BY

Charles Wesley Emerson
Founder of Emerson College of Oratory

A COMPILATION OF SELECTIONS ILLUSTRATING
THE FOUR STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT

IN ART AS APPLIED TO ORATORY

In Four Volumes, with Key to each Chapter

TWENTY-FOURTH EDITION

VOLUME IV— REVISED

COPYRIGHTED BY C. W. EMERSON

1905

THE BARTA PRESS
BOSTON

ADDRESS OF BRUTUS TO THE ROMANS, William Shakespeare 46

THE DEATH OF SIDNEY CARTON .

TO A SKYLARK

THE HOUND OF HEAVEN

GRANDFATHER'S REVERIE

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Charles Dickens

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THE DEATH OF THE OLD WIFE

MY PRAYER