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LESSONS IN ELOCUTION
OR, A
SELECTION OF PIECES,
IN
Prose and Verse,
FOR THE
Improvement of Youth
READING and SPEAKING.
BY WILLIAM SCOTT.
To which are prefixed, ELEMENTS OF GESTURE.
Illustrated by
FOUR PLATES;-and RULES For expressing with propriety the various PASSIONS, &C. OF THE MIND.
ALSO, AN
APPENDIX,
CONTAINING
LESSONS ON A NEW PLAN.
Boston Edition :
PUBLISHED BY LINCOLN & EDMANDS,
No. 53 Cornhill.....1819.
William Greenough, Printer.
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CONTENTS.
54
1819
INTRODUCTORY LESSONS.
1. ON the speaking of speeches at schools,
2. On the acting of plays at schools,
3. Rules for expressing with propriety, the princi
pal passions and humors, which occur in read-
ing or public speaking,
4. Rules respecting elocution,
22. Address to a young student,
Art of Thinking, 48
Dodsley's Fables, 52
ibid.
53
ib.
55
Kane's Hints,
56
Dodsley's Fables,
Percival's Tales,
57
Art of Speaking,
*58
23. Advantages of, and motives to cheerfulness, Spectator,
Page.
10. On contentment,
11. Needle work recommended to the ladies,
Spectator,
12. On pride,
Guardian,
13. Journal of the life of Alexander Severus, Gibbon,
14. Character of Julius Cæsar,
15. On mispent time,
16. Character of Francis I.
Robertson,
17. The supper and grace,
Sterne
18. Rustic felicity,
ibid
96.
19. House of mourning,
1. Description of the amphitheatre of Titus,
2. Reflections in Westminster Abbey,
3. The character of Mary queen of Scots,
4. The character of queen Elizabeth,
5. Charies V's resignation of his dominions,
6. Importance of virtue,
1. On grace in writing,
SECTION V.
Fitzborne's Letters,
156
157
160
2. On the structure of animals,
3. On natural and fantastical pleasures, Guardian,
4. The folly and madness of ambition illustrated, World, 164
5. Battle of Pharsalia and the death of Pompey, Goldsmith, 167
6. Character of king Alfred,
7. Aukwardness in company,
8. Virtue man's highest interest,
172
Hume, Chesterfield, 173
9. On the pleasure arising from objects of sight, Spectator, 175
10. Liberty and slavery,
Harris,
Sterne,
177
Goldsmith,
5. The painter who pleased nobody and every body, Gay,
12. Hymn to the Deity, on the seasons of the year, ibid.
7. Description of Mab, queen of the Faries, Shakespeare,
8 On the existence of a Deity,
9. Evening in Paradise described,
10. Elegy written in a country church-yard,
11. Scipio restoring the captive lady to her lover,
12. Humorous complaint to Dr. Arbuthnot of the
impertinence of scribblers,
13. Hymn to adversity,
14. The passions-An ode,
.
214
Young, ib.
Milton,
Gray, 216
Thomson, 218