LESSONS IN ELOCUTION : OR, A SELECTION OF PIECES, IN Prose and Verse, FOR THE Improvement of Youth IN READING and SPEAKING. BY WILLIAM SCOTT. To which are prefixed, FOUR PLATES;-and RULES ALSO, AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING LESSONS ON A NEW PLAN. Boston Edition : PUBLISHED BY LINCOLN & EDMANDS, No. 53 Cornhill.....1819. William Greenough, Printer. CONTENTS. 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- Kane's Hints, ibid. Dodsley's Fables, ibid. 20. Will Honeycomb's Spectator, 22. Address to a young student, 11. Needle work recommended to the ladies, 13. Journal of the life of Alexander Severus, Gibbon, 8. Flattery, 9. The absent man, 10. The Monk, 11. On the head dress of ladies,. 12. On the present and future state, 13. Uncle Toby's bevevolence, 14, Story of the siege of Calais, Spectator, Theophrastus, Sterne ibid ibid. Percival's Tales, 100 ib. 101 Spectator, Aitken, 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, 2. On the structure of animals, 3. On natural and fantastical pleasures, Guardian, 4. The folly and madness of ambition illustrated, World, 5. Battle of Pharsalia and the death of Pompey, Goldsmith, 167 Chesterfield, 8. Virtue man's highest interest, 9. On the pleasure arising from objects of sight, Spectator, 175 10. Extract from the temple of fame, 12. Hymn to the Deity, on the seasons of the year, ibid. SECTION VIK 10. Elegy written in a country church-yard, 11. Scipio restoring the captive lady to her lover, |