Obiter Dicta, Second Series
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781150275944
Paperback|9781150275944
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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. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...said to be extinct. I doubt it. Good letters were always scarce. It does not follow that, because our grandmothers wrote long letters, they all wrote good ones, or that nobody nowadays writes good letters because most people write bad ones. Johnson wrote letters in two styles. One was monumental--more suggestive of the chisel than the pen. In the other there are traces of the same style, but, like the old Gothic architecture, it has grown domesticated, and become the fit vehicle of plain tidings of joy and sorrow--of affection, wit, and fancy. The letter to Lord Chesterfield is the most celebrated example of the monumental style. From the letters to Mrs. Thrale many good examples of the domesticated style might be selected. One must suffice: --'Queeney has been a good girl, and wrote 'me a letter. If Burney said she would write, 'she told you a fib. She writes nothing to me. She can write home fast enough. I have a 'good mind not to tell her that Dr. Bernard, to whom I had recommended her novel, speaks of it with great commendation, and that the copy which she lent me has been read by Dr. Lawrence three times over. And yet what a gipsy it is. She no more minds me than if 'I were a Branghton. Pray, speak to Queeney 'to write again.... Now you think yourself 'the first writer in the world for a letter about nothing. Can you write such a letter as this? 'So miscellaneous, with such noble disdain of regularity, like Shakspeare's works; such 'graceful negligence of transition, like the 'ancient enthusiasts. The pure voice of Nature 'and of Friendship. Now, of whom shall I 'proceed to speak? of whom but Mrs. 'Montague? Having mentioned Shakspeare 'and Nature, does not the name of Montague 'force itself upon me? Such were the tran'sitions of the..
| ISBN-13 | 9781150275944 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150275944 |
| Weight | 0.38 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.26 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 108 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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