A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles of Language and Style, and the Elements of Taste and Criticism. For the Use of Schools, Or Private Instruction

Albert Mason, 1875 - English language - 306 pages

Of the Rise and Progress of Language in	19

Of the Progress of Language in the Style	25

Conclusion	31

BOOK II	37

Of the Verb	43

Prepositions	49

National Use as oppose to Foreign	54

Criteria by which we may discriminate the objectionable Words	60

Apostrophe frequently appeared in the Oratory of Antiquit y	176

Hyperboles improper when they may be turne against the Argu	181

Interrogation commands with great Emphasis	187

Taste an improvable Faculty and refined by Education	193

Uniformity of Taste and Sentiment resulting from our Conviction	199

The Sources of the Pleasures of Taste	204

The sacred Scriptures afford us the highest Instances of	210

The Faults opposite to the Sublime are chiefly two first	216

By the Use of good Words new modelled	66

The Idiotism	70

BOOK III	81

The Arrangement of the Agent the Action and the Subject	88

Obscurity The Obscure from Defect	107

Of Improprieties arising fron Similitude in Serse	114

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

Metaphor	143

Addisons Rule for examining the Propriety of Metaphors	149

Comparisons or Similes	152

Comparisons are censurable when they prompt Feelings discordant	158

Passionate Personification	164

Allegory of a moral Species	170

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

To be clear and distinct to be probable and to be concise	250

Avoid interweaving any Thing of a foreign Nature with the	256

Biography	262

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, and the Elements of Taste and Criticism. For the Use of Schools, Or Private Instruction
Author	Alexander Jamieson
Publisher	Albert Mason, 1875
Original from	the University of Virginia
Digitized	1 Dec 2009
Length	306 pages

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