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SECTION II.
1. The bad reader,
2. Respect due to old age,
3. Piety to God recommended to the young, Blair,
4. Modesty and docility,
5. Sincerity,
ib.
6. Benevolence and humanity,
7. Industry and application,
8. Proper employment of time,
9. The true patriot,
15. On misspent time,
16. Character of Francis I,
17. The supper and grace,
18. Rustic felicity,
19. House of mourning,
8. Pity, and allegory,
9. Advantages of commerce,
10. On public speaking,
10. On contentment,
11. Needlework recommended to the Ladies, ib.
12. On pride,
Guardian.
13. Journal of the life of Alexander Severus,
14. Character of Julius Cesar,
11. Advantages of history.
12. On the immortality of the soul,
13. The combat of the Horatii and the
Curiatii,
Page.
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
Art of Thinking, 96
Spectator, 97
100
102
Gibbon, 104
Middleton, 105
Guardian, 106
Robertson, 110
Sterne, 113
115
116
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14. On the power of Custom,
15. On pedantry,
16. The journey of a day; a picture of
human life,
Percival's Tales,
Spectator,
-
SECTION IV.
1. Description of the amphitheatre of
Titus,
2. Reflections in Westminster abbey,
SECTION III.
2. Impertinence in discourse,
1. The honour and advantage of a constant adherence
to truth,
Theophrastus,
Johnson,
3. Character of Addison as a writer,
4. Pleasure and pain,
Aitkin,
5. Sir Roger de Coverly's family,
6. The folly of inconsistent expectations.
7. Description of the vale of Keswick in
Cumberland,
ih.
119
120
121
123
126
Brown,
Hume,
Spectator, 139
135
136
128
131
133
3. The character of Mary, queen of Scots, Robertson,
4. The character of queen Elizabeth, Hume,
8. Flattery
9. The absent man,
158
5. Charles V's resignation of his dominions, Robertson, 160
6. Importance of virtue,
164
165
7. Address to art,
168
Price,
Harris,
Theophastrus, 167
Sterne,
170
172
175
178
Fool of Quality, 179
10. The monk,
11. On the head dress of the Ladies, 12. On the present and future state, 13. Uncle Toby's benevolence, 14. Story of the seige of Calais,
SECTION V.
9. On the death of Mrs. Mason,
10. Extract from the temple of fame,
11. A panegyric on Great Britain,
12. Hymn to the Deity, on the seasons of
the year,
Spectator, 205
208
209
211
212
221
222
Gay,
Smollet,
Spectator, 223
Goldsmith, ໄບໍ່.
Pope,
156
Parnel,
Mason,
Thomson,
224
226
227
232
233
234
237
SECTION VII.
1. The camelion,
2. On the order o nature,
3. Description of a country alehouse,
4. Character of a country schoolmaster,
5. Story of Palemon and Lavinia,
6. Caledonia and Anielia,
9. Evening in Paradise described,
10. Elegy written in a country churchyard,
11. Scipio restoring the captive lady to her
lover,
7. Description of Mab, queen of the fairies, Shakespeare,247 8. On the existence of a Deity,
12. Humorous complaint to Dr. Arbuthnot
of the impertinence of scribblers,
13. Hymn to adversity,
14. The Passions-An ode,
SECTION VIII.
1. Lamentation for the loss of sight,
2. L'Allegro, or the merry man,
3. On the pursuits of mankind,
4. Adam and Eve's morning hymn,
5. Parting of Hector and Adromache,
6. Facetious history of John Gilpin,
7. The creation of the world,
Young,
Milion,
Gray,
4. On happiness,
5. On the death of Christ,
Milton,
259
260
262
264
265
268
273
274
8. Overthrow of the rebel angels,
9: Alexander's feast, or the power of music, Dryden, 275
Homer,
Cowper,
248
250
253
254-
PART IL-LESSONS IN SPEAKING.
SECTION I.
ELOQUENCE OF THE PULPIT.
1. On truth and integrity,
2. On doing as we would be done unto,
3. On benevolence and charity,
Tillotson,
Atterbury,
278
280
Seed, 282
Blair,
285
289.
ELOQUENCE OF THE SENATE.
1. Speech of the Earle of Chesterfield,
-Lord Mansfield,
2..
ELOQUENCE OF THE BAR.
1 Pleadings of Cicero against Verres,
2. Cicero for Milo,
SPEECHES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.
1. Romulus to the people of Rome, after building
the city,
Hooke,
2. Hannibal to Scipio Africanus,
3. Scipio's reply.
4. Calisthenes' reproof of Cleon's flattery to
Alexander,
Q. Curtius,
5. Caius Marius to the Romans,
6. Publius Scipio to the Roman army,
7. Hannibal to the Carthagenian army,
8. Adherbal to the Roman senators,
9 Canuleius to the Roman consuls,
10. Junius Brutus over the dead body of Lucretia, ib,
11 Demosthenes to the Athemians,
12. Jupiter to the inferior Deities,
13. Æneas to queen Dido,
14. Moloch to the infernal powers,
15. Speech of Belial, advising peace,
1. Belcour and Stockwell,
2. Lady Townly and Lady Grace,
3. Priuli and Jaffier,
4. Boniface and Aimwell,
Sallust,
Lansdown,
Virgil,
293
298
5. and
6. Cardinal Wolsey and Cromwell, Henry VIII.
303
306
313
314
315
316
317
DRAMATIC PIECES.-I DIALOGUES.
344.
West Indian,
Provoked Husband. 346
Venice preserved, 351
Beaux Stratagem, 355
Miser.
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359
320
323
325
329
331
333
338
339
341
242
7. Sir Charles and Lady Racket, Three weeks
after Marriage,
362
8. Brutus and Cassius, Shakespeare's Julius Cesar, 366
II. SPEECHES AND SOLILOQUIES
3.
371
372
1. Hamlet's advice to the players, Tragedy of Hamlet, 369
2. Douglas' account of himself, Tragedy of Douglas, 370
-the hermit,
4. Sempronius' speech for war,
5. Lucius' speech for peace,
6. Hotspur's account of the fop,
1 Henry IV. 372
7.
-soliloquy on the contents of a letter, ib. 373
8. Othello's apology for his Marriage, Tragedy of Othello, 374
9. Henry IV's soliloquy on sleep,
2 Henry IV. 375
10. Bobadil's method of defeating an
376
Tragedy of Hamlet, 377
978
379
Tragedy of Cato,
2 Henry IV.
army,
Every man in his humor,
11. Soliloquy of Hamlet's uncle on the
murder of his brother,
12. Soliloquy of Hamlet on death,
13. Falstaff's encomiums on sack,
14 Prologue to the Tragedy of Cato,
15. Cato's soliloquy on the immortality
of the soul,
17. Speech of Henry V. at the siege of
Harfleur,
-before the battle
Shakespeare's Henry V.
18.
of Agincourt,
382
19. Soliloquy of Dick the Apprentice, Farce the Apprentice, ib. ·
20. Cassius instigating Brutus to join the
conspiracy against Cesar, Tragedy of Julius Cesar,383
21. Brutus' harrangue on the death of Cesar,
22. Anthony's oration over Cesar's body,
23. Falstaff's soliloquy on honour,
24. Part of Richard IIId's soliloquy the night preceding
the Battle of Bosworth, Tragedy of Richard IIId, ib.
25. The world compared to a stage, As you like it,
389
APPENDIX-Containing concise lessons on a new plan, 390
·
Henry IV.
380
381
385
388