examples, illustrations, and exercises, of sufficient length and number, to insure, if possible, a clear comprehension of all the parts as a whole, as well as the several parts in detail ; and, at the same time, 80 to familiarize the application, as to give the entire subject a permanent lodgment in the memory of the student. How far the author has succeeded in providing facilities for such a result, experiment alone must decide. Another, though a subordinate object, was to treat of poetry more fully than elocutionists have generally done, by giving the principles of its construction, the number of syllables constituting the different kinds of poetic feet, its various measures and forms, together with rules, and numerous examples and exercises for reading and scanning. And, as the use of figurative language is almost as common as house. hold words among all classes of people, the author has thought it advisable also to give a brief explanation of the change in the use of words, from a literal to a figurative sense, illustrating the same by a few examples, and thus showing how much our language abounds in a figurative mode of expressing ideas. Most of the exercises under the elocutionary rules, are designed as regular reading lessons, as well as exemplifications of the rules ; and, for convenience, they are referred to in a separate table of contents. Part Second consists of select pieces for reading and declamation, with explanatory notes. It embraces the various styles of the most approved authors, both in this country and Europe. To enable the student to determine the character of the language, the style, the appropriate manner of reading the selections, and to secure a constant observance and application of the principles illustrated in Part First, a reference is occasionally made, at the head of the lessons, to some one or more of the rules ; and it is hoped that teachers will faithfully carry out this suggestion of the author, in their daily use of the book. In preparing this work, the author acknowledges the valuable assistance of his nephew, Nelson M. HOLBROOK, assistant compiler of “ The Grammar School Reader," and author of “ The Child's First Book in Arithmetic.” S, TOWN. AURORA, N. Y., November 10, 1854 CONTENTS. 11 Table of Combinations of Sub- 15 | Table Combinations of Substitutes, 22 Special Rules and Examples in 31-34 PRINCIPLE. ARTICULATION, Definitions and Characters, Elementary Sounds, Table of Elementary Sounds, Sounds, and Table of, ACCENT, Quantity of Syllables, SENTENCES, Series, Affirmative, Negative Sentences, EMPHASIS, General Divisions, and Particulars, • Repetition of Words, Absolute Emphatic Clause 56 Repeated, 39, 601 Antithetic Emphatio Clauso, 70 74 | Language of Tender Emotion, Definitions and Explanations, 7476 FalliNG INFLECTION, RISING AND FALLING INFLECTIONS, 77-79 Language of Authority, &c., 87-89 Commencing, Concluding Series, 126—128 Negation and Affirmation, 89, 90 Succession of Particulars, &c. 130 Words and Clauses Contrasted, 92 When the Sense is Complete, 95—97 | Language of Irony, &c., Condition, Case Absolute, &c. 100—102 | MONOTONE, 141, 142 133, 134 Construction of Verse in Rhyme, 209–216 Metrical Changes, Construction of Blank-Verse, 216, 217 Reading Poetry, and Rules, 1. ARTICULATION, or Elementary Sounds. The Pleasures of Learning, Anon. 26 Anon. 35 5. EMPHASIS A bsolute. Beauty and Sublimity of Scottish Scenery, Richmond. 55 6. Succession of Words or Particulars. Miscellany, Panegyric on Sheridan's Eloquence, E. Burke. 58 8. Repetition of Important Words. Intemperance, Axclamations and Interjections. Miscellany, 89 10. Antithetic Emphasis. Miscellany, 12. Absolute Emphatic Clause. Miscellany, 13. Absolute Emphatic Clause Repeated. Miscellany, 14. Antithetic Emphatic Clause. Miscellany, 15. INFLECTION. Direct Questions without their Answers. Miscellany, 17. Direct Questions with their Answers. Law of Progress, M. Hopkins. 83 18. Or, used Disjunctively. Miscellany, 20. Negation Opposed to Affirmation. Miscellany, 21. Words or Clauses Contrasted. Bible and Miscellany, 93, 94 22. Pause of Suspension. Miscellany, Advantages of a Well-Cultivated Mind, J. Bigland. 98 24. Tender Emotion. The Head-Stone, 26. Indirect Questions without their Answers. Miscellany, Indirect Questions with Answers. Northern Laborers, C. C. Naylor. 113 28. Language of Authority. Miscellany, 29. Denunciation and Reprehension. Miscellany, 31. Exclamatory Questions and Tender Emotion. Miscellany, The Last Pause but One. Miscellany, 33. Commencing and Concluding Series. Miscellany, 34. Emphatic Succession of Particulars. Miscellany, 35. Increasing Intensity of Inflection, Emphatic Repetition. Miscellany, 132 39. MODULATION, and Characters of Style. Narrative. A Narrow Escape, 153 40. Descriptive Narration. A Forest on Fire, 41. Historical Narration. An Attempt to take Washington, Anon. 158 42. Didactic. Value of the Sabbath to Young Men, 43. Argumentative. Industry Necessary to Genius, Extract from an Oration. The Dignity of Human Nature. Anon. 168 An Argumentative Appeal. Pitt's Speech, 46. ExotIONS AND Passions. Tender Emotion, &c. Miscellany, 172-175 47. Language of Earnest Entreaty, Lamentation, &c. Miscellany, 175—178 48. Complaint, &c. Las Casas to Pizarro, 49. Grandeur and Sublimity. The Fixed Stars, 50. Language that is Solemn and Dignified, &c. Miscellany, 182, 193 184, 185 186--188 189, 190 Language of Impatience, &c. Brutus and Cassius, Shakspeare. 190-193 Language of Reproof, &c. Cæsar Passing the Rubicon, J. S. Knowles. 194 57. Language of Affirmation, &c. Reply to Cory, 58. TRANSITIOX. Alexander's Feast, 59. PERSONATiox. Scene from Virginius, 60. Rhetorical Dialogue. Helps to Read, 61. Rhetorical Pauses. Republican Equality, 62. POETRY, RHYME. Iambic Measure. The Wood-Rose and Laurel, Anon. 228 63. lainbic Measure. My Country, Trochaic Measure. Aspirations of Youth, Anapestic and lambic Measures. The Hermit, 66. Anapestic and lambic Measures. The Fox and Crow, Jane Taylor. 233 Dactylic Measure. Star of the East, BLANK-VERSE. Iambic. Summer-Even'g Meditation, Mrs. Barbauld. 236 1. Counsel and Advice to Young Men, 7. South Carolina and Massachusetts, 10. Eminent Statesmen of the Revolution, 15. Extract from a Speech in Parliament, 17. Extract from President Jackson's Proclamation, 24. Influence of Athenian Literature, 28. Extract from the Life of Washington, 35. Extract from a Speech in Parliament, 36. Duties of American Citizens, 38. Effects of Climate and Scenery on the Mind, |
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