ODES, PROLOGUES, AND EPILOGUES,

SPOKEN ON PUBLIC OCCASIONS

AT

READING SCHOOL.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIVES

OF THE

REV. MR. BENWELL,

AND THE

REV. DR. BUTT.

When all these employments are well conquered, then will the choics
Histories, Heroic Poems, and Attic Tragedies of stateliest and most
regal argument, with all the famous Political Orations, offer them-
selves which if they were not only read, but some of them got by
memory, and solemnly pronounced with right accent and grace, as
might be taught, would endue them even with the spirit and vigour of
DEMOSTHENES or CICERO, EURIPIDES or SOPHOCLES.

:

MILTON, Tractate on Education.

LONDON:

Printed by J. NICHOLS and SON, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street.
Sold by Meffrs. RICHARDSON, J. PRIDDEN,
and the other Booksellers.

1804.

Gough Adde Berkes

832.

FIANA

ΤΟ

THE RIGHT HONORABLE HENRY ADDINGTON, HIGH STEWARD of the BOROUGH of READING;

GEORGE GILBERTSON, Esq. MAYOR;

JOHN SIMEON, Esq. RECOrder;