nature, poems of, 266
née, 168

negative, in debate, 322
nemesis, in drama, 278
neologisms, 163-165
Neptune, discovery of, 107
nervous, various senses, 128
Nibelungen Lied, 267
nice, 143, 144
nicknames, without period,
208

no, with comma, 216
Noah, in church plays, 273
no doubt, with comma, 215
Norman Conquest, 333
Northumbrian dialect, 328,
332

not only....but also, 138
novel, the, 63, 263
nun, 331

O, and oh, 208
observance, observation,131
оссиру, 144
octameter, 288

octave, in sonnet, 294
octosyllabic verse, 300
ode, kinds of, 266
Odyssey, 48, 267

of course, with comma, 215
offer, 331

Oldest English, 328-331
omission, marked by com-
ma, 211; by dash, 220
omission of syllable in verse,
286, 307

one, as pronoun, 170
only, not only, 138
orator, personality of, 317
Ormulum, 333
ottava rima, 292

Otway, Venice Pres., 305
overlapping narrative, 49
overlook, two senses, 132
oviposit, 337

oxygen, 337
oxymoron, 187

pepper, 331

peradventure, 163
perchance, 163
perforation, 133
perhaps, with comma, 215
period, after completed sen-

tence, 208; after abbrevi-
ations, 208; facility in use
of, 224

periodic sentence, style, 151
peroration, 319
personal element, in descrip-

tion, 72; in oratory, 317
personal essay, 101
personification, 78, 182
persons, 156

persuasion, 314, 317, 322
Peterborough, 334
Petrarchian sonnet, 294
phenomenon, general, 90-92
photo, 166

phrases, useless, 200
piecemeal, 165
Piers Plowman, 268
pillow, 331
pitching, 133

placental embryo, 133
Plautus, 275
pleinairiste, 169
plenty, as adverb, 167
pleonasm, 155
pliocene, 337

poetry, see ch. xvi.; dif-
ferent expression from
prose, 86, 125, not defin-
able, 85

politics, argument in, 116
Pollard, A. W., Énglish
Miracle Plays, 274
ponderous, 259
Pope, use of nice,' 143;
satire, 282; Epistle to
Arbuthnot, 302; Essay
on Man, 281; Rape of
Lock, 269; Universal
Prayer, 266

popular exposition, 100
position of words, for force,

150, 199

present use in language, 163
presumption, 112, 323
probability, 106, 108, 116
procession, 332
prof., 166, 348
professor, how addressed,
348

pronoun, ambiguity, 135,
238

pronunciation, in Chaucer,
335; in Elizabethan
drama, 310; in America
and in England, 338
proof, in general, 104
proper names, denote, 255;
connote, 257

proportion, in paragraph,
12; in composition, 197
proposition, 103, 112; place
in paragraph, 23-25; in
debate, 323

propriety, indispensable,
126; general nature, 161
prose, defined by Swift and
Coleridge, 86; forms of,
2; different expression
from poetry, 125
prosopopeia, 185
prove, to, 104
Proverbs, 208, 209, 211
provincialisms, 162
prudence, in letters, 254
Psalms, 207

Punch dinner, 80

reflection of sound, 90
Reformation, 274, 276, 336
refrain, 288

regrets, how worded, 349
related paragraphs, 4
relate, as used here, 235
relation, general, 96
relic, relict, 131
religion, poems of, 265
repeated structure, 17, 176,

199

reputable words, 163
resemblance, inference from,
116

reserve force, in orator, 317
residence, in letter, 343
restrictive clause, not with
comma, 212-214; pro-
noun, 136

retarded movement, 54, 241
reverend, reverent, 131
reverting narrative, 48
revision of writing, 199
rhyme, 296; chronicle, 280
rhythmical lines, 312
rime riche, 296
Rogers, A Wish, 290; Plea-
sures of Memory, 281
romance, poems of, 269
Romance element in Eng-
lish, 335

Romans in Britain, 327
round, 133,

round bracket, 220
running over in verse, 302
run-on verse, 308
Ruskin, 38, 44, 84. [Præ-
terita. 2d ed. New York;
Wiley. 1888. Seven Lamps
of Architecture.
York; Wiley. 1884.]
Ruwenzori, 67

New

narration, 46; in para-
graph, 9, 13; in para-
graphs, 36; Burke, 247;
De Quincey, 13, 245; Ma-
caulay, 15, 242; Webster,

249

sestet, in sonnet, 294
Shakespeare, All's Well,
287; As You Like, 63,
278; Comedy Errors, 309;
Coriolanus, 307; Cymbe-
line, 157; Hamlet, 63, 206,
207, 224; Henry IV., 278;
Henry V., 189; Julius
Cæsar, 186, 240, 342;
Lear, 278, 279; Love's
Labour, 187; Macbeth,
186, 240, 278, 306, 307,
342; Mer. Venice, 55, 63,
189, 240, 278, 279, 307,
308; Measure, 8; Merry
Wives, 278; Midsummer,
278; Othello, 262,265,278;
Richard III., 181, 278;
Romeo, 187; Sonnets,
182, 258, 295; Taming
Shrew, 278, 308; Tem-
pest, 228, 276, 278, 307,
308, 309; Troilus, 270;
Wint. Tale, 278, 308, 309
shall, will, 171
shan't, 166

Shelley, 70. [Select Let-
ters. Ed. by Richard
Garnett. New York; Ap-
pleton. 1883.] Adonais,
267; Alastor, 308; Cloud,
266; Euganean Hills,
298; To -, 290; To
Skylark, 266

shifting consonants, 330
shifting point of view, 71
shop, 162

short couplet, 300
short metre, 291
should, would, 172
shrive, 331
shunt, to, 162
Sidney, advocate of Uni-
ties, 276; Defence of Po-
esy, 122, 228
sign, argument, 109, 113
signature to letter, 345
simile, 78, 180, 188
simple sentence, 154
simplicity, in oration, 316
sing, 330

single rhyme, 296
single-sentence paragraph,

square brackets, 221
stability, in expression, 152,
199, 238
standard speech, 162, 332,
334, 338
Stanley, 45, 67. [In Dark-
est Africa.
New York;

Scribner. 1890.]
stanza, 289-293
stare decisis, 120
state, the, leaving things
alone, 92
state names, 347
statute, 94
stay, stop, 131
Stedman, Victorian Poets,
291, 293
stoker, 162

stop, stay, 131
striding, in verse, 302
striking places in sentence,

199

strong rhyme, 296
stupendous, 144
style, 86, 125, 145
subject of composition, for-
mulated, 194
subject-sentence, 18-25, 197,
199; in Burke, 248; in
De Quincey, 245; George
Eliot, 239; Macaulay,
244; Webster, 249
sublime, 144
succotash, 169
such, 146

suggestion, 77, 255
suicide, to, 165
summing-up, with dash, 219
suspect, expect, 131
sustained effect, 158
swell, 145

Swift, 31, 33, 53, 86, 135.
[Gulliver's Travels. Ed.
for Schools. Boston;
Ginn. 1886]

Swinburne, Tristram, 270
syllogism, 121, 123, 213
synecdoche, 177, 178, 214
systole, 133, 337

Tait, P. G., 88, 94, 105.
[Lectures on Some Recent
Advances in Physical Sci-
ence. 2d. ed. London
Macmillan. 1876. Prop-
erties of Matter. Edin-
burgh; Black. 1885.]

take, 331

tautology, 154, 200
taxation without consent,
118

telegram, to telegraph, 165
temple, 331
Tennyson, Idylls of King,
in general, 270; genuine
idylls, 272; isometric song,
293; Audley Court, 272,
293: Break, Break, 287;
Brook, 297, 305, 307; Dora,
272; Edwin Morris, 272;
Enoch Arden, 271; Gar-
dener's Daughter, 272;
Harold, 174; In Memo-
riam, 208, 262, 267, 284,
286, 291, 300; Lady of Sha-
lott, 296; Lancelot, 187,
306; Locksley Hall, 288,
289; Merman, 288; Mil-
ler's Daughter, 272; Morte
d' Arthur, 305; Oriana,
288; Passing of Arthur,
306; Princess, 241, 265,
284, 293, 307; Queen
Mary, 68: St. Simeon
Stylites, 271; Two Voices,
290; Walking to Mail,
272; When, 288
Terence, 275
terms, 85, 122, 325
terrestrial energy, 88
terza rima, 310
testimony, 113-115, 318
tetrameter, 284, 300
text-book, use of, 232
Thackeray, Pendennis, 229
than, 139

that, clause with, not mark-
ed by comma, 218; archa-
ic use by Irving, 238
that, who, which, 136
thee, thine, thou, 163
them, they, misused for

singular, 170

then, with comma, 215;
without, 216
Theocritus, 271
theory, 7, 132

therefore, with comma, 215
there is, are, 155
these, ambiguous, 135
Thomson, Seasons 281, 305
threnody, 267
throwing, 133

thusly, 166

to be brief, sure, marked by

comma, 215

too, with comma, 215; with-
out, 216
topic-sentence, see subject-
totem, 169
Towneley Plays, 273, 274
tragedy, 277
tragic, 144
transpire, 130
transposition, marked by
comma, 215, 216; by
dash, 219
treason, 119
tremendous, 144
trimeter, 290
trinitarian, 337
trinity, 332
triplet, 289
trisyllabic rhyme, 297
trochaic foot, 284
troglodyte, 337
trouble, to, oneself, 168
trout, 331

tumbling verse, 312
Tupper, Proverbial Phil-
osophy, 281

Tyndall, John, 90, 97.
[Sound. London; Long-
man. 1867. Fragments
of Science. New York;
Appleton. 1875.]

umpire, to, 165
unaccented syllables in foot,
284, 307

unitarian, 337; unity, 332
Unities, the, 275, 279
unity of composition, 194,
195, 197; of oration, 316;
of paragraph, 5-9; in De
Quincey, 13, 245; Ma-
caulay, 242; Webster,
249; unity of sentence-
structure, 152

variety, in paragraph, 12
verbs, from nouns, 165
verse, 283
very, 146
Villa Borghese, 78
villegiatura, 168

Virgil, Æneid, 48, 53, 267,
268; Eclogues, 271; Geor-
gics, 280

vision, 183, 188, 269, 300
vocabulary, 85, 128, 234, 341

to,

in addition to, 306

with exclamation, 207

vocative expressions, with

comma, 217
vulgarisms, 165, 234, 339

wampum, 169
Warren, 184

weak endings, in verse, 308
weak rhyme, 296
wear, to, 163
Webster, 38, 78, 95, 98, 99,
158, 183, 184, 248-250, 315,
318-322. [Select Speeches.
Ed. by A. J. George.
Boston; Heath. 1893 ]
well, with and without com-
ma, 216

Welsh language, 326
Wendell, Eng. Composition,

191, 199, 201, 255, 259, 351
West Saxon, 328, 332
whether, whe'er, 310
which, ambiguous, 135
which, that, 136
Whittier, Maud Muller, 272
who, that, 136
why, how punctuated, 216
will, shall, 171
Williams, Composition and
Rhetoric, 201
Winchester, 332, 334
wire, to, 165

witness, a, 113, 115
Wolfe, Sir John Moore, 265
woman, 258
won't, 166
Worcester, 332, 334
word-breaking, 230
Wordsworth, Brougham
Castle, 59, 182; Daffo-
dils, 266; Excursion, 281;
Fountain, 296; Glen Al-
main, 297. Intimations
of Immortality, 267; Sky-
lark, 266; Tintern Abbey,
281, 305
working plan, for composi-
tion, 196; for letters, 253
would, should, 172
writing, most general feat-
ures of, 232-235
wrong, 331

yes, with comma, 216
York, 332, 334
York Plays, 274

you know, with comma, 215
Young, Night Thoughts,
190, 281, 305

THE END.