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Download or read book The moralists a philosophical rhapsody Miscellaneous reflections on the preceding treatises written by Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Captain Medwin written by Ernest J. Lovell and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first biography of Thomas Medwin—literary adventurer, rascal, scholar, confidence man, successful fortune hunter, and bemused speculator on a grand scale in old Italian oil paintings. Poet, novelist, translator of Aeschylus, cousin and boyhood friend of the poet Shelley, he was a man of fiery temper, fierce hatreds, and enduring loves. Although an intimate friend of Lord Byron, he was so dangerous (or disreputable) that his Lordship warned Teresa Guiccioli, his last mistress, not to be alone in Medwin's company. Later, Medwin introduced Byron's daughter to her future husband, Lord Lovelace, and so determined the poet's line of descent. Friend of Washington Irving, gentleman of the old school, neglected Boswell of the nineteenth century, Medwin reported the conversations of Byron, Shelley, Trelawny, Hazlitt, Canova the sculptor, and others. His life and adventures light up little-known aspects of the nineteenth-century literary, military, social, and publishing world—in England, India, Italy, France, Switzerland, and Germany. Medwin served as midwife to the words of a dead man—Lord Byron—who returned to laugh and sneer at the living from the Captain's pages. The Conversations of Lord Byron thus became the most controversial book of the day, going through a dozen editions, in six countries, and being translated into French, German, and Italian. It aroused the wrath, indignation, or enthusiastic interest of such individuals as Goethe, Lady Byron, Lady Caroline Lamb, the Countess Teresa Guiccioli, John Cam Hobhouse (later Lord Broughton), Sir Walter Scott, John Murray, and Washington Irving. Medwin, whose long and adventurous life extended from the rise and flowering of the Romantic Period to the mid-Victorian Age (which he regarded as a dreary decline from the great heights of his youth), was an influence of the first magnitude in determining the early public image of Byron and the reputation of Shelley. This often amusing story, as engrossing as a novel, is drawn from all the available accounts, including many important sources never before published. In effect a new contribution to the biographical study of Byron and Shelley, it clarifies Medwin's relations not only with these two poets but also with many other important and interesting figures of the day.

Download or read book Characteristicks of Men Manners Opinions Times Miscellaneous reflections on the preceding treatises and other critical subjects A notion of the tablature or Judgment of Hercules written by Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury and published by . This book was released on 1773 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Characteristicks of Men Manners Opinions Times Miscellaneous reflections on the preceding treatises and other critical subjects A notion of the tablature or Judgment of Hercules A Letter concerning Design written by Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury and published by . This book was released on 1749 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Characteristics of Men Manners Opinions Times Miscellaneous reflections on the preceding treatises and other critical subjects A notion of the tablature or Judgment of Hercules A letter concerning design written by Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness written by Lawrence E. Klein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-02-25 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third Earl of Shaftesbury was a pivotal figure in eighteenth-century thought and culture. Professor Klein's study is the first to examine the extensive Shaftesbury manuscripts and offer an interpretation of his diverse writings as an attempt to comprehend contemporary society and politics and, in particular, to offer a legitimation for the new Whig political order established after 1688. As the focus of Shaftesbury's thinking was the idea of politeness, this study involves the first serious examination of the importance of the idea of politeness in the eighteenth century for thinking about society and culture and organising cultural practices. Through politeness, Shaftesbury conceptualised a new kind of public and critical culture for Britain and Europe, and greatly influenced the philosophical and cultural models associated with the European Enlightenment.

Download or read book The Works of John Ruskin Bibliography Catalogue of Ruskin s drawings Addenda et corrigenda written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1-35, works. Volume 36-37, letters. Volume 38 provides an extensive bibliography of Ruskin's writings and a catalogue of his drawings, with corrections to earlier volumes in George Allen's Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin. Volume 39, general index.

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