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    Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield's Letters. The Graces (1774), The Fine Gentleman's Etiquette (1776)
    Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield's Letters. The Graces (1774), The Fine Gentleman's Etiquette (1776)
    Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield's Letters. The Graces (1774), The Fine Gentleman's Etiquette (1776)
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      Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield's Letters. The Graces (1774), The Fine Gentleman's Etiquette (1776) - Archive Classics

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield's

      Letters., by Anonymous

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield's Letters.

      The Graces (1774), The Fine Gentleman's Etiquette (1776)

      Author: Anonymous

      Editor: Sidney L. Gulick

      Release Date: November 27, 2011 [EBook #38149]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TWO BURLESQUES OF LORD ***

      Produced by Tor Martin Kristiansen, Margo Romberg, Joseph

      Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

      http://www.pgdp.net

      INTRODUCTION

      NOTES

      NOTES TO THE GRACES

      THE_GRACES

      THE_FINE_GENTLEMAN'S_ETIQUETTE

      The Augustan Reprint Society

      TWO BURLESQUES OF

      LORD CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS

      THE GRACES (1774)

      THE FINE GENTLEMAN'S ETIQUETTE (1776)

      Edited, with an Introduction, by

      Sidney L. Gulick

      Publication Number 81

      William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

      University of California

      Los Angeles

      1960

      GENERAL EDITORS

      Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan

      Ralph Cohen, University of California, Los Angeles

      Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles

      Lawrence Clark Powell, Clark Memorial Library

      ASSISTANT EDITOR

      W. Earl Britton, University of Michigan

      ADVISORY EDITORS

      Emmett L. Avery, State College of Washington

      Benjamin Boyce, Duke University

      Louis Bredvold, University of Michigan

      John Butt, King's College, University of Durham

      James L. Clifford, Columbia University

      Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago

      Louis A. Landa, Princeton University

      Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota

      Ernest C. Mossner, University of Texas

      James Sutherland, University College, London

      H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles

      CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

      Edna C. Davis, Clark Memorial Library

      INTRODUCTION

      Even though the disasters which overtook John Stubbs and William Prynne in the days of Elizabeth and Charles I no longer faced the pamphleteer, the eighteenth century saw many an anonymous publication, for while hands and ears were less in jeopardy, author and publisher might well suffer imprisonment, as William Cooley and the printer of the Daily Post learned in the winter of 1740-41, and John Wilkes in the 1760's. One can understand why, despite the absence of personal danger, a public figure like Lord Chesterfield should yet conceal his connection with a piece on the Hanoverian troops, or why Horace Walpole might often not put his name to an item listed in his Short Notes of his life or young Boswell to his communications to the press. Indeed, many an innocuous writing appeared anonymously, for the bashful author, protected against the miseries of conspicuous failure, could always shyly acknowledge a successful production. Later, perchance, it could appear in his collected works.

      The two pieces here reprinted, typical verse pamphlets of the 1770's, illustrate both a type of writing and an age. The subject of both is contemporary—the best-selling Letters to his Son of Lord Chesterfield. The method falls between burlesque and caricature; the aim is amusement; the substance is negligible. Neither poem made more than a ripple on publication, neither initiated a critical fashion, and neither survived in its own right, yet each has merit enough to justify inclusion today in such a series as the Augustan reprints.

      Chesterfield's Letters to his Son, the subject of these two burlesques, were announced as published on April 7, 1774, scarcely a year after

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