CONTENTS. PART FIRST. LESSONS IN PROSE. NARRATIVE PIECES. HISTORICAL OR FICTITIOUS. 28. No life pleasing to God that is not useful to 39. Interview between Waverley and McIvor, 47. A Morning in the Highlands of Scotland, 66. Fortitude of the Indian character, 93. The Baptism, 94. Romantic story, 95. Anecdotes of Mozart, 160. Death of old Lewis Cameron, DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. 19. Feelings excited by a long voyage, Page. T. Percival. Ed. Review. 60 63 Bradbury's Travels. 311 Buffon. 150 DIDACTIC PIECES. MORAL AND RELIGIOUS. 1. A Devotional spirit recommended to the young, 5. The Contrast; or Peace and War, 8. Advantages of a Taste for Natural History, 9. The Pleasures of a cultivated Imagination, 43. The mutual relation between Sleep and Night, GREENWOOD. 39 DANA. 43 W. IRVING. 158 IBID. 161 119. The Head-stone, DRAMATIC PIECES. DIALOGUES, ADDRESSES, AND SOLILOQUIES. 11. Real virtue can love nothing but virtue ;-a Dia 25. Importance of literature;-a Dialogue :-Cadmus 33. Mercury, an English Duellist, and an 45. Lord Bacon and Shakspeare, 199. Address of Brutus to the Roman populace, PIECES FOR RECITATION, OR SPEAKING. 78. The Slave Trade, 146. Part of the letter of the British Spy, 174. Reply of Rob Roy to Mr. Osbaldistone, HUMOROUS PIECES. 89. Extract from a criticism on Ossian, 97. Character of Mr. James Watt, 6. Parallel between Pope and Dryden, 65. Scottish Music:-its peculiarity accounted for, 118. On the perishable nature of poetical fame, Page Wilson. 262 141. The Discontented Pendulum, 146. Letter from the British Spy, in Virginia, LESSONS IN POETRY. PART SECOND. 154. Ginevra, 204. The Ass and the Nightingale, NARRATIVE PIECES. 48. April Day, 61. A Winter Scene, 70. An Evening Sketch, 84. The Coral Grove, 18. Inscription for the Entrance into a Wood, 42. Green River, 92. A Sabbath in Scotland:-Persecution of the 121. The Young Herdsman, 126. The Young Minstrel, 26 Russian Anthology. 93 23. On Early Rising, 30. Incentives to Devotion, 128. Fingal's Battle with the Spirit of Loda, 183. Contrasts of Alpine Scenery, DIDACTIC PIECES. MORAL AND RELIGIOUS. 3. Select sentences and paragraphs, from various authors, 18 CHRISTIAN DISCIPLE. Hurdis. 65 126. The Young Minstrel, 142. A belief in the Superintendence of Providence, 151. An Evening in the Grave-yard, 180. A Summer Evening Meditation, 158. Lycidas, a monody, 172. The Winter Night, PATHETIC PIECES. Page. 179. Prince Edward and his keeper, 182. Arthur, Hubert, and attendants, Burns. 396 |