hand, spurns the sand with black hoof and horn, and tosses his mane of snow high. (Four lines, rhyming alternately.)
Where late the green ruins were blended with the rock's woodcover'd side, turrets rise in fantastic pride, and between flaunt feudal banners. (Four lines, rhyming alternately.)
Whate'er befall, I hold it true; when I sorrow most, I feel it, -better than never to have loved at all, 'tis to have loved and lost. (Tennysonian Stanza.)
Prose and poetry distinguished, p. 627.
Definition of rhythm, p. 627.
Critics differ as to whether poetry must be rhythmical, p. 630.
VERSIFICATION, p. 633.
English verse, p. 633.
RHYME, p. 633.
Rules for Rhyme, p. 633
a. Vowel sounds and final consonants, p. 633.
b. Accent of rhyming syllables, p. 633.
c. Penultimate syllables, p 633.
d. Antepenultimate syllables, 633.
Words are changed to meet the requirements of rhythm :
1. By contraction, p. 634.
2. By expansion, p. 634.
Measures, p. 635.
a. Iambic, p. 635.
b. Trochaic, p. 636.
c. Anapæstic, p. 636.
Dactyls, p 636.
The pause, p. 636.
Variety is given by:
a. Introducing other feet, p. 636.
b. Appending syllables, p. 636.
c. Contracting the first foot, p. 637.
d. Varying the pause, p. 637.
e. Combining verses of different lengths, p. 637.
f. Introducing broken verses, p. 637.
Irregular measure, p. 638.
Heroic measure, p. 639.
The elegiac stanza, p. 640.
The Spenserian stanza, p. 640.
The sonnet, p. 640.
Romantic measure, p. 641.
The Tennysonian stanza, p. 641.
Iambic trimeters, p. 641.
Ballads and hymns, p. 642.
Anapestic measure, p. 642.
Exercises, p. 643.
ABBREVIATIONS: cr. stands for criticised; q. stands for quoted.
ABBOTT, E. A., q. xlix, lxxvi,
lxxxviii, ciii, evi, cxxv, cxxviii,
cxxix, cxxxi, cxxxvii, 291, 432,
507; cr. xlvii, lxxxi
Absolute phrases, lxxxix
Acceptance, notes of, 177
Accumulation of material, 238
Accuracy in details, 86, 148, 212-215
Acerbity of tongue, 39, 43
Acrostics, 480, 484
Acta Columbiana, 597
Adams, John, 363
Adams, John Quincy, 331; cr. 622
Adaptability of similes, 607
Adaptation, 83, 506, 510, 538
Addison, Joseph, 13, 133, 325, 354, 358,
416, 439, 466; q. xxii, lxxii, 49,
114, 280, 286, 295, 480; cr. xxviii,
xxxi, lviii, lxv, lxxxviii, ci, cxix,
cxxxvi, 232, 382, 394, 396, 417,
"Adeler, Max," 450; cr. 126
Adjectives, xviii, xxiv, xxv-xliii, lxii,
lxxiv, xcv
comparison, xxviii-xxxi
definite, xxxv-xl
demonstrative, xxxv-xli
descriptive, xXV-XXXV
fitting, xxvi, xxvii, cxi, cxii
for adverbs, xxxii
indefinite, xl, xli
numeral, xli-xliii-
Adjective sentences, ci-cviii
Advantages of discussion, 62
Adverbs, lxii, lxxvi-xciii, xcv
for adjectives, xxxi
Adverb phrases, xxv, lxii
Adverb sentences, cviii
Esop, 321; q. 13, 92
Esop's Fables, 619
Affectation, 348, 419
After-dinner speeches, 88, 133
Aim of argument, 67
Albany Argus, 629
Alexander, J Addison, q. 387
Alexander, P. P., cr. xxv
Alford, Henry, 164; q. xlix, lxvii, xc,
xci, ciii, cxvii. 3, 41, 374, 426;
cr. xxxii, 232, 294, 484
Alfred, King, and the Danes, 407
Alison, Archibald, cr. Ixvii, civ, 426
Allegory, 620
Allegro, L', 638
Allen, Dr., 440
Alliteration, 479
Alva the Butcher, 452
Ambiguity, xxxiii, cx, 571
Ambiguous pronouns, 413
American humor, 111-113
Amherst professor, an, 392
Anacharsis, q. 123
Anagrams, 481
Analyses of Chapters, 12, 31, 44, 61,
80, 90, 136, 149, 167, 195, 207,
241, 254, 275, 300, 330, 341, 352,
378, 398, 433, 447, 464, 490, 504,
518, 536, 546, 561, 584, 600, 625,
644
Analyses of descriptions, 244
Analyses of sections, xciv, cxii, cxl
Analysis, 522, 541
Analysis of essay-writing, 238-240
Anapestic feet, 636
Anapæstic measure, 642
Ancient Mariner, The, 439
And, cxix-cxxi
Andrieux, M., 570
Anglo-Saxon, 384
Angus, William, q. lii
Anne, Queen, 354, 466, 478
Annoyances of a wit, 129
Answering letters, 196
Anti-climax, cxxxvi
Antithesis, cxxxvii
Any, 431
Aphorisms, 486
Apiary, an, 383
Apostrophe, 603; use of, 259-262
Apothegms, 486, 487
Apothegms, Bacon's, 611
Appleton's Journal, 473, 630
Appositives, xxv, xlvii
Appreciation, 45, 139
Arblay, Madame d', q. 366
Argument, 519, 525, 526
Aristophanes, 365
Aristotle, 526, 529, 594, 595, 611, 612,
615, 620, 623; q. 101, 104, 226,
286
Armstrong, John, 549
Arnold, Matthew, q. 344; cr. 596, 621
Arnold, Thomas, 599
Arnolfo, q. 143
Arrangement, xviii, xx, xxi, xxiv,
xxxiii, xxxiv, xxxv, xxxviii, xlvi
of phrases, lxxxix-xciii, cxii,
cxxxi
of observations, as follows: xviii,
xx, xxi, xxiv, xxvi, xxviii,
xxix, xxx, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiii,
XXXIV, XXXV, xxxvi, xxxvii,
xxxviii, xli, xlii, xliii, xliv,
xlvi. xlvii, xlviii, xlix, 1, lv,
lvi, lvii, lviii, lix, lx, lxiv, lxv,
lxx, lxxii, lxxiii, lxxv, lxxvi,
lxxvii, lxxviii, lxxxii, lxxxiii,
lxxxiv, lxxxvii, lxxxviii, lxxxix,
xc, xci, xcvii, cii, civ, cvi, cvii,
cviii, cix, cxiii, cxvi, cxviii,
cxix, cxxi, cxxii, cxxiii, cxxiv,
CXXV, cxxvi, cxxvii, cxxviii,
cxxix, cxxx, схххі, CXXXV,
cxxxvi, cxxxvii
Art of Conversation, q. 33, 47, 48, 75,
148
Art of English Poesie, 371
Articles definite, xxxv
Atlanta Constitution, q. 193
Atterbury, Francis, q. 13
Auburn Advertiser, q. 364
Augustine, q. 62
Ausonius, 623
Austin, Alfred, q. 588, 596, 630
Austin, Gilbert, q. 151
Authorized definitions, 353, 379
Author's proof, 499, 500
Authorship, 88, 143
Autumn, 495
Awkwardness, 313
BACCHANALIAN age, 132
Bacon, Sir Francis, 65, 346, 515; q.
xcviii, 136, 272, 274, 282, 284,
288, 439, 463, 594, 595, 607, 611;
cr. 220
Badinage, 127
Bain, Alexander, 320; q. xx, xxviii,
XXXV, xxxvii, xxxix, lviii, lxi,
lxx, lxxiii, lxxvii, lxxix, lxxxiii,
lxxxix, cvii, cxx, cxxi, cxxii,
413, 461; cr. 94, 98
Ballads, 599, 642
Ballantine, Serjeant, 579
Bank-checks, 186
Banter, 29, 127
Bantering compliments, 54
Barbarisms, 353
Barham, R. H., cr. lviii
Barrow, Isaac, q. 107, 136, 487
Bathos, cxxxv
Battle of Ivry, 642
Bautain, M., q. 319, 322, 323, 327, 334,
337, 338, 339, 340, 542
Baxter, Richard, 120, 445, 521
Beattie, James, q. 642
Beau, a, 489
Beauty of style, 465, 483
Beck, Dr., 313
Beecher, H. W., 453; q. 114
Beers, E. L., q. 257
Belgarde, Abbé, q. 11
Belgrave, Lord, 368
Bell, Sir Charles, q. 152, 154, 156, 159,
Bentham Jeremy, 360; cr. xxv
Bentley, Richard, 360
Berkeley, George, cr. civ
Berners, Lord, cr. 396
Berryer, Pierre Antoine, 554
Bible, The, q. 387, 454, 588, 603, 605
"Billings, Josh," q. 76
Biographical study, 239
Atlantic Monthly, 88, 502; q. 60, 146, Black ink, 194
345, 487; cr. 418
Attention, economy of, 457
Attention to the neglected, 51
Blackley, W. L., q. 81, 363, 365, 366,
Blackwood's Magazine, q. 18, 376
Blair, Hugh, q. xx, xxi, lxxxvi,
lxxxvii, cv, cxxix, 249, 466, 505,
506, 507, 510, 512, 513, 516, 520,
528, 592, 598, 603, 606; cr. xxiii,
xxix, xxxvi, lv, lviii, lix, lxvii,
lxxxii, lxxxvii, ci, cii, evi, cxviii,
cxix, cxxvii, 394, 416, 435
Blair's Rhetoric, 466
Bliss, Dr., 356, 357
Burke, Edmund, 43, 45, 279, 468, 539;
q. xcv, xcix, 120, 462; cr. lxxii,
385, 418, 452, 508
Burlesque, 223, 224, 228, 229
Burlesque age, 132
Burlington Free Press, q. 299
Burlington Hawkeye, q. 224, 230, 254,
376, 422, 495; cr. 126
Burney, Memoirs of Dr., 366
Burns, Robert, 366, 597, 611
Blunders, 350, 381, 383, 427; of the Business letters, 180–191
Butler, Samuel, 611; q. lxiii, 152, 286,
623, 634, 635. See Hudibras.
Buttman, Prof., 109
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, 344; q. Byron, Lord. 133, 139, 219, 249, 482,
Bossuet, James Benignus le, 344
598, 639, 640; q. xcv, 272, 643;
cr. 668
Cacophonous Couplet on Cardinal
Wolsey, 479
Cæsar, Julius, 467
Casura, the, 636
Bossuet and his Contemporaries, cr. Cairns, William, cr. xxv
Calumny from raillery, 37
Camden, Charles, 481
Camden Post, 609
Campaign, The, 325
Campbell, George, 415, 616, 619;
xxx, xlv, lxv, cxxii, cxxxvii, 106,
128, 225, 226, 353, 358, 379, 384,
394, 395, 396, 412, 422, 482, 438,
441, 443, 446, 454, 460, 461, 486,
505, 513, 520, 529, 534, 535, 606,
620, 622; cr. xxx, xlvii, lxxx,
lxxxii, lxxxiii, ciii, 385, 392
Campbell, Thomas, 639; q. cii, 271
Candor essential, 247
Canterbury Tales, q. 348
Capitals, use of, xviii
Carelessness, 426
Carlyle, Thomas, 360; q. 285, 287,
288, 305, 343, 349, 360; cr. 471
Carnochan, Dr., 357
Carr, Dabney, 418
Carson, Dr. Alexander, q. 602, 624
Carte de visite, a, 430
Case, 391
Catullus, 439
Cento Verse, 482
Century, The, q. 206
Chalmers, Thomas, 452; cr. lxvii
Chambers's Journal, 439
Channing, William Ellery, q. 269, 286,
344, 514, 570
Chapman, George, 365
Character of the speaker, 509
Charles the Bold, 479
Chatham, William Pi, Earl of, cr.
452
Chaucer, Geoffrey, q. 348, 371, 485,
631, 639
Chesterfield, Earl of, 605; q. 128, 264
Chicago Herald, q. 235
Tribune, q. 224, 478
Children, imagination of, 307; ques-
tions of, 308; compositions, 309
Chinese idioms, 369; parable, 388
Choate, Rufus, 444, 506; q. 470
Chronograms, 480
Chrysostom, 445
Cicero, 236, 344, 360, 439, 463, 512, 520,
524, 527, 530, 532, 539, 566, 601,
607, 623; q. 505, 523; cr. 452
Cincinnati Commercial, q. 229
Circular letter, 171
Circumlocution, 420
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, q.
Columbus, Christopher, 406
Combinations of words, 365
Comma, uses of, xxiii, xlii, lxxxix
compulsory use, 267-274
permitted use, 276-296
Commencement speeches, 306
Commendation, 45-55
Commonplaces, 306
Compactness, 193
Comparative degree, xxviii, xxix
Comparison, 323
Compelling dis ussion, 72
Complaint, 408
Complete images, 212, 250
Composition, xvii
Compositions, children's, 309; histori
cal subjects, 311; literary sub-
jects, 311; subjects generally,
306, 309; suggestions, 309;
topics, 312
Compression, 457, 460
Comte, Auguste, 320
Claude, Rev. John, q. 312, 443, 522, Comus, 366
Clauses, xxv
Clay, Henry, 488
Clemenceau, M., 514
Clemens, S. L. See "Twain, Mark."
Clifford, Justice Nathan, 514
Clifford, Professor, cr. 468
Climax, cxxiv, CXXXIV
Close observation, 212
of feeling as well as facts, 248
Clown age, 131, 132
Coarseness. 452, 454
Cobbett, William, 386; q. cxxvii, 414
Cobden, Richard, 440
Cocker, E., q. 265
Coleridge, J. T., cr. cxxv
Coleridge, S. T., 16, 249, 350, 437, 439,
612; q. xxvii, xliv. 22, 65, 96,
101, 117, 120, 128, 129, 134, 141,
144, 220, 252, 266, 269, 2.3, 344,
347, 356, 361, 366, 381, 384, 400,
408, 411, 434, 438, 439, 445, 451,
468, 474, 487, 505, 521, 587, 606,
607, 610, 617, 618, 620, 631, 632;
cr. xxxvii, lxxxii. cxxxix, 394,
421, 457, 469, 596, 618
Collard, Royer, 488
Collective words, xlii
College Courant, cr. cxiv
Collingwood, Lord,
Collocation, 427
Colloquies, Southey's, 491
Colon, use of, 274
Colton, C. C., q. cxxxiv, 280
Columbia College, 597
Concatenation, 482
Concede unessentials, 69
Conciliation, 524
Conciseness, 456
Conclusion, 519, 531
Condolence, notes of, 178
Confucius. q. 283, 286, 287
Congratulation, notes of, 178
Congreve, William, 139
Conjunctions, lxxxvii, cxviii, cxxviii,
cxxix
Conjunction phrase, lxxiv
Connecticut Legislature, 350
Conservatives, 489
Consonants confounded, 155
Construction, grammatical, 353, 366,
368, 389, 411
Construction vs. criticism, 587
Contempt, 144
Contractions, 364
Contradiction not argument, 62
Conventional jokes, 110
Conventionalities, 10
too rigid, 173
Conversation, 1-170, 305, 325, 505
Cooke, G. W., 329
Copyrights, 503
Corneille, Pierre, 13, 17, 560, 583
Cornhill Magazine, q. 15, 59, 139, 142;
cr. xxviii, 619
Correcting proof, 497
Corrections, 194, 496
Countess of Pembroke, Epitaph on, 472
Cousin, Victor, 559
Cowden-Clarke, Mary, 456
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