. . . 134. The Memory of Our Fathers . 137. The Poetry of the Bible . 151. Invasion of Switzerland . 155. On the Removal of the British Troops from Boston . Chatham. 327 158. Character of La Fayette . 164. Observance of the Sabbath. 171. Speech on the Catholic Question 181. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress . 184. The Natural and Moral Worlds 185. Advantages of a Well-educated Mind. 192. Lord Brougham's Eloquence 198. Scale of Animal Existence. 202. A Republic of Prairie Dogs 203. Prince Henry and Falstaff . 204. Combat between a Crusader and a Saracen 215. The Discontented Pendulum . 217. Scene from the Poor Gentleman. 221. The Family of Marco Bozzaris . 224. Importance of the Union . 24. The Gouty Merchant and the Stranger . 30. Burial of Sir John Moore . 33. Midnight Mass for the Dying Year 37. Hector's Attack on the Grecian Walls 41. Rienzi's Address to the Romans. 62. The Roman Soldier ;-Last Days of Herculaneum. . Atherstone. 152 . . . . . LESSOX. PAGR. 64. I'm pleased, and yet I'm sad 71. The Reaper and the Flowers . 80. The Parting of Marmion and Douglas. 81. Red Jacket, the Indian Chief. 85. Elegy in a Country Church-Yard . 91. The Justice and Power of God Noyes' Translation of Job. 211 100. Fall of Cardinal Wolsey . 101. Character of Cardinal Wolsey 105. Paper: A Conversational Pleasantry 117. The Last Sigh of the Moor. 118. The Approach of a Devastating Army. 135. The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers 138. Song of Moses at the Red Sea 183. God seen in the Phenomena of Nature 187. The Traveler at the Source of the Nile 191. Battle of Beal' an Duine. 193. The Quarrel of Brutus and Cassius. 196. Antony's Oration over the Dead Body of Cesar Shakspeare. 406 211. The Victorious March of God 212. God the Defense of his People 213. Apostrophe to Mont Blanc . 214. Thunder-Storm on the Alps 216. Address to a Shred of Linen. . PART FIRST: THE PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. The first step to be taken by one who desires to become a good reader or speaker, is to acquire a habit of distinct articulation. Without this, the finest voice, the utmost propriety of inflection, and all the graces of articulation, fail to please. The habit of defective articulation is generally contracted in the first stages of the learner's progress, and arises either from indolence, which produces an indistinct and drawling utterance, or from too great haste, which leads to running words together, and to clipping them by dropping unaccented words and final consonants. Habits of this kind, frequently, indeed, generally, become so inveterate by the time the pupil is sufficiently advanced to use a work on rhetorical reading, or any treatise on elocution, that the most constant and unremitting attention is necessary on the part of both teacher and pupil, in order to correct them. Nothing but a resolute determination to succeed, and faithful practice upon exercises selected with especial reference to the end in view, can accomplish this object. There must be added to this, a constant watchfulness against relapse, when the learner comes to lessons of a more general character. A monotonous style of reading and speaking, is often formed at the same early age. The little reader is apt to prolong the sound of the word he has just deciphered, until he can “spell out” the one which follows; and if he is hurried from one lesson to another, without having time given him to practice upon that with which he is already familiar, his progress may seem rapid : but he is not learning to read, in the proper sense of the word, that is, to give utterance to words with that modification of voice which their relation to each other demands : he is only becoming familiar with the appearance of words, so as to call their names readily. (13) |