Elia, 258.

Eliot, George, vocabulary of, 13; quoted,
156; maxims of, 316; order of thought of,
: 353; subjective narration of, 495.
Elizabethan dramatists, 324.
Ellipse, 208.

Elliptical figures, defined, 207; ellipse, 208;
zeugma, 209; synesis, 210; anacoluthon,
211; aposiopesis, 212; epanorthosis, 213;
interruptio, 214; suppressio, 215; asyn-
deton, 216.

Eloquence, vivacity rising to, 239.
Elyot, Sir Thomas, new words by, 40.
Emerson, style of, 4; vocabulary of, 13;
quoted, 58, 75, 80, 81, 82, 115, 119, 136,
163, 164, 166, 177, 183, 226, 231, 233, 235,
254; mannerism of, 269; aim of, 315.
Emotional conclusion, 406.

Emotions, literature of, a part of rhetoric, 2;
concrete terms to express, 11; influence
of, on literature, 407; classification of, 408;
the beautiful and sublime, 410-431; the
ridiculous, 432-461; the fantastic, 463;
desires, 464-469; affections, 470; passions,
471-475; literature of the desires, affections,
and passions, 476–488.

Emphasis, effect on arrangement of words,
51; in parenthesis, 55; basis of figurative
language, 71; figures of, 169; emphatic
assertion, 170; negation, 171; iteration,
172-187; inversion, 188-195; unusual or
striking presentation, 196-225; in proposi-
tions, 286; in oratory, 512.
Emphatic conclusion, 406.
Enallage, 129.

Enantiosis, 81.

Energy, in concrete terms, 11; Whately's
view of, 64; among the general divisions
of the subject of persuasiveness, 66; de-
fined, 226; simplicity as tending to, 227;
conciseness, 228; retrenchment of words,
229; precision, 230; the definite more en-
ergetic than the indefinite, 231; concrete
more energetic than abstract, 232; demon-
strative words, 233; proper terms, 234;
other qualities of style that tend to, 235;
illustrations from various authors, 236;
faults of style as opposed to, 237.

Entertainment, an aim of composition, 316,

317.

Enthusiasm, vivacity rising to, 239; emotion
of, 474.
Entreaty, 486.
Epanalepsis, 182.
Epanaphora, 179.
Epanodos, 181.
Epanorthosis, 213, 529.
Epexergasia, 154.

Epic poetry, narration, 493; subjective nar-
ration, 494; definition, 598.
Epigram, antithesis, 76; a figure, 225; illus-
trated, 251; defined and illustrated, 439.
Epigrammatic style, 252; in poetry, 253;
in prose, 254; faults in, 255.
Epiphonema, 199.
Epistle, 498.

Epistrophe, 177.

Epithets, precision in, 20; defined, 137; im-
portance of, 138; popularity of, 139; in
poetry, 140; in prose, 141; faults in, 142.
Epizeuxis, 174.
Epopœia, 324.

Erskine, Lord, vocabulary of, 13; quoted,
239, 284, 379, 505, 544, 546, 550; invention
of, 320; status of, 329; digression of, 390;
causative argument of, 369; exordium of,
396; conclusion of, 554.

Esprit de corps, 470.

Essays, vocabulary of, 13; exposition, 498.
Esteem, 470.
Eulogy, 547.
Euphemism, 133.

Euphony, in different languages, 260; in dif-
ferent kinds of composition, 261; examples
of, 262; violations of, in letters and sylla-
bles, 263; repetitions of words, 264, 265;
arrangement of words, 274.
Euripides, introduction of, 354; pathetic,
480; characters of, 569.
European literature, 4.
Evans, Lord Mansfield on, 373.
"Even" changing with "and," 281.
Everett, Edward, 211.
Evidence, 370.

salutation, 198; epiphonema, 199.

Exemplative arguments, defined, 371; from
experience, 372; from analogy, 373; from
contrast, 374.
Exemplum, 136, 248.
Exergasia, 91.
Exhortation, 487.

Experience, argument from, 372.
Experimental methods of inquiry, Mill's,
366.

Fertility of resources in oratory, 553.
Fiction, admits obsolete words, 36; conclu-
sion of, 401; dialogue in, 564.
Fielding, realistic in, 323.

Figure, a source of the beautiful, 415.
Figures of speech, definition of, 67; impor-
tance of, 68; tropes, 69; classification, 70,
71; arising from idea of contrast, 72-84;
from perception of resemblance, 85-126;
from idea of contiguity, 127-142; figures
of gradation, 143-168; of iteration, 169-
187; from inversion of words, 188-195;
from unusual or striking presentation, 196-
225; harmony and embellishment, 301;
argument, 503; wit and humor, 439-443,
447-459; emotions, 484-488; oratory, 507-
532; poetry, 573.
Filial affection, 470.
Fine writing, 268.

Finish of style, 302.

Fletcher of Saltoun, quoted, 315.

Florid style, 306.

Fluent style, 258.

Foot in poetry, 583.

41.

Form, a source of the beautiful, 415.

Forms of expression, connected with the
emotions, implying superiority, 485; in-
feriority, 486; equality, 487; reference to
self, 488.

Fouché, quoted, 245.

Fouqué, De la Motte, allegory by, 112;
ideal of, 323.

Fox, Charles James, quoted, 270, 284, 374,
405, 505, 535, 536, 537, 541, 549, 550; order
of thought in, 340; outline of oration on
the rejection of Napoleon's overtures, 351;
digression of, 390; exordium of, 396; per-
oration, 405; answers to objections, 524;
command of subject, 552; fertility in re-
sources, 553; courage of, 559; intellectual
qualities of, 561.

Frank style, 258.

Franklin, quoted, 440.

Fraternal affection, 470.

Freeman, vocabulary of, 13.

French language, a source of new words, 43;
euphony, 260.

French literature, style of, 4; characteristics
of, 49; perspicuous, 57; antithetical, 75;
wit, 435; drama, 570.
Friendship, 470.

Frigidity in style, 246.
Froissart, 10.

Froude, vocabulary of, 13; summary of,

347.

Fulke, new words by, 40.

Fuller, Thomas, new words by, 40; quoted,
250, 457; style of, 258.
Fustian, 246.

Future occurrence, statement of, in oratory,

514.

Garrison, W. L. 560.
Generalization, 383.
Georgics, Virgil, 313.

German language, power of compounding
words, 45; influence on English, 46; eu-
phony, 260.

German literature, style of, 4; character of,
45, 49; drama, 570.
Gesner, 306.

Gibbon, style of, 4; vocabulary of, 13:
quoted, 49, 402; dignity of, 235; suggest-
ive style of, 257; aim of history, 317; in-
vention of, 318; status of, 328; classifica-
tion of, 334; order of thought in, 343;
concurrent streams, 344; retrogression of,
345; introduction of, 394; description of,

490.

Gilfillan, 306.

Gladstone, 555.

Glück, Elizabeth, quoted, ro.

Goethe's Faust, 112; Sorrows of Werther,

306; quoted, 490.

Goldsmith, style of, 4; simplicity of, 10;
quoted, 183; classical English, 256; pa-
thetic, 482.

Gordon, Lord George, Erskine's speech on,
illustrative argument in, 370; transition,
378; conclusion, 405; self-depreciation of,
505; outburst of feeling by, 544.
Gorgeous style, 303.

Gorgias, definition of rhetoric by, 1.
Gospels, pathetic, 479; subjective narration
of, 495.

Gothic architecture, 423.

Grace of style, 302.

Gradation, figures of, augmentative, 144-164;
decrementive, 165-168.

Grafton, letter of Junius to, quoted, 19.
Grammar, English, 48.

Grammarians formerly investigated style, 1.
Grandiloquence, 307.
Gratitude, 470.

Grattan, vocabulary of, 13; quoted, 116, 162,
178, 179, 202, 510, 531, 534; status of, 329;
panegyric of, 548; physical disadvantages
of, 559.

Gray, quoted, 79, 101, 120, 128, 130, 153, 189,
200, 295, 297, 430; epithets, 137, 140; de-
scription, 490.

Greece, history of, concurrent streams, 344.
Greek art, 423.

Greek language, a source of new words, 12,
41; power of compounding words, 45;
conjunctions, 281.

Greek literature, figures of speech, 69;
drama, 324; idea of beautiful, 423; dia-
logue, 562; ecclesiastical metres, 581.
Grey, Lord, quoted, 509, 525.

Grief, 475.

Grote, invention of, 325.

Grotesque, 463.

Ground of argument, 327.

Grouping, in description, 336.

Guizot, 495.

Gulliver's Travels, popularity of, 15; source
of allusion, 123; verisimilitude, 369; satire
of, 446.

Gushing style, 246, 306.

Habbakuk, quoted, 76, 430.

369; subjective description in, 491; sub-
jective narration in, 495.

Handy Andy, a burlesque, 437.
Hardy, Erskine's speech on, illustrative ar-
gument in, 370; argument from experience,
372; outburst of feeling, 544.
Harmonious arrangement of words, euphony
and elegance required, 274; successions,
275; modifying words, 276; impersonal
construction, 277; appended clauses, 278;
explanatory words, 279; prepositions, 280:
variation of connectives, 281; variety in
clauses, 282; co-ordination of clauses, 283;
close of sentence, 284.

Harmony, defined, 259; euphony, 260-265;
elegance, 266-273; arrangement of words,
274-284; transition, 285-291; word-paint-
ing and onomatopeia, 292-297; rhythm,
298, 299; qualities of style associated with,
300-309.

Haroun-al-Raschid, letter of, to Emperor
Nicephorus, 235.

Hastings, Warren, Macaulay's Essay on,
grouping in description, 336.
Hate, 473.

Hayne, outline of oration on Public Lands,
35I.

Hazlitt, brilliancy of, 243; classical English,
256.

Headley, J. T., 306.

Heavy style, 246.

Heber, Bishop, quoted, 586, 592.

Hebrew literature, figures of speech, 69; an-
tithesis and parallel, 75; poetry, 86.
Hedge, Dr. F. H., quoted, 121, 249.
Helps, Sir Arthur, quoted, 282, 284.
Henly, quoted, 439.

Henry, Patrick, quoted, 181, 182, 206, 214,
387, 485, 487, 488, 511, 513, 524.
Herald, New York, vocabulary of, 13.
Herbert, George, quoted, 102, 115.

Hero in fiction, 323.

Herodotus, simplicity of, 10; introduction

of, 318; status of, 328; order of thought
in, 343; introduction of, 394.
Heroine in fiction, 323.
Herrick, Robert, quoted, 115.

Hervey, Meditations of, 306.

Heylin's Observations on L'Estrange, 40.
Heywood, Thomas, quoted, 115, 439.

Historical narrative in poetry, 598.
Historic Doubts, Whately's satire of, 446.

from contrast in, 374.

Hall, Robert, 205.

59; Constitutional History, 495.

Halleck, quoted, 116.
Hamerton, vocabulary of, 13.
Hamlet, scenery in, 323; status of, 331;
classification of, 334; order of thought in,
352; introduction to, 354; verisimilitude,

344; conclusion of, 402; narrative, 494;
difference between ancient and modern,
495.

Hoffmann, 463.
Hogarth, quoted, 415.
Holland, Philemond, 40.

Holmes, O. W., quoted, 250, 254, 443.

Homer, a source of allusion, 120; epithets of,
140; aim of, 316; invention of, 320, 324,
325; pathetic, 480.
Homœoteleuton, 187.

Hood, Thomas, quoted, 76, 451, 482, 587,
590, 592; philanthropy of, 470; pathetic,
482.

Hooker, style of, 4; vocabulary of, 13.
Horace, a source of allusion, 120; quoted,
467 expository poetry, 498.
Horrible, 463, 464.

Howe, Julia Ward, quoted, 107.
"However" repeated too often, 264.
Hudibras, vocabulary of, 13; a satire, 445.
Hugo, Victor, extravagant style, 255; florid,
306; ideal of, 323; order of thought in,

Indefinite for definite, 128.
Indirect reply in oratory, 540,
Induction, 365.
Ingenuous style, 258.

Ingoldsby Legends, 437, 463.
In Memoriam, 495-

Innuendo, 126, 135, 457-

Instruction, an aim of composition, 313, 317.
Instrument put for agent, 130.

Intellectual qualities of an orator, 561,
Intentional omission of words, 528.
Interchange of feet, 589; of metres, 591.
Interesting style, 258.

Interrogation, figures of, 200; sermocinatio,
201; percontatio and expositio, 202; re-
sponsio sibi ipsi, 203.
Interruptio, 214.

Introduction, elegance in, 286; explained,
393; narration, 394; drama, 395; oratory,
396; considered with reference to its own
character, 397; general nature of, 398;
preface, 399.

Invention, a source of new words, 41; in
rhetoric, a division of method, 310; its
scope, 312; defined, 318; accumulative,
319; creative, 320; two kinds intermin-
gled, 324; creative, the greater, 325.
Inventions, 497-

Inversion, figures of, defined, 188; in poetry,

189; prose, 190; anastrophe, 191; synche-
sis, 192; tmesis, 193; hyperbaton, 194;
hysteron proteron, 195.

Invitation, 485.

Invocation, 486.

Irish humor, 435.

Irish oratory, 555.

Irish Right, Grattan's speech on, status of,

329, 373.

Irony, 124, 456.

Irving, Washington, style of, 256.
Isocolon, 83.

Isocrates, definition of rhetoric by, 1; status
of, 327.

argument, 377.

Illustrative arguments, 370.

Illustrative style, 247; by example, 248; al-

lusion and quotation, 249; comparison
and metaphor, 250; anecdote, 251.

Imagination in oratory, 561.
Imitations of great writers, 308.
Imitators of Emerson, 255.
Impersonal construction, 277.
Important point in exordium, 396.
Impropriety, 25.

Inanimate nature in description, 490.
Incidental reference in oratory, 536.
Incisive style, 235.

Incongruity, the ridiculous, 432; wit, 433.
Incrementum, 161.

Joe Millerisms, 309.
Johnson, style of, 4; elaborate, 10; verbose,
28; quoted, 49, 148, 229, 297, 383; Ras-
selas, 112; dignity of style, 235; aim of,
315; reports of debates, 502.
Jonah, Book of, vocabulary of, 13.
Jones, Sir William, quoted, 140, 439.

tion, 496-498; oratory, 499-561; dialogue,
562-564; drama, 565-573; poetry, 571-
607.
Litotes, 135.

Livingstone's Travels, 490.

Livy, affluence of style of, 59; quoted, 212;
status of, 328.

Keats, quoted, 20, 226, 421, 422, 431; style of,
258; pathetic, 482.

King John, Shakespeare's, vocabulary of, 13.
Kinglake, quoted, 117, 121, 274, 590; descrip-
tion of, 490.

Kingsley, Charles, quoted, 174, 180, 257, 586.
Knowledge, desire for, 469; outline of, 497;
of persons addressed by the orator, 555.
Kossuth, quoted, 171, 485, 487, 488, 507, 510,

594.

Laconic speech, 228.

Lady of the Lake, 394.

Lafayette, quoted, 21.

Logic, differs from rhetoric in respect of argu-

ment, 357; definition of, 358.

Logical order of thought, defined, 342; in
narration, 343; concurrent streams, 344;
retrogression, 345; explanatory narrative,
346; summary, 347; exposition, 348;
proof, 349; refutation, 350; speeches ana-
lyzed, 351; logical power in oratory, 561.
Longfellow, vocabulary of, 13; epithets of,
137; suggestive style of, 257, 262; inven-
tion of, 325; quoted, 585, 587, 589, 590.
Longinus, treatise on the sublime by, 64; defi-
nition of amplification by, 145; quoted, 157,
194, 544; sources of the sublime in, 429.
Love, in literature, 472.

Lowell, J. R., quoted, 107, 119.
Lucian, quoted, 439; dialogues of, 446.
Lucretius, expository poetry of, 498.
Luther, 501.

Lycidas, Milton's, vocabulary of, 13.
Lyrical introduction in drama, 395.
Lyric poetry, objective narration, 494; sub-
jective narration, 495; definition of, 599.
Lytton, Lord, vocabulary of, 13; versatility of,
242; mannerism of, 269; quoted, 299, 308;
aim of, 317; subjective narration by, 495.

quoted, 35, 49, 55, 59, 76, 95, 96, 110, 112,
120, 136, 157, 160, 170, 176, 190, 231, 234,
248, 254, 585; affluence of style of, 59: brill-
iancy of, 243; mannerism of, 269; word-
painting of, 292, 299; aim of, 315; Whig
sympathies of, 317; invention of, 318, 325;
bias of, 328; summary of, 347; compre-
hensiveness of, 382; description by, 492.
Macbeth, scenery in, 323; status of, 331;
classification of, 334; order of thought in,
352; verisimilitude, 369; introduction to,
395.
Mackintosh, Sir James, 245; status of, 329;
proposition of, 361; digression of, 390;
quoted, 390, 506, 518, 545.

Madrigal, 599.

of, 13.
Mandeville, 10, 258.

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