Lanier, Sidney, quoted, 218.. Lavater, quoted, 295. Lecky, quoted, 101.
Letter-writing, chapter on, 263; chief requisites of, 267. Lewes, quoted, 67. Lie, lay, 77.
Lily, quoted, 320. Literature, 229. Litotes, 38.
Locke, quoted, 128, 131, 133. Lockhart, quoted, 183. Logic, service of, to rhetoric, 2. London Times, quoted, 83, 132. Longfellow, quoted, 11, 30, 66, 67, 69, 110, 114, 133, 319. Longinus, 241.
Long sentences and short, 9. Loose sentence, 11.
Love, beneficence of, 116. Lowell, quoted, 7, 23, 36, 71, 116, 117, 123, 125. Lyric, the, 328.
Milton, quoted, 4, 11, 13, 25, 26, 31, 32, 38, 41, 46, 60, 70, 74, 90, 98, 100, 110, 112, 138, 169, 183, 210, 244, 245, 247, 248, 314, 315, 317, 319. Mimesis, 23.
Mitford, Miss, 69, 91, 92. Mock-heroic, 251. Money, 51.
Montgomery, quoted, 131, 132. Moods, sequence of, 70. Mysteries, the, 333.
Napoleon, quoted, 6, 137. Narrative, definition of, 185; compared with description, 185; objective and subjective, 186; importance of selection in, 186; order of, illustrated from Pres- cott's Conquest of Mexico, 187; essentials of good, 188. Neologisms, 64.
Newman, Dr. J. H., quoted, 157. Nichol, Professor, quoted, 69, 93. Notion, discriminated from prop-
osition, 189; methods of ex- pounding, 189.
Novel, the, approaches to the modern conception of, 288; his- torical and ethical, 289; motif of the, 289; plot, 290; charac- ters, 290; purpose in, 291; test of the worth of, 292; reading of, 293; power of, 294. Novelist, the, as teacher and artist, 291, 293; test of his worth, 292.
Observance, observation, 77. Obsolete words, 64. Ode, the, 328.
Oliphant, Mrs., quoted, 71, 92, 93.
qualifications for, 305; no ex- | Progress, Greeley on, 12. cellence in without labor, 306. Order, syntactical, 71: as a con- dition of energy, 102; in com- position, 162; in oratory, 298; involves unity, 299. Originality, Goethe on, 7; no ab- solute among men, 161. Ossian, quoted, 59, 246. Ought, should, must, 73, 74.
Parable, 33. Paragraph, 14.
Parentheses, objectionable, 86; marks of, 135.
Parker, Theodore, quoted, 58, 88, 129, 133, 193.
Parody, 250.
Pastoral, the, 330.
Pathos, 236.
Pecksniff, character of, 261. Period, rules for use of, 129. Periodic sentence, 10; and loose,
Personification, defined, 33; de- grees of, 33; force of, 34. Perspicuity, defined, 62; impor- tance of, 62; relative, 62; puri- | ty an element of, 63; propriety, 72; simplicity, 80; conciseness, 84; unity, 86; imagery, 88; summary, 89.
Philosophy, Emerson's definition
of, 6; nature and comprehen- sion of, 189; and science, dis- criminated, 281. Picturesque, the, 237. Pleonasm, 101.
Plot, in the novel, 290. Poe, quoted, 110, 113. Poetry, chapter on, 308; diction of, 308; rhythm, 311; metre, 312; rhyme, 317; blank, 318; what constitutes, 324; defini- tions of, 327; species, 328; uses of, 335.
Polysyndeton, 25.
Pronouns, syntax of, 66, 67. Proof, burden of, 204. Proper names, 52. Proposition, defined, 6; discrimi- nated from notion, 189; meth- ods of expounding a, 191. Propriety, defined, 78; offences against, 78; an element of en- ergy, 95. Provincialisms, 65. Pun, 31.
Punctuation, logic of, 121; pe- riod, 129; question-mark, 130; exclamation-point, 130; colon, 130; semicolon, 131; comma, 132; dash, 134; curves, 135; quotes, 136.
Purity, defined, 63; violations of, 64.
Quarterly Review, quoted, 92. Quintilian, quoted, 207. Quotation, 114, 172. Quotation-points, rules for use of, 136.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, quoted, 61. Randolph, John, quoted, 25. Reading, relation of, to style, 151; to invention, 159; Gib- bon's method of, 160. Reasoning, deductive, 195; in- ductive, 196; a priori, a poste- riori, 201.
Reductio ad Absurdum, 204. Repetition, 99.
Revision, value of, 150. Rhetoric, province of, 1; place of, among the arts, 2; relation of, to the sciences, 2; utility of, 3; rules of, what, 4; defined, 5. Rhyme, 317. Rhyne Royal, 322. Rhythm, in prose, 110; in po-
etry, 311. Richardson, Prof. C. F., quoted, 127.
Pope, quoted, 13, 27, 72, 112, 128, Richter, quoted, 82, 137, 154, 311.
Ridicule, defined, 260; use and
Ridiculous, the, chapter on, 249.
Robertson, F. W., quoted, 7, 135. | Sonnet, 323, 328.
Soul, derivation of the word, 43; immortality of, 199.
Southey, quoted, 74, 131.
Spectator, the, quoted, 70, 90, 100, 101, 123.
Spencer, quoted, 6, 58.
Ruskin, quoted, 7, 58, 59, 68, 69, Spenser, quoted, 58, 123.
Sprague, Charles, quoted, 24. Spurgeon, quoted, 106.
Satan, grandeur of Milton's con- Squinting construction, 71.
Saxon, force of, 81, 82.
Scenery, spring and autumn, 235. Schiller, quoted, 7. Science, chapter on, 279. Scotsman, the, quoted, 137. Scott, quoted, 41, 67, 68, 98, 316. Semicolon, rules for use of, 131. Sentence, Aristotle's definition of, 6; simple, 6; complex, 7; compound, 7; forms of the, according to use, 7; colloca- tion of words in, 8; long and short, 8; periodic and loose, 10, 86; balanced, 13. Shakespeare, a painstaking writ- er, 3; quoted, 13, 26, 27, 31, 36, 40, 41, 58, 61, 63, 64, 67, 68, 74, 75, 83, 84, 89, 91, 95, 96, 123, 126, 128, 129, 130, 131, 133, 171, 182, 187, 215, 246, 247, 295, 301, 303, 310, 314, 320. Shall, will, 73, 74. Shelley, quoted, 18, 46, 47, 57,
215, 217, 310, 318, 322. Sheridan, quoted, 70, 89, 94, 170. Shirley, quoted, 317.
Short sentences, Coleridge on, 9. Simile, 35.
Simplicity, relation of, to perspi- cuity, 80; to energy, 95. Simpson, Bishop, training of, in oratory, 307. Sit, set, 77.
Smith, Dr. A., quoted, 33, 127. Smith, Sidney, quoted, 71, 91, 92, 105, 137, 138, 254. Smollet, quoted, 67, 107, 133, 139. Socialism, 66,72. Song, the, 328.
Stanza, the, 321. Status, the, 156.
Stedman, E. C., quoted, 69, 115, 138, 327.
Steele, quoted, 75, 79. Stephen, Leslie, quoted, 71, 93, 107, 125, 153. Sterne, quoted, 128, 284. Stormont, Lord, quoted, 94. Stowe, Mrs. H. B., quoted, 68, 79. Strikes, 214.
Studies, how to be estimated, 15. Style, German and French, 9; periodic and loose, 12, 86; sim- ple, 80; concise, 84; unity in, 86; a popular, 95; economy of, attention in, 97; elegance in, 109; harmony, 111; variety, 113; mechanical aids to, 121; defined, 141; derivation the word, 142; subjectively considered, 142; objectively, 143; diversities of, 143; desig- nations of, 144; leading prop- erties of, 146; philosophy of, 147; importance of a good, 148; cultivation of, 149; Goethe on, 153; economy of attention in, 185.
Subject, choice of a, 154; deter- mination of, 155; analysis of, 163.
Sublime, the, chapter on, 241; elements of, 243; physical and moral, 241; chief criterion of, 242; in literature, 244; and the beautiful, compared, 247. Summaries, value of, 99. Swift, quoted, 66, 70, 90, 91, 103, 252. Swinburne, quoted, 26.
Syllepsis, 26. Syllogism, 195. Synecdoche, 29. Synonyms, 72.
Syntax, rules of, 66.
Taine, quoted, 49. Talleyrand, quoted, 252. Talmage, Rev., quoted, 59. Tautology, 100.
Taylor, B. F., quoted, 140. Taylor, Jeremy, quoted, 134. Taste, chapter on, 222; defined, 223; and imagination, 223; growth of, 224; standard of good, 225; cultivation of, 226; Ruskin on, 226, prime qual- ities of, 227; application of, to the fine arts, 228; pleasures of, 229.
Temple, Sir W., quoted, 100, 308. Tennyson, quoted, 21, 27, 39, 57, 67, 106, 113, 123, 136, 294, 315, 321.
Tenses, sequence of, 69. Testimony, 202. Thackeray, quoted, 98, 249, 284. Theme, 156.
Thomson, quoted, 309. Thoreau, quoted, 115. Tillotson, quoted, 101. Tmesis, 24. Tragedy, 331.
Trevelyan, quoted, 114. Trollope, Anthony, quoted, 115. Trope, 34.
True, Beautiful, and Good, 237. Twain, Mark, quoted, 119. Tyndall, Professor, quoted, 13,
Udal, quoted, 52.
Unities, the three, 332.
Vinet, quoted, 165, 298. Virgil, quoted, 129. Vision, defined, 37. Vocation, avocation, 77. Voltaire, quoted, 40, 327. Vulgarisms, 66.
Waller, quoted, 34, 312. Walpole, Horace, quoted, 103,
Ward, Artemas, quoted, 103, 258. Watts, Isaac, quoted, 321. Webster, quoted, 60. Wesley, Charles, quoted, 312. Westminster Hall, description of,
Westminster Review, quoted, 79,
123. Whately, Dr., quoted, 118, 132, 205, 301.
Whewell, quoted, 211. Whipple, quoted, 259. White, R. G., quoted, 70. Whittier, quoted, 123, 131, 136, 237.
Wit, species of, 250; dreariness of, sustained, 253; inimical to the nobler faculties, 254; Syd- ney Smith on, 254; and humor, 259.
Wirt, William, quoted, 297. Words, customary order of, in
English, 8; inverted arrange- ment of, 8; figurative use of, 17, 18; pure, 63; obsolete, 64; newly-coined, 64; alien, 65; provincial, 65; vulgar, 66; syn- onymous, 72; exaggeration in the use of, 78; simple, 80; spe- cific, 81; number of, 84; ener- getic, 96; poetry in, 219. Wordsworth, quoted, 70, 73, 82, 209, 327.
Unity, defined, 86; essential to Writers, young, cautions to, 89.
Wycliff, quoted, 67.
Young, quoted, 38, 57, 68, 69, 136, 138.
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