Page .... Ib. Chap Page Chap. 1. THE DERVISE ............. Speclator, 15 14. SIR BALAAM .................. Pope, 96 2. A TURKISH TALE 16 15. EDWIN AND EMMA .......... Mallett, 38 3. AVARICE AND LUXURY Ib. 17 16. CELADON AND AMELIA.... Thomson, 40 4. PLEASURE AND PAIN .... 18 17. JUNIO AND THEANA ...... Grainger, 42 5. LABOUR.................... ... World, 2018. DOUGLAS TO L. RANDOLPH .. Home, 46 6. THE OLD MAN AND HIS ASS .... Ib. 21 |19. OTHELLO'S APOLOGY... Shakspeare, 47 7. THE CHOICE OF HERCULES, Tatler, ib. 20. F.LIZA ....... ........ Darwin, 48 8. PITY ................... Mrs. Barbauld, 24 21. THE MORALIZER CORRECTED, 9. THE DEAD ASS........... Sterne, 25 Cowper, 50 10. THE SWORD 1. .... Ib. 27 22. THE FAITHFUL FRIEND ........ Ib ber 11. MARIA ..... Ib. 2993. PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED.... Ib. 53 12. THE CHAMELEON .......... Merrick, 33 24. THE NEEDLESS ALARM .......... Ib. 54 13. THE YOUTH AND THE PHILOSO. 25. THE MODERN RAKE'S PROGRESS, PHER.. .Whitehead, 95 Hurdis, 58 BOOK III.- DIDACTIC PIECES. Chap. Page 1. ON MODESTY Spectator, 61 | 15. ON HAPPINESS... .. Pope, 87 2. ON CHEERFULNESS .............. Ib. 63 16. ON VIRTUE .................... Ib. 89 3. ON SINCERITY.............. Tillotson, 66 17. ON VERSIFICATION ............ Ib. 90 4. ON HONOUR................ Guardian, 68 18. LESSONS ON WISDOM .... Armstrong, 92 5. ON GOOD HUMOUR ........ Rambler, 70 19. AGAINST INDOLENCE: An Epistle : 6. ON THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE Davies, 94 WORLD ..... ....... Ib. 73 20. ELEGY TO A YOUNG NOBLEMAN, 7 ON THE ADVANTAGES OF UNITING Mason, 97 GENTLENESS OF MANNERS WITH 21. ON THE MISERIES OF HUMAN FIRMNESS OF MIND, L. Chesterfield, 75 LIFE ..... Thomson, 98 8. ON GOOD SENSE ...........: Melmoth, 771 22. REFLECTIONS ON A FUTURE 9. ON STUDY...... ........ Bacon, 78 STATE ......... Ib. 99 10. ON SATIRICAL WIT .......... Sterne, 7923. ON PROCRASTINATION Young, 100 II. HAMLET'S INSTRUCTIONS TO THE 24. THE PAIN ARISING FROM VIRPLAYERS ..... Shakspeare, 80 TUOUS EMOTIONS ATTENDED 2. THE PRESENT CONDITION OF MAN WITH PLEASURE.......... .. Akenside, 102 VINDICATED.. Pope, 8125. ON TASTE ........................ Ib. 104 13. ON THE ORDER OF NATURE.... Ib. 8326. THE PLEASURES ARISING FROM A 14. THE ORIGIN OF SUPERSTITION CULTIVATED IMAGINATION .. Ib 106 AND TYRANNY ... . Ib. 84 27. SLAVERY .................. Darwin, 109 [ 5 ] BOOK IV.-ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES Holland, 109 4. ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE 2. VIRTUE OUR HIGHEST INTEREST, Page BOOK V.-ORATIONS AND HARANGUES. Chap Page Chap. BODY OF LUCRETIA.......... Livy, 121 PROPOSING AN ACCOMMODATION 2. HANNIBAL TO HIS SOLDIERS.... Ib. 192 BETWEEN HENRY II AND STE- PHEN ............... Lord Lyttelton, 134 THEIR HESITATING TO APPOINT 8 MR. PULTENEY'S, ON THE MOTION FOR REDUCING THE ARMY...... 138 TION AGAINST JUGURTHA, MERE- 9. SIR JOHN ST. AUBIN'S, FOR REPEAL- ING THE SEPTENNIAL ACT ...... 141 Sallust, 123 | 10. SIR ROBERT WALPOLE'S REPLY 140 REPROOF OF 11. LORD LYTTELTON'S SPEECH, ON ANDER .............. Quintus Curtius, 128 THE JEW BILL, in the Year 1753 .. 150 5. THE SCYTHIAN AMBASSADOR TO 12. IN PRAISE OF VIRTUE ........ Price, 153 ALEXANDER ........ ......... Ib. 129 13. TIE SPEECH OF BRUTUS ON THE 6. GALGACUS, THE GENERAL OF THE DEATH OP CÆSAR...... Shakspeare, 155 CALEDONII, TO HIS ARMY, TO 14. GLOUCESTER'S SPEECH TO THE GAINST THE ROMANS Tacitus, 131 | 15. HENRY V TO HIS SOLDIERS .... Ib. 157 Page Chap Page Chap 2. THE SAME SUBJECT.............. Ib. 164 Sterne, 168 12. ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY 4. ON NEGROES......... ...... Ib. 169 AND BISHOP OF ELY............ Ib. 187 5. RIVERS AND SIR HARRY.. False Del. 170 13. HAMLET AND HORATIO.......... Ib. 189 6. SIR JOHN MELVIL AND STERLING, 14. BRUTUS AND CASSIUS............ Ib. 191 Clandestine Marriage, 172 15. BELLARIUS, GUIDERIUS, AND AR- 7. BELCOUR AND STOCKWELL, W. Ind. 176 VIRAGUS 8. LORD EUSTACE AND FRAMPTON, 16. JUBA AND SYPHAX ............ Cato, 198 School for Rakes, 178 17. EDWARD AND WARWICK, Earl of W. 202 9. DUKE AND LORD ........ Shakspeare, 131 | 18. HOTSPUR AND GLENDOWER, Shak. 203 10 DUKE AND JAQUES .............. Ib. 183|19. HOTSPUR READING A LETTER.. 1207 BOOK VII.--DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. Sterne, 209 7. GRONGAR HILL.............. Dyer, 218 2. LIBERTY AND SLAVERY.......... Ib. 210 8. HYMN TO ADVERSITY ........ Gray, 222 3. CORPORAL TRIM'S ELOQUENCE, Ib. 211 9. ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF 4. THE MAN OF ROSS ............ Pope, 214 ETON COLLEGE ................ Ib. 223 5. THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN, Gold. 213 10. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY 6. THE WISIL .............. 6] 1. WARRINGTON ACADEMY, Mrs. Barb. 230 25. THE APOTHECARY. ..., Shakspeare, 258 29. ODE TO CONTENT................ Ib. 232 26. ODE TO EVENING ........... • Collins, 259 3. wann FEAR .................. Collins, 234 27. w SPRING ...... Mrs. Barbauld, 261 A. wow TRUTH ......... Mason, 236 23. DOMESTIC LOVE AND HAPPINESS Milton, 241 29. THE PLEASURES OF RETIREMENT 17. IL PENSEROSO ................... Ib. 245 18. MORNING HYMN...... .......... Ib. 250 30. GENIUS ..... 19. THE PROGRESS OF LIFE, Shakspeare 251 31. GREATNESS ... ** ............... Ib. 268 90. THE ENTRY OF BOLINGBROKE AND 32 NOVELTY..... RICHARD INTO LONDON ...... Ib. 252 39. PHILANTHROPY .. ......... Darwin, 271 92. HOTSPUR'S DESCRIPTION OF A 35. THE POET'S NEW YEAR'S GIFT.. Ib. ib. ... Ib. 254 36. ODE TO APOLLO................ Ib. 274 1. THE STORY OF LE FEVRE Sterne, 282 17. MACDUFF, MALCOLM, AND ROSSE, 9. YORICK'S DEATH ............... 1b. 291 3. THE BEGGAR'S PETITION .......... 292 182 ANTONY'S SOLILOQUY OVER CÆ. * SAR'S BODY ....... ........ Ib. 821 Pope, 294 19. aw. FUNERAL ORATION OVER .... Ib. id 6 CATO'S SOLILOQUY ........ Addison, 298 20. THE QUARREL OF BRUTUS AND 7. SOUTHAMPTON AND ESSEX ...... CASSIUS........... .......... Ib. 324 Earl of Essex, 29921. OTHELLO AND IAGO............. 1b. 327 8. JAFFIER AND PIERRE, Venice Preserv 301 22. HAMLET'S SOLILOQUY ON HIS 10. SCROOP AND RICHARD .......... Ib. 306 23. HAMLET AND GHOST ............ Ib. 393 11. HENRY IV'S SOLILOQUY ON SLEEP 24. HAMLET'S SOLILOQUY ON DEATH, 12. HENRY IV AND PRINCE HENRY, Ib. 309 25. SOLILOQUY OF THE KING IN HAM- 13. HENRY VI, WARWICK, AND CARDI- . Ib. 31226. ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY .. Pope, 337 14. WOLSEY AND CROMWELL ...... Ib. 313 27. ALEXANDER'S FEAST ...... Dryder, 341 15. LEAR ....... Ib. 316 28. ON THE DEATH OF MRS. THROCK. 6. MACBETH'S SOLILOQUY ........ Ib. 317 MORTON'S BULLFINCH.... Couper, 343 [ 7 ] ESSAY ON ELOCUTION. -Id affert ratio, docent literæ, confirmat consuetudo legendi et loquendi.--Ciceron Much declamation has been employed, to convince the world of a very plain truth, that to be able to speak well is an ornamental and useful accomplishment Without the laboured panegyrics of ancient or modern orators, the importance of a good elocution is sufficiently obvious. Every one will acknowledge it to be of some consequence, that what a man has hourly occasion to do, should be done well. Every private company, and almost every public assembly, afford opportunities of remarking the difference between a just and graceful, and a faulty and unnatural elocution ; and there are few persons, who do not daily experience the advantages of the former, and the inconveniences of the latter. The great difficulty is, not to prove that it is a desirable thing to be able to read and speak with propriety, but to point out a practicable and easy method, by which this accomplishment may be acquired. Follow Nature, is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory, without regard to which, all other rules will only produce affected declamation, not just elocution. And some accurate observers, judging, perhaps, from a few unlucky specimens of modern eloquence, have concluded, that this is the only law which ought to be prescribed; that all artificial rules are useless ; and that good sense, and a cultivated taste, are the only requisites to form a good public speaker. But it is true in the art of speaking, as well as in the art of living, that general precepts are of little use, till they are unfolded, and ed to particular cases. To discover and correct those tones and habits of speaking, which are gross deviations from Nature, and, as far as they prevail, must destroy |