{"product_id":"dialogues-of-the-dead-gb-17667","title":"Dialogues of the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDialogues of the Dead\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge, Lord Lyttelton, was born in 1709, at Hagley, in Worcestershire.\nHe was educated at Eton and at Christchurch, Oxford, entered Parliament,\nbecame a Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer.\nIn 1757 he withdrew from politics, was raised to the peerage, and spent\nthe last eighteen years of his life in lettered ease. In 1760\nLord Lyttelton first published these Dialogues of the Dead,\nwhich were revised for a fourth edition in 1765, and in 1767 he published\nin four volumes a History of the Life of King Henry the Second\nand of the Age in which he Lived, a work upon which he had been\nbusy for thirty years. He began it not long after he had published,\nat the age of twenty-six, his Letters from a Persian in England\nto his Friend at Ispahan. If we go farther back we find\nGeorge Lyttelton, aged twenty-three, beginning his life in literature\nas a poet, with four eclogues on The Progress of Love.\nTo the last Lord Lyttelton was poet enough to feel true fellowship\nwith poets of his day. He p. 6loved\ngood literature, and his own works show that he knew it. He counted\nHenry Fielding among his friends; he was a friend and helper to James\nThomson, the author of The Seasons; and when acting as\nsecretary to the kings son, Frederick, Prince of Wales (who held\na little court of his own, in which there was much said about liberty),\nhis friendship brought Thomson and Mallet together in work on a masque\nfor the Prince and Princess, which included the song of Rule\nBritannia.\nBefore Lord Lyttelton followed their example, Dialogues of\nthe Dead had been written by Lucian, and by Fenelon, and by Fontenelle;\nand in our time they have been written by Walter Savage Landor.\nThis half-dramatic plan of presenting a mans own thoughts upon\nthe life of man and characters of men, and on the issues of mens\ncharacters in shaping life, is a way of essay writing pleasant alike\nto the writer and the reader. Lord Lyttelton was at his best in\nit. The form of writing obliged him to work with a lighter touch\nthan he used when he sought to maintain the dignity of history by the\nstyle of his History of Henry II. His calm liberality\nof mind enters into the discussion of many p. 7topics.\nHis truths are old, but there are no real truths of human life and conduct,\nworth anything at all, that are of yesterday. Human love itself\nis called the old, old story; but do we therefore cease\nfrom loving, or from finding such ways as we can of saying that we love.\nDr. Johnson was not at his wisest when he found fault with Lord Lyttelton\nbecause, in his Dialogues of the Dead, that man\nsat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his\nlife been telling him. This was exactly what he wished\nto do. In the Preface to his revised edition Lord Lyttelton said,\nSometimes a new dress may render an old truth more pleasing to\nthose whom the mere love of novelty betrays into error, as it frequently\ndoes not only the wits, but the sages of these days. Indeed, one\nof the best services that could now be done to mankind by any good writer\nwould be the bringing them back to common sense, from which the desire\nof shining by extraordinary notions has seduced great numbers, to the\nno small detriment of morality and of all real knowledge.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 17667 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Lyttelton, George Lyttelton \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Feb 3, 2006 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributor (Author)\u003c\/b\u003e: Montagu, Mrs. (Elizabeth), 1720-1800 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Morley, Henry, 1822-1894 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Lyttelton, George Lyttelton \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43217476616349,"sku":"gb-17667-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/17667.jpg?v=1671433649","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/dialogues-of-the-dead-gb-17667","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}