PAGE REPRESENTATIVE VOCABULARY. 11 2. Language helped out by extraneous circumstances :-(1) Causes or Occasions of Feeling; (2) Conduct that follows; (3) 3. Treatment for promoting Concreteness and Objectivity, 4. Requisite of Accumulation and Combination of ideas and images, 1. Meaning and Scope of PERSONIFICATION, 2. First condition-the stimulus of a leading emotion, 3. Second-a sufficient amount of resemblance, ... 6. Two degrees of Personification. I. Ascription of feelings, will 7. Personifying of Abstractions, ... ... 8. II. Attributing a quality of life, ... 3. Painful and repugnant subjects either alleviated or aggravated 4. Harmony comprehends UNITY in multitude, EXAMPLES OF HARMONY AND DISCORD. Example from Coleridge; Milton's Hymn on the Nativity, 138 35 TABLE OF CONTENTS. xix PAGE 36 38 39 40 41 IDEALITY. 3. Conditions requisite :—I. The emotions appealed to must be powerful; II. The manner of appeal must be adequate,... ... 2. Qualified by the other conditions of style, 3. Variety second to absolute originality, 4. Variety in Melody and Metre, 5. Rhetorical varying of Words, ... ... ... 2. Consistency of development, 3. Choice of Characters very wide, but still conditional, In Art compositions, something depends on the SUBJECT. PAGE This largely ib. ... INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL STRENGTH COMBINED. 5. Great Leaders. Ulysses. Mythical Heroes. Collective Strength 2. The Infliction of Suffering a source of pleasure, under the check TABLE OF CONTENTS. xxi BENEFICENT STRENGTH. 4. Power viewed apart from its maleficent and beneficent results. VOCABULARY OF STRENGTH. REVIEW OF THE VOCABULARY OF STRENGTH. I.—NAMES OF SUBJECTS OR CLASSES. Exemplification of Names of Subjects, as divided into Physical, ... Power with Possibility :-Inanimate World; Artificial Struc- tures. Abstract Names. Negative and Numerical Names, ib. Homer. Greek Tragedy and Comedy, Illustration from the glorification of the Principle of Evil:- Cases of Combat suited to impart interest. The single combat. Example's in the Odyssey. Virgil's management. Modern Detailed examination of Scott's combat between Fitz-James and ib. ib. ... Beneficence touches on Tender Feeling. Its broader workings Pope on the primitive Patriarch. Shelley on the power of speech. Carlyle's Heroes. Wordsworth's 'Grace Darling'. Cowper's Chatham'. De Quincey on Shakespeare's The special emotions veiled rather than excluded, Examples of Strength in Character with the nearest approach to purity:-Wordsworth's Milton, Chatterton, and Burns. Hamlet's picture of his father, Nature presents the chief examples of nearly Neutral Strength, as Sublimity. The Celestial Universe:-Dante, Milton, Sublimity of Time :-Chalmers on Eternity; Shelley. His- ... torical Time in 'Locksley Hall,' |