Author: Thomas MartynPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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The English Connoisseur, Containing an Account of Whatever is Curious in Painting, Sculpture (etc.)
Author: Thomas MartynThe English Connoisseur
Author: Thomas MartynK.Q
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Bibliotheca Grenvilliana
Author: Thomas GrenvillePublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Bibliotheca Grenvilliana
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books. Grenville LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Epic poetry, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Tobias Smollett in the Enlightenment
Author: Richard J. JonesPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611480493
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Tobias Smollett (1721-71) is best known today as a novelist. In the eighteenth-century, he was principally regarded as a historian and critic. In this book, Richard J. Jones explores the diversity of Smollett's journalistic and literary writings. In doing so, he establishes new connections between Smollett's work and contemporary writers of the Scottish Enlightenment. Smollett is presented, much like the philosopher David Hume, as a Scot in London, writing history and critical essays. The book takes as its focal point Smollett's visit to Nice, between 1763 and 1765, and the account he wrote of it in Travels through France and Italy (1766). This account is usually seen as a 'travel narrative'. However, Jones argues that it should more properly be read as 'pocket encyclopedia' in the tradition of Voltaire. Jones offers a productive juxtaposition of authors, texts, and contexts for readers interested in questions of genre, Enlightenment thought, and the cosmopolitan nature of eighteenth-century culture.
The critical review, or annals of literature
Author: The Early Letters of Bishop Richard Hurd, 1739-1762
Author: Richard HurdPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780851156538
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
A model edition of the early correspondence of one of George III's favourite bishops. ARCHIVES Richard Hurd is best known to ecclesiastical historians as one of George III's favourite bishops who was offered, and declined, the archbishopric of Canterbury. These letters, therefore, illuminate the early career of one of the most prominent clerics of the late eighteenth century. The letters begin in 1739, just after Hurd had graduated B.A. at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. They chart his gradual climb up the ladder of ecclesiastical preferment, through his time as Fellow at Emmanuel and end with him settled in the comfortable country rectory of Thurcaston in Leicestershire. Hurd had a wide circle of correspondents. He became a close friend of William Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester, perhaps the most prominent controverialist of the period. He was also a member of a literary circle which included the poets Thomas Gray and William Mason. Indeed, Hurd himself is well-known to students of English literatureas the author of Letters on Chivalry and Romanceand as a significant figure among the so-called `pre-romantics'. Hurd's letters reveal the full range of his interests, from theology and university politics, through literature, to painting and sculpture. This edition, therefore, not only tells us about Hurd's early life and career, but also provides a valuable insight into the social life of the Anglican clergy in the eighteenth century.
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: Henry G. BohnPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368131338
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.