Introduction -- Articulation -- Inflection -- Accent and emphasis -- Instructions for reading verse -- The Voice -- Gesture.
Anecdote of the Duke of Newcastle / Blackwood's Magazine -- The needle / Samuel Woodworth -- Dawn / Edward Everett -- Description of a storm / Benjamin Disraeli -- After the thunderstorm / James Thomson -- House cleaning / Francis Hopkinson -- Schemes of life often illusory / Samuel Johnson -- The brave old oak / Henry Fothergill Chorley -- The artist surprised -- Pictures of Memory / Alice Cary -- The morning oratorio / Wilson Flagg -- The cloud / John Wilson -- My mind / William Byrd -- A good name / William Shakespeare -- Sunrise / James Thomson -- Old age and death / Edmund Waller -- Milton / John Dryden -- Death of Little Nell / Charles Dickens -- Vanity of life / Johann Gottfried von Herder -- A political pause / Charles James Fox -- My experience in elocution / John Neal -- Elegy in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray -- Tact and talent -- Speech before the Virginia Convention / Patrick Henry -- The American flag / Joseph Rodman Drake -- Ironical eulogy on debt -- The three warnings / Hester Lynch Thrale -- The memory of our fathers / Lyman Beecher.
Dryden and Pope / Samuel Johnson -- Las casas dissuading from battle / R.B. Sheridan -- Action and repose / John Ruskin -- Time and change / Sir Humphry Davy -- The poet / William Ellery Channing -- Mountains / William Howitt -- The jolly old pedagogue / George Arnold -- The teacher and sick scholar / Charles Dickens -- The snow shower / William Cullen Bryant -- Character of Napoleon Bonaparte / Charles Phillips -- Napoleon at rest / John Pierpont -- War / Charles Sumner -- Speech of Walpole in reproof of Mr. Pitt / Sir R. Walpole -- Pitt's reply to Sir Robert Walpole / William Pitt -- Character of Mr. Pitt / Henry Grattan -- The soldier's rest / Sir Walter Scott -- Henry V. to his troops / William Shakespeare -- Speech of Paul on Mars' Hill / Bible -- God is everywhere / Joseph Hutton -- Lafayette and Robert Raikes / Thomas S. Grimké -- Fall of Cardinal Wolsey / William Shakespeare -- The philosopher / John P. Kennedy -- Marmion and Douglas / Sir Walter Scott -- The present / Adelaide Anne Procter -- The baptism / John Wilson -- Sparrows / Adeline D. Train Whitney -- Observance of the Sabbath / Gardiner Spring -- God's goodness to such as fear him / Bible -- Character of Columbus / Washington Irving -- "He giveth his beloved sleep" / Elizabeth B. Browning -- Description of a siege / Sir Walter Scott -- Marco Bozzaris / Fitz-Greene Halleck -- Song of the Greek Bard / Lord George Gordon Byron -- North American Indians / Charles Sprague -- Lochiel's warning / Thomas Campbell -- On happiness of temper / Oliver Goldsmith -- The fortune teller / Henry Mackenzie -- Rienzi's address to the Romans / Mary Russell Mitford -- The Puritan fathers of New England / F.W.P. Greenwood -- Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers / Felicia Dorothea Hemans -- Necessity of education / Lyman Beecher -- Riding on a snow-plow / Benjamin Franklin Taylor -- The quarrel of Brutus and Cassius / William Shakespeare -- The quack / John Tobin -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Bill and Joe / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Sorrow for the dead / Washington Irving -- The eagle / James Gates Percival -- Political toleration / Thomas Jefferson -- What constitutes a state? / Sir William Jones -- The brave at home / Thomas Buchanan Read -- South Carolina / Robert Young Hayne -- Massachusetts and South Carolina / Daniel Webster -- The church scene from Evangeline / H.W. Longfellow -- Song of the shirt / Thomas Hood -- Diamond cut diamond / Édouard René Lefebvre-Laboulaye -- Thanatopsis / William Cullen Bryant -- Indian jugglers / William Hazlitt -- Antony over Caesar's dead body / William Shakespeare -- The English character / William Hickling Prescott -- The song of the potter / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- A hot day in New York / William Dean Howells -- Discontent: an allegory / Joseph Addison -- Jupiter and ten / James T. Fields -- Scene from "The poor gentleman" / George Colman -- My mother's picture / William Cowper -- Death of Samson / John Milton -- An evening adventure -- The barefoot boy / John Greenleaf Whittier -- The glove and the lions / James Henry Leigh Hunt -- The folly of intoxication / William Shakespeare -- Starved rock / Francis Parkman -- Prince Henry and Falstaff / William Shakespeare -- Studies / Sir Francis Bacon -- Surrender of Granada / Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton -- Hamlet's soliloquy / William Shakespeare.
Ginevra / Samuel Rogers -- Inventions and discoveries / John Caldwell Calhoun -- Enoch Arden at the window / Alfred Tennyson -- Lochinvar / Sir Walter Scott -- Speech on the trial of a murderer / Daniel Webster -- The closing year / George Denison Prentice -- A new city in Colorado / Helen Hunt Jackson -- Importance of the union / Daniel Webster -- The influences of the sun / John Tyndall -- Colloquial powers of Franklin / William Wirt -- The dream of Clarence / William Shakespeare -- Homeward bound / Richard H. Dana, Jr. -- Impeachment of Warren Hastings / T.B. Macaulay -- Destruction of the Carnatic / Edmund Burke -- The raven / Edgar Allan Poe -- A view of the Colosseum / Orville Dewey -- The bridge / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Objects and limits of science / Robert Charles Winthrop -- The downfall of Poland / Thomas Campbell -- Labor / Horace Greeley -- The last days of Herculaneum / Edwin Atherstone -- How men reason / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Thunderstorm on the Alps / Lord Byron -- Origin of property / Sir William Blackstone -- Battle of Waterloo / Lord Byron -- "With brains, Sir" / John Brown -- The New England pastor / Timothy Dwight -- Death of Absalom / Bible -- Abraham Davenport / John Greenleaf Whittier -- The falls of Yosemite / Thomas Starr King -- A psalm of life / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Franklin's entry into Philadelphia / Benjamin Franklin -- Lines to a waterfowl / William Cullen Bryant -- Goldsmith and Addison / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Immortality of the soul / Joseph Addison -- Character of Washington / Jared Sparks -- Eulogy on Washington / Henry Lee -- The solitary reaper / William Wordsworth -- Value of the present / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Happiness / Alexander Pope -- Marion / William Gilmore Simms -- A common thought / Henry Timrod -- A definite aim in reading / Noah Porter -- Ode to Mt. Blanc / Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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