22. An Elegy on Madam Blaize 23. King Charles II. and William Penn 24. What I Live For 25. The Righteous Never Forsaken 27. Lucy Forrester 28. The Reaper and the Flowers 29. The Town Pump 30. Good-night 31. An Old-fashioned Girl 32. My Mother's Hands 33. The Discontented Pendulum 34. The Death of the Flowers 35. The Thunder-storm 36. April Day 37. The Tea-rose 38. The Cataract of Lodore 39. The Bobolink 40. Robert of Lincoln 41. Rebellion in Massachusetts State-prison 42. Faithless Nelly Gray Leigh Hunt. John Wilson. 96 Longfellow. 101 103 F. M. Finch. Elihu Burritt. TITLE. 64. Supposed Speech of John Adams 65. The Rising. 66. Control your Temper 67. William Tell 68. William Tell 69. The Crazy Engineer. 70. The Heritage 71. No Excellence without Labor. 72. The Old House-clock 73. The Examination 74. The Isle of Long Ago 75. The Boston Massacre 76. Death of the Beautiful 79. The Gift of Empty Hands 83. Calling the Roll 85. The Best Kind of Revenge 89. The Rainy Day . 90. Break, Break, Break INTRODUCTION. I. PRELIMINARY REMARKS. THE great object to be accomplished in reading as a rhetorical exercise is to convey to the hearer, fully and clearly, the ideas and feelings of the writer. In order to do this, it is necessary that a selection should be carefully studied by the pupil before he attempts to read it. In accordance with this view, a preliminary rule of importance is the following: RULE I.—Before attempting to read a lesson, the learner should make himself fully acquainted with the subject as treated of in that lesson, and endeavor to make the thought, and feeling, and sentiments of the writer his own. REMARK.-When he has thus identified himself with the author, he has the substance of all rules in his own mind. It is by going to nature that we find rules. The child or the savage orator never mistakes in inflection, or emphasis, or modulation. The best speakers and readers are those who follow the impulse of nature or most closely imitate it as observed in others. II. ARTICULATION. Articulation is the utterance of the elementary sounds of a language, and of their combinations. An Elementary Sound is a simple, distinct sound, made by the organs of speech. The Elementary Sounds of the English language are divided into Vocals, Subvocals, and Aspirates. |