90

92

93

94

99

SECTION II.

Page.

1. The bad reader, - - Percival's Tales, . 89

2. Respect due to old age, - Spectator,

3. Piety to God recommended to the young, Blair,

4. Modesty and decility,

acesty and decility.

-

-

ib.

5. Sincerity, i

. ib.

6. Benevolence and humanity, - ib.

7. Industry and application, - .. - ib.

8. Proper employment of time,

9. The true patriot, • - Art of Thinking, 96

10. On contentment,

peccator. 9

11. Needlework recommended to the Lodico

uciucu e dades, 20.

12. On pride, -

- Guardian. - 102

13. Journal of the life of Alexander Severus, Gibbon, 104

14. Character of Julius Cesar,

Miadleton, 105

15. On misspent time,..

Guardian, 106

16. Character of Francis I,

Robertson, 110

17. The supper and grace,

Sterne,

113

18. Rustic felicity,

115

19. House of mourning,

ib, - 116

100

ib.

SECTION III.

1. The honour and advantage of a constant adherence

to truth, - - Percival's Tales,

2. Impertinence in discourse, - Theopiirustus, ib.

3. Character of Addison as a writer, - Johnson, 120

4. Pleasure and pain, - -. - Spectator, .. 121

5. Sir Roger de Coverly's family, - - ib. 123

6. The folly of inconsistent expectations. - Autkin, 126

7. Description of the vale of Keswick in

Cumberland, -

Brown, 128

8. Pity, and allegory,

kin, • 131

9. Advantages of commerce, -

Spreciator, 133

10. On public speaking,

ib. - 135

11. Advantages of history. -

Hume, - 136

12. On the immortality of the soul, .

Spec!ator, 139

13. The combat of the Horatii and the

Curiatii, . - -

Livy, 141

14. On the power of Custom, - - Spectator, 144

15. On pedantry,. , •

146

16. The journey of a day; a picture of

human life, . . .

Rambler, 148

Mirror,

SECTION IV.

1. Description of the amphitheatre of

Titus, ..

- Gibbon,

2. Reflections in Westminster abbey, - Spectator,

153

154

Page.

158

3. The character of Mary, queen of Scots, Robertson, 156

4. The character of queen Elizabeth, - tfume, -

5. Charles V's resignation of his dominions, Robertson, 160

6. Importance of virtue,

tue,

-

-

-

-

-

- Price, . 164

7. Address to art,

- Harris, 165

8. Flattery

Theophastrus, 167

9. The absent man, -

Spectator, 168

10. The monk,

Sterne,

170

11. On the head dress of the Ladies, - Spectator, 172

12. On the present and future state, - - ib. 175

13. Uncle l'oby's benevolence, - - Sterne, 178

14, Story of the seige of Calais, - Fool of Quality, 179

SECTION V.

illustrated,

1. On grace in writing, - Fitzborne's letters, 184

2. On the structor of arimals, - Spectator. 185

3. On natural and fantastical pleasures, - 'Guardian, 189

4. The folly and madness of ambition

World!, 193

5. Battle of Pisarsalia, and the death of

Pompey, - - - - Goldsmith, 197

6. Character of king Alfred, - - Hume, 202

7. Awkwardness in company, - Chesterfield. 203

8. Virtue man's highest interest,

- Harris. 204

9. On the pleasure arising from objects

of sight, -

- Specialor, 205

10. Liberty and slavery, -

- Sterne, 208

11. The cant of criticisin

ib. 209

12. Parallel between Pope and Dryden, - Johnson, 211

13. Story of le Fever,

Sterne, 212

SECTION VI.

221

222
223
10.

every body,

1. The shepherd and the Philosopher, a Gay,

2. Ode to Leven Water, -

Smollet,

3. Ode from the 19th psalm, - - Spectator,

4. Rural charms,

Goldsmith,

5. The painter who pleased nobocły and

- Gay,

6. Diversity in the human character, - Popie,

7. The toilet, - - .

ib.

8. The hermit, - -

Parnel,

-

9. On the death of Mas Alason,

Mason,

10. Ęyanegyric on Great Britain,

ut the temple of fame,

- Thomsun,

12. Hymn to the Deity, on the seasons of

ille year,

•

- - - . ib

224

226

227

16.

232
233
234

Pone,

297.

SECTION VII.

Page:

1. The camelion,

Merrick, -, 240,

2. On the order o nature,

- - Pofie, 241

3. Description of a country alehouse - Goldsmith, 242

4. Character of a country schoolmaster, - ib. 243

5. Story of Palemon and Lavinia, ... Thomson, ib.

6. Caledonia and, Amelia,

ib. 246.

7. Description of Mab, queen of the fairies, Shakespeare, 247

8. On the existence of a Deity, - Young, 248

9. Evening in Paradise described, - Milion, ib.

10. Elegy written in a country churchyard, - Gray, 250 4

11. Scipio restoring the captive lady to her

lover,

Thomson, 253

12. Humorous complaint to Dr. Arbuthnot

of the impertinence of scribblers,. - Pope, 254

13. Hymu to adversity, - - - - Gray, 255

14. The Passions.-An ode, - - - Collins, 256

SECTION VIII.

1. Lamentation for the loss of sight - Milton,

2. L'Allegro, or the merry man, - - ib.

3. On the pursuits of mankind, - ..

Pone,

4. Adam and Eve's morning hymn, -

Millon,

5. Parting of Hector and Adromache, - Homer,

6. Facetious history of John Gilpin, - Cowper,

7. The creation of the world, - - Milion,'

8. Overthrow of the rebel angels, - - ib.''

9: Alexander's feast, or the power of music, Dryden,

SECTION II.

Page.

Heid,

-

- 293

ELOQUENCE OF THE SENATE:

1. Speech of the Earle of Chesterfield, ..

Lord Mansfield, . . . . 298

SECTION IU.

ELOQUENCE OF THE BAR.

1 Pleadings of Cicero against Vorres,

2. Cicero for Milo, -

. 306

303 -

SECTION IV.

SPEECHESON VARIOUS SUBJECTS:

1. Romulus to the people of Rome, after building

the city, :

Hooke, - 313

2. Hannibal to Scipio Africanus, - 16.

314

3. Scipio's reply,

- ib.

315

4. Calisthenes' reproof of Cleon's flattery to

Alexander, - - O Curtius, 316

5. Caius Marius to the Romans, - Hooke,

6. Publius Scipio to the Roman army, - ib. 320

7. Hannibal to the Carthagenian army, - 16. 323

8. Adherbal to the Roman senators, . Sallust,

9 Canuleius to the Roman consuls - Hooke, 329

10. Junius Brutus over the dead body of Lucretia, ib, 331

11. Demosthenes to the Athenians,:. Lansdown, - 333

12. Jupiter to the inferior Deities, • Homer, 338

13. Æneas to queen Dido, -

Virgil, 339

14. Moloch to the infernal powers, - Milton, - 341

15. Speech of Belial, advising peace,

317

325

SECTION V..

DRAMATIC PIECES.-I DIALOGUES.

1. Belcour and Stockwell,

West Indian, 344

2. Lariy Townly and Lady Grace, Provoked Husband. 346

3. Priuli and Jaffier, 3 - Venice preserved, 351

4. Boniface and Ainwell, - Beaux Stratagem, 355

5. Lovegold and Lappet,

Miser. -

6. Cardinal Wolsey and Cromwell, - Henry VIII. 359.
Page.

7. Sir Charles and Lady Racket, Three weeks

afier Marriage,

362

8. Brutus and Cassius, ' - Shakespeare's Julius Cesar, 366

II.-SPEECHES AND SOLILOQUIES

1. Hamlet's advice to the players, Tragedy of Hamlet, 369

2. Douglas' account of himself, Tragedy of Douglas, 370

3.

the hermit, - - ib. - 371

4. Semproniuš’ speech for war,' Tragedy of Cato, 372

5. Lucius' speech for peace, -

6. Hotspur's account of the fop, - 1 Henry IV. 372

7.

scliloquy 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 in

army, - - Every man in his humor, 376.

11. Soliloquy of Hamlet's uncle on the

murder of his brother, - Tragedy of Hamlet, 377

12. Soliloquy of Hamlet on death, c . ib - 378

13. Falstaff's encomiums on sack, 2 Henry IV. ib.

14. Prologue to the Tragedy of Cato, - Pope, - 379

15. Cato's soliloquy on the immortality

of the soul, - - Iragedy of Cato, 380

17. Speech of Henry V. at the siege of

Harfleur,

Shakespeare's Henry V. 381

before the battle

of Agincourt, -

ib. - 382

19. Soliloquy of Dick the Apprentice.

19. Soliloquy of Dick the Apprentice, Farce the Anfrentice, ib.

20. Cassius instigating Brutus to join the

conspiracy against Cesar, Tragedy of Julius Cesar,383

21. Brutus'harrangue on the death of Cesar, - ib. - 385

22. Anthony's oration over Cesar's body, - ib. ib.

23. Falstaff's soliloquy on honour, - Henry IV. 388

24. Part of Richard Illd's soliloquy the night preceding

the Battle of Bosworth, Tragedy of Richard Iild, ib.

25. The world compared to a stage, - As you like it, 389.

APPENDIX-Containing concise lessons on a new plan, 390