Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking

Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1831 - 372 sidor

On the acting of plays at schools	19

Rules for expressing with propriety the principal	26

Rules respecting elocution	42

PART ILESSONS IN READING	52

The court of death	58

Avarice and luxury	64

Art of Thinking 52	73

Piety to God recommended to the young	80

The Monk Sterne	148

On the headdress of the ludies Spectator	150

On the present and future state ibid	153

Uncle Tobys benevolence Sterne	155

Story of the siege of Calais Fool of quality	156

SECTION V	160

On the structure of animals Spectator	161

On natural and fantastical pleasures Guardian	164

Needlework recommended to the ladies	90

Character of Julius Cæsar Middleton	92

On mispent tine Guardian	94

Character of Francis I Robertson	97

The supper and grace Sterne	100

Rustic felicity ibid	102

House of mourning ibid ib SECTION III	104

Impertinence in discourse Theophrastus ib 3 Character of Addison as a writer Johnson	105

Pleasure and pain Spectator	106

Sir Roger de Coverlys family ibid	108

The folly of inconsistent expectations Aitken	110

Description of the vale of Keswick in Cumberland Brown	112

Pity an Allegory Aitken	115

Advantages of commerce Spectator	116

On public speaking ibid	118

Advantages of history Hume	120

On the immortality of the soul Spectator	122

The combat of the Horatii and the Curiatii Livy	124

On the power of custom Spectator	126

On pedantry Mirror	128

The journey of a daya picture of human life Rambler	130

SECTION IV	133

Reflections in Westminster Abbey Spectator	134

The character of Mary queen of Scots Robertson	135

The character of queen Elizabeth Hume	142

Importance of virtue Price	143

Address to art Hurris	144

Flattery Theophrastus	146

The absent man Spectator	147

The folly and madness of ambition illustrated World	168

Battle of Pharsalia and the death of Pompey Goldsmith	171

Character of king Alfred Hume	176

Awkwardness in company	177

Parallel between Pope and Dryden	183

SECTION VI	192

The hermit	198

A panegyric on Great Britain	205

Description of a country alehouse	212

Evening in Paradise described	218

Humorous complaint to Dr Arbuthnot or	224

Adam and Eves morning hymn	231

Facetious history of John Gilpin	237

Overthrow of the rebel angels	243

SECTION I	247

On happiness Sterne	253

Lord Mansfield	264

Cicero for Milo	271

Hannibal to Scipio Africanus ibid	277

Hannibal to the Carthagenian army ibid	285

Junius Brutus over the dead body of Lucretia ibid	292

Jupiter to the inferior deities Homer	298

Lady Townly and lady Grace Provcked Husband	305

Hamlets advice to the players	326

Henry IVs soliloquy on sleep	332

Soliloquy of Dick the apprentice Farce of the Apprentice	340

Art of Thinking 85	346

Milton 228	353

APPENDIXContaining concise lessons on a new plan	361

Titel	Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking
Författare	William Scott
Utgivare	Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1831
Original från	Ohio State University
Digitaliserad	24 sep 2014
Längd	372 sidor

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