- Creator:
- Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1720-1790
- Published / Created:
- 1738-1741
- Call Number:
- Osborn c368
- Image Count:
- 13
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in multiple hands, of about 36 essays and verse translations on various subjects. The collection begins with an essay titled "Character & Design of the Author," which compares his collection of works to the Spectator, Tatler, and Guardian. In addition to subsequent essays which address such topics as "A Vision on human Life," "Against ignorant Pretenders to Politicks," and a letter "on the present state of the Theatre from Will. Drama," the manuscript also contains verse translations of classical works such as those of Silius Italicus and Theocritus.
- Description:
- Binding: half calf., In English., and Table of contents at beginning of manuscript.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century
- Subject (Name):
- Hardwicke, Philip Yorke,--Earl of,--1720-1790, Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius, and Theocritus
- Subject (Topic):
- English periodicals, English poetry--18th century, Philosophy, and Theater--England
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The philosopher or essays on various subjects begun at Cambridge, 1738-1741.
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