1. Description of the amphitheatre of Titus,

2. Reflections in Westminster Abbey,

3. The character of Mary queen of Scots,

4. The character of queen Elizabeth,

5. Charles V's resignation of his dominions,

6. Importance of virtue,

7. Address to art,

& Flattery,

9. The absent man,

10. The Monk,

11. On the head-dress of the ladies,

12. On the present and future state,

13. Uncle Toby's benevolence,

14. Story of the siege of Calais,

1. On grace in writing,

SECTION V.

2. On the structure of animals,

3. On natural and fantastical pleasures,

Percival's Tales,

104

Theophrastus, ib.

Johnson, 105

Spectator,

106

ibid.

108

Aitken,

110

Brown,

112

Aitken, 115

Spectator,

116

ibid.

118

4. The folly and madness of ambition illustrated,

5. Battle of Pharsalia and the death of Pompey,

6. Character of king Alfred,

Spectator, 161

Guardian,

164

World, 168

Goldsmith, 171
Hume, 176

Page.

7. Awkwardness in company,

Chesterfield, 177

8. Virtue man's highest interest,

Harris, ib.

9. On the pleasure arising from objects of sight, Spectator, 179

10. Liberty and slavery,

Sterne, 181

11. The cant of criticism,

ibid.

182

12. Parallel between Pope and Dryden,

Johnson, 183

13. The story of Le Fever,

Sterne, 184

4. Rural charms,

Goldsmith, ib.

9. On the death of Mrs. Mason,

11. A panegyric on Great Britain,

5. The painter who pleased nobody and every body, Gay, 195

6. Diversity in the human character,

10. Extract from the temple of fame,

12. Hymn to the Deity, on the seasons of the year,

SECTION VII.

1. The chameleon,

2. On the order of nature,

3. Description of a country alehouse,

4. Character of a country schoolmaster,

5. Story of Palemon and Lavinia,

6. Celadon and Amelia,

7. Description of Mab, queen of the Faries,

8. On the existence of a Deity,

9. Evening in Paradise described,

10. Elegy written in a country churchyard,

11. Scipio restoring the captive lady to her lover

12. Humorous complaint to Dr. Arbuthnot of the

impertinence of scribblers,

13. Hymn to adversity,

14. The passions-An ode,

Eloquence of the Senate.

1. Speech of the Earl of Chesterfield,

2.

Lord Mansfield,

SECTION III.

Eloquence of the Bar.

1. Pleadings of Cicero against Verres,

2. Cicero for Milo,

Page.

Tillotson, 247

Atterbury, 249

Steel, 251

Sterne, 253

Blair,

256

259

264

268

271

SECTION IV.

Sperches on Various Subjects.

1. Romulus to the people of Rome, after building

2. Hannibal to Scipio Africanus,

the city,

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,

7. Hannibal to the Carthagenian army,

8. Adherbal to the Roman senators,

SECTION V.

9. Canuleius to the Roman consuls,

10. Junius Brutus over the dead body of Lucretia,

11. Demosthenes to the Athenians,

12. Jupiter to the inferior deities,

13. Æneas to queen Dido,

14. Moloch to the infernal powers,

15. Speech of Belial, advising peace,

Dramatic Pieces.

I.-DIALOGUES.

1. Belcour and Stockwell,

2 Lady Townly and lady Grace,

3 Priuli and Jaffier,

West Indian, 303

Provoked Husband, 305

Venice Preserved, 309

6. Cardinal Wolsey and Cromwell,

Henry VIII.

317

7. Sir Charles and Lady Racket, Three Weeks after Marriage, 320

8. Brutus and Cassius,

Shakespeare's Julius Cæsar, 323

6. Hotspur's account of the fop,

1 Henry the IV.

ib.

7.

soliloquy on the contents of a letter,

8. Othello's apology for his marriage,

9. Henry IV's soliloquy on sleep,

10. Bobadil's method of defeating an

Tragedy of Othello,

331

2 Henry the IV. 332

army,

Every man in his humour, ib.

11. Soliloquy of Hamlet's uncle on

the murder of his brother,

12. Soliloquy of Hamlet on death,

13. Falstaff's encomiums on sack,

14. Prologue to the tragedy of Cato,

15. Cato's soliloquy on the immortality

of the soul,

16. Lady Randolph's soliloquy,

Tragedy of Douglas,

337

17. Speech of Henry V. at the siege

of Harfleur,

18.

before the battle of Agincourt, ibid.

338

19. Soliloquy of Dick the apprentice,

Farce of the Apprentice,

339

20. Cassius instigating Brutus to join the

conspiracy against Cæsar,

Tragedy of Julius Cæsar,

340

the battle of Bosworth,

21. Brutus' harangue on the death of Cæsar,

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

23. Falstaff's soliloquy on honour,

24. Part of Richard III's soliloquy the night preceding

25. The world compared to a stage,

APPENDIX-Containing concise lessons on a new plan,

Rules for pronouncing Greek and Latin proper names, Walker, 361

ibid.

341

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