MASTERPIECE

STUDIES

BURKE'S “SPEECH ON CONCILIATION”

TENNYSON'S "THE PRINCESS"
SHELLEY'S "THE SKYLARK”
IRVING'S “RIP VAN WINKLE”

CHICAGO
SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1906
BY SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY

ROBERT o LAW COMPANY
PRINTERS AND BINDERS, CHICAGO

EDMUND BURKE'S

SPEECH ON CONCILIATION

WITH AMERICA

1775

EDITED FOR SCHOOL USR

BY

JOSEPH VILLIERS DENNEY

PROFESSOR IN OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

CHICAGO
SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY

CONTENTS

PAGE

PREFACE - - - - - . . . . 7

INTRODUCTION

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF BURKE · 11

A BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY .

. . 21

TEXT OF THE SPEECH . . . . . -- 25

QUESTIONS ON THE LITERARY AND RHETORICAL

QUALITIES OF THE SPEECH · : · 127

A STUDY OF THE LOGICAL STRUCTURE OF THE

SPEECH . . . . . . . 132

NOTES . . . . . . . . . 138

INDEX . . . . . . . . . 153

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