whole, as well as the several parts in detail ; and, at the same time, so to familiarize the application, as to give the entire subject a permanent lodgment in the memory of the student. How far the authors have succeeded in providing facilities for such a result, experiment alone must decide. Another, though a subordinate object, was to treat of poetry more fully than elocutionists have generally done, by giving the principles of its construction, the number of syllables constituting the different kinds of poetic feet, its various measures and forms, together with rules, and numerous examples and exercises for reading and scanning. And, as the use of figurative language is almost as common as household words among all classes of people, the authors have thought it advisable, also, to give a brief explanation of the change in the use of words from a literal to a figurative sense, illustrating the same by a few examples, and thus showing how much our language abounds in a figurative mode of expressing ideas. Most of the exercises under the elocutionary rules, are designed as regular reading lessons, as well as exemplifications of the rules; and, for convenience, they are referred to in a separate table of contents. Part Second consists of select pieces for reading and declamation, from the most approved authors both in this country and Europe, with EXPLANATORY NOTES. It embraces specimens of the eloquence of the pulpit, the lecture-room, the legislative hall, the bar, the stage, and the battle-field, appropriately interspersed with the narrative, descriptive, humorous, and colloquial styles in prose, and with interesting and instructive selections of various styles and measures in verse. To enable the student to determine the character of the language, the style, the manner of reading all these varied selections, and to secure a constant observance and application of the principles illustrated in the First Part, a reference is occasionally made, at the head of the lessons, to some one or more of the elocutionary rules; and it is hoped that all teachers will faithfully carry out this suggestion of the authors, in their daily use of the book. In conclusion, Mr. Town would hereby improve the present opportunity to acknowledge the valuable assistance of his nephew, Nelson M. HOLBROOK - one of the compilers of “ Town's Grammar School Reader,” and author of “ The Child's First Book in Arithmetic” – in the last revision of his entire Series of books. THE AUTHORS. Boston, Oct. 1, 1856. CHAPTER 1. PAUL . CONTENTS. PART 1. ELOCUTIONARY PRINCIPLES. PRINCIPLE. ARTICULATION, . Definitions and Characters, Elementary Sounds, Table of Elementary Sounds, Combinations of Elementary Sounds, and Table of, . CHAPTER II. ACCENT, Quantity of Syllables, CHAPTER III. SENTENCES, 43 Conditional Sentences, Series, 44-46 Interrogative Sentences, Affirmative, Negative Sentences, . 46, 47 Exclamatory Sentences, CHAPTER IV. EMPHASIS, General Divisions, Superior and Inferior, ABSOLUTE EMPHASIS, On Important Words, Succession of Emphatic Words and Particulars, Repetition of Words, 72 76 Language of Tender Emotion, 104 RISING AND FALLING INFLECTIONS, 79, 80 Language of Authority, etc., 116-118 89 Commencing, Concluding Series, 127-129 Negation and Affirmation, 91,92 Succession of Particulars, etc., 13) Words or Clauses Contrasted, 94 When the Sense is Complete, 97,99 Language of Irony, etc., 137-139 Condition, Case Absolute, etc., · 99-101 MONOTONE, 142, 143 134, 135 . . Construction of Verse in Rhyme, 211-217 Metrical Changes, 1. ARTICULATION, or Elementary Sounds. The Pleasures of Learning, Anon. 28 2. Accent. Disrespect to Parents in no Case Allowable, Principles of Classification, . 5. Emphasis Absolute. Beauty and Sublimity of Scottish Scenery, Richmond. 57 6. Succession of Words or Particulars. Miscellany, Panegyric on Sheridan's Eloquence, E. Burke. 60 66 Antithetic Emphasis. Miscellany, Absolute Emphatic Clause. Miscellany, 13. Absolute Emphatic Clause Repeated. Miscellany, 14. Antithetic Emphatic Clause. Miscellany, 15. INFLECTION. Direct Questions without their Answers. Miscellany, 17. Direct Questions with their Answers. Law of Progress, M. Hopkins. 85 Or, used Disjunctively. Miscellany, 20. Negation Opposed to Afirmation. Miscellany, . 21. Words or Clauses Contrasted. Bible and Miscellany, 95, 96 22. Pause of Suspension. Miscellany, Advantages of a Well-Cultivated Mind, J. Bigland. 102 24. Tender Emotion. The Head-Stone, 26. Indirect Questions without their Answers. Miscellany, 27. Indirect Questions with Answers. Northern Laborers, C. C. Naylor, 114 28. Language of Authority. Miscellany, . 29. Depunciation and Reprehension. Miscellany, 31. Exclamatory Questions and Tender Emotion. Miscellany, 32. The Last Pause but One. Miscellany, 83. Commencing and Concluding Series. Miscellany, 34. Emphatic Succession of Particulars. Miscellany, 35. Increasing Intensity of Inflection, Emphatic Repetition. Miscellany, 133 39. MODULATION, and Characters of Style. Narrative. A Narrow Escape, . 154 40. Descriptive Narration. A Forest on Fire, 41. Historical Narration. An Attempt to take Washington, 42. Didactic Value of the Sabbath to Young Men, . A. Barnes. 163, 164 Argumentative. Industry Necessary to Genius, 44. Extract from an Oration. The Dignity of Human Nature, Anon. 169 45. An Argumentative Appeal. You Cannot Conquer America, Pitt, 170 46 EMOTIONS AND Passions. Tender Emotion, etc. Miscellany, 172-175 47. Language of Earnest Entreaty, Lamentation, etc. Miscellany, 175-178 48. Complaint, etc. Las Casas to Pizarro, Grandeur and Sublimity. The Fixed Stars, 50. Language that is Solemn and Dignified, etc. Miscellany, 183, 184 184, 185 186-188 189, 190 54. Language of Impatience, etc. Brutus and Cassius, etc., Shakspeare. 191-194 Language of Authority. Miscellany, 58. Language of Reproof, etc. Cæsar Passing the Rubicon, J. S. Knowles. 195 57 Language of Affirmation, etc. Reply to Corry, . 59. PERSONATION. Scene from Virginius, Rhetorical Dialogue. Helps to Read, Rhetorical Pauses. Republican Equality, 62. POETRY, RHYME. Tambic Measure. The Wood-Rose and Laurel, Anon. 229 63. lambic Measure. My Country, 64. Trochaic Measure. Aspirations of Youth, 65. A napestic and lambic Measures. The Hermit, Anapestic and lambic Measures. The Fox and Cow, Jane Taylor. 235 Dactylic Measure. Star of the East, BLANK-VERSE. Iambic. Summer-Evening Meditation, Mrs. Barbauld. 237 1. Counsel and Advice to Young Men, 5. Valuable Hints for Students, 6. Indolence and Want of Order, 9. The First American Congress, 10. Motion for Prayers in the Convention, 11. Eminent Statesmen of the Revolution, 19. The Indian and British Omcer, 25. Duties of American Citizens, 27. A Rill from the Town Pump, |