Dr. Johnson was a great reciter of all sorts of things serious or comical.

The lecture season was presently to end, on the last Friday in March, with a concert which was to include a series of recitations by a lady-reciter from London.

c. In Italy they have solemn declamations of certain select young gentlemen in Florence (like those reciters in old Rome), and public theatres in most of their cities, for stage-players and others, to exercise and recreate themselves.