A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles of Language and Style; the Elements of Taste and Criticism; with Rules for the Study of Composition and Eloquence ...

A. H. Maltby, 1820 - 345 頁

OF LANGUAGE AND STYLE AS THE FOUNDATION	1

Of the Rise and Progress of Language	11

A Comparison of spoken with written Lan	20

Of Cases	26

The Infinitive Mood	34

Prepositions	36

Present Use	42

Canon the Sixth points out such Words and Phrases as merit	48

Allegory	177

Allegory of a moral Species	181

A principal Error in the Use of Apostrophe is to deck	187

Hyperboles are not properly introduced till the Mind of	194

A Climax and Antithesis conjoined and carried on through	200

Taste is possessed in different Degrees by different	209

Uniformity of Taste and Sentiment resulting from our Convic	216

The terribly Sublime Darkness Solitude and Silence	222

The Sublime in Writing	229

Strength is another necessary requisite in sublime Writing	235

Colour the simplest Instance of Beauty	239

Novelty	245

A diffuse Style generally abounds in long Periods	253

The Simple Affected and Vehement Styles	259

Directions for forming Style	267

First to conciliate the Goodwill of the Hearers	273

Of the argumentative or reasoning Part of a Discourse	279

Observe not to extend Arguments too far and multiply them	282

Historical Composition comprehends Annals Memoirs Lives ibid	288

Epistolary Writing	295

CHAPTER IIVersification	303

Secondary Feet	310

Theocritus and Virgil	315

Didactic Poetry	321

Parnels Hermit jbid	329

Personages proper to the Poem	336

Emphatical Pauses	342

書名	A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles of Language and Style; the Elements of Taste and Criticism; with Rules for the Study of Composition and Eloquence ...
作者	Alexander Jamieson
出版者	A. H. Maltby, 1820
來源：	加州大學
已數位化	2007年12月7日
頁數	345 頁

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The reproach of barbarism may be incurred in three different	54

The Use of new Words inundates a Language	55

The Pleonasm	61

Of Words reckoned Synonymous	74

Of the Errors to he avoided in the Structure	80

The Properties most essential to a perfect Sentence	86

Redundant Words redundant Members new Ideas	93

Oratorical Climax	103

The same Word used in different Senses	106

In Adjectives	112

The various Species of the Unintelligible	118

PFPR 8 8222	123

The Distribution of the several Members	125

Resemblance between Sound and SenseIn	131

888	137

Table of Figures which among related Objects extend	144

Of all the Figures of Speech none comes so near to painting	149

84	153

ibid	160

Short Similes appear in the most passionate Scenes	171

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