The Familiar Letters Of James Howell
Contributors: Joseph Jacobs (Editor)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 686
ISBN-13: 9780548044469
Subjects: Letters; Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Literary Collections : Letters; Biography / Autobiography
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.