The Beauties of Hervey: Or Descriptive, Picturesque and Instructive Passages, Selected from the Works of This Deservedly Admired Author, Viz. Meditations Amongst the Tombs--Reflections on a Flower Garden--Descant on the Creation--Contemplations on the Night--the Starry Heavens--a Winter Piece--the Most Important, Interesting, and Picturesque Passages from Theron and Aspasio--Letters and Sermons--Miscellanious Tracts-- Religious Education of Daughters--and--Remarks on Lord Bolingbroke's Letters. To Which Are Added, Memoirs of the Author's Life and Character; with an Elegiac Poem on His Death

Author: HERVEY, James
Title: The Beauties of Hervey: Or Descriptive, Picturesque and Instructive Passages, Selected from the Works of This Deservedly Admired Author, Viz. Meditations Amongst the Tombs--Reflections on a Flower Garden--Descant on the Creation--Contemplations on the Night--the Starry Heavens--a Winter Piece--the Most Important, Interesting, and Picturesque Passages from Theron and Aspasio--Letters and Sermons--Miscellanious Tracts-- Religious Education of Daughters--and--Remarks on Lord Bolingbroke's Letters. To Which Are Added, Memoirs of the Author's Life and Character; with an Elegiac Poem on His Death
Description: Wilmington, DE, Peter Brynberg, 1797. New Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (4" x 6-3/4") bound with the half-title page in original sheep leather with a gilt-lettered red morocco label; 226 [6] pages. Evans 32249. Paper darkened. One page torn with no loss; rear blank and endpaper partially present. Very Good Hervey, a popular and bombastic Divine, had an influence on William Blake who painted "Epitome of James Hervey's Meditations among the Tombs." Two of the works in this collection--MEDITATIONS AMONGST THE TOMBS and THERON AND ASPASIO--decisively influenced the imagery in Blake's well-known poem "The Tyger.

Keywords: William Blake 18th Century American Imprints William Blake

Price: US$ 106.30 Seller: Charles Agvent
- Book number: 004958

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