19th Century Schoolbooks Collection

19th Century Schoolbooks Collection

Author:	Parker, Richard Green, 1798-1869
Title:	Exercises in rhetorical reading: with a series of introductory lessons, particularly designed to familiarize readers with the pauses and other marks in general use, and lead them to the practice of modulation and inflection of the voice
Print source:	Exercises in rhetorical reading with a series of introductory lessons, particularly designed to familiarize readers with the pauses and other marks in general use, and lead them to the practice of modulation and inflection of the voice Parker, Richard Green, 1798-1869 New York: A.S. Barnes & Co, 1855, c1849
Publication Info:	Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Digital Research Library 2002
Availability:	This work is believed to be in the public domain with no known restrictions on access and use.
Subject terms:	Elocution. Recitations. Readers (Secondary)--1800-1870.
URL:	http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=00acg7537m;view=toc;c=nietz

Contents

Exercises in rhetorical reading: with a series of introductory lessons, particularly designed to familiarize readers with the pauses and other marks in general use, and lead them to the practice of modulation and inflection of the voice

Introductory Lessons in Reading

Lesson I. The Period

Lesson II. The Interrogation Point, or Question

Lesson VII. The Exclamation Point

Lesson VIII. The Period, Interrogation, and Exclamation United

Lesson IX. The Comma

Lesson XI. The Semicolon

Lesson XIV. The Colon

Lesson XV. The Colon -- continued

Lesson XVI. The Parenthesis, Crotchets, and Brackets

Lesson XVII. The Dash

Lesson XVIII. The Hyphen

Lesson XX. Apostrophe, Quotation, and Diaeresis

Lesson XXI. The Asterisk, Obelisk, Double Obelisk, Section, Parallels, Paragraph, Index Caret, Breve, and Brace

Lesson XXII. Accent

Lesson XXIII. Emphasis

Lesson XXIV. Primary and Secondary Emphasis

Lesson XXV. Distinctness of Articulation

Lesson XXVI. Manner, or Expression

Lesson XXVII. Pitch of the Voice

Lesson XXVIII. Transition

Lesson XXIX. Elliptical Sentences

Lesson XXX. Antithesis

Lesson XXXI. Enumeration

Lesson XXXII. Irony

Lesson XXXIII. Analogy

Lesson XXXIV. The Slur

Lesson XXXV. Measure of Speech

Lesson XXXVI. Manner of Reading Poetry

Lesson XXXVII. Monotone

Lesson XXXVIII. Analysis

Lesson XXXIX. Blending of Words Produced by Accented Force

Lesson XL. Improvement of the Voice

Exercises in Rhetorical Reading

Exercise I. The Structure of Animals

Exercise II. Philosophy

Exercise III. Scale of Beings

Exercise IV. The Teachings of Nature

Exercise V. English Politeness described by a Native of China

Exercise VI. Pleasures of Melancholy

Exercise VII. The Amiable Character of the Patriarch Joseph

Exercise VIII. The Rainbow

Exercise IX. On the Immortality of the Soul

Exercise X. Winter

Exercise XI. Sabbath Exercises

Exercise XII. The Deserted Village

Exercise XIII. The Journey of a Day; a Picture of Human Life

Exercise XIV. A Summer Morning

Exercise XV. The Parable of the Ewe Lamb

Exercise XVI. Meditation

Exercise XVII. The Planetary and Terrestrial Worlds comparatively considered

Exercise XVIII. Quarrel between Roderick Dhu and Fitz-James

Exercise XIX. Schemes of Life often Illusory

Exercise XX. A Dream

Exercise XXI. Ortogrul; or, the Vanity of Riches

Exercise XXII. Summer Heat

Exercise XXIII. Omniscience and Omnipresence of the Deity, the Source of Consolation to Good Men

Exercise XXIV. Summer Bathing

Exercise XXV. Scene after a Thunder Shower

Exercise XXVI. Domestic Employment

Exercise XXVII. Dialogue from the Tragedy of King John

Exercise XXVIII. Scene from the Tragedy of King John

Exercise XXIX. Dialogue from King John, after the supposed assassination of Prince Arthur

Exercise XXX. Character of Addison as a Writer

Exercise XXXI. Elegy written in a Country Church-yard

Exercise XXXII. Filial Reverence

Exercise XXXIII. Autumn

Exercise XXXIV. The First and the Last Dinner

Exercise XXXV. Day. A Pastoral, in three parts

Exercise XXXVI. Little Paul Dombey's Introduction into a Select Fashionable School

Exercise XXXVII. Same Subject, continued -- The Dinner Hour

Exercise XXXVIII. Orator Puff

Facetious History of John Gilpin

Exercise XLI. The Departure of the Gypsies from Ellangowan

Exercise XLII. Spring

Exercise XLIII. Address of the Massachusetts Legislature, Feb. 1797to George Washington, President of the United States, on his retiring from office

Exercise XLIII. Continued

Exercise XLIV. Trout Fishing

Exercise XLV. On Contentment

Exercise XLVI. Farewell

Exercise XLVII. The Hill of Science

Exercise XLVIII. The Passions -- An Ode

Exercise XLIX. Adaptation of Christianity to the Intellectual Wants of Man

Exercise L. Hymn on the Seasons

Exercise LI. The Blind Man restored to Sight

Exercise LII. Pictures of a Distinguished Poet

Exercise LIII. The Grotto of Antiparos

Exercise LIV. The Past

Extract from an Oration pronounced by the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, July 4, 1848...

Exercise LVI. Winter Scenes

Exercise LVII. The Punishment of a Liar

Reflections occasioned by a Man's perishing in a Snow-storm

Exercise LIX. Callisthenes' Reproof of Cleon's Flattery to Alexander

Exercise LX. Rural Felicity

Exercise LXI. Rolla's Address to the Peruvians

Exercise LXII. Oft in the Stilly Night

Exercise LXIII. Extract from a Speech of Lord Mansfield, in the British Parliament, in the year 1770

Exercise LXIV. An Address to the Deity

Exercise LXV. Cause of Differences in Opinion

Exercise LXVI. The Last Rose of Summer

Exercise LXVII. On the Importance of Order in the Distribution of Time

Exercise LXVIII. The Katydid

Exercise LXIX. Conclusion of an Address to President Washington, in allusion to his retiring from office

Exercise LXX. The Frost

Exercise LXXI. Character of Lord Chatham

Exercise LXXII. Cardinal Wolsey and Cromwell

Exercise LXXIII. Resurrection

Exercise LXXIV. Extracts from the "Essay on Man"

Exercise LXXV. Same Subject Continued

Exercise LXXVI. Description of Mab, Queen of the Fairies

Exercise LXXVIII. The Meeting of the Waters

Exercise LXXIX. Extracts from the Inaugural Address of the Mayor of Boston

Exercise LXXX. Adam's Description of his First State of Consciousness

Exercise LXXXII. Description of Eve's first finding herself on Earth

Exercise LXXXIII. The Cant of Criticism

Exercise LXXXIV. Hotspur's Account of the Fop

Lesson LXXXV. Extract from an Address delivered before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, Oct., 1845

Exercise LXXXVI. Soliloquy of Claudius (Hamlet's Uncle) on the Murder of his Brother

Exercise LXXXVII. Charity

Exercise LXXXVIII. Farewell

Exercise LXXXIX. English Travellers

Exercise XC. Speak Gently

Exercise XCI. Extract of a Speech in the Senate of the United States, disavowing a National Hostility to Great Britain

Exercise XCII. The Bird let loose in the Eastern Skies

Exercise XCIII. The Prodigal Son

Exercise XCIV. Go where Glory waits Thee

Exercise XCV. Hamlet's Advice to the Players

Exercise XCVI. Milton's Lamentation for the Loss of his Sight

Exercise XCVII. Intellectual Improvement

Exercise XCVIII. The World compared to a Stage

Exercise XCIX. Woman

Exercise C. "Passing Away"

Exercise CI. Association of Ideas

Exercise CII. The Light-House

Exercise CIV. Soliloquy of Hamlet on Death

Exercise CV. Hotspur's Soliloquy on the Contents of a Letter

Exercise CVI. The Cataract of Lodore

Exercise CVII. On the Power of Custom, and the Use to which it may be applied

Exercise CVIII. The Contrast

Exercise CIX. How to Remember what we Read

Exercise CX. Happiness equally distributed

Lesson CXI. Francisco Pizarro

Exercise CXII. Virtuous Love

Extract from the Preface of a Work entitled "The Wisdom and Genius of Shakspeare"

Exercise CXIV. The Chameleon

Exercise CXV. Dominie Sampon's Encounter with Meg Merrilies