Hear and report a speech. If this appears to be undesirable or impossible, the teacher may read one to the class. The following are suggested:
- Macaulay’s Speech on Education.
- One of the lectures in Thackeray’s English Humorists or Four Georges.
- Phillips’s Toussaint L’Ouverture.
- Webster’s Bunker Hill Speeches.
- Lincoln’s Peoria Speech against Douglas.
- One of Birrell’s Obiter Dicta Lectures.
- Others equally good will probably suggest themselves.
VII. Suggested Time Schedule[6]
| Week I | Week II | |
|---|---|---|
| Monday— | I, II, III. | V, 15–27. |
| Tuesday— | IV, 1. | Oral Composition. |
| Wednesday— | IV, 2. | Oral Composition. |
| Thursday— | V, 1–14. | Written Composition. |
| Friday— | Speaking. | Speaking. |
VIII. Memorize
THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,
That host with their banners at sunset were seen;
Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown,
That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast
And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed;
And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill,
And their hearts but once heaved and forever grew still!. . . . . . . . .
And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail,
And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal;
And the might of the Gentiles, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord.Lord Byron.
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CHAPTER XII
DRAMATIC NOTICES
“To hold the mirror up to Nature.”
Shakespeare.