purfued, by faithful endeavours to cultivate the understandings of youth, and by a steady attention to difcipline, it is hoped, that you will have the fatisfaction to obferve the fame effects produced, and that the scene will be realized, which OUR POETESS has fo beau-tifully defcribed: When this, this little group their country calls And light up glory thro' her wide domain; I am, With fincere Respect and Gratitude, DEAR SIR, Your much obliged, and moft obedient Servant, WILLIAM ENFIELD. Warrington Academy, October 1, 1774. ION. Spectator 17 14. Sir Balaam Ib. 18 15 Edwin and Emma Mallet 44 16. Celadon & Amelia Thomfon 47 17. Junio and Theana Grainger 49 18. Douglas to L. Randolph Home 53 6. The Old Man & his Afs Ib. 24 7. The Choice of Hercules Tat. 25 Ib. 31 22. The Faithful Friend Ib. Pope 99 Ib. 104 3. On Sincerity Tillotfon 75 17. On Verfification 4. On Honour Guardian 78 18. Leffons on Wisdom Armft. 105 5. On Good Humour Rambler 8119. Against Indolence; 21. On the Miseries of Human 7. On the Advantages of uniting with Firmnefs of Mind 10. On Satirical Wit Sterne 91 24. 12. The prefent Condition of 3 The Beggar's Petition 317 22. Macbeth's Soliloquy Ib. 361 Milton 321 24 Antony's Soliloquý over 16. 360 Page Ib. 330 Ib. 201 26. Page. 230 231 gar ESSAY ON: ELOCUTION. Id affert ratio, docent literæ, confirmat confuetudo legendi MUCH UCH declamation has been employed to convince the world of a very plain truth, that to be able to speak well is an ornamental and useful accomplishment. Without the laboured panegyrics of ancient or modern orators, the importance of a good elocution is fufficiently obvious. Every one will acknowledge it to be of fome confequence, that what a man has hourly occafion to do, should be done well. Every private company, and almoft every public affembly, affords opportunities of remarking the difference between a just and graceful, and a faulty and unnatural elocution; and there are few perfons who do not daily experience the advantages of the former, and the inconveniences of the latter. The great difficulty is, not to prove that it is a defirable thing to be able to read and fpeak with propriety, but to point out a practicable and eafy method, by which this accomplishment may be acquired. FOLLOW NATURE, is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory, without a regard to which, all other rules will only produce affected declamation, not juft elocution. And fome accurate obfervers, judging, perhaps, from a few unlucky fpecimens of modern eloquence, have concluded that this is the only law which ought to be pre fcribed: |