INDEX.

ADDISON, remark by, on Sappho's Ode, 39; hyperbole in the Spectator, 146; his admiration of Longinus, 175. Eschylus, quotation from The Orithyia of, 7; his grand imagery, 61; overstrained hyperbole, 61.

Alexander the Great, praise in Timæus of, 12; his magnanimity, 27.

Ammonius, collection of the Homeric passages in Plato by, 53.

Amphicrates, bombastic style of, 9, 14.

Anacreon, quotation from, 113.

Apollonius, his accuracy not a sign of genius, 128.

Aratus, plagiarism by, 41; rhetorical use of second person

in, 99.

Archilochus, The Shipwreck by, 42; his reverence for
Homer, 52; his irregular genius, 128.

Arimaspians, Poem on the, florid extract from, 40.
Aristophanes, his skill in composition, 154.

Aristotle, his expedient for softening metaphors, 117. Artemus Ward, humorous periphrasis from, 107; hyper

bole in, 147.

BACCHYLIDES, 129.

Bacon, value of rhetoric defended by, 142.

Boileau, translation of Longinus by, Preface, 39.
Bossuet, celebrated example of rhetoric in, 83.
Brougham, Lord, lively imagination of, 64; climax in
his speech for Queen Caroline, 91.

Bunyan, style of, 51.

Burke, his theory of the Sublime, 32; peroration in

impeachment of Warren Hastings, 70; instance of his graphic writing heightened by rhetorical figures, 82; example of hyperbaton from, 87; periphrases used by, 107; a homely but forcible comparison in, 115; abundance of his tropes, 122; a metaphor and a simile from, compared, 140.

CECILIUS, treatise on the Sublime by, 1; its defect, 1 ; his error in regard to emotion, 24; finds fault with Theopompus, 113; his limit to the combination of metaphors, 116; his unreasonable preference of Lysias to Plato, 124.

Cæsar, effect of asyndeton used by, 80.
Callisthenes, 8.

Catullus, Ode to Lesbia by, 38.

Cicero, eloquence of, compared with Demosthenes, 48. Cleitarchus, empty bombast of, 9.

Conington, quotation from translation of Virgil by, 147. Cowley, bombastic expression in, 8; anticlimax in his Ode on The Resurrection, 10.

DEMOSTHENES, saying of, 5; reference to his Speech on the Crown, 42; his style compared with Cicero's, 48; imaginary judgment by, 55; instance of his oratorical imagination, 64; wonderful skill shewn in his rhetorical oath, 67-70; the art of it concealed by its brilliance, 73; rhetorical colloquies in, 75; rhetorical figures accumulated by, 81-83; effect of complicated sentences in, 88; rhetorical singular in, 95; instance of transition, 103; combination of metaphors, 116; compared with Hypereides, 130-133; his want of humour, 131; his transcendent genius, 132, 133; his blemishes insignificant, 138; harmony of the sound and sense (Speech on the Crown, p. 291, ed. Reiske), 150-152.

Dryden, instances of affectation from, 10, 11; conceits in, 16; hyperbole in Absalom and Ahitophel, 145.

ERATOSTHENES, very correct poem by, 128. Eupolis, germ of the famous Demosthenic oath found in, 69.

Euripides, poetical imagination of, 56-60; his emulation of Æschylus, 61; well-judged hyperbole by, 62; the phrenzy of Orestes, 63; his artistic composition, 154, 155.

GIBBON, monotony of his style, 49; fine description of Persian magnificence by, 164; his comment on a passage in Longinus, 169; his estimate of Longinus, 176.

Goldsmith, instance of antimetabole from the Vicar of Wakefield, 91; specimen of poetical abruptness, 102; his plea for the faulty productions of genius, 127.