There is some rust about every man at the beginning; though in some nations (among the French for instance) the ideas of the inhabitants, from climate, or what other cause you will, are so vivacious, so eternally on the wing, that they must, even in small societies, have a frequent collision; the rust therefore will wear off sooner: but in Britain it often goes with a man to his grave; nay, he dares not even pen a hic jacet to speak out for him after his death. “Let them rub it off by trav...

The novel tells the story of Harley, the titular "Man of Feeling." Harley is a sensitive and empathetic character who experiences a range of emotions as he navigates the world and interacts with various individuals he encounters. The narrative is structured as a series of episodes and encounters that showcase Harley's emotional responses and moral reflections."The Man of Feeling" is notable for its exploration of the inner emotional life of the main character and its emphasis on sentiment ...

Henry Mackenzie's "Essay on the Life and Institutions of Offa, King of Mercia, A.D. 755-794" meticulously examines the life and legacy of one of the most significant figures in early medieval England. Through a detailed narrative style that blends historical analysis with engaging prose, Mackenzie contextualizes Offa's reign within the broader sociopolitical landscape of the time. He draws on a variety of sources, incorporating both primary texts and archaeological findings, to illuminate ...

Example in this ebook AN ESSAY, &c. “Nobilissimus juvenis; rex strenuissimus; vir religiosus.” Hoveden. The attention of the student is so universally directed in modern days to the attainment of Classic Literature, and to the knowledge of that period of History which has been stamped at once as the age of the purest taste and of the highest philosophy, that the youth of our country are too generally in enti...

The Man of Feeling is a riveting sentimental novel. Hartley the hero of the story is endowed with humanistic characteristics. He displays all true virtues and demonstrates his benevolence in an uncaring world. However these positive qualities finally lead to his disaster. The novel is thought provoking as it reflects the realities of life.

The Man of Feeling is a sentimental novel published in 1771, written by Scottish author Henry Mackenzie. The novel presents a series of moral vignettes which the naïve protagonist Harley either observes, is told about, or participates in. This novel is often seen to contain elements of the Romantic novel, which became prolific in the years following its publishing.

This epistolary novel is astounding in its theme and idiosyncratic style of treatment. The novel treats the theme of equality of mankind. Mackenzie has related his abolitionist ideals through the work. The sentiments and sincerity of the protagonists is reflected through every line of these letters. An engrossing read!

This beautifully curated anthology draws on major historical figures including Emerson, Thoreau, Carlyle, Oliver Goldsmith, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Francis Bacon, Montaigne, and Aristotle. The pieces range across themes such as the sentiment of friendship, its pleasures, and the art of choosing friends well — together forming a rich portrait of what the wisest minds across two millennia considered one of life's most essential bonds.The voices are varied in tone, era, and temperament, bu...

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by Laurence Sterne, who travelled through France and Italy as far south as Naples, and after returning determined to describe his travels from a sentimental point of view. The narrator is the Reverend Mr. Yorick, who is slyly represented to guileless readers as Sterne's barely disguised alter ego. The book recounts his various adventures, usually of the amorous type. Yorick's journey starts in Calais, where he meets a monk who begs ...

With an essay by Harold Bloom.'What is the society of London, that I should be tempted, for its sake, to mortify my senses, and compound with such uncleanness as my soul abhors?'Smollett's savage, boisterously funny lambasting of eighteenth-century British society charts the unfortunate journey of the gout-ridden and irascible squire Matthew Bramble across Britain, who finds himself everywhere surrounded by decadents, pimps, con-men, raucousness and degener...

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“This is the original Game of Thrones.” George R.R. Martin.'No woman shall succeed in Salique land'Louis X is dead, poisoned, murdered, by the hand of Mahaut d’Artois. Her plan is simple – to clear the path to the throne for her son-in-law Philippe. However, there is the small matter of Queen Clemence and her unborn child.As the country is thrown into turmoil, Philippe of Poitiers must use any means necessary to save his country from anarchy. However, how far is he ...