Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse

SECTION II.

1. The bad reader,

2. Respect due to old age,

3. Piety to God recommended to the young, Blair,

ib.

4. Modesty and decility,
5. Sincerity,

ib.

6. Benevolence and humanity,
7. Industry, and application,
8. Proper employment of time,
9. The true patriot,

ib.

10. On contentment,

15. On misspent time,

16. Character of Francis I,

17. The supper and grace,

18. Rustic felicity,

19. House of mourning,

11. Needlework recommended to the Ladies, ib.

12. On pride,

Guardian.

13. Journal of the life of Alexander Severus,
14. Character of Julius Cesar,

8. Pity, and allegory,

9. Advantages of commerce,

10. On public speaking,

11. Advantages of history.

12. On the immortality of the soul,

13. The combat of the Horatii and the

Curiatii,

14. On the power of Custom,

15. On pedantry,

16. The journey of a day; a picture of

2. Impertinence in discourse,

1. The honour and advantage of a constant adherence

3. Character of Addison as a writer,

4. Pleasure and pain,

5. Sir Roger de Coverly's family,
6. The folly of inconsistent expectations.
7. Description of the vale of Keswick in
Cumberland,

Aukin,

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90

ib.

91

92

93

94

120

121

123

126

3. The character of Mary, queen of Scots, Robertson,

4. The character of queen Elizabeth,

5. Charles V's resignation of his dominions, Robertson, 160

6. Importance of virtue,

11. On the head dress of the Ladies,
12. On the present and future state,
13. Uncle Toby's benevolence,
14. Story of the seige of Calais,

1. On grace in writing,

Fitzborne's letters,

Spectator.

2. On the structor of animals,

3. On natural and fantastical pleasures, - Guardian,

4. The folly and madness of ambition

illustrated,

World,

5. Battle of Pharsalia, and the death of

Pompey,

6. Character of king Alfred,

7. Awkwardness in company,

8. Virtue man's highest interest,

9. On the pleasure arising from objects

of sight,

10. Liberty and slavery,

11. The cant of criticism

12. Parallel between Pope and Dryden,

13. Story ofle Fever,

SECTION VI.

1. The shepherd and the Philosopher,

2. Ode to Leven Water,

3. Ode from the 19th psalm,

4. Rural charms,

5. The painter who pleased nobody and

every body,

6. Diversity in the human character,

9. On the death of Mr Mason,
10. Epanegyric on Great Britain,
the temple of fame,

12, Hymn to the Deity, on the seasons of

the year,

SECTION VII.

1. The camelion,

2. On the order o nature,

3. Description of a country alehouse,

4. Character of a country schoolmaster,

5. Story of Palemon and Lavinia,

6. Caledonia and Amelia,

9. Evening in Paradise described,

10. Elegy written in a country churchyard,

11. Scipio restoring the captive lady to her

lover,

7. Description of Mab, queen of the fairies, Shakespeare,247
8. On the existence of a Deity,

12. Humorous complaint to Dr. Arbuthnot

of the impertinence of scribblers,

13. Hymn to adversity,

14. The Passions-An ode,

5. On the death of Christ,

1. Lamentation for the loss of sight,

2. L'Allegro, or the merry man,

3. On the pursuits of mankind,

4. Adam and Eve's morning hymn,

5. Parting of Hector and Adromache,

6. Facetious history of John Gilpin,

7. The creation of the world,

8. Overthrow of the rebel angels,

9: Alexander's feast, or the power of music, Dryden, 275

Milton,

ib.

Pope,

Millon,
Homer,

Cowper,

Milton,

248

ib.

250

253

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256

PART IL-LESSONS IN SPEAKING.

SECTION I.

ELOQUENCE OF THE PULPIT.

1. On truth and integrity,

2. On doing as we would be done unto,

3. On benevolence and charity,

ELOQUENCE OF THE SENATE.

1. Speech of the Earle of Chesterfield,

-Lord Mansfield,

2.

SECTION III.

ELOQUENCE OF THE BAR.

1 Pleadings of Cicero against Verres,

2. Cicero for Milo,

SECTION IV.

1. Belcour and Stockwell,

2. Lady Townly and Lady Grace,

3. Priuli and Jaffier,

4. Boniface and Aimwell,

5. Lovegold and Lappet,

6. Cardinal Wolsey and Cromwell,

SPEECHES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

1. Romulus to the people of Rome, after building

the city,

Hooke,

ib.

2. Hannibal to Scipio Africanus,

3. Scipio's reply,

ib.

4. Calisthenes' reproof of Cleon's flattery to

5. Caius Marius to the Romans,

6. Publius Scipio to the Roman army,

7. Hannibal to the Carthagenian army,

8. Adherbal to the Roman senators,

9 Canuleius to the Roman consuls,

10. Junius Brutus over the dead body of

11. Demosthenes to the Athenians,

12. Jupiter to the inferior Deities,

13. Æneas to queen Dido,

14. Molech to the infernal powers,

15. Speech of Belial, advising peace,

SECTION V..

DRAMATIC PIECES.-I DIALOGUES.

West Indian, 344

Provoked Husband. 346

Venice preserved, 351

Sallust,
Hooke,

303

306

313

314

315

316

317

320

323

325

329.

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338

339

341

342.

Page.

7. Sir Charles and Lady Racket, Three weeks

after Marriage,

362

8. Brutus and Cassius, Shakespeare's Julius Cesar, 366

II. SPEECHES AND SOLILOQUIES

1. Hamlet's advice to the players, Tragedy of Hamlet, 369

2. Douglas' account of himself, Tragedy of Douglas, 370

-the hermit,

ib.

4. Sempronius' speech for war,

5. Lucius' speech for peace,

6. Hotspur's account of the fop,

1 Henry IV. 372

-soliloquy on the contents of a letter, ib. 373

8. Othello's apology for his Marriage, Tragedy of Othello, 374

9. Henry IV's soliloquy on sleep,

2 Henry IV. 375

10. Bobadil's method of defeating an

Every man in his humor, 376

11. Soliloquy of Hamlet's uncle on the

murder of his brother,

12. Soliloquy of Hamlet on death,

13. Falstaff's encomiums on sack,

14. Prologue to the Tragedy of Cato,

15. Cato's soliloquy on the immortality

of the soul,

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Tragedy of Hamlet, 377

17. Speech of Henry V. at the siege of

Harfleur,

Shakespeare's Henry V. 381

19. Soliloquy of Dick the Apprentice, Farce the Apprentice, ib.

20. Cassius instigating Brutus to join the

conspiracy against Cesar, Tragedy of Julius Cesar,383

21. Brutus harrangue on the death of Cesar, ib.

22. Anthony's oration over Cesar's body,

23. Falstaff's soliloquy on honour,

24. Part of Richard IIId's soliloquy the night preceding

the Battle of Bosworth, Tragedy of Richard IÏId, ib.

25. The world compared to a stage, As you like it,

ib.

Henry IV.

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389

APPENDIX-Containing concise lessons on a new plan, 390

385

ib.

388

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