Manuscript binding containing 8 sermons by Zachary Grey delivered 1740-58 mostly at Lillington and Houghton-Conquest. Annotated with date and location of delivery on the first page of each sermon. Sermons prefaced by the verse(s) preached upon (from 1 Corinthians, Psalms, 1 John, Ecclesiastes, Proverbs). Enlightenment concepts of Reason and Nature incorporated in some of the sermons. and Zachary Grey was a Church of England clergyman, noted for his confrontation of dissenters. He served as rector of Houghton-Conquest, and vicar at St. Giles and St. Peter's, Cambridge.
Alternative Title:
Dr. Zachary Grey's Sermons.
Description:
Binding: green cloth, with title: Dr. Zachary Grey's Sermons., First page of first sermon inscribed: Dr. Z. Grey's ms., and Sermons and sermon notes in differing hands delivered 1703-1799 bound in at end.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of 8 descriptions in poetry and prose of William Shenstone's Leasowes estate, each titled "Shenstone's Walks" and numbered 1 to 8. Addressed to "Zattoo," the narrator leads the reader through various walks on the grounds, commenting on the views and interspersing his narrative with verses inscribed on various objects he encounters, as when he explains to Zattoo, "From this Place the Path leads some few Yards, till it opens to a wide & very uneven, irregular Lawn--We shall recover our Path again, so let us quit it, while we go and contemplate that Urn, which is fixed in the Center, & thus inscribed..." The narrator also describes encountering "the Gothic Bower," which is inscribed with a poem "in old English characters" exhorting the reader not to look down upon those who rest contentedly there; and elsewhere, directs his listener's attention to an urn erected to "Miss Dolman, a first Cousin of W. Shenstone's" and to the elegy to her inscribed upon it.
Description:
Printed description of the manuscript included with the collection.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century and Leasowes Garden (Halesowen, England)
Subject (Name):
Hull, Thomas,--1728-1808 and Shenstone, William,--1714-1763
Subject (Topic):
Architectural inscriptions, Elegiac verse, English, English poetry--18th century, Gardens, English, and Gardens--Great Britain
Directed against I. Kant and J.C. Behrens. and With Johann Georg Hamann's marginal manuscript notes. With this is bound: His Versuch einer Sibylle über die Ehe. [Riga] 1775; and Aikin, J. Versuche über die Anwendung der Naturhistorie auf die Dichtkunst. Leipzig, 1779.
Subject (Name):
Behrens, Johann Christoph, Hamann, Johann Georg,--1730-1788--Ms. notes, and Kant, Immanuel,--1724-1804
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689 Chapman, S. (Samuel), fl. 1721-1728 Chetwood, W. R. (William Rufus), d. 1766 Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Young, Edward, 1683-1765
Published / Created:
1721
Call Number:
Osborn pc315
Image Count:
42
Description:
Actor's rehearsal copy, with actors' names written in manuscript on Dramatis Personae and msanuscript staging notes and sections marked "omit". and Imperfect: half-title page wanting.
Publisher:
Printed for W. Chetwood at Cato's-Head in Russel-Street Covent-Garden and S. Chapman at the Angel and Crown in Pall-Mall