which it was compiled. He believes it is not tou much to say, that it not only embraces, but presents in a more convenient method and form, the best portions, at least the most useful, of the works of Blair, Whateley, Beattie, Campbell, and Watts, while it comprehends, besides, the Practical Exercises, the History of the English Language and Literature, and the selections from British and American Poets, with critical notices, which did not enter into the plan of any of the above works. As now enlarged, the work will, it is hoped, be deemed worthy of a general introduction into academies, while it has not thereby lost, in any degree, its adaptedness to the wants of common schools, especially in the improved condition to which they are advancing from year to year. Watertown, January 2, 1846. I. STYLE.-II. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. CHAP. I Of Language, and its Origin VIII. SECT I. Beauty and Sublimity in Nature Il Criticisms on Everett, Webster, Calhoun and Clav 130 XI. Of Pastoral and Descriptive Poetry XII. Of Didactic and Lyric Poetry II. Of the Primitive Languages of Europe. IV. Of the early History of the English Language V. The Effect on it of the Saxon Conquest VI. The Effect on it of the Danish Conquest VII. The Effect on it of the Norman Conquest VIIL Of the Modern History of our Language MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE. CA 1. English Literature under the Tudors and the first Stuarts II. English Literature from the Restoration to the Reign of III. English Literature of the present Age: IV. English Novels and Romances 21 |