purfued, by faithful endeavours to cultivate the understandings of youth, and by a steady attention to difcipline, it is hoped, that you will have the fatisfaction to obferve the fame effects produced, and that the fcene will be realized, which OUR POETESS has fo beautifully defcribed: When this, this little group their country calls And light up glory through her wide domain; I am, With fincere Respect and Gratitude, DEAR SIR, Your much obliged, And moft obedient Servant, Warrington Academy, WILLIAM ENFIELD. October 1, 1774. Spectator 17 14 Sir Balaam Ib. 18 15 Edwin and Emma Mallet 44 Ib. 19 16 Celadon & Amelia Thomson 47 Ib. 21 17 Junio and Theana Grainger 49 World 23 18 Douglasto L.Randolph Home 53. Mrs. Barbauld 28 21 The Moralizer correo ed Ib 31 22 The Faithful Friend 1b. 59 Ib. 33 23 Pairing Time anticipated Ib. 60 12 The Camelion Merrick 38 24 The Needlefs Alarm 15. 62 Whitebead 401 grefs fopher Leffons on Wisdom Armt I piltle 1b, 84 20 ב. 108 Flegy to a Young Nobleman 21 On theiferies of Humar 25 On Tafe Man vindicated Pope 93 26 The Pleafures arifing from Darquin 123 Page Harris 180 9 Duke and Lord Sterne 225 4 The Man of Rofs Pope 228 Dyer 235 a Fop Ib. 285 Mafon 256 29 Genius Warton 258 30 Greatnefs Ib. 267 32 Philanthropy 19 The Entry of Bolingbroke 34 The Poet's New Year's Gift and Richard into 1.on- don 1 The Storyof leFevre Sterne 305 20. Wolfey and Crom. Shaks. 356 2 Yorick's Death Ib. 315 21 Lear 3 The Beggar's Petition 317 22 Macbeth's Soliloquy Ib. 361 9 Southampton and Effex 26 The Quarrel of Brutus 10 Jaffier and Pierre V.Pref. 333 27 Othello and lago Earl of Warwick 337) Ib. 368 ESSAY ΟΝ E LOCUTION. 13 affert ratio, decent literæ, confirmat confuctudo legendi Much declamation has been employed to convince the world of a very plain truth, that to be able to fpeak well is an ornamental and ufeful accomplishment. Without the laboured panegyrics of ancient or modern orators, the importance of a good elocution is fufficiently obvious. Every one will acknowledge it to be of fome confequence, that what a man has hourly occafion to do, fhould be done well. Every private company, and almost every public affembly, affords opportunities of remarking the difference between a juft and graceful, and a faulty and unnatural elocution; and there are few perfons who do not daily experience the advantages of the former, and the inconveniences of the latter. The great difficulty is, not to prove that it is a defirable thing to be able to read and fpeak with propriety, but to point out a practicable and easy method, by which this accomplishment may be acquired. FOLLOW NATURE, is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory, without regard to which, all other rules will only produce affected declamation, not just elocution. And fome accurate obfervers, judging, perhaps, from a few unlucky fpecimens of modern eloquence, have coneluded that this is the only law which ought to be pre fcribed; |