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13. The Story of Le Fevre

Laurence Sterne ...

14. The Death of Little Nell

Charles Dickens...

15. The Flower of the Forest

Professor Wilson

16. Wealth versus Enjoyment...

Jeremy Taylor

17. The Fate of Robert Burns...

Thomas Carlyle...

18. Poetry...

Dr. Channing

19. Magna Charta

Henry Hallam

20. Character of Napoleon Bonaparte

Charles P. Phillips

21. Character of Dr. Johnson

Lord Macaulay

22. On the Study of Latin and Greek Sydney Smith

23. Taxes ...

Lord Brougham...

24. On the Accumulation of Modern Poetry ... Lord Jeffrey

25. Cruelty to Animals

Dr. Chalmers

26. Columbus's Voyage to America

Dr. Robertson

27. The Escape of Charles II. after the Battle

of Worcester

Lord Clarendon...

28. A Sea Boat ...

John Ruskin

29. The Death of Nelson ..

Robert Southey

30. The Old Man at the Gate ...

Douglas Jerrold...

31. The Planetary and Terrestrial Worlds Joseph Addison...

32. Discovery of the Great Lions at Nimroud... Austen Layard

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READINGS IN POETRY.

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1. Lycidas

2. Una and the Lion

3. To a Skylark

4. The Cataract of Lodore

5. The Sale of the Pet Lamb...

6. “We are Seven"

7. On his Mother's Picture

8. Riding Together...

9. The Soul's Errand

10. The Cry of the Children

11. The Deserted Village...

12. The Calendar of Flora

13. The Reconciliation

14. Zara's Ear-Rings

John Milton

122

Edmund Spenser 126

P. B. Shelley

127

Robert Southey

130

Mary Howitt

132

Wm. Wordsworth 134

Wm. Cowper

136

William Morris... 139

Sir Walter Raleigh

140

Mrs. E. B. Browning 142

Oliver Goldsmith

146

Charlotte Smith ... 150

John Banim

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J. G. Lockhart

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54. The Last Man...

Thomas Campbell 220

55. The Sword Song...

Theodore Körner 221

56. Childe Harold's Farewell

Lord Byron

223

57. The Death of the First-Born

A. A. Watts

225

58. The Alma

Archbishop Trench 226

59. Skipper Ben

Lucy Larcom

227

60. The Warden of the Cinque Ports

H. W. Longfellow

229

61. Casa Wappy

D. M. Moir

230

62. Pope's Willow

James Montgomery

233

63. The Phantom

Bayard Taylor

235

64. The First Grey Hair ...

Thos. H. Bayly... 236

65. Phantoms

H. W. Longfellow 237

66. The Poet and the Rose

John Gay

238

67. The Mourning Mother of the Dead Blind... Mrs. E. B. Browning ... 240

68. The Burial of Moses

Mrs. C. F. Alexander. 242

69. A Dream

William Allingham 244

70. To-Day and To-Morrow

Gerald Massey

245

71. The Lutist and the Nightingale...

John Ford ...

246

72. The Sands of Dee

Rev. Chas. Kingsley ..., 247

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ORATORY-FORENSIC AND SENATORIAL.

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1. Benjamin Disraeli on the Character of the Prince Consort

2. Victor Hugo on the Liberty of the Press

3. Edward Everett on the Character of La Fayette

4. Mr. Whiteside in Defence of Mr. Duffy

5. Lord Macaulay at the University of Glasgow

6. Lord Palmerston on Competitive Examinations

7. Daniel O'Connell in Defence of Mr. Magee

8. Robert Hall's Peroration on War

9. George Canning on the Latent Power of England

10. Kossuth's Farewell to his Country

11. Rev. Newman Hall on the Dignity of Labour

12. Benjamin Disraeli on the Death of the Duke of Wellington

13. Lord Brougham on the Reform Bill

14. Sir Robert Peel on the Constitution

15. The March to Magdala

16. Patrick Henry's Address to the American Congress

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17. Lord Chatham's Protest against the American War...

290

18. Edmund Burke's Peroration on the Impeachment of Warren Hastings 294

19. Lord Brougham on Negro Emancipation ...

296

20. Mr. Sheridan's Panegyric on Justice ...

298

21. Daniel Webster at the Centenary Celebration of Washington ... 299

22. Joseph Mazzini to the Memory of the Martyrs of Cosenza

302

23. Richard B. Sheridan on Taxation

306

24. Richard Cobden on Peace

310

DRAMATIC SCENES AND DIALOGUES.

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1. Scene from the Merchant of Venice

2. Wolsey and Cromwell

3. Prince Henry and Sir John Falstaff ...

4. Brutus and Cassius

5. Prince Arthur and Hubert

6. Death of King Henry IV...

7. Coriolanus and Aufidius

8. Scene from Every Man in his Humour

9. Cato and Decius ...

10. Scene from Venice Preserved

11. Scene from The School of Reform

12. Scene from the Earl of Warwick

13. Norval and Glenalvon

14. Scene from the Iron Chest...

15. Rienzi and Angelo

16. Scene from The Man of the World

17. Scene from the Road to Ruin

18. Scene from Pizarro

19. Scene from John Bull...

20. Priuli and Jaffier

21. Scene from Ion

Shakspeare ...

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Shakspeare ...

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Shakspeare ...

321

Shakspeare ...

323

Shakspeare ...

326

Shakspeare ...

329

Shakspeare ...

332

Ben Jonson...

334

Joseph Addison ...

337

Thomas Otway

339

Thomas Morton ... 345

Dr. Francklin

351

Rev. John Home

355

G. Colman the younger 358

Miss Mitford

361

Charles Macklin

364

Thomas Holcroft 368

R. B. Sheridan... 374

G. Colman the younger 377

Thomas Otway

383

Sir T. N. Talfourd 385

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DRAMATIC SPEECHES AND SOLILOQUIES.

1. Hamlet's Advice to the Players

2. Othello's Address to the Senate

3. Hotspur's Account of the Fop ...

Shakspeare...

Shakspeare...

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4. Brutus to the Romans

Shakspeare ...

5. The Progress of Life ...

Shakspeare

6. Mark Antony's Oration over Cæsar's Body Shakspeare ...

7. Cassius Instigating Brutus to oppose Cæsar Shakspeare ...

8. Hamlet's Soliloquy on the Immortality of

the Soul

Shakspeare ...

9. Speech of Henry the Fifth...

Shakspeare ...

10. Milton's Soliloquy on his Blindness ... Milton...

11. Rolla's Address to the Peruvians

R. B. Sheridan

12. Douglas's Account of Himself

Rev. J. Home

13. Mordaunt to Lady Mabel ...

Westland Marston

14. The Prayer of Festus...

P. J. Bailey

15. Rob Roy's Defence of Himself ..

Sir Walter Scott

16. Speech of Lucius Junius Brutus

J. Howard Payne

17. Cato's Soliloquy...

Addison

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RECITATIONS.

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1. The Armada

Lord Macaulay ...

2. How they brought the Good News from

Ghent

Robert Browning

3. The Field of Waterloo

Lord Byron

4. Lady Clara Vere de Vere

Alfred Tennyson

5. The Spanish Champion

Mrs. Hemans

6. The Inchcape Rock

Robert Southey

7. Beth Gelert

Hon. W. R. Spencer

8. The Glove and the Lions

Leigh Hunt...

9. The Raven ...

E. A. Poe

10. The Bridge of Sighs

Thomas Hood

11. Hohenlinden

Thomas Campbell

12. Ginevra

Samuel Rogers

13. Lochinvar

Sir Walter Scott

14. Virginia

Lord Macaulay...

15. Mary, the Maid of the Inn

Robert Southey

16. The Pauper's Drive

Thomas Noel

17. The Sack of Baltimore

Thomas Davis

18. Excelsior

H. W. Longfellow

19. The Baron's Last Banquet

A. G. Greene

20. Marston Moor

W. M. Praed

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