OF

ELOQUENCE.

A

ORIGINAL ARTICLES,

ORATORICAL AND POETICAL,

INTENDED

As Exercises in Recitation, at the Institution,
Bedford Place, Russell Square.

BY JOHN THELWALL, ESQ.

PROFESSOR OF THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF ELOCUTION.

LONDON:

PRINTED, FOR THE AUTHOR,

BY J. M'CREERY, BLACK HORSE COURT,

AND SOLD BY MESSRS. ARCH, CORNHILL; RIDGEWAY, PICCADILLY;

KENT, HOLBORN, &c.

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THE CONTENTS

OF THIS VOLUME ARE AS FOLLOWS.

1. The Plan and Terms of the Institution.

2. An Introductory Discourse on the Nature and

Objects of Elocutionary Science

3. The Trident of Albion; an Epic Effusion on

the Death of Lord Nelson

4. An Oration on Martial Enthusiasm; with the

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Eulogies of Epaminondas and Alfred. 39

5. Odes for Recitation-

To the energies of Britain, in behalf of the Spa-

To EDWARD RUSHTON, on his restoration to
Sight, after a blindness of thirty years :

The SONG of ALI, the Lion of God.

To Peace (written in 1801)

To Benevolence

"From Mate and Nestlings far away"

To the English Long Bow

To Despair

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6. Two Passages translated from the first Book of

VIRGIL

7. Extracts from THE HOPE OF ALBION

8. The first Gray Hair; a Moral Rhapsody

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115

150

The earlier articles, having been printed for some
years, are already in the hands of many persons, the othe
may, therefore, be had separately.

The price of this book will shew that it does not aim at
extensive circulation. The fact is, that only a very small
edition has been printed of the additional articles, merely
for the use of the institution; and it is only pub-
lished, because it is the wish of the professor that every
thing relating to the exercises of his pupils should be open
to public inspection. For satisfaction on more important
points, the reader is referred to the Letter, just published,
by the same author, "To HENRY CLINE, Esq. on
imperfect developements of the Faculties, mental and
moral, as well as constitutional and organic;" and to
the miscellaneous articles assembled in the Appendix to
that Letter.

PLAN AND TERMS OF TUITION,

&c.

Institution for the Cure

OF

IMPEDIMENTS OF SPEECH,

INSTRUCTION OF FOREIGNERS,

Cultivation of Oratory, English composition and Polite Literature, and the Preparation of Youth for the more Liberal Departments of

ACTIVE LIFE.

No 40, BEDFORD-PLACE, RUSSEL-SQUARE, London.

PRINTED BY J. M'CREERY, FLEET-STREET,

AND SOLD BY MESSRS. ARCH, CORNHILL; RIDGEWAY, PICCADILLY; LLOYD, HARLEY-STREET; AND KENT, CORNER OF KINGS-GATE-STREET, HOLBORN.