The Complete Art of Writing Letters [N28200]

DMI number:

1399

Publication Date:

1770

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

N28200

EEBO/ECCO link:

n/a

Shelfmark:

Bod Vet. A5 e.7179

Full Title:

The COMPLETE | ART of WRITING LETTERS. | ADAPTED TO | All Classes and Conditions of LIFE. | Designed not only to finish the Education of Youth | in general; but for every Person that wishes to | write LETTERS well. | CONTAINING | A COLLECTION of Entertaining and Instructive | LETTERS, as Examples for Improvement of Style; | WITH | An agreeable Variety of ORIGINAL LETTERS on | [2 columns] [col 1] EDUCATION, | DUTY, | COURTSHIP, | MARRIAGE, | AMUSEMENT, [/col 1] | [col 2] BUSINESS, | FRIENDSHIP, | COMPLIMENT, | TRADE, and | MODERN FASHIONS; [/col 2] | And a greater Number of them than are to be | found in any other Book of this Sort. | To which is prefixed, | A compendious and useful GRAMMAR of the [i]English[/i] | Language; with an INTRODUCTION, containing proper | Directions how to address Persons of Rank and Eminence. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | The FIFTH EDITION; | With the Addition of some elegant Poetical EPISTLES, and | Forms of POLITE MESSAGES for CARDS. | [rule] | By Mr. CHARLES JOHNSON. | [double rule] | LONDON, | Printed for T. LOWNDES, in Fleet Street; and R. BALDWIN, | in Pater-noster Row. | MDCCLXX.

Epigraph:

Heav'n first taught Letters for some Wretch's Aid, | Some banish'd Lover, or some captive Maid; | They live, they speak, they breathe what Love inspires, | Warm from the Soul, and faithful to its Fires; | The Virgin's Wish without her Fears impart, | Excuse the Blush, and pour out all the Heart; | Speed the soft Intercourse from Soul to Soul, | And waft a Sight from [i]Indus[/i] to the [i]Pole.[/i] POPE.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection including prose

Format:

Duodecimo

Pagination:

[2], [iii]-xii, [1]-252 pp.

Bibliographic details:

Bodleian Vet A5 e. 7179 is missing pp. 147-152, 161-166,

Comments:

Query: this is the 5th ed - what about earlier eds? Query: some verse quotations shorter than 4 lines have been included here (and in the 6th ed 1779) Contents: collection dominated by miscellaneous prose epistles; some verse quoted in prose epistles, plus some free-standing verse items in section of 'Poetical Epistles', pp 236-245 and 'Necessary Observations pp. 245-249.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Preface pp. [iii]-iv; Contents pp. v-xii.

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Title:

The Complete Art of Writing Letters [T162103] [ECCO]

Publication Date:

1779

ESTC No:

T162103

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Another Edition of

Comments:

Related People

Editor:

Charles Johnson

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

R. Baldwin

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

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Publisher:

T. Lowndes

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

The soul's dark cottage battered and decayed

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Waller

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller

First Line:

Who steals my purse steals trash

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p.52

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Green fields and shady groves and crystal springs

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p.58

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

So Charlotte have I seen excuse

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p.87

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Gentle gales | Fanning their odiferous wings dispense

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p.89

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Sweet solitude when life's gay hours are past

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p.96

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tickel.

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Beauty soon grows familiar to the eye

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p.99

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

What's fame with men by custom of the nation

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p.99

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

Leaving the old both worlds at once they view

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p.104

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Waller

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller

First Line:

Survey mankind observe what risks they run

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p.110

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

I paraphrased thus... [letter is from 'Lord Bolingbroke to Dr. Swift']

Attributed To:

Henry St John

First Line:

But bid physicians preach our veins to temper

Page No:

p.118

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

True friendship warms it raises it transports

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p.119

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

as Young says

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

All the time is thrown away

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p.136

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

But death | Comes not at call nor mends its slowest pace

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p.172

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Some natural tears he dropped but wiped them soon

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p.179

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

When eastern lovers feed the funeral fire

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p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Authorship not explicitly stated

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Not attributed

First Line:

Think not by rigorous judgment seized

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Here lie John Hewet and Sarah Drew

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By Lady Wortley Montagu.

Attributed To:

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]

First Line:

Thus airy pleasure dances in our eyes

Page No:

p.205

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

See there all pale and dead she lies

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p.206

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Those who do two houses keep

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p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

Sincerest critic of my prose or rhyme

Page No:

pp.236-238

Poem Title:

Mr. Congreve to Lord Cobham. Of improving the present Time.

Attribution:

William Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

As in a shipwreck some poor sailor tossed

Page No:

pp.238-240

Poem Title:

On the Happiness of a retired Life.

Attribution:

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First Line:

To Fuscus who in city sports delights

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pp.240-242

Poem Title:

The Pleasures of the Country.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Read lovely nymph and tremble not to read

Page No:

pp.242-245

Poem Title:

From Arthur Gray, the Footman, to the Object of his Desires, after his Condemnation for attempting a Rape.

Attribution:

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First Line:

First worship God he that forgets to pray

Page No:

pp.245-249

Poem Title:

Necessary Observations.

Attribution:

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