Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical Exercises and Examples : for the Use of Common Schools and Academies

Harper & Brothers, 1858 - 345 pages

Of Style and Idiom I STYLE	ix

Of different Kinds of Style	x

Perspicuity	xi

Purity	xii

Propriety	xiii

Precision	xiv

Perspicuity in the Structure of Sentences	xv

OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE XXIII Of Figurative Language	17

PART IV	172

OF ORIGINAL COMPOSITION CHAP I Selection of proper Subjects II Narrative Essays	174

Descriptive Essays IV Descriptive Essays continued V Miscellaneous Essays 159 161 163 165 168 172 174 175	175

Miscellaneous Essays continued	177

PART V	180

Of the Primitive Languages of Europe III Of the English Language IV Of the early History of the English Language V The Effect on it of the Saxon ...	181

English Literature from the Restoration to the Reign of George III	198

SECT 1 Shakspeare IL Milton	207

Of Wit Page	20

Remarks on its Importance and Necessity	21

Variety of Construction	27

Variety of Arrangement	34

78	80

Critical Examination of Passages containing Figurative Language XL Of the more General Rules for Composition	111

PART III	113

On Letterwriting II Letterwriting continued III Specimens of Letterwriting 113 114	114

Robert Southey XVIII James Montgomery XIX Lord Byron	123

Henry Kirke White	126

Criticisms on Everett Webster Calhoun and Clav	131

Essays and Philosophy	133

SECT I Orations	134

Of Varieties of Verse X Of Poetic Pauses XI Of Pastoral and Descriptive Poetry XII Of Didactic and Lyric Poetry SECT II Examples of English Lyr X...	158

Of Dramatic Poetry	159

Of Hymns Elegy	161

Of the Sonnet	163

The Literary Merit and Style of the English Bible	165

The Form of Bible Poetry	168

William Wordsworth XXIV Thomas Moore	229

237	237

248	250

Robert Burns	266

PART VII	274

AMERICAN LITERATURE AMERICAN POETS	276

SECT I Poets of our Revolutionary Period II James K Paulding John Pierpont III Richard H Dana James A Hillhouse IV Charles Sprague Charles Wil...	278

N P Willis	286

H Sigourney	288

Hannah F Gould	290

Lucretia and Margaret Davidson 291 James G Percival	291

J G C Brainard	292

H W Longfellow	293

John G Whittier	294

A B Street	295

E W B Canning XII Concluding Remarks on American Poets II SECT I Sketch of American Literature since 1815	296

The present State of American Literature and its Relation to that of England	302

Concluding Remarks upon our National Literature	305

Defects of Dr Johnsons Style of Writing	331

Pealkiri	Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical Exercises and Examples : for the Use of Common Schools and Academies
Compiled by	James Robert Boyd
Edition	8
Publisher	Harper & Brothers, 1858
Original from	the New York Public Library
Digitized	24 mai 2007
Length	345 pages

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