Exercises for improvement in elocution [T126614] [ECCO]
- DMI number:
- 1320
- Publication Date:
- 1777
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T126614
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW113903097
- Shelfmark:
- ESTC - nearest hard copy is in Bodleian Library.
- Full Title:
- EXERCISES | FOR | IMPROVEMENT | IN | ELOCUTION, | BEING | Select EXTRACTS from the best AUTHORS, | FOR THE | Use of those who study the Art of READING and | SPEAKING in Public. | [epigraph] | BY J. WALKER. | Author of the Rhyming Dictionary, &c. | LONDON, | Sold by T. BECKET, Corner of the Adelphi, Strand; and | W. JACKSON, High Street, Oxford. | M DCC LXXVII.
- Epigraph:
- -----Vos exemplaria ----- | Nocturna^ versate manu, versate diurna~. | HOR.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: dedication to David Garrick from J. Walker [one unnumbered page], advertisement [2 unnumbered pages], contents [2 unnumbered pages]
- First Line:
- Inspired I trace the muses' seats
- Page No:
- p.5
- Poem Title:
- No 411 Saturday, June 21.
- Attribution:
- Creech
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- First Line:
- The feathered husband to hsi partner true
- Page No:
- p.11
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To grottoes and to groves we run
- Page No:
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Here easy quiet a secure retreat
- Page No:
- p.17
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Next add our cities of illustrious name
- Page No:
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Objects still appear the same
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Creech.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- First Line:
- At whose blest birth propitious rays
- Page No:
- p.28
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Creech.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- First Line:
- He spoke and awful bends his sable brows
- Page No:
- p.30
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- And gave his rolling eyes a sparkling grace
- Page No:
- p.31
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thus having said she turned and made appear
- Page No:
- p.31
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- They drag him from his den
- Page No:
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- A satyr that comes staring from the woods
- Page No:
- p.37
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- He sought fresh mountains in a foreign soil
- Page No:
- p.43
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- Like Pentheus when distracted with his fear
- Page No:
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Of man's first disobedience and the fruit
- Page No:
- pp.57-59
- Poem Title:
- Milton. Paradise Lost. Book I. Invocation - Description of the fall of Satan, and of Hell.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate
- Page No:
- pp.59-60
- Poem Title:
- Description of Satan's stature, and preparation to address his fallen legions.
- Attribution:
- [Milton]
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend
- Page No:
- p.60
- Poem Title:
- Description of the shield and spear of Satan.
- Attribution:
- [Milton]
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- O for that warning voice which he who saw
- Page No:
- pp.61-63
- Poem Title:
- Satan's approach to Eden, and his address to the Sun.
- Attribution:
- [Milton]
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Blissful paradise
- Page No:
- pp.63-65
- Poem Title:
- Description of Paradise.
- Attribution:
- [Milton]
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Now came still evening on and twilight grey
- Page No:
- pp.65-66
- Poem Title:
- Description of Evening.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Immediately a place
- Page No:
- p.66
- Poem Title:
- Adam's prospect of the future miseries of his posterity.
- Attribution:
- [Milton]
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- With what attractive charms this goodly frame
- Page No:
- pp.67-68
- Poem Title:
- Akenside. Pleasures of Imagination. ... Invocation to the powers of imagination.
- Attribution:
- Akenside
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- But not alike to every mortal eye
- Page No:
- pp.68-69
- Poem Title:
- Diversity of genius in different men.
- Attribution:
- [Akenside]
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Know then whatever of nature's pregnant stores
- Page No:
- pp.69-72
- Poem Title:
- Primary pleasures of imagination.
- Attribution:
- [Akenside]
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Thus with a faithful aim have we presumed
- Page No:
- pp.72-74
- Poem Title:
- Superiority of moral excellence.
- Attribution:
- [Akenside]
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- But were not nature still endowed at large
- Page No:
- pp.74-76
- Poem Title:
- Natural beauty a mark of divine beneficence.
- Attribution:
- [Akenside]
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Thou who didst put to flight
- Page No:
- pp.77-78
- Poem Title:
- Young. Night Thoughts. Invocation - Importance of Time. - Man composed of opposites.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- Know all know infidels unapt to know
- Page No:
- pp.78-81
- Poem Title:
- The pursuits and passions of man, proofs of his immortality.
- Attribution:
- [Young]
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- To close Lorenzo spite of all my pains
- Page No:
- p.81
- Poem Title:
- Nature and man, in every view of them, full of mysteries.
- Attribution:
- [Young]
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- Twas at the royal feast for Persia won
- Page No:
- pp.82-87
- Poem Title:
- Dryden. Alexander's Feast, An Ode.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The curfeu tolls the knell of parting day
- Page No:
- pp.87-90
- Poem Title:
- Gray. An Elegy. Written in a country church-yard.
- Attribution:
- Gray.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- But you who seek to give and merit fame
- Page No:
- pp.91-92
- Poem Title:
- Necessity of knowing the extent of our taste and genius.
- Attribution:
- [Pope]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Tis hard to say if greater want of skill
- Page No:
- p.91
- Poem Title:
- Pope. Essay on Criticism. Taste as seldom found as genius,
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Some beauties yet no precepts can declare
- Page No:
- pp.92-93
- Poem Title:
- Great beauties above rules.
- Attribution:
- [Pope]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- You then whose judgement the right course would steer
- Page No:
- p.92
- Poem Title:
- Rules for judging with propriety.
- Attribution:
- [Pope]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Of all the causes which conspire to blind
- Page No:
- pp.93-96
- Poem Title:
- Causes of error in judging.
- Attribution:
- [Pope]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Short is the date alas of modern rhymes
- Page No:
- p.96
- Poem Title:
- Fate of modern languages and authors.
- Attribution:
- [Pope]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- A salmon's belly Helluo was thy fate
- Page No:
- pp.97-98
- Poem Title:
- The ruling passion continues till death.
- Attribution:
- [Pope]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Tis education forms the vulgar mind
- Page No:
- p.97
- Poem Title:
- Education forms the character of most men.
- Attribution:
- [Pope]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Yes you despise the man to books confined
- Page No:
- p.97
- Poem Title:
- Ethic Epistles. The knowledge and characters of men. Not to be learned either by books or observation singly, but by both.
- Attribution:
- [Pope]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Where London's column pointing at the skies
- Page No:
- pp.98-100
- Poem Title:
- A character.
- Attribution:
- [Pope]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Shut shut the door good John fatigued I said
- Page No:
- pp.100-101
- Poem Title:
- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot.
- Attribution:
- [Pope]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Before I speak the message of the Greeks
- Page No:
- pp.102-104
- Poem Title:
- Amb. Philips. Orestes delivering his ebassy to Pyrrhus, in the tragedy of the Distrest Mother. Orestes, Pyrrhus, and Phoenix. Orestes.
- Attribution:
- Amb. Philips.
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
- First Line:
- Rome still survives in this assembled senate
- Page No:
- pp.104-109
- Poem Title:
- Addison. The senate scene in the tragedy of Cato. Sempronius.
- Attribution:
- Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- Friends Romans countrymen lend me your ears
- Page No:
- pp.110-114
- Poem Title:
- Antony's oration over the corpse of Caesar.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Betrayed by honour and compelled by shame
- Page No:
- p.118
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Steele.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Steele
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