............................. Pope, 36 15. EDWIN AND EMMA........... Mallett, 38 16. CELADON AND AMELIA....Thomson, 40 World, 2018. DOUGLAS TO L. RANDOLPH .. Home, 46 6. THE OLD MAN AND HIS ASS ....I. 21 19. OTHELLO'S APOLOGY.......... Shakspeare, 47 9. THE DEAD ASS..... 10. THE SWORD 11. MARIA Mrs. Barbauld, 24 21. THE MORALIZER ...... Sterne, 25 ........ Ib. 29 23. PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED.... Ib. 53 Merrick, 33 24. THE NEEDLESS ALARM.......... Ib. 54 13. THE YOUTH AND THE PHILOSO- 25. THE MODERN RAKE'S PROGRESS, 2. ON CHEERFULNESS.............. Ib. 63 16. ON VIRTUE.......... 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 : 10. ON SATIRICAL WIT .......... Sterne, 79 23. ON PROCRASTINATION ...... Young, 100 24. THE PAIN ARISING FROM VIR- WITH PLEASURE.........."Akenside, 102 2. THE PRESENT CONDITION OF MAN VINDICATED. 13. ON THE ORDER OF NATURE.... Ib. 83 26. THE PLEASURES ARISING FROM A CULTIVATED IMAGINATION .. Ib 106 84 27. SLAVERY .......................................... Darwin, 108 14. THE ORIGIN OF SUPERSTITION AND TYRANNY .................. Ib. [5] Page Chap. Page ....Holland, 109 4. ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE Page 7. THE EARL OF ARUNDEL'S SPEECH, PHEN ............. Lord Lyttelton, 134 8 MR. PULTENEY'S, ON THE MOTION FOR REDUCING THE ARMY...... 138 9. SIR JOHN ST. AUBIN'S, FOR REPEAL- ING THE SEPTENNIAL ACT...... 141 ANDER.............. Quintus Curtius, 128 ALEXANDER ................... Ib. 129 6. GALGACUS, THE GENERAL OF THE GAINST THE ROMANS .... Tacitus, 13115. HENRY V TO HIS SOLDIERS ....Ib. 157 AND BISHOP OF ELY............ Ib. 187 13. HAMLET AND HORATIO............ Ib. 189 14. BRUTUS AND CASSIUS............ Ib. 191 S. ON CRITICISM .......................................... Sterne, 168 12. ARCHBISHOP School for Rakes, 178 10 DUKE AND JAQUES ............. Ib. 183 19. HOTSPUR READING A LETTER.. 207 2. LIBERTY AND SLAVERY.......... Ib. 210 3. CORPORAL TRIM'S ELOQUENCE, Ib. 211 4. THE MAN OF ROSS ............ Pope, 212 5. THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN, Gold. 213 10. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY S. HYMN TO ADVERSITY........ Gray, 222 • Collins, 259 1. WARRINGTON ACADEMY, Mrs. Barb. 230 25. THE APOTHECARY. ... Shakspeare, 253 9. ODE TO CONTENT................ 1b. 232 26. ODE TO EVENING 13. ~~~~~~~ FEAR................ Collins, 234 27. ~~~~~~ SPRING...... Mrs. Barbauld, 261 16. L'ALLEGRO.................... Milton, 241 29. THE PLEASURES OF RETIREMENT 17. IL PENSEROSO ................... Ib. 245 18. MORNING HYMN.................. Ib. 250 19. THE PROGRESS OF LIFE, Shakspeare 251 20. THE ENTRY OF BOLINGBROKE AND 31. GREATNESS ............. Ib. 268 32 NOVELTY........ ........... Ib. 270 33. PHILANTHROPY ........... Darwin, 271 35. THE POET'S NEW YEAR'S GIFT.. Ib. ib FOP 23. CLARENCE'S DREAM ......... Ib. 255 37. CATHARINA Shakespeare, 318 1. THE STORY OF LE FEVRE.. Sterne, 282 17. MACDUFF, MALCOLM, AND ROSSE, 2. YORICK'S DEATH .............. Ib. 291 3. THE BEGGAR'S PETITION.......... 292 18 ANTONY'S SOLILOQUY OVER CE- MOTHER'S MARRIAGE 1b. 332 Earl of Essex, 299 21. OTHELLO AND IAGO.............Ib. 327 8. JAFFIER AND PIERRE, Venice Preserv 301 22. HAMLET'S SOLILOQUY ON HIS 9. ORLANDO AND ADAM.... Shakspeare, 304 10. SCROOP AND RICHARD.......... Ib. 306 23. HAMLET AND GHOST .... Ib. 335 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. 312 26. ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY ... Pope, 337 ESSAY ON ELOCUTION. -Id affert ratio, docent literæ, confirmat consuetudo legendi et loquendi.~Cicero 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 applied 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 |