BERIES

ILLUSTRATIONS.-Interrogative Sentences beginning with a Verb.

Whittier, Carlyle....

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212

ILLUSTRATIONS.- Suspension of Sense. Emerson, Reed, De Quincey 212

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Shakespeare, Tennyson,

Webster..

ILLUSTRATIONS, Contrasted Sentences.

Parenthetical Phrases.

Emerson, Kingsley, Longfellow...

Greenwell, Campbell, Carlyle..

213

Shakespeare, Tennyson,

213

214

215

ILLUSTRATIONS.-Concessions. De Quincey, Mrs. Browning.

ILLUSTRATIONS.-Exclamatory Sentences. Dante, Browning, Miss

ILLUSTRATIONS.-Exclamations in the Form of Interrogative Sen-

tences beginning with a Pronoun or Adverb. Browning, De

Quincey

ILLUSTRATIONS.- Exclamations in the Form of Interrogative Sen-

tences beginning with a Verb. Miss Greenwell, Emerson.

ILLUSTRATIONS.- Declarations in the Form of Negative Sentences.

Robertson, Giles, Emerson, Tennyson, Miss Muloch...

SIMPLE AND COMPOUND SERIES, SERIES OF SERIES...

COMMENCING AND CONCLUDING SERIES

CADENCE...

FORCE

EXAMPLES.- Shakespeare, Martineau, Tennyson

ILLUSTRATIONS.- -Commencing Series. Wirt, Hillard, Shakespeare,

Goldsmith

ILLUSTRATIONS. Concluding Series. Shakespeare, Tennyson, Mont-

gomery, Ruskin......

ILLUSTRATIONS.-Series of Series. Hooker, Taylor, Whipple...

PARTIAL AND DISTINCT CADENCE

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EXAMPLES. Scott, Shakespeare, Massey, Taylor.....

ERRORS IN CADENCE

ILLUSTRATIONS.-Partial and Distinct Cadence. Ruskin, Kingsley,

Carlyle, Sterling, Whittier, Fuber, H. Coleridge, Wordsworth,

Bailey, Miss Greenwell, Mrs. Browning, Milnes, Miss Procter,

Miss Waring, Browning, Owen Meredith.

EXERCISES-DEGREES OF FORCE.

ILLUSTRATIONS.-Loud Force. Shakespeare, Gray, Patrick Henry,

Croly..

ILLUSTRATIONS. Moderate Force. Wordsworth, Tennyson, Thacke-

ray, Shakespeare, Stoddard, Robertson, Lowell.

ILLUSTRATIONS.-Soft Force. Shakespeare, Shelley, Byron, Southey,

Milton, F. Tennyson, Prentice, Mrs. Browning, Aytoun, Kings-

ley, Keats, Tennyson, Spenser...

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216

217

218

218

219

219

220

220

221

222

222

223

223

225

230

231

233

234

237

EXAMPLES.- - Shakespeare, Ruskin, Webster, Lord Brougham, Milton 243

MEDIAN STRESS.

244

EXAMPLES. - Miss Greenwell, Mrs. Browning, Miss Ingelow..

EXAMPLES. Francis de Sales, Keats, Lowell, Mrs. Browning, Bailey,

Emerson, Hood, Shakespeare, Mill

295

LENGTH OF PAUSES, &C......

297

ILLUSTRATIONS.- Very Short Pauses. Scott, Browning, Byron.....

298

ILLUSTRATIONS.- Short Pauses. Hazlitt, Drake, Milton

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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PAGH

299

300

Moderate Pauses. Winthrop, Brooke, Mrs. Brown-

ing, Stoddard, Wordsworth, Smith, Sterling, Boker, II. N. Cole-

ridge.....

ILLUSTRATIONS.-Long Pauses. Shelley, Browning, Mrs. Browning.. 304

ILLUSTRATIONS.-Very Long Pauses. Longfellow, Shakespeare, Ad-

dison

TIME OR MOVEMENT..

VARIETIES OF TIME

SELECTIONS. VERY QUICK MOVEMENT.

QUICK MOVEMENT........

LIVELY MOVEMENT

307

310

310

312

316

326

DEFINITIONS. Wordsworth, Wilson, Milton, Ruskin, Leigh Hunt, Giles...... 353

VERSIFICATION, &C....

353

POETICAL FEET, SCANNING, &c..

353

EXAMPLES. Whittier, Coleridge, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Milton,

Browning

353

356

METRE...

EXAMPLES.-Hood, Mrs. Southey, Longfellow, Mrs. Browning, Stod-

dard, Pope, Whittier, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Miss Procter, Holmes 356

POETICAL OR HARMONIC PAUSES...

FINAL, CESURAL, AND DEMI-CESURAL PAUSES...

EXAMPLES.- Damiani, Gray...

ILLUSTRATIONS. - Dimeter.

ILLUSTRATIONS.- Trimeter.

Muloch.

357

357

358

Mrs. Southey, Longfellow, Whittier.. 358

Miss Greenwell, Mrs. Browning, Miss

ILLUSTRATIONS.-Tetrameter. Milton, Longfellow, Mrs. Browning,

Coleridge, Tennyson.

ILLUSTRATIONS.-Pentameter. Miss Greenwell, Campbell, Thomson,

Longfellow.

ILLUSTRATIONS.-Hexameter. Longfellow, Tegnér, Milton.

ILLUSTRATIONS.- Heptameter. Tennyson, Smith...

ILLUSTRATIONS. Octameter. Mrs. Charles.

FAULTS IN THE READING OF POETRY..

SELECTIONS.......

ACTION

ATTITUDE..

ANALYSIS OF THE PRINCIPLES OF GESTURE...

POSITION OF VARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE BODY...

PRINCIPAL LINES OF GESTURE, &C.......

SELECTIONS.. -ORATORICAL...

Elegy written in a Country Churchyard.................... Thomas Gray.

Essential Difference between Man and Woman.. Fred. W. Robertson.

Robert Browning. 367

..H. W. Longfellow. 271

............... Frederic W. Robertson, 121

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Extract from "Alton Locke".

.Chari.s Kingsley. 119

Extract from "The Potiphar Papers" "................... Geo. Wm. Curtis. 130

Extract from "Dejection: An Ode "......... Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 334

Extract from "Abt Vogler "..

Extract from "De Profundis ".

Extract from "A Rhapsody of Life's Progress".

Extract from "The Rhyme of the Duchess May "..

Extract from "The Celestial Country"

Extract from "The Reconciler "

Robert Browning. 339

Mrs. Browning. 376

Bernard of Cluni.

............ ...... ......... Dora Greenwell. 260

Alfred Tennyson. 338

Love, Hope, and Patience in Education..................S. T. Coleridge. 113

Reminiscences of Arnold and Wordsworth............F. W. Robertson. 41

Stanzas, "Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" Wm. Knox. 350

The American Flag........

....... ............................... ...................................... Joseph Rodman Drake. 280

The Cataract of Lodore...........

The Closing Scene.......

The Cloud................

The Cry of the Children...........

The Cry of the Human..................

The Diverting History of John Gilpin............

The Dream of Eugene Aram........

.......Robert Southey. 316

T. B. Read. 340

..Percy Bysshe Shelley. 330

Mrs. Browning. 122

The Dying Christian........

The Great Bell Roland.

....

Alex. Pope. 128

Theodore Tilton. 290

The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire...............Jean Ingelow. 151

The Mantle of St. John de Matha...........

The March to Moscow.

.........J. G. Whittier. 282

The May Queen

The Nation's Dead.............

The Old Clock on the Stairs.............

........

Southey. 313

The Proud Miss MacBride................................................... .........John G. Saxe. 198