labours he has appropriated. But when it is considered, that this work is designed chiefly to be read in schools, where grammatical improprieties would be extremely injurious to the germinating taste of the young reader, it will doubtless be conceded, that the sacrilege of disturbing the monuments of the dead-the profanation of removing a little of the rust and rubbish which adhere to the precious gems of an antiquated, or even of a modern, author, is, on the whole, a lighter transgression than either to neglect to furnish the rich banquet, or to get it up in a slovenly manner. The scientifick portion of this manual, is far more defective than it would have been, had not the author, since making arrangements for publishing it, been prevented, by unfavourable, unforeseen, and uncontrollable circumstances, from devoting half that time and attention to its composition and arrangement, which even a tolerable degree of excellence in execution, required. His highest aim has been to treat the subject briefly and practically; and thereby to render his work useful to such as have but little leisure to devote to this science. In the selected part, he has endeavoured to present such pieces as are calculated to cultivate the taste, enlighten the understanding, improve the judgment, and establish the morals of the young, and, at the same time, to inspire them with a fondness for reading, and a desire to excel in the science of elocution. In conclusion, it affords the author no small degree of pleasure to acknowledge the obligation he is under to Dr. James Rush, who, with a liberality peculiar to superiour minds, and a courtesy exercised only by accomplished men, tendered to the author, in the compilation and arrangement of his work, such a use of his own, admirable treatise on the “Philosophy of the Human Voice,” as he might think proper to make. This remark will sufficiently explain to the reader, the grounds of that license by which the author has drawn so many of his best materials from the rich depository alluded to.* * It is the design of the Author to publish, in the course of a year or two, a SEQUEL to this work, and soon to follow that by a treatise on RHETORICK. CONTENTS. Elocution-Introduction, 19 A Series—Simple, Compound, 26, 27, 28 Rules for the Simple Series, 93 of the Elementary sounds, 29 Rules for the Compound do. 97 Of the Radical and Vanishing Rules for Series of Series, 98 movements of the voice, 31 Wrong Inflection capable of Of the Tonick, Subtonick, and perverting the sense, 100 Atonick elements, Diphthongs and Monothongs, 33 Single and Double Wave, Con. Theory of Syllabication, 34 tinued, Equal, Direct, &c. sounds-defects in explod- Analysis of Force, ing them, Of the Consonant sounds, 42 Vanishing, Compound, and Me- Errour of blending syllables, elementary sounds to be Emphasis-General Rule, 119, 120 49 Do. Simple and Compound, 124 Affected pronunciation of par- Do. Superiour and Inferiour, 125 49 to 52 Emphasis of Radical and Van- Of Tones and Modulation, 59 to 72 ishing Stress, Semitone, Monotone, Interval, Qualities of voice, The Meaning of a passage de- Diatonick Scale, Note, Tone, Of Time, Concrete and Discrete Slides, Of Quantity, 64 of the Emphatick Pause, Errours in regard to Pitch and Of Poetry and Versification, 142 Tones--Affected Tones, 67 to 69 Blank Verse, Poetick Feet, 142 Errours in Modulation-Mo- Manner of reading Poetry- notony, 144 Artificial--Uniform Variety, 71, 72 On reading Blank Verse, 145 Inflections of the voice, Cir- Cæsural Pause, 146 cumflex, Concrete Slides, 75 Rhetorical Action, 151 Rising Inflection or Slide, of a General hints to the reader and third, fifth, and octave, 77 the speaker, 155 Falling Inflection, 157 Rules for the Infections, 82 to 98 PART II.-SELECTIONS IN PROSE AND POETRY. 159 Intellectual Qualities of Mil- Alexander Hamilton, Webster, 162 Hamlet's Advice to the Play- Eloquence of Daniel Webster, 163 164 Efficacy of the Sacred Scrip- Ode to an Indian Gold Coin, St. John, chapter 9, Dr. Leyden, 166 Industry necessary to the At- Parting of Zal and Hinda, tainment of Eloquence, Ware, 216 Croly, 168 Caspar Hauser, 221, 224, 230 Hamlet's Reflections on Yor- Traits of Indian Character, Reflections on the Tomb of Speech of Logan, Jefferson, 247 Shakspeare, Irving, 169 Speech of Farmer's Brother, 248 On Studies, Lord Bacon, 170 Red Jacket, Liberty and Slavery, Sterne, 172 Psalm 90, On the Starry Heavens, Flint, 173 Version of the same, Watts, 252 Scenes in Italy, Lady Morgan, 176 St. John, chapter 12, Affection for the Dead, Irving, 177 Version of the same, Moore, 253 Speech-Bunker-Hill Monu- Secret Devotion, Webster, 182 The Soul in Eternity, Byron, 255 Hezekiah, King of Judah, Henry the Fourth's Soliloquy Gleig, 183 on Sleep, Shakspeare, 255 Destruction of Sennacherib's Apostrophe to Light, Milton, 256 187 Lochiel's Warning, Campbell, 259 Version of the same, Barlow, 187 Gray's Elegy, Version of the same, Byron, 188 Stanzas, · Dr. Percival, 264 Cardinal Wolsey's Soliloquy Dedications, Lord Bacon, 266 on Ambition, Shakspeare, 189 Reflections Westminster Wolsey's Address to Crom- Abbey, Shakspeare, 189 | Reflections on do. Irving, 269 Hohenlinden, Campbell, 190 |On Subscribing for Books, Wolfe, 191 On Natural and Fantastical On receiving his Mother's Pic- Thoughts on Death, Bacon, 277 Man was made to Mourn, a Philosophy of Apparitions, Bryant, 200 Perpetuity of the Church, National Gazette, 201 Letter to the Earl of Chester- The Ocean at the Resurrection field, Morn, Pollock, 202 Rolla's Speech to the Peru- Address to the Ocean, Byron, 204 vians, on Reply of Mr. Pitt to Walpole, 301, The Sailor Boy's Dream, 319 On the Death of Gen. Hamil- Hamlet's Soliloquy on Death, Webster's Speech in reply to Cato's Soliloquy on the Immor- 304 tality of the Soul, Addison, 321 The Broken Heart, Irving, 307 The Dying Christian to his Speech of Robert Emmet, 309 Soul, Brutus’Harangue on the Death The Alhambra by Moonlight, Antony's Oration over Cesar's Moslem Domination in Spain, Speech of Henry the Fifth, Thoughts on Hand-Writing, Parting of the Three Indian The Monk, KEY To the Characters Employed in this Work. The Falling Inflection of the voice is indicated by the grave ac- cent: thus, ā ē iö ū force; as, MAN man IN PART II. The Figured Vowels employed in pronouncing words at the bottom Fåte, får, fåll, fåt-mè, mét,-pine, pin-nó, move, nôr, nôt-tůbe, ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION. ADDRESS TO TEACHERS. On a preceding page, the author has intimated, that most instructers are lamentably deficient in their knowledge of elocution. The reproach contained in this allusion, was not levelled solely at teachers. That they are both guilty and amenable for all their pedagogical sins of omission, the author can hardly be so uncharitable as to believe. In their laudable and laborious calling, he is aware that they have many difficulties to contend with, many obstacles to surmount, many evils to encounter. Among these might be mentioned, bad books, perverse children, ignorant parents, and lean salaries. It is not, therefore, reasonable to expect, that, whilst their means and opportunities are thus utterly inadequate to such a task, teachers can accomplish every thing which the enlightened and liberally-minded desire to see gained by the noble business of instructing. But notwithstanding all that may be said in extenuation of the defects and negligences of teachers, the dignity and usefulness of their high calling, mainly depend upon themselves. If they choose to elevate their profession, by acting in concert, they have the power to do it. It behooves all, then, who are thus devoted to the best interests of their fellow-beings, to look well to their qualifications and their doings, and to see if there is not yet left room for improvement. It is not the author's object either to dogmatize, or to sermonize, to a class of men in which many are to be found with whose names he would deem it a high honour to be permitted to associate his own as an equal; but he is anxious, if possible, to point a remark that will excite a spirit of emulation among the spiritless, of ambition in the unambitious, and awaken all to a sense of the high responsibilities of their calling, and of the undying honours which will hallow the fame of those who excel in it. In accordance with this object, he begs leave to call the attention of teachers to the small work which he now presents to the publick, and to themselves in particular; and, at the same time, without arrogance or fawning sycophancy, to express a hope, that it will be found worthy to occupy a place as a class-book in schools, and travel the rounds of usefulness as the relative and fellow-companion of “English Grammar in familiar Lectures”-in reference to the extraordinary and unexpected success of which work, he may doubtless be permitted emphatically to say with Prospero, "your breath has filled * All necessary directions in regard to the method of teaching from this manual, will be found where they ought to be-dispersed through the pages of the work. It may be added, that the selected portion of this work, will be found a suitable accompaniment of his Grammar, as a convenient and useful set of EXERCISES IN PARSING. In order to adapt them to this purpose, the author has taken much pains to correct them, and render them grammatical. S. KIRKHAM. my sails." |
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