TO John Carill Worsley, Esq. LATE PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMY IN WARRINGTON. SIR, THIS work having been undertaken principally with the design of assisting the Students at WARRINGTON in acquiring a just and gruceful Elocution, I feel a peculiar propriety in addressing it to you, as a public acknowledgment of the steady support which you have given to this institution, and the important services which you have rendered it. In this Seminary, which was at first established, and has been uniformly conducted, on the extensive plan of providing a proper course of Instruction for young men in the most useful branches of Science and Literature, you have seen many respectable characters formed, who are now filling up their stations in society with reputation to themselves, and advantage to the public. And while the same great object continues to be pursued, by faithful endeavours to cultivate the understandings of youth, and by a steady attention to discipline, it is hoped, that you will have the satisfaction to observe the same effects produced, and that the scene will be realised, which our Poetess has so beautifully described: When this, this little group their Country calls I am, With sincere respect and gratitude, DEAR SIR, Your much obliged, and most obedient servant, William Enfield Warrington Academy. [ 4 ] Page ESSAY ON ELOCUTION waren READING WORKS OF TASTE ................................................. xxvii BOOK I. SRECT SENTENCES 1 to 14 Саар. BOOK II.-NARRATIVE PIECES. Page 1. THE DERVISE ...... Spectator, 15 14. SIR BALAAM ...................... .. Pope, 56 9. A TURKISH TALE ....... Ib. 1615. EDWIN AND EMMA .......... Mallett, 38 8. AVARICE AND LUXURY .......... Ib. 17 16. CELADON AND AMELIA.... Thomson, 40 4. PLEASURE AND PAIN .......... Ib. 18 17. JUNIO AND THEANA Grainger, 49 5. LABOUR......... ... IVorld, 2018. DOUGLAS TO L. RANDOLPH .. Home, 46 6. THE OLD MAN AND HIS ASS .... Ib. 2119. OTHELLO'S APOLOGY.... Shakspeare, 47 7. THE CHOICE OF HERCULES, Tatler, ib. 20. ELIZA . Darwin, 48 8. PITY Mrs. Barbauld, 2421. THE MORALIZER CORRECTED, 9. THE DEAD ASS...... Sterne, 25. Cowper, 50 10. THE SWORD .......... Ib. 27 22. THE FAITHFUL FRIEND ........ 16. 52 11. MARIA ......... ........... Ib. 2923. PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED.... Ib. 53 19. THE CHAMELEON ...... Merrick, 39 94. THE NEEDLESS ALARM .......... Ib. 5+ 13. THE YOUTH AND THE PHILOSO- 25. THE MODERN RAKE'S PROGRESS, .Whitehead, 35 Hurdis, 58 PHER ......... BOOK III. DIDACTIC PIECES. сар. Page 1. ON MODESTY Spectator, 61 15. ON HAPPINESS... Pope, 87 2. ON CHEERFULNESS .............. Ib. 63 16. ON VIRTUE .... Ib. 89 3. ON SINCERITY. Tillotson, 66 17. ON VERSIFICATION ............ Ib. 90 4. ON HONOUR.. Guardian, 68 18. LESSONS ON WISDOM .... Armstrong, 92 5. ON GOOD HUMOUR ....... Rambler, 70 19. AGAINST INDOLENCE: An Epistle : 6. ON THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE Davies, 94 WORLD .......... ........... Ib. 73 20. ELEGY TO A YOUNG NOBLEMAN, 76 ON THE ADVANTAGES OF UNITING Maso, 97 GENTLENESS OF MANNERS WITH 21. ON THE MISERIES OF HUMAN FIRMNESS OF MIND, L. Chesterfield, 75 LIFE Thomson, 98 8. ON GOOD SENSE ............ Melmoth, 77 22. REFLECTIONS ON A FUTURE 9. ON STUDY........ ......... Bacon, 78 STATE ........ Ib. 99 10.LON SATIRICAL WIT ........... Sterne, 79 23. ON PROCRASTINATION ...... Young, 100 11. HAMLET'S INSTRUCTIONS TO THE 24. THE PAIN ARISING FROM YIR. PLAYERS ....... ......... Shakspeare, 80 TUOUS EMOTIONS ATTENDED 19. THE PRESENT CONDITION OF MAN WITH PLEASURE........... Akenside, 102 ............... Ib. 104 13. ON THE ORDER OF NATURE.... Ib. 83 26. THE PLEASURES ARISING FROM A 14. THE ORIGIN OF SUPERSTITION CULTIVATED IMAGINATION .. Ib. 106 AND TYRANNY ........ Ib. 84 | 27. SLAVERY ................. Darwin, 108 BOOK IV.-ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES. Holland, 109 4. ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE 2. VIRTUE OUR HIGHEST INTEREST, Chap. Page BODY OF LUCRETIA.......... Lity, 121 PROPOSING AN ACCOMMODATION 2. HANNIBAL TO HIS SOLDIERS.... Ib. 122 BETWEEN HENRY II AND STE. 3. C. MARIUS TO THE ROMANS, ON THEIR HESITATING TO APPOINT 8. MR. PULTENEY'S, ON THE MOTION FOR REDUCING THE ARMY...... 138 TION AGAINST JUGURTHA, MERE- 9. SIR JOHN ST. AUBIN'S, FOR REPEAL- ING THE SEPTENNIAL ACT ...... 141 ...... Sallust, 125 10. SIR ROBERT WALPOLE'S REPLY .. 146 4. CALISTHENES'S REPROOF OF 11. LORD LYTTELTON'S SPEECH, ON ANDER .......... Quintus Curtius, 128 THE JEW BILL, in the Year 1753 3. THE SCYTHIAN AMBASSADOR TO 12. IN PRAISE OF VIRTUE ........ Price, 153 ALEXANDER ................... Ib. 129 13. THE SPEECH OF BRUTUS ON THE 6. GALGACUS, THE GENERAL OF THE DEATH OF CÆSAR...... Shakspeare, 155 CALEDONII, TO HIS ARMY, TO 14. GLOUCESTER'S SPEECH TO THE GAINST THE ROMANS .... Tacitus, 131 15. HENRY V TO HIS SOLDIERS .... Ib. 157 Harris, 159 11. HENRY AND LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, 2. THE SAME SUBJECT.............. Ib. 164 3. ON CRITICISM ................ Sterne, 168 12. ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY 4. ON NEGROES........................ 169 AND BISHOP OF ELY............ Ib. 187 5. RIVERS AND SIR HARRY.. False Del. 170 13. HAMLET AND HORATIO... It. 189 6. SIR JOHN MELVIL AND STERLING, 14. BRUTUS AND CASSIUS.... Clandestine Marriage, 172 15. BELLARIUS, GUIDERIUS, AND AR. 7. BELCOUR AND STOCKWELL, W. Ind. 176 VIRAGUS 8. LORD EUSTACE AND FRAMPTON, 16. JUBA AND SYPHAX ............ Cato, 198 School for Rakes, 178 17. EDWARD AND WARWICK, Earl of W. 202 9. DUKE AND LORD Shakspeare, 181 18. HOTSPUR AND GLENDOWER, Shak. 205 10. DUKE AND JAQUES .............. Ib. 189 19. HOTSPUR READING A LETTER. Ib. 207 BOOK VII._DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. 1. SENSIBILITY 2. LIBERTY AND SLAVERY.......... Ib. 210 8. HYMN TO ADVERSITY Gray, 29 3. CORPORAL TRIM'S ELOQUENCE, Ib. 211 9. ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF 4. THE MAN OF ROSS ....... Pope, 212 ETON COLLEGE ... 5. THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN, Gold. 213 10. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY [ 6 ] |
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