THIS work having been undertaken principally with the design of assisting the Students at WARRINGTON in acquiring a just and graceful Elocution, I feel a peculiar propriety in addressing it to you, as a public acknowledgment of the steady support which you have given to this institution, and the important services which you have ren dered it. In this Seminary, which was at first established, and has been uniformly conducted, on the extensive plan of providing a proper course of Instruction for young men in the most useful branches of Science and Literature, you have seen many respectable characters formed, who are now filling up their stations in society with reputation to themselves, and advantage to the public. And while the same great object continues to be pursued, by faithful endeavours to cultivate the understandings of youth, and by a steady attention to discipline, it is hoped, that you will have the satisfaction to observe the same effects produced, and that the scene will be realised, which our Poetess has so beautifully described: When this, this little group their Country calls ...Pope, 36 9. A TURKISH TALE 16 15. EDWIN AND EMMA... Mallett, 38 8. AVARICE AND LUXURY. Ib. 17 16. CELADON AND AMELIA.... Thomson, 40 4. PLEASURE AND PAIN 5. LABOUR.. 6. THE OLD MAN AND HIS ASS .... Ib. 7. THE CHOICE OF HERCULES, Tatler, 8. PITY ib. 20. ELIZA ......Ib. 18 17. JUNIO AND THEANA Grainger, 42 World, 20 18. DOUGLAS TO L. RANDOLPH.. Home, 46 21 19. OTHELLO'S APOLOGY.... Shakspeare, 47 Darwin, 48 Mrs. Barbauld, 24 21. THE MORALIZER CORRECTED, 9. THE DEAD ASS.. Sterne, 25. Cowper, 50 10. THE SWORD 11. MARIA 12. THE CHAMELEON ... Ib. 27 22. THE FAITHFUL FRIEND .......16. 52 Ib. 29 23. PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED.... Ib. 53 Merrick, 33 24. THE NEEDLESS ALARM 16. 54 13. THE YOUTH AND THE PHILOSO- 25. THE MODERN RAKE'S PROGRESS, PHER ......Whitehead, 35 BOOK III. - DIDACTIC PIECES. Hurdis, 58 Chap. 1. ON MODESTY 2. ON CHEERFULNESS. 3. ON SINCERITY... 4. ON HONOUR... Page Chap. Page Spectator, 61 15. ON HAPPINESS. Pope, 87 ..Ib. 63 16. ON VIRTUE Ib. 89 Tillotson, 66 17. ON VERSIFICATION Ib. 90 Guardian, 68 18. LESSONS ON WISDOM... Armstrong, 92 Davies, 94 5. ON GOOD HUMOUR ....... Rambler, 70 19. AGAINST INDOLENCE: An Epistle: 6. ON THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD ...Ib. 73 20. ELEGY TO A YOUNG NOBLEMAN, 77 ON THE ADVANTAGES OF UNITING GENTLENESS OF MANNERS WITH FIRMNESS OF MIND, L. Chesterfield, 75 9. ON STUDY.. 10 ON SATIRICAL WIT 8. ON GOOD SENSE.... Mason, 97 21. ON THE MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE Thomson, 98 Melmoth, 77 22. REFLECTIONS ON A FUTURE Bacon, 78 Sterne, 79 23. 24. 11. HAMLET'S INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PLAYERS Shakspeare, 80 12. THE PRESENT CONDITION OF MAN VINDICATED .. Pope, 81 25. STATE ON PROCRASTINATION ...... Ib. 99 Young, 100 THE PAIN ARISING FROM VIR- TUOUS EMOTIONS ATTENDED WITH PLEASURE. ON TASTE Akenside, 102 Ib. 104 15. ON THE ORDER OF NATURE.... Ib. 83 26. THE PLEASURES ARISING FROM A 144. THE ORIGIN OF SUPERSTITION AND TYRANNY... CULTIVATED IMAGINATION.. 16. 106 ... Ib. 84 27. SLAVERY ................. Darwin, 108 [5] 1. JUNIUS BRUTUS OVER THE DEAD BODY OF LUCRETIA..... Livy, 121 2. HANNIBAL TO HIS SOLDIERS.... Ib. 122 9. SIR JOHN ST. AUBIN'S, FOR REPEAL- ING THE SEPTENNIAL ACT ...... 141 Sallust, 125 10. SIR ROBERT WALPOLE'S REPLY 11. LORD LYTTELTON'S SPEECH, ON 6. GALGACUS, THE GENERAL OF THE GAINST THE ROMANS ... Tacitus, 131 15. HENRY V TO HIS SOLDIERS .... Ib. 157. Sterne, 168 12. ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY 5. RIVERS AND SIR HARRY.. False Del. 170 13. HAMLET AND HORATIO... 189 6. SIR JOHN MELVIL AND STERLING, 14. BRUTUS AND CASSIUS.... Ib. 191 15. BELLARIUS, GUIDERIUS, AND AR- School for Rakes, 178 17. EDWARD AND WARWICK, Earl of W. 202 BOOK VII. - DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. Chap. Page Chap. Page 1. SENSIBILITY 2. LIBERTY AND SLAVERY... Ib. 210 3. CORPORAL TRIM'S ELOQUENCE, Ib. 211 4. THE MAN OF ROSS ...... Pope, 212 Sterne, 209 7. GRONGAR HILL.... Dyer, 218 8. HYMN TO ADVERSITY ........ Gray, 222 9. ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE .... Ib. 223 5. THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN, Gold. 213 10. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY 6. THE WISH CHURCHYARD ..... .... 1.226 Green, 215 [6] |