VOLUME II--REVISED
Boston: Emerson College of Oratory Publishing Department Chickering Hall, Huntington Avenue 1915
Copyrighted by C. W. Emerson 1905
The Barta Press Boston
CONTENTS
PAGE.
SLIDE 7
VITAL SLIDE 8
SLIDE IN VOLUME 9
FORMING PICTURES 10
_Chapter I._
TACT AND TALENT _London Atlas_ 13
SHYLOCK TO ANTONIO _William Shakespeare_ 15
THE CYNIC _H. W. Beecher_ 16
GOOD BY, PROUD WORLD _R. W. Emerson_ 18
THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB _Lord Byron_ 19
UNWRITTEN MUSIC _N. P. Willis_ 20
LAUS MORTIS _Frederic Lawrence Knowles_ 23
TAXATION OF THE COLONIES _Edmund Burke_ 24
MY HEART LEAPS UP _William Wordsworth_ 29
FOREST SCENE FROM AS YOU LIKE IT _William Shakespeare_ 30
_Chapter II._
THE RISING IN 1776 _T. B. Read_ 35
THE TENT-SCENE BETWEEN BRUTUS AND CASSIUS _William Shakespeare_ 39
THE FORGING OF THE ANCHOR _S. Ferguson_ 43
SUPPOSED SPEECH OF JOHN ADAMS _Daniel Webster_ 48
LIFE AND SONG _Sidney Lanier_ 53
GATHERING SONG OF DONALD THE BLACK _Sir Walter Scott_ 54
NUTTING _William Wordsworth_ 55
THE DODSON FAMILY _George Eliot_ 58
AFTER THE MARCH KAIN _William Wordsworth_ 66
_Chapter III._
FIRST BATTLES OF THE REVOLUTION _Edward Everett_ 67
THE ANTIQUITY OF FREEDOM _W. C. Byrant_ 70
NATIONAL BANKRUPTCY _Mirabeau_ 73
THE LANTERN BEARERS _Robert Louis Stevenson_ 74
TARPEIA _Louise Imogen Guiney_ 78
THE BELLS _E. A. Poe_ 82
THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION _Wendell Phillips_ 86
SHERIDAN'S RIDE _T. B. Read_ 89
TO A PUPIL _Walt Whitman_ 92
_Chapter IV._
THE PICKWICKIANS ON ICE _Charles Dickens_ 93
THE REALM OF FANCY _J. Keats_ 103
THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Lord Macaulay_ 106
THE GLORIES OF MORNING _Edward Everett_ 109
THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS _O. W. Holmes_ 111
AUTUMN _H. W. Beecher_ 112
MIDSUMMER _J. T. Trowbridge_ 116
THE KITTEN AND FALLING LEAVES _William Wordsworth_ 118
SUMMER STORM _James Russell Lowell_ 121
JAQUES' SEVEN AGES OF MAN _William Shakespeare_ 125
THE PARTS.
THE ATTRACTIVE OR MELODRAMATIC PERIOD.
Love took up the harp of life and smote on all the chords with might, Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
TENNYSON.
The power to detach, and to magnify by detaching, is the essence of rhetoric in the hands of the orator and the poet. This rhetoric, or power to fix the momentary eminence of an object, so remarkable in Burke, in Byron, in Carlyle--depends upon the depth of the artist's insight of that object he contemplates.
EMERSON.
For use of selections in this volume especial thanks are tendered Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Frederic Lawrence Knowles, Horace Traubel, Secretary Walt Whitman Fellowship, and J. T. Trowbridge.