A Dissertation on Reading the Classics and forming a Just Style [Including the Chapters: "The Opinion that Homer wrote loosly [sic] and without any premeditated Scheme, considered and refuted" and "The late Duke of Devonshire's Character as a Scholar"]. Written in the Year 1709 and addressed to the Right Honourable John Lord Roos, the present Marquis of Granby by Henry Felton, D.D. Rector of Whitwell in Derbyshire.

[Homer] Felton, Henry / [Duke of Devonshire].

Published by London, Printed for Jonah Bowyer at the Rose in Ludgate-street., 1718

About this Item

The Third Edition, corrected. Small-Octavo. XX, [6], 230 pages. Hardcover / Original, 18th century full leather with a new spine in the style of the period. Original spine-label preserved. Excellent restoration by a master-bookbindery. Very good condition with some signs of external wear. Includes chapters like: - The Necessity of Education - The Way to Knowledge - The Greeks excell in Tragedy - Of Comedy (Menander and Terence, Plautus and Aristophanes) - Homer and Virgil - The Opinion that Homer wrote loosly [sic] and without any premeditated Scheme, considered and refuted - Virgil preferred to Hesiod - A complaint against Schools considered - Schools vindicated - Complaint against commentators - Dr.Busby's Opinion of the meaner sort - The finest Wits should comment on the finest Authors - The Art of Teaching - The true way of remembring and imitating the Ancients - The Art of Writing well - Learning dressed to Disadvantage by Critics and Grammarians - The Mischief of Pedantry - Persons of Quality excell in Style from the Advantages of their Education - Caesar and Ovid - Sir William Temple produced in Prose - The Danger of lively Wits - The Connexion [sic] between the Thoughts and Words - The Design of Expression - Of the Purity and Idioms of Language etc. etc. Sprache: english.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Dissertation on Reading the Classics and forming a Just Style [Including the Chapters: "The Opinion that Homer wrote loosly [sic] and without any premeditated Scheme, considered and refuted" and "The late Duke of Devonshire's Character as a Scholar"]. Written in the Year 1709 and addressed to the Right Honourable John Lord Roos, the present Marquis of Granby by Henry Felton, D.D. Rector of Whitwell in Derbyshire.
• Publisher: London, Printed for Jonah Bowyer at the Rose in Ludgate-street.
• Publication Date: 1718
• Binding: Hardcover
• Weight: 2000 grams
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