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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.
Related Miscellanies
Title:
The Complete Art of Writing Letters [N28200]
Publication Date:
1770
ESTC No:
N28200
Volume:
1 of 1
Relationship:
Another Edition of
Comments:
Related People
Author:
T. Lowndes
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
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Content/Publication
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The soul's dark cottage battered and decayed
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p.34
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Who steals my purse steals trash
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p.53
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Green fields and shady groves and crystal springs
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p.60
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So Charlotte have I seen excuse
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p.89
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Gentle gales | Fanning their odiferous wings dispense
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p.91
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Milton
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John Milton
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Sweet solitude when life's gay hours are past
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p.98
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Tickel.
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Thomas Tickell
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Beauty soon grows familiar to the eye
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p.101
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What's fame with men by custom of the nation
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p.101
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Leaving the old both worlds at once they view
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p.106
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Mr. Waller.
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Edmund Waller
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Survey mankind observe what risks they run
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pp.111-112
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But bid physicians preach our veins to temper
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p.120
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True friendship warms it raises it transports
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pp.120-121
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Young
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Edward Young
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All the time is thrown away
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p.137
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Oh face industriously contrived by heaven
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p.153
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But death | Comes not at call nor mends its slowest pace
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p.173
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Some natural tears he dropped but wiped them soon
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p.180
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Milton
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John Milton
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When eastern lovers feed the funeral fire
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p.183
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Think not by rigorous judgment seized
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p.184
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Mr. Pope
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Alexander Pope
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Here lie John Hewet and Sarah Drew
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p.185
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
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Thus airy pleasure dances in our eyes
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p.206
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See there all pale and dead she lies
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p.207
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Those who do two houses keep
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p.226
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Sincerest critic of my prose or rhyme
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pp.237-239
Poem Title:
Mr. Congreve to Lord Cobham. Of improving the present time.
Attribution:
William Congreve.
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William Congreve
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As in a shipwreck some poor sailor tossed
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pp.239-241
Poem Title:
On the Happiness of a retired Life.
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To Fuscus who in city sports delights
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pp.241-243
Poem Title:
On the Pleasures of the Country.
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Read lovely nymph and tremble not to read
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pp.243-245
Poem Title:
From Arthur Gray, the Footman, to the Object of his Desires, after his Condemnation for attempting a Rape.
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First worship God he that forgets to pray
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pp.245-250
Poem Title:
Necessary Observations.
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