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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1870. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... index. A. Accent, 294. Adams, John Quincy, Personifica-tion, 152. Addresses, 260. Adjectives and adverbs, place of, 196. Agassiz, specimen of style of, 36. Alexander, Dr. J. A., quoted, "Mon-osyllabic8," 33. Alexandrine Verse, 296. Allegories, 122., personification used in, 152., relations of, to art, 128. Alliteration, 298. Allusions, 95. Ambiguity, 68., intentional, 70. Americanisms, 66, 236. Anapest, 295. Anecdotes, 274. Anglo-Saxon language, 30. Anti-climax, 210. Antithesis, 113. combined with Comparison, 119. connected with Rhythm, 214. Apostrophe, 156., Edward Everett on, 158. Arguments, arrangement of, 335. Art, relation of, to Allegory, 128. Articulation, defined bv Sheridan, 358., importance of distinct, 355. Autonomasia, 84. B. Bacon, Lord, advice of, on writing, 46. Bacon, Lord, on language and thought, 19., on style, 38., on time to study Rhetoric, 320., wit of, 183. Bancroft, George, climax from, 209., Loose Sentences, 203., Metaphor, 105., Tropes, 79. Barry, James, on language and painting, 24. Bayne, Peter, metaphors quoted from, 110. Beecher, Henry Ward, illustration of Irony, 143. Bethune, Rev. Dr., metaphor from, 104. Biographies, 275. Bolingbroke, Lord, on Eloquence, 344. Boswell as a biographer, 275. Brougham, Lord, on Amplification. 109., on ancient oratory, 106., on stvle of scientific papers, 256., on writing speeches, 261., sentences by, written twenty times, 205. Buckle, H. T., on style of educated women, 41. Buffon on style, 236. Burke, illustration of Burlesque, 181. Burlesque, 181. Bushnell, Rev. Dr. H., allusion from, 98., on a new language, 22. Byron, Lord, description of Poetry, 286., illustrates Comparison, 90. Byron, Lord, illustrates Personifica-tion, 154., Vision, 166., Word-painting, 23. C. Caird, Rev. Dr., illustration of Com...
