Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books
Author: J. LewineSoirées du bis de Boulogne. Recuile de ces messieurs
Author: Anne Claude Philippe comte de CaylusPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Orestes
Author: VoltairePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1627933212
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama: "We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries. I am satisfied, Madam, that the wits of Athens condemned, as well as you, some of those repetitions, and some declamations with which Sophocles has loaded his Electra: they must have observed that he had not dived deep enough into the human heart. I will moreover fairly confess, that there are beauties peculiar not only to the Greek language, but to the climate, to manners and times, which it would be ridiculous to transplant hither. Therefore I have not copied exactly the Electra of Sophocles-much more I knew would be necessary; but I have taken, as well as I could, all the spirit and substance of it."
Oeuvres Badines Complettes, Du Comte De Caylus
Author: Anne Claude Philippe Caylus (Comte De)Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781022636101
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 0
Book Description
Le comte de Caylus est un écrivain du XVIIIe siècle connu pour ses textes satiriques et ses oeuvres badines. Ce recueil complet comprend des histoires, des mémoires, des poèmes et bien plus encore, dans une veine résolument humoristique et légère. Un livre idéal pour les amateurs de littérature classique et de l'esprit français. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Prince of Europe
Author: Philip ManselPublisher: Orion Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780753818558
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The Habsburg courtier Charles-Joseph Prince de Ligne seduced and symbolized eighteenth-century Europe. Speaking French, the international language of the day, he travelled between Paris and St Petersburg, charming everyone he met. He stayed with Madame du Barry, dined with Frederick the Great and travelled to the Crimea with Catherine the Great. But Ligne was more than a frivolous charmer. He participated in and recorded some of the most important events and movements of his day: the Enlightenment; the struggle for mastery in Germany; the decline of the Ottoman Empire; the birth of German nationalism; and the wars to liberate Europe from Napoleon. He had surprisingly radical views, believing for example in property rights for women, legal rights for Jews and the redistribution of wealth. He was also a highly respected writer and his books on gardens, his letters from the Crimea and his epigrams are considered minor classics of French literature.
Œuvres Badines, Complettes, Du Comte De Caylus; Avec Figures
Author: Anne Claude Philippe de CaylusPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 1184
Book Description
The Acharnians
Author: AristophanesPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1625580681
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta.
Œuvres Badines Complettes, Du Comte de Caylus
Author: Anne Claude Philippe comte de CaylusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Œuvres Badines Complettes, Du Comte de Caylus
Author: Anne Claude Philippe comte de CaylusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description