OR, A

SELECTION OF PIECES,

IN

Prose and Verse,

FOR THE

Improvement of Youth

IN

READING and SPEAKING.

BY WILLIAM SCOTT.

To which are prefixed,
ELEMENTS OF GESTURE.

Illustrated by

FOUR PLATES; - and RULES
For expressing with propriety the various
PASSIONS, &C. OF THE MIND.

ALSO, AN

APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

LESSONS ON A NEW PLAN.

Boston Edition :

PUBLISHED BY LINCOLN & EDMANDS,

No. 53 Cornhill.....1819.

William Greenough, Printer.

54

CONTENTS.

1819

INTRODUCTORY LESSONS.

Page.

1. ON the speaking of speeches at schools,

2. On the acting of plays at schools,

Walker,

9

ibid. 16

ing or public speaking,

4. Rules respecting elocution,

3. Rules for expressing with propriety, the princi-

pal passions and humors, which occur in read-

PART I-LESSONS IN READING.

22. Address to a young student,

Knox,

69.

25. Advantages of, and motives to cheerfulness, Spectator,

71

12. On pride,

Guardian,

86

13. Journal of the life of Alexander Severus, Gibbon,

88

14. Character of Julius Cæsar,

Middleton,

ib.

15. On mispent time,

Guardian,

90

16. Character of Francis I.

Robertson,

93

17. The supper and grace,

Sterney

96

18. Rustic felicity,

ibid

98

19. House of mourning,

1. Description of the amphitheatre of Titus,

2. Reflections in Westminster Abbey,

3. The character of Mary queen of Scots,

4. The character of queen Elizabeth,

5. Charies V's resignation of his dominions,

6. Importance of virtue,

7. Address to art,

8. Flattery,

9. The absent man,

10. The Monk,

3. On natural and fantastical pleasures,

Guardian, 160

4. The folly and madness of ambition illustrated, World, 164

5. Battle of Pharsalia and the death of Pompey, Goldsmith, 167

6. Character of king Alfred,

Hume, 172

7. Aukwardness in company,

Chesterfield, 173

8. Virtue man's highest interest,

Harris,

ib.

9. On the pleasure arising from objects of sight, Spectator, 175

10. Liberty and slavery,

Sterne,

177

11. The cant of Criticism,

ibid.

178

12. Parallel between Pope and Dryden,

13. The story of Le Fever,

Sterne,

180

5. The painter who pleased nobody and every body, Gay, 191

12. Hymn to the Deity, on the seasons of the year,

ibid.

203

7. Description of Mab, queen of the Faries, Shakespeare,

10. Elegy written in a country church-yard,

Gray, 216

11. Scipio restoring the captive lady to her lover,

12. Humorous complaint to Dr. Arbuthnot of the

Thomson, 218