Golden Fleece, Philip institutes
Good usage dictates the correct in English, 139. "Gorboduc," 93.
Gosse (Edmund) on the poetry of the trouvères, 180.
Gould (Edward S.) on law of language, 262; views contro- verted, 263.
Govea (Andrew) accompanied by Buchanan to France, 78; death, 79.
"Government of the people, by the people, and of the, people," 38. Gower, John, 36, 44-46. Grammar, 241-257; knowledge of, desirable, 259; an anatomical science, its value,' 264; the first English, 261; function to follow after, analyze, and describe, not to dictate, 261; not indispen- sable, 259; unknown to masters of English, 263. Grammarians correct grammarians, 259; the duty of, 264.
Grammatical forms confused, 24; rules worthless, if not based on usage, 260.
Granada, Prince of, 123-124. Grand, 141.
Grandgent, Professor Charles H., 287.
Grant, Ulysses Simpson, on the in- fluence of the Bible, 120.
Gray, Thomas, 142.
Grotius (Hugo) meets Milton, 126. Growth of English, 11-138. Guardian (The), established, 137. Guiana, Raleigh's Narrative of a Cruise to, 110.
Had got, 340. Had went, 340.
Hague (The), English "Courant" printed at, 133.
Haldeman, Dr. Samuel, 287. Haley (Dr.) on the reading public, 305.
Hall, Fitzedward, 346.
Hallam (Henry), on Hooker, 88;
on Bacon, 112; on the Bible, 123. Harris, Dr. William Torrey, pro-
nunciation and spelling, 283-284, 287; on the sound of "ch," 291. Harrison on Heywood, 72. Hathaway, Anne, 100.
Hazlitt (William) on big words, 319.
Hearne (Thomas) issues the "Rhyming Chronicle," 29. Hebrew words in Bible, 124. Heer, 154.
Hempl, Dr. George, 287.
Hengest and Horsa aid Vortigern,
3; defeat Britons, 4.
Henry IV. of England an exile, 36. Henry VIII. and the Church of England, 66; and the religious houses, 67; Coverdale's Bible dedicated to, 70; rewards Ascham, 76.
Henry (O.), 206.
Hercules, Pillars of, 1.
Heriot (James) befriends Bu- chanan, 78.
Her'n, 154.
Herodotus, 1.
"Heroic verse" defined, 198. Heterogeneous character of En- glish, 11, 159-173.
Heywood, John, 72.
Hickes (George), fragment from Caedmon, 16; on sources of En- glish words, 162.
Hindu words in English, 169. Hiser, 154. His'n, 154.
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis An- glorum, 19.
Historic plays, Shakespeare's, 98. "History of the Britons," character of, 27; extract from, 28-29. "History of English Kings," 27. "History of Scotland," 80. "History of the World," 109-110. Hizzen, 154.
Hoccleve, Thomas, 155. Holinshed (Raphael) on "taske,"
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 323. Holste, Lucas, 126.
Holy Land, English soldiers in, 350. Hone (William) on the abolition of religious houses, 68.
Honorius, 3.
Hooker, Richard, 86-89.
Horne (Thomas Hartwell) on sta- tistics of the Bible, 123. Horton (Dr. Edward A.) on the modern sex novel, 309. "Household Words," 342. Howard (Henry, Earl of Surrey), 69-70.
Howell, James, 329.
Huloet, Richard, 130. Humanitarian, change of meaning, 213.
Hungarian terms in English, 169. Huntingdonshire, Proclamation to the people of, 25.
Huxley's (Thomas) definition of literature, 174.
"I," the sound and symbol. See AI. "i" sound, the so-called long, 292. "i" in "marine," the sound of, 293. "I done it," 347.
Ida the Torch-bearer, 5. Idealism in literature, 184. Idler (The), started by Samuel Johnson, 137.
Idyl, the, 192, 200, 203-204. Ierne, 1.
Illustrated Times (The) issued
without stamp, 136.
"Il Penseroso," by Milton, 126. Imagery in rhetoric, 194. "Imagination" defined, 192. Imitation, tendency toward, 328. Immigrants, the teaching of En- glish to, 303.
"Imperfect tense" defined, 252. "Impersonal verb" defined, 250. Incommode, 143.
Increase of one's vocabulary, the, 220. "Indefinite pronoun" defined, 246- 247. Indianapolis Journal (Editor of), on vocabulary of average man, 214, 217-219. Individuality in its relation to the state, 325; in writing, 325-331; shown in letter-writing, 328-329. "Induction to the Mirrour of Mag- istrates," by Sackville, 94.
Infinitive, Split. See SPLIT INFINI-
Jewel (Bishop) befriends Hooker, 86.
John (King) and the Great Charter, 25.
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 14, 131; starts "The Idler," 137; “curi- ous" defined by, 143; "colleague" defined by, 144; lexicographer" defined by, 222, 342. Jongleur, the, 34, 180.
Jones (Dr. Daniel) on English pronunciation, 272.
Jonson, Benjamin, 105-108; on language and style, 107-108; on Francis Bacon, 114; on Shakespeare, 97, 101; on the strophe, 202.
Jonson, Broer, printer of English "Courants," 133. "Juliana," 18.
Jutes defeat Britons and land, 3; settle in Kent, 3; settle in Isle of Wight and Hampshire, 7.
Keats (John), Influence of Spenser on, 85.
Keble (John), on the sixth book of "Ecclesiastical Polity," 88. Kent, Jutes settle in, 3; under Mercian supremacy, 6-7; submits to Offa, 7.
Keynor identified, 4.
Kingdom of West Saxons founded, 5; of Deira formed, 6.
King James version of the Bible, see BIBLE.
"King's Book," The, 67.
"King's Quhair," The, 46, 47. Kipling (Rudyard) on American English, 333-335.
Kittredge (Prof. George L.) identi- fies Malory, 61.
Ladd (Prof. George T.) on imagi- nation, 193.
"Lady of the May," by Sir Philip Sidney, 80.
"L'Allegro," by Milton, 126.
Lamb (Charles) on Spenser, 85. Langland, William (Robert), 47- 48; alliterative character of his verse, 48.
Language, subject to syntactical license, 53.
Languages of Britain, 9. Lappenberg, Johann Martin, 4. Large (Robert) Caxton's master, 54.
Late Middle English Period, 11, 34- 49.
Latimer, Hugh, 73.
Lawrence the Sexton, 50.
"Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity," by Richard Hooker, 86, 88. Layamon (Laweman), 31. Learn used for "teach," 151. "Learning," Francis Bacon's Essay on, 115-116.
Lee (Sir Sidney) on Shakespeare, 98.
Leland's (fruits of) commission to preserve literary collections, 67- 68.
Lesser used for "less," 145. Less happier, 145.
Letter-name and its sound, lack of relation between, 275.
Letters (number of) in different alphabets, 239-240.
Letter-writing, individuality shown in, 328-329.
Leveling of inflections, 24.
Libraries, effect of Henry VIII.'s edicts on the, 68.
"Life and Reign of Edward V.," by Sir Thomas More, 63. "Limiting adjective" defined, 254. Linguistic character of the Bible, 123.
Lippincott's Magazine, 347. Literature: its Elements, 174-211.
American Association of Col- leges and Preparatory Schools selections for the study of En- glish, 208-211.
Literature, Professor Henry Seidel Canby on the reading of English, 306-307.
Hon. John J. Delany on lack of knowledge of English, 337. Literary ballad, 205.
Lithgow (William), "fetching a walk," 150.
London, English "Courants" first appear in, 133.
London Gazette issued, 135.
Lord's Prayer (the) in Kentish dialect, 46.
Louis XIV.'s aversion to "gros," 141.
Lounsbury (Professor Thomas R.), on authors using split infinitive, 157; on grammars, 260; on cor- rect English, 340; on corrupt English, 346, 347.
Lowell (James Russell), on Spen- ser, 85; an editor, 323. Lowth (Bishop) on "wrote" for "written," 147.
Lubbock, (Sir John), Hundred Best Books, 310, 384-385. "Lycidas," by Milton, 126. Lyly, John, "most brightest" used by, 146.
"Lyric poetry" defined, 192, 200.
Macaulay's (Lord), description of Milton, 124; Essays, 323; Barrère, 327; on Milton, 327. MacKellar (Dr. Thomas) on Cax- ton's books, 56.
Madden (M. J. P. A.) on relations
of Caxton and Mansion, 56-57. Mair, John, 78.
Maetzner's classification of prepo- sitions, 257.
Malory, Sir Thomas, 61; described by Caxton, 61. Manchester Union (The) on num- ber of words in the Bible, 124. Mandeville, Sir John de, 36; "Narrative" of his travels, 36; extract from his "Pilgrymages in Jerusalem, etc," 37. Mansion, Colard, 55.
Manso, patron of Tasso, meets Milton, 127. Mantegazza, Paolo, 229. Maori terms in English, 169.
March, Dr. Francis A., Sr., 287.
Margent used for margin, 142. Marsh (Professor George P.), on Anglo-Saxon speech, 8; on
neglect of Anglo-Saxon and Old English, 13; on the contents of dictionaries, 164, 165; on the dictionaries of his day, 221; on the study of the dictionary, 223; on speech corruption, 340. Martyrs, Book of, 73, 75. Mary (Queen) appoints Roger Ascham her Latin secretary, 76; increases his pension, 76. Mary Queen of Scots, Buchanan appointed tutor to, 79. Masters of English ignorant of grammar, many, 263. Matthews (Professor Brander) on
the split infinitive, 158; on the use of foreign words in English 169; on the vitalizing element of slang, 344-345; on style, 345. Matthews (Sir Tobie), appreciation of Francis Bacon, 114.
Maxwell (Dr. William H.), member of N. E. A. special committee on phonetics, 287.
Meiklejohn on English sounds, 132. Meistersinger, the, 181.
Melodrama, the, 190. Memory (child's),
taxed in learning pronunciation, 270-271.
"Men of the March," 6.
Menage (Gilles) on Louis XIV.
Mercia (kingdom of) settled, 6; counties embraced by kingdom of, 8.
Mercians supreme, 6; decline, 7. "Meter" defined, 196-198.
Metrical character of verse, 196. Middle comedy, 189.
Midlands (language of), dominant, 44.
Milton (John), extent of his vo- cabulary, 102; life and works, 125-130; on "Education," 127, 319; thirty-line sentence by, 319- 320.
and participial inflections, 148- 149.
use of "distract," 149.
use of "fetch my round," 149. use of 'forsook," 147.
Miracle play, 89-91, 185.
Mirrour of Magistrates, Induction
to, by Sackville, 94.
Mistook used for "mistaken," 147. "Mode" defined, 251.
Modern English, 12, 53, 124-138. Modern Language Association, 287. Modern Period, 49, 124-138. Mohammedan (terms from) world. used in English, 171. Monasteries centers of learning, 34. Monks, the, 23-34. Monodrama, 192.
Monolog (dramatic) defined, 205. Montagu (Lady Mary Wortley), 329.
Moralities (the), 91.
Morality play, 185.
More, Sir Thomas, 62-65.
More better, 145.
More happier, 145.
More readier, 146. More sharper, 145. Morley, Viscount, 323. Morte d'Arthur, 61. Most basest, 145. Most boldest, 146. Most brightest, 146. Most heaviest, 146. Most Highest, 145.
Most straitest, 145.
Most unkindest, 146.
Motley, John Lothrop, 50. Murray (Earl) appoints Buchanan principal of St. Leonard's Col- lege, 79.
Murray, Sir James A. H., 13; re- produces Caxton's translation of Vergil's "Eneydos," 60; citation of Palsgrave's use of "fetch" from the "New English Diction-
National Education Association Committee's Alphabet used Funk and Wagnalls New Stand- ard Dictionary, 302-303. Navarretta, battle of, 35. Navigators enriched the language, 166.
"Necessary Erudition," The, 67. Necessityed, 141.
Negative, the double, triple, and quadruple, 144.
"Neuter verb" defined, 250.
"New Atlantis," 114.
New Comedy, 189.
"New English Dictionary," 293, 294.
News as a singular, 155.
"News Letter," printed in Dutch, 133, 134.
"Newsletter" issued, 135.
Newspaper English, its quality, 137.
Newspaper press, introduction of, 132-135.
Newspaper Stamp Tax, 136.
Newspapers (increase of), under Charles II., 135; causes (tax- ation), 136.
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