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 realized, which Our Poetess has fo beautifully described: 10 ETI When this, this little group their country calls I am, . Your much obliged, And most obedient Servant, WILLIAM ENFIELD. Warringion Academy, October 1, 177.4. Chapo Page, Chap I The Dervise Spectator 17 14 Sir Balaam ! Pope 42 Ib. 18 15 Edwin and Emma Mallet 44 3 Avarice and Luxury 16. 19 16 Celadon & Amelia Thomfon 47 A Pleasure and Faia Ib. 20117 Junio and Theana Grainger 49 World 23 18 Duay lasto L.Randolph Home 53 6 The Old Man & his Ass Ib: 24 19 Oihello's Apology Sbakl. 54 9 The Choice of HerculesTat. 25/20 Eliza g Pity Mrs. Barbauld 28/21 The Moralizer correo ed j Cowper 37 Ib. 31/22 The Faithful Friend 16. so Ib. 33/23 Pairing Tinicanticipated Ib. 60 12 The Camelion Merrick 3824 The Necdless Aların B. 62 13 The Youth and the Philo- 125 The Modern Rake's Pro. * sopher Wbitehead 401 gress · Hurdis 67 i On Modesty Sprctator 70115_0n Happiness - Pope 99 Tillotson 7517 On Versification 1b. 104 4 On Honour Guardian 78 18 Leflons on Wisdom Arm/t 165 ś On Good Humour Rambler 8119 Againit Indolence; la Ib. 84 20 Flegyto a Young Nobleman ing Gentleness of Manners 21 On tlic .iferies of Filter Lord Chesterfield 86 22 Reflections on a fute On Study . « Bacon 90 23 On Procraftiratio: YOUTS 16 On Satirical Wit Sterne 91/24. The l'ain arifing from vir 11 Hamlet's Iuftructions to tuous Emotions attended the Player3 Shakspeare 921 with pleasure 1kenfile 116 12 The present Condition of 25 On Taite Ib. ITO 10. 126 16 143 BOOK,IV.-ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES. 1 On Anger Holland 1251 4 Ön the Immortality of the 2 Virtue our highest Interest 1. Soul .. Spectator 133 Harris 134 § On the Being of a God BOOK V.-ORATIONS and HARANGUES. i Juniùs Brutus over the dead proposing an Accomoda- Body of Lucretia Livy 1381 iion between Henrylland 2 Hannibal to his Soldier's I). 140 Stephen Lord Lyttleton 153 3 C.Mirius to the Romans, on 8 Mr. Pulteney's Speech their hesitating to appoint on the Motion for Reduc. him General in the Expe. 1 ing the Army dition against Jugurtha, to Sir John St. Auhin's Speech 16: 4 Callisthenes's Reproof of 110 Sir Robert Walpole's Reply 167 Cleon's Flattery to Alex- 11 Lord Lyttleton's Speech ander Quintus Curtius 1461 on the Repeal of the Act s The Scythian Ambassadors called the Jew Bill, in to Alexander 16. 147) the Year 1753 6 Galgacus, the General of the 12 In Praise of Virtue Price 176 Caledonii, to his Army, 13 The Speech of Brutuson the to incite them to action Death of Cæfar Shakl. 178 against the Romans Tacit. 150 14 Gloucester's Speech to the BOOK V1.-DIALOGUES. Page 1. On Happinefs Ilarris 18o 9 Duke and Lord Shaks. 205 2 The fanie Subject Ib. 18510 Duke and Jaques Ib. 207 3 On Criticism Sterne 19011 Henry and Lord Chief 5 Rivers and Sir Harry 112 Archbishop of Canterbury False Delicacy 193 and Bishop of Ely Ib. 21% 6 Sir John Melviland Sterling 13 Hamlet and Horatio Ib. 214 Clandestine Marriage 195 14 Brutus and Cassius Ib. 219 7 Belcour and Stockwell 15 Belarius, Guiderius, and . West Indian 199 Arviragus 1b. 222 I Sensibility : Sterne 225| 4 The Man of Rofs' Pope 228 2 Liberty and Slavery Ib. 226 Š The Country Clergyman- 7 Grongar Hill Dyer 2351 a For 8 Hymn to Adversity Gray 240122 Clarchice's Dream . 276 9 Odeon a distant Profpect '123 Queen Mab of Eton College Ib. 2411 24 The si pothecary Ib. 283 try Churchyard 16. 24426 Ode to Spring Mrs. Barba. 282 Thumjon 284 12 Ode to Content 1b. 252 28 The Pleasures of Retire. 13 Ode to Fear Collins 254 menit 14 Ode to Truth Afori 256 29 Genius 35 Ode to l'ancy Warzon 258130 Greatness 15. 290 16 L'Allegro . Millon 262 31 Nov lty Ib. 267/32 l'hilanthropy Darvin 294 18 The l'rogresso Life Shak. 272)33 lhe Ross 19 The Entry of Bolingbroke 3+ The Poet's New Year's Gift 1 The Storyofle Fevre Sterne 305 20 Wolfey and Crom. Shakl. 356 b. zon & The Beggar's Petition 317 22 Macbeth's Soliloquy 15. 305 4 Elegy on the Death of an 123 Macduff, Malcolni, and - 1o. 362 5 Morning Hymn Alilion 321 24 Antony's So'iloquy over 6 Satan's Soliloquy 16. 323 Cirfar's Body Ib. 365 7 juba and Syphax ildison 325 25 Antony's Funeral Oration 8 Cato's Soliloquy. Ib. 330 over Cæsar's Body 1b. 366 9 Southampton and Eflex 26 The Quarrel of Bruius 10 Jaflier and Pierre V.Pref: 333127 Othello and lago Ib. 372 u Edward and Warwick 28 Hamlet's Soliloquy on his Earl of Warwick 337; Mother's Marriage lb. 378 12 Orlando and Adam Shaks: 341 29 Hamlet and Ghost Ib. 379 13 Scroop and Richard Ib. 3431 30 Hamlet's Soliloquy on 14 Hotspur and Glendower 11.3451 Death 15 Hotspur reading aLetter Ib.348 31 Soliloquy of the King in Sleep 15. 349 32 Ode on St. Cæcilia's Day ... Ib. 350 33 Alexander's Feast Dryden 388 18 Henry V to his Soldiers Ib. 354 34 On the Death of Mrs. --- 13 affert rario, deceat literæ, confirmat consuctudo legendiz et loquendi. Cic.. M ucu declamation has been employed to convince the word of a very plain truth, that to be able to speak well is an ornamental and useful accomplishment. Without the laboured panegyrics of ancient or modern orators, the impor:ance of a good elocution is suficiently obvious. Evcry one will acknowledge it to be of some consequence, that what a man has, hourly occafion to do, should be done well. Every private company, and almost every public affembly, affords opportunities of remarking the difference between a just and graceful, and a faulty and unnatural elocution; and there are few persons who do not daily experience the advantages of the former, and the inconveniences of the latter. The great difficulty is, not to prove that it is a desirable thing to be able to read and speak with propriety, but to point out a practicable and eay method, by which this accompliihment may be acquired. Follow NATURE, is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory, without regard to which, all other rules will only produce affected declamation, not just elocution, And fone accurate observers, judging, perhaps, from a few unlucky specimens of modern eloquence, have con. cluded that this is the only law which ought to be pre fcribed ; |