Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking : to which are Prefixed, Elements of Gesture ... and Rules for Expressing, with Propriety, the Various Passions and Emotions of the Mind

John Bioren, 1814 - Elocution - 332 pages

ON the speaking of speeches at schools Walker	9

On the acting of plays at schools ibid	18

Rules for expressing with propriety the principal passions and humours which occur in reading or public speaking Burgh	23

PART I	36

The fox and the goat Dodsleys fables	40

The court of death ibid	41

The partial judge ibid	42

Dishonesty punished Hares hints	43

On the pleasure arising from objects of sight Spectator	146

Liberty and slavery Sterne	149

The cant of criticism ibid	150

Parallel between Pope and Dryden Johnson	151

SECTION VI	159

Ode to Leven water Smollet	160

Ode from the xixth psalm Spectator	161

Rural charms Goldsmith	162

Beauty and deformity Percivals tales	44

Dionysius and Damocles ibid	45

Character of Cataline Sallust	46

Hercules choice Tatler	47

Will Honeycombs spectator Spectator	49

On good breeding Chesterfield	52

Address to a young student Knox	54

Advantages of and motives to cheerful ness Spectator	56

SECTION II	60

Piety to God recommended to the young Blair	61

Modesty and docility ibid	62

Benevolence and humanity ibid	63

Industry and application ibid	64

Needle work recommended to the ladies ibid	68

Character of Francis I	76

SECTION III	83

Page	84

Description of the vale of Keswick	90

Hume	96

On pedantry	103

Reflections in Westminster abbey Spectator	109

Importance of virtue	116

On the head dress of the ladies	123

Uncle Tobys benevolence Sterne	127

SECTION V	131

On the structure of animals Spectator	132

On natural and fantastical pleasures Guardian	134

The folly and madness of Ambition illus trated World	137

Battle of Pharsalia and the death of Pompey Goldsmith	140

Character of king Alfred Hume	144

Awkwardness in Company Chesterfield	145

Diversity in the human character Pope	164

The toilet ibid	165

The hermit Parnell	166

On the death of Mrs Mason Mason	171

The country clergyman Goldsmith	173

Panegyric on Great Britain Thompson	174

the year ibid	177

SECTION VII	180

On the order of nature Pope	181

Description of a country alchouse Goldsmith	182

Character of a country schoolmaster ibid	183

Celadon and Amelia ibid	186

Description of Mab queen of the fairies Shakespeare 187	187

On the existence of a Deity Young	188

Elegy written in a country church yard Gray	190

Hymn to adversity Gray	197

On the pursuits of mankind Pope	204

PART II	222

On the death of Christ Blair	230

2 Lord Mansfield	237

Cicero for Milo	243

SPEECHES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS	249

Hannibal to the Carthaginian army	256

Junius Brutus over the dead body	263

SECTION V	274

Boniface and Aimwell	281

Sir Charles and lady Racket	288

HAMLETS advice to the players	294

Bobadils method of defeating an army Ev man in his hum	300

18	306

Henry IV	312

Title	Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking : to which are Prefixed, Elements of Gesture ... and Rules for Expressing, with Propriety, the Various Passions and Emotions of the Mind
Author	William Scott
Edition	5
Publisher	John Bioren, 1814
Original from	The Ohio State University
Digitized	Sep 26, 2014
Length	332 pages

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