The Familiar Letters Of James Howell
Contributors: Joseph Jacobs (Editor)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: April 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9781417962358
Subjects: Biography: general; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Letters; Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Literary Collections-Letters
First sentence: IT was a quaint Difference the Ancients did put 'twixt a Letter and an Oration; that the one should be attired like a Woman, the other like a Man: the latter of the two is allowed large side Robes, as long Periods, Parentheses, Similes, Examples, and other Parts of Rhetorical Flourishes: But a Letter or Epistle should be short-coated, and closely couched; a Hungerlin becomes a Letter more handsomely than a Gown: Indeed we should write as we speak; and that's a true familiar Letter which expresseth one's Mind, as if he were discoursing with the Party to whom he writes, in succinct and short Terms.