Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking

William Scott

I. Hill, 1817 - 407 páginas

Conteúdo

• LESSONS IN READING SECTION 1: 57
• The fox and the goat Dodsleys Fables: 62
• The fox and the stork ib: 63
• The court of death ib: 64
• The partial judge: 65
• Dishonesty punished Kanes hints 12 The picture: 66
• The two bees Dodsleys Fables 14 Beauty and deformity Percivals Tales: 67
• Remarkable instance of friendship Art of Speaking: 68
• Dionysius and Damocles ib: 69
• Character of Cataline Sallust: 70
• Avarice and Luxury Spectator: 71
• Hercules choice Tattler: 72
• Will Honeycombs Spectator Spectator: 75
• On good breeding Chesterfield: 78
• Address to a young student Кпох: 81
• Advantages of and motives to cheerfulness Spectator: 84
• The bad reader Percivals Tales: 89
• Respect due to old age Spectator: 90
• Modesty and docility ib: 91
• Piety to God recommended to the young Blair 5 Sincerity ib: 92
• Benevolence and humanity żb: 93
• Industry and application: 94
• Proper employment of time: 95
• On contentment Spectator 197: 96
• Needlework recommended to the ladies ib: 100
• On pride Guardian: 102
• Journal of the life of Alexander Severus Gibbon: 104
• Character of Julius Cesar Middleton: 105
• On misspent time Guardian: 106
• Character of Francis I Robertson: 110
• The săpper and grace Sterne: 113
• Pustic felicity ib: 115
• House of mourning ib: 116
• SECTION III: 119
• Character of Addison as a writer Johnson: 120
• Pleasure and Pain Spectator: 121
• Sir Roger de Coverlvs family ib: 123
• The folly of inconsistent expectations Aitkin: 126
• Description of the vale of Keswick in Cumberland Brown: 128
• Pity an allegory Aikin: 131
• Advantages of commerce Spectator: 133
• On public speaking ib: 135
• Advantages of history Hume: 136
• On the immortality of the soul Spectator: 139
• The combat of the Horatii and the Curiatii Livy: 141
• On the power of custom Spectator: 144
• On pedantry Mirror: 146
• The journey of a day a picture of human Kfe Rambler: 148
• SECTION IV: 153
• Reflections in Westminster abbey Spectator: 154
• The character of Mary queen of Scots Robertson: 156
• The character of queen Elizabeth Hume: 158
• Charles Vs resignation of his dominions Robertson: 160
• Importance of virtue Price: 164
• Address to art Harris: 165
• Flattery Theophrastus: 167
• The absent man Spectator: 168
• The Monk Sterne: 170
• On the head dress of the ladies Speetator 072: 175
• Uncle Tobys benevolence Sterne: 178
• Story of the siege of Calais Fool of Quality: 179
• SECTION V: 184
• On the structure of animals Spectator: 185
• On natural and fantastical pleasures Guardian: 189
• The folly and madness of ambition illustrated World: 193
• Battle of Pharsalia and the death of Pompey Goldsmith: 197
• Character of king Alfred Hume: 202
• Awkwardness in company Chesterfield 20 3: 203
• Virtue mans highest interest Harris: 204
• On the pleasure arising from objects of sight Spectator: 205
• Liberty and slavery Sterne: 208
• The cant of criticism 2b: 209
• Parallel between Pope and Dryden Johnson: 211
• Story of le Fevre Sterne: 212
• SECTION VI: 221
• Ode to Leaven Water Smollet: 222
• Ode from the 19th psalm Spectator: 223
• Rural charms Goldsmith ib 5 The painter who pleased nobody and every body Gay: 224
• Diversity in the human character Pope: 227
• The hermit Parnel ab 9 On the death of Mrs Mason Mason 2 32: 232
• Extract from the temple of fame Pope: 233
• A panegyric on Great Britain Thomson: 234
• Hymn to the Deity on the seasons of the year ib: 237
• Elegy written in a country church yard Gray: 253
• SECTION VIII: 259
• The creation of the world: 273
• On doing as we would be done unto Atterbury: 280
• SECTION II: 293
• Lord Mansfield Page 293: 298
• SECTION III: 303
• 314 315 Hooke ib 1 Romulus to the people of Rome after building the city Hooke: 314
• Hannibal to Scipio Africanus 3 Scipios reply: 315
• Calisthenes reproof of Cleons flattery to Alexander Q Curtius: 316
• Caius Marius to the Romans 6 Publius Scipio to the Roman army 7 Hannibal to the Carthaginian army ib 8 Adherbal to the Roman senators Sallust 9 ...: 317
• Virgil: 339
• Milton: 341
• SECTION V: 344
• Lady Townly and Lady Grace Provoked Husband: 346
• Priuli and Jaffier Venice Preserved: 351
• Boniface and Aimwell Beaux Stratagem: 353
• Lovegold and Lappet Miser: 355
• Cardinal Wolsey and Cromwell Henry VIII: 359
• SPEECHES AND SOLILOQUIES: 369
• Henry IVs soliloquy on sleep 2 Henry IV: 375
• Speech of Henry V at the siege: 381
• Falstaffs soliloquy on honor: 388

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Página 221 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.

Página 371 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse. Which I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...

Página 245 - Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for Beast and Bird, they to their grassy couch, these to their nests, were slunk, — all but the wakeful nightingale; she, all night long, her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. Now...

Página 363 - All this? ay, more: Fret till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.

Página 239 - Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...

Página 222 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young ; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice, that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.

Página 238 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.

Página 356 - Why, well : Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.

Página 255 - Orphean lyre, I sung of Chaos and eternal Night ; Taught by the heavenly muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare : thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovereign vital lamp ; but thou Revisitest not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.

Página 364 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.

Informações bibliográficas

• Título: Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking
• Autor: William Scott
• Editora: I. Hill, 1817
• Original de: Biblioteca Pública de Nova York
• Digitalizado: 17 maio 2007
• Num. págs.: 407 páginas