THE

BOOK OF ELOQUENCE:

A

COLLECTION OF EXTRACTS

IN

PROSE AND VERSE,

FROM THE MOST FAMOUS ORATORS AND POETS;

INTENDED AS EXERCISES FOR DECLAMATION IN COLLEGES

AND SCHOOLS.

BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER.

"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special
observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature."-SHAKSPEARE.
Quid facundia posset

Re patuit

.”—Ovid, Met. Lib. xiii.

BOSTON:

LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.

NEW YORK: CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM.