5. The Contrast; or Peace and War, 8. Advantages of a Taste for Natural History, 9. The Pleasures of a cultivated Imagination, 26. On the pleasure of acquiring knowledge, 43. The mutual relation between Sleep and Night, 44. Social Worship agreeable to the best impulses of DIALOGUES, ADDRESSES, AND SOLILOQUIES. 11. Real virtue can love nothing but virtue ;-a Dia- Dialogues of the Dead. 88 199. Address of Brutus to the Roman populace, PIECES FOR RECITATION, OR SPEAKING. 6. Parallel between Pope and Dryden, 65. Scottish Music :-its peculiarity accounted for, 89. Extract from a criticism on Ossian, 97. Character of Mr. James Watt, 141. The Discontented Pendulum, 146. Letter from the British Spy, in Virginia, 7. Select sentences and paragraphs, from various authors, 103. Thalaba, among the Ruins of Babylon, 106. Scene after a Summer Shower, DIDACTIC PIECES. MORAL AND RELIGIOUS. 3. Select sentences and paragraphs, from various authors, 17. Lines to a child on his voyage, 142. A belief in the Superintendence of Providence, 151. An Evening in the Grave-yard, 175. Prophecy of the Destruction of Babylon, Lowth's translation of Isaiah. 401 475 PATHETIC PIECES. Anonymous. 220 96. Death and Burial of a Child at Sea, 108. Affecting picture of Constancy in Love, DRAMATIC PIECES. DIALOGUES, ADDRESSES, AND SOLILOQUIES. 198. The Street-scene, between Brutus and Cassius, 205. Soliloquy, on the Immortality of the Soul, PIECES FOR RECITATION, OR SPEAKING. 185. Speech of Catiline, in reply to Cicero, 188. Speech of Catiline, on his banishment, 207. Battle of Flodden Field; and Death of Marmion, Croly. 426 Shakspeare. 454 HUMOROUS PIECES. 41. Address to the Mummy in Belzoni's exhibition, New Monthly Mag. 105 79. Report of an adjudged case, not to be found in any of the books, 177. The Poet and the Alchymist, 184. The fat Actor and the Rustic, 197. The Amateurs, |