Choice Readings from Standard and Popular Authors: Embracing a Complete Classification of Selections, a Comprehensive Diagram of the Principles of Vocal Expression ... from Shakespeare, the Bible, and the Hymn-books

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Ginn & Company, 1992 - Readers - 710 pages

Contents

Advice to Young Lawyers
4
Elegy in a Country Churchyard
16
Gone with a Handsomer
18
Bells
30
Bugle Song
54
Painter of Seville The Wilson
61
Scott Sir Walter and His Dogs Irving
75
II
95
Arraignment of Ministers Burke
318
Revolutionary Desperadoes Mackintosh
321
Lively Joyous
328
Expostulation and Reply Wordsworth
334
Humorous Comic
347
Betsey and I Are Out Carleton 409
353
Courtship under Difficulties Anon
359
Pickwicks Proposal Mr Dickens
379

Immortality of Love Southey
111
Memory Wordsworth
117
III
125
Blacksmiths Story The Olive
134
Curfew Must Not Ring ToNight Thorpe
143
Forty Years Ago Anon
159
Nearer Home Cary
161
Good Son The Dana
165
Ocean Burial The Saunders
169
Our Folks Lynn
177
Lucy Bertram and Dominie Sampson Scott 150
183
IV
190
God Dershavin
199
Hymn A Coleridge
206
God in Nature Wordsworth
213
Marco Bozzaris Halleck
222
Patriotic Senatorial Oratorical
226
Panegyric on Julius Cæsar Cicero
230
Eulogium on St Paul Bossuet
236
Impeachment of Hastings Finished Burke
242
Ambition of a Statesman Clay 298
249
Eulogy on Lafayette Everett 283
256
Independence Bell Anon
267
Lochiels Warning Campbell
274
Reputation Value of Charles Phillips
286
Speech of Vindication Emmett
293
Toussaint LOverture Wendell Phillips
302
Invective Vehement Indignant
308
Fraudulent Party Outcries Webster
312
Pyramus and Thisbe Saxe
386
Reflections in the Pillory Lamb
395
Death of a Mad Dog Goldsmith
408
X
411
The Swell Kyle
417
GERMAN
427
Miss Malony on the Chinese Dodge
437
ITALIAN
444
The First Banjo Russell
453
SCOTCH
459
SPANISH
465
Onomatopoetic
471
Trowbridge
478
For Young Folks
490
Whittier
497
Papas Letter
507
XIII
517
Dramatic not in the Drama
529
a Lay of Ancient Rome
561
Leah the Forsaken Act IV Scene II
619
Richelieu
630
Virginius Act I Scene II
641
Ion a Tragedy Act I Scene I
650
Talfourd
657
66
681
Catilines Defiance Croly 308
704
How Ruby Played Bagby 371
705
Michael and His Son Wordsworth 162
707
Schiller 670
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