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man nature 
inftru€tion and perfuafion. 
thoroughly acquainted with the bufinefs that belongs to 
fuch affe mbly ; he mutt ftudy the forms of court, the courfe 
quaintance with t 
eneral eircle of polite literature. -Moreover, without 
fen of application and induftry, it is impoffible to ela in 
any thing ; and much lefs to be a diftinguifhed pleader, o 
preacher, or fpeaker in any a No c 
fo much to excite this kind of application as the 
honourable enthufiafm, or ardent attachme 
iquity. Another circumftance, that will 
greatly cautabate to improvement, is attention to the beft 
models ; an attention very different from that flavifh imita- 
tion, which depreffes gentus, or betrays the want of it; an 
attention, which will ferve to corre@ and enlarge our own 
ftock of ideas, and which will excite a laudable emulation 
to be diftinguifhed in ftyle, compofition, and delivery. It 
fhould be remembered, while we are endeavouring 
of {peaking are different, and that the ftyle o is | 
authors in writing difcourfes fhould not be a to 
opular orations. ng authors, whofe manner of writ- 
ing approaches nearer to the ftyle of {peaking ave others, 
Dr. Blair mentions dean Swift, and lord Bolingbroke. 
Befides attention to the beft models, thofe, who afpire to 
be diftinguifhed orators, muft accuftom sou to the 
exercife both o ce ae and fpeaking, as a neceflary 
all that has a aieae faid 
ae an accomplifhed orator, 
Cicero, ra particularly his thre 
f all the ancient writers on ale fubje& of 
oratory the moft inftructive and moft ufeful is Quintilian ; 
whofe « Inftitutions” abound with good fenfe, and difcover 
a very high degree of juft aid accurate tafte; whilft they 
<omprehend almoft all od principles of good critici{m. 
ard and Blair, ubi fup 
TORIO, Ttale 
 Obiniee: Fr. Oratorium, Lat. a 
» but facred {fubjects, 
taken from fcripture, or apie Sitery, aid fet to a grave 
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and folemn mufic, in erder to be performed baron and in- 
ftrumentally, in a church, or elfewhere, during 
cuftom, ouffeau, ts inadmiffible in Fence. 
mufic is fo madras tical, that it is enough to be allowed 
to agree at in the theatres, without exhibiting its defects 
in the c Rife and Progrefs of the facred mufical 
Drama, or r Or torio. 
The firft rapprefentatione, or exhibition truly dramatic, 
that was performed in Italy, according to 
was a fpiritual comedy, at Padu 
2 
487.) Another Reprefentation of the Myfteries of the 
affion of Chrift, &c. according to Muratori, was . 
iad at Friuli, 1298. (Script. Rer. Ital. vol. xxiv. 
Pp. 1 ) In 1264, was inftituted at Rome the Com 
205. mpag- 
nia del Gonfalone, the ftatutes of whi ch . 
were printed in 
toa 
d’Europe ; et anne ‘ell “Oper in ie del Cavalier 
Planelli, § i. cap. 1. 
According to Villa ani, Vafari, Cionacci, and Crefcimbeni, 
la rapprefentatione oats paced had Hs dgicer a in Tufcany. 
(See Signorelli’s aed ite i, p- 189.) Ti at 
Storia della Lett ss Tal. t Ve 1. iil. the 
or anne to the Playhoufe, (Introd. 
pete 
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bax 3 
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wae 
5 
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wae 
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= 
neft m 
ham Stepbanide, or > Fite Stephen, in i | Deferptio ‘Nobi- 
lifime Civitatis Londinez, who writes thus: London, in- 
of Canterbur 
them _ than the 
Conqueft ; and thie 8, we believ « is an pee e than any 
other nation of Europe can prcduce, for theie heat ree 
prefentations.”’ 
Le Chant Royal was invented in France about 1380 ; 
confifted of verfes to the virgins and faints, fung in eee 
by troops or companies of pilgrims returning from the holy 
fepulchre. Meneftrier, des Reprefentations en Muf. 
in ufe at that time, we can 
were myfteries reprefented in German 1322. And 
in the fame century , 1378, t the ecclefiaftics and {cholars of 
St. Paul’s fchool exhibited fimilar interludes in England. 
nation in 
en en- 
tirely fung ; but chiefly declaimed, with incidental airs and 
chorufes. ‘The late Rev. and learned Mr. Crofts, and the 
ae Topham Beauclerc, in their curious libraries had 
e fac 
grofs manner in which the fabjecte are ca, the coarfenefs 
of 
