Produced by Robert Rowe, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. EVOLUTION OF EXPRESSION BY CHARLES WESLEY EMERSON FOUNDER OF EMERSON COLLEGE OF ORATORY, BOSTON A COMPILATION OF SELECTIONS ILLUSTRATING THE FOUR STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT IN ART AS APPLIED TO ORATORY IN FOUR VOLUMES, WITH KEY TO EACH CHAPTER THIRTY-THIRD EDITION VOLUME I--REVISED TO MY STUDENTS Whose need has been my inspiration and whose understanding my rich reward, these volumes are affectionately DEDICATED CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION ANIMATION ANALYSIS SMOOTHNESS VOLUME FORMING THE ELEMENTS CHAPTER I. THE TEA-KETTLE AND THE CRICKET Charles Dickens THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN Robert Browning GROUP OF LYRICS: PIPPA PASSES Robert Browning THE SNOWDROP Alfred Tennyson THE THROSTLE Alfred Tennyson ONE MORNING, OH, SO EARLY Jean Ingelow FREEDOM John Ruskin A LAUGHING CHORUS THE CHEERFUL LOCKSMITH Charles Dickens HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD Robert Browning LOCHINVAR Sir Walter Scott THE POLISH WAR SONG James G. Percival CHAPTER II. THE VILLAGE PREACHER Oliver Goldsmith TO THE DAISY William Wordsworth PSALM XXIII David EXTRACT FROM EULOGY ON WENDELL PHILLIPS George William Curtis THE BROOK Alfred Tennyson OLD AUNT MARY'S James Whitcomb Riley CHILD VERSE: MY SHADOW Robert Louis Stevenson THE SWING Robert Louis Stevenson THE LAMPLIGHTER Robert Louis Stevenson WAITING John Burroughs CHAPTER III. THE REVENGE Alfred Tennyson THE OCEAN Lord Byron SPARTACUS TO THE GLADIATORS AT CAPUA Rev. Elijah Kellogg TELL TO HIS NATIVE MOUNTAINS, James Sheridan Knowles BATTLE HYMN Karl Theodor Korner SELF-RELIANCE Ralph Waldo Emerson ADAMS AND JEFFERSON Daniel Webster THE DEFENCE OF LUCKNOW Alfred Tennyson SONNETS: KEATS WORDSWORTH MILTON ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING IS THERE FOR HONEST POVERTY Robert Burns CHAPTER IV. HAMLET TO THE PLAYERS William Shakespeare THE BOY AND THE ANGEL Robert Browning SPEECH AND SILENCE Thomas Carlyle THE RICH MAN AND THE POOR MAN Khemnitzer GATHERING OF THE FAIRIES Joseph Rodman Drake THE SONG OF THE RAIN Spectator HEARTY READING Sidney Smith IVRY Lord Macaulay THE DAFFODILS William Wordsworth CHEERFULNESS J. H. Friswell APRIL IN THE HILLS Archibald Lampman INTRODUCTION. Teach me, then, To fashion worlds in little, making form, As God does, one with spirit,--be the priest Who makes God into bread to feed the world. --Richard Hovey.