A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles of Language and Style ... with Rules, for the Study of Composition and Eloquence: Illustrated by Appropriate Examples, Selected Chiefly from the British Classics ...

A.H. Maltby, 1850 - Textbooks - 306 pages

Of the Rise and Progress of Language in	19

Of the Progress of Language in the Style	25

Conjunctions	28

BOOK II	37

Interjections	50

Good	56

Canon the Tenth regards the Suppression of a significant Term	63

The Impropriety	69

Passionate Personification	164

Allegory of a moral Species	170

Apostrophe frequently appeared in the Oratory of Antiquity	176

Hyperboles improper when they may be turned against the Argu	181

Interrogation commands with great Emphasis	187

Taste an improvable Faculty and refined by Education	193

of a common Standard	199

Regularity a Source of Beauty	204

The Idiotism	70

The Sources of the Pleasures of Taste	75

BOOK III	81

The Arrangement of the Agent the Action and the Subject	88

Unity	94

Disposition of the capital Word or Words	100

Perspicuity	106

Of the Unintelligible	116

How a melodious Structure is formed	122

The Current of Sound adapted to the Tenor of a Discourse	128

BOOK IV	136

Table of Attributes expressed figuratively	142

Addisons Rule for examining the Propriety of Metaphors	149

Comparisons or Similes	152

Comparisons are censurable when they prompt Feelings discordant	158

This Sense of Beauty in Fitness and Design has an extensive	222

A diffuse Style generally abounds in long Periods	230

A plain Style	233

An Author may write simply and yet not beautifully	240

The Exordium or Introduction common to all kinds of public	246

Fourthly the Terms in which our Partitions are expressed should	249

The Difference between showing the Hearers that they ought	255

Sound Morality should always reign in History	261

The Origin and Progress of Poetry	267

The Nature of the Principal Feet	273

Blank Verse	279

The Odes of Pindar Sappho and Anacreon	285

Miltons Allegro	291

The Unity of the Epic Action	297

Emphasis Pauses Tones and Gestures	303

Title	A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles of Language and Style ... with Rules, for the Study of Composition and Eloquence: Illustrated by Appropriate Examples, Selected Chiefly from the British Classics ...
Author	Alexander Jamieson
Edition	29
Publisher	A.H. Maltby, 1850
Original from	The Ohio State University
Digitized	30 Sep 2014
Length	306 pages

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