SECTION II.

* The bad reader,

Percival's Tales,

2. Respect due to old age,

Spectator,

3. Pieiy to God recomnended to the young, Blair,

4. Modesty and docility,

ib.

5. Sincerity,

ib.

6. Benevolence and humanity,

ib.

7. Industry and application,

ib.

8. Proper employment of time,

ib.

9. The true patriot,

Art of Thinking,

10. Or. contentment,

Spectator,

11. Needlework recommended to the Ladies, ib.

12. On pride,

Guardian,

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

13. Character of Julius Cesar,

Middleton,

15. On mispent time,

Guardian

16. Character of Francis 1,

Robertson,

17. The supper and grace,

Sterne,

18. Rustic felicity,

19. House of morning,

ib.

89

90

id.

91

92

93

94

95

96

97

100

102

104

105

106

110

113

115

116

ib.

SECTION IIF.

119

ib.

120
121
123
126

1. The honor and advantage of a constant

adherence to truth,

Percival's Tales,

2: Impertinence in discourse,

Theophrasta,

3. Character of Aldison as a writer,

Johnson,

4. Pleasure and pain,

Spectator,

5. Sir Roger de Coverly's family,

ib.

6. The folly of inconsistent expectations, Pitkin,

7. Description of the vale of Keswick in

Cumberland,

Brown,

8. Pity, an allegory,

Aitkin,

9. ventages of commerce,

Spectator,

10. On public speaking,

ib.

11. Advantages of history,

Thame,

12. On the immortality of the soul,

Spectiilor's

13. The combat of the Horatii and the

Curiatii,

Lizy,

14. On the power of custom,

Specéullor',

15. On pedantry,

Mirror,

16. The journey of a day; a picture of

human life,

liamüler',

128

131

133

135

136

139

141

196

118

SECTION IV.

153

1. Description of the amphitheatre of

Titus,

2. Reflections in IV ostminster ibbey,

Gibb07a,
Spectulus

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

4. The character of queen Elizabeth, Hume,

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

6. Importance of virtue,

Price,

7. Address to Art,

Harris,

8. Flattery,

Theophrastus,

9. The absent man,

Spectator,

10. The monk,

Sterne,

11. On the head dress of the ladies. Spectator,

12. On the present and a future state,

ib.

13. Uncle Toby's benevo:ence,

Sterne,

14. Story of the siege of Calais, Fool of Quality,

Page.

156

158

160

164

165

167

168

170

172

175

178

179

SECTION V.

184

185

189

193

1. On grace in writing,

Fitzsborn's Letters,

2. On the structure of animals, Spectator,

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,

Goldsmith,

6. Character of king Alfreil,

Hume,

7. Awarkness in company,

Chesterfield,

8. Virtue, man's highest interest,

Harris,

9. On the pleasure arising from objects

of sight,

Spectator,

10. Liberty and slavery,

Sterne,

11. The cant of criticism,

ib.

12. Parallel between Pope and Dryden, Johnson,

13. Story of le Fever,

Sterne,

197

202

205

204

205
208
209
211
212

SECTION. VII.

Page.

ib.

1. The camelion,

Merrick,

2. On the order of nature,

Pope,

8. Description of a country alehouse, Goldsmith,

4. Character of a country schoolmaster,

5. Story of Palemon and Lavinia,

Thomson,

6. Celadon and Amelia,

ih.

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

8. On the existence of a Deity,

Young,

9. Evening in paradise described,

Milton,

10. Elegy written in a country churchyard,

Gray,

11. Scipio restoring the captive lady to her

lover,

Thomson,

12. Hamorous complaint to Dr. Arbuthnot

of the impertinence of scribblers,

Pope

13. Hymn to adversity,

Gray,

14. The Passions. An ode,

Collins,

241

242

243

ib.

246

247

248

ib.

250

259

254

255

256

SECTION VIII.

1. Lamentation for the loss of sight,

Milton,

2. L'Allegro, or the merry man,

ib.

3. On the pursuits of mankind,

Pope,

4. Adam and Evc's morning hymn,

Milton,

5. Parting of Hector and Adromache, Homer,

6. Pacotious history of John Gilpin, Cowper,

7. The creation of ihe world,

Milton,

8. Overthrow of the rebel angels,

ib.

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

259

260

262

264

265

268

273

274

275

PART II.-LESSONS IN SPEAKING.

SECTION I.

ELOQUENCE OF THE PULPIT.

313

314

315

1. Romulus to the people of Rome, after building

the city,

Hooke,

ib.

2. Hannibal to Scipio Africanus,

ib.

3. Scipio’s reply,

4. Calisthenes' reproof of Cleon's flattery to

Alexander,

Q. Curtius,

5. Caius Marius to the Romans,

Hooke,

ib.

6. Publius Scipio to the Roman army,

7. Hannibal .o the Carthagenian army,

ib.

8. Adherbal to the Roman senators,

Sallust,

9. Canuleius to the Roman consuls,

Hooke,

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

11. Demosthenes to the Athenians,

Lansdown,

12. Jupiter to the inferior deities,

Homer,

13. Æneas to queen Dido,

Virgil,

14. Moloch to the infernal powers,

Milton,

15. Speech of Belial, advising peace,

316

317

320

923

325

329

331

333

338

339

341

342

ib.

SECTION V.

DRAMATIC PIECES.-I. DIALOGUES.

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,

West-Indian,

Provoked Husband,

Venice Preserved,

Beaux Stratagem,

Miser,

Henry VIII.

344

346

351

353

355

359

Page.

7. Sir Charles and Lady Racket, Three weeks after marriage, 362

8. Brutus and Cassius, Shakespeare's Jukus 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

3.

the herinit,

ib.

371

4. Sempronius' speech for war, Tragedy of Cato, 372

5. Lucins' speech for peace,

ib.

ib.

6. Hotspur's account of the fop,

1 Henry IV.

372

7.

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 melbod of defeating an

army,

Every mun in his humor, 376

11. Soliloquy of Hamlet's uncle on the

murder of his brother, Tragedy of Hamlet, 377

12. Soliloquy of Hamlet on death,

ib.

978

13. Falstaff's encomiums on sack,

2 Henry IV. ib.

14. Prologue to the Tragedy of Cato,

Pope,

379

15. Cato's soliloquy on the immortality

of the soul,

Tragedy of Cato, 380

17. Speech of Henry V. at the siege of

Harfleur,

Shakespeare's Henry V.' 381

18.

- before the battle

of Agincourt,

ib.

382

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. Brutas' harrangue on the death of Cesar,

ib.

385

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

ib.

ib.

23. Falstaff's soliloquy un honor,

Henry IV.

388

24. Part of Richard IIId's soliloquy the night

preceding the Battle of Bosworth, Tragedy of Richard IIId.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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