1. Thelwall, Selections for the Illustration of a Course of Instructions on the Rhythmus and Utterance of the English Language (London, 1812), p. xvi. Thelwall also refers to this work as Illustrations of English Rhythmus.
2. Wordsworth, The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, ed. Ernest De Selincourt and Helen Darbishire, 5 vols (Oxford: Clarendon, 1940–49), vol. I, p. 363; Coleridge, Lectures 1795, p. 297.
3. Hazlitt, The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, ed. P. P. Howe, 21 vols (London: Dent, 1930–34), vol. XII, p. 264. Cf. Godwin, Political Writings, II, pp. 131–2.
4. Thomas Amyot, letter to Henry Crabb Robinson, 8 June 1796, repr. in Youth and Revolution in the 1790s: Letters of William Pattison, Thomas Amyot and Henry Crabb Robinson, ed. Penelope J. Corfield and Chris Evans (Stroud: Sutton, 1996), p. 138.
5. See George Walker’s The Vagabond (1799) and Robert Bisset’s Douglas; or, The Highlander (1800) respectively. Thelwall also appears as an aged elocutionist who demonstrates his skills to ludicrous effect in George Borrow’s Lavengro: The Scholar-The Gypsy-The Priest, 3 vols (London, 1851), vol. II, pp. 124–34, as noted in A. Boyle, ‘Portraiture in Lavengro VI: The Teacher of Oratory-John Thelwall’, Notes and Queries, 197 (1952), 38–9.