Order of succession of an entire Course of Lectures on the Science and Practice of Elocution.

I. Introduction. Nature and Objects of Elocutionary Science.

II. Theory of the origin and propagation of Sounds, and of Vocal Sounds, in particular. Structure and Offices of the Vocal Organs..

III. Structure and Offices of the Enunciative Organs; and Anatomy of the Elementary Sounds of English Speech.

IV. The Laws of physical necessity, which regulate the Actions of the Elocutionary Organs; and the consequent alternation of light and heavy syllables.

V. Extent and limits of Volition, in regulating the actions and reactions of the primary Organ of Voice; and the physical Cause of the exclusive pleasure received by the human Ear from sounds reducible to simple proportions of common and triple Time.

VI. On the Use and Abuse of the Term Nature; and the Illusive distinction between the Physical and Acquired Powers of Man; with instances of extraordinary developements and of calamitous extinctions of Organic Faculties -Children rendered Speechless by injudicious management, &c.

VII. Of Natural Impediments; and the Structure and Application of Artificial Organs.

VIII. Causes and Cure of Habitual Impediments.

IX. Causes of the Variety of Human Voices.-Of the cultivation and improvement of the general Tone of the Voice.

X. Of Power or Force of Voice, and the essential difference between force and loudness.

XI. Of Compass and Variety, and the management of the pitch and key; with animadversions on the Pitch-pipe of the Ancients.

XII. Of Modulative Variety, and the characteristic intonations of pathos, &c.

XIII. Distinctness, and its opposite defects.

XIV. Articulation, and its opposite defects; with strictures on the Definitions of Johnson, Sheridan, &c.

XV. Of Implication, Continuous Harmony, &c.

XVI. Application of the physical principle of Pulsation and Remission, and the consequent alternations of heavy and light syllables, as the basis of Elocutionary Harmony.

XVII. Of Accents; the mistakes and incongruities of modern Grammarians in the application of this term; demonstrations of musical inflection in the pronunciation of English syllables.

XVIII. Swell and fall of the Voice-Varieties of Strong and Soft, &c. Recapitulation of the constituents of Elocutionary Melody.

Laws

XIX. Simple Time; or quick or slow-Syllabic Time, or Quantity -Generic Time, or Cadences of Common and Triple Measure. and Principles of English Prosody.

XX. Of Descriptive and Imitative Time; with Illustrations from Milton, Dryden, Pope, &c. and Strictures on the Criticisms of Dr. John

son.

XXI. Pauses and dwellings of the Voice; with descriptive definitions of the respective accents of Punctuation.

XXII. General Principles of Pronunciation. Vindication of the Maxim of Dr. Johnson; with an examination of the objections of Mr. Walker and other Orthoëpists.

XXIII. Laws of Quantity, Poise, and Percussion; Seat of the percussion, inflections---acute, grave, circumflective, &c.

XXIV. Provincialisms, Vulgarisms, Cockneyisms, Hibernianisms, Scotticisms.

XXV. Solecisms; or authorized and established incongruities: Mutation and confusion of the Vowels; Elision, or Syncope.

XXVI. Application of the preceding principles to the reading of English Verse; with an analysis of the genuine principles of Poetical Rhythmus.

XXVII. Of Emphases-their position, characteristic varieties, and degrees.

XXVIII. Intellectual Requisites, and Preparatory Studies and Attainments, indispensable to the oratorical character.

XXIX. Exterior Accomplishments and Accompaniments of Elocutionary delivery. Action, Attitude, Deportment, &c.

XXX. Of the bolder and more impressive excellencies of Oratorical delivery--Decorous Dignity, Discriminative expression, Energy or Force, Emotion and Enthusiasm, &c.

Printed by G. F. Harris, Liverpool.

MR. THELWALL'S ODE

ADDRESSED TO

THE ENERGIES OF BRITAIN

IN BEHALF OF

THE SPANISH PATRIOTS.

First delivered at the Free Mason's Tavern, London, on Saint James's Day-25th July, 1808.

LONDON:

Printed by J. M'Creery, Fleet-Street,

And sold in connexion with the other Publications of the Author, By Messrs. Arch, Cornhill; and Kent, corner of Kingsgate-street, Holborn.

This Ode being intended to accompany the Poem and Oration on the Death of Lord Nelson, the pages are numbered accordingly.

ODE, &c.

I. 1.

THE glowing dreams of hope are fled, That play'd around the youthful head, And rous'd the kindling soul

To thoughts of high romantic worth ;-
Gave boundless expectation birth,

And bade the fragile sons of earth
Pant for Perfection's Goal.

O! thoughts by generous fervour fed,
That thro the bounding bosom spread,—

Till every selfish passion fled
Before your strong control!-

Nor fled alone:-for, in that hour, Calm Reason lost her guiding Power, sage Experience old.

And

The incongruous world is form'd again; And, instant, from the heated brain,

Starts forth "an Age of Gold!"