The Complete Art of Writing Letters [T162103] [ECCO]
- DMI number:
- 1165
- Publication Date:
- 1779
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T162103
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW112342711
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO
- 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] [column 1] EDUCATION, | DUTY, | COURTSHIP, | MARRIAGE, | AMUSEMENT, | [/column 1] [column 2] BUSINESS, | FRIENDSHIP, | COMPLIMENT, | TRADE, and | MODERN FASHIONS; [/column 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 SIXTH 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 T. EVANS, | in Pater-noster Row. | MDCCLXXIX.
- Epigraph:
- Heaven 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 Sigh from [i] Indus [/i] to the [i] Pole [/i]. POPE.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection including prose
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Pagination:
- CHECK
- Comments:
- CONTENTS: 'Preface', pp.iii-iv; 'Contents', pp.v-vii.
- Title:
- The Complete Art of Writing Letters [N28200]
- Publication Date:
- 1770
- ESTC No:
- N28200
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Author:
- T. Lowndes
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The soul's dark cottage battered and decayed
- Page No:
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Who steals my purse steals trash
- Page No:
- p.53
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Green fields and shady groves and crystal springs
- Page No:
- p.60
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- So Charlotte have I seen excuse
- Page No:
- p.89
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Gentle gales | Fanning their odiferous wings dispense
- Page No:
- p.91
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Sweet solitude when life's gay hours are past
- Page No:
- p.98
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Tickel.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Beauty soon grows familiar to the eye
- Page No:
- p.101
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What's fame with men by custom of the nation
- Page No:
- p.101
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Leaving the old both worlds at once they view
- Page No:
- p.106
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Waller.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Survey mankind observe what risks they run
- Page No:
- pp.111-112
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- But bid physicians preach our veins to temper
- Page No:
- p.120
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- True friendship warms it raises it transports
- Page No:
- pp.120-121
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Young
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- All the time is thrown away
- Page No:
- p.137
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oh face industriously contrived by heaven
- Page No:
- p.153
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- But death | Comes not at call nor mends its slowest pace
- Page No:
- p.173
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Some natural tears he dropped but wiped them soon
- Page No:
- p.180
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- When eastern lovers feed the funeral fire
- Page No:
- p.183
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Authorship not explicitly stated
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Think not by rigorous judgment seized
- Page No:
- p.184
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Here lie John Hewet and Sarah Drew
- Page No:
- p.185
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- Thus airy pleasure dances in our eyes
- Page No:
- p.206
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- See there all pale and dead she lies
- Page No:
- p.207
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Those who do two houses keep
- Page No:
- p.226
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sincerest critic of my prose or rhyme
- Page No:
- pp.237-239
- 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.239-241
- Poem Title:
- On the Happiness of a retired Life.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To Fuscus who in city sports delights
- Page No:
- pp.241-243
- Poem Title:
- On the Pleasures of the Country.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Read lovely nymph and tremble not to read
- Page No:
- pp.243-245
- Poem Title:
- From Arthur Gray, the Footman, to the Object of his Desires, after his Condemnation for attempting a Rape.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- First worship God he that forgets to pray
- Page No:
- pp.245-250
- Poem Title:
- Necessary Observations.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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