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
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
Lord, 158; Reflections, 11, 15, 16, 24, 25, 96. [Se- lect Works. Ed. by E. J. Payne. Oxford; Claren- don Press. 1892. Reflec- tions on the Revolution in France. Ed. by F. G. Selby. London; Macmil- lan. 1890.] Burns, Highland Mary, 265; John Anderson, 265; To a Mouse, 266 business, letters of, 252 but, misused, 148, 175 but also, 138
Butler, Hudibras, 189 Byron, satire, 282; Beppo, 292; Cain, 300, Childe Harold, 59; Don Juan, 292; Vision Judgment, 292
cable, to, 165; cablegram, 165
calculated, 167
cæsura, 289, 306, 307 call, 331 callosities, 133 Campbell, Battle of Baltic, 265; Pleasures of Hope, 281; River of Life, 290 can, may, 173 candlestick, canstick, 310 Canterbury, 332, 334 cap., for captain, 166 capitals, use of, 226 capon, 331 Carlyle, abuse of dash, 220; abuse of capitals, 228; use of adjectives, 145; On Biography, 151; Boswell's Johnson, 19, 60, 78, 181, 182, 216; Cromwell, 184; Doctor Francia, 160; Frederick, 228; Hero Worship, 185; Sartor Re- sartus, 76, 77 carriage, for car, 162 case-law, 120 -caster, 331 catchwords, 92 cause and effect, 96-98; in narration, 48 certainty, in mathematics
and science, 104; not at- tainable by analogy, 116 champion, to, 145 chapter-echo, 32 character-description, 67 charity, 100 Charlemagne romances, 269 Chatham, Lord, 40, 118, 242 Chaucer, language of, 335; Monk's Tale, 292; Pro- logue, 296; Troilus, 270 -chester, 331 Chester Plays, 274 chivalry, romances of, 269
choriambus, 285, 305 Christian oratory, 315 Christianity, introduced England, 327, 328 chronicle-history, 275 chronicle, rhyming, 280 church, denotation and con- notation of, 256, 257 church plays, 273 Cicero, 157, 183, 184, 185 circle, defined, 84 circulating medium, 117 circulation of blood, 94, 111 circumlocution, 156 civil society, law of, 96 claim, to, 167 classical drama, 275 classical romances, 270 classification, 86-88 class words, 145, clauses, dislocation of, 141; when marked with com- mas, 216-218 clearness,
indispensable, 126; in the sentence, 134; in oratory, 316 cleft infinitive, 171, clergymen, how addressed, 348 clerk, to, 165 Cleveland, Square Cap, 265, 313
climax, 157; its connota- tion, 259
Clough, Bothie, etc., 304 Cnut, laws of, 331 Coleridge, view of poetry, 86, 125, 263; Table Talk, 7, 16, 28, 86, 137; Ancient Mariner, 77, 297; Cha- mouni Hymn, 285; Trans- lation from Schiller, 304. [Specimens of the Table Talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lon- don; Murray. 1835.] collective mystery, 274 colon, for marking larger sections, 209; for intro- ducing quotation, 209 colonial period of English in America, 338 combine, as noun, 166 comedy, 278 comma, use of, 138, 211-218; wrong use of, 225; facility indispensable, 224 common metre, 291 Como, Lake of, 70 comparison, 180, 188 compensation, in verse, 286 complex sentence, 154 complexion, 310 composition, in school, 193 compound sentence, 154 compound words, 165 conceptualism, 337. concession, marked by com- ma, 217
conciseness, of independent paragraph, 28; in sen- tence, 155, 200; in ora- tory, 316 conclusion, paragraphs of, 36-41, 201; in oratory, 320
conclusive presumption, 112 condition, marked by com- ma, 217
conduct, to, 162, 168 confess, 167
conjectural emendations, in brackets, 221
conjugation, in Oldest Eng- lish, 330
connectives, 16, 199 connotation, 234, 256-261 consecutive, 351
consequently, with comma, 215
continuous verse, 300 contrast, 180 conversational essay, 101 conviviality, poems of, 265 co-ordination of short para- graphs, in Macaulay and Burke, 246, 247 co-ordinative clauses, mark- ed by cominas, 212-214 co-ordinative relative pro- nouns, 136, 214 copper, 331
correlation, with comma, 217; without, 218 couplet, 289; Alexandrine,
303; long, 301; short, 300; not used in strict sonnet, 294
Coventry Plays, 274 Cowper, John Gilpin, 272; Loss of Royal George, 265; Task, 281 crave, 331 creed, 331 critical essay, 102 criticism, 86 cross-division, 89, 109; in classifying figures of speech, 177 cross-examination, 114 curry, two words, 128, 130, 131 Cuvier, 107
dactylic foot, 284; hexame- ter, 303 Dane-lagh, the, 331 Danish, borrowings from, 331, 333, 342 Dante, Divine Comedy, 269,
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 "
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
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
electrocide, electrocute, 164 fine, 145; see also, in fine elegiac metre, 304 elegy, 267 elevator, lift, 162 Elizabeth, Queen, 68 Elizabethan period, 276, 336 ellipsis, with comma, 211 Ellis, A. J., Quantitative Pronunciation of Latin,
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.]
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,
Goethe, Herm. & Dor., 73, hustings, 331
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,
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,
London English, 162, 334, micrencephalous, 128
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.
[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
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