An Elocutionary Manual: With an Introductory Essay on the Study of Literature, and on Vocal Culture in Its Relation to an Aesthetic Appreciation of Poetry

Lippincott, 1875

ON THE STUDY OF LITERATURE AND ON VOCAL CULTURE	13

What is Literature? Thomas De Quincey	49

On the refining and elevating influence of Poetry	57

Description of a Country Gentleman of the Seventeenth	69

The Wreck of the Hesperus Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	78

The Alpine Sheep Mrs Maria White Lowell	86

The height of the Ridiculous Oliver Wendell Holmes	100

The Blind Preacher William Wirt	107

Don Quixote Henry Giles	215

Godiva Alfred Tennyson	223

The Palimpsest Thomas De Quincey	232

Ode to a Nightingale John Keats	240

He giveth his beloved Sleep Elizabeth Barrett Browning	247

The Dream of Eugene Aram Thomas Hood	253

The Portraits of Shakspeare and Goethe David Masson	262

The Humble Bee Ralph Waldo Emerson	268

My Kate Elizabeth Barrett Browning	114

The Human Voice Oliver Wendell Holmes	126

Extracts from Aurora Leigh Elizabeth B Browning 131134	131

The Song of Deborah and Barak Book of Judges	137

The tendency of nations to overestimate the Past and	147

Gods power and providence illustrated in the Animal King	153

Rural Life in Sweden Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	159

Passages from the Marble Faun Nathaniel Hawthorne 168179	168

The Italian Climate	174

Songs and Lyrics from The Princess Alfred Tennyson 181185	181

The Saxon and Latin elements of the English language	186

Parable of the Prodigal Son Gospel of St Luke	192

The Lord of Burleigh Alfred Tennyson	200

The Skeleton in Armour Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	208

A Dead Rose Elizabeth Barrett Browning	278

Garden Fancies Robert Browning	279

Tribulationthe Etymology of the Word	289

The Voiceless Oliver Wendell Holmes	296

Description of a Spanish Bullfight Lord Byron	302

The Bells Edgar Allan Poe	313

To a Mountain Daisy on turning one down with the Plough	321

The Three Ladies of Sorrow Thomas De Quincey	327

Intimations of Immortality from recollections of early child	335

Boswells Life of Johnsonhow Histories are written	343

Morte DArthur Alfred Tennyson	351

Ode to the West Wind Percy Bysshe Shelley	368

Passages from The Paradise Lost John Milton 381394	381

Passages from Shakspeare 394432	394

Title	An Elocutionary Manual: With an Introductory Essay on the Study of Literature, and on Vocal Culture in Its Relation to an Aesthetic Appreciation of Poetry
Author	Hiram Corson
Publisher	Lippincott, 1875
Original from	Indiana University
Digitized	22 Sep 2022

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