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,
ELEMENTS OF GESTURE.

Illustrated by

FOUR PLATES;-and RULES
For expressing with propriety the various
PASSIONS, &C. OF THE MIND.

ALSO, AN

APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

LESSONS ON A NEW PLAN.

Boston Edition :

PUBLISHED BY LINCOLN & EDMANDS,

No. 53 Cornhill.....1819.

William Greenough, Printer.

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CONTENTS.

54

1819

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

pal passions and humors, which occur in read-

ing or public speaking,

4. Rules respecting elocution,

22. Address to a young student,

Art of Thinking, 48

Dodsley's Fables, 52

ibid.

53

ibid.

54

ibid.

ib.

ibid.

55

Kane's Hints,

ib.

ibid.

56

Dodsley's Fables,

ib.

Percival's Tales,

57

Art of Speaking,

*58

ib.

ibid.

23. Advantages of, and motives to cheerfulness, Spectator,

Page.

10. On contentment,

11. Needle work recommended to the ladies,

Spectator,

ibid.

12. On pride,

Guardian,

13. Journal of the life of Alexander Severus, Gibbon,

14. Character of Julius Cæsar,

15. On mispent time,

Guardian,

16. Character of Francis I.

Robertson,

17. The supper and grace,

Sterne

18. Rustic felicity,

ibid

96.

19. House of mourning,

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,

5. Charies V's resignation of his dominions,

6. Importance of virtue,

1. On grace in writing,

SECTION V.

Page.

Fitzborne's Letters,

Spectator,

156

157

160

2. On the structure of animals,

3. On natural and fantastical pleasures, Guardian,

4. The folly and madness of ambition illustrated, World, 164

5. Battle of Pharsalia and the death of Pompey, Goldsmith, 167

6. Character of king Alfred,

7. Aukwardness in company,

8. Virtue man's highest interest,

172

Hume,
Chesterfield, 173

ib.

9. On the pleasure arising from objects of sight, Spectator, 175

10. Liberty and slavery,

Harris,

Sterne,

177

Goldsmith,

ib.

5. The painter who pleased nobody and every body, Gay,

12. Hymn to the Deity, on the seasons of the year, ibid.

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

.

214

Young, ib.

Milton,

Gray, 216

Thomson, 218