Moonlight--and a Field of Battle . . . Shelley. 92 Manfred to the Sorceress - - - - - Byron. 106 The Sword - - - - - Miss Langdon. 107 Parting of Douglas and Marmion What's Hallowed Ground - - . . Campbell. 123 The Deluge . . . . . . Bowles. 138 Counsel of Ahithophel to Absalom - Counsel of Hushai . . . . . . Ibid. 151 Speech of Raab Kiuprili . . . . Coleridge. 152 Speech of William Tell . . . . . Knowles. 158 Rienzi to the Romans . . . . . Moore. 158 Tyrolese War Song . . . . .. Anon. 171 Duke of Milan to Charles V. . . . . . Massinger. 173 Burial of Sir John Moore . . . . - Wolfe. 183 Warren's Address to the American Soldiers Christ stilling the Tempest ... Bernardo Del Carpio . . . . Mrs. Hemans. 191 Soliloquy of Wallenstein . . . . Schiller. 196 Cassabianca . . . . . . Mrs. Hemans. 205 Regulus - - - - - - . Dale. 206 Dionysius to his Soldiers . . . . . Murphy. 216 Zanga's Reasons for hating Alonzo - . . . Young. 216 An Ode . . . . . . - Hughes. 229 The Soldier's Dream . . . . . Campbell. 231 Night . . . . . . . . Smith. 243 Stanzas . . . . . . . Watts. 250 Jacob's Dream . . . . . . Anon. 252 Address of Álasco to his Countrymen . Bishop of Carlisle's Speech in defence of Richard II. - Shakspeare. 254 Rienzi's Address to the Romans . . . Miss Mitford. 260 THE ACADEMICAL SPEAKER. EXTRACT FROM A SPEECH OF PATRICK HENRY IN THE LEGISLA TURE OF VIRGINIA, IN FAVOUR OF PERMITTING THE BRITISH REFUGEES TO RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES. The personal feelings of a politician ought not to be permitted to enter these walls. The question before us is a national one, and in deciding it, if we act wisely, nothing will be regarded but the interest of the nation. On the altar of my country's good, I, for one, am willing to sacrifice all personal resentments, all private wrongs; and I flatter myself that I am not the only man in this house, who is capable of making such a sacrifice. We have, Sir, an extensive country, without population. What can be a more obvious policy than that this country ought to be peopled? People form the strength and constitute the wealth of a nation. I want to see our vast forests filled up, by some process a little more speedy than the ordinary course of nature. I wish to see these states rapidly ascending to that rank, which their natural advantages authorize them to hold among the nations of the earth. Cast your eyes, Sir, over this extensive country. Observe the salubrity of your climate; the variety and fertility of your soil; and see that soil intersected, in every quarter, by bold navigable streams, flowing to the East and to the West, as if the finger of Heaven were marking out the course of your settlements, inviting you to enterprise, and pointing the way to wealth. Sir, you are destined, at some period or other, to become a great agricultural and commercial people: the only question is, whether you choose to reach this point by slow gra |