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9. Extract from Demosthenes on the Crown.

10. From Cicero's Oration against Veres.

11. T. Quirctius to The Romans.

12. Chrysostom, on the Deceitfulness of Worldly Grandeur.

13. From Cicero's First Oration against Catiline.

14. From Cicero's Fourth Oration against Catiline.

15. Germanicus to his Mutinous Soldiers.

16. Hannibal to the Carthaginian Army.

17. Scipio to the Roman Army.

18. Adherbal against the Violence of Jugurtha.

19. Æschines against Demosthenes.

20. Demosthenes to the Athenians.

PART SECOND.

DIDACTIC AND RHETORICAL.

1. Science and Religion.

2. “Look not upon the Wine when it is Red.”

3. Catiline's Reply to the Charges of Cicero.

4. Fire.

5. The Warning.

6. Death.

7. The Dying Horse.

8. To-Morrow.

9. The Flight of Xerxes.

10. The American Patriot's Song.

11. The Victim.

12. The Call of Poland.

13. The Ocean.

14. The World.

15. Catiline, on Hearing his Sentence of Banishment.

16. To a Child.

17. “There's Death in the Pot."

18. The Family Bible.

19. The Patriot's Elysium.

20. What is Tiine ?

21. Macbeth's Soliloquy.

22. The Battle of Bannockburn.

23. Henry V, at the Siege of Harfleur.

24. Henry V, Encouraging his Soldiers..

25. New-England's Dead.

26. Ambition.

27. The Sailor.

28. Beautiful Soliloquy.

29. To-Morrow.

30. Elijah's Interview.

31. Byron.

32. Song of Mac Murrough.

33. What is that, Mother?

34 Woman.

Sigourney. 203

Willis. 203

Croly. 204

Anonymous. 205

Anonymous. 206

Cunningham. 206

Blackett. 207

Anonymous. 208

Jewsbury. 209

Anonymous. 210

Anonymous. 210

Campbell. 211

Anonymous. 212

Anonymous. 213

Croly. 214

Yankee. 214

Anonymous. 215

Anonymous. 216

Montgomery. 217

Marsden. 218

Shakspeare. 219

Campbell. 219

Shakspeare. 220

Shakspeare. 221

McLellan. 222

Neal. 223

Anonymous. 224

Taylor. 225

Cotton. 225

Campbell. 226

Pollok. 227

Scott. 229

Doane, 230

Campbell. 231

36. The Graves of the Patriots.

37. Influence of Hope at the Close of Life.

38. Address to Sceptics.

40. Opposition of Characters.

41. What's Hallowed Ground?

42. Cassius Instigating Brutus against Cæsar.

43. New-England.

44. Moloch's Oration for War.

45. Regulus before the Roman Senate.

46. The Spider and the Bee.

47. The First Wanderer.

48. Caractacus.

49. Speech of Belial, Dissuading War.

50. Death and the Drunkard.

51. Soliloquy from Manfred.

52. The Power of Eloquence.

53. Othello's Address to the Senate.

54. Moloch and Satan, before the Powers of Hell.

55. Description of an Ancient Battle in Scotland.

56. Parrhasius.

57. Meeting of Satan and Death at the Gate of Hell.

58. The Passions.

59. Alexander's Feast.

Shakspeare. 239

Shakspeare. 256

PATHETIC AND ENTERTAINING.

1. The Destruction of Senacherib.

2. The Field of Gilboa.

4. The Child's First Grief.

5. The Gipsy Wanderer.

7. The Song of Constance.

8. The Orphan's Dream.

4. Henry First, after the Death of his Son.

10. Henry Fifth and the Hermit of Dreux.

11. The Wounded Soldier.

12. Andrew Jones.

13. The Widowed Mother.

14. The Mother and Child.

15. The Orphan.

16. Mother, what is Death?

17. Cassabianca,

18. The Battle of Busaco.

19. Pulaski's Banner.

20. David's Lament over Absalom,

21. The Dead Sister.

22. Arnold Winkelried.

23. From Lalla Rookh.

Wordsworth. 283

Abercrombie. 285

Montgomery. 294

Moore. 295
SELECTION

25. The Revelers.

26. The Boy and Snake.

27. The Orphan Boy.

28. The Dying Brigand.

29. The Vulture of the Alps.

31. Celadon and Amelia.

32. The Fireman.

33. Battle of Waterloo.

34. The Sailor-boy's Dream.

35. The Neglected Child.

37. Beth-Gelert; or, the Death of the Grayhound.

38. Marco Bozzaris, the Epaminondas of Modern Greece.

39. The Maniac.

40. The Fatherless.

41. Lament for La Fayette.

42. We are seven.

43. Alonzo the Brave.

45. The Maid of the Inn.

Wordsworth. 321

COMIC AND AMUSING.

1. To an Old Wig.

2. The Child's Wish in June.

3. The Infant Orator.

4. The Apple-Dumplings, and George the Third.

5. The Directing Post.

6. The Atheist and Acorn.

7. The Ass and the Nightingale.

8. The Young Fly and the Old Spider.

9. · Spectacles, or Helps to Read.

10. The Schoolboy's Complaint.

11. The Three Black Crows.

12. The Gouty Merchant and the Stranger.

13. Misconception.

14. The Wind in a Frolic.

15. Short Answers.

16. Lodgings for Single Gentlemen.

17. The Rich Man and the Poor Man.

18. Petition of Young Ladies.

19. The Ant and the Butterfly.

21. The Comet and the Great Bear.

22. The Pair of Beasts.

23, Apology for the Pig.

24. Hodge and the Vicar.

25. Paper-A Conversational Pleasantry.

26. Toby Tosspot.

Khemnitzer. 345

Colman. 356
SELECTION

27. Frank Hayman

28. Christmas Times.

2. The Cow and the Ass.

30. The Frenchman and the Rats.

31. Occasional Prologue.

32. Occasional Epilogue.

33. The Modern Rake's Progress.

34. The Magpie ; or Bad Company.

PÁRT THIRD.

DRAMATIC AND SENTIMENTAL.

1. The Chamber of Sickness. First Voice, Second Voice.
2. The Greek Orphan. Paspati, Epaminondas.
3. The Churchyard. First Voice, Second Voice.
4. Stranger, Child.
5. Raimond, Procida.
6. Mordent, Lenox.
7. Aiberto, Theodore.
8. Athelwold, Edwin, Pilgrim.
9. Caswallon, Fitz-Edward.

10. Verner, Tell, Pierre, Theodore, Sarnem, Michael, Soldiers and

11. Druid, Elidurus, Arviragus.

12. Raimond, Procida.

13. Hakon, Erling.

14. Essex, Southampton, Lieutenant of the Tower, Raleigh.

15. Caius Gracchus, Drusus.

16. Rienzi, Colonna, Ursini, Frangipani, Cafarello, Angelo, Savelli,

the Nuncio, Embassador, Nobles.

17. Vanoc, Valens.

18. Gustavus Vasa, Sivard, Arnoldus, Dalecarlians.

19. Durazzo, Garcia, Perez.

20. Penruddock, Henry.

21. Catiline, Aurelius.

22 Douglas, Raby.

23. Verner, Albert, Tell.

24. Prince Arthur, Hubert, Attendants.

25. King Edward, Warwick, Suffolk.

26. Caswallon, Mador, Fitz-Edward.

27. Bourbon, Gonzales.

2. Col. Walsingham, Baron Hohendahl, Alasco.

29. Saladin, Malek Adhel, Attendant.

30. Isidore, Ordonio.

31. Virginius, Dentatus, Icilius, Appius, Titus, Servius, Lucius,

82. Procida, Montalba, Guido, Sicilians.

Cumberland. 410

Shakspeare. 422

HUMOROUS AND DIVERTING.

1. Hot Cockles. Henry, Charles.

2. How to Tell Bad News. Mr. H., Steward.

3. Lovegold, James.

4. Alderman Smuggler, Sir Harry Wildair, John.

5. Irish Courtesy. Stranger, O'Callaghan.

6. Robin, Snacks, Servant.

7. Mordent, Cheveril.

8. Colonel Arden, Rissolle.

9. Captain Hardy, Nathan.

10. Sir Francis Wronghead, Manly.

11. King, Miller, Courtier.

12. Ollapod, Sir Charles Cropland.

13. Old Fickle, Tristram Fickle.

14. Doctor Wisepate, Thady O'Keen, Robert.

15. Prince Henry, Falstaff.

16. Sir Philip Blandford, Ashfield.

17. Indigestion. Dr. Gregory, Patient.

18. Captain Tackle, Jack Bowlin.

19. Robin Roughhead, Snacks, Villagers.

Shakspeare. 491

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