The figures refer to the pages.
Abstract affixes, 478. Abstracts defined, 434. Acatalectic verse, 499. Accentuation, 469-471; governing principles, 470, 471. Addison, Joseph, 276; selections from the Spectator, 276-297. Affixes, 475-486; prefixes, suffixes, 475; vernacular, Latin or French, Greek, 475, 476; significant or eu- phonic, 476; orthoepic or euphonic affixes, 477, 478; significant, 478- 486; concrete and abstract, 478; of quantity, property, and relation, 478-480; grammatical and dis- criminative, 480-482; prefixes, 482-484; suffixes, 484-486; con- cretes, 484; abstracts, 484, 485; ad- jectives, 485, 486; verbs, 486; ad- verbs, 486.
Agglutinative languages, 439. Alliteration, 497, 498.
Alphabetic elements, phthongal, aph- thongal; vowels, consonants, 445; tabulated, 453, 465. Amphibrach, 500.
Angles, invaders of England, 9. Anglo-Saxon, vowel system, 447; consonant system, 452.
Ballad stanza, 501. Biographical writers
Cæsura, 502; two kinds, of the foot and of the verse, 502.
Case in language, its origin, 434. Catalectic verse, 499. Celtic, a member of the Indo-Euro- pean family of languages, 7; its contributions to the English, 8. Chaucer, Geoffrey, 50; his Clerkes Tale, 51. Clauses, 435. Clerkes Tale, 51.
Comedy, 517, 518. Concretes, 434. Concrete affixes, 478. Consonants, system of, 450. Conditional mood expressed by past tense, 20, n. on ver. 7. Confusion of tongues and dispersion of race, 1, 2.
Cowper, William, 322; selections from the Task, 323-339. Dialects, rise and spread, explained, 2. Digraphs in English, 459, 460. Diphthongs, consonant, 461. Discriminative affixes, 481, 482. Dramatic literature, 517, 518. Dactyl, 500.
Deliberative orators enumerated, 505, 506.
Derivation of words, 472-494; modes, 473; Grimm's Law, 474; by com- position, 475; by affixes, 475-486; by internal change, 486, 487; by change of use, 487-492; change of meaning, 487, 488; change of gram- matical use, 488. Elaine, 341-377. Elegiac stanza, 501. Encyclopædias, 513.
English language, a member of the Teutonic branch of the Indo- European family of languages, 8; its rise, 8-10; state at end of fourteenth century, 23. Euphonic affixes. 477, 478. Faerie Queene, selections from, 92- 127.
Gibbs, Professor, his list of pronom- inal elements, 431, 432. Grammatical affixes, 480, 481. Greek, a member of the Indo-Euro- pean family of languages, 7. Grimm's Law, 474. Hamitic languages, 7.
Herder, on origin of language, 429. Hiawatha, 379-426.
History, 507-509; historians enumer- ated, 507, 508; biographers, 509. Hooker, Richard, 133; selection from his Ecclesiastical Polity, 133– 140.
Hypercatalectic verse, 499. Iambus, 500.
Illyrian, a member of the Indo-Euro- pean family of languages, 7. Imperative mood in third person, 18, n. on ver. 1.
Indo-European family of languages,
6. Inflectional class of languages, 6, 439.
Inflections in English language at
end of fourteenth century, 23. Intensive prefixes, 482. Interjectional theory of the origin of language, 3, 4, 437. Iranian, a member of the Indo-Euro- pean family of languages, 6. Italic, a member of the Indo-Euro- pean family of languages, 7. Judicial orators enumerated, 504. Jutes, invaders of England, 9. King James' version of the Bible, 11. Langland, author of Piers Plough- man, 25.
Language, its origin, 3; the three classes of primitive elements, ob- ject - elements, thought - elements, and person - elements, 4, 5, 428- 430; primitively monosyllabic for the most part, 5, 439; progress to agglutinative stage, and to inflec- tional, 6, 439; ever changing, 440- 442; its departments, 443, 444. Latin language, its relationship to the English, 9.
Literature, its departments, 443, 444. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 378; his Hiawatha, 379-426. Mandeville, Sir John, 42; selection from his travels, 43-47. Measure in prosody, 499; monome- ters, dimeters, trimeters, tetrame- ters, pentameters, hexameters, etc., 499.
Metaphysical writers enumerated, 511, 512.
Migrations of the human race, 2, 3. Milton, John, 226; his Samson Agonistes, 227–271. Monosyllabic languages, 439. Müller, Professor Max, quoted on agglutinative languages, 439. Northmen,invaders of England, 9, 10. Notes on Versions of the Bible, 18- 23; on Piers Ploughman, 31-42; on Sir John Mandeville's travels, 47- 50; the Clerkes Tale, 51-92; the Faerie Queene, 128-133; Richard Hooker, 140, 141; Julius Cæsar, 212-226; Samson Agonistes, 272- 276; Addison's Spectator, 297-299; the Rape of the Lock, 320-322; the Task, 339, 340; Elaine, 377-388; Hiawatha, 427. Notion-words, 434.
Onomatopoetic theory of the origin of language, 4, 437, 438. Oratory, 503-506; pulpit oratory 503; forensic, judicial, 504; delib- erative, 505, 506. Orthoepy, 447-465.
Orthography of the English lan- guage at end of fourteenth cen- tury, 23; its character, 456-464. Ottava Rima, 501. Pæon, 500.
Periodical literature, 512 Phrases, 435.
Phthongal and aphthongal elements, how distinguished, 458. Physical science, writers in, 512. Piers Ploughman, 25. Poetry, 519-522; departments, di- dactic, lyric, epic, 519. Pope, Alexander, 299; his Rape of the Lock, 300-320. Prefixes, 482-484; privatives, rela- tives, intensives, 482. Privative prefixes, 482. Pronominal elements of speech, 430- 432; their early origin, 430-431; enumerated, 431, 432. Property affixes, 479. Prosody, 497-502; defined, 497; kinds of poetic form, 497. Pulpit orators enumerated, 503. Punctuation, 495, 496; classes of points, 495, 496.
Quantity affixes, 478; orthograph- ical indications of long and short quantity, 457, 458.
Rape of the Lock, 300-320.
Relation affixes, 479. Relative prefixes, 482. Rhyme, 497, 498; perfect, imperfect, 498; successive, alternate, inter- rupted, 498; single, double, triple, 498.
Rhymes royal, 501. Rhythm, 497, 498-500. Samson Agonistes, 227-271. Sanskrit, a member of the Indo-Eu- ropean family of languages, 6. Saxons, invaders of England, 9. Scandinavian, a member of the Teu- tonic branch of Indo-European family of languages, 7. Scientific discourse, 510-513; theolo- gy, 510, 511.
Semitic languages, inflected, 7. Shakespeare, William, 141; æsthet-
ic character of his Julius Cæsar, 142-145; the Tragedie of Julius Cæsar, 145-212.
Significant affixes, 478-486. Slavic, a member of the Indo-Euro- pean family of languages, 7. Sonnet, 501.
Speech, origin of, 3; its internal principle, thought to be communi- cated, 3; interjectional theory, 3; onomatopoetic theory, 4; defined as the communication of thought by means of articulate sound, 428; starts from thought, is social, and has articulate sound as its medium, 428; its elements, matter, person- ality, thought- element, 428, 429; how originated, 429.
Spenser, Edmund, 92; his Faerie Queene, 92.
Spenserian stanza, 501. Stanza, 500, 501.
etymologic, and orthographic, 467; governing principles. 468.
Tragedy, 517, 518. Trochee, 500.
Tyndale, William, translator of the Bible, 11.
Typography, influence on orthogra- phy, 462, 463.
Task, the, selections from, 323-339. Tennyson, Alfred, 340; his Elaine, 341-377.
Teutonic, a member of the Indo-Eu- ropean family of languages, 7; its contributions to the English, 9, 10.
Theological writers enumerated, 510, 511.
Thought element in speech, its ori- gin, 432; stages of progress, 433; its modifications, 433.
Unity of race and of language, Biblical narrative, 1; evidence in resemblances found in the earliest dialects, 7.
Versions of the Bible, 11. Vision of Piers Ploughman, 25; au- thor, date, character, and design, popularity, 25, 26; selection from, 26-31.
Vowels, rise of, 446-450. Words, the first, names of objects, 4; monosyllables, 439; formed on any identification of sound with object, 438; formation of words, 472-494; modes, 473; change in meaning, 487; in grammatical use, 488; ad- mission of new words, 489; gov- erning principles of admission, new needs, 489; euphemism, 489; emphasis, 490; parsimony, 491; euphony, 491; discrimination, 491; number in English vocabulary,
Wycliffe, John, translator of the Bible, 11.
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