1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996387647903316

Autore

Dod John <1549?-1645.>

Titolo

Two sermons on the third of the Lamentations [[electronic resource] ] : Preached at Hanwell in the first yeere of his Maiesties reigne, 1602. The one by I.D. The other by R.C

Pubbl/distr/stampa

At London, : Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, for Thomas Man, and are to be sold at the signe of the Talbot in Pater noster row, 1618

Descrizione fisica

71, [1] p

Altri autori (Persone)

CleaverRobert <1561 or 2-ca. 1625.>

WinstonJohn <fl. 1614-1634.>

Soggetti

Sermons, English - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

I.D. = John Dod and R.C. = Robert Cleaver.

Edited by John Winston. First published in 1608 (STC 6951).

This edition lacks Winston's preface.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968329203321

Autore

Haggerty George E

Titolo

Horace Walpole's letters : masculinity and friendship in the eighteenth century / / George E. Haggerty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lewisburg, Pa., : Bucknell University Press, 2011

ISBN

979-82-16-35627-1

1-283-16352-7

9786613163523

1-61148-011-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Collana

Transits : literature, thought & culture 1650-1850

Disciplina

828/.609

Soggetti

Authors, English - 18th century

English letters - History and criticism

Masculinity in literature

Friendship in literature

Masculinity - England - History - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Horace Walpole's epistolary relations -- Horace Walpole's epistolary friendships -- Horace Walpole on the grand tour -- Strawberry Hill: architecture, friendship, and the erotics of collecting -- Illness and intimacy in the letters between Horace Walpole and William Cole -- Art, politics, and friendship in the letters between Horace Walpole and Horace Mann -- Walpole and women: the Countess of Upper Ossory and Mary Berry.

Sommario/riassunto

Over the course of his life, which spanned the eighteenth century from 1717 to 1797, Horace Walpole wrote thousands of letters to his closest friends and acquaintances. In this study, George E. Haggerty writes about the letters themselves, which span forty-eight volumes of correspondence. In addition to looking at the letters in terms of one of the great literary accomplishments of the century, at least on a par with Boswell's Life of Johnson and Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, these letters taken in aggregate offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-ce