THE PA. STATE

ELOCUTIONARY MANUAL:

CONSISTING OF

CHOICE SELECTIONS FROM ENGLISH AND AMERICAN
LITERATURE, ADAPTED TO EVERY VARIETY OF
VOCAL EXPRESSION. DESIGNED FOR THE
HIGHER CLASSES IN SCHOOLS AND
SEMINARIES, AND FOR PRIVATE
AND SOCIAL READING.

WITH AN

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY

ON THE

STUDY OF LITERATURE, AND ON VOCAL CULTURE AS INDISPENSABLE
TO AN ESTHETIC APPRECIATION OF POETRY.

BY

HIRAM CORSON, A. M.,

EDITOR OF "CHAUCER'S LEGENDE OF GOODE WOMEN."

PHILADELPHIA:

CHARLES DESILVER,

1229 CHESTNUT STREET.

808 C81

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by

CHARLES DESILVER,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

J. FAGAN & SON,

STEREOTYPERS, PHILAD'A.

PRINTED BY CRISSY & MARKLEY.

TO MY PUPILS

THIS BOOK

IS DEDICATED.

H. C.

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.....Matthew Arnold. 61

The Church of Brou....................

Description of a Country Gentleman of the Seventeenth

Century........

.Thomas Babington Macaulay. 69

A Rill from the Town Pump...........Nathaniel Hawthorne. 73

The Wreck of the Hesperus....Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 78

Squire Bull and his son Jonathan.....James Kirke Paulding. 82

The Alpine Sheep...

Spring.........

Best method of Reading.

A literary Criticism.....................

.Mrs. Maria White Lowell. 86

..N. P. Willis. 88

.Henry Reed. 89

...........Joseph Dennie. 91

The height of the Ridiculous.........Oliver Wendell Holmes. 100

Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.....

....

The Sea and the Mountains............ Oliver Wendell Holmes. 112

My Kate........

.Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 114

Literature and Learning in the reign of Charles II.

The Human Voice......

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Thomas Babington Macaulay. 116

Oliver Wendell Holmes. 126

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