Discover
Book Series

Early English books online

Minsik readers
0.0
0 ratings
Other platforms
0.0
0 ratings
20
BOOKS
3,982
PAGES
~66h 22min
READING TIME

About Author

William Wycherley

Restoration comedy is English comedy written and performed in the Restoration period of 1660–1710. Comedy of manners is used as a synonym for this. After public stage performances were banned for 18 years by the Puritan regime, reopening of the theatres in 1660 marked a renaissance of English drama. Sexually explicit language was encouraged by King Charles II (1660–1685) personally and by the rakish style of his court. Historian George Norman Clark argues: The best-known fact about the Restoration drama is that it is immoral.

Description

"This is the first edition of an early English-language combination of travelogue (part I), military history (Part II), and guide for tourists (Part III) .... The first part of this book is a detailed account of these travels reporting on the routes he travelled, evaluating the accomodations, available, enumerating the amounts of time and money expended, and critiquing the "must-see" sights of various locales. In the second part, Moryson deals with the years 1599-1602, which he spent in Ireland. There, he acted as secretary to Lord Mountjoy, commander of the English troops fighting the uprising of Irish chieftains know as the Nine Years' War or Tyrone's Rebellion. The final ... portion of the work ... describes the customs, dress, diet, economies, and politics of Europen countries ...."--bookseller's description.

How the series evolves

beginning
#1 Plain Dealer
0.0· tough start
finale
An Entire Body of Philosophy, according to the principles of the famous Renate Des Cartes
0.0· messes up the ending
overall
0.0· maybe series needed more care

Books in this Series

An itinerary vvritten by Fynes Moryson Gent. First in the Latine tongue, and then translated by him into English

0.0 (0)
0

"This is the first edition of an early English-language combination of travelogue (part I), military history (Part II), and guide for tourists (Part III) .... The first part of this book is a detailed account of these travels reporting on the routes he travelled, evaluating the accomodations, available, enumerating the amounts of time and money expended, and critiquing the "must-see" sights of various locales. In the second part, Moryson deals with the years 1599-1602, which he spent in Ireland. There, he acted as secretary to Lord Mountjoy, commander of the English troops fighting the uprising of Irish chieftains know as the Nine Years' War or Tyrone's Rebellion. The final ... portion of the work ... describes the customs, dress, diet, economies, and politics of Europen countries ...."--bookseller's description.

Eikon basilike

0.0 (0)
0

Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea

0.0 (0)
0

First leaf marked in pencil, "Francis Asbury's copy, 1771". Second leaf has inscription, in pen, "E Libris Josephi Browne. Octob. 4-1668". Presented by Mr. Charles A. Jones, Columbus, Ohio to West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1904.

Poems upon several occasions

0.0 (0)
0

Miscellaneous poems on divers subjects.

Characters of vertue and vice

0.0 (0)
0

Bishop Hall's "Characters of vertues and vices" was published in 1608. Tate here paraphrases 10 of Hall's 26 "characters".

Scandalum magnatum, or, Potapski's case

0.0 (0)
0

A satire on A.A. Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury occasioned by his action of "Scandalum magnatum" against Cradock and Grahame, London, 1682. cf. Brit. Mus. Cat.

Asinus onustus

0.0 (0)
0

"This asse is the ministery and clergie of England, compared to an asse for strength, and for patience, and clemencie, &c."--2d prelim. leaf.