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22. An Elegy on Madam Blaize

23. King Charles II. and William Penn

24. What I Live For

25. The Righteous Never Forsaken
26. Abou Ben Adhem

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

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Leigh Hunt.

John Wilson. 96

Longfellow. 101
Hawthorne.

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F. M. Finch.
"Washington Capital."
James Montgomery.

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
77. Snow Falling
78. Squeers's Method

79. The Gift of Empty Hands
80. Capturing the Wild Horse
896g and Reaping.
82. Taking Comfort .

83. Calling the Roll
84. Turtle Soup

85. The Best Kind of Revenge
86. The Soldier of the Rhine
87. The Winged Worshipers
88. The Peevish Wife

89. The Rainy Day .

90. Break, Break, Break

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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.

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