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Tables of Contents for McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
INTRODUCTION
Articulation
11
7
Infelection
18
15
Accent and Emphasis
33
Instructions for Reading Verse
30
16
The Voice
46
9
Gesture
55
8
SELECTIONS FOR READING
Anecdote of the Duke of Newcastle
Blackwood's Magazine
63
4
The Needle
67
1
Samuel Woodworth
Dawn
68
2
Edward Everett
Description of a Storm
70
2
Benjamin Disraeli
After the Thunderstorm
72
1
James Thomson
House Cleaning
73
5
Francis Hopkinson
Schemes of Life often Illusory
78
3
Samuel Johnson
The Brave Old Oak
81
1
Henry Fothergill Chorley
The Artist Surprised
82
6
Pictures of Memory
88
2
Alice Cary
The Morning Oratorio
90
6
Wilson Flagg
Short Selections in Poetry:
The Cloud
94
1
John Wilson
My Mind
94
1
William Byrd
A Good Name
95
1
William Shakespeare
Sunrise
95
1
James Thomson
Old Age and Death
95
1
Edmund Waller
Milton
96
1
John Dryden
Death of Little Nell
96
4
Charles Dickens
Vanity of Life
100
2
Johann Gottfried von Herder
A Political Pause
102
2
Charles James Fox
My Experience in Elocution
104
4
John Neal
Elegy in a Country Churchyard
108
5
Thomas Gray
Tact and Talent
113
2
Speech before the Virginia Convention
115
4
Patrick Henry
The American Flag
119
2
Joseph Rodman Drake
Ironical Eulogy on Debt
121
3
The Three Warnings
124
4
Hester Lynch Thrale
The Memory of Our Fathers
128
5
Lyman Beecher
Short Selections in Prose:
Dryden and Pope
130
1
Samuel Johnson
Las Casas Dissuading from Battle
130
1
R. B. Sheridan
Action and Repose
131
1
John Ruskin
Time and Change
131
1
Sir Humphry Davy
The Poet
132
1
William Ellery Channing
Mountains
132
1
William Howitt
The Jolly Old Pedagogue
133
2
George Arnold
The Teacher and Sick Scholar
135
6
Charles Dickens
The Snow Shower
141
2
William Cullen Bryant
Character of Napoleon Bonaparte
143
3
Charles Phillips
Napoleon at Rest
146
2
John Pierpont
War
148
3
Charles Summer
Speech of Walpole in Reproof of Mr. Pitt
151
1
Sir R. Walpole
Pitt's Reply to Sir Robert Walpole
152
2
William Pitt
Character of Mr. Pitt
154
2
Henry Grattan
The Soldier's Rest
156
2
Sir Walter Scott
Henry V. to his Troops
158
3
William Shakespeare
Speech of Paul on Mars' Hill
Bible
160
1
God is Everywhere
161
2
Joseph Hutton
Lafayette and Robert Raikes
163
4
Thomas S. Grimke
Fall of Cardinal Wolsey
167
4
William Shakespeare
The Philosopher
171
5
John P. Kennedy
Marmion and Douglas
176
2
Sir Walter Scott
The Present
178
2
Adelaide Anne Procter
The Baptism
180
3
John Wilson
Sparrows
183
3
Adeline D. Train Whitney
Observance of the Sabbath
186
6
Gardiner Spring
God's Goodness to Such as Fear Him
Bible
189
3
Character of Columbus
192
3
Washington Irving
``He Giveth His Beloved Sleep.''
195
2
Elizabeth B. Browning
Description of a Siege
197
5
Sir Walter Scott
Marco Bozzaris
202
3
Fitz-Greene Halleck
Song of the Greek Bard
205
4
Lord George Gordon Byron
North American Indians
209
2
Charles Sprague
Lochiel's Warning
211
4
Thomas Campbell
On Happiness of Temper
215
3
Oliver Goldsmith
The Fortune Teller
218
3
Henry Mackenzie
Rienzi's Address to the Romans
221
2
Mary Russell Mitford
The Puritan Fathers of New England
223
3
F.W. P. Greenwood
Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers
226
2
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
Necessity of Education
228
3
Lyman Beecher
Riding on a Snowplow
231
3
Benjamin Franklin Taylor
The Quarrel of Brutus and Cassius
234
4
William Shakespeare
The Quack
238
4
John Tobin
Rip Van Winkle
242
4
Washington Irving
Bill and Joe
246
3
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sorrow for the Dead
249
2
Washington Irving
The Eagle
251
2
James Gates Percival
Political Toleration
253
2
Thomas Jefferson
What Constitutes a State?
255
1
Sir William Jones
The Brave at Home
256
1
Thomas Buchanan Read
South Carolina
257
2
Robert Young Hayne
Massachusetts and South Carolina
259
3
Daniel Webster
The Church Scene from Evangeline
262
4
H. W. Longfellow
Song of the Shirt
266
3
Thomas Hood
Diamond cut Diamond
269
6
Edouard Rene Lefebvre-Laboulaye
Thanatopsis
275
3
William Cullen Bryant
Indian Jugglers
278
3
William Hazlitt
Antony over Caesar's Dead Body
281
5
William Shakespeare
The English Character
286
4
William Hickling Prescott
The Song of the Potter
290
2
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Hot Day in New York
292
3
William Dean Howells
Discontent---An Allegory
295
6
Joseph Addison
Jupiter and Ten
301
2
James T. Fields
Scene from ``The Poor Gentleman''
303
7
George Colman
My Mother's Picture
310
2
William Cowper
Death of Samson
312
3
John Milton
An Evening Adventure
315
2
The Barefoot Boy
317
4
John Greenleaf Whittier
The Glove and the Lions
321
1
James Henry Leigh Hunt
The Folly of Intoxication
322
3
William Shakespeare
Starved Rock
325
2
Francis Parkman
Prince Henry and Falstaff
327
5
William Shakespeare
Studies
332
2
Sir Francis Bacon
Surrender of Granada
334
5
Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Hamlet's Soliloquy
339
1
William Shakespeare
Ginevra
340
4
Samuel Rogers
Inventions and Discoveries
344
3
John Caldwell Calhoun
Enoch Arden at the Window
347
3
Alfred Tennyson
Lochinvar
350
2
Sir Walter Scott
Speech on the Trial of a Murderer
352
3
Daniel Webster
The Closing Year
355
3
George Denison Prentice
A New City in Colorado
358
4
Helen Hunt Jackson
Importance of the Union
362
2
Daniel Webster
The Influences of the Sun
364
2
John Tyndall
Colloquial Powers of Franklin
366
2
William Wirt
The Dream of Clarence
368
3
William Shakespeare
Homeward Bound
371
4
Richard H. Dana Jr
Impeachment of Warren Hastings
375
4
T. B. Macaulay
Destruction of the Carnatic
379
3
Edmund Burke
The Raven
382
7
Edgar Allan Poe
A View of the Colosseum
389
3
Orville Dewey
The Bridge
392
2
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Objects and Limits of Science
394
2
Robert Charles Winthrop
The Downfall of Poland
396
2
Thomas Campbell
Labor
398
3
Horace Greeley
The Last Days of Herculaneum
401
4
Edwin Atherstone
How Men Reason
405
3
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Thunderstorm on the Alps
408
2
Lord Byron
Origin of Property
410
5
Sir William Blackstone
Battle of Waterloo
415
2
Lord Byron
``With Brains, Sir''
417
2
John Brown
The New England Pastor
419
5
Timothy Dwight
Death of Absalom
Bible
420
4
Abraham Davenport
424
2
John Greenleaf Whittier
The Falls of the Yosemite
426
3
Thomas Starr King
A Psalm of Life
429
2
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Franklin's Entry into Philadeiphia
431
3
Benjamin Franklin
Lines to a Waterfowl
434
1
William Cullen Bryant
Goldsmith and Addison
435
3
William Makepeace Thackeray
Immortality of the Soul
438
2
Joseph Addison
Character of Washington
440
4
Jared Sparks
Eulogy on Washington
444
2
Henry Lee
The Solitary Reaper
446
1
William Wordsworth
Value of the Present
447
4
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness
451
2
Alexander Pope
Marion
453
3
William Gilmore Simms
A Common Thought
456
1
Henry Timrod
A Definite Aim in Reading
457
5
Noah Porter
Ode to Mt. Blanc
462
Samuel Taylor Coleridge