Author: Thomas HardyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
The Benevolence of the Christian Spirit, a Sermon, Preached in the Tron Church of Edinburgh, May 31. 1791. Before the Society for the Benefit of the Sons of the Clergy of the Church of Scotland. By Thomas Hardy, D.D. One of the Ministers of the City, and Regius Professor of Divinity and Ecclesiastical History in the University of Edinburgh. Published at the Request of the General Meeting of the Society and Subscribers. To which is Added an Account of the Objects and Constitution of the Society
Author: Thomas HardyAnnals of a Clerical Family
Author: John VennPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
William Venn (1568/1569-1621) was the youngest son of John Venn, born in Broadhembury, Devon, England. He matriculated at Oxford, and settled at Otterhamm about 1599/1600. Descendants and relatives lived in much of England. Also includes origin and early history of the Venn surname, which was sometimes spelled Fenn.
Monuments and Monumental Inscriptions in Scotland
Author: Charles RogersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epitaphs
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
CARIBBEANA
Author: VERE LANGFORD. OLIVERPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033093955
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Robert Burns and Pastoral
Author: Nigel LeaskPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191591459
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Robert Burns and Pastoral is a full-scale reassessment of the writings of Robert Burns (1759-1796), arguably the most original poet writing in the British Isles between Pope and Blake, and the creator of the first modern vernacular style in British poetry. Although still celebrated as Scotland's national poet, Burns has long been marginalised in English literary studies worldwide, due to a mistaken view that his poetry is linguistically incomprehensible and of interest to Scottish readers only. Nigel Leask challenges this view by interpreting Burns's poetry as an innovative and critical engagement with the experience of rural modernity, namely to the revolutionary transformation of Scottish agriculture and society in the decades between 1760 and 1800, thereby resituating it within the mainstream of the Scottish and European enlightenments. Detailed study of the literary, social, and historical contexts of Burns's poetry explodes the myth of the 'Heaven-taught ploughman', revealing his poetic artfulness and critical acumen as a social observer, as well as his significance as a Romantic precursor. Leask discusses Burns's radical decision to write 'Scots pastoral' (rather than English georgic) poetry in the tradition of Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson, focusing on themes of Scottish and British identity, agricultural improvement, poetic self-fashioning, language, politics, religion, patronage, poverty, antiquarianism, and the animal world. The book offers fresh interpretations of all Burns's major poems and some of the songs, the first to do so since Thomas Crawford's landmark study of 1960. It concludes with a new assessment of his importance for British Romanticism and to a 'Four Nations' understanding of Scottish literature and culture.
East Anglian, Or, Notes and Queries on Subjects Connected with the Counties of Suffolk, Cambridge, Essex and Norfolk
Author: Samuel TymmsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cambridgeshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion
Author: Lord Henry Home KamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The Statistical Account of Scotland
Author: Sir John SinclairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Cassell's Old and New Edinburgh
Author: James GrantPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016071444
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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Author: Voltaire