DRAMATIC poetry., Remarks on reading. Practice in rhythmical reading.. POETICAL EXTRACTS- Portia's Speech on Mercy.....(Shaks.)..... .p. 164 ..188 93 From the Tragedy of Ion.....(Talfourd).. ..170 Pause, Inflection, and Emphasis,—Part I.. Intonation... Poetical Elocution. Rhythmical Reading. Energy and Expression. PRONUNCIATION.. Practice on. PARENTHESIS- Parenthetical members.. Distinction between.. 54 60 71 94 ..(Anon)..... 94 The Material and Spiritual in Poetry...(Id.).......126 Extract from Ossian... .(Id.)....150 Brutus' speech to the populace (marked for intona- QUANTITY- How governed in the English language. .149 ..148, 179, 182 86 ib. .155 to 163 .63 to 74 Distinction between our language and the Greek and Latin..... The same, with reference to rhythm. RHETORICAL PAUSES... RHYTHM, (see POETRY.) SERIES-SERIAL SENTENCES- What.. Form of.. Simple and compound... Rules of inflection on.. Simple Series.. Compound... Division of Series. Irregular Series. Exercise on. Interrogative.. .112 ib. ib. ib. 114 ib. .115 116 ..118 .119 .120 ib. INDEX TO THE APPENDIX. EXERCISES IN PROSE-READING. Delicacy of Taste.. The Coliseum.. .(Hume)........p. 215 Death and Character of Queen Elizabeth..(Hume).. ...219 Conquest of Jerusalem by the Crusaders...(Gibbon). Story of La Roche... Modern Gallantry... Character of Chatham. Napoleon.. .(Burke).. .226 ..227 PROSE-DECLAMATION. Against the Charge of British Predilection.(Randolph)... 257 In favor of the Greek Revolution...... Pitt's Reply to Walpole... Eulogy on Washington... Against Paine's "Age of Reason,”. ..263 .(Clay). ..267 ..268 (Webster)....270 .(Erskine)..........273 POETICAL READING AND RECITATIONS. Progress of Poetry-an ode.. .(Gray).......277 |