Book of Recitations and Dialogues: With Instructions in Elocution and Declamation; Containing a Choice Selection of Poetical and Prose Recitations ...

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Fitzgerald, Aug 26, 2016 - History - 186 pages

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Contents

INSTRUCTION IN ELOCUTION AND DECLAMATION
7
Dedication of Gettysburg Cemetery
19
John B Gough
27
Socrates Snooks
34
Barbara Frietchie
40
Thanatopsis
48
The Nations Hymn
54
Robert Browning
61
Past Meridian
89
The Country Justice
100
The Dead Drummer
107
J T Trowbridge
121
Edgar A
136
Elihu Burritt
151
Thomas Hood
157
H W Longfellow
164

Revd Mr Maclellan
69
The High Tide or The Brides of Enderby Jean Ingelow
85
Doane
173

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