215

account, as used here, 235
action, unity of, 279
actual, real, 262
adamantine, 134
Addison, 8, 51, 139. [Select
Essays. Ed. by Samuel
Thurber. Boston; Allyn
& Bacon. 1892.] Cato, 305
address, of letter, 252, 346
adjective, use and abuse of,
144, 145; declension in
Oldest English, 330
Elfric, abbot, 331
Eneid. See Virgil.
affirmative, in debate, 322
a fortiori, 121

after all, with comma, 215
again, with and without
comma, 216
agency, 98
aggravate, 130
ain't, 166

aisle, 127
Akenside, Pleasures of Im-
agination, 281, 305
alder, g. pl. of all, 330
Alexandrine verse, 289, 303;
in Spenserian stanza, 292
allegorical epic, 268
allegory, 187, 188
aller, g. pl. of all, 330
alliteration, 299, 300
allow, 167

allusion, 181, 182

also, but also, 138
altar, 331

alternative statement, not
proper in debate, 324
ambiguous words, 131

anti-climax, 157, 259
antithesis, 151, 186
ants, slavery among, 90
a posteriori, 121
apostrophe, 184, 249
apposition, with comma, 214
a priori, 121
architecture, defined, 84
argument, in general, 103;
exercises in, 246-250; se-
quence in paragraph, 10
argumentum ad hominem,

Bale, King John, 275
ballad, 272

Bates, K. L., The English
Religious Drama, 274
battery, in base-ball, 165
beats, in verse, 286; in
rhythmical line, 312
beginning of sentence, im-
portant, 199

being, often superfluous, 155
Benson, Mouse Fable, 28
Beowulf, 267, 268
big-brained, 128
binomial, 337
biography, study of, 61
birds with teeth, III
Blake, Infant Joy, Cradle
Song, 265
blank verse, 304-310
blue sky, explained, 97
blunders in words, 130-132
boil, two words, 128
booking office, 162
boomerang, 169
borrowing words in English,
331, 334, 336, 337
Boswells, their vanity, 78
boycott, 164

bracket, use of, 221
brasses, for checks, 162
Breton language, 326, 327
brevity, 154, 200
brilliant, 145

British language, 326, 327
Brougham, Lord, 341
Browning, Robert, Andrea
del Sarto, 306, 307; Fifine
303; Flight of Duchess,
271, 298; Saul, 284
Browning, Mrs., Cowper's
Grave, 297; Lady Geral-
dine, 288

Bryant, Thanatopsis, 281;
To a Waterfowl, 266
bucket, 162

bucolic poetry, 271
Bunyan, Pilgrim's Prog-
ress, 188, 269
burden of proof, 112, 323
burglarize, 165
Burke, characterized
Macaulay, 9, 10; Amer-
ican Taxation, 207; Con-
ciliation, 151, 203, 221,222,
246-248; Letter to Noble

by

225

date, of letter, 343, 344; of

note, 349, 350
deacon, 331
debate, 322, 325
declension, in Oldest Eng-
lish, 330

deduction, 107, 110, 123
deed, to, 165

defer, two words, 131
definition, 84, 85; indirect,
86; in law, 118; in de-
bate, 325

De Foe, Robinson Crusoe,
15, 74, 221, 228. [Reprint
of first ed., 1719, by Aus-
tin Dobson. London;
Stock. 1883. Spelling and
modernized

punctuation
in this Handbook, except
P. 228.]
deliberative oratory, 315
demean, 130

demonstration, 104
demonstrative oratory, 315
denotation, 255; learned
through reading, 234.
De Quincey, 13; Autobiog-
raphy, 34, 341; Confes-
sions, 6, 12, 31, 74, 137;
Joan of Arc, 214, 223;
Mail Coach, 56, 70; Re-
volt of Tartars, 244-246;
Samuel Parr, 229; Words-
worth's Poetry, 17. [Col-
lected Writings. Ed. by
David Masson. Edin-
burgh; Black. 1889.]
description, see ch. vi.; ex-
pository, 93; mixed with
narration, 58; sequence
in paragraph, 9, 36; sub-
ject-sentence, 20; school
exercises in, 235-241, 250
detached expressions, with

comma, 215
determinism, 337
De Vere, Legends, 271
diagram, in description, 69
dialects in English, 161, 328,

333
diastole, 133, 337
Dickens, abuse of dash, 220;
Landor's dedication to,
28; David Copperfield,
59, 71, 160, 220; Old Curi-
osity Shop, 50; Tale of
Two Cities, 43, 260
diction, in England and in
America, 162, 338
dictionary, use of, 128
didactic essay, 102
didactic poetry, 280, 281

Dies Iræ, 266
diff., for difference, 166
differential, 337
digression, 51
dilemma, 121
dinner, 257

direct question, with inter-
rogation-sign, 206
direct quotation, in "

222

dish, 331

"

dislocation of clauses, 141
division, 88; cross, 89
doc., for doctor, 166, 348
doctor of medicine, how ad-
dressed, 348
don't, 166

double rhyme, 297
doubt, as figure of speech,
185, 259, 321
drama, 62, 279; history of,
in England, 273-277
drinking song, 265, 313
Dryden, Absalom and Achi-
tophel, 282; Alexander's
Feast, 266; All for Love,
305; Don Sebastian, 305;
Dramatic Poesy, 191
Dryden-Pope era, 337
dude, 257
duel, to, 165
Durham, 332, 334
dynamic description, 73

earnestness, in oratory, 317
ecclesiastical romances, 270
echo, rhetorical, within
paragraph, 14; from para-
graph to paragraph, 31;
chapter to chapter, 32
echo, among mountains, 90
Eclogues, see Virgil
editorial, 166
eight-line stanza, 292
either...or, position, 140
ejaculation, with mark of
exclamation, 207
eke, 163

enthuse, 164

envelope-address, 252, 346

eocene, 337
epic poetry, 267
episode, 53
epithet, 79

esprit, 169

Esq., or Mr., 348

essay, in literature and sci-
ence, 100-102 in school,
193

ethyl, 337
eulogy, 315
euphony, 173
exaggeration, 179
exam., 166

example, argument from,
109, 116, 120
exclamation, sign of, 207
exordium, in oratory, 319
expect, suspect, 131
experiment, as scientific

process, 100, IIO
expert testimony, 115
exposition, see ch. vii; in

fiction, 64; sequence in
exposition, 10, 36; sub-
ject- (topic-) sentence, 22;
use of capitals, 227; school
exercises in, 246-250
expression, style, 125
extra syllables, in verse,
284, 307, 308, 311

fable, 187; example of, 28
fall, to, 330
fallacy, 124, 214
false analogy, 117
farce, 279

faults, in school composi
tions, 197, 199, 200
favor, to resemble, 167
feminine rhyme, 296, 297
fiancé, 168
fiction, 63, 263

figurative language, 177;
criteria, 189; uses, 188
finally, with comma, 215

first draught, in composi

tion, 198

285

eloquence, 85, 86, 99
Emerson, O. F., History of
English Language, 326
Emerson, R. W., 86
empiric fact, 110, 111
empty (itself), 168

end of sentence, to be made
conspicuous, 199
end-stopt verse, 308
engine-driver, engineer, 162
enjambement, 302

firstly, 166
fix, 167
folk-epic, 267
font, 331

foot, in verse, 283, 285
foramen, 133
force, indispensable, 126;
relative, not absolute, 143
foreign words, 168
forensic oratory, 315
form, 145

formulating subject, of com-
position, 194; of para-
graph, 13, 197
Foster, M., 94. [A Text-
Book of Physiology. Fifth
ed., Part I. London;
Macmillan. 1888.]

Francis, Sir Philip, 106, 124
fraud, 144

French drama in England,
276

French words in English,

168, 169, 334, 337
friendship, letters of, 253,
.345, 346

friendship, poems of, 265
furthermore, 163

Gaelic language, 326
gamin, 168
Gaulish race, 95
gemüth, 169

general idea, 98; law, 93-
96; phenomenon, 89-93;
relation, 96; general to
particular, 109, 121
generalized description, 80;
narration, 59
gentleman, 257
gents, 166

Genung, J. F., Practical
Elements of Rhetoric, 73,
148, 159, 160, 163; Out-
lines of Rhetoric, 153, 352
George Eliot, faulty para-
graph-structure, 238; ex-
ercises from, 239; Daniel
Deronda, 48, 51; Janet's
Repentance, 40, 77, 137;
Mr. Gilfil, 48, 75; Mid-
dlemarch, 51, 158; Silas
Marner, 33, 239, 260
Georgics, see Virgil.
German, relations to Eng-
lish, 329; race, 95
Gibbon, 47.
[Memoirs of
Edward Gibbon, written
by Himself. London;
Routledge. 1891.]

gigantic, 144

Hamerton, 37, 169
haply, 163

Harper and Burgess, 154
Hawthorne, echo in, 14; sub-
ject-sentence, 19; House
of Seven Gables, 14, 19,
20, 32, 33, 39, 43, 46, 50,
63, 68, 72, 75, 76, 78, 93,
137, 179: Marble Faun,
71, 77, 78, 83, 179
heading of letter, 343
heart-beats, 133
hearth, 259
Heber, 284
Henry, Patrick, 157
heptameter, 288
Herod, in old plays, 273
heroic verse, 301
Herrick, 265
hexameter, 303
Heywood, John, 275
Hill, A. S., Foundations of
Rhetoric, 14, 159, 175,
352; Principles of, 157,

Huxley, 39, 84, 87, 107, III.
[Lay Sermons and Ad-
dresses. New York; Ap-
pleton. 1874.]
hydrogen, 337
hymns, 266, 291
hyperbole, 179

iambic foot, 284, 285; hex-
ameter, 303; pentameter,
301; tetrameter, 300
idea, general, 98
ideal, in poetry, 262
identical rhyme, 296
idyll, 270, 271, 272
if, construction with, 141;
with comma, 217
ignominy, ignomy, 310
Iliad, 53, 73, 76, 267
illy, 166

imperfect rhymes, 297

in a word, in brief, with
comma, 215
incarnation, 332

indeed, with comma, 215

indirect question, without
sign of interrogation, 206
indirect quotation, 223
induction, 107, 110
in fact, in fine, with comma,
215

infinitive, without comma,
218; cleft infinitive, 171
-ing, too much used, 175
In Memoriam stanza, 291
innocence, inn'cence, 310
innuendo, 260

in order that, to, 218
in reality, in short, with
comma, 215
instrument, 98
integral, 337
intercalated narrative, 54
interest, in narration, 45
interlude, 275
intermediate

expressions,
with comma, 215
interrogation, as figure of
speech, 186, 259
interrogation, sign of, 206
interruption, marked by
dash, 219
interview, to, 165
introduction, paragraphs of
36-39, 201; in oratory,
319

in truth, how punctuated,
215, 216

inverted sentence, 151
invitations, formal, 349
invite, noun, 166
irony, 180, 185, 259
irregular rhythms, 312
Irving, connectives, 16;
echo, 14; repeated struc-
ture,17; subject-sentence,
20; Angler, 237; Christ-
mas Eve, 21, 202; Indian
Character, 23; John Bull,
93; L'Envoy, 16; Philip
of Pokanoket, 21; Rip
Van Winkle, 236: Sleepy
Hollow, 21, 22, 236; Spec-
tre Bridegroom, 38; Stage
Coach, 14, 20, 202; Sun-
day in London, 17
island, isle, 127
isometric song, 293
it, use and misuse, 135, 136
Italian drama, 276; sonnet,

294
italics, 222, 228

items of composition, 13,
196

Job, 185, 186

John the Evangelist, 216
John Bull, 93

Johnson, Samuel, Irene,

272

Kipling, 42. [John Lock-
wood Kipling, Beast and
Man in India. London;
Macmillan. 1891.]
Klopstock, Messiah, 268
knife, 331

lady, 258
lady, how addressed, 344,
348; signature of, 345, 346
Lafayette, 78, 249
Lamb, Old Familiar Faces,
265
Landor, 28. [Selections from
Writings of Walter Sav-
age Landor. By Sidney
Colvin, London; Macmil-
lan. 1882.]
Langland, Piers Plowman,
268

language, imperfect, 255
Latin, in England, 327; in
English, 331, 335, 337, 341
laundress, 259

law, in science, 93; in hu-
man affairs, 94
law-trials, 108, argumenta-
tion, 118

lay, for bet, 162
Layard, G. S., 80
leader, editorial, 166
learned, 145
leave, let, 167
legislation, 108
legislative oratory, 315
Lessing, Laocoon, 69; Dra-
maturgie, 102

let, two words, 132; let,
leave, 167

letters, 251-254, 343-350
liable, 130

liberty and equality, 112
lift, elevator, 162

light endings in blank verse,
308
Lincoln,

dress, 112

Gettysburg ad-

339

Old

long couplet, 301
Longfellow, Blind Bartime-
us, 296; Daybreak, 289;
Evangeline, 271, 304;
Golden Legend, 274; Hia-
watha, 268, 284, 301; King
Olaf, 296; Miles Stand-
ish, 304; Old Danish
Song Book, 293;
Clock on Stairs, 288;
Tegnér's Drapa, 293; Vil-
lage Blacksmith,
Wreck of Hesperus, 272
long metre, 291
loose definition, 86
loose sentence, 152
Lounsbury, T. R., History
of English Language, 326
love, conjugation, 330
love, poems of, 265
lovely, 145
Lowell, 18.

289;

[Among my
Books. Boston; Fields,
Osgood & Co. 1870.] Big-
low Papers, 282; Com-
memoration Ode, 266,
Voyage to Vinland, 293
-ly, too much used, 175
lyric poetry, 264

Macaulay, his essays in
general, 100; exaggera-
tion, 91; paragraph-
length, 35, 242, 246; para-
graph-sequence broken,
15; paragraphs of conclu-
sion, 40, of introduction,
37; Boswell's Johnson, 7,
91, 137, 153, 210; Chat-
ham, 34, 40, 137, 214, 242-
244; Comic Dramatists,
149, 151, 186; Life of
Johnson, 241; Warren
Hastings, 9, 10, 15, 47,

106, 137
macrencephalous, 128
mad, for angry, 167
Magnificence, old play, 188
Mahabharata, 267
mammæ, 133; mammalia,
84

mansion, 144
Marlowe, Passionate Shep-
herd, 265; Tamburlaine,

304
masculine rhyme, 296

middle rhyme, 297
Midland dialect, 328, 334
mill, 331
Milton, Allegro, 135;
Christ's Nativity, 266;
Lycidas, 267, 272; Par.
Lost, 179, 222, 268, 305,
306, 307; Par. Reg., 268,
305; Penseroso, 181, 301;
Samson, 276, 305; Sonnet
on Blindness, 258, 295;
Tractate, 228
minor, a, 85
minster, 331
miracle play, 274
misrelated participle, 140
mixed description and nar-
ration, 58; mixed exposi-
tion, 100
mixed figures, 190
mixed questions, 318
mob, 166
mock epic, 269
Modern English, 328, 334,
336, 338, 340
modifiers, 138
money, 132
monk, 331

Moore, Light of Other
Days, 265
moral, in story, 45
morality play, 188, 274
moreover, with comma, 215
mortal, two senses, 128
motive, 98
Moulton, R. G., 209, 213,
218, 226, 229, 280. [Shake-
speare as a Dramatic Ar-
tist. 3d ed. Oxford; Clar-
endon Press. 1893.]
Mr., or Esq., 348
muchly, 166

murder will out, 95, 112
mystery play, 274

Nairn, Lady, Land o' the
Leal, 265
namely, with comma, 215
narration, see ch. v.; se-
quence in paragraph, 9;
sequence of paragraphs,
36; subject-sentence, 20;
exercises in, 235-241, 251
narrative poetry, 267
national, in speech, 161
Nativity, the, in Longfel-

low's Golden Legend, 274