SECTION IL

Page

The bad reader,

Percival's Tales,

89

2. Respect due to old age,

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

Spectator,

90

ib.

4. Modesty and docility,

ib.

91

5. Sincerity,

6. Benevolence and humanity,

7. Industry and application,

8. Proper employment of time,

9. The true patriot,

10. O contentment,

Spectator,

97

11. Needlework recommended to the Ladies,

ib.

100

12. On pride,

Guardian,

102

13. Journal of the life of Alexander Severus, Gibbon,

Page.

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

156

4. The character of queen Elizabeth,

Hume,

158

5. Charles V's resignation of his dominions,

6. Importance of virtue,

Price,

164

7. Address to Art,

Harris,

165

8. Flattery,

9. The absent man,

10. The monk,

11. On the head dress of the ladies.

12. On the present and a future state,

13. Uncle Toby's benevolence,

14. Story of the siege of Calais,

SECTION. V.

Theophrastus,

167

Spectator,

168

Sterne,

170

Spectator,

172

ib.

175

6. Celadon and Amelia,

Thomson,

ih.

ib.

-

246

7. Description of Mab, queen of the fairies, Shakespeare,

247

8. On the existence of a Deity,

Young,

248

9. Evening in paradise described,

Milton,

ib.

10. Elegy written in a country churchyard,

Gray,

250

11. Scipio restoring the captive lady to her

lover,

12. Hamorous complaint to Dr. Arbuthnot

of the impertinence of scribblers,

13. Hymn to adversity,

Gray,

255

14. The Passions. An ode,

Collins,

256

Alexander's feast, or the power of music, Dryden,

1. Romulus to the people of Rome, after building

the city,

Hooke,

313

2. Hannibal to Scipio Africanus,

3. Scipio's reply,

4. Calisthenes' reproof of Cleon's flattery to

Alexander,

5. Caius Marius to the Romans,

6. Publius Scipio to the Roman army,

ib.

320

7. Hannibalo the Carthagenian army,

8. Adherbal to the Roman senators,

9. Canuleius to the Roman consuls,

Hooke,

329

10. Junius Brutus over the dead body of Lucretia, ib.

7. Sir Charles and Lady Racket,

Page.

Three weeks after marriage, 362

8. Brutus and Cassius, Shakespeare's Jukus Cesar,

II.-SPEECHES AND SOLILOQUIES.

366

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. Antony's oration over Cesar's body,

ib.

23. Falstaff's soliloquy on honor,

Henry IV.

385

ib.

388

24. Part of Richard IIId's soliloquy the night

preceding the Battle of Bosworth, Tragedy of Richard Hld.ib.

25. The world compared to a stage,

As you like it,

389

APPENDIX-Containing concise lessons on a new plan,

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