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SECTION II.

11. Needle-work recommended to the ladies, ib.
12. On pride

Guardian,

2. Impertinence in discourse,

3. Character of Addison as a writer,

4. Pleasure and Pain,

SECTION III.

1. The honor and advantage of a constant
adherence to truth,

Cumberland,

8. Pity, an allegory,

9. Advantages of commerce,

10. On public speaking,

11. Advantages of history,

12. On the immortality of the soul,

13. The combat of the Horatii and the

5. Sir Roger de Coverly's family,

6. The folly of inconsistent expectations,

7. Description of the vale of Keswick, in

1. Description of the ampitheatre of
Titus,

2. Reflections in Westminster abbey,

Brown,
Lakin,

14. On the power of custom,

15. On pedantry,

16. The journey of a day; a picture of

Aitkin,

Livy,

3. The character of Mary, queen of Scots,

4. The character of queen Elizabeth,

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

6. Importance of virtue,

11. On the head dress of the ladies,

12. On the present and a future state,

13. Uncle Toby's benevolence,

14. Story of the siege of Calais,

SECTION V.

1. On grace in writing,

2. On the structure of animals,

3. On natural and fantastical pleasures,

4. The folly and madness of ambition

illustrated,

5. Battle of Pharsalia, and the death of

Pompey,

6. Character of king Alfred,

7. Awkwardness in company,

6. Diversity in the human character,

7. The toilet,

8. The hermit,

9. On the death of Mrs. Mason,

8. Virtue man's highest interest,

9 On the pleasure arising from objects

of sight,

10. Liberty and slavery,

11. The cant of criticism,

ib.

12. Parallel between Pope and Dryden, Johnson,

13. Story of le Fevre,

10. Extract from the temple of fame.

11. A panegyric on Great Britain,

12. Hymn to the Deity, on the seasons of

2. On the order of nature,

3. Description of a country alehouse,

4. Character of a country schoolmaster,

5. Story of Palemon and Lavinia,

6. Celadon and Amelia,

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

SECTION VIII.

1. Lamentation for the loss of sight,

2. L'Allegro, or the merry man,

3. On the pursuits of mankind,

4. Adam and Eve's morning hymn,

5. Parting of Hector and Andromache,

6. Facetious history of John Gilpin,

7. The creation of the world,

Milton,

5. On the death of Christ,

8. Overthrow of the rebel angels,

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

PART II-LESSONS IN SPEAKING.

ELOQUENCE OF THE PULPIT.

1. On truth and integrity,

Tillotson,

2. On doing as we would be done unto, Atterbury,

3. On benevolence and charity,

Seed,

ib.

SECTION II.

ELOQUENCE OF THE SENATE.

1. Speech of the Earl of Chesterfield,

-Lord Mansfield,

2.

SECTION III.

ELOQUENCE OF THE BAR.

1. Pleadings of Cicero against Verres,

2. Cicero for Milo,

SECTION IV.

SPEECHES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

1. Romulus to the people of Rome, after building

the city,

2. Hannibal to Scipio Africanus,

3. Scipio's reply,

4. Calisthenes' reproof of Cleon's flattery

to Alexander,

5. Caius Marius to the Romans,

6. Publius Scipio to the Roman army,

7. Hannibal to the Carthaginian army,

8. Adherbal to the Roman senators,

Hooke,

ib.

1. Belcour and Stockwell,

2. Lady Townly and Lady Grace,

3. Priuli and Jaffier,

4. Boniface and Aimwell,

Q. Curtius,

Hooke,

ib.

9. Canuleius to the Roman consuls,

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

11. Demosthenes to the Athenians,

12. Jupiter to the inferior deities,

13. Eneas to queen Dido,

14. Moloch to the infernal powers,

15. Speech of Belial, advising peace,

5. Lovegold and Lappet,

6. Cardinal Wolsey and Cromwell,

ib.

Sallust,

Hooke,

SECTION V.

DRAMATIC PIECES.-I. DIALOGUES.

West Indian,

7. Sir Charles and Lady Racket, Three weeks after marriage,362

8. Brutus and Cassius,

Shakespeare's Julius Cesar, 366

II-SPEECHES AND SOLILOQUIES.

Tragedy of Hamlet, 369

Tragedy of Douglas, 370

1. Hamlet's advice to the players,

2 Douglas' account of himself,

3.

-the hermit,

4. Sempronius' speech for war,

5. Lucius' speech for peace,

6. Hotspur's account of the fop,

7.

soliloquy on the contents

8. Othello's apology for his marriage,

9. Henry IV's soliloquy on sleep,

10 Bobadil's method of defeating an

army,

11. Soliloquy of Hamlet's uncle on the

murder of his brother,

12 Soliloquy of Hamlet on death,

13. Falstaff's encomiums on sack,

14. Prologue to the Tragedy of Cato,

15. Cato's soliloquy on the immortality

of the soul,

16. Speech of Henry V. at the siege of

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

20. Cassius instigating Brutus to join the

Every man in his humor,

Shakespeare's Henry V. 381

ib.

379

ib.

conspiracy against Cesar, Tragedy of Julius Cesar, 383

21. Brutus' harrangue on the death of Cesar,

22. Antony's oration over Cesar's body,

23 Falstaff's soliloquy on honor,

24. Part of Richard IIId's soliloquy the night

preceding the battle of Bosworth, Tragedy of Richard IIId. ib.

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

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