The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers: Essay on Elocution and Directions for Reading

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F. Louis, 1804 - 376 pages

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Penseroso ibid
260
The Progress of Life Shakespeare
264
The Entry of Bolingbroke and Richard into London ibid
265
Life ibid
266
Hotspurs Description of a Fop ibid
267
Clarences Dream ibid
268
Queen Mab ibid
270
The Apothecary ibid
271
Ode to Evening Collins
272
Ode to Spring Mrs Barbauld
274
The Pleasures of Retirement ibid
277
Genius Akenside
279
Greatness ibid
281
Novelty ibid
283
The Story of Le Fevre Sterne
285
Yoricks Death ibid
297
The Beggars Petition
299
Elegy on the Death of an Unfortu nate Lady Pope
301
CHAP Page V Morning Hymn Milton
303
Satans Soliloquy ibid
304
Juba and Syphax Cato
309
Catos Soliloquy ibid
311
Southampton and Essex Earl of Essex
312
Jaffier and Pierre Venice Preservd
314
λι Edward and Warwick Earl of Warwick
317
Orlando and Adam Shakespeare
321
Scroop and Richard ibid
323
Χιν Hotspur and Glendower ibid
325
Hotspur reading a Letter ibid
328
Henry IVs Soliloquy on Sleep ibid
329
Henry IV and Prince Henry ibid
330
Henry V to his Soldiers ibid
333
Henry VI Warwick and Cardinal Beaufort ibid
335
Wolsey and Cromwell ibid
336
Lear ibid
339
Macbeths Soliloquy ibid
340
Macduff Malcolm and Rosse ibid
341
Antonys Soliloquy over C¿sars Body ibid
344
Antonys Funeral Oration over Ca sars body ibid
345
The Quarrel of Brutus and Cassius ibid
347
Othello and Iago ibid
351
Hamlets Soliloquy on his Mothers Marriage ibid
356
Hamlet and Ghost ibid
357
Hamlets Soliloquy on Death ibid
360
Soliloquy of the King in Hamlet ib
361
Ode on St Cecilias Day Pope
362
Alexanders Feast Dryden
366
The Country Life Cowley
370
Health Parnell
372
On Pride Pope
374
Picture of a good Man Young
375

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Page 262 - Or call up him that left half told The Story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page 243 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still...
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Page 218 - ... tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly; And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him, and write his speeches in their books, Alas ! it cried, " Give me some drink, Titinius,
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Page 343 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause ; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him...

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