purfued, by faithful endeavours to cultivate the understandings of youth, and by a steady attention to difcipline, it is hoped, that you will have the fatisfaction to obferve the fame effects produced, and that the fcene will be realized, which OUR POETESS has fo beautifully defcribed: When this, this little group their country calls I am, With fincere Refpect and Gratitude, DEAR SIR, Your much obliged, And most obedient Servant, WILLIAM ENFIELD. Warrington Academy, ESSAY on Elocution CONTENTS. Ib. 18 15 Edwin and Emma Mallet 44 Ib. 19 16 Celadon & Amelia Thomson 47 Ib. 21 17 Junio and Theana Grainger 49 World 23 18 Douglasto L.Randolph Home 53. 6 The Old Man & his Afs Ib. 24 19 Othello's Apology Shakƒ. 54 7 The Choice of HerculesTat. 25 20 Eliza Mrs. Barbauld 28 21 The Moralizer correo ed Ib 31 22 The Faithful Friend 1b. 59 Ib. 33 23 Pairing Time anticipated Ib. 60 Merrick 38 24 The Needlefs Alarm II Maria 12 The Camelion 13 The Youth and the Philo- 25 The Modern Rake's Pro- 5 On Good Humour Rambler 81 19 Against Indolence; 32 Ib. 84 20 Flegy to a Young Nobleman Reflections on a fut e State Ib 143. Man vindicated Pope 93 26 The Pleafures arifing from 13 On the Order of Nature Ib. 95 a cultivated Imagina Darquin 123 Ib. 97 27 Slavery BOOK,IV. ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES. Page 1 On Anger Holland 125 4 On the Immortality of the BOOK VII.-DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. 158 Ib. 227 6 The Wish Page Chap. Ib. 273 35 Ode to Apollo Page, Chap. a Fop Collins 280 8 Hymn to Adverfity Gray 240 22 Clarence's Dream 9 Ode on a diftant Profpect 23 Queen Mab of Eton College Ib. 241 24 The Apothecary 10 Elegy written in a Coun- 25 Ode to Evening try Churchyard Ib. 244 26 Ode to Spring Mrs. Barba. 282 11 Warrington Academy 27 Domeftic Love and Hap- Ib. 252 28 The Pleafures of Retire. 18 The Progresso Life Shak. 272 33 The Rofe 19 The Entry of Bolingbroke 34 The Poet's New Year's Gift 15. 298 12 Orlando and Adam Shaks. 341 29 Hamlet and Ghost 13 Scroop and Richard Ib. 343 30 14 Hotfpur and Glendower 1.345 Sbakf 275 The Storyofle Fevre Sterne 305 20. Wolfey and Crom. Shakf, 356 2 Yorick's Death Ib. 315 21 Lear 3 The Beggar's Petition 317 22 Macbeth's Soliloquy unfortunate Lady Pope 319 5 Morning Hymn Milton 321 24 Antony's Soliloquy over Juba and Syphax Addifon 325 25 Antony's Funeral Oration 9 Southampton and Effex 26 The Quarrel of Brutus Ib. 279 Sleep ESSAY ON ELOCUTION. Id affert ratio, docent literæ, confirmat confuctudo legendi et loquendi. Cic.. Muc declamation has been employed to convince the world of a very plain truth, that to be able to fpeak well is an ornamental and ufeful accomplishment. Without the laboured panegyrics of ancient or modern orators, the importance of a good elocution is fufficiently obvious. Every one will acknowledge it to be of fome confequence, that what a man has hourly occafion to do, fhould be done well. Every private company, and almost every public affembly, affords opportunities of remarking the difference between a juft and graceful, and a faulty and unnatural elocution; and there are few perfons who do not daily experience the advantages of the former, and the inconveniences of the latter. The great difficulty is, not to prove that it is a defirable thing to be able to read and fpeak with propriety, but to point out a practicable and easy method, by which this accomplishment may be acquired. FOLLOW NATURE, is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory, without regard to which, all other rules will only produce affected declamation, not just elocution. And fome accurate obfervers, judging, perhaps, from a few unlucky fpecimens of modern eloquence, have coneluded that this is the only law which ought to be pre fcribed ; |
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