Oliver Cromwell and Walter Noble, Catiline and Aurelius, . Falstaff, Shallow, Silence, Bardolph, Bull- Hereulf and Thane, Sir Anthony Absolute and Captain Abso- lute, Octavio and Maximin, Sir Lucius O'Trigger and Bob Acres, Novall, Romont, and Charmi, Beverley and Fable, Orlando and Adam, Selim and Edward, . King of the Sandwich Islands, Mr. Peel, Mr. Croker, and Interpreter, Rembrandt, Dutch Trader, and Frank, Dr. Johnson and Richard Savage, Blackwood's Magazine. 179 Adam Smith and Highland Laird, Procida, Montalba, Raimond, and Guido, Mrs. Hemans. 198 Ben Jonson and Drummond, Blackwood's Magazine. 208 King of Spain and a Dissector, Eribert and Anselmo, Moses, Caleb, Jochani, Mamri, and Ramp- Belshazzar, Imlah, and Adonijah, Rev. H. H. Milman. 242 Shenstone and Mr. Ludgate, Blackwood's Magazine. 252 Galileo and a Monk in the Inquisition, Henry 4th, and Sir Arnold Savage, W. S. Landor. 260 Mrs. Hemans. Extract from Speech in Reply to Mr. Hayne, 1830, . Speech on the Union with Ireland, Knickerbocker's History of New York, • Washington Irving. 186 Speech on Unlawful Associations in SPEECHES, &c. Catiline, Rev. Geo. Croly. Speech on the Public Lands, 1830, . Hayne. Discourse at Plymouth, 1829, W. Sullivan. Speech in Reply to Mr. Everett, 118 Oration at Charlestown, July 4, 1824, E. Everett. ", Speech on the Portuguese Expedition,. Ibid. 203 The Monkey Emancipator, Blackwood's Mag. 205 Speech on the Foreign Policy of Eng- Extract from Rampsinitis describing the Plague of darkness to Pharaoh, Anonymous. 227 Sammael's Address to the fallen Angels, Ibid. 231 Speech on the Catholic Question, 1828, North. 237 Titus before Jerusalem, Rev. H. H. Milman. Speech on the Catholic Question, 1829, Peel. 248 "The reigning Vice, a Satire," Blackwood's Mag. 255 Oration at Boston, July 5, 1830, A. H. Everett. 267 Address at Charlestown on the second Centen- THE CLASSICAL SPEAKER. SECTION I. VIRGIL-HORACE-MERCURY-SCALIGER THE ELDER. Lord Lyttleton. Virgil. My dear Horace, your company is my greatest delight, even in the Elysian fields. No wonder it was so when we lived together in Rome. Never had man so genteel, so agreeable, so easy a wit, or a temper so pliant to the inclinations of others in the intercourse of society. Horace. To be so praised by Virgil, would have put me in Elysium while I was alive. But I know your modesty will not suffer me, in return for these encomiums, to speak of your character. Supposing it as perfect as your poems, you would think, as you did of them, that it wanted correction. Virgil. Don't talk of my modesty. How much greater was yours, when you disclaimed the name of a poet, you whose odes are so noble, so harmonious, so sublime! Horace. I felt myself too inferior to the dignity of that name. Virgil. I think you did like Augustus, when he refused to accept the title of king, but kept all the power with which it was ever attended. Horace. Well :-I will not contradict you; and (to say the truth) I should do it with no very good grace, because in some of my odes I have not spoken so modestly of my own poetry as in my epistles. But who is this shade that Mercury is conducting? I never saw one that stalked with so much pride, or had such ridiculous arrogance expressed in his looks! Virgil. They come towards us. Hail, Mercury! What is this stranger with you! Mercury. His name is Julius Cæsar Scaliger; and he is by profession a critic. Horace. Julius Cæsar Scaliger! He was, I presume, a dictator in criticism. B Mercury. Yes, and he has exercised his sovereign power over you. Horace. I will not presume to oppose it. I had enough of following Brutus at Philippi. Mercury. Talk to him a little: He'll amuse you; I brought him to you on purpose. Horace. Virgil, do you accost him. I cannot do it with proper gravity. I shall laugh in his face. Virgil. Sir, may I ask for what reason you cast your eyes so superciliously upon Horace and me ? I don't remember that Augustus ever looked down upon us with such an air of superiority when we were his subjects. Scaliger. He was only a sovereign over your bodies, and owed his power to violence and usurpation. But I have from nature an absolute dominion over the wit of all authors, who are subjected to me as the greatest of critics or hypercritics. Virgil. Your jurisdiction, great sir, is very extensive : and what judgments have you been pleased to pass upon us? Scaliger. Is it possible you should be ignorant of my decrees. I have placed you, Virgil, above Homer. Horace. And I suppose you were very peremptory in your decisions. Scaliger. Peremptory! ay. If any man dared to contradict my opinions, I called him a dunce, a rascal, a villain, and frightened him out of his wits. Virgil. But what said others to this method of disputation? Scaliger. They generally believed me, because of the confidence of my assertions; and thought I could not be so insolent, or so angry, if I were not absolutely sure of being in the right. Horace. Have not I heard, that you pretended to derive your descent from the princes of Verona? Scaliger. Pretended! Do you presume to deny it? If Horace. Not I indeed. Genealogy is not my science. you should claim to descend in a direct line from king Midas, I would not dispute it. Scaliger. When I give praise, I give it liberally, to show my royal bounty. But I generally blame, to exert all the vigour of my censorian power, and keep my subjects in awe. Horace. You did not confine your sovereignty to poets; you exercised it, no doubt, over all other writers. Scaliger. I was a poet, a philosopher, a statesman, an orator, an historian, a divine; without doing the drudgery of |