Select letters between the late Duchess of Somerset, Lady Luxborough, Miss Dolman, Mr. Whistler, Mr. R. Dodsley, William Shenstone, Esq and others [vol 1] [T101901] [ecco]
- DMI number:
- 1374
- Publication Date:
- 1778
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 2
- ESTC number:
- T101901
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW106223949
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - BL
- Full Title:
- SELECT LETTERS | BETWEEN | THE LATE DUCTCHESS OF SOMERSET, | [two columns] [col1] LADY LUXBOROUGH, | MISS DOLMAN, [/col1] | [col2] MR. WHISTLER, | MR. R. DODSLEY. [/col2] | WILLIAM SHENSTONE, ESQ. | AND OTHERS; | INCLUDING A SKETCH OF THE | MANNERS, LAWS, [i]&c.[/i] | OF THE | REPUBLIC OF VENICE. | AND SOME POETICAL PIECES; | THE WHOLE NOW FIRST PUBLISHED | FROM ORIGINAL COPIES, | By Mr. HULL. | [rule] | IN TWO VOLUMES. | VOL. I. | [rule] | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR J. DODSLEY, PALL-MALL, | MDCCLXXVIII.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection including prose
- Format:
- Octavo
- Bibliographic details:
- Half title: SELECT LETTERS. | IN TWO VOLUMES. | VOL. I.
- Comments:
- Contents: collection is predominanty prose, but also contains verse. Only verse quotations 4 lines or longer have been recorded. Vol II has much more verse.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Preface signed Thomas Hull pp. [i]-viii; Contents pp. ix-xvi.
- Editor:
- Thomas Hull
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- James Dodsley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Whose tongue dropped honey full of days was he
- Page No:
- p.40
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope's Homer.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Yet I pray you | If you shall ever my foolish lines repeat
- Page No:
- p.44
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis from high life high characters are drawn
- Page No:
- pp.92-93
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- these Lines of Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Here in cool grot and mossy cell
- Page No:
- p.94
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- 'my [i.e. Shenstone's] verses'
- Attributed To:
- William Shenstone
- First Line:
- Bleak mountains and wild staring rocks
- Page No:
- p.118
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With patriot zeal inspired in youth's first bloom
- Page No:
- p.284
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph on General Wolfe, alluded to in the preceding Letter.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Hull
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Hull
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