The speaker: or exercises in elocution [Dublin, 8th ed] [Vol 1] [T105852] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1315

Publication Date:

1795

Volume Number:

1 of 2

ESTC number:

T105852

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW111820284

Shelfmark:

ECCO - BL

Full Title:

THE | SPEAKER: | OR, | EXERCISES | IN | ELOCUTION; | SELECTED FROM THE BEST ENGLISH WRITERS, | AND DISPOSED UNDER PROPER HEADS, | WITH A VIEW TO FACILITATE | THE IMPROVEMENT OF YOUTH | IN | [i]READING AND SPEAKING.[/i] | TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, | AN ESSAY ON ELOCUTION. | [rule] | By WILLIAM ENFIELD, L. L. D. | LECTURER ON THE BELLES LETTRES IN | THE ACADEMY AT WARRINGTON. | [rule] | VOL. I. | THE EIGHTH EDITION. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | BELFAST; | WILLIAM MAGEE. | [rule] | 1795.

Epigraph:

------ Oculos, paulum tellure moratos | Sustulit ad proceres, expectatoque resolvit | Ora sono; nec abest facundis gratia dictis. | OVID.

Place of Publication:

Belfast

Genres:

Collection of extracts/snippets, Collection of literary verse, Collection including prose, and Collection aimed at children/young people

Format:

Duodecimo

Comments:

Although entitled 'The speaker: or exercises in elocution' this volume has the same contents as the previous editions of 'The speaker: or miscellaneous pieces selected from the best english writers'. Includes extracts from various plays; extracts in verse have been indexed. Divided in to sections: Book I. Select Sentences. Book II. Narrative Pieces. Book III. Didactic Pieces. Book IV. Argumentative Pieces. Book V. Orations and Harangues. Book VI. Dialogues. Book VII. Descriptive Pieces. Book VIII. Pathetic Pieces.

Other matter:

Prefatory: advertisements [2pp], dedication and essay on elocution [18pp], contents [6pp].

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Publisher:

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Confidence:

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Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

When this this little group their country calls

Page No:

p.iv

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

'Our Poetess'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With studied improprieties of speech

Page No:

p.xiv

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Churchill

Attributed To:

Charles Churchill

First Line:

How far the little candle throws his beams

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Love all trust a few

Page No:

pp.12-13

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The sense of death is most in apprehension

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p.12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Heaven doth with us as we with torches do

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The cloud capped towers the gorgeous palaces

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cowards die many times before their deaths

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p.14

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh world thy slippery turns friends now fast sworn

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p.14

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

So it falls out | That what we have we prize not to the worth

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

There is some soul of goodness in things evil

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O momentary grace of mortal men

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p.15

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh who can hold a fire in his hand

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

There is a tide in the affairs of men

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p.15

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis slander | Whose edge is sharper than the sword whose tongue

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who shall go about | To cozen fortune and be honourable

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oft has it been my lot to mark

Page No:

pp.38-39

Poem Title:

Chap XII. The Camelion.

Attribution:

Merrick.

Attributed To:

James Merrick

First Line:

A Grecian youth of talents rare

Page No:

pp.40-41

Poem Title:

Chap XIII. The Youth and the Philosopher.

Attribution:

Whitehead.

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Where London's column pointing to the skies

Page No:

pp.41-42

Poem Title:

Chap XIV. Sir Balaam.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Far in the windings of a vale

Page No:

pp.43-46

Poem Title:

Chap. XV. Edwin and Emma.

Attribution:

Mallet.

Attributed To:

David Mallet

First Line:

Tis listening fear and dumb amazement all

Page No:

pp.46-47

Poem Title:

Chap. XVI. Celadon and Amelia.

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Soon as young reason dawned in Junio's breast

Page No:

pp.48-51

Poem Title:

Chap. XVII. Junio and Theana.

Attribution:

Grainger.

Attributed To:

James Grainger

First Line:

My name is Norval on the Grampian hills

Page No:

pp.51-52

Poem Title:

Chap. XVIII. Douglas to Lord Randolph.

Attribution:

Home.

Attributed To:

John Home

First Line:

Most potent grave and reverend signiors

Page No:

pp.52-53

Poem Title:

Chap. XIX. Othello's Apology.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Honour's a sacred tie the law of kings

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate

Page No:

pp.78-79

Poem Title:

Chap. XII. The Present Condition of Man Vindicated.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

See through this air this ocean and this earth

Page No:

pp.80-81

Poem Title:

Chap. XIII. On the Order of Nature.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Who first taught souls enslaved and realms undone

Page No:

pp.81-83

Poem Title:

Chap. XIV. The Origin of Superstition and Tyranny.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Oh happiness our being's end and aim

Page No:

pp.84-86

Poem Title:

Chap. XV. On Happiness.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Know then this truth enough for man to know

Page No:

pp.86-88

Poem Title:

Chap. XVI. On Virtue.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Many by numbers judge a poet's song

Page No:

pp.88-89

Poem Title:

Chap. XVII. On Versification.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

How to live happiest how avoid the pains

Page No:

pp.89-91

Poem Title:

Chap. XVIII. Lessons of Wisdom.

Attribution:

Armstrong.

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

In frolick's hour ere serious thoughts had birth

Page No:

pp.92-94

Poem Title:

Chap. XIX. Against Indolence. An Epistle.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ere yet ingenuous youth thy steps retire

Page No:

pp.94-96

Poem Title:

Chap. XX. Elegy to a Young Nobleman Leaving the University.

Attribution:

Mason.

Attributed To:

William Mason

First Line:

Ah little think the gay licentious proud

Page No:

pp.96-97

Poem Title:

Chap. XXI. On the Miseries of Human Life.

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Tis done dread winter spreads his latest glooms

Page No:

pp.97-98

Poem Title:

Chap. XII. Reflections on a Future State.

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Be wise today tis madness to defer

Page No:

pp.98-99

Poem Title:

Chap. XXIII. On Procrastination.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Behold the ways | Of heavens eternal destiny to man

Page No:

pp.100-102

Poem Title:

Chap. XXIV. The Pain Arising from Virtuous Emotions Attended with Pleasure.

Attribution:

Akenside.

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Say what is taste but the internal powers

Page No:

pp.102-104

Poem Title:

Chap. XXV. On Taste.

Attribution:

Akenside.

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

O blest of heaven whom not the languid songs

Page No:

pp.104-105

Poem Title:

Chap. XXVI. The Pleasures Arising From A Cultivated Imagination.

Attribution:

Akenside.

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Retire the world shut out thy thought call home

Page No:

pp.117-118

Poem Title:

Chap. V. On the Being of a God.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Brave peers of England pillars of the state

Page No:

pp.161-162

Poem Title:

Chap. XIV. Glocester's Speech to the Nobles.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Now my comates and brothers in exile

Page No:

pp.188-190

Poem Title:

Chap. IX. Duke and Lord.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Why how now monsieur what a life is this

Page No:

pp.190-192

Poem Title:

Chap. X. Duke and Jaques.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I am assured if I be measured rightly

Page No:

pp.193-195

Poem Title:

Chap. XI. Henry and Lord Chief Justice.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

My lord I'll tell you that self bill is urged

Page No:

pp.195-197

Poem Title:

Chap. XII. Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of Ely.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Hail to your lordship

Page No:

pp.197-200

Poem Title:

Chap. XIII. Hamlet and Horatio.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Will you go see the order of the course

Page No:

pp.200-204

Poem Title:

Chap. XIV. Brutus and Cassius.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

A goodly day not to keep house with such

Page No:

pp.204-206

Poem Title:

Chap. XV. Bellarius, Guiderius, and Arviragus.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

All our praises why should lords engross

Page No:

pp.211-212

Poem Title:

Chap. IV. The Man of Ross.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled

Page No:

pp.212-213

Poem Title:

Chap. V. The Country Clergyman.

Attribution:

Goldsmith.

Attributed To:

Oliver Goldsmith

First Line:

Contentment parent of delight

Page No:

pp.214-216

Poem Title:

Chap. VI. The Wish.

Attribution:

Green.

Attributed To:

Matthew Green

First Line:

Silent nymph with curious eye

Page No:

pp.217-221

Poem Title:

Chap. VII. Grongar Hill.

Attribution:

Dyer.

Attributed To:

John Dyer

First Line:

Daughter of Jove relentless power

Page No:

pp.221-222

Poem Title:

Chap. VIII. Hymn to Adversity.

Attribution:

Gray.

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

Ye distant spires ye antique towers

Page No:

pp.222-225

Poem Title:

Chap. IX. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.

Attribution:

Gray.

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day

Page No:

pp.225-229

Poem Title:

Chap. X. Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard.

Attribution:

Gray.

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

Mark where its simple front yon mansion rears

Page No:

pp.230-232

Poem Title:

Chap. XI. Warrington-Academy.

Attribution:

Mrs. Barbauld.

Attributed To:

Anna Letitia Barbauld [nee Aikin]

First Line:

O thou the nymph with placid eye

Page No:

pp.232-234

Poem Title:

Chap. XII. Ode to Content.

Attribution:

Mrs. Barbauld.

Attributed To:

Anna Letitia Barbauld [nee Aikin]

First Line:

Thou to whom the world unknown

Page No:

pp.234-235

Poem Title:

Chap. XIII. Ode to Fear.

Attribution:

Collins.

Attributed To:

William Collins

First Line:

Say will no white robed son of light

Page No:

pp.236-237

Poem Title:

Chap. XIV. Ode to Truth.

Attribution:

Mason.

Attributed To:

William Mason

First Line:

O parent of each lovely muse

Page No:

pp.238-241

Poem Title:

Chap. XV. Ode to Fancy.

Attribution:

Warton.

Attributed To:

Joseph Warton

First Line:

Hence loathed melancholy

Page No:

pp.242-245

Poem Title:

Chap. XVI. L' Allegro.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Hence vain deluding joys

Page No:

pp.246-250

Poem Title:

Chap. XVII. Il Penseroso.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

All the world's a stage

Page No:

pp.250-251

Poem Title:

Chap. XVIII. The Progress of Life.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

My lord you tell me you would tell the rest

Page No:

pp.251-252

Poem Title:

Chap. XIX. The Entry of Bolingbroke and Richard into London.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Reason thus with life

Page No:

pp.252-253

Poem Title:

Chap. XX. Life.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I remember when the fight was done

Page No:

pp.253-254

Poem Title:

Chap. XXI. Hotspur's Description of a Fop.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Why looks your grace so heavily today

Page No:

pp.255-527

Poem Title:

Chap. XXII. Clarence's Dream.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

O then I see Queen Mab hath been with you

Page No:

pp.257-258

Poem Title:

Chap. XXIII. Queen Mab.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I do remember an apothecary

Page No:

p.258

Poem Title:

Chap. XXIV. Apothecary.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song

Page No:

pp.259-260

Poem Title:

Chap. XXV. Ode to Evening.

Attribution:

Collins.

Attributed To:

William Collins

First Line:

Sweet daughter of a rough and stormy sire

Page No:

pp.260-262

Poem Title:

Chap. XXVI. Ode to Spring.

Attribution:

Mrs. Barbauld.

Attributed To:

Anna Letitia Barbauld [nee Aikin]

First Line:

O happy they the happiest of their kind

Page No:

pp.262-263

Poem Title:

Chap. XXVII. Domestic Love and Happiness.

Attribution:

Thompson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

O knew he but his happiness of men

Page No:

pp.264-266

Poem Title:

Chap. XXVIII. The Pleasures of Retirement.

Attribution:

Thompson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

From heaven my strains begin from heaven descends

Page No:

pp.266-267

Poem Title:

Chap. XXIX. Genius.

Attribution:

Akenside.

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Say why was man so eminently raised

Page No:

pp.268-269

Poem Title:

Chap. XXX. Greatness.

Attribution:

Akenside.

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Call now to mind what high capacious powers

Page No:

pp.270-271

Poem Title:

Chap. XXXI. Novelty.

Attribution:

Akenside.

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Pity the sorrows of a poor old man

Page No:

pp.274-275

Poem Title:

Chap. II. The Beggar's Petition.

Attribution:

Courtney Melmoth.

Attributed To:

Samuel Jackson Pratt

First Line:

What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade

Page No:

pp.276-278

Poem Title:

Chap. III. Elegy On The Death Of An Unfortunate Lady.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

These are thy glorious works parent of good

Page No:

pp.278-279

Poem Title:

Chap. IV. Morning Hymn.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

O thou that with surpassing glory crowned

Page No:

pp.280-282

Poem Title:

Chap. V. Satan's Soliloquy.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Syphax I joy to meet thee thus alone

Page No:

pp.282-286

Poem Title:

Chap. VI. Juba and Syphax.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

It must be so Plato thou reasonst well

Page No:

pp.286-287

Poem Title:

Chap. VII. Cato's Soliloquy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My lord | We bring an order for your execution

Page No:

pp.287-289

Poem Title:

Chap. VIII. Southampton and Essex.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

By heaven you stir not

Page No:

pp.289-292

Poem Title:

Chap. IX. Jaffier and Pierre.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let me have no intruders above all

Page No:

pp.293-296

Poem Title:

Chap. X. Edward and Warwick.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who's there | What my young master oh my gentle master

Page No:

pp.297-299

Poem Title:

Chap. XI. Orlando and Adam.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

More health and happiness betide my Liege

Page No:

pp.299-301

Poem Title:

Chap. XII. Scroop and Richard.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Sit cousin Percy sit good cousin Hotspur

Page No:

pp.301-303

Poem Title:

Chap. XIII. Hotspur and Glendower.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

How many thousands of my poorest subjects

Page No:

pp.304-305

Poem Title:

Chap. XV. Henry IV.'s Soliloquy on Sleep.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I never thought to hear you speak again

Page No:

pp.305-308

Poem Title:

Chap. XVI. Henry IV. and Prince Henry.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Who's he that wishes for more men from England

Page No:

pp.308-310

Poem Title:

Chap. XVII. Henry V. To His Soldiers.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

How fares my lord speak Beaufort to thy sovereign

Page No:

p.310

Poem Title:

Chap. XVIII. Henry VI. And Cardinal Beaufort.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

So farewell to the little good you bear me

Page No:

pp.311-314

Poem Title:

Chap. XIX. Wolsey and Cromwell.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Blow winds and crack your cheeks rage blow

Page No:

pp.314-315

Poem Title:

Chap. XIX. Lear.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Is this a dagger which I see before me

Page No:

pp.315-316

Poem Title:

Chap. XX. Macbeth's Soliloquy.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

See who comes here

Page No:

pp.316-319

Poem Title:

Chap. XXI. Macduff, Malcolm, and Rosse.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

O pardon me thou bleeding piece of earth

Page No:

pp.319-320

Poem Title:

Chap. XXII. Antony's Soliloquy over Caesar's Body.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Friends Romans countrymen lend me your ears

Page No:

pp.320-322

Poem Title:

Chap. XXIII. Antony's Funeral Oration over Caesar's Body.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

That you have wronged me doth appear in this

Page No:

pp.322-326

Poem Title:

Chap. XXIV. The Quarrel of Brutus and Cassius.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

My noble lord | What dost thou say Iago

Page No:

pp.326-331

Poem Title:

Chap. XXV. Othello and Iago.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt

Page No:

pp.331-332

Poem Title:

Chap. XXVI. Hamlet's Soliloquy on his Mother's Marriage.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Angels and ministers of grace defend us

Page No:

pp.332-335

Poem Title:

Chap. XXVII. Hamlet and Ghost.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

To be or not to be that is the question

Page No:

pp.335-336

Poem Title:

Chap. XXVIII. Hamlet's Soliloquy on Death.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Oh my offence is rank it smells to heaven

Page No:

pp.336-337

Poem Title:

Chap. XXIX. Soliloquy of the King in Hamlet.

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Descend ye nine descend and sing

Page No:

pp.337-340

Poem Title:

Chap. XXX. Ode on St. Cecilia's Day.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Twas at the royal feast for Persia won

Page No:

pp.341-344

Poem Title:

Chap. XXXI. Alexander's Feast.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden