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EVOLUTION OF EXPRESSION

by

CHARLES WESLEY EMERSON

Founder of Emerson College of Oratory

A Compilation of Selections Illustrating the Four Stages of Development in Art As Applied to Oratory

In Four Volumes, with Key to each Chapter

TWENTY-EIGHTH EDITION

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.