LESSONS IN PROSE.

The names of American writers are in small capitals.

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Encyclopædia Britannica. 55

CHAPIN. 57

2 Human Progress,

3. Damon and Pythias,

Brooke. 59

4. On the Abuse of Genius, with reference to the Works of Lord

Byron,

8. Against the American War,

Knowles. 62

Lord Chatham. 68

Lord Thurlow. 71

9. Reply to the Duke of Grafton,

10. Speech in Favour of the War of the Revolution, PATRICK HENRY. 72

11. Supposed Speech of John Adams in favour of signing the De-

claration of Independence,

12. Character of Napoleon Bonaparte,

13. Character of Washington,

D. WEBSTER. 74

CHANNING. 77

Lord Brougham. 79

17. Eloquence and Logic. From an Eulogy on H. S. Legare, of

South Carolina,

W. C. PRESTON.

84

DEWEY. 91

Lesson

1. Future Prospects of the American Continent,

21. A Christian viewing Death,

22. In favour of acknowledging the Independence of Greece,

24. In favour of the American Revolution,

25. Dignity of Human Nature.

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26. An Exhortation to the Study of Eloquence,

29. The Lumberer's Story-A Forest on Fire,

30. The Heavenly Bodies,

31. The Same Subject continued,

32. The true Source of Reform,

34. Employment of Winter Evenings by the Young,

37. Character of Pitt,

49. Early History of Kentucky,

50. The Fall of Napoleon,

54. Byron and his Poetry,

55. Origin of the French Revolution,

59. Our Obligations as American Citizens,

HENRY CLAY. 92

JOSIAH QUINCY. 96

DEWEY. 98

Cicero. 99

J. J. AUDUBON. 102

Chalmers. 105

Chalmers. 108

CHAPIN. 110

PRENTICE. 112

Grattan. 116

Burke. 118

Brooke. 119

Brooke. 121

C. Phillips. 127

C. Phillips. 129

T. B. Macaulay. 131

EPHRAIM PEABODY. 134

43. Tribute to Washington,

44. Defence of the Puritans,

46. The Seen and the Unseen,

48. Danger of Prematurely Tasking the Mental Powers of the

Young,

A. BRIGHAM. 139

N. A. REVIEW. 142

C. Phillips. 144

T. B. Macaulay. 150

CHANNING. 153

D. WEBSTER. 158

60. In Favour of Permitting the Return of the British

Refugees,

PATRICK HENRY. 160

Lesson

62. Eulogistic of Adams and Jefferson,

63. In Commemoration of the Completion of the Bunker-Hill

Monument,

66. Fulton and His Invention,

67. On being Installed Rector of the University of Glas-

gow,

land,

71. In Behalf of Catholic Emancipation,

72. The Reward of Monarchs,

73. Reflections in Westminster Abbey,

78. Character of Schiller,

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EDWARD EVERETT 163

70. Commemorative of the First Settlement of New Eng-

97. On Arming for War with England, 1811,

102. Rainy Weather,

103. Hannibal to his Soldiers,
109. Character of Columbus,

D. WEBSTER. 164

MR. JUSTICE STORY. 170

122. Adams and Jefferson,

123. Anecdote of Napoleon,

124. Reply to Sir Robert Walpole,

125. Scene from "Pizarro,"

130. The Jubilee of the Constitution,

131. A Literary Dinner,

137. Edmund Burke,

138. Character of Lord Bacon,

142. On Legal Reform,

143. Capabilities of Humanity,

79. Law,

80. Contributions of the New World to the Old,
81. Peroration to the Invective against Warren Hastings, Sheridan. 196
82. Panegyric on the Eloquence of Sheridan,
Burke. 197
Sheridan. 215

93. Rolla to the Peruvians,

96. On the Bill to refund to Gen. Jackson the Fine imposed upon

him at New Orleans, 1815,

D. WEBSTER. 178

Rev. Sidney Smith. 180

E. EVERETT. 182

Addison. 184

Thomas Carlyle. 190

Stevens. 192

D. WEBSTER. 194

W. C. PRESTON. 218

H. CLAY. 221

W .H. SIMMONS. 227

Livy. 228

W. IRVING. 239

R. H. DANA, JR. 241

110. A Ship under Full Sail,

111. From his Inaugural Address on Entering upon the Presidency

of the United States,

112. Repudiation of the Charge of French Influence during the

War of 1812,

113. Indifference to Popular Elections,

114. Brutus on the Death of Cæsar,"

116. On Increasing the Army, preparatory to the War of

Lord Brougham. 171

1812,

121. Exhortation against Subjection to Foreign Influence,

.

H. CLAY. 245

G. MCDUFFIE, 247

Shakspeare. 249

JEFFERSON. 242

GEO. WASHINGTON. 259

W. WIRT. 260

Duchess d'Abrantes. 262

Lord Chatham. 264

Sheridan. 265

J. Q. ADAMS. 275

IRVING. 277

Blackwood's Magazine. 287

T. B. Macaulay. 289

G. C. VERPLANCK. 296

S. S. RANDALL. 298

Lesson

LESSONS IN VERSE.

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Campbell. 64

65

67

81

87

89

W. C. BRYANT.

PERCIVAL.

ANONYMOUS.

Mary Howitt. 82

Leigh Hunt. 84

Rev. George Croly.

J. G. PERCIVAL.

T. K. Hervey. 90

Rev. H. H. Milman. 94

Bishop Berkeley. 101

T. K. Hervey. 101

H. W. LONGFELLOW. 111

Robert Southey. 114

Walter Scott. 115

Gray. 123

Campbell. 133

Anon. 137

Hugh Hutton. 146

Byron. 147

53. Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni, Coleridge. 148

56. The Might with the Right,

Anonymous. 155

CHARLES SPRAGUE. 156

5. The Rainbow,

6. The Battle-Field,

7. The Broken Heart,

14. Washington's Monument,

15. Corn Fields,

16. Abou Ben Adhem,

18. The Death of Leonidas,

19. Death for Our Country,

20. To One Departed,

23. The Statue of the Belvidere Apollo,

27. The Muse's Hopes for America,

28. Cleopatra Embarking on the Cydnus,

33. A Psalm of Life,

35. Books,

57. Art,

58. Old Ironsides, .

61. To a Child,

64. Ode to the Saviour,

36. Helvellyn,

41. Elegy in a Country Churchyard,

45. Glenara,

47. The Seventh Plague of Egypt. The Tempest.

51. God is Every Where,

52. The Destruction of Sennacherib,

O. W. HOLMES. 157

ANONYMOUS. 162

Milman. 166

Barry Cornwall. 168

Campbell. 173

Rev. G. Croly. 175

J. R. DRAKE. 186

N. P. WILLIS. 197

Horace Smith. 188

Henry Neele. 189

N.C.Brooks. 202

J. PIERPONT. 204

Wordsworth. 206

Joanna Baillie. 207

Mrs. Southey. 208

J. H. PAINE. 209

Young. 211

Shakspeare. 213

Ibid. 213

91. Marcellus's Speech to the Mob,

92. Henry V.'s Speech before the Battle of Agincourt, Ibid. 214

94. Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul,

95. The Coral Grove,

98. Love,

Addison. 216

J. G. PERCIVAL. 217

Southey. 222

65. The Ocean,

68. Lochiel's Warning,

69. Scene from the Tragedy of Catiline,

74. The American Flag,

75. To a City Pigeon,

76. The First of March,

77. Where is He?

84. The Eternity of God,

85. Not on the Battle Field,
*85. Hours of Idleness,

86. Fame,

87. The Pauper's Death-bed,

88. Last Scene of the Tragedy of "Brutus,"

89 On the Being of a God,

90. Henry V. to his Soldiers,

Lesson

99. America to Great Britain,

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100. Cardinal Wolsey's Speech to Cromwell,

101. The Mariner's Dream,

104. Marco Bozzaris,

105. Hymn to the Stars,

106. The Passions,

107. Van Den Bosh persuades Philip Van Artevelde to accept

the command of Ghent,

Henry Taylor. 235

Ibid. 237

Shakspeare. 250

BRYANT. 254

120. To One in Affliction.

117. The Antiquity of Freedom,

118. Charade on the Name of the Poet Campbell, W. M. Praed 256

119. Confidence in God,

Addison. 257

J. Montgomery. 258

126. Van Artevelde's Address to the Men of Ghent, Henry Taylor. 268

127. Consumption,

PERCIVAL. 270

H. Vaughan. 273

Byron. 274

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128. Heaven in Prospect,

129. Address to the Ocean,

C. SPRAGUE. 280

BRYANT. 282

Milton. 283

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WASHINGTON ALLSTON. 223

Skakspeare. 224

Dimond. 225

HALLECK. 229

Anonymous. 231

Collins. 232

108. Van Artevelde's Defence of his Rebellion,

115. Mark Antony's Cration,

132 Melancholy Fate of the Indians,

133. The Future Life,

134. Satan's Reproof of Beelzebub,

135. The Pilgrim Fathers,

136. Order of Nature,

139. On the Downfall of Poland,

140. Saturday Evening,

141. God,

144. The Poet of Solitude,

*144. Quarrel Scene from Douglas,

145. The Child of Earth,

146. The Soul's Glimpses of Immortality,

147 Rienzi's Address to the Men of Rome,

148. The Missing Ship,

JOHN PIERPONT. 284

Pope. 285

Campbell. 291

153. Farewell to Life,

154. Tallien's Denunciation of Robespierre,

155. The Song of the Forge,

156. Scene from 66

Virginius,"

Bulwer. 292

Bowring. 293

Shelley. 299

Rev. John Home. 301

Caroline Norton. 304

Jane Taylor. 305

Miss Mitford. 306

EPES SARGENT. 307

Campbell. 309

EPES SARGENT. 311

Mrs. Hemans. 315

149. Napoleon and the British Sailor,

150. From the Tragedy of " Velasco,"

151. Christ Walking on the Water,

152. Wallenstein's Reflections on hearing of the Death of

young Piccolomini,

Schiller, 316

Korner. 316

Coleridge. 317

Anon. 318

J. S. Knowles. 320