Download or read book Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill Wilts and Lansdown Bath written by Henry Venn Lansdown and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work contains the memories of William Beckford, a prominent figure in 18th-century English literature and politics. The recollections offer insights into Beckford's life and character, relationships, and literary works, making it a valuable resource for scholars and enthusiasts of English literature and history.
Download or read book Recollections of the Late William Beckford of Fonthill Wilts and Landsdown Bath written by William Beckford and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recollections of the Late William Beckford of Fonthill Wilts and Lansdown Bath written by William Beckford and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recollections of the Late William Beckford of Fonthill Wilts and Lansdown Bath written by Lansdown Henry Venn and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Recollections of the Late William Beckford written by Henry Lansdown and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Recollections of the Late William Beckford of Fonthill Wilts and Lansdown Bath written by Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice Lansdown and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Letters of William Beckford of Fonthill written by Lewis Saul Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Travel diaries of William Beckford of Fonthill Memoir of William Beckford Dreams waking thoughts and incidents written by William Beckford and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Travel diaries of William Beckford of Fonthill written by William Beckford and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recollections of the late William Beckford by H V Lansdown ed by C Lansdown written by Henry Venn Lansdown and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Letters of William Beckford of Fonthill written by Lewis Melville and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill 1 Author of Vathek in Two Volumes written by William Beckford and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter iii. william beckfobd the youngeb--his bieth and education. The late William Beckford of Fonthill Giffard, Wilts, and afterwards of Bath, was born at the former place, September 29th, 1759. His mother was the second wife of the member in parliament for the city for fourteen years preceding, and twice Lord Mayor. She was daughter and coheir of the Hon. George Hamilton, M.P. for Wells. Young Beckford was christened early, the year following his birth, as appears by the following letter from his father to Mr. Pitt, afterwards Earl of Chatham. "Fonthill, January 7th, 1760. "my Dear Sir, "Your very obliging and much-esteemed favour was duly received. I consider it the greatest honor to have such a sponsor to my child. He was made a Christian last night, and Lord Effingham was your proxy. No endeavours of mine shall be wanting (if it please God to spare his life), to instil into his mind principles of religion, honor, and love of country. It is true those are old-fashioned principles; but they are such as you approve and practise. "Nothing could give me more pleasure than to take your opinion on my present works, and to regulate my future operations by your advice and judgment. But I cannot flatter myself so much as to think it possible to enjoy that comfort, until you have first procured for your country a safe, honorable, and lasting peace. "I am, my dear Sir, "Your ever faithful and affectionate, "Humble servant, "W. Beckford." At the earliest possible time that impressions of any value in education can be made upon the youthful mind, a preparatory tutor was provided for young Beckford, under whom he remained until he had seen eleven summers; at which time, in 1771, Dr. W. Cleave
Download or read book Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill written by Cyrus Redding and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill 1 written by William Beckford and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fonthill Recovered written by Caroline Dakers and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.
Download or read book William Beckford of Fonthill written by Yale University. Library and published by New Haven : [s.n.]. This book was released on 1960 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
