F. B., Clavis Grammatica (1678)
Date
1678
Author
Book title
Clavis Grammatica: Or, The Ready Way To The Latine Tongue. Containing Most Plain Demonstrations for the Regular Translating of English into Latine. Together With Instructions how to Construe and Parse Authors; fitted as a help to such as are desirous to attain to the knowledge of the Latine Tongue; and accommodated to the meanest Capacity. Also, How to vary or compose Latine more Elegantly. With Necessary Observations for Epistolizing or Writing of Letters in English or Latine. And How to perform all kinds of School Exercises that are usually practised in Schools
Publication place
London
Publisher
Robert Harford
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- grammar
- Latin
- poetry
- rhetoric
Summary
Includes writing instructions rather than explanations of grammatical terminology, but "Directions For Performing Poetical Exercises" (pp. 116-35) offers definitions, how-to instructions, and examples of types of poetic devise (e.g., simile) and poem (e.g., acrostic, echo, etc.)
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: An Epitaph is a Poem writ upon the Herse or Tomb of a deceased person, expressing the name, age, merits, state, dignity, praises, studies, kind of death or the like in way of commiseration or sorrow. (p. 128)
sample: An Epitaph is a Poem writ upon the Herse or Tomb of a deceased person, expressing the name, age, merits, state, dignity, praises, studies, kind of death or the like in way of commiseration or sorrow. (p. 128)
Alston
XVI.414
Wing
B57a
Other editions
1689: not in Wing (Alston XVI.*415);
1696: not in Wing (Alston XVI.416)
1696: not in Wing (Alston XVI.416)
