Pearls of eloquence: or The school of complements. With a concise and brief description of beauty, virtue, love and eloquence. Compos'd for the improvement of young ladies, gentlewomen, who desire to adorn their writing and discourse with amorous expressions, and rhetorica flourishes: as also an additional supplement of songs, sonnets, poems and letters, serious, complemental, amorous, jocular and proverbial. The fifth edition, with amendments, and an exact table of the contents.
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- Pearls of eloquence: or The school of complements. With a concise and brief description of beauty, virtue, love and eloquence. Compos'd for the improvement of young ladies, gentlewomen, who desire to adorn their writing and discourse with amorous expressions, and rhetorica flourishes: as also an additional supplement of songs, sonnets, poems and letters, serious, complemental, amorous, jocular and proverbial. The fifth edition, with amendments, and an exact table of the contents.
- Academy of complements
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London: printed for W.L. and are to be sold by S. Walsal, at the Heart and Bible in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1685.
- Publication year
- 1685-1685
- ESTC No.
- R174916
- Grub Street ID
- 67954
- Description
- [12], 156 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 12⁰
- Note
- A revised and enlarged edition of "Academy of complements" by Philomusus, i.e. John Gough?. The "Academy of complements" was originally published in 1639.
With additional engraved title page (plate).