SECTION II.

Page.

89

90

ib.

91

92

93

94

95

96

97

ib.

1. The bad reader,

Percival's Tales,

2. Respect due to old age,

Spectator,

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

ib.

4. Modesty and docility,

5. Sincerity,

ib.

6. Benevolence and humanity,

ib.

7. Industry and application,

8. Proper employment of time,

ib.

9. The true patriot,

Art of Thinking

10. On contentment,

Spectator,

11. Needle-work recommended to the ladies, ib.

12. On pride

Guardian,

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

14. Character of Julius Cesar, Middleton,

15. On mis-spent time,

Guardian,

16. Character of Francis I.

Robertson,

17. The søpper and grace,

Sterne,

18. Pustic felicity,

ib.

19. House of mourning,

ib.

12

100

102

104

105

106

110

113

115

116

119
ib.
120
121
123
126

SECTION III.

1. The honor and advantage of a constant

adherence to truth,

Percival's Tales,

2. Impertinence in discourse,

Theophrastus,

3. Character of Addison as a writer, Johnson,

4. Pleasure and Pain,

Spectator,

5. Sir Roger de Coverly's family, ib.

6. The folly of inconsistent expectations, Aitkin,

7. Description of the vale of Keswick, in

Cumberland,

Broun,

8. Pity, an allegory,

Adkin,

9. Advantages of commerce,

Spectator,

10. On public speaking,

ib.

11. Advantages of history,

Hume,

12. On the immortality of the soul, Spectator,

13. The combat of the Horatii and the

Curiatii,

Livy,

14. On the power of custom,

Spectator,

15. On pedantry,

Mirror,

16. The journey of a day; a picture of

human Kfe,

Rambler,

128

131

133

135

136

139

141

144

146

148

SECTION IV.

1. Description of the ampitheatre of

Titus,

Page.

156

158

160

164

165

167

168

170

172

175

178

179

184

185

189

193

3. The character of Mary, queen of Scots,

Robertsona

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,

ib.

12. On the present and a future state,

13. Uncle Toby's benevolence,

Sterne,

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

SECTION V.

1. On grace in writing, Fitsborne'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 Alfred,

Hume,

7. Awkwardness 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 Fevre,

Sterne,

SECTION VI.

1. The shepherd and the philosopher,

2. Ode to Leaven Water,

3. Ode from the 19th psalm,

Spectator,

4. Rural charms,

Goldsmith,

5. The painter who pleased nobody and

6. Diversity in the human character,

7. The toilet,

ib.

8. The hermit,

Parnel,

9. On the death of Mrs. Mason, Mason,

10. Extract from the temple of fame.

Pope,

11. A panegyric on Great Britain, Thomson,

12. Hymn to the Deity, on the seasons of

the

year,

ib,

A 2

197

202

203

204

205
208
209
211
212

Gay,

Smollet,

221

222

223

ib.

every body,

Gay,

Pope, ,

224

220

227

2b.

232
233
234

237

SECTION VII.

Page

1. The camelion,

Merrick,

240

2. On the order of nature,

Pupe.

241

3. Description of a country alehouse, Goldsmith,

242

4. Character of a country schoolmaster, ib.

243

5. Story of Palemon and Lavinia, Thomson,

26.

6. Celadon and Amelia,

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.

250

10. Elegy written in a country church yard, Gray,

11. Scipio restoring the captive lady to her

lover,

Thomson, 253

12. Humorous complaint to Dr. Arbuthnot,

of the impertinence of scribblers,

Pope,

254

13. Hymn to adversity,

Gray,

255

14. The Passions-An ode,

Collins,

256

SECTION VIII.

1. Lamentation for the loss of sight,

Milton,

259

ib.

260

2. L'Allegro, or the merry man,

3. On the pursuits of mankind,

Pope,

262

4. Adam and Eve's morning hymn,

Milton,

264

5. Parting of Hector and Andromache,

Homer,

265

6. Facetious history of John Gilpin, Cowper,

268

17. The creation of the world,

Milton, 273

8. Overthrow of the rebel angels,

ib.

274

275

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

PART 1!.--LESSONS IN SPEAKING.

SECTION I.

ELOQUENCE OF THE PULPIT.

Tillotson,

2. On doing as we would be done unto, Atterbury,

3. On benevolence and charity,

313

314

315

1. Romulus to the people of Rome, after building

the city,

Hooke,

2. Hannibal to Scipio Africanus,

ib.

3. Scipio's reply,

ib.

4. Calisthenes reproof of Cleon's flattery

to Alexander,

Q. Curtius,

5. Caius Marius to the Romans,

Hooke,

6. Publius Scipio to the Roman army,

ib.

7. Hannibal to the Carthaginian 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,

15. Speech of Belial, advising peace,

ib.

Milton,

SECTION V.

DRAMATIC PIECES.-I. DIALOGUES.

1. Belcour and Stockwell,

West Indian,

2. Lady Townly and Lady Grace, Provoked Husband,

3. Priuli and Jaffier,

Venice Preserved,

4. Boniface and Aimwell, Beaux Stratagem,

5. Lovegold and Lappet,

Miser,

6. Cardinal Wolsey and Cromwell, 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 Julius 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 hermit,

ib.

371

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

5. Lucius' speech for peace,

ib.

ib.

6. Hotspur's account of the fop, 1 Henry IV. 372

many

- 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 method of defeating an

army,

Every man 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.

378

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, 880

16. Speech of Henry V. at the siege of

Harfleur,

Shakespeare's Henry V. 381

18.

-before the battle

of Agincourt,

ib.

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. Brutus' harrangue on the death of Cesar, ib.

385

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

ib.

23 Falstaff's soliloquy on 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

382

APPENDIX-Containing concise lessons on a new plan,