UNDER NOTE X.—SPECIES AND GENUS.
"A pronoun is a part of speech put for a noun."—Paul's Accidence, p. 11. "A verb is a part of speech declined with mood and tense."—Ib., p. 15. "A participle is a part of speech derived of a verb."—Ib., p. 38. "An adverb is a part of speech joined to verbs to declare their signification."—Ib., p. 40. "A conjunction is a part of speech that joineth sentences together."—Ib., p. 41. "A preposition is a part of speech most commonly set before other parts."—Ib., p. 42. "An interjection is a part of speech which betokeneth a sudden motion or passion of the mind."—Ib., p. 44. "An enigma or riddle is also a species of allegory."—Blair's Rhet., p. 151; Murray's Gram., 343. "We may take from the Scriptures a very fine example of an allegory."—Ib.: Blair, 151; Mur., 341. "And thus have you exhibited a sort of a sketch of art."—HARRIS: in Priestley's Gram., p. 176. "We may 'imagine a subtle kind of a reasoning,' as Mr. Harris acutely observes."—Churchill's Gram., p. 71. "But, before entering on these, I shall give one instance of a very beautiful metaphor, that I may show the figure to full advantage."—Blair's Rhet., p. 143. "Aristotle, in his Poetics, uses metaphor in this extended sense, for any figurative meaning imposed upon a word; as a whole put for the part, or a part for a whole; the species for the genus, or a genus for the species."—Ib., p. 142. "It shows what kind of an apple it is of which we are speaking."—Kirkham's Gram., p. 69. "Cleon was another sort of a man."—Goldsmith's Greece, Vol. i, p. 124. "To keep off his right wing, as a kind of a reserved body."—Ib., ii, 12. "This part of speech is called a verb."—Mack's Gram., p. 70. "What sort of a thing is it?"—Hiley's Gram., p. 20. "What sort of a charm do they possess?"—Bullions's Principles of E. Gram., p. 73.
"Dear Welsted, mark, in dirty hole,
That painful animal, a Mole."—Note to Dunciad, B. ii, l. 207.