OF

RHETORICAL ANALYSIS.

STUDIES IN STYLE AND INVENTION,

DESIGNED TO ACCOMPANY THE AUTHOR'S PRACTICAL
ELEMENTS OF RHETORIC.

BY

Franklin

JOHN F. GENUNG,

PH.D. OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LEIPSIC; PROFESSOR OF Rhetoric

IN AMHERST COLLEGE.

- BOSTON, U.S. A.:

GINN & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.

1889.

CONTENTS.

Study Introductory to Following Selections

III. EDMUND BURKE. The Age of Chivalry is gone! .

IV. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. On Letts's Diary.

V. JOHN RUSKIN. Description of St. Mark's, Venice

VI. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. The Poetry of St. Peter's, Rome.

VII. THOMAS CARLYLE. Coleridge as a Talker

PART I.-STUDIES IN STYLE.

1. JOHN BUNYAN. Christian's Fight with Apollyon .

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II. THOMAS DE QUINCEY. On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth

Study of Figures in Previous Selections

VIII. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY. A Liberal Education

IX. JOHN HENRY, CARDINAL NEWMAN. 1. Accuracy of Mind.

II. Ideal Authorship described

Study of Fundamental Processes in Previous Selections.

X. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. The Custom-House Inspector

XI. MATTHEW ARNOLD. The Literary Spirit of the English and of

the French compared.

Study of Sentences in Previous Selections

XII. THOMAS BABINGTON, LORD MACAULAY.

Imagination in writing History

Study of Paragraphs in Previous Selections

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ΠΙΟ

The Work of the

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128

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XVI. RICHARD DODDRIDGE BLACK MORE. Description of Glen Doone 156

XVII. ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY. Triumphal Entry of Christ to Jeru-

XVIII. JOHN RICHARD GREEN. The Character of Queen Elizabeth.

Notes on Description in Previous Selections.

XIX. THOMAS HUGHES. St. Ambrose Crew win their First Race

XX. JOSEPH HENRY SHORTHOUSE. A Mysterious Incident.

XXI. SIR WALTER SCOTT. An Historical Incident Retold

XXII. JOHN STUART MILL. The Meaning of the Term Nature

XXIII. JOHN RUSKIN. Of the Pathetic Fallacy.

Notes on Exposition in Previous Selections

253

XXIV. JOHN TYNDALL. The Meteoric Theory of the Sun's Heat

XXV. THOMAS BABINGTON, LORD MACAULAY. Queen Elizabeth a Per-

255

secutor

266

XXVI. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. The Public Duty of Educated Men.

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