Author: William Beckford
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 9781230205236
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter iii. william beckfobd the youngeb--his bieth and education. The late William Beckford of Fonthill Giffard, Wilts, and afterwards of Bath, was born at the former place, September 29th, 1759. His mother was the second wife of the member in parliament for the city for fourteen years preceding, and twice Lord Mayor. She was daughter and coheir of the Hon. George Hamilton, M.P. for Wells. Young Beckford was christened early, the year following his birth, as appears by the following letter from his father to Mr. Pitt, afterwards Earl of Chatham. "Fonthill, January 7th, 1760. "my Dear Sir, "Your very obliging and much-esteemed favour was duly received. I consider it the greatest honor to have such a sponsor to my child. He was made a Christian last night, and Lord Effingham was your proxy. No endeavours of mine shall be wanting (if it please God to spare his life), to instil into his mind principles of religion, honor, and love of country. It is true those are old-fashioned principles; but they are such as you approve and practise. "Nothing could give me more pleasure than to take your opinion on my present works, and to regulate my future operations by your advice and judgment. But I cannot flatter myself so much as to think it possible to enjoy that comfort, until you have first procured for your country a safe, honorable, and lasting peace. "I am, my dear Sir, "Your ever faithful and affectionate, "Humble servant, "W. Beckford." At the earliest possible time that impressions of any value in education can be made upon the youthful mind, a preparatory tutor was provided for young Beckford, under whom he remained until he had seen eleven summers; at which time, in 1771, Dr. W. Cleave
Author: Cyrus Redding
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2012-01
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781290229234
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Author: Cyrus 1785-1870 Redding
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Published: 2016-08-28
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781373084217
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Beckford
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 9781230859897
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ...corner, he soon contrived to forget in sleep all his illusions and inquietudes. He and his_ _ companion quitted their miserable shelter soon_ _ after daydawn, and proceeded along a miserable road until they descended into a milder climate, until they obtained a distant view of Florence, surrounded with gardens and terraces. The moon lit up a fairy scene, which was too soon exchanged for the gates of the city of Florence; where, to use his own expressive words, he knew not "on what first to bend attention, and ran childishly by the ample ranks of sculptures, like a butterfly in a parterre, that skims, before he fixes, over ten thousand flowers." Here the Olympic Jove, the Minerva breathing of divinity, and Cybele, with her "tiara of proud towers," fixed his youthful attention; and a representation of Somnus drew forth his censures, from the statue not being coincident with his ideas of the drowsy god, who seems to have been a favourite subject with the young connoisseur. Chamber after chamber displayed their contents to the admiring youngEnglishman. Perfumed cabinets, and alabaster columns, and roofs glittering in arabesque work of azure and gold. Collections of small paintings, and among them a head of Medusa, by Leonardo da Vinci, of a deadly paleness of countenance, and the mouth exhaling a pestilential vapour. The snakes beginning to untwist their folds, one or two creeping away, or crawling up the rocks, struck him very forcibly, indeed much more than anything else in the apartment. There was a Polemberg, which he described as one of the strangest he ever beheld. It represented Virgil ushering Dante into the regions of eternal punishment, amid the ruins of burning edifices that glared across the infernal...
Author: Cyrus Redding
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2015-11-17
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781346683683
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