof. Feet (so farre as we intend to speak of here) are of two sorts.... Feete being placed together in a just number and order doe make a Verse. A Verse is a speech made of a just and lawfull number of feet. He that will goe about to make a Verse, must first learne to measure it rightly by his feete, which men call Scanning. Scanning is the lawfull measuring of a Verse, into his severall feete. (p. 181)
sample: A Foot is the setting together of two syllables or more, according to the observation of the quantity thereof. Feet (so farre as we intend to speak of here) are of two sorts.... Feete being placed together in a just number and order doe make a Verse. A Verse is a speech made of a just and lawfull number of feet. He that will goe about to make a Verse, must first learne to measure it rightly by his feete, which men call Scanning. Scanning is the lawfull measuring of a Verse, into his severall feete. (p. 181)
Alston
XV.963
STC
3085
Other editions
1641: Wing B2953 (Alston XV.964)
Facsimiles
Bird, John. Grounds of Grammar, 1639. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 281. Menston: Scolar, 1971.
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