Strictures on Johnson's Life of Milton,.............. Channing, 152 Feelings of an American in England,. The Regularity of Nature,..... The Daisy, Bring Back the Chain,.. The Ocean,....... RHYME. Monk Mason Goode, Hon. Mrs. Norton, 6 .Byron, 11 Mrs. Hemans, 17 .Mrs. Hemans, 21 Miss Martineau, 25 America,.....................................D. Moore, 29 ..Hazlitt, 34 ..Byron, 40 ...H. Maldon, 48 Mrs. Hemans, 56 ...D. Moore, 63 Wolfe, 72 Casabianca, the Admiral's Son,. The Better Land, Law and Liberty,......... Columbus on First Beholding Prisoner of Chillon,...... Evening, The Spanish Champion, Leonidas at Thermopyla,......... BLANK VERSE. Moonlight in Venice,.......... Othello's Apology for his Marriage, The Contrast,........ The Day of Rest, Satan's Address to the Sun,...... .Milton, 13 Henry V. before the Battle of Agincourt,......... Shakspeare, 19 The Nightingale,............................... Coleridge, 22 ..Byron, 26 .Shakspeare, 31 Miss Landon, Grahame, 27 Procrastination,.. The Ruined Cottage,....... Shylock, Bassanio, and Antonio,.................... Shakspeare, 50 Brutus over the Dead Body of Lucretia,.................Payne, 59 Shakspeare, 66 Mark Antony's Oration,. The Yew-Tree Seat, Wordsworth, 73 Queen Mab, Shakspeare, 79 Coleridge, 85 ..Knowles, 90 Thomson, 99 .Shakspeare, 105 .Knowles, 111 Henry IV.'s Soliloquy on Sleep,............ Tell's Address to his Native Mountains, . Chamouny,.. Lord Tinsel and the Earl of Rochdale,............ The Snow-Storm,......... Imagination,..... Darkness,.. Brutus and Cassius,.. Ginevra,.......... Curse of the Doge of Venice,... Hamlet's Soliloquy on Death,. Wolsey and Cromwell, Shakspeare, 117 The American Indian and the Ocean,........B. B. Thatcher, 126 Cassius Instigating Brutus against Cæsar,......... Shakspeare, 132 Cato's Soliloquy,......................... .....Addison, 137 The Pleasure and Benefit of an Improved and Well-Directed ....Akenside, 143 Miss Baillie, 151 Byron, 156 PAGE Young, 37 Miss Landon, 43 .... ........... ............ ..... Shakspeare, 182 Southey, 187 .Shakspeare, 197 .Moir, 206 Shakspeare, 215 THE ENGLISH ORATOR. HAMLET'S ADVICE TO THE PLAYERS. SPEAK the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lieve the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hands, thus; but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness. Oh, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb show and noise. Pray you, avoid it.-Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing; whose end both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of one of which, must in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. B Oh, there be players, that I have seen play-and heard others praise, and that highly (not to speak it profanely)— that, neither having the accent of Christian, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well; they imitated humanity so abominably. THE DAISY. NOT worlds on worlds, in phalanx deep, Tells of his hand in lines as clear. For who but He who arch'd the skies, Could rear the daisy's purple bud? Mould its green cup, its wiry stem; That, set in silver, gleams within? And fling it, unrestrain❜d and free, THE CONTRAST. THERE were two Portraits: one was of a Girl |