I. The Cloud John Wilson. 94
II. My Mind William Byrd. 94
III. A Good Name William Shakespeare. 95
V. Sunrise James Thomson. 95
V. Old Age and Death Edmund Waller. 95
VI. Milton John Dryden. 96

13. Death of Little Nell Charles Dickens. 96
14. Vanity of Life Johann Gottfried von Herder. 100
15. A Political Pause Charles James Fox 102
16. My Experience in Elocution John Neal. 104
17. Elegy in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray. 108
18. Tact and Talent 113
19. Speech before the Virginia Convention Patrick Henry. 115
20. The American Flag Joseph Rodman Drake. 119
21. Ironical Eulogy on Debt 121
22. The Three Warnings Hester Lynch Thrale. 124
23. The Memory of Our Fathers Lyman Beecher. 128
24. Short Selections in Prose:
I. Dryden and Pope Samuel Johnson. 130
II. Las Casas Dissuading from Battle R.B. Sheridan. 130
III. Action and Repose John Ruskin. 131
IV. Time and Change Sir Humphry Davy. 131
V. The Poet William Ellery Channing. 132
VI. Mountains William Howitt. 132
25. The Jolly Old Pedagogue George Arnold. 133
26. The Teacher and Sick Scholar. Charles Dickens. 135
27. The Snow Shower William Cullen Bryant. 141
28. Character of Napoleon Bonaparte Charles Phillips. 143