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CARLYLE, Thomas, 274.

Campbell, Thomas, 147.

Catachresis, in composition, 323.
Chalmers, Dr., 244.

Chapman, George, 119.

Character, 45; examples of: Dr. Johnson, Goldsmith,
Thierry, Columbus, Luther, Beethoven, Clive, Palissy,
Sir P. Sidney, 46–48.

Chastity, 75.

Chaucer, 107; Taine on, 109.

Cheerfulness, 16.

Chivalry, spirit of, 48.

Circumlocution, 327.

Cobbett, W., 269.

Coleridge, S. T., 146.
Commonplace-book, a, 96.

Companions, bad, 27; good, 29.

Composition, English, 296; masters of, 297; good style in,
303; perspicuity, 304; choice of language, 305; division
of the sentence, 306; grace of style, 308; the simile,
308; the metaphor, 310; personification, 314; allegories,
315; autonomasia, 316; synecdoche, 316; metonymy,
317; antithesis, 317; hyperbole, 318; irony, 320; inter-
rogation, 321; exclamation, 321; vision, 321; prolepsis,
322; metalepsis, 322 ; asyndeton, 322; aposiopesis, 322;
catachresis, 323; tautology, 326; redundancy, 327;
circumlocution, 327; melody, 329; variety, 331.

Conduct, 65.

Contentment, 39; example: Hugh Miller, 40-41.
Conversation, art of, 18.

Courage, moral, 50; examples of: anecdotes of Stephenson
and Savonarola, 52, 53.

Courtesy, 12; illustrations of, from Sir W. Scott, Sydney

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Smith, St. Francis de Sales, Jeremy Taylor, Raleigh,

Sir P. Sidney, Charles I., Bayard.

Courtesy at home, importance of, 15.

Cowley, Abraham, 125; essays of, 263.
Cowper, 137.

Crabbe, 141.

Culture, physical, 335.

DARWIN, Charles, 289.

Davy, Sir Humphry, 286.
Debt, causes of, 69.

Defoe, Daniel, 187.

Dekker, Thomas, 118.

Demetrius and Antigonus, anecdote of, 28.

Dickens, Charles, 203.

Diet, regulation of, 338.

Disraeli, B. (Lord Beaconsfield), 199.

Dramatists, English, 114, 120, 131.

Drayton, Michael, 120.

Dress, 69.

Dryden, John, 130.

Dignity of labour, 40.

EARLY rising, 351.

66

Eliot, George" (Miss Evans, now Mrs. Cross), 200.
Essays, a favourite form with English writers, 272.
Evelyn's Diary, 264.

Exclamation, in composition, 321.

Exercise, necessity of, 344.

FICTION, English works of: origin of, 185; writers of, 185-
206; More, Sidney, 185; Lyly, Bacon, Behn (Mrs), 186;
Defoe, 187; Swift, Addison, 188; Richardson, 189;
Fielding, 190; Sterne, 193; Goldsmith, 194; Burney
(Miss), Walpole (Horace), Radcliffe (Mrs), 195; Scott
(Sir Walter), 196; Austen (Miss), Brontë (Miss), King-
sley, 198; Disraeli, Lever, 199; “George Eliot," 200;
Thackeray, 201; Dickens, 203; Lytton (Lord), 204.
Fielding, Henry, 190.

Filial respect, decline of, 4.

Fletcher, John, 117.

Ford, John, 119.

Foster's essay on the "Evils of Popular Ignorance," 333.
Freeman, E. A., 159.

Friends, choice of, 23; examples of: Dickens and Forster, J.
Sterling and Archdeacon Hare, Atticus and_Cicero,
William III. and Bentinck, Pitt and Canning, Fox and
Burke, Brooke and Sidney, Xenophon and Socrates,

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Kingsley and Maurice, Faraday and Tyndall, Nicholson
and Edwards, 24-25.

Froude, J. A., 162.

GAMBLING, 69.

Generosity, 14.

Gentleman, the true, 15, 30; examples of: Louis XIV.,
Marlborough, Clement XIV.

Goldsmith, Oliver, 136, 194.

Gray, Thomas, 136.

HAMILTON, Sir W., 252.

Hazlitt, William, 270.

Health, the preservation of, a duty, 337 ; laws of, 338.

Herbert, George, 122.

Herrick, Robert, 122.

Herschel, Sir John, 286.

History, 80; English writers on, 158-172; Freeman, Prof.
Stubbs, 159; historical writers of various reigns,160;
More, Hallam, Bacon, 161; Froude and others, 162;
Green and others, 163; Macaulay and others, 166.

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INDEX.

357

Locke, John, 233.
Lockhart, J. G., 178.
Lyall, Sir C., 288.

Lyly, John, 186.

Lytton, Edward Bulwer, Lord, 204.

MACAULAY, Lord, 166, 179.

Mandeville, Sir J., 207.

Manners, good, the secret of, 13.

Marlowe, Christopher, 113.

Marston, John, 118.

Marvel, Andrew, 125.

Massinger, Philip, 118.

Maurice, Rev. F. D., 249.

Melody, in composition, 329.

Metalepsis, in composition, 322.

Metaphor, use of the, in composition, 310.

Metonymy, in composition, 317.

Mill, J. S., 253.

Milman, Dean, 248.

Milton, 125-130, 222.

Moderation, 60; illustrations from Franklin, Nicol, Coke,

Hale, Scott, Malcolm, 61-63.

Moltke, Count von, his daily habits, 342.

Money, value of, 67.

Moore, Thomas, 178.

Moore, George, story of, 35.

More, Sir Thomas, 161, 174, 185.

Murchison, Sir R., 289.

NATURE, love of, 71.

Newman, Cardinal, 246.

Newton, John, 10.

OBEDIENCE, 49.

Objects in life, 73.

Occupation, home, 20'; examples from Bishop Beveridge,

Herschel, Milton, Goldsmith, Gray, Goethe, Herbert,
Kingsley, Helps, 21, 22.

Orderliness, 37.

Ostentation, 70.

PALEY, Dr., 243.

Park, Mungo, 210.

Pepys, his Diary, 264.

Perseverance, 57; illustrations from Sir W. Jones, Lord

Kingsdown, 58, 59.

Perspicuity of style, 304.

Perthes, F., story of, 35.

Poetry, English, 103; early writers, 104-106; Chaucer, 107;

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Skelton, Scotch poets, Elizabethan poets, 110; Spenser,
111; Leigh Hunt and Keats on Spenser, 112; tragedy,
Marlowe, 113; dramatists. 114, 120, 131; Shakespeare,
114; how to study Shakespeare, 115; Ben Jonson,
Beaumont and Fletcher, 117; Dekker, Marston, Mas-
singer, Webster, 118; Ford, Chapman, and others, 119;
Southwell, Drayton, Daniel, Davies, 120; Donne, Fair-
fax, Lodge, Wotton, and others, 121; Lord Brooke, P.
and G. Fletcher, Browne, Herbert, Herrick, 122;
Butler, 124; Marvel, Wither, Quarles, Cowley, Milton,
125; Dryden, 130; dramatists of the Restoration, 131;
Pope, 131; Thomson, 134; Gray, Goldsmith, Collins,
136; Shenstone, Dyer, Churchill, Akenside, Young,
Blair, Chatterton, Cowper, 137; Burns, 140; Carlyle
on Burns, 141; Crabbe, 141; Wordsworth, 142; Cole-
ridge, 146; Campbell, 147; Byron, 148; Shelley, 149;
Keats, 150; Scott, Hood, L. Hunt, Proctor, Landor,
Taylor, Bailey, 151; Browning, 152; Tennyson, 153;
Victorian poets: Swinburne and others, 156; Matthew
Arnold, 157.

Pope, Alexander, 131.

Poverty, 68.

Prolepsis, in composition, 322.

QUARLES, the poet, 125.

RADCLIFFE, Mrs., 195.

Ray, John, 261.

Reading, 79; variety in, 88; recollections of, 90; proper

method

in, 99.

of, 93; classification of, 97; discrimination

Reading, a course of, 103-295.

Redundancy, in composition, 327.

Religion and science, their relative positions, 292.

Richardson, Samuel, 189.

Robertson, Rev. F. W., 249.

Ruskin, John, 276.

SAVONAROLA, anecdote of, 53.

Science and scientific text-books, 279.

Science in relation to religion, 292.

Scientific study, 280; illustrations from Edward, Scheele,
Ferguson, Franklin, Black, West, 281; classification
of, 282; authorities upon, 284; popular works of, 285.
Scott, Sir W. (his home affection, 12), 151, 178, 196.
Sidgwick, Henry, 254.

Seeing the world, 32.

Self-culture-moral, 1; importance of, 66; mental, 77;
physical, 335.

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