Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical Exercises and Examples. For the Use of Common Schools and Academies. Including, Also, a Succinct History of the English Language, and of British and American Literatrue from the Earliest to the Present Times. On the Basis of the Recent Works of Alexander Reid and Robert Connel; with Large Additions from Other Sources

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PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS	ix

Of different Kinds of Style	x

Perspicuity	xi

Purity	xii

Propriety	xiii

Precisión	xiv

Perspicuity in the Structure of Sentences	xv

OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE XXIII Of Figurative Language	17

The Form of Bible Poetry 163 165	168

PART IV	172

Narrative Essays	174

Descriptive Essays IV Descriptive Essays continued V Miscellaneous Essays 172 174	175

Miscellaneous Essays continued	177

PART V	180

Of the Primitive Languages of Europe	181

Of the English Language	182

Spelling how best learned	19

Of Miscellaneous Figures of Speech XXXVIL Of Allusions Page	20

Variety of Construction	27

Variety of Arrangement	34

FARHARTS88FIRE	51

Of	108

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

PART III	113

On Letterwriting Fr Letterwriting continued III Specimens of Letterwriting II Of Dialogue and Enigmas III Of History 113 114	114

Criticisms on Everett Webster Calhoun and Clay	133

SECT I Orations	134

Paga	142

Of Hymns Elegy	161

Of the early History of the English Language V The Effect on it of the Saxon Conquest VI The Effect on it of the Danish Conquest VII The Effect o...	184

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

English Literature of the present	199

English Novels and Romances V The English Periodical Press VI English Philosophers and Critics of the present Century BRITISH POETS Criticisms...	202

George Crabbe	237

Robert Southey	245

Thomas Moore	265

Sir Walter Scott	274

N P Willis	286

J G C Brainard	292

Concluding Remarks on American Poets	299

Concluding Remarks upon our National Literature	305

Заглавие	Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical Exercises and Examples. For the Use of Common Schools and Academies. Including, Also, a Succinct History of the English Language, and of British and American Literatrue from the Earliest to the Present Times. On the Basis of the ... Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical Exercises and Examples. For the Use of Common Schools and Academies. Including, Also, a Succinct History of the English Language, and of British and American Literatrue from the Earliest to the Present Times. On the Basis of the Recent Works of Alexander Reid and Robert Connel; with Large Additions from Other Sources, James Robert Boyd
Автор	James Robert Boyd
Издател	Harper & brothers, 1844
Оригиналът е от	Нюйоркската обществена библиотека
Цифровизирана на	29 май 2007
Брой страници	306 страници

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