Author: Thomas BrownPublisher:
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Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Works of Mr. Thomas Brown: Amusements serious and comical; calculated for the meridian of London. Letters serious and comical. Diverting letters and billetdoux
Author: Thomas BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Works
Author: Thomas BrownThe Ladies Complete Letter-Writer (1763)
Author: Alain KerhervéPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152755340X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
How did people learn to write letters in the eighteenth century? Among other books, letter-writing manuals provided a possible solution. Although more than 160 editions can be traced for the eighteenth century, most manuals were largely intended for men. As a consequence, when The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer was released in London in 1763, it was the first manual to be exclusively destined for women in eighteenth-century Britain. Even though it was published anonymously, several elements tend to show that it must have been edited by Edward Kimber. It was reprinted in Dublin in 1763 and in London in 1765 and largely circulated. The reasons for its success may have come from its concern in epistolary rhetoric, its original organisation, or the entertainment provided by examples coming from different sources, among which letters by Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Mary Collier, or the Marquise de Lambert. It also provided women with a variety of subjects which were supposed to be part of their sphere of interest, and others which were not, thus questioning a number of pre-conceived ideas on women and their way of writing with or without propriety. Unedited since 1765, the manual is now presented with introduction, notes and two indices focusing on the issues of sources, society and epistolary writing.
The Compleat Works of Mr. Thomas Brown, in Prose and Verse: Essays, poems, satires, and epigrams . A collection of original letters on several occasions. Aristaenetus's letters, tr. from the Greek. Letters out of Pliny junior. M. Tully Cicero's letters. Letters from the best French authors. A supplement to the first volume of Mr. Thomas Brown's works.-v. 2. Letters from the dead to the living, and from the living to the dead, both serious and comical.-v. 3. Amusements serious & comical, calculated for the meridian of London. To which is added, ten letters, on several subjects, together with his Pocket-book of common places. Walk round London and Westminster. Letters translated from Aeneas Sylvius. A declamation in defence of gaming, &c. against drunkenness. The dispensary, a farce. Diverting letters, billet-deux, both originals and translations, to gentlemen and ladies. Voyage on the Thames. Poems, translations, lampoons, and satyrs on several occasions. A continuation of the Quaker's sermon. London and Lacedemonian oracles
Author: Thomas BrownLord Chesterfield's Letters
Author: Lord ChesterfieldPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199554846
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
`My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.' So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences between a father and son. Chesterfield wrote almost daily to his natural son, Philip, from 1737 onwards, providing him with instruction in etiquette and the worldly arts. Praised in their day as a complete manual of education, and despised by Samuel Johnson for teaching `the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing-master', these letters reflect the political craft of a leading statesman and the urbane wit of a man who associated with Pope, Addison, and Swift. The letters reveal Chesterfield's political cynicism and his belief that his country had `always been goverened by the only two or three people, out of two or three millions, totally incapable of governing', as well as his views on good breeding. Not originally intended for publication, this entertaining correspondence illuminates fascinating aspects of eighteenth-century life and manners. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Journal of Nicholas Cresswell
Author: Nicholas CresswellPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429005874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Nicholas Cresswell was twenty-four years old when he left his birthplace of Edale, England to sail for Virginia, believing that ""a person with a small fortune may live much better and make greater improvements in America than he can possibly do in England."" From the time he left, sailing from Liverpool in 1774, until the time he returned, he kept a diary detailing his experiences in pre-Revolutionary America. As a loyal subject to King George, Cresswell found himself often unhappy in America, detailing the turmoil and abuses often suffered by Loyalists in the colonies. Confining his travel mainly to the mid-Atlantic region, Cresswell not only had occasion to attend a slave gathering and observe what went on there, but also traded amongst many of the native tribes, including the Lenape, Tuscarora, Ottawa and Shawnee. Despite his ambivalence about returning to England, (toward the end of the book he moans, ""I wish to be at home and yet dread the thought of returning to my native Country a Beggar "" (P. 251)), life in the colonies becomes too much for this loyal subject and Cresswell's journal ends in 1777 with his return to England.
The Letters of Robert Burns
Author: Robert BurnsPublisher:
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Category : Poets, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Ingoldsby Legends Or Mirth and Marvels
Author: Thomas IngoldsbyThe Works of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
The Female Thermometer
Author: Terry CastlePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019508098X
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A collection of the author's essays on the history and development of female identity from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Throughout the book are woven themes which are constant in Castle's work: fantasy, hallucination, travesty, transgression and sexual ambiguity.