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"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 1 June 1800: ' ... a sweet mild morning.  Read Ballads; went to church.'"""
"""In the """"""""Iris"""""""" of this day Dr M advertises the subjects of the two next lectures ...Montgomery [the editor] is very careful of what he says about the riots; a burnt child dreads the fire.' [Report on church charities noted from this issue of the 'Iris' appears on F 3 of the journal in the margin.]"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 September 1800: 'We walked in the wood by the Lake.  W. read Joanna, and the Firgrove, to Coleridge ... The morning was delightful ...'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 September 1800: 'We walked in the wood by the Lake.  W. read Joanna, and the Firgrove, to Coleridge ... The morning was delightful ...'"""
"""Read Foote's """"""""Farce of the Minor""""""""; I do not admire it near as much as I do the Mayor of Garratt.'"""
"""Finished Fielding's """"""""Amelia"""""""".  There is a still stronger and more disgusting taint of vulgarity, in this Novel, than in Joseph Andrews...'"""
"""Dipped into Boswell's """"""""Life of Johnson"""""""".  Johnson pronounces Hume either mad or a liar...'"""
"""After breakfast, I believed it better to propose reading in the Bible, but I felt doing it, particularly as my brother William was here; not liking the appearance of young people, like us, appearing to profess more than they who had lived here before us. However, I put off and put off till both William and Joseph went down; I then felt uneasy under it, and when Joseph came back, I told him, as I did before, what I wished; he at last sat down, having told George Dilwyn my desire. I began to read the 46th Psalm, but was so overcome that I could hardly read, and gave it to Joseph to finish.'"""
"""After breakfast, I believed it better to propose reading in the Bible, but I felt doing it, particularly as my brother William was here; not liking the appearance of young people, like us, appearing to profess more than they who had lived here before us. However, I put off and put off till both William and Joseph went down; I then felt uneasy under it, and when Joseph came back, I told him, as I did before, what I wished; he at last sat down, having told George Dilwyn my desire. I began to read the 46th Psalm, but was so overcome that I could hardly read, and gave it to Joseph to finish.'"""
"""Read Frend's """"""""Animadversions"""""""" on Prettyman's Theology:--more temperate and chastised than I expected...'"""
"""Finished Porson's """"""""Letters to Travis"""""""", on the disputed passage in John...'"""
"""I think Mrs Montague [sic] has fully vindicated Shakespeare from the objections of Voltaire [...] Her three dialogues of the dead at the end of her essay, are I think very good ones.'"""
"""She [Mrs Montagu] is characterised in this manner in the first part of the """"""""Pursuits of Literature""""""""; comparing the commentators upon Shakespeare [transcribes note on Montagu's essay]. I shall perhaps be accused of want of taste in sending Campbell's """"""""Pleasures of Hope"""""""" home unread & indeed I can give no good reason why I did so.'"""
"""I rather felt this morning it would have been right for me to read the Bible again, and stop George Dilwyn and Joseph reading something else. Now stopping G.D. was a difficult thing; for a person like me to remind him! however, I did not fully do as I thought right, for I did not openly tell G.D. we were going to read, but spoke to my husband, so as for him to hear; then he read, I knowing I had not done my best'"""
"""I am reading Henry's History of England, which I will repeat to you in any manner you may prefer, either in a loose, disultary [sic], unconnected strain, or dividing my recital as the Historian divides it himself, into seven parts...'"""
"""Read Pope's five """"""""Ethic Epistles"""""""" or """"""""Moral Essays"""""""".  There is an occasional pertness and flippancy in them, not to my taste...'"""
"""Finished Moore's """"""""Edward"""""""".  The outset of this novel delighted me highly; but as it advances, the interest declines...'"""
"""Began Herder's """"""""Outlines of the Philosophy of the History of Man"""""""", of which I had heard high praise;--but was soon obliged to desist.  He appears to write like a great child, eager to communicate its late acquirements, however trivial..'"""
"""Finished Malone's """"""""Life of Dryden"""""""", prefixed to an Edition of his Prose Works.  By the drudgery of searching deeds, wills, genealogies, registers, and recods of all sorts, Malone has discovered some new facts, and detected a few mistakes, respecting Dryden and his Famly, of very little consequence...'"""
"""Read the first 3 parts of the """"""""Pursuits of Literature"""""""", of these the first I admire the most. There are people who will not allow that the author has either wit or learning, or is capable of writing good poetry. I think that wit & learning may be found in every page & that in some parts the poetry is excellent. I will give an example. Page 19. [Two pages of commentary and extracts]'"""
"""Brought...a translation of the Greek, Latin, French and Italian quotations in the """"""""Pursuits of Literature"""""""" which I had rather felt the want of in pursuing the work... I began with this preface but it was so dull that I gave it up after reading about a dozen pages of it.  [The Pursuits] needs no apologist. It will stand with posterity on the same shelf as Juvenal, Boileau and Pope.'"""
"""I again felt some difficulty at reading the Bible, however, I got through well. George Dilwyn encouraging me, by saying he thought I portioned the reading well.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 14 October 1800: 'Wm. lay down after dinner -- I read Southey's Spain.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 September 1800: 'Read Boswell in the house in the morning, and after dinner under the bright yellow leaves of the orchard.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 September 1800: 'Read Boswell in the house in the morning, and after dinner under the bright yellow leaves of the orchard.'"""
"""Read Daines Barrington's curious """"""""Observations on the Notes of Birds""""""""...'"""
"""Read Campbell's """"""""Pleasures of Hope"""""""".  Parts of this Poem are animated and fine...'"""
"""Looked into Kirkman's """"""""Life of Macklin""""""""...'"""
"""The """"""""Iris"""""""" contains an advertisement of a book being published intitled """"""""A Poetical Review of Miss Hannah More's Strictures of Female Education""""""""...'"""
"""George Dilwyn said, for our encouragement this morning, that he had seen, since he had been with us, the efficacy of reading in the Bible the first thing: he thought it a good beginning for the day'"""
"""Finished a perusal of Warton's """"""""Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope""""""""...'"""
"""Finished the 1st Book of Dr. Hey's """"""""Lectures in Divinity"""""""".  His manner struck me as stiff and perplexed, at first:  but this wears off, as I advance...'"""
"""Perused the """"""""Farmer's Boy""""""""; a rural Poem, by Robert Bloomfield; edited by Capel Lofft...'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 17 August 1800: 'Wm read us The Seven Sisters on a stone.'"""
"""Worked hard, and read Midsummer Night's Dream, [and] Ballads ...'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 17 May 1800: 'Worked hard, and read Midsummer Night's Dream, [and] Ballads ...'"""
"""Read in the vol of plays lent me by my father, the farce of """"""""Catherine and Petruchio""""""""; abridged from Shakespeare's play of """"""""Taming of the Shrew"""""""".'"""
"""It being the Saturday previous to the annual meeting at the SS Library I was oblig[e]d to return, rather unwillingly, the """"""""Life of Macklin"""""""" without having finished the volume. I have found what I have read more entertaining than I expected from the account given in the """"""""Monthly Review"""""""" some months past.'"""
"""We had a very pleasant day on monday at Ashe [...] There was a whist & a casino table, & six outsiders. -  Rice & Lucy made love, Mat: Robinson fell asleep, James and Mrs Augusta alternately read Dr Jenner's pamphlet on the cow pox, & I bestowed my company by turns on all.'"""
"""We had a very pleasant day on monday at Ashe [...] There was a whist & a casino table, & six outsiders. -  Rice & Lucy made love, Mat: Robinson fell asleep, James and Mrs Augusta alternately read Dr Jenner's pamphlet on the cow pox, & I bestowed my company by turns on all.'"""
"""S. T. Coleridge to James Tobin, 17 Sept 1800: 'What Wordsworth & I have seen of the Farmer's Boy (only a few short extracts) pleased us very much.'"""
"""S. T. Coleridge to James Tobin, 17 Sept 1800: 'What Wordsworth & I have seen of the Farmer's Boy (only a few short extracts) pleased us very much.'"""
"""[Frances] Burney's little diary of """"""""Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudden & tragical loss of my beloved Susan on the instant of her liberation & safe arrival in England"""""""" ... [included] Extracts culled from the work of ... Mme. de Stael, Miss Talbot, Mrs. Chapone ...'   """
"""[Frances] Burney's little diary of """"""""Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudden & tragical loss of my beloved Susan on the instant of her liberation & safe arrival in England"""""""" ... [included] Extracts culled from the work of ... Mme. de Stael, Miss Talbot, Mrs. Chapone ...'   """
"""[Frances] Burney's little diary of """"""""Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudden & tragical loss of my beloved Susan on the instant of her liberation & safe arrival in England"""""""" ... [included] Extracts culled from the work of ... Mme. de Stael, Miss Talbot, Mrs. Chapone ...'   """
"""On the rear flyleaf of his copy of [Charlotte Smith's] Elegiac Sonnets [5th edn, 1789]... W[ordsworth] copied two more of Smith's compositions, both of which were first published in her novel, Celestina (1791), and reprinted as XLIX and LI in Elegiac Sonnets (6th edn, 1792) ... W[ordsworth]'s copies vary from both texts as published.'"""
"""[Marginalia]: copious marginal pencil annotations and text marks, some now fading to the point of illegibility. Contents are mainly comments on, or corrections to, the text, including detailed points of grammar  e.g. Text = """"""""It is a general rule that the Ghazel do not contain more than twelve distiche; * although some poets formerly made Ghazels of greater length"""""""", ms note = """"""""or less than five""""""""; p. 6 Text = """"""""Mo-sum-mut"""""""", ms note = """"""""Moosullis""""""""; p. 70 Text = """"""""This [mark] is a conjunction [underlined] occurring in the middle of an hemistich, * when it receives the accent of the preceding letter"""""""", [whole clause is underlined], ms note = """"""""In summary it is removed & its accent is given to the preceding letter""""""""; the note on p.19 is in Persian."""
"""Glanced over Pye's """"""""Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics""""""""...'"""
"""Finished Pearson's """"""""Remarks on the Theory of Morals""""""""...'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 19 May 1800: 'Read Timon of Athens.'"""
"""Mary Berry, in letter of 2 January 1800: 'I have been reading [...] a new novel of Godwin's, in four vols., called """"""""The Travels of St. Leon.""""""""  it is an odd work, like all his, and, like all his, interesting, tho' hardly ever pleasantly so; and while one's head often agrees with his observations, and sometimes with his reasoning, never does one's heart thoroughly agree with his sentiments on any subject or in any character [...] I should tell you, which I know from Edwards, that it was written for bread, agreed for by the booksellers beforehand, and actually composed and written as the printers wanted it.  I think you will see many marks of this throughout the work if you read it, which I should recommend to you, if, like me, you have not seen a [italics]readable[end italics] novel this age.'"""
"""[account of attending the lectures on metals advertised in the """"""""Iris""""""""] ...all this I had read before ... in the """"""""Sup. Ency."""""""" [supplement to the """"""""Encyclopedia Britanica""""""""] and Gregory's """"""""Economy of Nature"""""""".'"""
"""Looked into Whitehurst's """"""""Theory of the Earth"""""""".  His hypothesis is, That our globe was originally a confused mass of all the elements; That from gravitation and elective attraction, these elements gradually subsided into concentric layers...'"""
"""My Grandmother and Miss Haynes dined at our house. Read Reynolds' """"""""Comedy of Notoriety""""""""; I think it is fully equal to the dramatist.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 20 August 1800: 'Read Wallenstein and sent it off ...'"""
"""In the """"""""Ency. Bri."""""""" article Porto-Bello the same account is given. They sat it was given by Columbus.'"""
"""Finished the """"""""Aeneid"""""""".  Virgil's excellence, it is obvious, consists, not in the daring flights of a vigorous and sublime imagination, but in the exquitie art and consummate taste with which he turn, and polishes, and refines into perfection...'"""
"""Finished Marsh's """"""""Tract on the Politics of Great Britain and France""""""""...'"""
"""Returned Pratt's """"""""Gleanings in England"""""""" to the [D.S?] library having only read a few of the letters which did not please me.'"""
"""Brought back [from the subscription? library] the Gents Mag for Feby 4 March. They have not yet done with the controversy with respect to the commencement of the century. There is both letters and epigrams upon it in this no.'"""
"""Returned Pratt's """"""""Gleanings in England"""""""" to the SS Library having only read a few of the letters which did not please me;'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 23 August 1800: '[after walk to Ambleside] Did not reach home till 7 o'clock -- mended stockings and Wm. read Peter Bell.  He read us the poem of Joanna, beside the Rothay by the roadside.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 23 August 1800: '[after walk to Ambleside] Did not reach home till 7 o'clock -- mended stockings and Wm. read Peter Bell.  He read us the poem of Joanna, beside the Rothay by the roadside.'"""
"""In this weeks paper Dr M. advertises that he proposes to deliver 12 lectures on metal and metalurgy ...the subscription for which is one guinea.'"""
"""Read a very elegant piece of criticism, intitled """"""""A Letter to the Rev. Mr. T. Warton"""""""", on his late Edition of Milton?s """"""""Juvenile"""""""" Poems...'"""
"""Read Godwin's """"""""St. Leon"""""""".  In the Preface, he explicitly abjures the doctrine of extinguishing the private affections, which he had inculcated in his Political Justice...'"""
"""Began Dryden's """"""""Prose Works""""""""...'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 25 May 1800: 'Read Macbeth in the morning ...'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 25 November 1800: 'Very ill ... better in the Evening -- read Tom Jones ...'"""
"""Read the 1st Part of Price's """"""""Essay on the Picturesque""""""""...'"""
"""Read Mrs. Radcliffe's """"""""Tour to the Lakes"""""""".  Much might be expected from this Lady's well known powers of description, exerted on so congenial a theme...'"""
"""Read again, and with more attention, Hurd's """"""""Discourse on Poetical Imitation""""""""...'"""
"""Looked over Gilpin's Two Essay[s]; on Picturesque Beauty, and Picturesque Travel...'"""
"""Read Fielding's """"""""Life of Jonathan Wild""""""""; a caustic satire, in Swift's coarsest manner...'"""
"""Finished the perusal of the first Six Books of Milton's """"""""Paradise Lost"""""""".  The scene betwixt Satan, Sin, and Death, in the 2d. Book, is transcendantly sublime...'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 27 July 1800: 'In the morning, I read Mr. Knight's Landscape.'"""
"""Read, after a long intermission (April 27, 1797) the 2d volume of Gregory's """"""""Essays""""""""...'"""
"""Finished the two first Volumes of Soame Jenyns """"""""Works"""""""", edited by Cole...'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 29 May 1800: 'In the morning worked in the garden a little, read King John.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 3 June 1800: 'I worked in the garden before dinner.  Read R[ichar]d Second -- was not well after dinner ...'"""
"""Read the last play in the Series on the passions. The subject of it is Hatred. It is a tragedy & the title is De Montfort. There is one rather curious mistake in this play. In act I sc. 2 De Montfort says [...quotes several lines of text]. In act 3 sc. I De Montfort says again [...again quotes] [De Montfort forgets name of a character twice]'"""
"""Finished the last vol of Beckmann's """"""""History of Inventions""""""""; I do not know the book that contains a greater variety of information mixed with so much amusement, than these 3 volumes.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 30 August 1800: 'I read a little of Boswell's Life of Johnson.'"""
"""""""""""in spring 1800 ... [Heron] provided one of the first entries in [Wordsworth's] Commonplace Book ..."""""""""""
"""""""""""I well remember the acute sorrow with which, by my own fire-side, I first perused Dr. Currie's Narrative, and some of the letters, particularly of those composed in the latter part of the poet's life,"""""""" W[ordsworth] wrote in the Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns (1816) ... '"""
"""""""""""I well remember the acute sorrow with which, by my own fire-side, I first perused Dr. Currie's Narrative, and some of the letters, particularly of those composed in the latter part of the poet's life,"""""""" W[ordsworth] wrote in the Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns (1816) ... '"""
"""On 16 March 1840 W[ordsworth] told [Henry Crabb] Robinson that """"""""C[oleridge]. translated the 2nd part of Wallenstein under my roof at Grasmere from MSS ...""""""""' """
"""?[my master] also was a good scholar and took great pains to teach me in reading and here I made a Considerable progress in reading for although I had heedlessly neglected learning yet I had not lost my taste for it nor forgot the importance of it?."""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 31 July 1800: '... we [Dorothy and William Wordsworth, with S. T. Coleridge] ... sailed down to Loughrigg. Read poems on the water ...'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 4 June 1800: 'I walked to the lake-side in the morning, took up plants, and sate upon a stone reading Ballads.'"""
"""There is an advertisement prefixed to this number of the """"""""Copper Plate Magazine"""""""", in which is given a list of the plates that have already been published in it amongst which I observe views of Norton Hall & of Sheffield.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 4 October 1800: 'A ... rather showery and gusty, morning ... Read a part of Lamb's play.'"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 6 June 1800: 'Sate out of doors reading the whole afternoon...'"""
"""Read Gildon's """"""""Essay"""""""", prefixed to Shakespear's poems, in which he largely discuses Dramatic Poetry...'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 6 November 1800: 'Wm. somewhat better [having been suffering from piles] -- read Point Rash Judgement.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 6 October 1800: 'After tea read The Pedlar.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 7 December 1800: 'A fine morning.  I read.'"""
"""Read the 4th. and last Book of Fielding's """"""""Joseph Andrews"""""""".  I see no necessity for the marvellous in incident, at the conclusion of this Novel...'"""
"""Looked into Cicero's """"""""Buruts""""""""...'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 7 November 1800: 'A cold rainy morning ... I working and reading Amelia.'"""
"""Read the First of Alison's """"""""Two Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste"""""""".  Taste, he defines, That faculty by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is sublime and beautiful...'"""
"""Dr Marwick advertises again.'"""
"""Read Home's """"""""tragedy of Douglas"""""""", I was much pleased with it. I have seen it remarked, I believe in the """"""""Memoirs of Living Authors"""""""", that Home [...] has never been able to please an English audience with any but Douglas.'"""
"""Having just finished the first volume of les Veillees du Chateau, I think it a good opportunity of beginning a letter to you while my mind is stored with Ideas worth transmitting.'"""
"""Looked into Marsh's """"""""Michaelis""""""""...'"""
"""In the evening my father brought two friends with him and Lawrence Candler. As I was reading to my children in the laundry, my father brought them all in; when I had finished reading in the Testament we were all silent: - and soon John Kirkham knelt down in prayer and we all rose up; it was a very solemn time; my heart was not much moved, but I believe many of my dear children were affected by it'"""
"""Looked over the Introduction to Pemberton's """"""""View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy"""""""".  He affirms (sec. 2.) that it is the gratification of our taste, which is the source of our desire of knowledge...'"""
"""Finished Moore's """"""""Zeluco"""""""".  The character is will contrived to purge the selfish and malignant passions, by exhibiting the hideous effect of their unrestricted indulgence...'"""
"""Looked into Prettyman's """"""""Theology"""""""".  The Dedication to Pitt is insufferably fulsome...'"""
"""Read Dryden's comedy of the Spanish Fryar, was not much pleased with it.'"""
"""[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] Do I not well remember hiding """"""""Kaims's Elements of Criticism"""""""", under the cover of an easy chair, whenever I heard the approach of a footstep, well knowing the ridicule to which I should have been exposed, had I been detected in the act of looking into such a book?'"""
"""In a letter to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] of 10 March 1801, J[ohn] W[ordsworth] added that """"""""Mr Lewis's poem [The Felon] is the most funny one I ever read ... """"""""'"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 14 December 1801: 'Sate by the fire in the evening reading.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary read) and Bishop Hall.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 16 November 1801: '... [William] is now, at 7 o'clock, reading Spenser.'"""
""""""""""" ... a large part of the manuscript for William Godwin's play Abbas, with Coleridge's commentary dating from 1801, has recently come to light ... there he ... adopted a set of symbols for common problems, 'false or intolerable English' ... 'common-place book Language,' and 'bad metre.'"""""""""""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 2 December 1801: 'I read the Tale of Phoebus and the Crow ...'"""
"""When the first proof came home, I did not like its look in print; so stopped the press, and wrote another first chapter'."""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: '[while Mary Hutchinson walked to Ambleside] I stayed at home and clapped the small linen.  Wm. sate beside me, and read The Pedlar.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: 'In the afternoon ... I mended Wm.'s stockings while he was reading The Pedlar.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: 'When we were at Thomas Ashburner's on Sunday Peggy talked about the [drunken] Queen of Patterdale ... We sate snugly round the fire.  I read to them the Tale of Custance and the Syrian monarch, also some of the Prologues.  It is the Man of Lawe's tale.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: 'When we were at Thomas Ashburner's on Sunday Peggy talked about the [drunken] Queen of Patterdale ... We sate snugly round the fire.  I read to them the Tale of Custance and the Syrian monarch, also some of the Prologues.  It is the Man of Lawe's tale.'"""
"""Eliza talks of having read in a Newspaper that all the 1st Lieut:s of the Frigates whose Captains were to be sent into Line-of-Battle ships, were to be promoted to the rank of Commander.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 24 November 1801: 'Mary read a poem of Daniel upon Learning.'"""
"""[letter to H.M. esq] my poor brains have been of late so completely fused in the furnace of metaphysic, that they have become a complete [italics] calx [end italics]. I have been obliged, in pursuit of [italics] hints [end italics], to wade through volumes: keeping neither commonplace book nor memorandum, have been forced to stupify myself in search of passages which remained in my memory, while every trace of the place in which I had found them was lost'."""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 24 November 1801: 'A rainy morning ... I read a little of Chaucer, prepared the goose for dinner, and then we all walked out.'"""
"""[Mark L.] Reed reports that W[ordsworth] copied quotations from Sennertus into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 31 ... c.Feb.1801.  They appear to have been copied from C[oleridge]'s transcriptions ... '"""
"""Writing to [Francis] Wrangham in late Feb. 1801, W[ordsworth] remarked: """"""""I read with great pleasure a very elegant and tender poem of yours in the 2nd Vol: of the [Annual] Anthology.""""""""'"""
"""Writing to [Francis] Wrangham in late Feb. 1801, W[ordsworth] remarked: """"""""I read with great pleasure a very elegant and tender poem of yours in the 2nd Vol: of the [Annual] Anthology.""""""""' """
"""[Marginalia]"
"""[letter to Mrs --] 'books, for a certain length of time, are a charming substitute for common conversation. I do not know that I ever read one from which my mind received a higher degree of pleasure than """"""""Currie's life of Burns"""""""". To me, its charm was enhanced by a thousand pleasing recollections - a thousand associations, that gave a strong additional interest to every word. The strength of Burns's feelings, the character of his mind, had excited an enthusiastic admiration, at a period when my own enthusiastic feelings were in perfect unison with those of the poet; and in him alone did I meet with the expression of a sensibility with which I could perfectly sympathise: in his emotions there was a strength, an energy, that came home to my heart; while the tender sorrows of other poets had to me appeared mawkish and insipid. Even the strong light in which he saw the ridiculous, was, I fear, too agreeable to me. The idea I then formed of his mind has been confirmed by Dr Currie's delineation of it'."""
"""[letter to Mrs --] 'books, for a certain length of time, are a charming substitute for common conversation. I do not know that I ever read one from which my mind received a higher degree of pleasure than """"""""Currie's life of Burns"""""""". To me, its charm was enhanced by a thousand pleasing recollections - a thousand associations, that gave a strong additional interest to every word. The strength of Burns's feelings, the character of his mind, had excited an enthusiastic admiration, at a period when my own enthusiastic feelings were in perfect unison with those of the poet; and in him alone did I meet with the expression of a sensibility with which I could perfectly sympathise: in his emotions there was a strength, an energy, that came home to my heart; while the tender sorrows of other poets had to me appeared mawkish and insipid. Even the strong light in which he saw the ridiculous, was, I fear, too agreeable to me. The idea I then formed of his mind has been confirmed by Dr Currie's delineation of it'."""
"""[Letter to H.M. Esq.] I have purchased your friend """"""""Currie's Life of Burns""""""""; which, I confess, has operated like a charm on my benumbed imagination. Never have I been more highly gratified than by the perusal of his inestimable work, which is a [italics] chef-d'oeuvre [end italics] of cultivated and discriminating taste. On reading the poems that are added to the collection, I once more tasted of all that delicious enthusiasm with which the first productions of this child of nature and genius had feasted my soul'."""
"""[Letter to H.M. Esq.] I have purchased your friend """"""""Currie's Life of Burns""""""""; which, I confess, has operated like a charm on my benumbed imagination. Never have I been more highly gratified than by the perusal of his inestimable work, which is a [italics] chef-d'oeuvre [end italics] of cultivated and discriminating taste. On reading the poems that are added to the collection, I once more tasted of all that delicious enthusiasm with which the first productions of this child of nature and genius had feasted my soul'."""
"""Read Parr's sermon and tell me how you like it. I think it dull, with occasional passages of Eloquence. His notes are very entertaining. You will find in them a great compliment to my brother'."""
"""I left off swearing and prodigality and took to reading my Bible and attending divine workship and in doing this I laid hold of some of the promises of the gospel and applied them to myself'."""
"""It would be well if both tales and books werwe always calculated to ... In the """"""""Evenings at Home"""""""", or """"""""Juvenile Budget"""""""", all this appears to be effected in it's utmost extent...' [more praise follows]."""
"""[EDITOR'S WORDS] In composing this work [her """"""""Letters on Education""""""""], she accustomed herself to read a few letters to some sensible female, who had an interest in the subject; - a practice repugnant to the self-importance of literary egotism, but from which she learnt to measure the capacities of those it was her object to enlighten, and her ambition to instruct'."""
"""In the Fenwick Note to The Pet-lamb, W[ordsworth] recalled: """"""""Within a few months after the publication of this poem, I was much surprised and more hurt to find it in a child's School-book which, having been compiled by Lindley Murray, had come into use at Grasmere School ... """"""""' """
"""Wordsworth in the Fenwick Note to Miscellaneous Sonnets: 'In the cottage of Town-End, one afternoon, in 1801, my Sister read to me the Sonnets of Milton.  I had long been well acquainted with them, but I was particularly struck on that occasion with the dignified simplicity and majestic harmony that runs through most of them ... '"""
"""[during winter 1801] C[oleridge] read Parmenides and Timaeus """"""""with great care"""""""" ... '"""
"""[during winter 1801] C[oleridge] read Parmenides and Timaeus """"""""with great care"""""""" ... '"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""I adhered steadily to the practice I had adopted and read for two or three hours every night after the business of the day was closed, which never happened till half past nine o'clock."""
"""[on receiving the first printed copies of his poems] no sooner did the first copy come to hand, than my eyes were open to the folly of my conduct; for, on comparing it with the MS. which I had at home, I found many of the stanzas omitted, others misplaced, and typographical errors abounding in every place'."""
"""W[ordsworth copied quotations from Descartes into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 31, leaves 71-2, c. Feb 1801.'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Revisky on Hafiz...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Timur's Institutes...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. The Proceedings of the Secret Committee..'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Orme's Hindustan (a second time) ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Strachey's """"""""Narrative History of Persia"""""""" ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Gilchrist's """"""""Grammar"""""""" ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Sa'adi's """"""""Gulistan"""""""" to p.38 in Harrington's edition, and a great deal more of his """"""""Bostan"""""""" ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... I read some of the """"""""Masnavi"""""""" of Jalaluddin ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. I read a good deal of the """"""""Port Royal Greek Grammar"""""""" ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... an """"""""Odyssey"""""""" or two ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... a few chapters of Herodotus ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; as much of Hesiod as in the """"""""Eton Selecta""""""""; the first, seventh, and eighth """"""""Idylls"""""""" of Theocritus, and his Epithalamium of Helen""""""""; all of Sappho, Theognis, Callistratus, Bion, Moschus, and Musaeus as are in that collectiuon - (they are most of them scraps); ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; all Phaedrus; ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; the Georgics; ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; all Horace once over and many parts repeatedly; ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; and a good deal of Petronius; ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; read the preface and seventy or eighty pages of Tasso; ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... . I looked into the Italian Grammar; ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ;one book of Machiavelli's """"""""History""""""""; a novel and play of his ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; I also read all Bacon's """"""""Essays"""""""" ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India. ...;[but includes]  Hume's """"""""Dialogue on Natural Religion""""""""; ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India. ...;[but includes]  Berkeley's essay on """"""""The Principles of Human Knowledge"""""""" ; ..'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal ot the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Middleton's """"""""Free Enquiry"""""""" ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Middleton's """"""""Free Enquiry"""""""" . his Letter from Rome ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal ot the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Middleton's """"""""Free Enquiry"""""""" . his Letter from Rome, several dissertations of his Latin and English ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Middleton's """"""""Free Enquiry"""""""" . his Letter from Rome, several dissertations of his Latin and English , one volume and a half of his """"""""Cicero""""""""...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] a good deal of Condorcet on """"""""The Human Understanding"""""""" ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Tracts by Warburton and """"""""A Warburtonian"""""""" ...;'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Warburton on the Sixth Book, from Warton's Virgil; some essays of Heyne, at the end of the sixth volume; ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Denina's """"""""Revolutions of Literature; ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Johnson's """"""""Lives"""""""" (I had read them before)...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Boswell's """"""""Life of Johnson; ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Voltaire's """"""""Louis XIV"""""""", in English; ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, """"""""Paradise Lost""""""""  and """"""""Paradise Regained"""""""" ..."""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, """"""""Paradise Lost""""""""  and """"""""Paradise Regained"""""""" ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... all Waller again and again ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... most of Cowley, Butler, and Denham, Pope and Dryden often;...' """
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... most of Cowley, Butler, and Denham, Pope and Dryden often;...' """
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... most of Cowley, Butler, and Denham, Pope and Dryden often;...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... most of Cowley, Butler, and Denham, Pope and Dryden often;...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... most of Cowley, Butler, and Denham, Pope and Dryden often;...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... the Baviad and the Maeviad ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... Darwin's """"""""Botanic Garden""""""""'. """
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... """"""""Caractacus"""""""" ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... ; many of Milton's Latin poems ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... a great deal of Fontaine ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... ; """"""""The Robbers"""""""" and two other plays of Schiller; ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... some """"""""Idylls"""""""" of Gesner ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ...; all Boileau's """"""""Satires"""""""", and a good number of his """"""""Epistles"""""""", and """"""""Mithridate"""""""". ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ...; I forgot to mention a good deal of Horace Walpole ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... Jefferson on Virginia ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ...; Ramsay's """"""""Revolution of South Carolina """""""" ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected with India. ... [but included] ; the preface to """"""""Bellendenus"""""""" ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected with India. ... [but included] ; Japher's """"""""Farriery"""""""" ..'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected with India. ... [but included] ; a Life of Major Geshpill; ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected with India. ... [but included] ; an abstract of St. Pierre's """"""""Etudes de la Nature""""""""; ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected with India. ... [but included] ; the """"""""Nation"""""""" ...'"""
"""I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected with India. ... [but included] ; and novels innumerable ...'"""
"""I was up in pretty good time, dressed by eight, and after reading, settled my great housekeeping accounts'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 6 December 1801: 'In the afternoon we sate by the fire: I read Chaucer aloud, and Mary read the first canto of The Fairy Queen.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 6 December 1801: 'In the afternoon we sate by the fire: I read Chaucer aloud, and Mary read the first canto of The Fairy Queen.'"""
"""W[ordsworth] seems to have translated ... [John Clanvowe, Of the Cuckowe and the Nightingale] on 7 and 8 Dec. 1801, and made a fair copy on 9 Dec.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 8 December 1801: 'A dullish, rainyish morning ... I read Bruce's Lochleven and Life.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 8 December 1801: 'A dullish, rainyish morning ... I read Bruce's Lochleven and Life.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 9 December 1801: 'Mary read Bruce.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 9 December 1801: 'I read Palamon and Arcite.'"""
"""Notebooks i 1002, 1004 and 1005 reveal that, 1-9 Nov. 1801, C[oleridge] was reading a copy of Digby's Two Treatises (1645) borrowed from Carlisle Cathedral Library.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 February, 1802: 'In the morning a Box of clothes with Books came from London.  I sate by his [William Wordsworth's] bedside, and read in The Pleasures of Hope to him, which came in the box.'"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 1 July 1802, 'In the evening ... we had a nice walk, and afterwards sate by a nice snug fire, and William read Spenser, and I read As You Like It.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 1 July 1802, 'In the evening ... we had a nice walk, and afterwards sate by a nice snug fire, and William read Spenser, and I read As You Like It.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, in entry for Thursday 3 June 1802, 'A very affecting letter came from M[ary]. H[utchinson]., while I was sitting in the window reading Milton's Penseroso to William.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 10 March 1802: 'Wm. read in Ben Jonson in the morning.  I read a little German ...'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 10 March 1802: 'Wm. read in Ben Jonson in the morning.  I read a little German ...'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'We made up a good fire after dinner, and William brought his Mattress out, and lay down on the floor. I read to him the life of Ben Jonson, and some short poems of his, which were too interesting for him, and would not let him go to sleep.  I had begun with Fletcher, but he was too dull for me.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'We made up a good fire after dinner, and William brought his Mattress out, and lay down on the floor. I read to him the life of Ben Jonson, and some short poems of his, which were too interesting for him, and would not let him go to sleep.  I had begun with Fletcher, but he was too dull for me.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'We made up a good fire after dinner, and William brought his Mattress out, and lay down on the floor. I read to him the life of Ben Jonson, and some short poems of his, which were too interesting for him, and would not let him go to sleep.  I had begun with Fletcher, but he was too dull for me.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'It is now 7 o'clock ... Wm. is still on his bed ... I continued to read to him.  We were much delighted with the poem of Penshurst.'"""
"""[The text is an open letter from Pearson to Paley, praising the latter's book, and suggesting its use as an academic textbook. The letter is dated 11/11/1802]"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 12 March 1802: ' ... I read the remainder of Lessing.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 13 February, 1802: 'William read parts of his Recluse aloud to me.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 13 March 1802: ' After tea I read to William that account of the little boy belonging to the tall woman ...'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 February, 1802: 'It was a pleasant afternoon.  I ate a little bit of cold mutton ... and then sate over the fire, reading Ben Jonson's Penshurst, and other things.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 February, 1802: '[after going on walk] I got tea when I reached home, and read German till about 9 o'clock.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 March 1802: 'Mr. Simpson came in just as [William Wordsworth] was finishing the Poem [The Butterfly].  After he was gone I wrote it down and the other poems, and I read them all over to him.'"""
"""The superiority of the Scriptures to every composition of human genius, must appear incontestible to those who persevere in making those Scriptures their daily study. By such strict and repeated examination of any other work, how many errors and incongruities should we discover?'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 15 February, 1802: 'I got tea when I reached home [after walk], and then set on to reading German.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 15 March 1802: 'We sate reading the poems, and I read a little German.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 15 May 1802, 'It is now 1/2 past 10 ... A very cold and chearless morning ... I read in Shakespeare.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 16 June 1802, 'I read the first Canto of the Fairy Queen to William.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 16 March 1802: 'After dinner I read him [William Wordsworth] to sleep.  I read Spenser while he leaned upon my shoulder.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 17 March 1802: 'I went and sate with W. and walked backwards and forwards in the orchard till dinner time. He read me his poem.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 17 March 1802: '... we sate a while ... [in the orchard].  I left ... [William Wordsworth], and he nearly finished the poem ... I went to bed before him -- he came down to me, and read the Poem to me in bed.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 17 March 1802: 'After dinner we [Dorothy and William Wordsworth] made a pillow of my shoulder -- I read to him and my Beloved slept.'"""
"""?We saw today the residence of the Prince de Cond? - and of a long line of princes famous for virtue and talents ? the celebrated palace of Chantilly, made still more interesting to us by having just read the beautiful tale by Madame de Genlis ?Mademoiselle de Clermont?; it would delight my dear Aunt Mary, it is to be had in the first volume of the Petits Romans??"""
"""?To comfort ourselves we had a most entertaining Voyage dans les Pays Bas, par M Breton, to read and the charming story of Mademoiselle de Clermont on Madame de Genlis?s Petits Romans. I never read a more pathetic and finely written tale.?"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 19 June 1802, 'I sate up a while after William ... I read Churchill's Rosciad.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 2 February, 1802: 'After tea I read aloud the eleventh book of Paradise Lost. We were much impressed, and also melted into tears.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 2 March 1802: 'After dinner I read German, and a little before dinner Wm. also read.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 20 March 1802: 'After tea Wm. read The Pedlar.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 21 April 1802: I went to bed after dinner, could not sleep, went to bed again.  Read Ferguson's life and a poem or two -- fell asleep for 5 minutes and awoke better.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 21 April 1802: 'I went to bed after dinner, could not sleep, went to bed again.  Read Ferguson's life and a poem or two -- fell asleep for 5 minutes and awoke better.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 21 May 1802, 'Wm. wrote two sonnets on Buonaparte, after I had read Milton's sonnets to him.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 22 June 1802, 'I read the Midsummer Night's Dream, and began As You Like It.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 22 June 1802, 'I read the Midsummer Night's Dream, and began As You Like It.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 February, 1802: 'Darkish when we reached home [from walk] ... William now reading in Bishop Hall ...'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 February, 1802: '... after dinner read German Grammar.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 23 June 1802, 'It is now 20 minutes past 10 -- a sunshiny morning.  I walked to the top of the hill and sate under a wall near John's Grove ... I read a scene or two in As You Like It.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 March 1802: 'He [William Wordsworth] is now reading Ben Jonson ... It is about 10 o'clock, a quiet night.  The fire flutters, and the watch ticks.  I hear nothing else save the breathing of my Beloved, and he now and then pushes his book forward, and turns over a leaf.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock.  I have been beside him ever since tea ... My beloved William is turning over the leaves of Charlotte Smith's sonnets ...' """
"""On Wed'y the 24th I finish'd reading the new & popular novel of the """"""""Irish Excursion"""""""", w'ch Mr Hayley had recommended to us...'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 25 February, 1802: 'I reached home [from walk] just before dark ... got tea, and fell to work at German.  I read a good deal of Lessing's Essay.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 26 January, 1802: 'A dull morning. I have employed myself in writing this journal and reading newspapers till now (1/2 past 10 o'clock).'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 27 January, 1802: 'When we returned from Frank [Baty]'s, Wm. wasted his mind in the Magazines.'"""
"""Letter from Barbauld to her neice, Lucy Aikin, dated 27/7/1805.  """"""""What is your opinion of [begin underline] causation [end underline]? Do you agree with Dugald Stewart, Hume, and Mr. Leslie, because if you do, I think you may as well throw Paley's last work into the fire."""""""""""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""Carter describes exam he was forced to undertake to be admitted to the school which was supported by a congregation of Protestant Dissenters: 'it was required of the applicants for admission that they should be able to read in the New Testament to the satisfaction of the managing committee...I obeyed this dread mandate with much trepidation, but was enabled to do it so as to escape censure.' """
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 29 January, 1802: 'William was very unwell.  Worn out with his bad night's rest. He went to bed -- I read to him, to endeavour to make him sleep.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 29 January, 1802: 'William was very unwell.  Worn out with his bad night's rest. He went to bed -- I read to him, to endeavour to make him sleep.  Then I came into the other room and read the first book of Paradise Lost.'"""
"""[letter to Dr S.] It was the perusal of Tacitus, in Murphy's translation, which first excited the idea in my mind [of writing a book of moral education based on the behaviour of eminent historical figures]'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 3 February, 1802: 'Read Wm. to sleep after dinner, and read to him in bed till 1/2 past one.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 3 February, 1802: 'Read Wm. to sleep after dinner, and read to him in bed till 1/2 past one.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 4 February, 1802: 'Read Smollet's life.'"""
"""I have been perusing your minstrelsy very diligently for a while past, and it being the first book I ever perused which was written by a person I had seen and conversed with, the consequence hath been to me a most sensible pleasure: for in fact it is the remarks and modern pieces that I have delighted most in, being as it were personally acquainted with many of the antient pieces formerly'."""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""When I left my home for the first time, I suddenly passed out of the excitements of my Windsor life into the school-boy's ordinary abstraction from the outer world. I heard nothing of the stir of the great Babel, though I was within seven miles of Hyde Park Corner. The newspaper I now very rarely saw, instead of regularly reading our """"""""Globe"""""""" aloud; for of that evening journal my father was then a shareholder.'"""
"""Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.19, p.167, p.192; V.2 p.145, p.162, p.177; V.3 p.145. eg.: V.1 p.9 'Well, now I was very sure I would not smile this summer, nor yet read any book but the Bible and Night Thoughts*; even the Odyssey was to be rejected'.  *'The Night Thoughts, and the Odyssey, were favourite studies among these friends, to which they were wont to make many serious and playful allusions' [footnote, p. 9] from Letter II to Miss Harriet Reid of Glasgow, April 28 1773. eg. p.19 '""""""""how populous, how vital is the grave;? says your favourite Young : ?how populous, how vital are the glens!? I should be tempted to say here' from same letter."""
"""Prelude MS W [Dove Cottage MS 38)] contains a transcription of Marvell's Horatian Ode dating from late 1802.'"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""[Marginalia]"
"""For some time before this I had found my eyes not so good as they had been, being now oblig'd to hold a book, when reading, farther from my eyes & finding some difficulties in seeing to read anything of a small print, or to write on the first bringing in of candles of an evening. Having made this observation on taking up a paper at the Bolt & Tun the evening before we went into Kent, Mr Drew (...) desired me to try his spectacles, which I at first scouted, but having at his desire placed them before my eyes, I found the confusion I had just complain'd done away, & that I co'd see the smallest type perfectly well, on which I determin'd on procuring a pair...'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 4 June 1802, """"""""... a tranquil night ... I read Mother Hubbard's Tale before I went to bed."""""""""""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 4 March 1802: 'I read German after my return [from walk] till tea time.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 4 March 1802: 'After Tea I worked and read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., enchanted with the Idiot Boy.' """
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 February, 1802: 'I read the story of [?] in Wanly [?].'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 March 1802: '... read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., got into sad thoughts, tried at German, but could not go on. Read L[yrical]. B[allads]. '"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 March 1802: '... read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., got into sad thoughts, tried at German, but could not go on. Read L[yrical]. B[allads]. '"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 March 1802: '... read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., got into sad thoughts, tried at German, but could not go on. Read L[yrical]. B[allads]. '"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 5 May 1802, 'I read The Lover's Complaint to Wm. in bed, and left him composed.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 6 February, 1802: '... wrote ... after tea, and translated two or three of Lessing's Fables.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 7 March 1802: 'Read a little German, got my dinner.'"""
"""... my usual headache on the first day of travelling having come on before I got to Town, I felt by that time very little inclination to unpack or dress myself, but seeing a very tempting bill of fare in the papers at the Sussex Hotel, I was induced to set about it, the bustle of which, with a dish of coffee, nearly carried off my complaint.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 8 February, 1802: 'It was very windy ... all the morning ... I read a little in Lessing and the grammar.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 8 February, 1802: 'It was very windy ... all the morning ... I read a little in Lessing and the grammar.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 8 July 1802, 'In the afternoon ... I read the Winter's Tale ...'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 8 November 1802: 'I have read one canto of Ariosto today.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 9 February, 1802: 'We did a little of Lessing.  I attempted a fable, but my head ached ...'"""
"""?We saw at Brussels two of the best Paris actors, and Madame Talma. The play was Racine?s Andromache (initiated in England as the Distressed Mother.) Madame Talma played Andromache and her husband Orestes. .. We read the play in the morning, an excellent precaution, otherwise the novelty of the French mode of declamation would have set my comprehension at defiance.?"""
"""The finishing of the first volume of Gibbon is all I have been able to accomplish comfortably from my last memoranda. Every morning this week has been taken up in copying a Book for Mr Humphreys ...'"""
"""?Well, I do remember the pleasure Mr Opie expressed in reading a proverb in one act, taken from the French of ?Carmontel?, and published by Mr Holcroft, with other entertaining things in his ?Theatrical Recorder? ? Mr Opie came down to read it to me??"""
"""At ten the poor infant was reading Smollett's History... She summed up her impression with scornful lucidity: """"""""There seem to have been more weak kings than wise ones"""""""".'"""
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"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 11 January 1803: 'Mary read the Prologue to Chaucer's tales to me in the morning.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 11 January 1803: 'Before tea I sate 2 hours in the parlour.  Read part of The Knight's Tale with exquisite delight.'"""
"""Rose at seven, purposely to proceed in Gibbon's Miscell. Works- which I began yesterday. - read the whole of his own memoirs- 185 pages.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 16 January 1803, describing visit to Matthew Newton's to obtain gingerbread: 'The blind Man [Matthew Newton] and his Wife and Sister were sitting by the fire all dressed very clean in their Sunday clothes, the sister reading.'"""
"""Seeing the Bible on the table, I took it up & by his desire, read the whole history of Joseph. In parts of it he pointed out several fine subjects for pictures.'"""
"""Abt 4 - I returned - and the time until 7 was taken up in reading """"""""Gregory's Legacy""""""""- He is one of my favorite authors- there is something so sincere & so pleasing withal in his """"""""advice"""""""" that in myhumble opinion no one can help admiring him.'"""
"""finished the day in reading a few chapters of the New Testament.'"""
"""E- being called out for a few hours in the morning I attempted to amuse myself with Marmontel's Tales- it was but an attempt. For I hurried thro' them 'quite upon thorns' expecting every moment his return, - which prevented either pleasure or instruction to arise from it.'"""
"""The evening was devoted to the perusal of the life of the most extraordinary genius this country has produced- need I say, Chatterton.'"""
"""Quotes Shakespeare throughout work:V.1 p.55,p.62,p.86, p.105,p.126; V.2 p.55,p.89,p.199; V.3 p.176 eg. V.1. p.105 Letter XIII  to Miss Reid, Fort William May 24 1773 '?He was like Brutus among conspirators, whom you used to admire in the play: """"""""The rest did what they did in envy of the great Caesar/ He only, in general honest thought,"""""""" ?' """
"""The evening until one was [frittered?] away in reading the 'Monk' for the fourth time at least.... In the second volume are some beautiful lines that often delights one ...'"""
""""""""""" ... [S. T. Coleridge] in a copy of Gerhard Voss's Poeticarum institutionum, libri tres (1647): 'I have looked thro' this book with some attention, April 21, 1803 --, and seldom indeed have I read a more thoroughly worthless one.'"""""""""""
"""In the evening I read the whole of """"""""Love and Madness""""""""- not on account of the amorous epistles of Hackman, but with a view to make myself more acquainted with the fate of Poor Chatterton.'"""
"""From 9 till 11 was idly spent in looking thro a Volume of the British Critic.'"""
"""I took from my pocket the volume of """"""""Love and Madness"""""""" which I had amused myself with a few evenings since- ...I read with great pleasure the whole of the History of Poor Chatterton to Mr H.'"""
"""[Returns after afternoon reading session] to renew the subject from a more enlarged account of this wonder of the 18th Century [Chatterton] lately published by Southey ... in 3 large volumes.'"""
"""the rest of the evening when I returned home was devoted to the Bible.'"""
"""I took up my little volume of Heraldry- and already can take up a pep from a chevron.'"""
"""Before I arose- read 10 chapters of St. Matthew- still laboured at my new task [studying heraldry] but made less progress than on Thursday.'"""
"""Went to bed at 11- but previous to it, read 10 more chapters of St. Matthew.'"""
"""The Grecian History has pleased me much you know Mr Trant made a present of the Roman History, what a brave people the Greeks in general were."""
"""My library is one of my greatest pleasures after a good ramble in the fields. I assure you I am very much pleased with the Georgical Essays, I have read a little of the first and third volumes, they are sure to be interesting to me throughout for they are very improving and at the same time entertaining."""
"""""""""""[in November 1803, when Coleridge was thirty-one] Wordsworth had been reading Shakespeare's sonnets in Coleridge's copy of a set of the Works of the British Poets, in which both he and Coleridge's brother-in-law Robert Southey had made manuscript notes. Taking up the Shakespeare volume and coming upon a pencilled note of Wordsworth's critical of the sonnets, Coleridge answered with a long note of his own, in ink [disagreeing with Wordsworth's judgements]."""""""" """
"""Previous to leaving my chamber, I read several Chapters of St. Mark.'"""
"""My time was occupied till 6 with the Bible.'"""
"""I devoted the rest of the night to the Bible- so upon the whole I think, a sabbath has been more unprofitably spent...'"""
""" ... the first three stanzas and two concluding stanzas of [Thoms] Campbell's poem [The Exile of Erin] were copied and pasted by S[ara] H[utchinson] into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... '"""
"""Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813, in description of Newstead Abbey: 'I remember, when about fifteen, reading your poems there ... '"""
"""Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then in my fifteenth summer.'"""
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"""I got thro 6 chapters of Count Fathom- about an hours undertaking- and this has been the way thro my whole readings- a chapter at one hour - the volume thrown aside for perhaps two more- take it up make another attempt- ...'"""
"""Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Nice, January 1803: 'In spite of my headaches yesterday, I contrived to read nearly three volumes of Madame de Stael's Delphine [...] It is certainly interesting [...] It is well written, too'. """
"""Shortly after its first appearance in Hayley's Life and Posthumous Writings of Cowper (1803), Lamb copied ... out ['On the Loss of the Royal George'] in a letter to W[ordsworth] of 5 March ... On 31 March Lamb copied the same poem into C[oleridge]'s notebook.' """
"""Mary Berry to a friend, from Nice, March 1803: 'I am reading over for the fiftieth time, I believe, the letters of Madame de  Sevigne.  They always improve on me, and are [italics]here[end italics] particularly interesting.'"""
"""Wu notes that Charles Lamb copied stanzas 20-53 of Charles Cotton, Winter, in letter to Wordsworth of 5 March 1803."""
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"""[letter to Dr S.] My reading [on classical subjects relevant to a projected book] has not been, by any means, extensive; for the last ten years the weakness in my eyes has been a perptually occuring hindrance to study'."""
"""[letter to Dr S.] If you have not yet seen the Edinburgh Quarterly Review, I beg leave to recommend it your perusal, as a striking specimen of the abilities of a party of young gentlemen, who promise to do much credit to the literary character of Scotland'."""
"""Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'Did I tell you I read """"""""Campbell?s Pleasures of Hope"""""""" at Wells and was charmed and elevated beyond measure ?'"""
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"""C[oleridge] read from Daniel, including Hymen's Triumph and Musophilus, during his stay at D[ove] C[ottage], 20 Dec. 1803-14 Jan. 1804 ... '"""
"""C[oleridge] read from Daniel, including Hymen's Triumph and Musophilus, during his stay at D[ove] C[ottage], 20 Dec. 1803-14 Jan. 1804 ... '"""
"""Jenny & James [the Austen's servants] are walked to Charmouth this afternoon; - I am glad to have such an amusement for him - as I am very anxious for his being at once quiet and happy. - He can read, & I must get him some books.  Unfortunately he has read the 1st vol. of Robinson Crusoe. We have the Pinckards Newspaper however, which I shall take care to lend him.'"""
"""Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, Dialogue Between a Mother and Child] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.'"""
"""Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, The Lady Blanch, regardless of her lovers' fears] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.'"""
"""Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, """"""""Virgin and Child""""""""] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.'"""
"""Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, """"""""On the Same"""""""" (""""""""Virgin and Child"""""""")] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.'"""
"""""""""""[Mark L.] Reed [in Wordsworth: The Chronology of the Middle Years, 1975] judges that [S. T.] C[oleridge] copied this poem ['An unfortunate Mother to her infant at her Breast'] into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book (D[ove]C[ottage] MS 26) during early 1804, before 25 March."""""""""""
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"""in 1804 [Robert] Southey noted that Hartley Coleridge """"""""never has read, nor will read, beyond Robinson's departure from the island.""""""""'"""
"""[EDITOR'S WORDS] The author, directed by her learned friends, was indefatigable in collecting documents and procuring materials for an authentic work. Through the medium of translation, she had been conversant with the best historians, annalists, poets, and orators of ancient Rome; and she was guided by the most esteemed modern writers on the subject of antiquities, laws, and usages'. [in writing her """"""""Memoirs of Agrippina""""""""]"""
"""[EDITOR'S WORDS] The author, directed by her learned friends, was indefatigable in collecting documents and procuring materials for an authentic work. Through the medium of translation, she had been conversant with the best historians, annalists, poets, and orators of ancient Rome; and she was guided by the most esteemed modern writers on the subject of antiquities, laws, and usages'. [in writing her """"""""Memoirs of Agrippina""""""""]"""
"""[Wordsworth's] first mention of ... [Francis Jeffrey, review of Robert Southey, Thalaba, in the Edinburgh Review 1 (Oct 1802)] comes in a letter of Jan. 1804 to [John] Thelwall ... """"""""That review of Thalaba I never read entirely, having only seen it in a Country Bookseller's shop, who would not permit me to cut open the Leaves, as he only had it upon trial.""""""""'"""
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"""After reading a little, I went some way off to see a poor woman'"""
"""Wordsworth to Hazlitt, 5 March 1804: """"""""I was sorry to see from the Papers that your Friend poor Fawcett was dead; not so much that he was dead but to think of the manner in which he had sent himself off before his time.'"""
"""""""""""In January 1804 Coleridge annotated, heavily, in pencil, the first dozen or so pages of a copy of Thomas Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population by way of assistance to Southey, who had to review it."""""""""""
"""""""""""In reading Lady Mary W Montagu's letters, whi[ch] we have had lately, I continually felt a want - I had not the least affection for her"""""""" D[orothy] W[ordsworth] to Lady Beaumont, 11 April 1805).'"""
"""I received yours yesternight with the poem of [italics] the Sabbath [end italics], a good part of which I have already perused and have concluded that the Cameronian hath more in his head than hair'."""
"""""""""""Horatio Nelson's copy of Helen Maria Williams's Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic Towards the Close of the Eighteenth Century (1801) ... has very little marking and only a few actual notes in it, but all his notes correct the author on matters of fact ..."""""""" """
"""?I have some idea of writing in the intervals of my severer studies for professional education, a comedy for my father?s birthday, but I shall do it up in my own room, and shall not produce it until it is finished. I found the first hint of it in the strangest place that anybody could invent, for it was in Dallas?s History of the Maroons, and you may read the book to find out, and ten to one you miss it. ? pray read the book, for it is extremely interesting and entertaining.?"""
"""The papers announce the Marriage of the Rev: Edward Bather, Rector of some place in Shropshire to a Miss Emma Halifax.'"""
"""I am occupied a geat deal just now in reading a new novel called """"""""Family Secrets"""""""", it is a compound of unnatural occurrences but being embarked on it I am dommed to wade through five volumes', it belongs to the Purser's Steward'."""
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"""Byron to Augusta Byron, 25 April 1805: 'You say you are sick of the Installation [of seven Knights of the Garter at Windsor], and that Ld. C[arlisle] was not present; I however saw his name in the Morning Post, as one of the Knights Companions....' """
"""On 29 Nov. 1805, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told Lady Beaumont: """"""""I am reading Rosco's Leo the tenth - I have only got through the first Chapter which I find exceedingly interesting.  The whole Book can scarcely be so interesting to me.""""""""'"""
"""You ask me (pertly enough- pardon the expression) whether I have read """"""""The Lay of the Last Minstrel""""""""- Alas only twice- And have, in addition, only the following catalogue to subjoin of pleasing works which have come under my examination.'"""
"""I am glad you recommended """"""""Gisborne"""""""", for having begun, I am pleased with it, and I had quite determined not to read it.'"""
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"""Letter from Lucy Aikinto Mrs.Taylor, dated October 1805: 'But within the last few days everything has given way to """"""""Practical Education"""""""", which my mother and I have been studying with great diligence for the benefit of George's little boy, who was brought to us last Tuesday.'"""
"""I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's husband William Lamb] & I get up about ten or 1/2 after or later [...] have our breakfasts, talk a little, read Newton on the Prophecies with the Bible--having finished Sherlock [...] he goes to eat & walk--I finish dressing & take a drive or little walk [...] then come up stairs where William meets me, & we read Hume with Shakespear till ye dressing bell, then hurry & hardly get dressed by dinner time'."""
"""I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's husband William Lamb] & I get up about ten or 1/2 after or later [...] have our breakfasts, talk a little, read Newton on the Prophecies with the Bible--having finished Sherlock [...] he goes to eat & walk--I finish dressing & take a drive or little walk [...] then come up stairs where William meets me, & we read Hume with Shakespear till ye dressing bell, then hurry & hardly get dressed by dinner time'."""
"""I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's husband William Lamb] & I get up about ten or 1/2 after or later [...] have our breakfasts, talk a little, read Newton on the Prophecies with the Bible--having finished Sherlock [...] he goes to eat & walk--I finish dressing & take a drive or little walk [...] then come up stairs where William meets me, & we read Hume with Shakespear till ye dressing bell, then hurry & hardly get dressed by dinner time'."""
"""I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's husband William Lamb] & I get up about ten or 1/2 after or later [...] have our breakfasts, talk a little, read Newton on the Prophecies with the Bible--having finished Sherlock [...] he goes to eat & walk--I finish dressing & take a drive or little walk [...] then come up stairs where William meets me, & we read Hume with Shakespear till ye dressing bell, then hurry & hardly get dressed by dinner time'."""
"""?I have been reading a power of good books; Montesquieu Sur la grandeur and d?cadence des Romains, which I recommend to you as a book you will admire, because it furnishes so much food for thought, it shows how history may be studied for the advantage of mankind, not for the mere purpose of remembering facts and reporting them.?"""
""" ... by 11 Jan. 1806 ... [Southey] was reading ... [Roscoe, """"""""Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth""""""""] a second time [having read it to review it in 1805]: """"""""I am come to Roscoe,"""""""" he told  Henry Herbert Southey, """"""""whose book rises much in my estimation upon a second perusal.""""""""'"""
"""How pretty I think your verses they express so exactly what I felt but could not find words to speak [...]'"""
"""Yesterday I went to the workhouse to spend the evening with the children; a prospect I have had in view for some time... I took them things for tea: I dreaded going on many accounts, fearing I should not feel at liberty to make any remarks I might wish to the children during their reading which it was my principal object in going to attend. I did not exactly see my way, however, I thought I would (as the Friends say) make my way. I found after tea they did not read till nearly eight, and I could not remain later than a little past seven. I spoke to the governess about it and she was quite willing to alter the hour, and so was the stewardess. I proposed reading a little pamphlet that has lately come out by Frederick Smith to the children. There was a solemnity during reading it; so that Ann Withers was in tears most of the time, and some of the children were disposed that way; afterwards, when we had finished, I endeavoured to weigh up whether I really had any thing to say to them or not; I thought that I had, and therefore took up the book as if to explain it; making my own remarks which appeared to affect the children and the governess so that those who were on the point of tears really wept. Now this event has made me feel rather odd; it is marvellous to me how I got courage to do it before Ann Withers.'"""
"""Transcription of William Wordsworth, """"""""Star-Gazers"""""""" appears in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 15 November 1806."""
"""I had a present of a very elegant copy of the """"""""Lay"""""""" lately from a gentleman in Edin. to whom I was ashamed to confess that I had it not. This is g[TEAR] you a hint that the present should have [TEAR] from some other hand. I am delighted beyond measure with many of the descriptions and with none more than that of William of Deloraine but I have picked some faults which I have not now time to explain but in Stanza 3d 1.1st were the knights squires and yeomen all knights? Should it not be rather [italics] The knights were all of mettle true? [end italics] - I have not yet discovered what the terrible parade of fetching Michael Scott's black book from the tomb served or what was done with it of consequence before returned and fear it will be construed as resorted to for sake of furnishing the sublime and awefull description'."""
"""At age thirteen John Clare was shown The Seasons by a Methodist weaver and though he had no real experience of poetry, he was immediately enthralled by Thomson's evocation of spring'"""
"""Transcription of William Wordsworh, """"""""Fidelity"""""""" in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 2 March 1806 (first four stanzas as in 1807 edition, followed by further eight varying from these)."""
"""During his stay with the Beaumonts at Coleorton, 30 Oct. to 2 Nov. 1806, W[ordsworth] gave several readings from Paradise Lost - including Book I and Book VI, lines 767-84.  Beaumont wrote to W[ordsworth] on 6 Nov., recalling """"""""that sublime passage in Milton you read the other night ... where he describes ... the Messiah's ... coming as shining afar off ...""""""""' """
"""We have a little French story in the house, called [underlined] Elizabeth [end underlining], much admired and praised: but """"""""somehow"""""""", I have taken it into my head that it is [underlined] too good [end underlining] for my palate, <for> because Mrs W - the strictest person in the world about Novels, put it into the hands of my Bone - and my bone yawned over it - andd when I asked her how she liked it, said - """"""""O very much - only there's hardly any love in it!"""""""" Whip Novels without love!'."""
"""I hate to be tantalized in such a way [referring to erratic correspondence]. - It is like being condemned to eat green pease, one by one, with a <ear> tooth-pick, a method much recommended, for the economization of human pleasures, by Count Rumford. Did you ever meet with the passage? If the goods of life are to be thus scantily doled out to me, I had rather philosophically make up my mind to do without them'."""
"""So you are in correspondence with Mrs piozzi? Enviable Mortal! - Do you know I am, at this present writing, stark staring mad for love [of] her. I have been reading her Journey through France and Italy, and nothing that I ever luxuriously licked my lips over, ever delighted me half so much. The book is one huge mass of entertainment from beginning to end - And written in such an unaffected spirit of Christian charity for the errors of mankind - breathing such candour, chearfulness and good nature, that I quite adore her. She uses various quaint phrazes, very comical and expressive; but somewhat odd """"""""somehow"""""""" (as she says) till one gets accustomed to her style. The original poetry thinly scattered through the work, I do not admire. But a woman cannot have every excellence of heart and genius. She has enough to satisfy a more fastidious spirit than mine'."""
"""I read in the """"""""Gibraltar Chronicle"""""""" that Adml. Villeneuve was assassinated at Rennes on the 23rd of April, what a horrid tyrant must Bonaparte be if he had anything to do with such a shocking murder'."""
"""Mary has been reading to us (I stopped writing to hear it) the account of the death of Mr. Pitt - happy for him that he had died at this time!'"""
"""On 29 Dec. 1806 Southey asked John May: """"""""Have you seen the 'Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson'?  Very, very rarely has any book so greatly delighted me.""""""""'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth describes receiving only 'two last volumes' of 'Mr Clarkson's Book': 'we may yet have to wait a fortnight or three weeks for the other [received by William Wordsworth at a separate address (Basil Montagu's)] ... We have determined not to read the Book till we can begin at the beginning, so I have done little more than turn over the leaves ... I think it is a very well-looking Book, with enough of stuff in each page, not too large margins, and a good type.  As to the matter, it looks very nice, (I have heard you say that you can judge of a book in turning over the leaves) and I have read some very sweetly written bits.'"""
"""I have been reading Fox's Book of Martyrs - not straight forward; but choice parts, it is a very interesting Book  The account of the deaths of Ridley and Latimer (especially the latter) is most affecting and impressive.  There are some very sweet passages in them, yet I do not think the whole of such merit that they ought to have been published.' """
"""I am now reading Gray's life and letters.'"""
"""Horne Tooke is a dirty dog - he gives the derivation of such words! - There sits Mr Wilbraham two hours every morning in the library, sniggering and shaking his fat sides over such grave nastiness as is enough to make a modest soul like me blush or turn sick: and he always puts a little paper mark into the worst passages to show them to me when I go down. Was ever anything so impertinent & insulting! As if I loved dirt.'"""
"""He [William Lamb] grew so out of spirits that he quite cried--as women do & has just recovered his spirites--however they are returned as usual for he is reading a Greek play out loud & making such noise I scarcely know what I am writing'."""
"""[Sir George] Beaumont wriote to W[ordsworth] on 10 Aug. 1806, saying: """"""""I am sure you will be pleased with my ancestor (sir Johns) Poems.  the more I read them the more I am pleased, his mind was elevated, pious & pure.""""""""'"""
"""William Wordsworth: 'I read in the papers with great pain the account of Mungo Park's disastrous end ... '"""
"""W[ordsworth] copied out seven lines of Grahame's poem [Birds of Scotland] in a letter to Lady Beaumont of Dec. 1806, written at Coleorton, commending it as """"""""exquisite"""""""".'"""
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"""My master - in conjunction with some friends - began to take in a newspaper, called, if I remember rightly, """"""""Lloyd's Evening Post"""""""", and at this I sometimes got a hasty peep. At first, as was natural, I was chiefly interested with the domestic news: I took care to read about """"""""The moving accidents by fire or flood"""""""", with an account of which a newspaper commonly abounds. But my curiosity was not long confined to these """"""""little things"""""""". It soon led me to look at the articles of foreign intelligence...'"""
"""This dream I knew not what to make of but I took some encouragement from it and the next day I was reading in pilgrims progress and was by a quotation directed to the 33 Chap of job and the 15th and 16th verses In a dream in a vision of the night when deep sleep falleth upon men in slumberings upon the bed Then he openeth the ears of men and Sealeth their instruction.'"""
"""W[illia]m [Wordsworth] has read most of Mr Clarkson's book and has been much pleased, but he complains of the second volume being exceedingly disfigured by perpetual use of the word tract.'"""
"""I have just begun to read Mr Knight's Book, which you were very kind in sending.'"""
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"""?here I was stationed in a half Room that is half the men of our Company, and half of another Company and there was a man whose name was Samuel winwright a man of the other company in the Room with me and he was a good Scholar and he undertook to learn me to Read in a better tone of voice than I had attained too and to keep my points and stops for I had never learned them before?."""
"""C[oleridge]'s study of Pindar in Oct. 1806, apparently begun in London and completed in Bury St Edmunds, was dependent upon the copy of Schmied's edition  (Wittenberg, 1616) now in the Wisbech Museum and Literary Institute ... '"""
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"""in a few days after this I met with a book written by Mr Bunyan the title of the book was the two Covenants in this book the unpardonable Sin was explained this part I soon found and read it over with eagerness for I thought Mr Bunyan Could not be deceived such a man as he was but I found no satisfaction for all seemed to be against me I read it again several times over for I Could not give it up...'"""
"""Version of Wordsworth's translation of Michaelangelo sonnet transcribed in letter to Sir George Beaumont, 8 Sept 1806."""
"""then pitied me [my father] for the ten-mile stage I had to go alone, but I did not pity myself, for I had Sir William Jones's and Sir William Chambers's Asiatic Miscellany. the metaphysical poetry of India, however, it is not to my taste."""""""""""
"""Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: ' ... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I have [seen?] at least a score of one description or another, magazines & c. -- some very favourable, as the Critical, others severe but just enough, one in particular (the Eclectic) quits the work, to criticise the author ...'"""
"""Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: '... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I have [seen?] at least a score of one description or another, magazines & c. -- some very favourable, as the Critical, others severe but just enough, one in particular (the Eclectic) quits the work, to criticise the author ...'"""
"""W[ordsworth] and M[ary] W[ordsworth] copied four Blake lyrics from Malkin's volume into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... some time between mid-March and 10 June 1807.'"""
"""W[ordsworth] and M[ary] W[ordsworth] copied four Blake lyrics from Malkin's volume into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... some time between mid-March and 10 June 1807.'"""
"""Mr Scott must have thought me very ungrateful in returning no acknowledgements for being [italics] entrusted [end italics] with """"""""Marmion"""""""", but I was prisoner with so severe a cold the last week I stayed at Dalkeith that I could not attempt writing. Lady Dalkeith undertook the care of the parcel, which I hope has been safely restored; but now my head is clear enough, I must tell you how much pleasure it gave me, and that this pleasure rose still higher on reading it over and over again. Like the """"""""Lay"""""""", it carries one on, and one cannot lay it down. It is, I feel, a great piece of presumption in me either to commend or criticise; but one passage, I confess, strikes me as more feeble than the rest, though by itself, or in a less spirited poem, I should never have affix'd to it that epithet. What I mean is that part of the introduction to the third Canto where you begin to give Mr Erskine your reasons for not adopting his advice; it immediately follows the compliment to Miss Baillie. Yet even in this the picture of the old Highland drover is beautiful. What ensues upon Smailhome Tower, etc., I was particularly charmed with, but I shall not pretend to point out all the beauties in this note'."""
"""Mr Scott must have thought me very ungrateful in returning no acknowledgements for being [italics] entrusted [end italics] with """"""""Marmion"""""""", but I was prisoner with so severe a cold the last week I stayed at Dalkeith that I could not attempt writing. Lady Dalkeith undertook the care of the parcel, which I hope has been safely restored; but now my head is clear enough, I must tell you how much pleasure it gave me, and that this pleasure rose still higher on reading it over and over again. Like the """"""""Lay"""""""", it carries one on, and one cannot lay it down. It is, I feel, a great piece of presumption in me either to commend or criticise; but one passage, I confess, strikes me as more feeble than the rest, though by itself, or in a less spirited poem, I should never have affix'd to it that epithet. What I mean is that part of the introduction to the third Canto where you begin to give Mr Erskine your reasons for not adopting his advice; it immediately follows the compliment to Miss Baillie. Yet even in this the picture of the old Highland drover is beautiful. What ensues upon Smailhome Tower, etc., I was particularly charmed with, but I shall not pretend to point out all the beauties in this note'."""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 11 November 1807: 'In the evening I read aloud """"""""Clarendon's Life"""""""".'"""
"""From paper in """"""""Monthly Review"""""""" I got on Mathematical Subjects and resumed Consideration of Negative Signs, retracing former reasonings [...] found much enjoyment in it.'"""
"""We received the Books a week ago ... We have all already to thank you for a great deal of delight which we have received from them.  In the first place my Brother and Sister have read the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, which is a most valuable and interesting Book. - My Brother speaks of it with unqualified approbation, and he intends to read it over again.'"""
"""We received the Books a week ago ... We have all already to thank you for a great deal of delight which we have received from them ... I have not quite finished the anecdotes of Frederick which I find exceedingly amusing; and instructive, also, as giving a lively portrait of the hard-heartedness and selfishness, and servility of the courtiers of a tyrant, and of the unsatisfactoriness of such a life.'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 16 November 1807: 'Read """"""""Clarendon's Life"""""""" aloud in the evening.'"""
"""I cannot express how much pleasure my Brother has already received from Dr. Whitaker's Books, though they have been only two days in his possession - Almost the whole time he has been greedily devouring the History of Craven ... '"""
"""Transcription of William Wordsworth, 'The Force of Prayer' appears in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, 18 October 1807."""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 19 November 1807: 'After dinner read aloud some of Madame du Deffand's letters.'"""
"""Byron to the Earl of Clare, 20 August 1807: 'I hope this Letter will find you safe, I saw in a Morning paper, a long account of Robbery &c. &c. committed on the persons of sundry Majors, Colonels, & Esquires, passing from Lady Clare's to Limerick ... '"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 21 August 1807: 'Read a little of the """"""""Lamento di Cecco,"""""""" which, having often heard of, I had never seen before.  It is a beautiful, simple, but not vulgar pastoral, in the Tuscan patois; but after the first three or four stanzas, not very difficult to understand.  If it were, there are notes, which swell a poem of forty stanzas into a tolerable-sized quarto volume!'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 23 August 1807: 'I remained in my room the whole morning reading Mr. Greathead [her host]'s Journals, which let me more into their every-day life, where they went, and what they did while abroad, than a month's conversation could do.'"""
"""In letter to Edward Noel Long, 23 February 1807 Byron transcribes lines 91-96 of William Cowper, """"""""Friendship"""""""" (as in 1803 edition of poem)."""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 29 August 1807: 'In the evening read a good deal of the last Scotch Review [...] What they say of Mr. Hope [author of """"""""Household Furniture and Internal Decorations executed from Designs""""""""], though he lays himself open to ridicule, is ill-natured and often in bad taste. An excellent criticism upon Cobbett's weekly journal, exposing, in the clearest manner, his shameful inconsistencies [...] and holding up upon true Whig principles our real defects and real misconduct [...] only wishing them to be considered as they are, and not confounded with preposterous exaggeration in the minds of the people.  But alas!  the people read Cobbett, and will never read the Scotch Review.'"""
"""William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'In passing through Penrith I had an opportunity of seeing his [Francis Jeffrey's] last Review [of Wordsworth's Poems on Two Volumes, in the Edinburgh Review].  I had before skimmed over, some time ago, what he had written in the article on [Southey's] Thalaba [in Oct. 1802] ... '"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 30 October 1807: 'In the evening began reading the """"""""Life of Clarendon"""""""".'"""
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"""Byron to William J. Bankes, on having received 'two Critical opinions, from Edinburgh' (of Lord Woodhouselee and Henry Mackenzie) in praise of his Poems on Various Occasions:  'I am not personally acquainted with either of these Gentlemen ... their praise is voluntary, and transmitted through the Medium, of a Friend, at whose house, they read the productions.'"""
"""Byron to William J. Bankes, on having received 'two Critical opinions, from Edinburgh' (of Lord Woodhouselee and Henry Mackenzie) in praise of his Poems on Various Occasions:  'I am not personally acquainted with either of these Gentlemen ... their praise is voluntary, and transmitted through the Medium, of a Friend, at whose house, they read the productions.'"""
"""We had read his [Thomas Clarkson's] book ... William [Wordsworth] I believe made a few remarks upon paper, but he had not time for much criticism, and in fact having only one perusal of the work he was too much interested.'  """
"""W[ordsworth] was reading Michaelangelo's sonnets with a view to translating them from Dec 1804; his work on them proceeded ... throughout 1805-06, and apparentlly less intensively in 1807.'"""
"""W[ordsworth] copied from ... [Thomas Wilkinson's MS """"""""Tours of the British Mountains""""""""] the passage which had inspired the Solitary Reaper [about a female reaper singing in Erse], alongside another related to The Excursion, into his Commonplace Book [Dove Cottage MS 26, ie """"""""Wordsworth Commonplace Book""""""""] ... '"""
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"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson: 'You had been strangely misinformed of the nature of the Edinburgh Review of William [Wordsworth]'s poems [ie his Poems in Two Volumes, 1807].  Luckily Lloyd takes it in, therefore I have seen it.  W[illia]m and M[ary Wordsworth] chanced to see it at Penrith ... the review is ... plainly so spiteful, that it can do no harm with any wise or feeling mind; and for me, I have not laughed so heartily this long time as I did at the reading of it.'"""
"""Byron's """"""""Detached Thoughts"""""""" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on reading 'reviews', 15 October 1821: ' ... the first I ever read was in 1806-07.'"""
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"""I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young master whose kindly feelings I have already noticed. He now gave me free acess to his little library, in which were Enfield's """"""""Speaker"""""""", Goldsmith's """"""""Geography"""""""", an abridged """"""""History of Rome"""""""", a """"""""History of England"""""""", Thomson's """"""""Seasons"""""""", """"""""The Citizen of the World"""""""", """"""""The Vicar of Wakefield"""""""", and some other books the titles of which I do not now remember. These books furnished me with a large amount of amusing and instructive reading.' """
"""I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fall in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young master whose kindly feelings I have already noticed. He now gave me free acess to his little library, in which were Enfield's """"""""Speaker"""""""", Goldsmith's """"""""Geography"""""""", an abridged """"""""History of Rome"""""""", a """"""""History of England"""""""", Thomson's """"""""Seasons"""""""", """"""""The Citizen of the World"""""""", """"""""The Vicar of Wakefield"""""""", and some other books the titles of which I do not now remember. These books furnished me with a large amount of amusing and instructive reading.' """
"""I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fall in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young master whose kindly feelings I have already noticed. He now gave me free acess to his little library, in which were Enfield's """"""""Speaker"""""""", Goldsmith's """"""""Geography"""""""", an abridged """"""""History of Rome"""""""", a """"""""History of England"""""""", Thomson's """"""""Seasons"""""""", """"""""The Citizen of the World"""""""", """"""""The Vicar of Wakefield"""""""", and some other books the titles of which I do not now remember. These books furnished me with a large amount of amusing and instructive reading.' """
"""I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young master whose kindly feelings I have already noticed. He now gave me free access to his little library, in which were Enfield's """"""""Speaker"""""""", Goldsmith's """"""""Geography"""""""", an abridged """"""""History of Rome"""""""", a """"""""History of England"""""""", Thomson's """"""""Seasons"""""""", """"""""The Citizen of the World"""""""", """"""""The Vicar of Wakefield"""""""", and some other books the titles of which I do not now remember. These books furnished me with a large amount of amusing and instructive reading.' """
"""I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young master whose kindly feelings I have already noticed. He now gave me free access to his little library, in which were Enfield's """"""""Speaker"""""""", Goldsmith's """"""""Geography"""""""", an abridged """"""""History of Rome"""""""", a """"""""History of England"""""""", Thomson's """"""""Seasons"""""""", """"""""The Citizen of the World"""""""", """"""""The Vicar of Wakefield"""""""", and some other books the titles of which I do not now remember. These books furnished me with a large amount of amusing and instructive reading.' """
"""I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young master whose kindly feelings I have already noticed. He now gave me free access to his little library, in which were Enfield's """"""""Speaker"""""""", Goldsmith's """"""""Geography"""""""", an abridged """"""""History of Rome"""""""", a """"""""History of England"""""""", Thomson's """"""""Seasons"""""""", """"""""The Citizen of the World"""""""", """"""""The Vicar of Wakefield"""""""", and some other books the titles of which I do not now remember. These books furnished me with a large amount of amusing and instructive reading.' """
"""I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young master whose kindly feelings I have already noticed. He now gave me free access to his little library, in which were Enfield's """"""""Speaker"""""""", Goldsmith's """"""""Geography"""""""", an abridged """"""""History of Rome"""""""", a """"""""History of England"""""""", Thomson's """"""""Seasons"""""""", """"""""The Citizen of the World"""""""", """"""""The Vicar of Wakefield"""""""", and some other books the titles of which I do not now remember. These books furnished me with a large amount of amusing and instructive reading.' """
"""I pursued each of them with much interest, but especially the """"""""Seasons"""""""". I found this to be just the book I had wanted. It commended itself to my warmest approbation, immediately on my perceiving its character and design...'[continues to describe impact of the book at length]"""
"""I must now mention some other books which about this time fell in my way. Among these an odd volume of the """"""""Spectator"""""""" deserves particular notice. Where it came from or to whom it belonged, I never knew: I discovered it in my Master's kitchen. On opening it I was struck by the seeming oddity of its contents. As the book promised to give me a little amusement, I forthwith set about reading it. I was at first a good deal mystified about its author, character and design, yet I was much gratified with it.'"""
"""Somewhere about this time I met with a volume to which I am much indebted. This was a copy of Simpson's """"""""Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings"""""""" - concerning which I have heard it said that it ought rather to have been called """"""""A Plea for Infidelity"""""""" because of its dwelling so much upon the corruptions of Christianity and the inconsistent deportment of some among its ministers.'"""
"""Nor must I omit to mention the obligations I owe to some essays written by the late Rev. Thomas Scott and which were given me by my master. I do not remember their exact titles, nor can I recollect much of more than one of them. This was, if I err not, a kind of exposition on the tenth commandment...'"""
"""Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the """"""""Weekly Political Register"""""""" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This journal was in the form of a pamphlet. It was chiefly filled with the letters of correspondence and the political disquisitions of the proprietor. The only news it contained was that which related to the naval and military operations of the British forces. The """"""""Political Register"""""""" was soon thought to be deficient in matters of general interest. It was therefore exchanged for the """"""""Courier"""""""", which in a short time gave place to the """"""""Independent Whig"""""""". From this time the men were warm politicians - not indeed very well conversant with public affairs, but what they lacked in knowledge they made up by a rather large amount of zealous partisanship. When they were too busy to look over the newspaper, they employed me as their reader - an office whose duties I found to be very pleasant.  """
"""Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the """"""""Weekly Political Register"""""""" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This journal was in the form of a pamphlet. It was chiefly filled with the letters of correspondence and the political disquisitions of the proprietor. The only news it contained was that which related to the naval and military operations of the British forces. The """"""""Political Register"""""""" was soon thought to be deficient in matters of general interest. It was therefore exchanged for the """"""""Courier"""""""", which in a short time gave place to the """"""""Independent Whig"""""""". From this time the men were warm politicians - not indeed very well conversant with public affairs, but what they lacked in knowledge they made up by a rather large amount of zealous partisanship. When they were too busy to look over the newspaper, they employed me as their reader - an office whose duties I found to be very pleasant.  """
"""Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the """"""""Weekly Political Register"""""""" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This journal was in the form of a pamphlet. It was chiefly filled with the letters of correspondence and the political disquisitions of the proprietor. The only news it contained was that which related to the naval and military operations of the British forces. The """"""""Political Register"""""""" was soon thought to be deficient in matters of general interest. It was therefore exchanged for the """"""""Courier"""""""", which in a short time gave place to the """"""""Independent Whig"""""""". From this time the men were warm politicians - not indeed very well conversant with public affairs, but what they lacked in knowledge they made up by a rather large amount of zealous partisanship. When they were too busy to look over the newspaper, they employed me as their reader - an office whose duties I found to be very pleasant.  """
"""I always hated Gay's Fables, and for long could not abide a red book.'"""
"""W[ordsworth] copied a set of extracts from Buchanan into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book [Dove Cottage MS 26] ... probably between mid-March and 10 June 1807.'"""
"""C[oleridge]'s letter to S[ara] H[utchinson] of May 1807 contained a transcription of Marvell's """"""""On a Drop of Dew"""""""".'"""
"""We are reading Clarentine, & are surprised to find how foolish it is. I remember liking it much less on a 2d reading than at the 1st & it does not bear a 3d at all. It is full of unnatural conduct & forced difficulties, without striking merit of any kind.'"""
"""It is now half past twelve, & having heard Lizzy [JA's niece] read, I am moved down into the Library for the sake of a fire...'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 1 May 1808: 'In the evening, [Thomas] Ashe's Travels [in America] as usual.'"""
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"""Mary Berry, Journal, 10 March 1808: 'Read some more of """"""""Marmion"""""""".'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 10 May 1808: 'I began reading aloud Gell's """"""""Ithaca"""""""".'"""
"""[a long anecdote about how Hogg found his correspondent Janet Stuart's book in an Edinburgh bookshop and had to pay 7/6 for a 'pamphlet' which the bookseller argued was 'a very extraordinary production'] 'I did not only read it I devoured it: the man was right; it is an [italics] extraordinary production [end italics]. I do not think a man is flattering when he tells what he thinks I think there is not a more beautiful poem in the English language of its kind. Some of my friends, though they acknowledge it contains great beauties, blame it for what they are pleased to call a [italics] mysterous [sic] obscurity [end italics], while to me who am luckily versant in ancient ballads, it is as plain as the ABC. Yet I acknowledge I should be happy to see in my Adeline's next piece a little more of the unaffected simplicity so visible in her whole character and deportment'."""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 10 September 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'Lord and Lady Rosslyn arrived at four o'clock [...] Lord Rosslyn gave me a letter to read from Captain Adam to his father, praising the conduct of Ronald at Vimeira in the most satisfactory manner.  I went away to read it, which I did not do without tears.'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 11 June 1808: 'In the evening I read 'Corruption' and 'Intolerance' aloud.'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 11 June 1808: 'In the evening I read 'Corruption' and 'Intolerance' aloud.'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 11 May 1808: 'In the evening, Gell's """"""""Ithaca"""""""".'"""
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"""[letter to Dr S.] I have just finished the perusal of a publication which plainly shows what may be accomplished by the persevering exertions of a righteous zeal. I allude to Clarkson's """"""""History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade"""""""", which I think one of the most interesting books I have ever read'."""
"""In the [?] read principally the papers in the """"""""Adventurer"""""""" and Rogers' """"""""Pleasures of Memory""""""""; thought less of the papers in the """"""""Adventurer"""""""" than I had done formally, i.e. forty years ago or more, and less than I had been led to expect of Rogers. Went to bed about one, after beginning """"""""Spanish Grammar"""""""".'"""
"""In the evening read principally papers in the """"""""Adventurer"""""""" and Rogers' """"""""Pleasures of memory""""""""; thought less of the papers in the """"""""Adventurer"""""""" than I had done formerly, i.e. forty years ago or more, and less than I had been led to expect of Rogers. Went to bed about one, after begining """"""""Spanish grammar"""""""".'"""
"""In the evening read principally papers in the """"""""Adventurer"""""""" and Rogers' """"""""Pleasure of Memory""""""""; thought less of the papers in the """"""""Adventurer"""""""" than I had done formally, i.e. forty years ago or more, and less than I had been led to expect of Rogers. Went to bed about one, after beginning """"""""Spanish Grammar"""""""".'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 14 August 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'Sat till dinner-time in Lady Douglas's dressing-room, reading old letters to her grandmother, the Duchess of Argyll, from [italics]her[end italics] mother, Mrs Warburton, and to Lady Greenwich from the Duchess of Queensberry and several other persons.  Remarkable form and expressions of respect in the letters of Mrs Warburton to her duchess daughter.'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 14 August 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'Sat till dinner-time in Lady Douglas's dressing-room, reading old letters to her grandmother, the Duchess of Argyll, from [italics]her[end italics] mother, Mrs Warburton, and to Lady Greenwich from the Duchess of Queensberry and several other persons.  Remarkable form and expressions of respect in the letters of Mrs Warburton to her duchess daughter.'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 14 August 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'Sat till dinner-time in Lady Douglas's dressing-room, reading old letters to her grandmother, the Duchess of Argyll, from [italics]her[end italics] mother, Mrs Warburton, and to Lady Greenwich from the Duchess of Queensberry and several other persons.  Remarkable form and expressions of respect in the letters of Mrs Warburton to her duchess daughter.'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 14 March 1808: 'Began reading the """"""""Odyssey"""""""" of Homer in Pope's translation.  Delighted with it.'"""
"""Religion is such a consolation to a drooping spirit,that I could wish thou wouldest seek for comfort and cheerfulness in it; for God never forsakes those who turn to him. I assure thee truly, my dear brother, that often when my spirits have been low I have found more real pleasure in reading the Psalms and in Job and a few others of the inspired writings, than in any other kind of amusement I could enter into. Let not thy spirit sink within thee..."""
"""In studying the prophets, with a view of particularly examining the witness they bear to the Messiah, many things have occurred to me which it would have been useful to preserve' [but she says her memory is 'unfaithful']"""
"""I have read Mr Jefferson's case to Edward [Austen], and he desires to have his name set down for a guinea and his wife's for another; but does not with for more than one copy of the work.'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 17 May 1808: 'Read in the """"""""Times"""""""" the confirmation of the wreck and positive loss of Lord Royston."""""""""""
"""""""""""Gazette"""""""" with details of victory over Dupont, +c'"""
"""Byron to William Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured with the perusal of many of your compositions....'"""
"""In compliance with frequent entreaties I took the MSS [of The White Doe of Rylstone] to [Charles] Lamb's to read it, or part of it, one evening.  There unluckily I found [William] Hazlitt and his Beloved [Sarah Stoddart] ... though I had the Poem in my hand I ... absolutely refused, to read it.  But as they were very earnest in entreating me, I at last consented to read one Book ... '"""
"""Felicia Browne to her aunt, Miss Wagner, 19 December 1808: 'You have, I know, perused the papers (as I have done,) with anxiety [...] The noble Spaniards! surely, surely, they will be crowned with success'."""
"""Felicia Browne to her aunt, Miss Wagner, 19 December 1808: 'I have been reading a most delightful French romance, by Madame de Genlis, """"""""Le Siege de la Rochelle"""""""".'"""
"""Read with Cecilia a good deal of """"""""marmion"""""""" the new poem of Sir Walter Scott, which I like.'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 2 June 1808: 'I began reading aloud Mr. Fox's historical work, in the beautiful large-paper copy which Robert Ferguson has given me.'"""
"""either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your others and as long as that is admired (which it ever will be by a part) so will Marmion. You gave the truest picture of your manner of writing in the introduction to Mr Erskine that ever was given [SEAL] ever will and I am particularly partial to that epistle I think it extremely beautifull. I should like extremely well to see another poem of yours in the same stanza with Glenfinlas my first and I believe still greatest favourite'."""
"""either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your others and as long as that is admired (which it ever will be by a part) so will Marmion. You gave the truest picture of your manner of writing in the introduction to Mr Erskine that ever was given [SEAL] ever will and I am particularly partial to that epistle I think it extremely beautifull. I should like extremely well to see another poem of yours in the same stanza with Glenfinlas my first and I believe still greatest favourite'."""
"""either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your others and as long as that is admired (which it ever will be by a part) so will Marmion. You gave the truest picture of your manner of writing in the introduction to Mr Erskine that ever was given [SEAL] ever will and I am particularly partial to that epistle I think it extremely beautifull. I should like extremely well to see another poem of yours in the same stanza with Glenfinlas my first and I believe still greatest favourite'."""
"""William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'Since I wrote to you I have read Dr Bell's Book upon Education ... it is a most interesting work and entitles him to the fervent gratitude of all good men: but I cannot say [?it has made] any material change in my views ... '"""
""" ... I have lately read Dr. Whitaker's history of ... Whalley both with profit and pleasure.'"""
"""William Wordsworth suggests to Francis Wrangham that he attempt to write a local history: 'I am induced to mention it from a belief that you are admirably qualified for such a work ... and from a regret in seeing works of this kind ... utterly marred by falling into the hands of wretched Bunglers, e.g. the History of Cleveland whiich I have just read, by a Clergyman of Yarm by the name of Grave, the most heavy performance I ever encountered ... '"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 20 April 1808: 'At night finished Miss Warren's novel [""""""""Conrade, or the Gamesters"""""""" by galloping over half the pages; human patience could not regularly wade through a series of adventures without """"""""ensemble"""""""", of violent situations without interest or probability, and of characters equally pious or equally profligate.' """
"""C[oleridge] read vol. 1 [of Thomas Clarkson, History ... of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade] in proof in early Feb. 1808 ... '"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 21 April 1808: 'In the evening began reading Ashe's """"""""Travels in America"""""""", in the north-western settlements, behind the United States.'"""
"""Let me remember, that though I now see, in all the prophets, the most valuable testimony to the truth of the Christian faith, a few years only have elapsed since I considered that evidence to be so dark and unintelligible as to be of little avail to the defence of the Christian cause. The few works upon the prophecies which had fallen into my hands contributed to this opinion, as the writers of them appeared to me in the light of pious visionaries, all labouring to establish some favourite point; or by twisting and turning the obscure meaning of dark passages to suit their purpose to penetrate into the events of futurity'."""
"""[Has spent week repairing her brother's clothes] The week after that was as much occupied in copying some songs and the music belonging to them, which my brother had lent me. And as he could only spare them to the end of that week, I was engaged morning, noon, and night till I was really quite ill with sitting so much and so closely."""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 22 April 1808: 'In the evening Ashe's Travels [in America] again.  They are, I think, very entertaining in spite of an abominable style, which aims at being [italics]fine writing[end italics], without being grammar and without being English.  But the wonderful country he describes makes every account of it which one sees and feels is written on the spot, very interesting.'"""
"""Ought I to be very much pleased with Marmion? -  As yet I am not. James reads it aloud in the Eveng - the short Eveng - beginning at about 10, & broken by supper.'"""
"""This is a sad story about Mrs Powlett. I should not have suspected her of such a thing. - She staid the Sacrament I remember, the last time that you & I did. - A hint of it, with Intitials, was in yesterday's Courier; & Mr Moore guessed it to be Ld Sackville, beleiving [sic] there was no other Viscount S. in the peerage, & so it proved.'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 22 September 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'I read to Lady Douglas my sketch of a preface for the Letters [of Madame du Deffand], with which she seemed well pleased.  Finished reading """"""""The Tale of the Times,"""""""" a novel, which, like most other novels, begins better than it finishes.' """
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 22 September 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'I read to Lady Douglas my sketch of a preface for the Letters [of Madame du Deffand], with which she seemed well pleased.  Finished reading """"""""The Tale of the Times,"""""""" a novel, which, like most other novels, begins better than it finishes.' """
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"""I have really been so occupied with the sorrows of Mary Queen of Scots you must excuse my not have written before.  I had always read the other side except in Hume, & was surpised at the conviction Robertson seems to carry in every line of her guilt.  His must be a very immoral book for in spight [sic] of that one always feels so very much interested for her.'"""
"""I have also read the Modern Philosophers, which in spight [sic] of a little vulgarity & too much sameness, I like extremely.  Julia's character is beautiful & tho' Harriet Orwell gives one rather too much the idea of a blushing maid with a workbag, & I cannot fancy anything very romantic in the way of love--with an apothecary, yet her character is, I think, extremely well drawn & I like Bridgetina very much.'"""
"""We have all been reading le Siege de la Rochelle.  As I leave others to make their own remarks, I shall only tell you my own opinion, which is, that though I think it almost more interesting than any book I ever read, I think the methodistical stile [sic] it is written in & the whole of her reflections very dull.'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 24 April 1808: 'In the evening, after dinner, I read aloud the sketch of my preface [to the letters of Mme du Deffand], and finished the evening with Ashe's Travels, which are very entertaining.'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 24 April 1808: 'In the evening, after dinner, I read aloud the sketch of my preface [to the letters of Mme du Deffand], and finished the evening with Ashe's Travels, which are very entertaining.'"""
"""While I write now, George is most industriously making and naming paper ships, at which he afterwards shoots with horse-chestnuts, brought from Steventon on purpose; and Edward equally intent over the """"""""Lake of Killarney"""""""", twisting himself about in one of our great chairs'. """
"""On the subject of matrimony, I must notice a wedding in the Salisbury paper, which has amused me very much, Dr Phillot to Lady Frances St Lawrence.'"""
"""Have read, since I have been here, about 30 pages in the Bipont edition of """"""""Thucydides"""""""", the part, the latter part of the second book, containing the funeral oration by Pericles [comments on text].'"""
"""I have read several English reviews of my books at great length which are favourable in the extreme'."""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 27 April 1808: 'In the evening Mrs. D[?amer], and [Thomas] Ashe's Travels [in America].'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 3 June 1808: 'I continued reading Fox's work.  It is very well to read it once out; but it suggests so much thought, and so many new views of things, that I shall read it over more than once to myself in a very different manner to what I am now doing.'"""
"""search Blackstone and Goldsmith's """"""""History""""""""; much struck with style of latter; deserving, I think, to be more talked of'"""
"""Search in Blackstone and Goldsmith's """"""""History""""""""; much struck with style of latter; deserving [I] think, to be more talked of'"""
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"""Thomas Medwin, in his memoir of Shelley: 'In the beginning of [1808] I showed Shelley some poems to which I had subscribed by Felicia Browne [...] Her juvenile productions, remarkable certainly for her age [14] [...] made a powerful impression on Shelley'. """
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 30 June 1808: 'In the evening I read """"""""Barillon's Letters"""""""" in Mr. Fox's Appendix.'"""
"""It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called """"""""The Wreath"""""""", containing a collection of poems by various authors. Among these pieces was """"""""The Grave"""""""", which soon commended itself to my hearty and unqualified approbation...Besides this poem the volume contained """"""""The Minstrel"""""""", of which I venture to say that I consider it to be of almost unequalled beauty and interest... There was here yet another poem which arrested my attention as fully as much as did """"""""The Grave"""""""" or """"""""The Minstrel"""""""". This was entitled """"""""Death"""""""" - a prize winning poem written by that eminently good man Dr Porteus...' """
"""It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called """"""""The Wreath"""""""", containing a collection of poems by various authors. Among these pieces was """"""""The Grave"""""""", which soon commended itself to my hearty and unqualified approbation...Besides this poem the volume contained """"""""The Minstrel"""""""", of which I venture to say that I consider it to be of almost unequalled beauty and interest... There was here yet another poem which arrested my attention as fully as much as did """"""""The Grave"""""""" or """"""""The Minstrel"""""""". This was entitled """"""""Death"""""""" - a prize winning poem written by that eminently good man Dr Porteus...' """
"""It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called """"""""The Wreath"""""""", containing a collection of poems by various authors. Among these pieces was """"""""The Grave"""""""", which soon commended itself to my hearty and unqualified approbation...Besides this poem the volume contained """"""""The Minstrel"""""""", of which I venture to say that I consider it to be of almost unequalled beauty and interest... There was here yet another poem which arrested my attention as fully as much as did """"""""The Grave"""""""" or """"""""The Minstrel"""""""". This was entitled """"""""Death"""""""" - a prize winning poem written by that eminently good man Dr Porteus...' """
"""It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called """"""""The Wreath"""""""", containing a collection of poems by various authors. Among these pieces was """"""""The Grave"""""""", which soon commended itself to my hearty and unqualified approbation...Besides this poem the volume contained """"""""The Minstrel"""""""", of which I venture to say that I consider it to be of almost unequalled beauty and interest... There was here yet another poem which arrested my attention as fully as much as did """"""""The Grave"""""""" or """"""""The Minstrel"""""""". This was entitled """"""""Death"""""""" - a prize winning poem written by that eminently good man Dr Porteus...' """
""" ... C[oleridge] was reading ... [Petrarch, De Vita Solitaria] on arrival at Allan Bank in Sept. 1808 ... '"""
"""I looked also one evening into Prideaux's """"""""Connections"""""""" [...]But my chief employment was [...]the renewed attempt at solving the problem which I met with in the work of M Agnesi'"""
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"""In late 1808 S[ara] H[utchinson] copied the description of the gawlin from [Martin] Martin, pp.71-2, into C[oleridge]'s notebook ... '"""
"""Extract from The Whitehall Evening Post, April 1808 recording the marriage of Mary of Buttermere"""
"""[EDITOR'S WORDS] 'On reading the first sheets [of her """"""""Cottagers of Glenburnie""""""""] at her own fire-side, she was encouraged by observing, that it excited mirth. This induced her to extend the plan'."""
"""William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'I have read your sermon [Human Laws best supported by the Gospel] (which I lately received from Longman) with much pleasure.  I only gave it a cursory perusal, for since it arrived my family has been in great confusion, we having removed to another House, in which we are not yet half settled.  The Appendix I had received before in a frank, and of that I feel more entitled to speak, because I had read it more at leisure [goes on to discuss this in detail].'"""
"""William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'Thank you for Marmion which I have read with lively pleasure ... '"""
"""[Samuel] Rogers reported W[ordsworth]'s reaction to Brougham's harsh review of Byron's first volume: """"""""Wordsworth was spending an evening at Charles Lamb's, when he saw the said critique, which had just appeared.  He read it through, and remarked that 'though Byron's verses were probably poor enough, such an attack was abominable ... """"""""'"""
"""Henry Crabb Robinson on Wordsworth's reading of Henry Brougham's review of Byron, Hours of Idleness: 'I was sitting with Charles Lamb when Wordsworth came in, with fume on his countenance, and the Edinburgh Review in his hand.  """"""""I have no patience with these reviewers,"""""""" he said, """"""""here is a young man, a lord, and a minor ... and these fellows attack him, as if no one may write poetry unless he lives in a garret.""""""""' """
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"""The serious thoughts to which my illness gave rise were much strengthened by my reading at the time several of Dr Watt's """"""""Lyric Poems"""""""" which then came first into my hands.' """
"""I, moreover, found my Sunday pursuits and amusements to be powerfully instrumental in cheering and elevating my """"""""inner man""""""""... That I might make the day as long as possible, I rose early: if the mornings were at all fine, I walked in the adjacent fields where I found ample amusement in either reading the book of nature or some humbler volume, without which I took care never [last word underlined] to go out on these excursions.'"""
"""?A publication of a different description also fell in my way. Mr Hale was a reader of """"""""Cobbett?s Weekly Register"""""""", and as I constantly saw the tract lying on the desk at the beginning of the week, I at length read it, and found within its pages far more matter for reflection than, from its unattractive title and appearance, I had expected to find there. The nervous and unmistakeable English of that work there was so withstanding. I thenceforth became as constant a reader of Cobbett?s writings as was my master himself, and was soon, probably, a more ardent admirer of his doctrines than was my employer.?"""
"""?A publication of a different description also fell in my way. Mr Hale was a reader of """"""""Cobbett?s Weekly Register"""""""", and as I constantly saw the tract lying on the desk at the beginning of the week, I at length read it, and found within its pages far more matter for reflection than, from its unattractive title and appearance, I had expected to find there. The nervous and unmistakeable English of that work there was so withstanding. I thenceforth became as constant a reader of Cobbett?s writings as was my master himself, and was soon, probably, a more ardent admirer of his doctrines than was my employer.?"""
""" ... a most violent attack is preparing for me in the the next number of the Edinburgh Review, this I have from the authority of a friend who has seen the proof and manuscript of the Critique ... '"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 31 January 1808: 'Read through Roscoe's pamphlet and Spence's """"""""England Independent of Commerce.""""""""'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 31 January 1808: 'Read through Roscoe's pamphlet and Spence's """"""""England Independent of Commerce.""""""""'"""
"""William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'I had a peep at your edition of Dryden - I had not time to read the Notes which would have interested me most, namely the historical and illustrative ones; but some of the critical introductions I read ... '"""
"""D[orothy] W[ordsworth] made copies of extracts or complete texts from Philips' Collection in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... some time between 10 July 1807 and c.5 June 1808.  The ballads were: Eighth Henry Ruling in this land; A Princely Song of the Six Queens that were married to Henry the 8th; Fitte of the Ballad of Lady Jane Grey and Lord Guilford Dudley; The Lady Arabella and Lord Seymour; The Suffolk Miracle; and the Lamentable Complaint of Queen Mary for the Unkind Departure of King Philip.'  """
"""Dorothy Wordsworth writes to Catherine Clarkson on 'Thursday Evening December 8th [1808]': 'Mr. De Quincey ... is beside me, quietly turning over the leaves of a Greek book ... '"""
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"""Mary Berry, Journal, 9 June 1808: 'Dined at Lady Donegal's with Agnes [Berry, her sister].  Philippa (Godfrey), Charles Moore, and Anacreon [ie Thomas] Moore at dinner.  I praised highly the two poems (""""""""Corruption"""""""" and """"""""Intolerance"""""""") that I had been reading in the morning, before the author (little Moore), without knowing it.  After dinner he owned the fact, and was much pleased with my unsuspicious praise.'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 9 June 1808: 'Dined at Lady Donegal's with Agnes [Berry, her sister].  Philippa (Godfrey), Charles Moore, and Anacreon [ie Thomas] Moore at dinner.  I praised highly the two poems (""""""""Corruption"""""""" and """"""""Intolerance"""""""") that I had been reading in the morning, before the author (little Moore), without knowing it.  After dinner he owned the fact, and was much pleased with my unsuspicious praise.'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 9 March 1808: 'I went in the evening to Mrs. D[?amer].  Read """"""""Marmion,"""""""" just come out, to her.'"""
"""""""""""I have read Corinne with my father, and I like it better than he does. In one word, I am dazzled by the genius, provoked by the absurdities, and in admiration of the taste and critical judgement of Italian literature displayed throughout the work. ... My father acknowledges he never read anything more pathetic."""""""""""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth reflects on prospect that her brother William might turn to newspaper journalism for a living: 'This reminds me of the last Edinburgh Review which I saw at Mr. Wilson's.  There never was such a compound of despicable falsehood, malevolence and folly as the concluding part of the Review of Burns's Poems (which was ... all that I thought it worth while to read being the only part in which my Brother's works are alluded to).'"""
"""Has your newspaper given a sad story of a Mrs Middleton, wife of a Farmer in Yorkshire, her sister & servant being almost frozen to death in the late weather - her little Child quite so? - I hope this sister is not our friend Miss Woodd - & I rather think her Brotherinlaw had moved into Lincolnshire, but their name & station accord too well...'"""
"""Read a little in Arist. """"""""Polit"""""""" before I went to bed.'"""
"""I have been looking over books in the book case where the Dionysius stands, Stow's """"""""Chronicle and survey of London"""""""". by wisdom, truth and heed was he/ Advanced an alderman to be./ First chapter also of that most absurd dogmatical and offensive book, the """"""""Divine""""""""'"""
"""I have been looking over books in the book case where the Dionysius stands, Stow's """"""""Chronicle and survey of London"""""""". By wisdom, truth and heed was he/ advanced an aldermanto be./ First chapter also of that most absurd dogmatical and offensive book, the """"""""Divine Legation Demonstrated"""""""".'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 12 May 1809: 'This morning I had the Bishop of Rodez with me for nearly two hours.  I read to him my preface and my """"""""Notice on the Life [of Madame du Deffand], &c., &c.,"""""""" with which he was well pleased, saying it was impossible to give a more faithful picture of the person whom he had known during the latter years of his life in great intimacy.' """
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 12 May 1809: 'This morning I had the Bishop of Rodez with me for nearly two hours.  I read to him my preface and my """"""""Notice on the Life [of Madame du Deffand], &c., &c.,"""""""" with which he was well pleased, saying it was impossible to give a more faithful picture of the person whom he had known during the latter years of his life in great intimacy.' """
"""Read in library; for first time, in Swift's """"""""Ode to Athenian Society"""""""". Not in good state to judge, but thought it but heavy, though not worse perhaps than odes generally are. Mem.: to read it again.'"""
"""Read in library; for first time, in Swift's """"""""Ode to Athenian Society"""""""". Not in good state to judge, but thought it bit heavy, though not worse perhaps than odes generally are. Mem.: to read it again.'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 14 August 1809: 'In the evening read aloud the account of General Moore's campaign in Spain [makes various enthusiastic exclamations on this].'"""
"""Day of """"""""Gazette"""""""" arriving, with news of Wellesley's victory [Battle of Talavera] of 28th July.'"""
"""Read papers, and last number but one of Cob. A little in the Milton. Licence for universal printing: and in Thucydides.'"""
"""Read papers, and last number but one of Cob. A little in the Milton. Licence for universal printing: and in Thucydides.'"""
"""Read papers, and last number but one of Cob. A little in the Milton. Licence for universal printing: and in Thucydides.'"""
"""To set against your new Novel, of which nobody ever heard before & perhaps never may again, We have got """"""""Ida of Athens"""""""" by Miss Owenson; which must be very clever, because it was written as the Authoress says, in three months. - We have only read the Preface yet; but her Irish Girl does not make me expect much. - If the warmth of her Language could affect the Body, it might be worth reading in this weather.'"""
"""Hester Thrale compared herself to Swift's Vanessa who """"""""held Montaigne and read- / while Mrs Susan comb'd her Head"""""""", and read the """"""""Spectator"""""""" to her daughters while her """"""""Maid... was dressing [her] Hair"""""""".'"""
"""On 19 April 1809 S[ara] H[utchinson] wrote to Mary Monkhouse from Allan Bank, """"""""The nicest model of a churn I ever saw was in 'Barrow's account of the interior of Africa.'""""""""'"""
"""""""""""I have just been reading, for the fourth time, I believe, The Simple Story, which I intended this time to read as a critic, that I might write to Mrs Inchbald about it; but I was so carried away by it that I was totally incapable of thinking of Mrs Inchbald or anything but Miss Milner and Doriforth, who appeared as real persons... I think it the most pathetic and the most powerfully interesting tale I ever read."""""""""""
"""""""""""This minute I hear a carman is going to Navan, and I hasten to send you the Cottagers of Glenburnie, which I hope you will like as well as I do. I think it will do a vast deal of good to you, and besides it is extremely interesting, which all good books are not: it has great powers, both comic and tragic."""""""""""
"""""""""""... but I do send by a carman two volumes of Alfieri's Life and Kirwan's Essay on Happiness, and the ... edition of Parent's Assistant, which with your leave, I present to your servant Richard."""""""""""
"""Dr Ferris [...] has lent me a treatise of Dr Vincent's on the origin of the Greek verb, which seems to be ingenious. As far as I can collect from the little I have read [...]'"""
"""Dr Ferris, since I have been here, has lent me [...] at the same time Mrs Galando's """"""""Letters"""""""", a foolish slander, as it seems, against Mrs Siddons'"""
"""Nearly the whole time from breakfast till Mr Legge's coming down, employed in reading Cobbett. More thoroughly wicked and mischievous than almost any that has appeared yet.'"""
"""[Marginalia]: All three volumes have marginal vertical lines and underlines which appear to indicate meaningful points for the reader (Magdalene Erskine).  Vol. 2 has a number of sketches by her.  Some of the lines are accompanied by comments or corrections.  The end of vol. 3 is dated """"""""My cottage Jany 19th 1809 Thursday night by ... fireside"""""""".  Marginal comments are in general very brief."""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 21 February 1809: 'This morning I went to the [Middle] Temple to Mr. Lysons', to see some very ancient MSS. of the time of Henry IV., Edward IV., and Richard III., &c. &c., of which he is the depositary, as """"""""Keeper of the Records in the Tower.""""""""'"""
"""Read a little in Thucydides.'"""
"""I am gratified by her [Fanny Knight] having pleasure in what I write - but I wish the knowledge of my being exposed to her discerning Criticism, may not hurt my stile [sic], by inducing too great a solicitude...'"""
"""The Portsmouth paper gave a melancholy history of a poor Mad Woman, escaped from Confinement, who said her Husband & Daughter of the Name of Payne lived at Ashford in Kent. Do You own them?'"""
"""Up by nine. Read a little this morning in Lord Bolingbroke's """"""""Study of History"""""""". What extreme foppery! Yet what can one point out as proofs?'"""
"""Went up for a short time into library, and read in """"""""Oration of Lysias"""""""". [quotes Greek text]'"""
"""Breakfasted below. Read """"""""Edinburgh Review"""""""" afterwards, for first time, after I know what interval, a little Greek, viz Plut. """"""""Phocian""""""""'"""
"""Read """"""""Edinburgh Review""""""""; afterwards, for first time, after I know not what interval, a little Greek, viz. Plut. """"""""Phocian"""""""" the same [...] as reccomended so many years ago by Fox and which put me first on reading """"""""Plutarch's Lives""""""""'"""
""""""""""" ... a summary of the contents of the Proceedings was published in the Courier on 3 Jan. 1809, and read by W[ordsworth].  Aware of W[ordsworth]'s interest in the Convention of Cintra, [Daniel] Stuart offered him a copy of the pamphlet ... De Quincey sent one to Grasmere ... where it arrived on 1 April 1809 ... W[ordsworth] had read it by 26 April ... """""""""""
"""The evidences of the infinite wisdom, power, and goodness of the great Creator, given by Paley in his Natural Theology, have attracted my attention to objects that might otherwise have escaped my notice'."""
"""De Quincey ... in a letter to the Wordsworths of 27 May 1809 said that he had read ... [Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers] """"""""some weeks - or  perhaps months - ago: but it is so deplorably dull and silly that I never thought of mentioning it before.'''"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 28 April 1809: 'In the morning I saw Joanna [Baillie].  She stayed nearly an hour with me.  I read to her my """"""""Notice upon Madame du D----'s Life,"""""""" with which she was so pleased that I could not but feel very much flattered.'"""
"""I have to attend to the direction of the House, the table &c, as well as literary studies; to assist in entertaining company in the parlour; and give directions to the servants. I am studying the art of carving, and learning, as far as books will teach me, as well as giving instructions. Mr P. has a most excellent library."""
"""[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gave to my father & me each a Copy. His Motto, I think a most happy one, taken from some work of the great Bentley's - """"""""The most excellent Bishop Pearson - the very dust of whose writings is gold"""""""". - I have read above half the volume; it is all fudge to call it a book for the use of [underlined] young persons [end underlining] - Unless they are such Young Persons as Moll, who reads Lock on Human Understanding in two days, & says it is easy, & fancies she understands it - And the same farce she played regarding Butler's Analogy, the toughest book (allowed by learned men) in the English language, which she spoke of with the familiar partiality I would speak of Tom Hickerthrift, & bamboozled me into trying to read - and, Good Lord! when I had pored over a dozen pages & shook my ears, and asked myself - """"""""Well, Sal, how dost like it? Dost understand one word?"""""""" """"""""O, yes; all the [underlined] words [end underlining], but not one of their meanings when put together."""""""" """"""""Why, then, Sal; put the book away; and say nothing about it; but say thy prayers in peace, & leave the reasons [underlined] why [end underlining] thou art impelled to say them, and all the [underlined] fatras [end underlining] of analyzation, to those who have more logical brains, or more leisure to read what they do not comprehend"""""""". But, however, a great part of Dr Charles's abridgement, I flatter myself I [underlined] do [end underlining] understand; and what is too deep for me, Moll may explain. He has retained a heap of hard words, which send me to Dr Johnson's dictionary continually - Some of them, are expressive, & worth reviving, others, we have happier substitutes for, and it was ungraceful to admit them, and <a> shewed a false and pedantic taste'."""
"""[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gave to my father & me each a Copy. His Motto, I think a most happy one, taken from some work of the great Bentley's - """"""""The most excellent Bishop Pearson - the very dust of whose writings is gold"""""""". - I have read above half the volume; it is all fudge to call it a book for the use of [underlined] young persons [end underlining] - Unless they are such Young Persons as Moll, who reads Lock on Human Understanding in two days, & says it is easy, & fancies she understands it - And the same farce she played regarding Butler's Analogy, the toughest book (allowed by learned men) in the English language, which she spoke of with the familiar partiality I would speak of Tom Hickerthrift, & bamboozled me into trying to read - and, Good Lord! when I had pored over a dozen pages & shook my ears, and asked myself - """"""""Well, Sal, how dost like it? Dost understand one word?"""""""" """"""""O, yes; all the [underlined] words [end underlining], but not one of their meanings when put together."""""""" """"""""Why, then, Sal; put the book away; and say nothing about it; but say thy prayers in peace, & leave the reasons [underlined] why [end underlining] thou art impelled to say them, and all the [underlined] fatras [end underlining] of analyzation, to those who have more logical brains, or more leisure to read what they do not comprehend"""""""". But, however, a great part of Dr Charles's abridgement, I flatter myself I [underlined] do [end underlining] understand; and what is too deep for me, Moll may explain. He has retained a heap of hard words, which send me to Dr Johnson's dictionary continually - Some of them, are expressive, & worth reviving, others, we have happier substitutes for, and it was ungraceful to admit them, and <a> shewed a false and pedantic taste'."""
"""[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gave to my father & me each a Copy. His Motto, I think a most happy one, taken from some work of the great Bentley's - """"""""The most excellent Bishop Pearson - the very dust of whose writings is gold"""""""". - I have read above half the volume; it is all fudge to call it a book for the use of [underlined] young persons [end underlining] - Unless they are such Young Persons as Moll, who reads Lock on Human Understanding in two days, & says it is easy, & fancies she understands it - And the same farce she played regarding Butler's Analogy, the toughest book (allowed by learned men) in the English language, which she spoke of with the familiar partiality I would speak of Tom Hickerthrift, & bamboozled me into trying to read - and, Good Lord! when I had pored over a dozen pages & shook my ears, and asked myself - """"""""Well, Sal, how dost like it? Dost understand one word?"""""""" """"""""O, yes; all the [underlined] words [end underlining], but not one of their meanings when put together."""""""" """"""""Why, then, Sal; put the book away; and say nothing about it; but say thy prayers in peace, & leave the reasons [underlined] why [end underlining] thou art impelled to say them, and all the [underlined] fatras [end underlining] of analyzation, to those who have more logical brains, or more leisure to read what they do not comprehend"""""""". But, however, a great part of Dr Charles's abridgement, I flatter myself I [underlined] do [end underlining] understand; and what is too deep for me, Moll may explain. He has retained a heap of hard words, which send me to Dr Johnson's dictionary continually - Some of them, are expressive, & worth reviving, others, we have happier substitutes for, and it was ungraceful to admit them, and <a> shewed a false and pedantic taste'."""
"""I have read the rights of Woman, am become a convert think dissipation great folly & shall remain the whole year discreetly & quietly in the Country.'"""
"""I have just been reading an old Magazine where I find that Benjamin Flower was fined ?100 and imprisoned in Newgate four months ... for a libel, as it was termed, upon the Bishop of Llandaff ... '"""
"""Mr. Wilson came to us on Saturday morning and stayed till Sunday afternoon - William [Wordsworth] read the White Doe; and Coleridge's Christabel to him, with both of which he was much delighted.'"""
"""Mr. Wilson came to us on Saturday morning and stayed till Sunday afternoon - William [Wordsworth] read the White Doe; and Coleridge's Christabel to him, with both of which he was much delighted.'"""
"""C[oleridge] read ... [George Carleton, Memoirs] in April [1809] ... '"""
"""[review of the novel. Noted but not reproduced by the editor]"""
"""C[oleridge] was reading Herbert  in July-Sept 1809 ... during his residence at Allan Bank ... He was apparently reading his copy of The Temple ... '"""
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"""Mary Berry, Journal, August 1809: 'I have been reading a strange poem -- the """"""""Columbiad"""""""" of Poet [Joel] Barlow.  Who or what he is I know not, except that he is an American, deeply imbued with all the bad taste and all the prejudices which belong to his nation, in its present state of society [makes various negative criticisms] [...] Yet I have been amused at this first American attempt at an epic, with all its faults, all its vulgarisms [...] and all its false reasoning.  It is full of ideas, embraces an endless variety of subjects [...] Sets one a thinking, sometimes justly, but oftener to detect and wonder at its commonplace mistakes, and the conceit with which so many false and romantic doctrines are brought forward and dwelt upon [goes on to reflect further].'"""
"""[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studied poetry. """"""""If Shakespeare's talents were miracles of uncultured intuition, we feel, that neither Milton's, Pope's, Akenside's, Gray's or Darwin's were such, but that poetic investigation, and long familiarity with the best writers in that line, cooperated to produce their excellence"""""""".'"""
"""[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studied poetry. """"""""If Shakespeare's talents were miracles of uncultured intuition, we feel, that neither Milton's, Pope's, Akenside's, Gray's or Darwin's were such, but that poetic investigation, and long familiarity with the best writers in that line, cooperated to produce their excellence"""""""".'"""
"""[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studied poetry. """"""""If Shakespeare's talents were miracles of uncultured intuition, we feel, that neither Milton's, Pope's, Akenside's, Gray's or Darwin's were such, but that poetic investigation, and long familiarity with the best writers in that line, cooperated to produce their excellence"""""""".'"""
"""[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studied poetry. """"""""If Shakespeare's talents were miracles of uncultured intuition, we feel, that neither Milton's, Pope's, Akenside's, Gray's or Darwin's were such, but that poetic investigation, and long familiarity with the best writers in that line, cooperated to produce their excellence"""""""".'"""
"""[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studied poetry. """"""""If Shakespeare's talents were miracles of uncultured intuition, we feel, that neither Milton's, Pope's, Akenside's, Gray's or Darwin's were such, but that poetic investigation, and long familiarity with the best writers in that line, cooperated to produce their excellence"""""""".'"""
"""[Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: """"""""It is not true of Pope that he polished everything high. His 'Satires', his 'Ethic Epistles', the glorious 'Dunciad', and even several parts of the 'Essay on Man', frequently present passages in a plain, unornamented style"""""""".'"""
"""[Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: """"""""It is not true of Pope that he polished everything high. His 'Satires', his 'Ethic Epistles', the glorious 'Dunciad', and even several parts of the 'Essay on Man', frequently present passages in a plain, unornamented style"""""""".'"""
"""[Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: """"""""It is not true of Pope that he polished everything high. His 'Satires', his 'Ethic Epistles', the glorious 'Dunciad', and even several parts of the 'Essay on Man', frequently present passages in a plain, unornamented style"""""""".'"""
"""[Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: """"""""It is not true of Pope that he polished everything high. His 'Satires', his 'Ethic Epistles', the glorious 'Dunciad', and even several parts of the 'Essay on Man', frequently present passages in a plain, unornamented style"""""""".'"""
"""When Erasmus Darwin espouses the late-century opinion that """"""""poetry admits of few abstract terms"""""""", Seward replies, """"""""poetry that is merely imaginative and picturesque may not. If we find few abstract terms in the 'Rape of the Lock', we find a profusion of them in the sublimer 'Essay on Man'"""""""".'"""
"""[letter to Miss J-B-] I have just been looking over the fifth volume of poor Burns. it contains much that he would have been sorry to imagine before the public eye; but his letter to Mr Erskine, and some others, are invaluable'."""
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"""C[oleridge] consulted ... [the Weekly Political Register] while working on the Friend ... '"""
"""C[oleridge] read Gifford's introduction and Ferriar's essay on Massinger in Dec. 1808-09.'"""
"""C[oleridge] read Gifford's introduction and Ferriar's essay on Massinger in Dec. 1808-09.'"""
"""What I thus learned was, I think, much enforced by the perusal of that well-known little book, Watt's """"""""Divine and Moral Songs"""""""", which I read with so much interest as to impress them indelibly upon the memory.'"""
"""It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the """"""""Spectator""""""""; to which I added the """"""""Rambler"""""""", the """"""""Tatler"""""""", and some others of the """"""""British Essayists"""""""". I also read the poetical works of Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Gray, Collins, Falconer, Pomfret, Akenside, Mrs. Rowe, with others which I cannot now clearly call to mind. I remember, however, to have read Gay's poems. These gave me more than usual satisfaction. I was much amused with his """"""""Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets"""""""" but I was especially pleased with his admirably burlesque """"""""pastorals"""""""". These just squared with my humour, for I had then, as I have ever had, an utter dislike to the sickening stuff that is called the pastoral poetry...I must not omit to mention the pleasure I derived from reading a poem called """"""""The Village Curate"""""""", which, I think, has fallen into unmerited oblivion."""
"""It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the """"""""Spectator""""""""; to which I added the """"""""Rambler"""""""", the """"""""Tatler"""""""", and some others of the """"""""British Essayists"""""""". I also read the poetical works of Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Gray, Collins, Falconer, Pomfret, Akenside, Mrs. Rowe, with others which I cannot now clearly call to mind. I remember, however, to have read Gay's poems. These gave me more than usual satisfaction. I was much amused with his """"""""Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets"""""""" but I was especially pleased with his admirably burlesque """"""""pastorals"""""""". These just squared with my humour, for I had then, as I have ever had, an utter dislike to the sickening stuff that is called the pastoral poetry...I must not omit to mention the pleasure I derived from reading a poem called """"""""The Village Curate"""""""", which, I think, has fallen into unmerited oblivion.'  """
"""It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the """"""""Spectator""""""""; to which I added the """"""""Rambler"""""""", the """"""""Tatler"""""""", and some others of the """"""""British Essayists"""""""". I also read the poetical works of Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Gray, Collins, Falconer, Pomfret, Akenside, Mrs. Rowe, with others which I cannot now clearly call to mind. I remember, however, to have read Gay's poems. These gave me more than usual satisfaction. I was much amused with his """"""""Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets"""""""" but I was especially pleased with his admirably burlesque """"""""pastorals"""""""". These just squared with my humour, for I had then, as I have ever had, an utter dislike to the sickening stuff that is called the pastoral poetry...I must not omit to mention the pleasure I derived from reading a poem called """"""""The Village Curate"""""""", which, I think, has fallen into unmerited oblivion.  """
"""It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the """"""""Spectator""""""""; to which I added the """"""""Rambler"""""""", the """"""""Tatler"""""""", and some others of the """"""""British Essayists"""""""". I also read the poetical works of Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Gray, Collins, Falconer, Pomfret, Akenside, Mrs. Rowe, with others which I cannot now clearly call to mind. I remember, however, to have read Gay's poems. These gave me more than usual satisfaction. I was much amused with his """"""""Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets"""""""" but I was especially pleased with his admirably burlesque """"""""pastorals"""""""". These just squared with my humour, for I had then, as I have ever had, an utter dislike to the sickening stuff that is called the pastoral poetry...I must not omit to mention the pleasure I derived from reading a poem called """"""""The Village Curate"""""""", which, I think, has fallen into unmerited oblivion.'  """
"""It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the """"""""Spectator""""""""; to which I added the """"""""Rambler"""""""", the """"""""Tatler"""""""", and some others of the """"""""British Essayists"""""""". I also read the poetical works of Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Gray, Collins, Falconer, Pomfret, Akenside, Mrs. Rowe, with others which I cannot now clearly call to mind. I remember, however, to have read Gay's poems. These gave me more than usual satisfaction. I was much amused with his """"""""Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets"""""""" but I was especially pleased with his admirably burlesque """"""""pastorals"""""""". These just squared with my humour, for I had then, as I have ever had, an utter dislike to the sickening stuff that is called the pastoral poetry...I must not omit to mention the pleasure I derived from reading a poem called """"""""The Village Curate"""""""", which, I think, has fallen into unmerited oblivion.'  """
"""In the course of my very desultory readings, I perused """"""""Boswell's Life of Dr Johnson""""""""; which I still consider to be a very amusing and very instructive piece of biography.' """
"""About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chiefly remember those of Bruce, Le Vaillant and Weld. Mr. Weld's narrative so deeply interested me, as to have well nigh been the occasion of my emigrating to the United States or Canada. The desire of seeing those countries which was excited thereby remained with me for some years: it was the cause of my reading several works descriptive of North America and the condition of its inhabitants.'"""
"""About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chiefly remember those of Bruce, Le Vaillant and Weld. Mr. Weld's narrative so deeply interested me, as to have well nigh been the occasion of my emigrating to the United States or Canada. The desire of seeing those countries which was excited thereby remained with me for some years: it was the cause of my reading several works descriptive of North America and the condition of its inhabitants.'"""
"""About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chiefly remember those of Bruce, Le Vaillant and Weld. Mr. Weld's narrative so deeply interested me, as to have well nigh been the occasion of my emigrating to the United States or Canada. The desire of seeing those countries which was excited thereby remained with me for some years: it was the cause of my reading several works descriptive of North America and the condition of its inhabitants.'"""
"""About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chiefly remember those of Bruce, Le Vaillant and Weld. Mr. Weld's narrative so deeply interested me, as to have well nigh been the occasion of my emigrating to the United States or Canada. The desire of seeing those countries which was excited thereby remained with me for some years: it was the cause of my reading several works descriptive of North America and the condition of its inhabitants.'"""
"""About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chiefly remember those of Bruce, Le Vaillant and Weld. Mr. Weld's narrative so deeply interested me, as to have well nigh been the occasion of my emigrating to the United States or Canada. The desire of seeing those countries which was excited thereby remained with me for some years: it was the cause of my reading several works descriptive of North America and the condition of its inhabitants.'"""
"""About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chiefly remember those of Bruce, Le Vaillant and Weld. Mr. Weld's narrative so deeply interested me, as to have well nigh been the occasion of my emigrating to the United States or Canada. The desire of seeing those countries which was excited thereby remained with me for some years: it was the cause of my reading several works descriptive of North America and the condition of its inhabitants.'"""
"""It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the """"""""Spectator""""""""; to which I added the """"""""Rambler"""""""", the """"""""Tatler"""""""", and some others of the """"""""British Essayists"""""""". I also read the poetical works of Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Gray, Collins, Falconer, Pomfret, Akenside, Mrs. Rowe, with others which I cannot now clearly call to mind. I remember, however, to have read Gay's poems. These gave me more than usual satisfaction. I was much amused with his """"""""Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets"""""""" but I was especially pleased with his admirably burlesque """"""""pastorals"""""""". These just squared with my humour, for I had then, as I have ever had, an utter dislike to the sickening stuff that is called the pastoral poetry...I must not omit to mention the pleasure I derived from reading a poem called """"""""The Village Curate"""""""", which, I think, has fallen into unmerited oblivion.'  """
"""It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the """"""""Spectator""""""""; to which I added the """"""""Rambler"""""""", the """"""""Tatler"""""""", and some others of the """"""""British Essayists"""""""". I also read the poetical works of Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Gray, Collins, Falconer, Pomfret, Akenside, Mrs. Rowe, with others which I cannot now clearly call to mind. I remember, however, to have read Gay's poems. These gave me more than usual satisfaction. I was much amused with his """"""""Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets"""""""" but I was especially pleased with his admirably burlesque """"""""pastorals"""""""". These just squared with my humour, for I had then, as I have ever had, an utter dislike to the sickening stuff that is called the pastoral poetry...I must not omit to mention the pleasure I derived from reading a poem called """"""""The Village Curate"""""""", which, I think, has fallen into unmerited oblivion.'  """
"""It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the """"""""Spectator""""""""; to which I added the """"""""Rambler"""""""", the """"""""Tatler"""""""", and some others of the """"""""British Essayists"""""""". I also read the poetical works of Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Gray, Collins, Falconer, Pomfret, Akenside, Mrs. Rowe, with others which I cannot now clearly call to mind. I remember, however, to have read Gay's poems. These gave me more than usual satisfaction. I was much amused with his """"""""Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets"""""""" but I was especially pleased with his admirably burlesque """"""""pastorals"""""""". These just squared with my humour, for I had then, as I have ever had, an utter dislike to the sickening stuff that is called the pastoral poetry...I must not omit to mention the pleasure I derived from reading a poem called """"""""The Village Curate"""""""", which, I think, has fallen into unmerited oblivion.'  """
"""It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the """"""""Spectator""""""""; to which I added the """"""""Rambler"""""""", the """"""""Tatler"""""""", and some others of the """"""""British Essayists"""""""". I also read the poetical works of Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Gray, Collins, Falconer, Pomfret, Akenside, Mrs. Rowe, with others which I cannot now clearly call to mind. I remember, however, to have read Gay's poems. These gave me more than usual satisfaction. I was much amused with his """"""""Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets"""""""" but I was especially pleased with his admirably burlesque """"""""pastorals"""""""". These just squared with my humour, for I had then, as I have ever had, an utter dislike to the sickening stuff that is called the pastoral poetry...I must not omit to mention the pleasure I derived from reading a poem called """"""""The Village Curate"""""""", which, I think, has fallen into unmerited oblivion.'  """
"""It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the """"""""Spectator""""""""; to which I added the """"""""Rambler"""""""", the """"""""Tatler"""""""", and some others of the """"""""British Essayists"""""""". I also read the poetical works of Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Gray, Collins, Falconer, Pomfret, Akenside, Mrs. Rowe, with others which I cannot now clearly call to mind. I remember, however, to have read Gay's poems. These gave me more than usual satisfaction. I was much amused with his """"""""Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets"""""""" but I was especially pleased with his admirably burlesque """"""""pastorals"""""""". These just squared with my humour, for I had then, as I have ever had, an utter dislike to the sickening stuff that is called the pastoral poetry...I must not omit to mention the pleasure I derived from reading a poem called """"""""The Village Curate"""""""", which, I think, has fallen into unmerited oblivion.'  """
"""It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the """"""""Spectator""""""""; to which I added the """"""""Rambler"""""""", the """"""""Tatler"""""""", and some others of the """"""""British Essayists"""""""". I also read the poetical works of Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Gray, Collins, Falconer, Pomfret, Akenside, Mrs. Rowe, with others which I cannot now clearly call to mind. I remember, however, to have read Gay's poems. These gave me more than usual satisfaction. I was much amused with his """"""""Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets"""""""" but I was especially pleased with his admirably burlesque """"""""pastorals"""""""". These just squared with my humour, for I had then, as I have ever had, an utter dislike to the sickening stuff that is called the pastoral poetry...I must not omit to mention the pleasure I derived from reading a poem called """"""""The Village Curate"""""""", which, I think, has fallen into unmerited oblivion.'  """
"""It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the """"""""Spectator""""""""; to which I added the """"""""Rambler"""""""", the """"""""Tatler"""""""", and some others of the """"""""British Essayists"""""""". I also read the poetical works of Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Gray, Collins, Falconer, Pomfret, Akenside, Mrs. Rowe, with others which I cannot now clearly call to mind. I remember, however, to have read Gay's poems. These gave me more than usual satisfaction. I was much amused with his """"""""Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets"""""""" but I was especially pleased with his admirably burlesque """"""""pastorals"""""""". These just squared with my humour, for I had then, as I have ever had, an utter dislike to the sickening stuff that is called the pastoral poetry...I must not omit to mention the pleasure I derived from reading a poem called """"""""The Village Curate"""""""", which, I think, has fallen into unmerited oblivion.'  """
"""It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the """"""""Spectator""""""""; to which I added the """"""""Rambler"""""""", the """"""""Tatler"""""""", and some others of the """"""""British Essayists"""""""". I also read the poetical works of Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Gray, Collins, Falconer, Pomfret, Akenside, Mrs. Rowe, with others which I cannot now clearly call to mind. I remember, however, to have read Gay's poems. These gave me more than usual satisfaction. I was much amused with his """"""""Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets"""""""" but I was especially pleased with his admirably burlesque """"""""pastorals"""""""". These just squared with my humour, for I had then, as I have ever had, an utter dislike to the sickening stuff that is called the pastoral poetry...I must not omit to mention the pleasure I derived from reading a poem called """"""""The Village Curate"""""""", which, I think, has fallen into unmerited oblivion.'  """
"""It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the """"""""Spectator""""""""; to which I added the """"""""Rambler"""""""", the """"""""Tatler"""""""", and some others of the """"""""British Essayists"""""""". I also read the poetical works of Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Gray, Collins, Falconer, Pomfret, Akenside, Mrs. Rowe, with others which I cannot now clearly call to mind. I remember, however, to have read Gay's poems. These gave me more than usual satisfaction. I was much amused with his """"""""Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets"""""""" but I was especially pleased with his admirably burlesque """"""""pastorals"""""""". These just squared with my humour, for I had then, as I have ever had, an utter dislike to the sickening stuff that is called the pastoral poetry...I must not omit to mention the pleasure I derived from reading a poem called """"""""The Village Curate"""""""", which, I think, has fallen into unmerited oblivion.'  """
"""It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the """"""""Spectator""""""""; to which I added the """"""""Rambler"""""""", the """"""""Tatler"""""""", and some others of the """"""""British Essayists"""""""". I also read the poetical works of Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Gray, Collins, Falconer, Pomfret, Akenside, Mrs. Rowe, with others which I cannot now clearly call to mind. I remember, however, to have read Gay's poems. These gave me more than usual satisfaction. I was much amused with his """"""""Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets"""""""" but I was especially pleased with his admirably burlesque """"""""pastorals"""""""". These just squared with my humour, for I had then, as I have ever had, an utter dislike to the sickening stuff that is called the pastoral poetry...I must not omit to mention the pleasure I derived from reading a poem called """"""""The Village Curate"""""""", which, I think, has fallen into unmerited oblivion.'  """
"""It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the """"""""Spectator""""""""; to which I added the """"""""Rambler"""""""", the """"""""Tatler"""""""", and some others of the """"""""British Essayists"""""""". I also read the poetical works of Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Gray, Collins, Falconer, Pomfret, Akenside, Mrs. Rowe, with others which I cannot now clearly call to mind. I remember, however, to have read Gay's poems. These gave me more than usual satisfaction. I was much amused with his """"""""Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets"""""""" but I was especially pleased with his admirably burlesque """"""""pastorals"""""""". These just squared with my humour, for I had then, as I have ever had, an utter dislike to the sickening stuff that is called the pastoral poetry...I must not omit to mention the pleasure I derived from reading a poem called """"""""The Village Curate"""""""", which, I think, has fallen into unmerited oblivion.'  """
"""[Thomas De Quincey] got round to reading ... [Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife] only in late June or early July [1809], when """"""""I read about 40 pages in the 1st. vol: such trash I really never did read.""""""""'"""
"""Lamb read ... [Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife] at around ... [June-July 1809] ... on 7 June he told C[oleridge] that """"""""it is one of the very poorest sort of common novels with the drawback of dull religion in it.""""""""'"""
"""W[ordsworth] translated ten epitaphs from Chiabrera's Opere ... probably ...between 26 Oct. and 4 Nov. 1809.'"""
"""I began Sir John Mo[o]res letters again and am very much struck if the account is true with the bad management there seems to have been at first setting out.  I cannot also conceive how with such letters & opinions daily coming forth such a general infatuation about the Spaniards could prevail [...] [I]n Sir J Mo[o]res letter to Mr. Frere where one can see he is in a tiff at his appointment he agrees with you about titles wrongly bestowed [...] my blood curdled with the quantity of black bile Freres' pompous insignificant impudent letter brought forth.'"""
"""I have read Cevallos; also I have read Miss Smith's Translation of Klopstock's and Mrs. K's letters [goes on to express preference for Mrs Klopstock's letters over those of her husband].'"""
"""I have read Cevallos; also I have read Miss Smith's Translation of Klopstock's and Mrs. K's letters [goes on to express preference for Mrs Klopstock's letters over those of her husband].'"""
"""Afterwards, when upstairs, Mrs Montagu's """"""""Letters"""""""" which I think very highly of.'"""
"""In the evening read poem of """"""""Talevera"""""""" ascribed to Croker.'"""
""" ... a summary of the contents of the Proceedings was published in the Courier on 3 Jan. 1809, and read by W[ordsworth].'"""
"""I have seen a hint in one of the Papers about some letters of [General Sir] David Baird to the same tune as [Sir John] Moore's [about the Peninsular Campaign].'"""
"""Poor Godwin is a terrific example for all conjugal biography; but he has marked that path which may be avoided? The title of Mrs Owens? new work has something very charming in it: ?Ida of Athens? ? I have not yet been able to read any of her novels. I am now reading Leo the X, by Rescoe. War, religion, laws and elevated mankind are my delight, for among them I increase my love for politics of the present day, and find that our great enemy is less wicked than most heroes and politicians have been, and at the same time a vast deal wiser than them all.'"""
"""Looked into """"""""Philosophical Transactions"""""""" for paper of Dr Reid about momentums +c, could not find it but stumbled upon paper, page 663, i think vol.V or VI. among papers miscellaneous or omitted, where there were some calculations respecting probability'"""
"""I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godwin's """"""""Enquirer"""""""", and a great deal of Adam Smith. As I have scarcely looked at a book for five years, I am rather hungry'."""
"""I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godwin's """"""""Enquirer"""""""", and a great deal of Adam Smith. As I have scarcely looked at a book for five years, I am rather hungry'."""
"""I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godwin's """"""""Enquirer"""""""", and a great deal of Adam Smith. As I have scarcely looked at a book for five years, I am rather hungry'."""
"""I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godwin's """"""""Enquirer"""""""", and a great deal of Adam Smith. As I have scarcely looked at a book for five years, I am rather hungry'."""
"""I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godwin's """"""""Enquirer"""""""", and a great deal of Adam Smith. As I have scarcely looked at a book for five years, I am rather hungry'."""
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"""Dorothy Wordsworth, on visit to Catherine Clarkson at Bury St Edmunds, to William Wordsworth and Sara Hutchinson, 14 August 1810: 'In the afternoon we looked over half the drawings from Chaucer, and read as much of the prologue ... the next day looked over the rest of the drawings to my great delight, and read the Knight's Tale.' """
"""In early Oct. 1810 C[oleridge] wrote to W[ordsworth]: """"""""I send the Brazil which has entertained & instructed me.""""""""'"""
"""My dear Miss Mitford, Your good and kind father has just given Nancy a copy of a little volume of poems, in which I find the verses on Maria's winning the cup at Ilsley inscribed to me, and for which honour I beg you to accept of my best thanks; an honour which I value the more because these verses are in company with those elegant and truly pathetic strains, addressed to your dear mother; which, unlike most other poetical effusions of praise, contain nothing but what is founded in truth.'"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""Miss Clarissa Harlowe is just dead & I really am so much discomposed at it & at Lovelaces grief to whom I do not think she behaved quite handsomely that I can prate no more nonsense [...] I have been 3 years & 7 months reading """"""""Clarissa"""""""" and have now half another volume to finish'."""
"""I do not like Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch reviewers, though, as my father says, the lines are very strong and worthy of Pope and the Dunciad! But I was so much prejudiced against the whole by the first lines I opened upon about the 'paralytic muse' of the man who had been his guardian and is his relation and to whom he had dedicated his first poems, that I could not relish his wit. He may have great talents, but I am sure he has neither a great not good mind; and I feel dislike and disgust for his Lordship.'"""
""""""""""" ... a tourist guide to Salisbury Cathedral, published about 1800 and acquired by the British Library in 1874, contains notes made by an unidentified annotator who supplemented the guide by registering changes in the cathedral since the time of printing, such as 'Both are now (1810) in the Nave,' for instance, adding statements made by authorities who contradict assertions in the text; and providing neat little sketches of architectural details.""""""""  """
"""On 19 Aug.  1810, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told W[ordsworth] that she was """"""""reading Malkin's Gil Blas - and it is a beautiful Book as to printing etc  but I think the Translation vulgar.""""""""'"""
"""My dear sir [...] Your daughter's very amiable and interesting book is quite a refreshment to my spirit, wearied on the one hand by labour and on the other by pain; for it would be in vain to tell you how I have occupied my mind on the before-mentioned theme, and this was the very volume to lead me sweetly and softly from myself to many charming scenes, conducted by the hand of virtue and genius.  Where all are amiable, it is hard to select, but the poem addressed to yourself (page 70), and that part of the """"""""Epistle to a Friend"""""""" which contains the subject beginning with the line, """"""""How true the wish, how pure the glow,"""""""" to the end of the passage, went nearest to my affections.'"""
"""John Playfair to Mary Berry, 22 September 1810, in response to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand, received three days previously: 'The preface is excellent, very well written and very judicious. The notes bespeak that great familiarity with the characters and persons who figure in the book, whch cannot be acquired by reading [...] I find a great deal of amusement and interest in the few letters I have yet read'."""
"""John Playfair to Mary Berry, 22 September 1810, in response to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand, received three days previously: 'The preface is excellent, very well written and very judicious. The notes bespeak that great familiarity with the characters and persons who figure in the book, whch cannot be acquired by reading [...] I find a great deal of amusement and interest in the few letters I have yet read'."""
"""Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 23 August 1810: 'I am learning Italian, and this day translated an ode of Horace """"""""Exegi monumentum"""""""" into that language[.]' """
"""I have been reading, and am enchanted with The Lady of the Lake. It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (have you read it?) and ten times the interest. When I had finished it, I remained with such a relish for Walter Scott, that I immediately borrowed and sat down to a second perusal of Marmion.'"""
"""I immediately borrowed and sat down to a second perusal of Marmion. I like the brave villain much for being so wholly divested of sneakiness...'"""
"""I have been with a nice little party of college friends, to see King John, and for a week after, I could do nothing but read Shakespear.' [Siddings was performing in Covent Garden between 12.05.1810 and 21.06.1810]"""
"""The story of Julia and the daisies is beautiful - I read it to MF, (my father) and he liked it much'"""
"""As I chose that my recent course of extravagance should die a melodious death [...] the last indulgence I gave it was the purchase of """"""""The Lady of the Lake"""""""". How sweet, and to my fancy, bewitching a poem it is!'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 25 August 1810, on visit of the Princess of Wales to Strawberry Hill: 'The Princess was very lively, though the company was certainly not very amusing for her.  She remained long at table, then walked and sat in the garden, and afterwards looked at some books of engravings; and was sufficiently amused to remain till twelve o'clock'."""
"""Found printed paper from Basil Montagu and sat up writing notes to detect its sophistry.'"""
"""De Qunicey's letter of 27 Aug 1810 to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] contains the last two lines of [John] Byrom's epigram ... which she in turn copied in her letter to Catherine Clarkson of 30 Dec. 1810.'"""
"""Went on with Basil Montagu, a most shallow reasoner'"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""De Qunicey's letter of 27 Aug 1810 to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] contains the last two lines of [John] Byrom's epigram ... which she in turn copied in her letter to Catherine Clarkson of 30 Dec. 1810.'"""
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"""Miss R. staid 2 or 3 days withme; the rest of the time I was entirely alone, spending the time chiefly in reading and writing letters, until I had brought on an almost perpetual headache... to enjoy a book I must be in perfect quiet."""
"""While walking to Hampstead, I strayed into a copse not far from my road, where I seated myself upon the trunk of a tree, and read, with no small pleasure, several of the papers contained in that highly entertaining book, """"""""Sturm's Reflections on the Works of God"""""""". As I read these, surrounded by many of the objects upon which they so pleasingly descant, I was enabled to look """"""""through nature up to nature's God""""""""; to hold, as it were, converse with that glorious and beneficient Being, and to recognise Him as a father and a friend.'"""
"""When I begin to enumerate the works I have read since I came to Dove's-Nest, I feel surprised that I should have read so few, and that the greater part of those few should have been of the novel species..."""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 28 February [1810], on departure of Sara Hutchinson after four years with Wordsworths: 'Coleridge most of all will miss her, as she has transcribed almost every Paper of the Friend for the press.'"""
"""[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels by women), including Lady Morgan's """"""""The Novice of Saint Dominick"""""""", Agnes Maria Bennett's """"""""The Beggar Girl and her Benefactors"""""""", Edgeworth's """"""""Tales of Andrews"""""""", """"""""Sir Charles Grandison"""""""" and """"""""A Sentimental Journey""""""""'. """
"""[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels by women), including Lady Morgan's """"""""The Novice of Saint Dominick"""""""", Agnes Maria Bennett's """"""""The Beggar Girl and her Benefactors"""""""", Edgeworth's """"""""Tales of Andrews"""""""", """"""""Sir Charles Grandison"""""""" and """"""""A Sentimental Journey""""""""'. """
"""[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels by women), including Lady Morgan's """"""""The Novice of Saint Dominick"""""""", Agnes Maria Bennett's """"""""The Beggar Girl and her Benefactors"""""""", Edgeworth's """"""""Tales of Andrews"""""""", """"""""Sir Charles Grandison"""""""" and """"""""A Sentimental Journey""""""""'. """
"""[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels by women), including Lady Morgan's """"""""The Novice of Saint Dominick"""""""", Agnes Maria Bennett's """"""""The Beggar Girl and her Benefactors"""""""", Edgeworth's """"""""Tales of Andrews"""""""", """"""""Sir Charles Grandison"""""""" and """"""""A Sentimental Journey""""""""'. """
"""[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels by women), including Lady Morgan's """"""""The Novice of Saint Dominick"""""""", Agnes Maria Bennett's """"""""The Beggar Girl and her Benefactors"""""""", Edgeworth's """"""""Tales of Andrews"""""""", """"""""Sir Charles Grandison"""""""" and """"""""A Sentimental Journey""""""""'. """
"""[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels by women), including Lady Morgan's """"""""The Novice of Saint Dominick"""""""", Agnes Maria Bennett's """"""""The Beggar Girl and her Benefactors"""""""", Edgeworth's """"""""Tales of Andrews"""""""", """"""""Sir Charles Grandison"""""""" and """"""""A Sentimental Journey""""""""'. """
"""[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels by women), including Lady Morgan's """"""""The Novice of Saint Dominick"""""""", Agnes Maria Bennett's """"""""The Beggar Girl and her Benefactors"""""""", Edgeworth's """"""""Tales of Andrews"""""""", """"""""Sir Charles Grandison"""""""" and """"""""A Sentimental Journey""""""""'. """
"""Mr Cambridge' to Mary Berry: 'I was about to take up my pen to you to express the pleasure and satisfaction we have just experienced in the perusal of your """"""""Life of Madame du Deffand,"""""""" which does great credit to your judgement and feeling [goes on to  make more detailed comments].'"""
"""Mr Hope' to Mary Berry: 'Your preface [to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand] I devoured the moment I got it.  I have since not [italics]despatched[end italics], but finished your life [of Madame du Deffand], with the highest relish for its ease of style [...] I now feast upon your notes, and a delightful treat they are [...] No matter what, I read all out to Louisa, who owes you the whole of the few moments of enjoyment she feels at this period of anxious expectation'."""
"""Mr Hope' to Mary Berry: 'Your preface [to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand] I devoured the moment I got it.  I have since not [italics]despatched[end italics], but finished your life [of Madame du Deffand], with the highest relish for its ease of style [...] I now feast upon your notes, and a delightful treat they are [...] No matter what, I read all out to Louisa, who owes you the whole of the few moments of enjoyment she feels at this period of anxious expectation'."""
"""Mr Roscoe' to Mary Berry: 'I may almost be said to have past the last ten or twelve days in your society; for having been confined to the house by indisposition, my chief pleasure has been the perusal of Madame du Deffand's Letters with the notes, together with Lord Orford's corespondence, which, of all the books in our language, is the best calculated for the study of a convalescent [...] On the table before me lay the beginning of a letter intended to thank you for the four elegant volumes whch I some time since received, although I have scarcely since this interval of leisure, had time to look into them [goes on to discuss the work in detail].' """
"""From my early years I was always a lover of books, and I well remeber when we lived in a solitary place that my mother on going to a neighbouring town, always bought me a penny history or a halfpenny collection of songs ...'"""
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"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, 'Sunday night, 13th April [1810]': 'When I saw the advertisement [for house at Watermillock] in the papers I thought of you: but instantly concluded the house would not do.'"""
"""Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 23 June 1810: 'I ... request that you will write to malta.  I expect a world of news, not political, for we have the papers up to May.'"""
"""Biographical Notices of Painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was of rather a desultory nature, being fond of variety; accordingly a volume of some Magazine generally 'The European' was my Companion at the Tea-table.  Topographical works, and Tours through England, were books which pleased my taste."""
"""Biographical Notices of Painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was rather a desultory nature, being fond of variety; accordingly a volume of some Magazine generally 'The European' was my Companion at the Tea-table.  Topographical works, and Tours through England, were books which pleased my taste."""
"""Biographical Notices of Painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was rather a desultory nature, being fond of variety; accordingly a volume of some Magazine generally 'The European' was my Companion at the Tea-table.  Topographical works, and Tours through England, were books which pleased my taste."""
"""Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, """"""""The Literary Character"""""""", in which marginal remarks from Byron in first edition quoted): 'It was not fair in you to show him [Disraeli] my copy of his former one, with all the marginal notes and nonsense made in Greece when I was not two-and-twenty, and which certainly were not meant for his perusal ... I have a great respect for Israeli [sic] and his talents, and have read his works over and over repeatedly ... I don't know a living man's books I take up so often, or lay down so reluctantly, as Israeli's [sic] ...'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821, on visit to plain of Troy in 1810: ' ... I read """"""""Homer Travestied"""""""" (the first twelve books), because [John Cam] Hobhouse and others bored me with their learned localities, and I love quizzing.'  """
"""Biographical notices of painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was rather a desultory nature, being fond of variety; accordingly a volume of some Magazine generally """"""""The European"""""""" was my companion at the tea-table. Topographical works, and tours through England, were books which pleased my taste.'"""
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"""I read the new Testament in Greek with great success & am edified with the slow but sure progress I make in that language you cannot think how learned I should grow did it but agree with my head to apply'."""
"""In this way I beguiled many a tedious hour at the time I am now referring to, and also during several years following, towards the close of which I thus contrived to read """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""" and a brief """"""""History of England"""""""", with some other books whose titles I do not now remember. The books that first fell in my way, besides those that belonged to my parents, were few and of little worth.'"""
"""In this way I beguiled many a tedious hour at the time I am now referring to, and also during several years following, towards the close of which I thus contrived to read """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""" and a brief """"""""History of England"""""""", with some other books whose titles I do not now remember. The books that first fell in my way, besides those that belonged to my parents, were few and of little worth.'"""
"""A little before this time I had been reading that entertaining little volume, Miss Taylor's """"""""Original Poems for Children"""""""", one of which, """"""""The Truant Boys"""""""", had particularly gained my attention, and I had partly committed it to memory.'"""
"""Once in each week we were required to commit to memory a rather large portion of """"""""The Assembly's Catechism"""""""": this for a time gave me some trouble, which put me upon making several experiments in order to see whether I could not lessen it. After a failure or two, I hit upon a plan which fully answered my purpose: the time for repeating this lesson was Saturday morning...'"""
"""On my asking him he [the schoolmaster] readily granted my request, nor did he ever revoke his grant: the books were chiefly old and odd volumes of the """"""""Arminian"""""""" and the """"""""Gentleman's Magazine""""""""; these, though of but little intrinsic value, were to me a treasure, as they helped to give me a wider and more varied view of many things than I had previously been able to command.'"""
"""On my asking him he [the schoolmaster] readily granted my request, nor did he ever revoke his grant: the books were chiefly old and odd volumes of the """"""""Arminian"""""""" and the """"""""Gentleman's Magazine""""""""; these, though of but little intrinsic value, were to me a treasure, as they helped to give me a wider and more varied view of many things than I had previously been able to command.'"""
"""Of grammar neither myself nor my schoolfellows were taught aything, except to repeat by rote the brief grammatical exercises contained in the """"""""Universal Spelling Book"""""""", but as the Master gave no explanation of these, either as to their nature or use, they were nearly, if not quite, unintelligible to his pupils.' """
"""After all my contrivances I found but little convenience for reading, except on the Sunday. I always kept a book in my pocket, that it might be at hand in case I should find a few spare minutes. In general, I managed to read a few pages while going to and from the workshop. This, however, was a somewhat difficult affair, as my path led me through some of the busiest streets and places in the city: and I hardly need say that these are not the most favourable localities for a thoughtful reader, especially if what he chooses to read demands any thing like close attention. It was while standing at a bookstall that I read with the most advantage. I took care to avail myself of this as often, and for as long a time as possible; and from these out-of-door libraries picked up a few - perhaps a good many - scraps of useful or amusing information.'"""
"""When at home I usually retired to my garret, where I employed myself in either reading or working... In reading I usually sat in the Oriental, or, to use a less pompous word, in the tailor's posture, and thus had no need of either chair or table... The books I read at this time related chiefly to North America. Among the chief of them were Ramsay's """"""""History of the American Revolution"""""""", Smith's """"""""Travels in Canada and the United States"""""""", and Parkinson's """"""""Travels in North America"""""""".'"""
"""When at home I usually retired to my garret, where I employed myself in either reading or working... In reading I usually sat in the Oriental, or, to use a less pompous word, in the tailor's posture, and thus had no need of either chair or table... The books I read at this time related chiefly to North America. Among the chief of them were Ramsay's """"""""History of the American Revolution"""""""", Smith's """"""""Travels in Canada and the United States"""""""", and Parkinson's """"""""Travels in North America"""""""".'"""
"""When at home I usually retired to my garret, where I employed myself in either reading or working... In reading I usually sat in the Oriental, or, to use a less pompous word, in the tailor's posture, and thus had no need of either chair or table... The books I read at this time related chiefly to North America. Among the chief of them were Ramsay's """"""""History of the American Revolution"""""""", Smith's """"""""Travels in Canada and the United States"""""""", and Parkinson's """"""""Travels in North America"""""""".'"""
"""...with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almost certain to be reading by the summer?s twilight, or by the red embers of the winter fire, my books being chiefly """"""""Wesley?s Journals"""""""", """"""""The Armenian Magazine"""""""", wherein I found """"""""Maudrell?s Travels from Aleppo to Jerusalem"""""""", which I was very much interested by; """"""""An account  of the Inquisition in Spain"""""""", which filled me with a dislike of Popery; """"""""The Drummer of Tedworth""""""""; """"""""Some account of the Disturbances at Glenluce""""""""; """"""""An account of the apparition of the Laird of Cool"""""""", - and other most marvellous narratives which excited my attention, and held me pausing over the ashes until the light was either gone or I was sent to bed. I also got hold of an old superstitious doctoring book, which gave me some unexpected information relative to the human frame, and equally surprised me as to the occult powers of certain herbs and simples, when prepared under supposed planetary aspects. A copy of Cocker?s """"""""Arithmetic"""""""" soon after set me to writing figures and casting accounts, in which I made but slow progress; and part of a small volume of """"""""The History of England"""""""", which I found in rumaging an old meal ark, gave me the first insight into the chronicles of my native country.'"""
"""? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almost certain to be reading by the summer?s twilight, or by the red embers of the winter fire, my books being chiefly """"""""Wesley?s Journals"""""""", """"""""The Armenian Magazine"""""""", wherein I found """"""""Maudrell?s Travels from Aleppo to Jerusalem"""""""", which I was very much interested by; """"""""An account of the Inquisition in Spain"""""""", which filled me with a dislike of Popery; """"""""The Drummer of Tedworth""""""""; """"""""Some account of the Disturbances at Glenluce""""""""; """"""""An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool"""""""", - and other most marvellous narratives which excited my attention, and held me pausing over the ashes until the light was either gone or I was sent to bed. I also got hold of an old superstitious doctoring book, which gave me some unexpected information relative to the human frame, and equally surprised me as to the occult powers of certain herbs and simples, when prepared under supposed planetary aspects. A copy of Cocker?s """"""""Arithmetic"""""""" soon after set me to writing figures and casting accounts, in which I made but slow progress; and part of a small volume of """"""""The History of England"""""""", which I found in rumaging through an old meal ark, gave me the first insight into the chronicles of my native country.'"""
"""? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almost certain to be reading by the summer?s twilight, or by the red embers of the winter's fire, my books being chiefly """"""""Wesley?s Journals"""""""", """"""""The Armenian Magazine"""""""", wherein I found """"""""Maundrell?s Travels from Aleppo to Jerusalem"""""""", which I was very much interested by; """"""""An account  of the Inquisition in Spain"""""""", which filled me with a dislike of Popery; """"""""The Drummer of Tedworth""""""""; """"""""Some account of the Disturbances at Glenluce""""""""; """"""""An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool"""""""", - and other most marvellous narratives which excited my attention, and held me pausing over the ashes until the light was either gone or I was sent to bed. I also got hold of an old superstitious doctoring book, which gave me some unexpected information relative to the human frame, and equally surprised me as to the occult powers of certain herbs and simples, when prepared under supposed planetary aspects. A copy of Cocker?s """"""""Arithmetic"""""""" soon after set me to writing figures and casting accounts, in which I made but slow progress; and part of a small volume of """"""""The History of England"""""""", which I found in rumaging an old meal ark, gave me the first insight into the chronicles of my native country.'"""
"""? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almost certain to be reading by the summer?s twilight, or by the red embers of the winter fire, my books being chiefly """"""""Wesley?s Journals"""""""", """"""""The Armenian Magazine"""""""", wherein I found """"""""Maundrell?s Travels from Aleppo to Jerusalem"""""""", which I was very much interested by; """"""""An account of the Inquisition in Spain"""""""", which filled me with a dislike of Popery; """"""""The Drummer of Tedworth""""""""; """"""""Some account of the Disturbances at Glenluce""""""""; """"""""An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool"""""""", - and other most marvellous narratives which excited my attention, and held me pausing over the ashes until the light was either gone or I was sent to bed. I also got hold of an old superstitious doctoring book, which gave me some unexpected information relative to the human frame, and equally surprised me as to the occult powers of certain herbs and simples, when prepared under supposed planetary aspects. A copy of Cocker?s """"""""Arithmetic"""""""" soon after set me to writing figures and casting accounts, in which I made but slow progress; and part of a small volume of """"""""The History of England"""""""", which I found in rumaging an old meal ark, gave me the first insight into the chronicles of my native country.'"""
"""? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almost certain to be reading by the summer?s twilight, or by the red embers of the winter's five, my books being chiefly """"""""Wesley?s Journals"""""""", """"""""The Armenian Magazine"""""""", wherein I found """"""""Maundrell?s Travels from Aleppo to Jerusalem"""""""", which I was very much interested by; """"""""An account of the Inquisition in Spain"""""""", which filled me with a dislike of Popery; """"""""The Drummer of Tedworth""""""""; """"""""Some account of the Disturbances at Glenluce""""""""; """"""""An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool"""""""", - and other most marvellous narratives which excited my attention, and held me pausing over the ashes until the light was either gone or I was sent to bed. I also got hold of an old superstitious doctoring book, which gave me some unexpected information relative to the human frame, and equally surprised me as to the occult powers of certain herbs and simples, when prepared under supposed planetary aspects. A copy of Cocker?s """"""""Arithmetic"""""""" soon after set me to writing figures and casting accounts, in which I made but slow progress; and part of a small volume of """"""""The History of England"""""""", which I found in rumaging an old meal ark, gave me the first insight into the chronicles of my native country.'"""
"""? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almost certain to be reading by the summer?s twilight, or by the red embers of the winter's fire, my books being chiefly """"""""Wesley?s Journals"""""""", """"""""The Armenian Magazine"""""""", wherein I found """"""""Maundrell?s Travels from Aleppo to Jerusalem"""""""", which I was very much interested by; """"""""An account of the Inquisition in Spain"""""""", which filled me with a dislike of Popery; """"""""The Drummer of Tedworth""""""""; """"""""Some account of the Disturbances at Glenluce""""""""; """"""""An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool"""""""", - and other most marvellous narratives which excited my attention, and held me pausing over the ashes until the light was either gone or I was sent to bed. I also got hold of an old superstitious doctoring book, which gave me some unexpected information relative to the human frame, and equally surprised me as to the occult powers of certain herbs and simples, when prepared under supposed planetary aspects. A copy of Cocker?s """"""""Arithmetic"""""""" soon after set me to writing figures and casting accounts, in which I made but slow progress; and part of a small volume of """"""""The History of England"""""""", which I found rumaging an old meal ark, gave me the first insight into the chronicles of my native country.'"""
"""? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almost certain to be reading by the summer?s twilight, or by the red embers of the winter's fire, my books being chiefly """"""""Wesley?s Journals"""""""", """"""""The Armenian Magazine"""""""", wherein I found """"""""Maundrell?s Travels from Aleppo to Jerusalem"""""""", which I was very much interested by; """"""""An account of the Inquisition in Spain"""""""", which filled me with a dislike of Popery""""""""; """"""""The Drummer of Tedworth""""""""; """"""""Some account of the Disturbances at Glenluce""""""""; """"""""An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool"""""""", - and other most marvellous narratives which excited my attention, and held me pausing over the ashes until the light was either gone or I was sent to bed. I also got hold of an old superstitious doctoring book, which gave me some unexpected information relative to the human frame, and equally surprised me as to the occult powers of certain herbs and simples, when prepared under supposed planetary aspects. A copy of Cocker?s """"""""Arithmetic"""""""" soon after set me to writing figures and casting accounts, in which I made but slow progress; and part of a small volume of """"""""The History of England"""""""", which I found in rumaging an old meal ark, gave me the first insight into the chronicles of my native country.'"""
"""?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did, not only an account of the pleasure which I felt in their repetition, and in the appropriation ? so to speak ? of the ideas, but also as a means for improvement of my handwriting, which had continued to be very indifferent. The """"""""Odyssey"""""""" and """"""""Aeniad"""""""", which I also procured and read about this time, seemed tame and languid, whilst the stirring call of the old Iliadic battle trumpet was ringing in my ears, and vibrating within my heart. In short, I read or attentively conned [sic] over, every book I could buy or borrow, and as I retained a pretty clear idea of what I read, I became rather more than commonly proficient in book knowledge considering that I was only a better sort of porter in a warehouse.'"""
"""?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did, not only an account of the pleasure which I felt in their repetition, and in the appropriation ? so to speak ? of the ideas, but also as a means for improvement of my handwriting, which had continued to be very indifferent. The """"""""Odyssey"""""""" and """"""""Aeniad"""""""", which I also procured and read about this time, seemed tame and languid, whilst the stirring call of the old Iliadic battle trumpet was ringing in my ears, and vibrating within my heart. In short, I read or attentively conned [sic] over, every book I could buy or borrow, and as I retained a pretty clear idea of what I read, I became rather more than commonly proficient in book knowledge considering that I was only a better sort of porter in a warehouse.' """
"""? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almost certain to be reading by the summer?s twilight, or by the red embers of the winter's fire, my books being chiefly """"""""Wesley?s Journals"""""""", """"""""The Armenian Magazine"""""""", wherein I found """"""""Maundrell?s Travels from Aleppo to Jerusalem"""""""", which I was very much interested by; """"""""An account of the Inquisition in Spain"""""""", which filled me with a dislike of Popery""""""""; """"""""The Drummer of Tedworth""""""""; """"""""Some account of the Disturbances at Glenluce""""""""; """"""""An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool"""""""", - and other most marvellous narratives which excited my attention, and held me pausing over the ashes until the light was either gone or I was sent to bed. I also got hold of an old superstitious doctoring book, which gave me some unexpected information relative to the human frame, and equally surprised me as to the occult powers of certain herbs and simples, when prepared under supposed planetary aspects. A copy of Cocker?s """"""""Arithmetic"""""""" soon after set me to writing figures and casting accounts, in which I made but slow progress; and part of a small volume of """"""""The History of England"""""""", which I found in rumaging an old meal ark, gave me the first insight into the chronicles of my native country.'"""
"""? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almost certain to be reading by the summer?s twilight, or by the red embers of the winter's fire, my books being chiefly """"""""Wesley?s Journals"""""""", """"""""The Armenian Magazine"""""""", wherein I found """"""""Maundrell?s Travels from Aleppo to Jerusalem"""""""", which I was very much interested by; """"""""An account of the Inquisition in Spain"""""""", which filled me with a dislike of Popery""""""""; """"""""The Drummer of Tedworth""""""""; """"""""Some account of the Disturbances at Glenluce""""""""; """"""""An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool"""""""", - and other most marvellous narratives which excited my attention, and held me pausing over the ashes until the light was either gone or I was sent to bed. I also got hold of an old superstitious doctoring book, which gave me some unexpected information relative to the human frame, and equally surprised me as to the occult powers of certain herbs and simples, when prepared under supposed planetary aspects. A copy of Cocker?s """"""""Arithmetic"""""""" soon after set me to writing figures and casting accounts, in which I made but slow progress; and part of a small volume of """"""""The History of England"""""""", which I found in rumaging an old meal ark, gave me the first insight into the chronicles of my native country.'"""
"""?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did, not only an account of the pleasure which I felt in their repetition, and in the appropriation ? so to speak ? of the ideas, but also as a means for improvement of my handwriting, which had continued to be very indifferent. The """"""""Odyssey"""""""" and """"""""Aeniad"""""""", which I also procured and read about this time, seemed tame and languid, whilst the stirring call of the old Iliadic battle trumpet was ringing in my ears, and vibrating within my heart. In short, I read or attentively conned [sic] over, every book I could buy or borrow, and as I retained a pretty clear idea of what I read, I became rather more than commonly proficient in book knowledge considering that I was only a better sort of porter in a warehouse.' """
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"""Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 31 July 1810: 'I see by the papers 15th May my Satire [English Bards and Scotch Reviewers] is in a third Edition ...'"""
"""[L]ittle else travels down to me my Cousins & Virtuous friends not being over addicted to scribbling--do not think I put you in the other class [...] it is only an appellation I give them out of Contrast to myself & other more liberal minded women who like Mary Wollstonecraft stand up for the rights of the Sex & wear our shackles with dignity.'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 31 March 1810: 'Mr Sydney Smith with me in the morning, looking critically over my Preface [to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand] and Life [of Madame du Deffand].  Much mended by his observations, upon which I am to work, and I set to it as soon as he was gone.'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 31 March 1810: 'Mr Sydney Smith with me in the morning, looking critically over my Preface [to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand] and Life [of Madame du Deffand].  Much mended by his observations, upon which I am to work, and I set to it as soon as he was gone.'"""
"""C[oleridge] read Greville's A Treatie of Human Learning ... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'"""
"""C[oleridge] read Greville's An Inquisition upon Fame and Honour... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'"""
"""C[oleridge] read Greville's ... A Treatie of Warres ... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'"""
"""C[oleridge] read Greville's ... Alaham in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'"""
"""C[oleridge] was reading Herbert  in ... Mar. 1810, during his residence at Allan Bank ... He was apparently reading his copy of The Temple ... '"""
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"""Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 October 1810: 'I have seen some old English papers up to the 15th. of May, I see the """"""""Lady of the Lake"""""""" advertised[;] of course it is in his old ballad style, and pretty, after all Scott is the best of them.'"""
"""Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 October 1810: 'I have seen some old English papers up to the 15th. of May, I see the """"""""Lady of the Lake"""""""" advertised[;] of course it is in his old ballad style, and pretty, after all Scott is the best of them.'"""
"""Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 4 October 1810: 'I have just received a letter from [John] Galt with a Candiot poem which ... appears to be damned nonsense ... Galt also writes something not very intelligible about a """"""""Spartan state paper"""""""" ... '"""
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"""Byron to Edward Ellice, 4 July 1810: 'I hear your friend Brougham is in the lower house mouthing at the ministry ... you remember he would not believe that I had written my pestilent Satire [English Bards and Scotch Reviewers], now that was very cruel and unlike me, for the moment I read his speech, I believed it to be his entire from Exordium to Peroration.' """
"""I think Miss Berry's introduction of matter so offensive to the living very injudicious and blameable. You may be right perhaps in calling her preface dull and stupid but I doubt it is hypocritical - because I do not think there is any hypocrisy in her'."""
"""During the trial of Jonathan Furlonger for theft, Mr Alley, in questioning witness Edward Pilcher, reads to the court a letter from Furlonger received by Pilcher."""
"""M. G. Lewis to Lady Charlotte Bury, 9 December 1810: 'I have galloped through two volumes of Madame du Deffand's Letters, and with much amusement, though the anecdotes are in themselves of no great value'. """
"""How do you like Thalaba? There are always so many nothings to be done in London daily, that I have not read ten lines for the last ten weeks, till I came to Holland House, where I have galloped through two volumes of Madame Du Deffand's Letters, and with much amusement, though the anecdotes are in themselves of no great value; still, being written on the spot, and at the moment, they have a vivacity and interest which make one read letter after letter without weariness. The extracts from Lord Orford's letters contain frequently excellent things; and indeed, in Madame Du Deffand's own general observations, there is much good sense and plain truth; but that sense and truth, being generally grounded upon knowledge of the world, it unfortunately follows, of course, that the information which it conveys must be of a disagreeable and humiliating complexion. [Lewis then talks about Lord Orfor'd treatment of a blind woman] Have you read these letters? You know, of course, that they were edited by your friend, Miss Berry, who has also written the Preface, the Life, and the Notes, all of which are most outrageously abused by many persons, though, in my opinion, without any just grounds'."""
"""Books lately read: A Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Dr Johnson, by James Boswell, Esq.  J. Boswell does appear so wonderfully simple, so surprisingly ingenuous, that I cannot but smile as I read his work..."""
"""Books lately read' Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his son, 4 vols.  It has been said of these letters... The first and 2nd vols appear to me unexceptionable. Of the others, I cannot say so much, there is a degree of libertinism expressed..."""
"""I have not read """"""""Self control"""""""", and am determined not to read it, till my own eternal rubbish is concluded. I was a week in the house, at John Street with the two first volumes, but never looked at them. Miss Jardine lent them there. She spent a sociable evening with us, and made me laugh by observing that the book began with a sort of ravishment that almost enclined her to shut it up after the first forty pages, and never to open it again. Sister Burney likes it; not the ravishment but the tout ensemble; but thinks the last volume flags.'"""
"""I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of this ample library, and reject all borrowed or hired books) -Amongst others, two collections of letters, Sevigne's to her daughter, and Bussy Rabutin's to her and various others.'"""
"""Rabutin de Bussy in his little way, is also delightful...'"""
"""Have you seen the little book, 'Cottage Dialogues', by Mrs Leadbetter. Edgeworth's notes are lively and [nationally] characteristic as ever: but I own I am tired a little of the receipts to make cheap dishes.'"""
"""I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of this ample library, and reject all borrowed or hired books) - Amongst others, two collections of letters, Sevigne's to her daughter, and Bussy Rabutin's to her and various others. The celebrity of these letters makes one ashamed to praise them; it is like saying Shakespear was a clever fellow: but I [underlined] will [end underlining] say, that their wit, their facility, their original humour; their arch simplicity, their every possible epistolary merit, surpass even their reputation. Having read a good many French Memoirs of that time, I enjoy the court details, and the scandal and gossip as much as Mde de Grignan could - and the witty stories occasionally inserted are [underlined] impayable [end underlining]. [SHB then describes at length the matter of some of the letters she has been reading, concluding...] It was a bright period for french intellects - Oh, how superior to the bright period of the Encyclopedists. at the time I am reading of, lived & wrote, Moliere, Corneille, Racine, La Rochfaucault [sic], Boilleau, celebrated Divines a million, and who were really good Christians; and Sevigne, and all her witty cluster of friends - and no jargon, & no frippery, & false philosophy among them - but sterling stuff, too good almost to be french'."""
"""I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of this ample library, and reject all borrowed or hired books) - Amongst others, two collections of letters, Sevigne's to her daughter, and Bussy Rabutin's to her and various others. The celebrity of these letters makes one ashamed to praise them; it is like saying Shakespear was a clever fellow: but I [underlined] will [end underlining] say, that their wit, their facility, their original humour; their arch simplicity, their every possible epistolary merit, surpass even their reputation. Having read a good many French Memoirs of that time, I enjoy the court details, and the scandal and gossip as much as Mde de Grignan could - and the witty stories occasionally inserted are [underlined] impayable [end underlining]. [SHB then describes at length the matter of some of the letters she has been reading, concluding...] It was a bright period for french intellects - Oh, how superior to the bright period of the Encyclopedists. at the time I am reading of, lived & wrote, Moliere, Corneille, Racine, La Rochfaucault [sic], Boilleau, celebrated Divines a million, and who were really good Christians; and Sevigne, and all her witty cluster of friends - and no jargon, & no frippery, & false philosophy among them - but sterling stuff, too good almost to be french'."""
"""I have been steadily & delightedly reading Mitford's History. First of all, he is an Historian after my own heart, & I really believe a perfectly upright & honest man. He suffers not himself to be dazzled by the splendid qualities of the people he writes about - but, by turns, causes either an enthousiastic admiration of their magnanimity or a just horror of their atrocity. <I believe I ought to put in [italics] 3 words [end italics] - I will look, when I have done my critique, in Entick.> Individually they were the most glorious creatures, God ever permitted to shine upon earth - Collectively, they were infernal: and I take it, as good and honourable Mitford says, it was owing to their faulty religious & political institutions. But certainly the merit of this history is great, in proving, that bad as the world is now, even under Christian regulations., it is not nationally anywhere so bad as it was in Pagan Greece - except during the height and fury of the French Revolution - and still, and ever perhaps in Turkey'. """
"""Have you seen the little book, """"""""Cottage Dialogues"""""""", by Mrs Leadbetter? Edgeworths notes are lively and [nationally] characteristic as ever: but I own, I tired a little of the receipts to make cheap dishes. Without half so much ceremony & fuss and trouble, I had rather dine upon that cheap dish, an egg boiled in the shell - or a good mess of gruel and onions'. """
"""One day, the Princess showed me a large book, in which she had written characters of a great many of the leading persons in England. She read me some of them. They were drawn with spirit, but I could not form any opinion of their justice; first, because a mere outline, however boldly sketched, cannot convey a faithful portraiture of character; and, secondly, because many of the persons mentioned therein wre unknown to me. Upon the whole, these characters impressed me with a high opinion of her discernment and power of expression. Not that it was good English, but that it was strong sense. But how dangerous! If that book exists, it would form a curious episode in the memoirs of those times.'"""
"""[Has heard story of Wellington] Is not this like the Irish Nurse in Ennui [this word underlined]? Emma told me when I said so, that it had struck her directly.'"""
"""I wanted to have sent you a translation of the epigram Flahaut has introduced in her book. It is Johnson's...'"""
"""Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 10 August 1811, within two weeks of his mother's death: 'I am very lonely, & should think myself miserable, were it not for a kind of hysterical merriment ... I have tried reading & boxing, & swimming, & writing ... with a number of ineffectual remedies ... '"""
"""I asked leave to read to Her Royal Highness, and I began 'Les Malheurs de l'Inconstance'.'"""
"""So, to work I went in my own way, again and again studying the New Testament,-making """"""""Harmonies"""""""", poring over the geography,greedily gathering up every thing I could find in the way of commentary and elucidation, gladly working myself into an enthusiasm with the moral beauty and spiritual promises I found in the Sacred Writings.'"""
"""With the Old Testament, I got on very well; but I was amazed at the difficulty with the New. I knew it to be of so much more value and importance than the Old, that I could not account for the small number of cut and dry commands.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 14 August 1811: 'I have read nothing since I wrote to you except bits here and there and the Novel of John Bunkle - but I am going to set to and read - though I have still some sewing to do amongst mending the Bairns' cloaths.'"""
"""I have been frightened from taking up Hannah More's last book which Fanny lent me, by the dread that it would more than ever convince me what a worthless wretch I am without giving me the virtue and courage to become better. But last night, wanting to compose my wayward spirit, I ventured to open it, and read the first chapter on Internal Christianity- And was agreeably suprised to find myself much pleased with it.'"""
"""I have finished all dear old Sevigne's Letters...'"""
"""I have finished all dear old Sevigne's Letters and since then read Anquetil's """"""""Louis XIV Sa Cour et le Regent"""""""" - A most admirably entertaining work in four moderate little volumes.'"""
"""Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 15 December 1811: 'I have been living quietly, reading Sir W. Drummond's book on the bible ... '"""
"""The Princess often read aloud. It was difficult to understand her germanised French, and still more, her composite English. She was particularly amused at the Margravine de Bareith's Memoirs. This lady was the sister of Frederick the Great - devil. In truth, they were amusing, as all memoirs are that merely relate to facts'."""
"""Talking of books, we have lately had a literary Sun shine forth upon us here, before whom our former luminaries must hide their diminished heads - a Mr Shelley, of University College, who lives upon arsenic, aqua-fortis, half-an-hour's sleep in the night, and is desperately in love with the memory of Margaret Nicholson. He hath published, what he terms, the Posthumous Poems, printed for the benefit of Mr Peter Finnerty; which, I am grieved to say, though stuffed full of treason, are extremely dull; but the author is a great genius, and, if he be not clapped up in Bedlam or hanged, will certainly prove one of the sweetest swans on the tuneful margin of the Charwell'."""
"""Felicia Browne to Matthew Nicholson, 17 July 1811: 'I have been reading lately the memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, with his discourses to the Royal Academy, & I am so enthusiastic an admirer of the beauties of painting, that I derived both pleasure and instruction from the perusal.'"""
"""Felicia Browne to Matthew Nicholson, 17 July 1811: 'I have been reading lately the memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, with his discourses to the Royal Academy, & I am so enthusiastic an admirer of the beauties of painting, that I derived both pleasure and instruction from the perusal.'"""
"""Felicia Browne to Matthew Nicholson, 17 July 1811: 'I have been reading lately the memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, with his discourses to the Royal Academy, & I am so enthusiastic an admirer of the beauties of painting, that I derived both pleasure and instruction from the perusal [...] I have also [underlined]been guilty[end underlined] of reading a [underlined]Romance[end underlined] [...] It is """"""""The Scottish Chiefs,"""""""" by Miss Porter, & though I am by no means an Advocate for [underlined]Historical[end underlined] Novels as they bewilder our ideas, by confounding truth with fiction, yet this animated Authoress has painted her Hero [...] in such glowing colours, that you cannot avoid catching a spark of her own enthusiasm""""""""."""
"""Kehama has not got justice take a bards word who never flatters he will live for ever'."""
"""Sat alone all the evening and read two Shakespeare's plays, """"""""Measure for Measure"""""""" and """"""""Henry the 6th"""""""".'"""
"""Sat alone all the evening and read two Shakespeare's plays, """"""""Measure for Measure"""""""" and """"""""Henry the 6th"""""""".'"""
"""H. J. Jackson notes Coleridge's 1811 annotation of Charles Lamb's copy of Donne's Poems, in which he wrote """"""""'N.B. Spite of Appearances, this Copy is better for the Mss. Notes.  The Annotator himself says so.' (1:221)"""""""""""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 19 May 1811, on stay with Joanna Baillie at Hampstead: 'Sat by the fire the whole day.  Joanna Baillie gave us her drama upon Hope to read; it is only two acts, and I was soon through it.  Very poetical, and much fancy, as all her things have; but this did not equal my expectation [...] It is certainly a dramatic story, but not dramatically managed.' """
"""I have just been reading Allen's account of your Administration. Very well done, for the cautious and decorous style; but it is really quite shameful that a good stout answer has not been written to your calumniators'."""
"""Byron to Francis Hodgson, 20 January 1811: 'I wish to be sure I had a few books ... any damned nonsense on a long Evening. - I had a straggling number of the E[dinburgh] Review given me by a compassionate Capt. of a frigate lately, it contains the reply to the Oxonian pamphlet, on the Strabonic controversy, the reviewer seems to be in a perilous passion ... '"""
"""Dear Madam, Dr. Russell's verses are very highly welcomed. I like them very much.  There is great simplicit, neatness and elegance in them.'"""
"""William Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 20 November 1811: 'Do you see the Courier newspaper at Dunmow?  I ask on account of a little poem upon the comet, which I have read in it to-day.  Though with several defects ... it has great merit, and is far superior to the run not merely of newspaper but of modern poetry in general.  I half suspect it to be Coleridge's ... I know of no other writer of the day who can write so well.  It consists of five stanzas, in the measure of the Fairy Queen.  It is to be found in last Saturday's paper, November 16th.  If you don't see the Courier, we will transcribe it for you.' """
"""William Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 20 November 1811: 'Do you see the Courier newspaper at Dunmow?  I ask on account of a little poem upon the comet, which I have read in it to-day.  Though with several defects ... it has great merit, and is far superior to the run not merely of newspaper but of modern poetry in general.  I half suspect it to be Coleridge's ... I know of no other writer of the day who can so so well.  It consists of five stanzas, in the measure of the Fairy Queen.  It is to be found in last Saturday's paper, November 16th.  If you don't see the Courier, we will transcribe it for you.' """
"""Have you (I forget whether you ever told me) read the Curse of Kahama [sic]? I have seen two Reviews of it, & now so well understand what it all seems to be about, I should like mightily to read the whole'."""
"""Have you (I forget whether you ever told me) read the Curse of Kahama [sic]? I have seen two Reviews of it, & now so well understand what it all seems to be about, I should like mightily to read the whole'."""
"""For breakfast I had a penny roll and half a pint of porter. This I took at a public house - for two reasons: first, that I might have an opportunity of looking at the morning newspaper; and further, that I might have the comfort of sitting by a good fire... I felt a considerable degree of interest in regard to the course of public affairs, and therefore was the more anxious to see a newspaper everyday. I also hoped that some one of the numerous advertisements might be made available in the way of getting employment other than that of tailoring. In this hope I was disappointed; yet the time I thus spent was not quite thrown away, as I hereby contracted a habit of carefully reading advertisements, which I have found to be useful...[etc.]'"""
"""You certainly must have heard, before I can tell you, that Col. Orde has married our cousin, Margt Beckford, the Marchss of Douglas's sister.  The Papers say that her father disinherits her, but I think too well of an Orde, to suppose that she has not a handsome Independence of her own.'"""
"""In the evening, after reading at Earlham, I was greatly helped in prayer, for my brothers and sisters, who were all present'"""
"""I congratulate Edward [JA's brother] on the Weald of Kent Canal-Bill being put off till another Session, as I have just had the pleasure of reading.  There is always something to be hoped from Delay.'"""
"""I have read the Budget today and am in low spirits at the provoking prosperity of the country. It is impossible to ruin it in spite of all Brougham can say - and Perceval can do'."""
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"""De Quincey to Southey, 31 May 1811: 'We received the Gazette last night, and were a little disappointed by it,: Wordsworth indeed was greatly mortified ... '"""
"""... in 1811 S[ara] H[utchinson] mentioned that Herbert Southey """"""""can read Robinson Crusoe or any Book"""""""".'"""
"""[in 1811] Reginald Heber reads and praises """"""""War and Peace"""""""".'"""
"""Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; and her monodies are beauiful; but the letters are naught; they abound in false sentiment, and a great many other false things. As to the Missionary, Ambrosio is his father, and Matilde his mother; but, wanting the indelicacy of papa, and the delicacy of mamma, he's a dull fellow. I could think of nothing else but poor Margaret Stewart of Blantyre, and her presbyterian minister, while I read this. Miss Luxina brought her hogs to a bad market, for Hilarion was little better than a beast. Walter Scott's last poem I have also seen, but so hastily that I can be no competent judge of its merits. Talking of words, allow me to recommend to you Ford's plays, lately re-published. Some of them are excellent; the first in the series (which hath an awkward name, I must confess) and the Broken Heart, are particularly admirable. I am sure that you will be struck with them; for Ford is almost as moving as Otway or Lee, - who is the mad poet I adore, yet I can persuade nobody to read him. The History of the Somerville Family, which I have seen in MS., is soon to be printed, and that of Sutherland is to be out shortly'."""
"""Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; and her monodies are beauiful; but the letters are naught; they abound in false sentiment, and a great many other false things. As to the Missionary, Ambrosio is his father, and Matilde his mother; but, wanting the indelicacy of papa, and the delicacy of mamma, he's a dull fellow. I could think of nothing else but poor Margaret Stewart of Blantyre, and her presbyterian minister, while I read this. Miss Luxina brought her hogs to a bad market, for Hilarion was little better than a beast. Walter Scott's last poem I have also seen, but so hastily that I can be no competent judge of its merits. Talking of words, allow me to recommend to you Ford's plays, lately re-published. Some of them are excellent; the first in the series (which hath an awkward name, I must confess) and the Broken Heart, are particularly admirable. I am sure that you will be struck with them; for Ford is almost as moving as Otway or Lee, - who is the mad poet I adore, yet I can persuade nobody to read him. The History of the Somerville Family, which I have seen in MS., is soon to be printed, and that of Sutherland is to be out shortly'."""
"""Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; and her monodies are beauiful; but the letters are naught; they abound in false sentiment, and a great many other false things. As to the Missionary, Ambrosio is his father, and Matilde his mother; but, wanting the indelicacy of papa, and the delicacy of mamma, he's a dull fellow. I could think of nothing else but poor Margaret Stewart of Blantyre, and her presbyterian minister, while I read this. Miss Luxina brought her hogs to a bad market, for Hilarion was little better than a beast. Walter Scott's last poem I have also seen, but so hastily that I can be no competent judge of its merits. Talking of words, allow me to recommend to you Ford's plays, lately re-published. Some of them are excellent; the first in the series (which hath an awkward name, I must confess) and the Broken Heart, are particularly admirable. I am sure that you will be struck with them; for Ford is almost as moving as Otway or Lee, - who is the mad poet I adore, yet I can persuade nobody to read him. The History of the Somerville Family, which I have seen in MS., is soon to be printed, and that of Sutherland is to be out shortly'."""
"""Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; and her monodies are beauiful; but the letters are naught; they abound in false sentiment, and a great many other false things. As to the Missionary, Ambrosio is his father, and Matilde his mother; but, wanting the indelicacy of papa, and the delicacy of mamma, he's a dull fellow. I could think of nothing else but poor Margaret Stewart of Blantyre, and her presbyterian minister, while I read this. Miss Luxina brought her hogs to a bad market, for Hilarion was little better than a beast. Walter Scott's last poem I have also seen, but so hastily that I can be no competent judge of its merits. Talking of words, allow me to recommend to you Ford's plays, lately re-published. Some of them are excellent; the first in the series (which hath an awkward name, I must confess) and the Broken Heart, are particularly admirable. I am sure that you will be struck with them; for Ford is almost as moving as Otway or Lee, - who is the mad poet I adore, yet I can persuade nobody to read him. The History of the Somerville Family, which I have seen in MS., is soon to be printed, and that of Sutherland is to be out shortly'."""
"""Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; and her monodies are beauiful; but the letters are naught; they abound in false sentiment, and a great many other false things. As to the Missionary, Ambrosio is his father, and Matilde his mother; but, wanting the indelicacy of papa, and the delicacy of mamma, he's a dull fellow. I could think of nothing else but poor Margaret Stewart of Blantyre, and her presbyterian minister, while I read this. Miss Luxina brought her hogs to a bad market, for Hilarion was little better than a beast. Walter Scott's last poem I have also seen, but so hastily that I can be no competent judge of its merits. Talking of words, allow me to recommend to you Ford's plays, lately re-published. Some of them are excellent; the first in the series (which hath an awkward name, I must confess) and the Broken Heart, are particularly admirable. I am sure that you will be struck with them; for Ford is almost as moving as Otway or Lee, - who is the mad poet I adore, yet I can persuade nobody to read him. The History of the Somerville Family, which I have seen in MS., is soon to be printed, and that of Sutherland is to be out shortly'."""
"""Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; and her monodies are beauiful; but the letters are naught; they abound in false sentiment, and a great many other false things. As to the Missionary, Ambrosio is his father, and Matilde his mother; but, wanting the indelicacy of papa, and the delicacy of mamma, he's a dull fellow. I could think of nothing else but poor Margaret Stewart of Blantyre, and her presbyterian minister, while I read this. Miss Luxina brought her hogs to a bad market, for Hilarion was little better than a beast. Walter Scott's last poem I have also seen, but so hastily that I can be no competent judge of its merits. Talking of words, allow me to recommend to you Ford's plays, lately re-published. Some of them are excellent; the first in the series (which hath an awkward name, I must confess) and the Broken Heart, are particularly admirable. I am sure that you will be struck with them; for Ford is almost as moving as Otway or Lee, - who is the mad poet I adore, yet I can persuade nobody to read him. The History of the Somerville Family, which I have seen in MS., is soon to be printed, and that of Sutherland is to be out shortly'."""
"""So much for books - saving that Sir John Murray hath found the whole correspondence of the Earl of Chesterfield, who flourished in King Charles the Second's time, in Bath House, containing most curious letters of the Duchess of Cleveland, Lady Southesk, and many other personages whom Count Hamilton has rendered so interesting. I will try to get Sir John to publish them, for such things should not run the risk of fire, not to mention rats and mice. There is a sort of memoir of Lord Chesterfield at the beginning of the volume, in which he says his second wife died of the spotted fever or plague; but in fact he is said to have poisoned her in the wine of the sacrament, to be revenged for her gallantries, which were notorious: that old villain, Sir John Denham, having shown him the way, by getting rid of his wife after a fashion nearly similar'."""
"""When Miss Porter's Don Sebastian came out, I expected to find the Margravine, Keppel Craven, (with whom the fair authoress was in love,) and many of my other friends there; in place of which I found nothing but such heroes and heroines as might have been fashionable and common formerly, but who are wonderfully out of date and rare now; so that circumstances gave me a disgust to the book'."""
"""[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]"""
"""[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]"""
"""[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]"""
"""[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]"""
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"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 12 May 1811: 'We have had no leisure for reading.  I have not opened a Book except on a Sunday, and when the rest of the family were in bed ... the only book which I have read through has been Beaver's account of the disastrous Expedition to Bulama.  I suppose you have read his book as it concerns Africa and the Slave Trade.'"""
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"""Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Tunbridge, 1811: 'I read a great deal every morning, and indeed often of an evening [...] I am more delighted with Mrs. Hutchinson [i.e. Lucy Hutchinson's """"""""Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson""""""""] than with any book I have read for an age.  She was a really superior woman, both as to head and heart.  Her description and account of her husband's attachment to her is the truest, the most elevated and admirable picture of love and true affection from and to a superior mind that can be imagined.' """
"""At one of these sales I bought a copy of """"""""Bloomfield's Poems"""""""", but not so cheaply as to encourage me to combine my biddings. I read Bloomfield with much interest, as I also did a copy of Montgomery's """"""""Wanderer in Switzerland, and other Poems"""""""". Being at the time in poor health of body, at which times my imaginative faculty has always been morbibly active, I was unwise to read poetry of this class, which, under the circumstances, was more likely to excite uneasy feelings than to invigorate the mind. And thus it fell out; for while I read of rural scenes and also of the comparative quietude and the superior happiness of country life, I grew uneasy and heartsick of the noisy and restless town...'"""
"""At one of these sales I bought a copy of """"""""Bloomfield's Poems"""""""", but not so cheaply as to encourage me to combine my biddings. I read Bloomfield with much interest, as I also did a copy of Montgomery's """"""""Wanderer in Switzerland, and other Poems"""""""". Being at the time in poor health of body, at which times my imaginative faculty has always been morbibly active, I was unwise to read poetry of this class, which, under the circumstances, was more likely to excite uneasy feelings than to invigorate the mind. And thus it fell out; for while I read of rural scenes and also of the comparative quietude and the superior happiness of country life, I grew uneasy and heartsick of the noisy and restless town...'"""
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"""William Wordsworth to Captain Charles Pasley, 28 March 1811: 'Now for your book.  I had expected it with great impatience, and desired a Friend to send it down to me immediately on its appearance, which he neglected to do.  On this account, I did not see it till a few days ago. I have read it through twice, with great care, and many parts three or four times over.'"""
"""I return to my Letter writing from calling on Miss Harriot Webb [...] She appears well pleased with her new Home - & they are all reaidng with delight Mrs H. More's recent publication.'"""
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"""In her letter of 18 Oct. 1811 ... S[ara] H[utchinson] told Mary Monkhouse: """"""""I have been dipping into Bingley's Tour of N. Wales.""""""""  She goes on to copy out two quotations from vol.2 ... '"""
"""I also transmit Octavian, and a volume of poems written by a friend of mine. He is, poor fellow! in the last stage of a consumption; so the critics should be merciful, for he will never write better, nor worse, (which is of more consequence to brother authors,) and a death-bed repentance of such literary crimes is as bitter as it is useless'."""
"""Byron to Francis Hodgson, 4 December 1811: 'I have read Watson to Gibbon.  He proves nothing, so I am where I was, verging towards Spinoza ... '"""
"""Sir, I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of a volume of poems which Messrs. Longman transmitted to me a few days since, and for which I am indebted to your politeness. I have been very much pleased with Miss Mitford's poems generally, and many passages I think excellent.  In particular I was delighted to see her muse busy in Northumberland, the scenery of which in many parts is well worthy of a poet.'"""
"""I have opened no other book, save the """"""""Monthly Review"""""""" and """"""""Appendix"""""""" since I came home... A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is """"""""Jouhaud's Paris dans le...""""""""'"""
"""Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have begun an Imitation of the """"""""De Arte Poetica"""""""" of Horace [became his Hints from Horace] ... The Horace I found in the convent where I have sojourned some months.' """
"""Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have seen English papers of October, which say little or nothing ... '"""
"""I am reading Locke in my old age never having read him in my youth, a fine satisfactory sort of fellow but very long winded'."""
"""We began Pease on Sunday, but our gatherings are very small - not at all like the gathering in the Lady of the Lake.'"""
"""Byron to Francis Hodgson, 8 December 1811: 'I have gotten a book by Sir William Drummond (printed, but not published), entitled Oedipus Judaicus, in which he attempts to prove the greater part of the Old Testament an allegory, particularly Genesis and Joshua.  He professes himself a theist in the preface, and handles the literal interpretation very roughly.  I wish I could see it.  Mr Ward has lent it me, and I confess it is worth fifty Watsons.'"""
"""Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I have been reading Juvenal & Lady Jane &ca for the first time since my return.'"""
"""Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I have been reading Juvenal & Lady Jane &ca for the first time since my return.'"""
"""I wanted to have sent you a translation of the Epigram Flahaut has introduced in her book. It is Johnson's, and inserted in Piozzi's anecdotes - but my father has lent, & lost (often synomymous terms) his copy of that work, & I cannot immediately think of anybody to apply to. There are no bookish people here - on the contrary, they seem to me to look with an evil eye on every reader of every production save a newspaper."""
"""Byron to Bernard Barton, 1 June 1812: 'Some weeks ago my friend Mr Rogers showed me some of the stanzas [of Barton's] in M.S. & I then expressed my opinion of their merit which a further perusal of the printed volume has given me no reason to revoke.'"""
"""Byron to Bernard Barton, 1 June 1812: 'Some weeks ago my friend Mr Rogers showed me some of the stanzas [of Barton's] in M.S. & I then expressed my opinion of their merit which a further perusal of the printed volume has given me no reason to revoke.'"""
"""Annabella was now reading Cowper's """"""""Iliad"""""""" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condescending to """"""""Evelina"""""""". In """"""""Evelina"""""""" she was disappointed, like a good many more of its readers - more perhaps than make the confession. There was study of Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge as well, for everyone was reading them... Annabella waded through """"""""Madoc"""""""". She found some passages wearisome but was convinced that Southey would one day be ranked high """"""""among the ancient poets"""""""".'"""
"""Annabella was now reading Cowper's """"""""Iliad"""""""" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condescending to """"""""Evelina"""""""". In """"""""Evelina"""""""" she was disappointed, like a good many more of its readers - more perhaps than make the confession. There was study of Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge as well, for everyone was reading them... Annabella waded through """"""""Madoc"""""""". She found some passages wearisome but was convinced that Southey would one day be ranked high """"""""among the ancient poets"""""""".'"""
"""Annabella was now reading Cowper's """"""""Iliad"""""""" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condescending to """"""""Evelina"""""""". In """"""""Evelina"""""""" she was disappointed, like a good many more of its readers - more perhaps than make the confession. There was study of Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge as well, for everyone was reading them... Annabella waded through """"""""Madoc"""""""". She found some passages wearisome but was convinced that Southey would one day be ranked high """"""""among the ancient poets"""""""".'"""
"""Annabella was now reading Cowper's """"""""Iliad"""""""" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condescending to """"""""Evelina"""""""". In """"""""Evelina"""""""" she was disappointed, like a good many more of its readers - more perhaps than make the confession. There was study of Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge as well, for everyone was reading them... Annabella waded through """"""""Madoc"""""""". She found some passages wearisome but was convinced that Southey would one day be ranked high """"""""among the ancient poets"""""""".'"""
"""Annabella was now reading Cowper's """"""""Iliad"""""""" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condescending to """"""""Evelina"""""""". In """"""""Evelina"""""""" she was disappointed, like a good many more of its readers - more perhaps than make the confession. There was study of Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge as well, for everyone was reading them... Annabella waded through """"""""Madoc"""""""". She found some passages wearisome but was convinced that Southey would one day be ranked high """"""""among the ancient poets"""""""".'"""
"""Annabella was now reading Cowper's """"""""Iliad"""""""" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condescending to """"""""Evelina"""""""". In """"""""Evelina"""""""" she was disappointed, like a good many more of its readers - more perhaps than make the confession. There was study of Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge as well, for everyone was reading them... Annabella waded through """"""""Madoc"""""""". She found some passages wearisome but was convinced that Southey would one day be ranked high """"""""among the ancient poets"""""""".'"""
"""Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... A friend of mine (fifty years old & an author but not Rogers) has just been here, as there is no name to the MSS I shewed them to him, & he was much more enthusiastic in his praises than I have been ... '"""
"""Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... I like the lines on Dermody so much that I wish they were in rhyme. - The lines in the cave at Seaham have a turn of thought which I cannot sufficiently commend ... '"""
"""She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though she did include some novels - Miss Edgeworth's and Beckford's sensation-making """"""""Vathek"""""""", in which she detected the source of some passages in the Book of the Season, Lord Byron's """"""""Childe Harold"""""""". """"""""Childe Harold's"""""""" only rival in her poetic reading was """"""""The Faerie Queene"""""""". That was a reckless undertaking for the height of the London season; she may not, like so many of us, have quite finished """"""""The Faerie Queene"""""""".'"""
"""She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though she did include some novels - Miss Edgeworth's and Beckford's sensation-making """"""""Vathek"""""""", in which she detected the source of some passages in the Book of the Season, Lord Byron's """"""""Childe Harold"""""""". """"""""Childe Harold's"""""""" only rival in her poetic reading was """"""""The Faerie Queene"""""""". That was a reckless undertaking for the height of the London season; she may not, like so many of us, have quite finished """"""""The Faerie Queene"""""""".'"""
"""She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though she did include some novels - Miss Edgeworth's and Beckford's sensation-making """"""""Vathek"""""""", in which she detected the source of some passages in the Book of the Season, Lord Byron's """"""""Childe Harold"""""""". """"""""Childe Harold's"""""""" only rival in her poetic reading was """"""""The Faerie Queene"""""""". That was a reckless undertaking for the height of the London season; she may not, like so many of us, have quite finished """"""""The Faerie Queene"""""""".'"""
"""She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though she did include some novels - Miss Edgeworth's and Beckford's sensation-making """"""""Vathek"""""""", in which she detected the source of some passages in the Book of the Season, Lord Byron's """"""""Childe Harold"""""""". """"""""Childe Harold's"""""""" only rival in her poetic reading was """"""""The Faerie Queene"""""""". That was a reckless undertaking for the height of the London season; she may not, like so many of us, have quite finished """"""""The Faerie Queene"""""""".'"""
"""Yesterday I experienced liveliness of spirit, without any apparent cause; nothing but free mercy and grace, for I think, as far as I was concerned, I was rather rebellious after reading than otherwise'"""
"""I was shown today some verses by an accomplished man, which made me wish to be a free agent, and to visit the scenes which he describes so well. Mr Keppel Craven addressed them to a lady, a friend of mine. The writer was one of her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales's most intimate friends, and she valued his acquaintance'. [The verses (which are lengthy) follow, dated Scio, March 1812]"""
"""Maria Branwell to Patrick Bronte, 18 November 1812: 'On Saturday ev[enin]g about the time when you were writing your description of an imaginary shipwreck, I was reading & feeling the effects of a real one, having then received a letter from my sister giving me an account of the vessel in which she had sent my box, being stranded on the coast of Devonshire ...'"""
"""Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no paper but [James] Perry's [Morning Chronicle] and two of the Sunday ones.'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 15 June 1812: 'Called by appointment on Sir G. Beaumont to meet [George] Colman [manager of Haymarket Theatre], and read with him 'The Two Martius.'  As Sir George had told him that it was written by a woman, I owned myself to be that woman [...] I read the piece: he stopped me each time where he thought something piquant could be added'."""
"""Byron to Lady Melbourne, 17 October 1812, on reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: '... my address has been ... mauled (I see) in the newspapers ... '"""
"""I have been, and am now, in the midst of reading Miss Edgeworth's 4th, 5th, and 6th vols of """"""""Tales of Fashionable Life"""""""". I don't enter into disquisitions about whether they come up to or fall short of her other works, but I am most highly entertained with them.  Such admirable delineation of character and such excellent tendencies one seldom sees, and her stories are interesting, not from intricacy of plot, but from exact representations of Nature...'"""
"""On 17-18 May 1812 W[ordsworth] wrote to M[ary] W[ordsworth]: """"""""Yesterday I dined alone with Lady B. - and we read Lord Byron's new poem whch is not destitute of merit; though ill-planned, and often unpleasing in the sentiments, and almost always perplexed in the construction.""""""""'"""
"""On 17-18 May 1812 W[ordsworth] wrote to M[ary] W[ordsworth]: """"""""Yesterday I dined alone with Lady B. - and we read Lord Byron's new poem whch is not destitute of merit; though ill-planned, and often unpleasing in the sentiments, and almost always perplexed in the construction.""""""""' """
"""Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 November 1812: 'I am still here only sad in the prospect of going [from home of Lord and Lady Oxford]; reading, laughing, & playing ... with ye. children; a month has slipped away in this  & such like innocent recreations ... '"""
"""Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 October 1812, on writing by Annabella Milbanke that she has forwarded to him: '... the specimen you send me is more favourable to her talents than her discernment, & much too indulgent to the subject she has chosen ... but you have not sent me the whole (I imagine) by the abruptness of both beginning & end ... ' """
"""Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melrose, but while she borrowed Ann Radcliffe, he read """"""""Ancient and Modern History"""""""", though he did sometimes read a """"""""novel or nonsense buke"""""""", like """"""""Sir Charles Grandison"""""""". He had also read Alan Ramsay's """"""""The Gentle Shepherd"""""""", and contrasted it ironically with the life of a real shepherd."""
"""Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melrose, but while she borrowed Ann Radcliffe, he read """"""""Ancient and Modern History"""""""", though he did sometimes read a """"""""novel or nonsense buke"""""""", like """"""""Sir Charles Grandison"""""""". He had also read Alan Ramsay's """"""""The Gentle Shepherd"""""""", and contrasted it ironically with the life of a real shepherd.'"""
"""In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity in the USA: """"""""The greatest pleasure I ever derived, of this kind, was from an extract, in Cooke the actor's life, from his journal, saying that in the reading-room of Albany, near Washington, he perused English Bards and Scotch Reviewers."""""""""""
"""In extract from journal of George Frederick Cooke in W. Dunlap, Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke: """"""""Read English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, by Lord Byron.  It is well written,  His Lordship is rather severe ... on Walter Scott ... """""""""""
"""I have just finished your poem of """"""""The Sisters"""""""", and tell you truly and fairly that I read it with an interest and delight which I cannot express. I like it better than anything you have done (am I right or wrong?) and you have contrived to mix up poetical imagery and expression with such a great degree of interest as I have never before found in any poem.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: 'The Coleridges and Algernon [Montagu] were here yesterday and John and A had a happy day of play and reading; for Algernon is very good in reading to John.'"""
"""After poor John's funeral, I wished the servants, and those who attended, and were disposed to do so, to come and read with us, believing it might afford opportunity for relief, if any thing were given me for them. The party were in all about forty, many young people, and others. We first read two chapters in Matthew; after a pause, I kelt down and had to supplicate, first for all the party; afterwards for our own household, more particularly for the servants; in all which I was helped, and a very solemn silence followed'"""
"""by the way my dear Sir, why does the Scottish Reviewer (late Edinboro Quarterly) abuse me in his last Number? Whatever he may think, I am a very middling, wellish-disposed kind of Man, and not the profligate he would seem to hold forth, I thought the Business of these Gentlemen had been with our verse & prose & not with our Dispositions & Characters [...] possibly the Civility of the older Edinburgh Reviewer (of whom I also am ignorant) may have caused a fit of spleen for there is evidently among even the best of these Critics a Spirit of Opposition as well as Emulation & I think whichsoever of the two Reviews the Quarterly or Edinboro I read first on any Author whose Subject I am acquainted with, I can foretell what the rival brother will observe: this I have seen in their Examinations of you of myself of Miss Edgeworth'"""
"""by the way my dear Sir, why does the Scottish Reviewer (late Edinboro Quarterly) abuse me in his last Number? Whatever he may think, I am a very middling, wellish-disposed kind of Man, and not the profligate he would seem to hold forth, I thought the Business of these Gentlemen had been with our verse & prose & not with our Dispositions & Characters [...] possibly the Civility of the older Edinburgh Reviewer (of whom I also am ignorant) may have caused a fit of spleen for there is evidently among even the best of these Critics a Spirit of Opposition as well as Emulation & I think whichsoever of the two Reviews the Quarterly or Edinboro I read first on any Author whose Subject I am acquainted with, I can foretell what the rival brother will observe: this I have seen in their Examinations of you of myself of Miss Edgeworth'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 22 November 1812: 'I have in charge a curious and very long MS. poem written by Lord Brooke (the friend of Sir Philip Sidney) (which I wish to submit to the inspection of Mr. Gifford with the following queries ... whether it has ever been published & secondly (if not) whether it is worth publication? - It is from Ld. Oxford's library & must have escaped or been overlooked amongst the M.SS. of the Harleian Miscellany.  The writing is Ld. Brooke's except a different hand towards the close, it is ... in the six line stanza ... '"""
"""I am doubtful whether the opinion of the world is so much in favour of Richardson's talents as formerly. It appears to me that there is not one character in the whole work that has any natural train in it, or any marks of distinction, which it required any considerable talents to depict....' [extensive criticism of """"""""Clarissa"""""""" follows]"""
"""Byron to Edward Daniel Clarke, 26 June 1812: 'My dear Sir, - Will you accept my very sincere congratulations on your second volume wherein I have retraced some of my old paths adorned by you so beautifully that they give me double delight.  The part which pleases me best is the preface ... '  """
"""Even eight-year-old Willy [Godwin] went once in a while to hear his Papa [William Godwin]'s friend [S. T. Coleridge] speak [in London Philosophical Society lectures, 18 November 1811-27 January 1812], and by February he was giving weekly lectures a la Coleridge, reading from the little pulpit specially built for him a lecture written by one of the girls [Fanny Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Claire Clairmont].  [Aaron] Burr was much amused at one he heard on """"""""The Influence of Governments on the Character of the People.""""""""' (From Marion Kingston Stocking's Introduction to Claire Clairmont's first journal)."""
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"""Mary Berry, Journal, 28 May 1812: 'In the evening the Princess [?of Wales] read to us """"""""Amelie de Mansfeldt.""""""""'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 29 May 1812: '[Princess Charlotte] left between nine and ten o'clock [pm].  The Princess [?of Wales] then continued reading """"""""Amelie de Mansfeldt.""""""""'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] appears to us very slow in comprehending what he reads in the Grammar.  Today we proposed to him to take his History of England to School; but he blushed and said he could not read well enough - I tried him and find he can ... '"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: 'I am reading the Cid.'"""
"""... April when we marched to Mansfield here I met with a man who was a member of Johannah Southcott Society and he lent me some of his books and told me many straing things So that I began to be taken with his devices but by his books I found some things that did not Correspond with the Bible and also that it was a trick to get money so I declined his religeon and bid him adue.'"""
"""On 30 May 1812 W[ordsworth] observed [regarding Maria Edgeworth] that """"""""I had read but few of her works"""""""" ... '"""
"""Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 October 1812: '... I see by the papers Ld. and Ly. Cowper are returned to Herts.'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, acknowledging receipt of parcel of books and letters from Christian well-wishers, 14 September 1812, including Granville Penn, """"""""The Bioscope, or Dial of Life Explained"""""""":  ;The """"""""Bioscope"""""""" contained an M.S.S. copy of very excellent verses, from whom I know not, but evidently the composition of some one in the habit of writing & of writing well, I do not know if he be ye. author of the """"""""Bioscope"""""""" which accompanied them, but whoevever he is if you can discover hiim, thank him from me most heartily.' """
"""Madam, I am really ashamed of not having answered your very obliging and interesting letter, and not hving acknowledged the receipt of the pretty poem which you have done me the honour of submitting to my perusal.  The fact is, I have been confined to my room for several days, and though I have run through your entertaining M.S., I have by no means given that attention to it which it deserves, and which alone would entitle me to give you an opinion upon it.... I can, from the very cursory perusal I have hitherto made of it, say very truly that it gave me great pleasure, and is both an elegant and poetical work...'"""
"""On 13 May 1812, [Henry Crabb] Robinson asked W[ordsworth] about [John] Wilson's recently-published volume, The Isle of Palms: """"""""He said he had seen only a few"""""""".  W[ordsworth] added that """"""""Wilson's poems are an attenuation of mine ... """"""""... his letter to M[ary] W[ordsworth] of 23 May ... mentions one of Wilson's poems; """"""""which we had in Mss., to the sleeping Child and which is but an Attenuation of my ode to the Highland Girl.""""""""'"""
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"""In 1809 [Anne Isabella Milbanke] wrote the Lines supposed to be spoken at the Grave of Dermody. It is one of the earliest of her compositions extant [goes on to quote 11 lines from poem, beginning with """"""""Degraded genius! o'er the untimely grave / In which the tumults of thy breast were still'd, / The rank weeds wave....""""""""] [...] These, with some other verses, were sent to Byron for his opinion, in 1812, by Annabella's cousin-by-marriage, Lady Caroline Lamb. He liked the Dermody lines """"""""so much that I could wish they were in rhyme.""""""""'"""
"""The only link of which [Byron] was at this time [1811-12] conscious between him and Miss [Anne Isabella] Milbanke was his acquaintance with Joseph Blacket's poetry and fate. He thought slightingly of the poetry, as she was to learn; and not less slightingly of the patronage [from the Milbanke family] which, in his view, had done the poor young cobbler more harm than good.' """
"""Leslie A. Marchand notes regarding 1812 letter in which Byron mentions sending a book (possibly Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) to Lady Caroline Lamb 'which [she] is not to look at till Mr. Lamb has first gone through it for there is one passage which I have doubts whether it would be proper for ladies to see': '... according to Caroline she had read a copy [of Childe Harold], loaned by [Samuel] Rogers, before she met Byron.'"""
"""On the appearance of Mr Wilson's """"""""Isle of Palms"""""""", I was so greatly taken with many of his fanciful and visionary scenes, descriptive of bliss and woe, that it had a tendency to divest me occasionally of all worldly feelings. I reviewed this poem, as well as many others, in a Scottish Review then going on in Edinburgh'."""
"""there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; Milton - and with the New Year of 1812 a Captain Boothby (met during the London season) as a visitor with whom to read the last, but not the other two. For he did not admire Campbell or Ossian; and indeed seems to have been a person of delicate discriminations, though not advanced in thought. They were reading """"""""Paradise Lost""""""""...'"""
"""there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; Milton - and with the New Year of 1812 a Captain Boothby (met during the London season) as a visitor with whom to read the last, but not the other two. For he did not admire Campbell or Ossian; and indeed seems to have been a person of delicate discriminations, though not advanced in thought. They were reading """"""""Paradise Lost""""""""...'"""
""" 'A Reverend Mr Darnell followed in this January of 1812. He too read Milton. This time it was Comus, and the whole party joined in, Annabella and her guests taking the various parts. They did the Trial-Scene from the Merchant of Venice too, and she """"""""never heard anyone read with more discriminating judgment than Mr Darnell"""""""".'"""
"""William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, ['Early Spring 1812']: 'I see no new books except by the merest accident ... The only modern Books that I read are those of travels, or such as relate to Matters of fact; and the only modern books that I care for ... '"""
"""A propos, our [italics] ladies [end italics] are greatly shocked with the free use of scriptural phrases in the ******, and very angry with the author on that account. For my part, as I have read a great many of the old Presbyterian sermons, I do not see those passages in so atrocious a light; for they are nothing to the wonderful things one meets with in the effusions of Peden and Cargill; whose favourite scriptural book appears to have been the song of Solomon: - which song, by the way, I lately found in MS. in the Advocates' library, translated into rhyme by Mistress Barbara Macky, and humbly dedicated to that most noble lady the Countess of Caithness, daughter to that thrice worthy marquess, my Lord Marquess of Argyll. And a conscientious translator Mistress Barbara was; for she leaves out not one word of her original: but her fidelity is superior to her meter by many degrees'."""
"""A propos, our [italics] ladies [end italics] are greatly shocked with the free use of scriptural phrases in the ******, and very angry with the author on that account. For my part, as I have read a great many of the old Presbyterian sermons, I do not see those passages in so atrocious a light; for they are nothing to the wonderful things one meets with in the effusions of Peden and Cargill; whose favourite scriptural book appears to have been the song of Solomon: - which song, by the way, I lately found in MS. in the Advocates' library, translated into rhyme by Mistress Barbara Macky, and humbly dedicated to that most noble lady the Countess of Caithness, daughter to that thrice worthy marquess, my Lord Marquess of Argyll. And a conscientious translator Mistress Barbara was; for she leaves out not one word of her original: but her fidelity is superior to her meter by many degrees'."""
"""A propos, our [italics] ladies [end italics] are greatly shocked with the free use of scriptural phrases in the ******, and very angry with the author on that account. For my part, as I have read a great many of the old Presbyterian sermons, I do not see those passages in so atrocious a light; for they are nothing to the wonderful things one meets with in the effusions of Peden and Cargill; whose favourite scriptural book appears to have been the song of Solomon: - which song, by the way, I lately found in MS. in the Advocates' library, translated into rhyme by Mistress Barbara Macky, and humbly dedicated to that most noble lady the Countess of Caithness, daughter to that thrice worthy marquess, my Lord Marquess of Argyll. And a conscientious translator Mistress Barbara was; for she leaves out not one word of her original: but her fidelity is superior to her meter by many degrees'."""
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"""[Henry Crabb] Robinson recorded on 24 May 1812 that """"""""I read Wordsworth some of Blake's poems; he was pleased with some of them, and considered Blake as having the elements of poetry a thousand times more than either Byron or Scott.""""""""'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] is reading a Story Book of Algernon [Montagu]'s at home and you would be surprised to hear how well he reads it; yet when he is reading a Book that does not interest him he seems to read it just as ill as ever.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] appears to us very slow in comprehending what he reads in the Grammar.  Today we proposed to him to take his History of England to School; but he blushed and said he could not read well enough - I tried him and find he can ... '"""
"""In a joking letter to her niece, Anna Austen, Jane Austen writes, 'Miss Jane Austen begs her best thanks may be conveyed to Mrs Hunter of Norwich [...] Miss Jane Austen's tears have flowed over each sweet sketch in such a way as would do Mrs Hunter's heart good to see; if Mrs Hunter could understand all Miss Jane Austen's interest in the subject she would certainly have the kindness to publish at least 4 vols more about the Flint family...'"""
"""By the way, I am in the train of reading the """"""""History of Clarissa"""""""", who affords a notable example that fear is not the effectual mode. Pray did you ever go through that work? There is, indeed, tautology of sense - the same thing said ten thousand times over. I should be glad to hear your thoughts of that work.'"""
"""Felicity Browne, mother of Felicia Browne, to Matthew Nicholson, 7 February 1812: 'I saw in the paper some time ago, that two thousand pounds would be given for the best translation of Lucian Bonaparte's poem of Charlemagne -- Could you enquire where information respecting this could be had? -- it is a work for which Felicia's perfect knowledge of the French tongue & poetical genius make her quite competent -- I read in the paper, of the fall of Ciudad Rodrigo [...] thank GOD the names of my sons are not in the fatal list'."""
"""Felicity Browne, mother of Felicia Browne, to Matthew Nicholson, 7 February 1812: 'I saw in the paper some time ago, that two thousand pounds would be given for the best translation of Lucian Bonaparte's poem of Charlemagne -- Could you enquire where information respecting this could be had? -- it is a work for which Felicia's perfect knowledge of the French tongue & poetical genius make her quite competent -- I read in the paper, of the fall of Ciudad Rodrigo [...] thank GOD the names of my sons are not in the fatal list'."""
"""""""""""I attempt to read a book which attacks my most cherished sentiments as calmly as one which corroborates them.  I have not read your writings slightly, I have daily occasion to recur to them, but it has been twenty years since 'Political Justice' was written, and have men ceased to fight, has vice and misery wasted away? No, therefore modification is required."""""""""""
"""The story of """"""""Blanch"""""""", when the poem becomes fashionable, will be dramatized... I cannot help thinking it would make a good drama. The story is busy and pathetic.  For the two small poems I thank you much. That to Lord Redesdale is most striking to me, and it is a just tribute to feeling where one would least expect it.'"""
"""A fortnight ago, having employed myself in reading White's """"""""Selborne"""""""", and being extremely fond of natural history, and, of course, highly delighted with that book, I was seized with an insuperable desire to see that village which Mr. White has, in the eye of a naturalist, made classic ground...'"""
"""ricordati di Biondetta [...] [the sale of] Newstead--that is a pity--why not have kept it & taken Biondetta there & have livd [sic] and died happy'."""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Mary Hutchinson, 1 February 1813: 'Willy [Wordsworth, the poet's son] is now beside me ... He has taken up a book, and there he reads fragments of a hundred little songs - about Cock Robin, pussy cat and all sorts of things.  he is very entertaining; but one half of the heart is sad while the other laughs at his strange fancies.'"""
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"""[Crabbe had sent Scott, who already had one, a set of his works - he explained later that he'd intended it for Mrs Scott. Scott responded to the present,] to say the truth the auxiliary copy arrived in good time for my original copy suffers as much by its general popularity among my young people as a popular candidate from the hugs and embraces of his democratical admirers. The cleanness and accuracy of your painting whether natural or moral renders I have often remarked your poetry generally delightful to those whose youth might render them insensible to the other poetical beauties with which they abound. There are a sort of pictures (surely the most valuable were it but for that reason) which strike the uninitiated as much as they do the connoisseur though the last alone can render the reasons for his admiration'."""
"""She read a great deal, among her books being one called """"""""Pride and Prejudice"""""""", """"""""Which is at present the fashionable novel. It is written by a sister of Charlotte Smith's and contains more strength of character than other productions of this kind"""""""".'"""
"""She read one of Madame de Stael's [italics] Petits Romans [end italics], which I had lent her, and which she told me had given her great pleasure'."""
"""Read Madame de Stael sur les Passions. What a wonderful mind is hers! what an insight she has into the recesses of human feeling! How many secret springs does she unlock; and how much the woman - the tender, the kind, the impassioned woman - betrays herself even in all the philosophy of her writings.'"""
"""""""""""I too am reading Mme de Staal [sic], and am such a Goth, that I catch myself yawning over it! Probably I am not formed to love """"""""les plaisirs [underlined] dissertant [end underlining]."""""""" The book is like a long Review, and all about the same set of objects; and I tire for want of connection, and something either to interest my feelings or amuse my imagination. Yet, I have extracted some delightful, and some most wise little passages; and I read, though with fatigue, still with admiration, such a copious series of well-expressed reflections [...] I told my sister d'Arblay to-night, how glad I was that our best English writers, meaning Adison [sic], Swift, Johnson &c, had not written like Mde de Staal; for if they had, as sure as a gun, I should never have loved reading - I should never have opened a book. I have finished vol. I & shall probably read II and III, out of vanity, & just to say I have read them'"""
"""I am not sufficiently fond of dissertations, of eternal analysis, of eloquent bubbles, to be a warm partizan of Mde de Staal [sic]. Between friends - but don't mention it - I yawned over her Allemagne - and yet, here and there, was electrified by a flash of sublimity. Do you agree with me in thinking, that with all her brilliant varnish, she is corrupt at heart? Had Satan himself written """"""""Pauline"""""""", one of the stories published with """"""""Zuma"""""""", he could have produced nothing more offensive to decency, more detestably disgusting'. """
"""I am looking over Self-Control again, & my opinion is confirmed of its' [sic] being an excellently-meant, elegantly-written Work, without anything of Nature or Probability in it. I declare I do not know whether Laura's passage down the American River is not the most natural, possible, every-day thing she ever does.-'"""
"""Or perhaps she [Madame de Stael] may wish to have it appear as if she thought so [that English women were less uncouth than they used to be] since she wrote the history of Lady Edgermond's Society """"""""elles sont d'une grace d'une simplicite charmante et belles comme le jour"""""""",  but I am not certain that she would not place us all or at least with a very few exceptions on Lady Cooke's bench of idiots'."""
"""I have seen a letter from a Gentleman in Sweden which proves that her [Madame de Stael's] Anglomania did not first arise on coming to this country. I will try if I can get you a copy of it. Mademoiselle [Albertine] is very much praised in it, but I do not think that we admire her as much as they did in Sweden.' [The letter is included]"""
"""At last I have been enabled to accomplish my desire in having the greater part of our family here, present at the Scripture reading in the morning, it has been to me a very humbling thing, and I may say trying'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on """"""""Strictures in the Urethra"""""""" I see most appropriately consequent - a poem with """"""""strictures on Ld. B. Mr. Southey and others"""""""" ...'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on """"""""Strictures in the Urethra"""""""" I see most appropriately consequent - a poem with """"""""strictures on Ld. B. Mr. Southey and others"""""""" ...'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1813: 'I have received and read the British Review ... '"""
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 13 December 1813: 'Called at three places - read, and got ready to leave town to-morrow.'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 13 June 1813: 'I have read the strictures which are just enough - & not grossly abusive - in very fair couplets ... '"""
"""I recieved yours accompanying the beautifull complimentary verses, which are judged by the small circle of my friends to be the best that ever have appeared in our language addressed to any poet while alive. Goldie published them in the Courant the principal paper of this country as addressed to the Ettrick Shepherd by a gentleman of Suffolk. I admired the verses very much indeed for their poetical merit but much more for the spirit of enthusiasm and kindness that breathes throughout towards a friendless and un-noted Bard'."""
"""And Mr Hastings - I am quite delighted with what such a Man writes about it [""""""""Pride and Prejudice""""""""]. - Henry sent him the Books after his return from Daylesford.'"""
"""Lady Robert is delighted with P & P - and really [italics] was [end italics] so as I understand before she knew who wrote it - for, of course, she knows now.'"""
"""I went to church: heard a very fine sermon. The text was taken from the Psalms. Missed the verse, and could not find it, but the meaning was that evil company corrupts good manners'."""
"""I suppose all the World is sitting in Judgement upon the Princess of Wales's Letter. Poor Woman, I shall support her as long as I can, because she is a Woman, & because I hate her husband - but I can hardly forgive her for calling herself 'attached & affectionate' to a Man whom she must detest - & the intimacy said to subsist between her & Lady Oxford is bad...'"""
"""Byron to unknown female correspondent (mother of author of poem sent for Byron's consideration), 17 August 1814: 'The poem from which you have done me the honour to  enlose some extracts --I saw in M.S. last year at the hands of Mr. Murray and expressed my wonder that he did not publish it ...'"""
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 December 1813: 'Redde some Italian, and wrote two Sonnets on *** [Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster].'"""
"""In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813: 'I wish I could settle to reading again, - my life is monotonous, and yet desultory.  I take up books, and fling them down again.'"""
"""I have been reading over an old journal book. Ah saith my soul, how has the loving kindness and tender mercy of the Almighty been manifested to me'"""
"""It was my intention to review Ferriar's """"""""Theory of Apparitions""""""""; but it is such a null, frivolous book, that it is impossible to take any notice of it'."""
"""Uvedale Price to Mary Berry,18 December 1813: 'Upon reading a few days ago in the papers an account of the Queen of Naples' magnificent reception at the Ottoman court, it occurred to me that the Grand Signior might have taken a fancy for her.'"""
"""In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity in the USA: """"""""The greatest pleasure I ever derived, of this kind, was from an extract, in Cooke the actor's life, from his journal, saying that in the reading-room of Albany, near Washington, he perused English Bards and Scotch Reviewers."""""""""""
"""I feel very unworthy this morning. Though the day appeared to begin well in a few words of solemn supplication after reading. Yesterday I think I was too much off my watch ... So I felt this morning at reading unwilling to take up the cross'"""
"""Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 19 January 1813, accompanying his ode on the burning of Moscow by French forces: 'I sent an early copy to Fitzpatrick, and Rogers happening to come in [...] he could not resist showing it to him: I have since altered it a good deal, and as Rogers had seen the first sketch, I have sent him this new, and I hope improved, edition.'"""
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"""The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesiastical History'."""
"""The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesiastical History'."""
"""The books which I am reading to myself are [...] in French, Fenelon's Dialogues of the Dead.'"""
"""I shall send you back the volumes of Madame de Genlis's [underline] petits romans [end underline] as soon as possible, and I should be very much obliged for one or two more of them.'"""
"""I read Montaigne and Metastasio'."""
"""I read Montaigne and Metastasio'."""
"""Byron to John Murray, 21 April 1813: 'I see the Examiner threatens some observations upon you next week ... '"""
"""I received the Books, & among them the Bride of Abydos.  It is very, very beautiful.'"""
"""No; I have never seen the death of Mrs Crabbe. I have only just been making out from one of his prefaces that he probably was married.'"""
"""Byron to Lady Melbourne, 21 September 1813, from Aston Hall, Rotherham (where staying with Sir James Wedderburn Webster): 'There is a delightful epitaph on Voltaire in Grimm - I read it coming down - the French I should probably misspell so take it only in bad English - """"""""Here lies the spoilt child of the/a world which he spoiled""""""""'."""
"""Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'In a """"""""mail-coach"""""""" copy of the Edinburgh, I perceive the Giaour is 2d article.'"""
"""Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'I hope you are going on with your grand coup - pray do - or that damned Lucien Buonaparte will beat us all.  I have seen much of his poem in MS., and he really surpasses everything beneath Tasso.'"""
"""In my learning I do Xenophon every day'."""
"""In my learning I do Xenophon every day and twice a week the Odyssey, in which I am classed with Wilberforce."""
"""We get by heart Greek grammar or Virgil every evening'."""
"""Hear what I have read since I came here. Hear and wonder! I have in the first place read Boccacio's Decameron, a tale of a hundred cantos...'"""
"""The Princess received a letter of twenty-eight pages, from the Princess Charlotte, which looked like the writing of a chambermaid, and appeared to me wholly illegible; but she said she could decipher it, and so she did in regard to understanding the general meaning, but I defy her powers or her patience to have made out [italics] literally [end italics], what those twenty-eight pages contained'."""
"""[italics] The Bridal [end italics] of Triermain is published. It is quite a romance of a lady that lay enchanted 500 years &c a servile imitation of Scott and possesses some poetical merit. It will not however be regarded'."""
"""Yesterday I was enabled after reading to cast my care wholly and publicly upon the great helper of the helpless, in which I found peace'"""
"""We quite run over with Books.  She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading a Society-Octavo, an Essay on the Military Police & Institutions of the British Empire, by Capt. Pasley of the Engineers, a book which I protested against at first, but which upon trial I find delightfully written & highly entertaining.  I am as much in love with the Author as I ever was with Clarkson or Bucahanan, or even the two Mr Smiths of the city.  The first soldier I ever sighed for; but he does write with extraordinary force & spirit.'"""
"""The Papillons have now got the Book [J & H Smith's """"""""Rejected Addresses""""""""] and like it very much; their niece Eleanor has recommended it most warmly to them.  - [italics] She [end italics] looks like a rejected Addresser.'"""
"""We quite run over with Books.  She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading a Society-Octavo, an Essay on the Military Police & Institutions of the British Empire, by Capt. Pasley of the Engineers, a book which I protested against at first, but which upon trial I find delightfully written & highly entertaining.  I am as much in love with the Author as I ever was with Clarkson or Buchanan, or even the two Mr Smiths of the city.  The first soldier I ever sighed for; but he does write with extraordinary force & spirit.'"""
"""We quite run over with Books.  She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading a Society-Octavo, an Essay on the Military Police & Institutions of the British Empire, by Capt. Pasley of the Engineers, a book which I protested against at first, but which upon trial I find delightfully written & highly entertaining.  I am as much in love with the Author as I ever was with Clarkson or Buchanan, or even the two Mr Smiths of the city.  The first soldier I ever sighed for; but he does write with extraordinary force & spirit.'"""
"""We quite run over with Books.  She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading a Society-Octavo, an Essay on the Military Police & Institutions of the British Empire, by Capt. Pasley of the Engineers, a book which I protested against at first, but which upon trial I find delightfully written & highly entertaining.  I am as much in love with the Author as I ever was with Clarkson or Buchanan, or even the two Mr Smiths of the city.  The first soldier I ever sighed for; but he does write with extraordinary force & spirit.'"""
"""Upon Mrs Digweed's mentioning that she had sent the Rejected Addresses to Mr Hinton, I began talking to her a little about them & expressed my hope of their having amused her. Her answer was, """"""""Oh! dear, yes, very much; - very droll indeed; - the opening of the House! - & the striking up of the Fiddles!"""""""" What she meant, poor woman, who shall say? - I sought no farther.'"""
"""Upon Mrs Digweed's mentioning that she had sent the Rejected Addresses to Mr Hinton, I began talking to her a little about them & expressed my hope of their having amused her. Her answer was, """"""""Oh! dear, yes, very much; - very droll indeed; - the opening of the House! - & the striking up of the Fiddles!"""""""" What she meant, poor woman, who shall say? - I sought no farther.'"""
"""And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire, & the Rejected Addresses?'"""
"""And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire, & the Rejected Addresses?'"""
"""And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire, & the Rejected Addresses?'"""
"""Will you remember us kindly to Mr Dumont, and tell him that I have received his letter; and, that since I wrote to him, I have found No 1 and 2 of Thompson's """"""""Annals of Philosophy"""""""" - the Report of the Committee of the H of commons on Transportation to Botany Bay (July 10 12)'."""
"""Fanny & I are to go on with Modern Europe together, but hitherto have advanced only 25 Pages, something or other has always happened to delay or curtail the reading hour.'"""
"""I am now alone in the Library, Mistress of all I survey - at least I may say so & repeat the whole poem if I like it, without offence to anybody.'"""
"""Enabled publicly after """"""""Reading"""""""" to cast my care upon our Henry Helper'"""
"""It puts me in mind of the account of St Paul's Shipwreck, where all are said by different means to reach the Shore in safety.'"""
"""[Every Sunday] 'After breakfast we learn a chapter in the Greek Testament, that is with the aid of our Bibles, and without doing it with a dictionary like other lessons'."""
"""We dine almost as soon as we come back, and we are left to ourselves till afternoon church. During this time I employ myself in reading, and Mr Preston lends me any books for which I ask him, so that I am nearly as well off in this respect as at home'."""
"""In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 26 November 1813: """"""""Two letters, one from **** [Lady Frances Webster] ... **** [Lady Frances]'s contained also a very pretty lyric on 'concealed griefs' - of not her own, then very like her."""""""""""
"""Miss Benn dined with us on the very day of the Books [copies of """"""""Pride and Prejudice""""""""] coming, & in the eveng we set fairly at it & read half the 1st vol. to her - prefacing that having intelligence from Henry that such a work wd soon appear we had desired him to send it whenever it came out - & I beleive [sic] it passed with her unsuspected.  She was amused, poor soul! [italics] that [end italics] she cd not help you know, with two such people to lead the way; but she really does seem to admire Elizabeth. I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print...'"""
"""In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), ?27 November 1813: """"""""Redde the Edinburgh Review of Rogers [with himself and other contemporary authors also discussed]."""""""""""
"""Byron thanks J. Thomson (unidentified) for volume of poems, 27 September 1813: 'I have derived considerable pleasure from ye. perusal of parts of the book - to the whole I have not yet had time to do justice by more than a slight inspection.'"""
"""Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 August 1813: 'If you want any more books [on the Orient], there is """"""""Castellan's Moeurs des Ottomans,"""""""" the best compendium of the kind I ever met with, in six small tomes.' """
"""In postscript to letter written by Byron to John Murray, 3 am [29 November 1813]: 'I have got out of my bed (in which however I could not sleep ... ) & so Good Morning - I am trying whether De L'Allemagne will act as an opiate - but I doubt it.-' """
"""Byron to John Murray, [29 November 1813 (c)]: 'there have been some epigrams on Mr. W[ar]d one I see today - the first I did not see but heard yesterday - the second seems very bad - and Mr. P[erry] has placed it over your puff - I only hope that Mr. W[ard] does not believe that I had any connection with either - '  """
"""A gentleman who deems himself libelled at in the Wake has sent a long poem to Edin. to be printed [italics] in quarto [end italics] which he denominates [italics] The Hoggiad [end italics] or [italics] A Supplement to the Queen's Wake [end italics] It is the most abusive thing I ever saw but has otherwise some merit'.."""
"""Byron to Zachary Macaulay (editor of the Christian Observer), 3 December 1813: 'Sir / - I have just finished the perusal of an article in the """"""""Christian Observer"""""""" on ye. """"""""Giaour."""""""" - You perhaps are unacquainted with ye. writer ... I only wish you would have the goodness to thank him very sincerely on my part for ye. pleasure ... which the perusal of a very able and I believe just criticism has afforded me. ... this is ye. first notice I have for some years taken of any public criticism good or bad in the way of either thanks or defence ... '"""
"""Madame de Stael's """"""""Essai sur les fictions"""""""" delights me particularly: for every word in it is a beautiful echo of my own feelings'."""
"""Byron to Madame de Stael, 30 November 1813, in praise of her De L'Allemagne: 'few days have passed since its publication without my perusal of many of its pages ... I should be sorry for my own sake to fix the period when I should not recur to it with pleasure.'"""
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"""Much of it [ie. 'the daily instruction I received'] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father's discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the end of 1813 we were living in Newington Green, then an almost rustic neighbourhood. My father's health required considerable and constant exercise, and he walked habitually before breakfast, generally in the green lanes towards Hornsey. In these walks I always accompanied him, and with my earliest recollections of green fields and wild flowers, is mingled that of the account I gave him daily of what I had read the day before. To the best of my remembrance, this was a voluntary rather than a prescribed exercise. I made notes on slips of paper while reading, and from these, in the morning walks, I told the story to him; for the books were chiefly histories, of which I read in this manner a great number: Robertson?s histories, Hume, Gibbon; but my greatest delight, then and for long afterwards, was Watson's Philip the Second and Third. The heroic defence of the Knights of Malta against the Turks, and of the revolted provinces of the Netherlands against Spain, excited in me an intense and lasting interest. Next to Watson, my favourite historical reading was Hooke's History of Rome. Of Greece I had seen at that time no regular history, except school abridgments and the last two or three volumes of a translation of Rollin's Ancient History, beginning with Philip of Macedon. But I read with great delight Langhorne's translation of Plutarch. In English history, beyond the time at which Hume leaves off, I remember reading Burnett's History of his Own Time, though I cared little for anything in it except the wars and battles; and the historical part of the Annual Register, from the beginning to about 1788, where the volumes my father borrowed for me from Mr Bentham left off. In these frequent talks about the books I read, he used, as opportunity offered, to give me explanations and ideas respecting civilization, government, morality, mental cultivation, which he required me afterwards to restate to him in my own words.'"""
"""He ['my father'] was fond of putting into my hands books which exhibited men of energy and resource in unusual circumstances, struggling against difficulties and overcoming them: of such works I remember Beaver's African Memoranda, and Collins's account of the first settlement of New South Wales.' """
"""Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the end of 1813 we were living in Newington Green, then an almost rustic neighbourhood. My father?s health required considerable and constant exercise, and he walked habitually before breakfast, generally in the green lanes towards Hornsey. In these walks I always accompanied him, and with my earliest recollections of green fields and wild flowers, is mingled that of the account I gave him daily of what I had read the day before. To the best of my remembrance, this was a voluntary rather than a prescribed exercise. I made notes on slips of paper while reading, and from these, in the morning walks, I told the story to him; for the books were chiefly histories, of which I read in this manner a great number: Robertson?s histories, Hume, Gibbon; but my greatest delight, then and for long afterwards, was Watson?s Philip the Second and Third. The heroic defence of the Knights of Malta against the Turks, and of the revolted provinces of the Netherlands against Spain, excited in me an intense and lasting interest. Next to Watson, my favourite historical reading was Hooke?s History of Rome. Of Greece I had seen at that time no regular history, except school abridgments and the last two or three volumes of a translation of Rollin?s Ancient History, beginning with Philip of Macedon. But I read with great delight Langhorne?s translation of Plutarch. In English history, beyond the time at which Hume leaves off, I remember reading Burnett?s History of his Own Time, though I cared little for anything in it except the wars and battles; and the historical part of the Annual Register, from the beginning to about 1788, where the volumes my father borrowed for me from Mr Bentham left off?. In these frequent talks about the books I read, he used, as opportunity offered, to give me explanations and ideas respecting civilization, government, morality, mental cultivation, which he required me afterwards to restate to him in my own words.' """
"""He [?my father?] was fond of putting into my hands books which exhibited men of energy and resource in unusual circumstances, struggling against difficulties and overcoming them: of such works I remember Beaver?s African Memoranda, and Collins?s account of the first settlement of New South Wales.'"""
"""Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the end of 1813 we were living in Newington Green, then an almost rustic neighbourhood. My father?s health required considerable and constant exercise, and he walked habitually before breakfast, generally in the green lanes towards Hornsey. In these walks I always accompanied him, and with my earliest recollections of green fields and wild flowers, is mingled that of the account I gave him daily of what I had read the day before. To the best of my remembrance, this was a voluntary rather than a prescribed exercise. I made notes on slips of paper while reading, and from these, in the morning walks, I told the story to him; for the books were chiefly histories, of which I read in this manner a great number: Robertson?s histories, Hume, Gibbon; but my greatest delight, then and for long afterwards, was Watson?s Philip the Second and Third. The heroic defence of the Knights of Malta against the Turks, and of the revolted provinces of the Netherlands against Spain, excited in me an intense and lasting interest. Next to Watson, my favourite historical reading was Hooke?s History of Rome. Of Greece I had seen at that time no regular history, except school abridgments and the last two or three volumes of a translation of Rollin?s Ancient History, beginning with Philip of Macedon. But I read with great delight Langhorne?s translation of Plutarch. In English history, beyond the time at which Hume leaves off, I remember reading Burnett?s History of his Own Time, though I cared little for anything in it except the wars and battles; and the historical part of the Annual Register, from the beginning to about 1788, where the volumes my father borrowed for me from Mr Bentham left off?. In these frequent talks about the books I read, he used, as opportunity offered, to give me explanations and ideas respecting civilization, government, morality, mental cultivation, which he required me afterwards to restate to him in my own words.'"""
"""Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the end of 1813 we were living in Newington Green, then an almost rustic neighbourhood. My father?s health required considerable and constant exercise, and he walked habitually before breakfast, generally in the green lanes towards Hornsey. In these walks I always accompanied him, and with my earliest recollections of green fields and wild flowers, is mingled that of the account I gave him daily of what I had read the day before. To the best of my remembrance, this was a voluntary rather than a prescribed exercise. I made notes on slips of paper while reading, and from these, in the morning walks, I told the story to him; for the books were chiefly histories, of which I read in this manner a great number: Robertson?s histories, Hume, Gibbon; but my greatest delight, then and for long afterwards, was Watson?s Philip the Second and Third. The heroic defence of the Knights of Malta against the Turks, and of the revolted provinces of the Netherlands against Spain, excited in me an intense and lasting interest. Next to Watson, my favourite historical reading was Hooke?s History of Rome. Of Greece I had seen at that time no regular history, except school abridgments and the last two or three volumes of a translation of Rollin?s Ancient History, beginning with Philip of Macedon. But I read with great delight Langhorne?s translation of Plutarch. In English history, beyond the time at which Hume leaves off, I remember reading Burnett?s History of his Own Time, though I cared little for anything in it except the wars and battles; and the historical part of the Annual Register, from the beginning to about 1788, where the volumes my father borrowed for me from Mr Bentham left off?. In these frequent talks about the books I read, he used, as opportunity offered, to give me explanations and ideas respecting civilization, government, morality, mental cultivation, which he required me afterwards to restate to him in my own words.'"""
"""Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the end of 1813 we were living in Newington Green, then an almost rustic neighbourhood. My father?s health required considerable and constant exercise, and he walked habitually before breakfast, generally in the green lanes towards Hornsey. In these walks I always accompanied him, and with my earliest recollections of green fields and wild flowers, is mingled that of the account I gave him daily of what I had read the day before. To the best of my remembrance, this was a voluntary rather than a prescribed exercise. I made notes on slips of paper while reading, and from these, in the morning walks, I told the story to him; for the books were chiefly histories, of which I read in this manner a great number: Robertson?s histories, Hume, Gibbon; but my greatest delight, then and for long afterwards, was Watson?s Philip the Second and Third. The heroic defence of the Knights of Malta against the Turks, and of the revolted provinces of the Netherlands against Spain, excited in me an intense and lasting interest. Next to Watson, my favourite historical reading was Hooke?s History of Rome. Of Greece I had seen at that time no regular history, except school abridgments and the last two or three volumes of a translation of Rollin?s Ancient History, beginning with Philip of Macedon. But I read with great delight Langhorne?s translation of Plutarch. In English history, beyond the time at which Hume leaves off, I remember reading Burnett?s History of his Own Time, though I cared little for anything in it except the wars and battles; and the historical part of the Annual Register, from the beginning to about 1788, where the volumes my father borrowed for me from Mr Bentham left off?. In these frequent talks about the books I read, he used, as opportunity offered, to give me explanations and ideas respecting civilization, government, morality, mental cultivation, which he required me afterwards to restate to him in my own words.'"""
"""Much of it [ie. 'the daily instruction I received'] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father's discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the end of 1813 we were living in Newington Green, then an almost rustic neighbourhood. My father's health required considerable and constant exercise, and he walked habitually before breakfast, generally in the green lanes towards Hornsey. In these walks I always accompanied him, and with my earliest recollections of green fields and wild flowers, is mingled that of the account I gave him daily of what I had read the day before. To the best of my remembrance, this was a voluntary rather than a prescribed exercise. I made notes on slips of paper while reading, and from these, in the morning walks, I told the story to him; for the books were chiefly histories, of which I read in this manner a great number: Robertson's histories, Hume, Gibbon; but my greatest delight, then and for long afterwards, was [Robert] Watson's Philip the Second and Third. The heroic defence of the Knights of Malta against the Turks, and of the revolted provinces of the Netherlands against Spain, excited in me an intense and lasting interest. Next to Watson, my favourite historical reading was Hooke's History of Rome. Of Greece I had seen at that time no regular history, except school abridgments and the last two or three volumes of a translation of Rollin's Ancient History, beginning with Philip of Macedon. But I read with great delight Langhorne's translation of Plutarch. In English history, beyond the time at which Hume leaves off, I remember reading Burnett's History of his Own Time, though I cared little for anything in it except the wars and battles; and the historical part of the Annual Register, from the beginning to about 1788, where the volumes my father borrowed for me from Mr Bentham left off. In these frequent talks about the books I read, he used, as opportunity offered, to give me explanations and ideas respecting civilization, government, morality, mental cultivation, which he required me afterwards to restate to him in my own words.'"""
"""Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the end of 1813 we were living in Newington Green, then an almost rustic neighbourhood. My father?s health required considerable and constant exercise, and he walked habitually before breakfast, generally in the green lanes towards Hornsey. In these walks I always accompanied him, and with my earliest recollections of green fields and wild flowers, is mingled that of the account I gave him daily of what I had read the day before. To the best of my remembrance, this was a voluntary rather than a prescribed exercise. I made notes on slips of paper while reading, and from these, in the morning walks, I told the story to him; for the books were chiefly histories, of which I read in this manner a great number: Robertson?s histories, Hume, Gibbon; but my greatest delight, then and for long afterwards, was Watson?s Philip the Second and Third. The heroic defence of the Knights of Malta against the Turks, and of the revolted provinces of the Netherlands against Spain, excited in me an intense and lasting interest. Next to Watson, my favourite historical reading was Hooke?s History of Rome. Of Greece I had seen at that time no regular history, except school abridgments and the last two or three volumes of a translation of Rollin?s Ancient History, beginning with Philip of Macedon. But I read with great delight Langhorne?s translation of Plutarch. In English history, beyond the time at which Hume leaves off, I remember reading Burnett?s History of his Own Time, though I cared little for anything in it except the wars and battles; and the historical part of the Annual Register, from the beginning to about 1788, where the volumes my father borrowed for me from Mr Bentham left off?. In these frequent talks about the books I read, he used, as opportunity offered, to give me explanations and ideas respecting civilization, government, morality, mental cultivation, which he required me afterwards to restate to him in my own words.'"""
"""Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the end of 1813 we were living in Newington Green, then an almost rustic neighbourhood. My father?s health required considerable and constant exercise, and he walked habitually before breakfast, generally in the green lanes towards Hornsey. In these walks I always accompanied him, and with my earliest recollections of green fields and wild flowers, is mingled that of the account I gave him daily of what I had read the day before. To the best of my remembrance, this was a voluntary rather than a prescribed exercise. I made notes on slips of paper while reading, and from these, in the morning walks, I told the story to him; for the books were chiefly histories, of which I read in this manner a great number: Robertson?s histories, Hume, Gibbon; but my greatest delight, then and for long afterwards, was Watson?s Philip the Second and Third. The heroic defence of the Knights of Malta against the Turks, and of the revolted provinces of the Netherlands against Spain, excited in me an intense and lasting interest. Next to Watson, my favourite historical reading was Hooke?s History of Rome. Of Greece I had seen at that time no regular history, except school abridgments and the last two or three volumes of a translation of Rollin?s Ancient History, beginning with Philip of Macedon. But I read with great delight Langhorne?s translation of Plutarch. In English history, beyond the time at which Hume leaves off, I remember reading Burnett?s History of his Own Time, though I cared little for anything in it except the wars and battles; and the historical part of the Annual Register, from the beginning to about 1788, where the volumes my father borrowed for me from Mr Bentham left off?. In these frequent talks about the books I read, he used, as opportunity offered, to give me explanations and ideas respecting civilization, government, morality, mental cultivation, which he required me afterwards to restate to him in my own words.'"""
"""Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the end of 1813 we were living in Newington Green, then an almost rustic neighbourhood. My father?s health required considerable and constant exercise, and he walked habitually before breakfast, generally in the green lanes towards Hornsey. In these walks I always accompanied him, and with my earliest recollections of green fields and wild flowers, is mingled that of the account I gave him daily of what I had read the day before. To the best of my remembrance, this was a voluntary rather than a prescribed exercise. I made notes on slips of paper while reading, and from these, in the morning walks, I told the story to him; for the books were chiefly histories, of which I read in this manner a great number: Robertson?s histories, Hume, Gibbon; but my greatest delight, then and for long afterwards, was Watson?s Philip the Second and Third. The heroic defence of the Knights of Malta against the Turks, and of the revolted provinces of the Netherlands against Spain, excited in me an intense and lasting interest. Next to Watson, my favourite historical reading was Hooke?s History of Rome. Of Greece I had seen at that time no regular history, except school abridgments and the last two or three volumes of a translation of Rollin?s Ancient History, beginning with Philip of Macedon. But I read with great delight Langhorne?s translation of Plutarch. In English history, beyond the time at which Hume leaves off, I remember reading Burnett?s History of his Own Time, though I cared little for anything in it except the wars and battles; and the historical part of the Annual Register, from the beginning to about 1788, where the volumes my father borrowed for me from Mr Bentham left off?. In these frequent talks about the books I read, he used, as opportunity offered, to give me explanations and ideas respecting civilization, government, morality, mental cultivation, which he required me afterwards to restate to him in my own words.'"""
"""Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the end of 1813 we were living in Newington Green, then an almost rustic neighbourhood. My father?s health required considerable and constant exercise, and he walked habitually before breakfast, generally in the green lanes towards Hornsey. In these walks I always accompanied him, and with my earliest recollections of green fields and wild flowers, is mingled that of the account I gave him daily of what I had read the day before. To the best of my remembrance, this was a voluntary rather than a prescribed exercise. I made notes on slips of paper while reading, and from these, in the morning walks, I told the story to him; for the books were chiefly histories, of which I read in this manner a great number: Robertson?s histories, Hume, Gibbon; but my greatest delight, then and for long afterwards, was Watson?s Philip the Second and Third. The heroic defence of the Knights of Malta against the Turks, and of the revolted provinces of the Netherlands against Spain, excited in me an intense and lasting interest. Next to Watson, my favourite historical reading was Hooke?s History of Rome. Of Greece I had seen at that time no regular history, except school abridgments and the last two or three volumes of a translation of Rollin?s Ancient History, beginning with Philip of Macedon. But I read with great delight Langhorne?s translation of Plutarch. In English history, beyond the time at which Hume leaves off, I remember reading Burnett?s History of his Own Time, though I cared little for anything in it except the wars and battles; and the historical part of the Annual Register, from the beginning to about 1788, where the volumes my father borrowed for me from Mr Bentham left off?. In these frequent talks about the books I read, he used, as opportunity offered, to give me explanations and ideas respecting civilization, government, morality, mental cultivation, which he required me afterwards to restate to him in my own words.'"""
"""I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaetetus inclusive: which last dialogue, I venture to think, would have been better omitted, as it was totally impossible I should understand it.'"""
"""I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaetetus inclusive: which last dialogue, I venture to think, would have been better omitted, as it was totally impossible I should understand it.'"""
"""I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaetetus inclusive: which last dialogue, I venture to think, would have been better omitted, as it was totally impossible I should understand it.'"""
"""He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me sufficiently to induce me to read them of myself: among others, Millar?s Historical View of the English Government, a book of great merit for its time, and which he highly valued; Mosheim?s Ecclesiastical History, McCrie?s Life of John Knox, and even Sewell?s and Rutty?s Histories of the Quakers.' """
"""He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me sufficiently to induce me to read them of myself: among others, Millar?s Historical View of the English Government, a book of great merit for its time, and which he highly valued; Mosheim?s Ecclesiastical History, McCrie?s Life of John Knox, and even Sewell?s and Rutty?s Histories of the Quakers.' """
"""He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me sufficiently to induce me to read them of myself: among others, Millar?s Historical View of the English Government, a book of great merit for its time, and which he highly valued; Mosheim?s Ecclesiastical History, McCrie?s Life of John Knox, and even Sewell?s and Rutty?s Histories of the Quakers.' """
"""He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me sufficiently to induce me to read them of myself: among others, Millar?s Historical View of the English Government, a book of great merit for its time, and which he highly valued; Mosheim?s Ecclesiastical History, McCrie?s Life of John Knox, and even Sewell?s and Rutty?s Histories of the Quakers.' """
"""He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me sufficiently to induce me to read them of myself: among others, Millar?s Historical View of the English Government, a book of great merit for its time, and which he highly valued; Mosheim?s Ecclesiastical History, McCrie?s Life of John Knox, and even Sewell?s and Rutty?s Histories of the Quakers.' """
"""William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 5 May 1814: 'I have to thank you for a Present of your Volume of Poems, received some time since, through the hands of Southey.  I have read it with great pleasure.'"""
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"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'My whole summer's reading has been a part of two volumes of Mrs Grant's American Lady, which Southey lent to be speedily returned, and a dip or two in Southey's Nelson - with snatches at the Newspaper and Sunday's readings with the Bairns.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'My whole summer's reading has been a part of two volumes of Mrs Grant's American Lady, which Southey lent to be speedily returned, and a dip or two in Southey's Nelson - with snatches at the Newspaper and Sunday's readings with the Bairns.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'My whole summer's reading has been a part of two volumes of Mrs Grant's American Lady, which Southey lent to be speedily returned, and a dip or two in Southey's Nelson - with snatches at the Newspaper and Sunday's readings with the Bairns.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'My whole summer's reading has been a part of two volumes of Mrs Grant's American Lady, which Southey lent to be speedily returned, and a dip or two in Southey's Nelson - with snatches at the Newspaper and Sunday's readings with the Bairns.'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 2 September 1814: ' ... [Thomas Campbell] has an unpublished (though printed) poem on a Scene in Germany (Bavaria I think) which I saw last year -- that is perfectly magnificent ...'"""
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"""I read very seldom indeed having in the first place but very little time for it... and in the second place, Mr & Mrs A. having never offered to lend me any books except an Encyclopaedia, which is not an every day kind of reading. [Editor notes that she records reading 'the whole' of No I of vol II 'at various intervals']."""
"""A Satyrical View of London, by J. Corry. 1 vol.  The above vol. is a tolerable production; it treats principally of fashion, beaux, belles, London tradesmen, quack doctors, lawyers, parsons, &c &c &c"""
"""Windermere: A Novel in 2 vols This is below Mediocrity; the title [title is underlined]induced me to read it; and with the title I am satisfied-and disappointed."""
"""Letters on Mythology Addressed to a Lady by R. Morgan, 1 vol. A humourous and entertaining production, written in a light and easy style, to make it palatable to a lady's taste."""
"""Lessons of a Governess to her Pupils by Madame de Silery- Brulart (formerly Countess de Genlis) 3 vols. For further remarks see page 11th."""
"""Lake of Killarney, by A.M. Porter. 3 vols.  Rose de Blaguere, a foundling, is the heroine of the tale. Mr Clermont the hero. Mr O'Neil and his maiden sister bring up Rose, whom they found left at their door and who eventually proves to be the daughter of the haughty Countess Dunallen by a first and private marriage...  [Editor has not reproduced the rest]."""
"""The Cottagers of Glenburnie. 1 vol. by Miss Hamilton. A little tale tending to shew the folly of adhering to old customs merely because they have been habitual for many generations, particularlythe scottish tenacity, indolence, and want of cleanliness in their houses and about their farms. The tale is told in such a manner as scarcely to offend even a scotchman, and may very probably have some influence in effecting a reformation."""
"""The Mysterious Gentleman Farmer. 3 vols. by J.Cory [sic] There is nothing in this novel, or in the author's Satyrical View of London, that would induce me to waste my time again in perusal of any other of his works. This may probably be worth five guineas at the Minerva Press; the author may earn a little money; fame is out of the question in such caterpillar productions."""
"""An Essay on Old Maids. 3 vols.  Has my approbation, although, or because, I am an Old Maid. What is the public opinion, I never heard - nor any opinion - but shall take the first opportunity to discover."""
"""Ellinor, or the World as it is, by M.A.Hanway. 4 vols. An entertaining production written in a light, easy style [editor does not reproduce all of Weeton's comments] [The story] cannot have the slightest tendency to injure the morals of any reader,whether they have common sense or not, when it is considered that there was a continued series of suffering for 20 years from first to last.'"""
"""The Royal Sufferers, or Intrigues at the Close of the 18th Century. by J.Agg. 3 vols.' [no commentary on the text: part of list of texts read]"""
"""I wonder whether you happened to see Mr Blackall's marriage in the Papers last Janry.  [italics] We [end italics] did. He was married at Clifton to a Miss Lewis, whose Father had been late of Antigua.'"""
"""To my Gothic ear, indeed the """"""""Stabat Mater"""""""", the """"""""Dies Irae"""""""", and some of the other hymns of the Catholic Church are more solemn and affecting than the fine classical poetry of Buchanan; the one has the gloomy dignity of a Gothic church, and reminds us instantly of the worship to which it is dictated; the other is more like a Pagan temple, recalling to our memory the classical and fabulous deities.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'I was resolved not to write until I had read your Husband's Book, of which literally I have not even now read ten pages, from want of time to read anything.'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1813: 'I have redde through your Persian Tale - I have taken ye. liberty of making some remarks on ye. blank pages - there are many beautiful passages and an interesting story - and I cannot give a stonger proof that such is my opinion than by the date of the hour 2 o' clock. - till which it has kept me awake without a yawn ... the tale must be written by some one - who has been on the spot ... he deserves success. - Will you apologize to the author for the liberties I have taken with his M.S. ... '"""
"""Our 2d evening's reading to Miss Benn had not pleased me so well, but I beleive [sic] something must be attributed to my Mother's too rapid way of getting on - & tho' she perfectly understands the Characters herself, she cannot speak as they ought. - Upon the whole however I am quite vain enough & well satisfied enough...'"""
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the reports of the Turkish girl's aventure [ie punishment for adultery that became source of Byron's The Giaour] at Athens soon after it happened.  He and Lord Holland, Lewis, and Moore, and Rogers, and Lady Melbourne have seen it.'"""
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the reports of the Turkish girl's aventure [ie punishment for adultery that became source of Byron's The Giaour] at Athens soon after it happened.  He and Lord Holland, Lewis, and Moore, and Rogers, and Lady Melbourne have seen it.'"""
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the reports of the Turkish girl's aventure [ie punishment for adultery that became source of Byron's The Giaour] at Athens soon after it happened.  He and Lord Holland, Lewis, and Moore, and Rogers, and Lady Melbourne have seen it.' """
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the reports of the Turkish girl's aventure [ie punishment for adultery that became source of Byron's The Giaour] at Athens soon after it happened.  He and Lord Holland, Lewis, and Moore, and Rogers, and Lady Melbourne have seen it.'"""
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the reports of the Turkish girl's aventure [ie punishment for adultery that became source of Byron's The Giaour] at Athens soon after it happened.  He and Lord Holland, Lewis, and Moore, and Rogers, and Lady Melbourne have seen it.'"""
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the reports of the Turkish girl's aventure [ie punishment for adultery that became source of Byron's The Giaour] at Athens soon after it happened.  He and Lord Holland, Lewis, and Moore, and Rogers, and Lady Melbourne have seen it.'"""
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on Madame De Stael: 'I read her again and again ... I cannot be mistaken (except in taste) in a book I read and lay down, and take up again ... '"""
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 December 1813: """"""""Redde a good deal, but desultorily ... It is odd that when I do read, I can only bear the chicken broth of - any thing but Novels.  It is many a year since I looked into one, (though they are sometimes ordered, by way of experiment, but never taken) till I looked yesterday at the worst parts of the Monk.  These descriptions .. are forced - the philtred ideas of a jaded voluptuary."""""""" """
"""I derived a three fold Pleasure from the Receipt of Rokeby, first from the book itself, the Article, the thing sold and bought, & for this I know how much I am indebted [;] not so for the 2d part of the favour, the Pleasure of the perusal, nor for the 3d, the Honour of the present: but in more direct terms my dear Sir I do sincerely & heartily thank you & I beg of you likewise to accept the Thanks of my Household Mrs Crabbe & her Sons'. [Crabbe goes on to say how 'we had scarsely gratified our own Curiosity' when petitions from villagers to borrow the boook began]"""
"""Mr Pratt & I began to write nearly about the same time & his Sympathy & my Village were [cancelled] nearly [ end cancelled] contemporaries, but this soon ceased & I was outrun in the first Season nor has his diligent Muse or whatever Spirit it be, ceased to prompt his ready Pen from that time to almost this present: The Lower World terminates his poetical career where Scott & Crabbe are handed down to'"""
"""[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind with the grand northern Scenery that they may appear in my beautiful and ---- now if this anonymous Lady had read the """"""""Lay"""""""" or any one of the four finest descriptive poems & of that very Scenery in our Language, with what kind of Taste & Judgment could she so call upon me & if she have not read them, she had only to enquire of the first reading Friend she met, but thus People judge, if a Man has acquired the Knack of painting a Tinkers Hov[el] how admirably would he describe the ruins of Balbu'"""
"""[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind with the grand northern Scenery that they may appear in my beautiful and ---- now if this anonymous Lady had read the """"""""Lay"""""""" or any one of the four finest descriptive poems & of that very Scenery in our Language, with what kind of Taste & Judgment could she so call upon me & if she have not read them, she had only to enquire of the first reading Friend she met, but thus People judge, if a Man has acquired the Knack of painting a Tinkers Hov[el] how admirably would he describe the ruins of Balbu'"""
"""[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind with the grand northern Scenery that they may appear in my beautiful and ---- now if this anonymous Lady had read the """"""""Lay"""""""" or any one of the four finest descriptive poems & of that very Scenery in our Language, with what kind of Taste & Judgment could she so call upon me & if she have not read them, she had only to enquire of the first reading Friend she met, but thus People judge, if a Man has acquired the Knack of painting a Tinkers Hov[el] how admirably would he describe the ruins of Balbu'"""
"""[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind with the grand northern Scenery that they may appear in my beautiful and ---- now if this anonymous Lady had read the """"""""Lay"""""""" or any one of the four finest descriptive poems & of that very Scenery in our Language, with what kind of Taste & Judgment could she so call upon me & if she have not read them, she had only to enquire of the first reading Friend she met, but thus People judge, if a Man has acquired the Knack of painting a Tinkers Hov[el] how admirably would he describe the ruins of Balbu'"""
"""I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London [end italics]. A friend has previously mentioned the work but in high terms that occurred [italics] too [end italics] often as I read, yet there is, (no Question), Ability & music in this Mock-bird, or rather these, for there are two I am told Messrs Smiths, Brothers & Authors of ye rejected Addresses where you & I & Mr Southey & I know not who shine in the eye of the public, & Wordsworth whom I read & laughed at till I caught a touch of his disease & now really like many of the Simplicities'"""
"""I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London [end italics]. A friend has previously mentioned the work but in high terms that occurred [italics] too [end italics] often as I read, yet there is, (no Question), Ability & music in this Mock-bird, or rather these, for there are two I am told Messrs Smiths, Brothers & Authors of ye rejected Addresses where you & I & Mr Southey & I know not who shine in the eye of the public, & Wordsworth whom I read & laughed at till I caught a touch of his disease & now really like many of the Simplicities'"""
"""I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London [end italics]. A friend has previously mentioned the work but in high terms that occurred [italics] too [end italics] often as I read, yet there is, (no Question), Ability & music in this Mock-bird, or rather these, for there are two I am told Messrs Smiths, Brothers & Authors of ye rejected Addresses where you & I & Mr Southey & I know not who shine in the eye of the public, & Wordsworth whom I read & laughed at till I caught a touch of his disease & now really like many of the Simplicities'"""
"""there is one Story if story it may be called, that Shape or Limb, Beginning or End has none, """"""""The ancient Mariner or poets Reverie"""""""" written by a friend [of Wordsworth] (Mr Lambe?) & the Reason for my pointing it out to your notice if perchance you have not dwelt on its Singularities, is this that it does not describe Madness by its effects but by Imitation, as if a painter to give a picture of Lunacy should make his Canvas crazy, & fill it with wild unconnected Limbs & Distortions of features, & yet one or two of the Limbs are pretty'"""
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 Decmber 1813: 'Saw Lord Glenbervie and his Prospectus, at Murray's, of a new Treatise on Timber.  Now here is a man more useful than all the hiistorians and rhymers ever planted.  For by oreserving our woods and forests, he furnishes material for all the history of Britain worth reading, and all the odes worth nothing.'"""
"""Yes I [underlined] have [end underlining] read the book you speak of, """"""""Pride & Prejudice"""""""", and I could quite rave about it! How well you define one of its characterestics [sic] when you say of it, that it breaths [sic] a spirit of """"""""careless originiality"""""""". - It is charming. - Nothing was ever better conducted than the fable; nothing can be more [underlined] piquant [end underlining] than its dialogues; more distinct than its characters. Do, I entreat, tell me by whom it is written; and tell me, if your health will allow you, [underlined] soon [end underlining]. I die to know. Some say it is by Mrs Dorset, who wrote that clever little [underlined] bijou [end underlining], """"""""the Peacock at Home"""""""". is it so? Pray, pray tell me. I have the three vols now in the house, and know not how to part with them. I have only just finished, and could begin them all over again with pleasure'. """
"""I am not sufficiently fond of dissertations, of eternal analysis, of eloquent bubbles, to be a warm partizan of Mde de Staal [sic]. Between friends - but don't mention it - I yawned over her Allemagne - and yet, here and there, was electrified by a flash of sublimity. Do you agree with me in thinking, that with all her brilliant varnish, she is corrupt at heart? Had Satan himself written """"""""Pauline"""""""", one of the stories published with """"""""Zuma"""""""", he could have produced nothing more offensive to decency, more detestably disgusting'. """
"""Yes I [underlined] have [end underlining] read the book you speak of, """"""""Pride & Prejudice"""""""", and I could quite rave about it! How well you define one of its characterestics [sic] when you say of it, that it breaths [sic] a spirit of """"""""careless originiality"""""""". - It is charming. - Nothing was ever better conducted than the fable; nothing can be more [underlined] piquant [end underlining] than its dialogues; more distinct than its characters. Do, I entreat, tell me by whom it is written; and tell me, if your health will allow you, [underlined] soon [end underlining]. I die to know. Some say it is by Mrs Dorset, who wrote that clever little [underlined] bijou [end underlining], """"""""the Peacock at Home"""""""". is it so? Pray, pray tell me. I have the three vols now in the house, and know not how to part with them. I have only just finished, and could begin them all over again with pleasure'. """
"""I received Walter Scott's Rokeby. I gazed at it with a transport of impatience, and began reading it in bed. I am already in the first canto: - my soul has glowed with what he justly terms """"""""the art unteachable"""""""". My veins have thrilled; my heart has throbbed; my eyes have filled with tears - during its perusal. The poet who can thus master the passions to do his bidding, must be indeed a poet'."""
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 7 December 1813: '... up an hour before being called ... Redde the papers and tea-ed and soda-watered ... '"""
"""I think the stanzas greatly improved and they are in the press as an introduction to the second edition of the [italics] wake [end italics]. There was one term which I was thinking should have been altered as it rather struck me to be bordering on the extravagant I think it was [italics] heaven-born [end italics] which I thought should only have been [italics] gifted [end italics] or something to that effect but you may trust that to me I will think of it when the proof comes to my hand'."""
"""Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 December 1813: 'I have met with an odd reflection in Grimm ... """"""""Many people have the reputation of being wicked, with whom we should be too happy to pass our lives.""""""""  I need not add it is a woman's saying - a Mademoisele de Sommery's.' """
"""I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work [""""""""Pride and Prejudice""""""""] - & Fanny's praise is very gratifying; - my hopes were tolerably strong of [italics] her [end italics], but nothing like a certainty.  Her liking Darcy & Elizth is enough.  She might hate all the others if she would.  I have her opinion under her own hand this morning, but your Transcript of it which I read first, was not & is not the less acceptable. - To [italics] me [end italics] it is of course all praise - but the more exact truth which she sends [italics] you [end italics] is good enough.'"""
"""I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work [""""""""Pride and Prejudice""""""""] - & Fanny's praise is very gratifying; - my hopes were tolerably strong of [italics] her [end italics], but nothing like a certainty.  Her liking Darcy & Elizth is enough.  She might hate all the others if she would.  I have her opinion under her own hand this morning, but your Transcript of it which I read first, was not & is not the less acceptable. - To [italics] me [end italics] it is of course all praise - but the more exact truth which she sends [italics] you [end italics] is good enough.'"""
"""In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 23 November 1813: """"""""Redde the Ruminator - a collection of Essays, by a strange, but able, old man (Sir E[gerton] B[rydges], and a half-wild young one, author of a Poem on the Highlands, called Childe Alarique.  The word 'sensibility' (always my aversion) occurs a thousand times in these Essays ... This young man can know nothing of life ... """""""""""
"""Byron in postscript of letter to Annabella Milbanke, 1 August 1814: 'I have read your letter once more -- and it appears to me that I must have said something which makes you apprehend a misunderstanding on my part of your sentiments ...' """
"""I finished the Heroine last night & was very much amused by it. I wonder James did not like it better. It diverted me exceedingly.'"""
"""I admired many of his [Wordsworth's] pieces exceedingly, though I had not then seen his ponderous """"""""Excursion""""""""'."""
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 10 April 1814: 'Today I have boxed one hour - written an ode to Napoleon Buonaparte - copied it - eaten six biscuits - drunk four bottles of soda water - redde away the rest of my time ... ' """
"""Shelley reads Mungo Parks travels loud'."""
"""I read several chapters of Miss Berry's work, a Comparative View of the English and French Nations, since the time of Charles II to the present day. I think this work a most sterling performance, and one, from the nature of its subject, as well as the grave and masterly way in which she treats it, likely to do honour to her memory. I hear Miss Berry has been reproached with its being too grave; but I think the sober chastened style in which it is written suits the dignity of the matter. A lighter pen might have found [italics] de quoi [end italics] to have made a continuation of that most amusing and immoral work, the Memoires de Grammont; but where a deeper tone of thought induces a higher aim than mere wit and entertainment, surely she has chosen more appropriate means to attain her object'."""
"""Read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book'"""
"""In the evening read Louvet's memoirs'"""
"""read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book... in the evening read Louvet's memoirs'."""
"""read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book... in the evening read Louvet's memoirs'."""
"""Read Posthumous works.'"""
"""Read Zastrozzi'."""
"""Read Drummond'."""
"""read Pennants view of Hindostan'."""
"""I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginning to end and his hints are most rational - these letters will well make up to you what is unfilled up in my sheet. I send you likewise a volume of poems by a young friend of mine of very great poetical powers. I have been greatly instrumental in bringing them forward, and subscribed for ten copies and I beg you will accept of this as a small present to the neat collection upstairs which has erst been free to me'."""
"""I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginning to end and his hints are most rational - these letters will well make up to you what is unfilled up in my sheet. I send you likewise a volume of poems by a young friend of mine of very great poetical powers. I have been greatly instrumental in bringing them forward, and subscribed for ten copies and I beg you will accept of this as a small present to the neat collection upstairs which has erst been free to me'."""
"""I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginning to end and his hints are most rational - these letters will well make up to you what is unfilled up in my sheet. I send you likewise a volume of poems by a young friend of mine of very great poetical powers. I have been greatly instrumental in bringing them forward, and subscribed for ten copies and I beg you will accept of this as a small present to the neat collection upstairs which has erst been free to me'."""
"""Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, [11 January 1814]: 'I have redde """"""""Patronage"""""""" it is full of praises of Lord Ellenborough!!! from which I infer near & dear relations at the bar ... the tone of her book is as vulgar as her father ...'"""
"""The Hon.J. W. Ward to Mary Berry, 11 May 1814: 'I have bought Mr Schlegel's book about the drama, which they have translated and printed here [Paris], but I have not had time to read much of it [goes on to remark upon difficulty of comprehending current German thought].'"""
"""Read Louvet's memoirs all day'"""
"""Writing to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814, Dorothy Wordsworth gives transcription of version of William Wordsworth, """"""""Yarrow Visited"""""""". """
"""Shelley reads the History of the Illuminati out of Baruel to us.'"""
"""Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 December 1814: 'I perceive in the M[ornin]g Chronicle report -- that Sir H. Mildmay in one of his amatory epistles compared himself to Childe Harold ...'"""
"""Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 February 1814: 'In thanking you for your letter you will allow me to say that there is one sentence I do not understand ... I will copy it ... """"""""How may I have forsaken that - and under the influence of an ardent zeal for Sincerity - is an explanation that cannot benefit either of us - should any disadvantage arise from the original fault it must be only where it is deserved - Let this then suffice for I cannot by total silence acquiesce in that which if supported when it's [sic] delusion is known to myself would become deception."""""""" - - - This I believe is word for word from your letter now before me.'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 12 March 1814: 'I have not had time to read the whole M.S. but what I have seen seems very well written (both prose and verse) & ... containing nothing which you ought to hesitate publishing upon my account.'"""
"""Finish Louvet's memoirs'"""
"""read Embassy to China. finish it in the evening.'"""
"""Write and read'"""
"""Roderick is safe depend upon it I venture my judgement on it very publickly that it is the first epic poem of the age - its great merit consists in the extent and boldness of the plan its perfect consistency and the ease with which it is managed - in these respects you are so far above your cotemporaries [sic] as not to admit of a comparison - I should like above all things to review it in some respectable work'."""
"""Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a very absurd one but has many most beautiful and affecting passages - Scott is in the press - the beginning is beautiful'."""
"""Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a very absurd one but has many most beautiful and affecting passages - Scott is in the press - the beginning is beautiful'."""
"""Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a very absurd one but has many most beautiful and affecting passages - Scott is in the press - the beginning is beautiful'."""
"""Read and finish Mungo Parks travels - they are very interesting & if the man was not so prejudiced they would be a thousand times more so. but those Institutions must always have Christians'."""
"""in the evening <read> Miltons letter to Mr Hartlib on educations'."""
"""Walk out with Shelley. he reads Suetonius all day'."""
"""I read a novel all the evening, but yet his very presence is horridly degrading'"""
"""Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 14 October 1814: 'I have this morning seen the paragraph [regarding their engagement, alluded to by her in letter to him] -- it is just to you -- & not very just to me ...'"""
"""Friday Oct.14 [...] Read St Leon -- go to bed at [...] nine'."""
"""Begin Julius Florus and finish the little vol of Cicero.'"""
"""in the evening read Cicero de Senectute & the Paradoxa - Night comes. Jane walks in her sleep & groans horribly. listen for two hours - at length bring her to Mary. Begin Julius Florus and finish the little Vol of Cicero'."""
"""in the evening read Cicero de Senectute & the Paradoxa - Night comes. Jane walks in her sleep & groans horribly. listen for two hours - at length bring her to Mary. Begin Julius Florus and finish the little Vol of Cicero'."""
"""Wednesday Sept. 14th.  Get up late -- Write my journal [...] Read the Papers.' """
"""Talk and read the newspapers'."""
"""Calls on Hookham and brings home Wordsworths Excursion of which we read a part - much disappointed - he is a slave'."""
"""I have read Roderick over and over again and am the more and more convinced that it is the noblest Epic poem of the age I have had some correspondence and a good deal of conversation with Mr Jeffery [sic] about it who though he does not agree with me in every particular. He says it is too long and wants [italics] elasticity [end italics] and will not he fears be generally read though much may be said in its favours' [Hogg was trying to get Jeffrey to allow him to review the poem]"""
"""I suppose you have heard what a crushing review [Jeffrey] has given [Wordsworth]. I still found him persisting in his first asseveration that it was heavy but what was my pleasure to find he had only got to the 17 division I assured him he had the marrow of the thing to come at as yet'"""
"""I have read Roderick over and over again and am the more and more convinced that it is the noblest Epic poem of the age I have had some correspondence and a good deal of conversation with Mr Jeffery [sic] about it who though he does not agree with me in every particular. He says it is too long and wants [italics] elasticity [end italics] and will not he fears be generally read though much may be said in its favours' [Hogg was trying to get Jeffrey to allow him to review the poem]"""
"""I suppose you have heard what a crushing review [Jeffrey] has given [Wordsworth]. I still found him persisting in his first asseveration that it was heavy but what was my pleasure to find he had only got to the 17 division I assured him he had the marrow of the thing to come at as yet'"""
"""Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'In my letter of ye. 12th in answer to your last I omitted to say that I have not for several years looked into the tract of Locke's which you mention -- but I have redde it formerly though I fear to little purpose since it is forgotten.'"""
"""Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositions particularly the Arab -- Job -- and parts of Isaiah -- and the song of Deborah.'"""
"""Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositions particularly the Arab -- Job -- and parts of Isaiah -- and the song of Deborah.'"""
"""Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositions particularly the Arab -- Job -- and parts of Isaiah -- and the song of Deborah.'"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 15 March 1814: 'As [Richard] Sharpe was passing by the doors of some Debating Society (the Westminster Forum), in his way to dinner, he saw rubricked on the walls Scott's name and mine -""""""""Which was the better poet?"""""""" being the question of the evening ...'"""
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 15 March 1814: 'Redde a satire on myself, called Anti-Byron, and told Murray to publish it if he liked.  The object of the Author is to prove me an Atheist and a systematic conspirator against law and government.  Some of the verse is good; the prose I don't quite understand.'"""
"""It is very likely that I may send you some Mathematical thing or other, seeing I have got Bossut's history of mathematics, at this time, where perhaps there may be something new to you'."""
"""S reads aloud to us in the evening out of Adolphus's """"""""Lives""""""""'."""
"""S reads aloud to us in the evening out of Adolphus's """"""""Lives""""""""'."""
"""Finish St Leon.'"""
"""Mary reads the """"""""Excursion"""""""" all day & reads the """"""""History of Margeret"""""""" to PBS'."""
"""Byron to Thomas Moore, 15 September 1814, writing whilst waiting at Newstead to learn whether marriage proposal acepted: 'Books I have but few here, and those I have read ten times over, till sick of them.'"""
"""Hookham calls here & Shelley reads his romance to him.'"""
"""[Shelley] 'Reads the ancient mariner to us'."""
"""Shelley reads Edgar Huntley to us'."""
"""Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 16 October 1814: 'In arranging papers I have found the first letter you ever wrote to me -- read it again ...'"""
"""Read the Excursion & Madoc.'"""
"""Read the Excursion & Madoc.'"""
"""We have just finished the 1st of the 3 Books I had the pleasure of receiving yesterday; I read it aloud - & we are all very much amused, & like the work quite as well as ever. - I depend on getting through another book before dinner, but there is really a great deal of respectable reading in your 48 pages. I was an hour about it. - I have no doubt that 6 will make a very good sized volume.'"""
"""Now we have finished the 2d book - or rather the 5th - I do think you had better omit Lady Helena's postscript; - to those who are acquainted with P. & P it will seem an imitation.'"""
"""We are reading the last book. - They must be two days going from Dawlish to Bath; They are nearly 100 miles apart'."""
"""Thursday. We finished it last night, after our return from drinking tea at the Great House. - The last Chapter does not please us quite so well, we do not thoroughly like the Play; perhaps from having had too much of Plays in that way lately.'"""
"""We go out on the rocks & Shelley & I read part of Mary a fiction'."""
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 March 1814: 'Redde the """"""""Quarrels of Authors"""""""" ... a new work, by that most entertaining and researching writer, Israeli [Isaac Disraeli].'"""
"""Shelley writes his critique & then reads Edgar Huntley to us all all day and all the evening'."""
"""Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 17 October 1814: 'If there were no other inducements for me to leave London -- the utter solitude of my situation with only my Maccaw to converse with -- would be sufficient ... I read -- but very desultorily ...'"""
"""Monday Oct -- 17 [...] Read Memoires de Voltaire by Himself'."""
"""M Read Madoc all morning.'"""
"""He [Percy Bysshe Shelley] reads the curse of Kehama to us in the evening'."""
"""Writing to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] on 19 Aug. 1814, W[ordsworth] describes an incident in a Perth bookshop: """"""""I stepped yesterday evening into a Bookseller's shop with a sneaking hope that I might hear something about the Excursion ... on the contrary, inquiry of the Bookseller what a poetical parcel he was then opening consisted of, he said that it was a new Poem, called Lara ... supposed to be written by Lord Byron ... I took the book in my hand, and saw Jacqueline in the same column with Lara ... """"""""' """
"""Writing to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] on 19 Aug. 1814, W[ordsworth] describes an incident in a Perth bookshop: """"""""I stepped yesterday evening into a Bookseller's shop with a sneaking hope that I might hear something about the Excursion ... on the contrary, inquiry of the Bookseller what a poetical parcel he was then opening consisted of, he said that it was a new Poem, called Lara ... supposed to be written by Lord Byron ... I took the book in my hand, and saw Jacqueline in the same column with Lara ... """"""""'"""
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814: 'Got up - redde the Morning Post containing the battle of Buonaparte, the destruction of the Custom House, and a paragraph on me as long as my pedigree, and vituperative, as usual.'"""
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Nine o'clock'): 'Redde a little - wrote notes, and letters, and am alone ... '"""
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Midnight'): 'Began a letter, which I threw into the fire.  Redde - but to little purpose.'"""
"""I did not tell you that when I left Edinr for Dumfries, I put your paper in my pocket - and whilst my right worthy compagnons de voyage (for I came in the Mail from Moffat) were sunk in politics, post-horses, farming &c &c. I took out my friend's theorem, and leaving the base clod-hoppers to welter on among drains and dunghills and bullocks and balances of power -I entered Dumfries wholly disengaged from sublunary things; and well nigh perswaded that an angle [underscored twice]might [end underscore] be trisected'"""
"""What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. Byron's and Scott's """"""""Poems"""""""" I have read and must admire - tho' you recollect, we used to give Campbell a de[cided] preference - and I still think, with justice. Have you ever seen Hoole's """"""""Tas[so?]"""""""" I have among many others read, it, """"""""Leonidas"""""""", """"""""The Epigoniad"""""""", """"""""Oberon"""""""", """"""""Savage[e's] Poems"""""""" &.c. Miss Porter's """"""""Scottish Chiefs"""""""" and """"""""Waverl[e]y"""""""" have been the principal of my Novels - With regard to """"""""Waverl[e]y"""""""" I cannot help remarking t[hat] in my opinion it is the best novel that has been published these thirty years. The characters of Ebenezer Cru[i]ckshank[s] mine host of the garter, the Reverend Mr. Gowk - thrapple and Squire Bradwardian display a Cervantic vein of humour which has seldom been surpassed - whilst the descriptions of the gloomy caverns of the Highlands, and the delineations of the apathic Callum Beg and enterprising Vich Ian Vohr show a richness of [italics]Scottean[end italics] colouring which few have equalled. Give me your opinion of it if you have read it; - and if not - endeavour by all means to procure it.'"""
"""What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. Byron's and Scott's """"""""Poems"""""""" I have read and must admire - tho' you recollect, we used to give Campbell a de[cided] preference - and I still think, with justice. Have you ever seen Hoole's """"""""Tas[so?]"""""""" I have among many others read, it, """"""""Leonidas"""""""", """"""""The Epigoniad"""""""", """"""""Oberon"""""""", """"""""Savage[e's] Poems"""""""" &.c. Miss Porter's """"""""Scottish Chiefs"""""""" and """"""""Waverl[e]y"""""""" have been the principal of my Novels - With regard to """"""""Waverl[e]y"""""""" I cannot help remarking t[hat] in my opinion it is the best novel that has been published these thirty years. The characters of Ebenezer Cru[i]ckshank[s] mine host of the garter, the Reverend Mr. Gowk - thrapple and Squire Bradwardian display a Cervantic vein of humour which has seldom been surpassed - whilst the descriptions of the gloomy caverns of the Highlands, and the delineations of the apathic Callum Beg and enterprising Vich Ian Vohr show a richness of [italics]Scottean[end italics] colouring which few have equalled. Give me your opinion of it if you have read it; - and if not - endeavour by all means to procure it.'"""
"""What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. Byron's and Scott's """"""""Poems"""""""" I have read and must admire - tho' you recollect, we used to give Campbell a de[cided] preference - and I still think, with justice. Have you ever seen Hoole's """"""""Tas[so?]"""""""" I have among many others read, it, """"""""Leonidas"""""""", """"""""The Epigoniad"""""""", """"""""Oberon"""""""", """"""""Savage[e's] Poems"""""""" &.c. Miss Porter's """"""""Scottish Chiefs"""""""" and """"""""Waverl[e]y"""""""" have been the principal of my Novels - With regard to """"""""Waverl[e]y"""""""" I cannot help remarking t[hat] in my opinion it is the best novel that has been published these thirty years. The characters of Ebenezer Cru[i]ckshank[s] mine host of the garter, the Reverend Mr. Gowk - thrapple and Squire Bradwardian display a Cervantic vein of humour which has seldom been surpassed - whilst the descriptions of the gloomy caverns of the Highlands, and the delineations of the apathic Callum Beg and enterprising Vich Ian Vohr show a richness of [italics]Scottean[end italics] colouring which few have equalled. Give me your opinion of it if you have read it; - and if not - endeavour by all means to procure it.'"""
"""What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. Byron's and Scott's """"""""Poems"""""""" I have read and must admire - tho' you recollect, we used to give Campbell a de[cided] preference - and I still think, with justice. Have you ever seen Hoole's """"""""Tas[so?]"""""""" I have among many others read, it, """"""""Leonidas"""""""", """"""""The Epigoniad"""""""", """"""""Oberon"""""""", """"""""Savage[e's] Poems"""""""" &.c. Miss Porter's """"""""Scottish Chiefs"""""""" and """"""""Waverl[e]y"""""""" have been the principal of my Novels - With regard to """"""""Waverl[e]y"""""""" I cannot help remarking t[hat] in my opinion it is the best novel that has been published these thirty years. The characters of Ebenezer Cru[i]ckshank[s] mine host of the garter, the Reverend Mr. Gowk - thrapple and Squire Bradwardian display a Cervantic vein of humour which has seldom been surpassed - whilst the descriptions of the gloomy caverns of the Highlands, and the delineations of the apathic Callum Beg and enterprising Vich Ian Vohr show a richness of [italics]Scottean[end italics] colouring which few have equalled. Give me your opinion of it if you have read it; - and if not - endeavour by all means to procure it.'"""
"""What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. Byron's and Scott's """"""""Poems"""""""" I have read and must admire - tho' you recollect, we used to give Campbell a de[cided] preference - and I still think, with justice. Have you ever seen Hoole's """"""""Tas[so?]"""""""" I have among many others read, it, """"""""Leonidas"""""""", """"""""The Epigoniad"""""""", """"""""Oberon"""""""", """"""""Savage[e's] Poems"""""""" &.c. Miss Porter's """"""""Scottish Chiefs"""""""" and """"""""Waverl[e]y"""""""" have been the principal of my Novels - With regard to """"""""Waverl[e]y"""""""" I cannot help remarking t[hat] in my opinion it is the best novel that has been published these thirty years. The characters of Ebenezer Cru[i]ckshank[s] mine host of the garter, the Reverend Mr. Gowk - thrapple and Squire Bradwardian display a Cervantic vein of humour which has seldom been surpassed - whilst the descriptions of the gloomy caverns of the Highlands, and the delineations of the apathic Callum Beg and enterprising Vich Ian Vohr show a richness of [italics]Scottean[end italics] colouring which few have equalled. Give me your opinion of it if you have read it; - and if not - endeavour by all means to procure it.'"""
"""What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. Byron's and Scott's """"""""Poems"""""""" I have read and must admire - tho' you recollect, we used to give Campbell a de[cided] preference - and I still think, with justice. Have you ever seen Hoole's """"""""Tas[so?]"""""""" I have among many others read, it, """"""""Leonidas"""""""", """"""""The Epigoniad"""""""", """"""""Oberon"""""""", """"""""Savage[e's] Poems"""""""" &.c. Miss Porter's """"""""Scottish Chiefs"""""""" and """"""""Waverl[e]y"""""""" have been the principal of my Novels - With regard to """"""""Waverl[e]y"""""""" I cannot help remarking t[hat] in my opinion it is the best novel that has been published these thirty years. The characters of Ebenezer Cru[i]ckshank[s] mine host of the garter, the Reverend Mr. Gowk - thrapple and Squire Bradwardian display a Cervantic vein of humour which has seldom been surpassed - whilst the descriptions of the gloomy caverns of the Highlands, and the delineations of the apathic Callum Beg and enterprising Vich Ian Vohr show a richness of [italics]Scottean[end italics] colouring which few have equalled. Give me your opinion of it if you have read it; - and if not - endeavour by all means to procure it.'"""
"""We have been very much amused by your 3 books, but I have a good many criticisms to make - more than you will like [extensive criticism of the MS follows]... You are now collecting your People delightfully, getting them exactly into such a spot as is the delight of my life; - 3 or 4 families in a Country Village is the very thing to work on.' [further comment and criticism follows]"""
"""She [Mary] reads the curse of Kehama while Shelley walks out with Peacock who dines.'"""
"""Mary receives her first lesson in greek - She reads the curse of Kehama while Shelley walks out with Peacock'."""
"""Sunday Sept. 18. Rise late.  Read Emile.'"""
""""""""""" ... a large part of the manuscript for William Godwin's play Abbas, with Coleridge's commentary dating from 1801, has recently come to light ... there he ... adopted a set of symbols for common problems, 'false or intolerable English' ... 'common-place book Language,' and 'bad metre.'  He did the same for a copy of Joan of Arc that he annotated in 1814."""""""""""
"""In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): '... [Madame de Stael] writes octavos, and talks folios.  I have read her books - like most of them, and delight in the last ... '"""
"""In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'Read Burns to-day.'"""
"""Suetonius is finished and S. begins the Historia Augustana'."""
"""Read Caleb Williams.'"""
"""Shelley reads a part of Comus aloud.'"""
"""Mary reads greek & Rassalas in the evening Hookham calls.'"""
"""Mary reads greek and Rassalas in the evening Hookham calls - M. reads the Sorcerer'."""
"""S. reads Prud'homme aloud to us'."""
"""We did not begin reading [the proof-sheets of """"""""Mansfield Park""""""""] till Bentley Green.  Henry's approbation hitherto is even equal to my wishes; he says it is very different from the other two, [""""""""Pride and Prejudice"""""""" and """"""""Sense and Sensibility""""""""] but does not seem to think it at all inferior...'"""
"""Read all evening'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 20 August 1814: 'Lord Rosslyn read to us """"""""Lara,"""""""" Lord Byron's new tale.  It strongly marks his manner of thinking and writing.  It is a sort of continuation of the """"""""Corsair.""""""""' """
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 February 1814: ' ... redde the Robbers.'"""
"""I have not read Miss Edgeworth's novel nor have I much opinion of her powers of execution saving and excepting Irish characters. Everything else I have read of hers I thought very indifferent, even her tale called [italics] Eunice [end italics]. If she has put in her novels people who fed her and her odious father she is not trustworthy'."""
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and Bandello - by starts.'"""
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and Bandello - by starts.'"""
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and Bandello - by starts.'"""
"""Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde the Edinburgh, 44, just come out.  In the beginning of the article on 'Edgeworth's Patronage,' I have gotten a high compliment, I perceive.""""""""'"""
"""Shelley reads aloud out of the """"""""Female Revolutionary Plutarch""""""""'."""
"""Finish Caleb Williams - read to Jane."""
"""In the evening read memoirs of Voltaire.'"""
"""Mary reads Political Justice all the morning'."""
"""In the evening Shelley reads Thaliba aloud.'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 21 August 1814: 'I read """"""""Swift's Life"""""""" in the new edition of his works by Walter Scott.  It does not appear to me that there is much that is new.'"""
"""M. reads Miss Bailey's plays'."""
"""Sir, I have heard with great regret that you are the author of that gross personal libel which appeared in the Quarterly Review, in the form of criticism on my Life of Cardinal Wolsey.  I say with regret because it has been my settled determination from the moment I read the article to make the author sensible that in accusing me of being activated by the most obnoxious principles, he had laid himself open to be suspected of obeying them himself.'"""
"""Rise very late. Read in the """"""""female revolutionary Plutarch""""""""'."""
"""Read Zadig.'"""
"""Read the life of Alfieri.'"""
"""Mary reads greek and Political Justice.'"""
"""William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'Mr. Hogg's Badlew (I suppose it to be his) I could not get through.  There are two pretty passages; the flight of the deer, and the falling of the child from the rock of Stirling, though both are a little outre.  But the story is coarsely conceived, and in my judgement, as coarsely executed ... the versification harsh and uncouth.' """
"""I was indeed surprised to find my name in """"""""Patronage"""""""" but my surprise was principally caused by finding such honourable mention made of me and by seeing myself in company with those whom I have no pretensions to associate with. No person but Miss Edgeworth would call """"""""Patronage"""""""" a trivial performance, but even she has not a right to call it so. Like most of her other works, under the form of a mere book of amusement it conveys the most important lessons. I hope that the publication of it will add greatly to the lively satisfaction she must feel when she reflects how greatly her writings have contributed to improve the condition of mankind, and what mischievous follies and frailties they have in numerous individuals corrected or repressed'."""
"""I have not been able to discover the author of the article in the Quarterly that you mention. We all admired it very much'."""
"""I have not been able to discover the author of the article in the Quarterly that you mention. We all admired it very much'."""
"""Finish the life of Alfieri'."""
"""Read Louvets memoires'"""
"""Go to the tomb and read the essay on sepulchres there - Shelley is out all the morning at the Lawyers but nothing is done - read Voltaire's tales'."""
"""Go to the tomb and read the essay on sepulchres there - Shelley is out all the morning at the Lawyers but nothing is done - read Voltaire's tales'."""
"""Shelley draws & Mary reads the monk all evening.'"""
"""We have called upon Miss Dusautoy and Miss Papillon & been very pretty. - Miss D. has a great idea of being Fanny Price [the heroine of JA's novel, """"""""Mansfield Park""""""""], she & her younest sister together, who is named Fanny.'"""
"""read """"""""P. Proteus"""""""" in the even'."""
"""Byron to Lady Melbourne, 23 September 1814: 'I am glad you liked Annabella [Milbanke]'s letter to you -- Augusta said that to me (the decisive one ) [ie accepting his marriage proposal] was the best & prettiest she ever read ...'"""
"""in the Course of this summer one day I took the Bible to read and happened on the 54th Chapt of Isaiah a chapt I had never noticed before and as I read it I had such a glorious insight of the promises therein Contained and although I Could not apply one of them to myself yet I saw that God was gracious and so mercyfull as to forgive the sins of the worst sinners.'"""
"""Wednesday August 24th.  Read Abbe Bar[ruel]'"""
"""I was greatly diverted by your specimen of Mr. Maclaurin's prose-run-mad. He seems to have imbibed, in the full sense of the word, the melody of his native mountains; - and who can doubt, that, in a short time he will chaunt right pleasantly, with Celtic sweetness the praises and perfections of this [underscored twice]lamb of his heart[end underscoring]!'"""
"""Once, for instance, I recollect that to fill up one of those aweful hiatus in conversation that occur at times in spite of all one's efforts to the contrary - and to entertain Miss M., I took up a Tristram Shandy; and read her one of the very best jokes within the boards of the book - Ah-h-h-h! sighed Miss M. and put on a look of right tend[er] melancholy!! -  Now. - Did the smallest glimmering of reason appea[r]? Never.'"""
"""A-propos of Authors - This evening at tea, Miss Ramsay (our governess) inquired at me if I had read that affecting representation of the Calamities of Literary men, in the last Courier;- replying in the negative, she handed me the paper: - and judge of my surprise when, looking at the bottom, I recognised the signature of Mr. Murray - You will readily conceive, I read it with additional interest on this account - but allow me to remark (and this is all the Critique I design to pass on it) that it needed no such adventitious circumstance to recommend it. The melancholy truth which it contains, and the elegant sympathysing manner in which it is told, speak for themselves. - In sober sadness, now, did you really see that same melancholy old author, at Merchiston? - or is he not a creature of Mr. Murray's brain? Tell me whether I am right in being inclined to adopt the latter opinion.'"""
"""I have seen the last number of the Edinr review at Mount-annan. I regret, with you, that Jeffrey should bestow so much of his time on Politics; and I rejoice in the prospect [(for] this is one of the advantages of Peace!) that in a short [time] he will not have this in his power. He must be an extra-ordinary man. No subject however hackneyed, but he has the art of extracting some new thought out of it. The introduction to the Critiq[ue] on Byron is in my opinion admirable?so acute so philosophical: - None but a man of keen penetration, and deep research could have written such a thing - Even the present state of Europe is interesting in his hands.'"""
"""What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of """"""""Waverl[e]y"""""""" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been """"""""the Exiles of Siberia"""""""", """"""""Hoole's Tasso['s] Jerusalem"""""""", """"""""Oberon"""""""" translated from the German by Southeby, """"""""Beatties Minstrel"""""""", Savage's poems, Fenelons """"""""lives of ancient Philosophers"""""""" and """"""""the Miseries of Human life"""""""" 2 vols. If there is any of these that you have not seen - and want my sentiments about - you shall have them in my next'."""
"""What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of """"""""Waverl[e]y"""""""" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been """"""""the Exiles of Siberia"""""""", """"""""Hoole's Tasso['s] Jerusalem"""""""", """"""""Oberon"""""""" translated from the German by Southeby, """"""""Beatties Minstrel"""""""", Savage's poems, Fenelons """"""""lives of ancient Philosophers"""""""" and """"""""the Miseries of Human life"""""""" 2 vols. If there is any of these that you have not seen - and want my sentiments about - you shall have them in my next'."""
"""What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of """"""""Waverl[e]y"""""""" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been """"""""the Exiles of Siberia"""""""", """"""""Hoole's Tasso['s] Jerusalem"""""""", """"""""Oberon"""""""" translated from the German by Southeby, """"""""Beatties Minstrel"""""""", Savage's poems, Fenelons """"""""lives of ancient Philosophers"""""""" and """"""""the Miseries of Human life"""""""" 2 vols. If there is any of these that you have not seen - and want my sentiments about - you shall have them in my next'."""
"""What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of """"""""Waverl[e]y"""""""" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been """"""""the Exiles of Siberia"""""""", """"""""Hoole's Tasso['s] Jerusalem"""""""", """"""""Oberon"""""""" translated from the German by Southeby, """"""""Beatties Minstrel"""""""", Savage's poems, Fenelons """"""""lives of ancient Philosophers"""""""" and """"""""the Miseries of Human life"""""""" 2 vols. If there is any of these that you have not seen - and want my sentiments about - you shall have them in my next'."""
"""What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of """"""""Waverl[e]y"""""""" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been """"""""the Exiles of Siberia"""""""", """"""""Hoole's Tasso['s] Jerusalem"""""""", """"""""Oberon"""""""" translated from the German by Southeby, """"""""Beatties Minstrel"""""""", Savage's poems, Fenelons """"""""lives of ancient Philosophers"""""""" and """"""""the Miseries of Human life"""""""" 2 vols. If there is any of these that you have not seen - and want my sentiments about - you shall have them in my next'."""
"""What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of """"""""Waverl[e]y"""""""" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been """"""""the Exiles of Siberia"""""""", """"""""Hoole's Tasso['s] Jerusalem"""""""", """"""""Oberon"""""""" translated from the German by Southeby, """"""""Beatties Minstrel"""""""", Savage's poems, Fenelons """"""""lives of ancient Philosophers"""""""" and """"""""the Miseries of Human life"""""""" 2 vols. If there is any of these that you have not seen - and want my sentiments about - you shall have them in my next'."""
"""What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of """"""""Waverl[e]y"""""""" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been """"""""the Exiles of Siberia"""""""", """"""""Hoole's Tasso['s] Jerusalem"""""""", """"""""Oberon"""""""" translated from the German by Southeby, """"""""Beatties Minstrel"""""""", Savage's poems, Fenelons """"""""lives of ancient Philosophers"""""""" and """"""""the Miseries of Human life"""""""" 2 vols. If there is any of these that you have not seen - and want my sentiments about - you shall have them in my next'."""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""I hope, that considering the thickness of the Volumes, and the impossibility of reading any work of Miss Edgeworth's with the carelessness and haste a common Novel may be skimmed over with, I shall not be thought to have detained """"""""Patronage"""""""" a [underlined] very[end underlining] unreasonabe time. I thank you most cordially for the loan. Nobody more thoroughly venerates the admirable Author than I do - And in this last work, she really has excelled herself! Every young man ought particularly to study it - but it contains many hints useful and good for all ages, conditions, and characters. She is the pride of Englsh female writers - and I do positively believe, the most useful author, whether male or female, now existing'. """
"""Byron to John Murray, [?July 23-24 1814]:  'I have read the article & concur in opinion with Mr. Rogers & my friends that I have every reason to be satisfied. -- You best know as Publisher how far the book may be injured or benefited by the critique in question.'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 24 July 1814: 'Waverley is the best & most interesting novel I have redde since -- I don't know when -- I like it as much as I hate Patronage and Wanderer -- & O'donnel and all the feminine trash of the last four months ... '"""
"""Read aloud to Jane.'"""
"""she asked [Byron] to recommend her some books of modern history. At present she was reading Sismondi's """"""""Italian Republics"""""""". And she had read """"""""Lara"""""""". Shakespeare alone possessed the same power as Byron had there displayed'."""
"""she asked [Byron] to recommend her some books of modern history. At present she was reading Sismondi's """"""""Italian Republics"""""""". And she had read """"""""Lara"""""""". Shakespeare alone possessed the same power as Byron had there displayed'."""
"""[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, but he has since published another on the Literature of Italy, Spain &c., which I would willingly recommend... on my return to London I would gladly forward it... Gibbon is well worth a hundred perusals. Watson's Philip of Spain, and Coxe's Spain and Austria are dry enough; but there is some advantage to be extracted even from them. Vertot's Revolutions (but <italics)he</italics> writes not history but romance). The best thing of that kind I met by accident at Athens in a Convent Library in old and not """"""""very choice Italian"""""""". I forget the title - but it was a history in some thirty tomes of all Conjurazioni whatsoever from Catiline's down to Count Fiesco of Lavagna's in Genoa and Braganza's in Lisbon. I read it through (having nothing else to read) & having nothing to compare it withal, thought it perfection'."""
"""[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, but he has since published another on the Literature of Italy, Spain &c., which I would willingly recommend... on my return to London I would gladly forward it... Gibbon is well worth a hundred perusals. Watson's Philip of Spain, and Coxe's Spain and Austria are dry enough; but there is some advantage to be extracted even from them. Vertot's Revolutions (but <italics)he</italics> writes not history but romance). The best thing of that kind I met by accident at Athens in a Convent Library in old and not """"""""very choice Italian"""""""". I forget the title - but it was a history in some thirty tomes of all Conjurazioni whatsoever from Catiline's down to Count Fiesco of Lavagna's in Genoa and Braganza's in Lisbon. I read it through (having nothing else to read) & having nothing to compare it withal, thought it perfection'."""
"""[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, but he has since published another on the Literature of Italy, Spain &c., which I would willingly recommend... on my return to London I would gladly forward it... Gibbon is well worth a hundred perusals. Watson's Philip of Spain, and Coxe's Spain and Austria are dry enough; but there is some advantage to be extracted even from them. Vertot's Revolutions (but <italics)he</italics> writes not history but romance). The best thing of that kind I met by accident at Athens in a Convent Library in old and not """"""""very choice Italian"""""""". I forget the title - but it was a history in some thirty tomes of all Conjurazioni whatsoever from Catiline's down to Count Fiesco of Lavagna's in Genoa and Braganza's in Lisbon. I read it through (having nothing else to read) & having nothing to compare it withal, thought it perfection'."""
"""In the afternoon read Miss Bailie's plays'"""
"""My dear Anna - I am very much obliged to you for sending your M.S. [a story by Anna Austen that remained unfinished and has never been published] It has entertained me extremely, all of us indeed.  I read it aloud to your G[rand] M[other] & A[un]t C[assandra]. - and we were all very much pleased...'"""
"""read Elements of Morality and Smellie'."""
"""read Elements of Morality and Smellie'."""
"""read two odes of Anacreon before breakfast'."""
"""PBS reads Diogenes Laertius.'"""
"""The pleasure we had in reading """"""""Patronage"""""""" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should not say we, for Sir Samuel could not get past the first volume. Surely it is vastly inferior to all her other publications and the only moral I can find out is that ladies should not go without pockets. It had to me all the defects of her other novels without any of their beauties, and the impression on my mind all the time I was reading it was similar to that of a tormenting dream, wherever you getg to the same disagreeable objects present themselves'."""
"""The pleasure we had in reading """"""""Patronage"""""""" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should not say we, for Sir Samuel could not get past the first volume. Surely it is vastly inferior to all her other publications and the only moral I can find out is that ladies should not go without pockets. It had to me all the defects of her other novels without any of their beauties, and the impression on my mind all the time I was reading it was similar to that of a tormenting dream, wherever you getg to the same disagreeable objects present themselves'."""
"""The pleasure we had in reading """"""""Patronage"""""""" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should not say we, for Sir Samuel could not get past the first volume. Surely it is vastly inferior to all her other publications and the only moral I can find out is that ladies should not go without pockets. It had to me all the defects of her other novels without any of their beauties, and the impression on my mind all the time I was reading it was similar to that of a tormenting dream, wherever you getg to the same disagreeable objects present themselves'."""
"""Byron to John Murray, 26 April 1814, on work (about abdication of Napoleon) sent to him to read: 'I have no guess at your Author but it is a noble poem ... I suppose I may keep this copy -- after reading it I really regret having written my own ...'"""
"""Friday August 26th. Boring Morning [...]  Read Abbe Bar[ruel]'."""
"""S. reads rights of Man. C. in an ill humour - she read the Italian'."""
"""S. reads rights of Man. C. in an ill humour - she reads the Italian'."""
"""Read all evening'"""
"""read Political Justice & the empire of the Nairs'."""
""" 'Then we write a part of the romance and read some Shakespears [sic]'."""
"""Not very well - Shelley very unwell - read de Montfort - and talk with S. in the evening read View of the French Revolution'."""
"""Not very well - Shelley very unwell - read de Montfort - and talk with S. in the evening read View of the French Revolution'."""
"""Read the Italian & talk all day'."""
"""Read aloud to Jane in the evening.'"""
"""Miss Edg[e]worth must not be run down because she has like most people misunderstood her own powers--she never can pretend to any thing that is the least [particle?] of Genius she has not one single spark of it which time or opportunity could kindle--but in its place I think she has a very reasoning head much Humour, & great discrimination--she paints like the Dutch school true to the life--I only quarrel with her choice--she introduces us to the society of those who are disagreeable & she delineates characters we regret ever to meet with--like Crabbe she delights in drawing mediocrity vulgarity & meanness--this can never please--in her present production--there is more than an ordinary share of it--& no great humour to make up--no interest to carry us through--I for one cannot finish it but those more persevering will'."""
"""Miss Edg[e]worth must not be run down because she has like most people misunderstood her own powers--she never can pretend to any thing that is the least [particle?] of Genius she has not one single spark of it which time or opportunity could kindle--but in its place I think she has a very reasoning head much Humour, & great discrimination--she paints like the Dutch school true to the life--I only quarrel with her choice--she introduces us to the society of those who are disagreeable & she delineates characters we regret ever to meet with--like Crabbe she delights in drawing mediocrity vulgarity & meanness--this can never please--in her present production--there is more than an ordinary share of it--& no great humour to make up--no interest to carry us through--I for one cannot finish it but those more persevering will'."""
"""""""""""Gull"""""""" & the Bulbul and a young Galeongee are just so many baits to draw sneers--which however disposed are always better avoided--I think the Bride of Abydos full of these lesser faults but the Corsair is quite beautiful--indeed he [Byron] has a very splendid Genius--& I cannot but feel a deep & lasting anxiety that he should be himself [underlined] in all things it is all I ask--you owe his quotations from Dante and the beginning of the Bride to me--& not to Mad. De Staal--for I sent him Dante last year so that you see I was not useless even to his Genius.'"""
"""""""""""Gull"""""""" & the Bulbul and a young Galeongee are just so many baits to draw sneers--which however disposed are always better avoided--I think the Bride of Abydos full of these lesser faults but the Corsair is quite beautiful--indeed he [Byron] has a very splendid Genius--& I cannot but feel a deep & lasting anxiety that he should be himself [underlined] in all things it is all I ask--you owe his quotations from Dante and the beginning of the Bride to me--& not to Mad. De Staal--for I sent him Dante last year so that you see I was not useless even to his Genius.'"""
"""How you surprise me--write me but one word more [--] it is not true that he [Byron] sent word to you that he was very angry """"""""Weep daughter"""""""" was cut out of the other editions--is it not true that he stood firm to what he had done & took blame wholly upon himself--this I trust is true'."""
"""Badliewe [sic] has not yet made great noise but has excited a deep interest in a limited sphere. It is reviewed in both our minor reviews in the one with a good deal of asperity but they allow the author to be posessed of some kind of unaccountable fund of poetical genius. In the """"""""Scottish"""""""" published yesterday there is a long and able review of it - the writer is quite misled likewise with regard to the author too - He blames the plot but extols the poetry some of it even above all others - says that the author is no common man and though he has great faults which it becomes him to mention the author if he continue writing his own way cannot go far wrong'."""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 29 May 1814: 'The Princess [of Wales] sent for me at three o'clock.  She made Lady Charlotte read to me the letters that had passed between the Queen and her on the subject of the drawing-rooms [i.e. two gatherings, to take place in June 1814, from which the Prince of Wales wished his wife to be excluded]. They were good, but too long, and sometime marked by Whitbread's lack of taste, who dictated them.'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 29 May 1814: 'The Princess [of Wales] sent for me at three o'clock.  She made Lady Charlotte read to me the letters that had passed between the Queen and her on the subject of the drawing-rooms [i.e. two gatherings, to take place in June 1814, from which the Prince of Wales wished his wife to be excluded]. They were good, but too long, and sometime marked by Whitbread's lack of taste, who dictated them.'"""
"""[Letter from Byron to Anabella Milbanke, 28 Nov 1814]. 'I think Southey's """"""""Roderick"""""""" as near perfection as poetry can be - which considering how I dislike that school I wonder at. However, so it is. If he had never written anything else, he might safely stake his fame on the last of the Goths'."""
"""Read I don't know what.'"""
"""My dear Anna, I hope you do not depend on having your book back again immediately.  I keep it that your G:Mama may hear it - for it has not been possible yet to have any public reading.  I have read it to your Aunt Cassandra however - in our own room at night, while we undressed - and with a great deal of pleasure.'"""
"""Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - it is not fair. - He has Fame & Profit enough as a Poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, & do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must[...] I have made up my mind to like no Novels really, but Miss Edgeworth's, Yours & my own.'"""
"""read some of Kirke White's letters - slavish  beyond all measure - begin History of the West Indies by Bryan Edwards'."""
"""read some of Kirke White's letters - slavish  beyond all measure - begin History of the West Indies by Bryan Edwards'."""
"""Byron to unknown correspondent, 29 June 1814: 'Sir / -- I have to thank you for the perusal of your work -- and assure You that I perfectly coincide with your judges in their opinion of it's merits. -- Excuse my having detained it so long.'"""
"""Sir Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 29 March 1814: 'Since I wrote to you last, I have read """"""""L'Allemagne,"""""""" not in the usual way of reading, [italics]car je ne commencais pas, par le commencement[end italics].  My neighbour Peploe, who has read it, called upon me just as I had received it.  He told me the first volume was highly entertaining; the second less so [...] the third very abstruse [...] He liked, however, particular parts [...] He told me, at the same time, that the subject of the third volume was distinct from those of the other two, being entirely on German philosophy.  Upon this information, Lady Caroline [Carpenter] and my daughter having eagerly seized on the first volume, I began with the third, in which I found so many new and striking thoughts and reflections that, in order to recollect and dwell upon them again, I marked them as I went on'."""
"""Sir Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 29 March 1814: 'Since I wrote to you last, I have read """"""""L'Allemagne,"""""""" not in the usual way of reading, [italics]car je ne commencais pas, par le commencement[end italics].  My neighbour Peploe, who has read it, called upon me just as I had received it.  He told me the first volume was highly entertaining; the second less so [...] the third very abstruse [...] He liked, however, particular parts [...] He told me, at the same time, that the subject of the third volume was distinct from those of the other two, being entirely on German philosophy.  Upon this information, Lady Caroline [Carpenter] and my daughter having eagerly seized on the first volume, I began with the third, in which I found so many new and striking thoughts and reflections that, in order to recollect and dwell upon them again, I marked them as I went on'."""
"""Sir Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 29 March 1814: 'Since I wrote to you last, I have read """"""""L'Allemagne,"""""""" not in the usual way of reading, [italics]car je ne commencais pas, par le commencement[end italics].  My neighbour Peploe, who has read it, called upon me just as I had received it.  He told me the first volume was highly entertaining; the second less so [...] the third very abstruse [...] He liked, however, particular parts [...] He told me, at the same time, that the subject of the third volume was distinct from those of the other two, being entirely on German philosophy.  Upon this information, Lady Caroline [Carpenter] and my daughter having eagerly seized on the first volume, I began with the third, in which I found so many new and striking thoughts and reflections that, in order to recollect and dwell upon them again, I marked them as I went on [...] I have now returned again to the first, and am reading the whole through [italics]de suite[end italics], and I find great pleasure in reading on without interruption, and great pleasure also in observing, [italics]en passant[end italics], the passages I had marked'."""
"""Shelley reads the Fairy Queen aloud'."""
"""Saturday -- 29th. [...] Read Comus. & Prince Alexy Haimatoff'."""
"""Saturday -- 29th. [...] Read Comus. & Prince Alexy Haimatoff'."""
"""Mary read to me some passages from Ld Byron's poems. I was not before so clearly aware [of] how much of the colouring our own feelings throw upon the liveliest delineations of other minds'."""
"""Byron to John Murray, 3 August 1814: 'I see advertisements of Lara & Jacqueline -- pray why? when I requested you to postpone publication till my return to town.'"""
"""Read some of Miss Bailey's plays - Tahourdin calls in the evening Shelley reads Moores journal aloud'."""
"""Read some of Miss Bailey's plays - Tahourdin calls in the evening Shelley reads Moores journal aloud'."""
"""I literally saw nothing but your ear for a whole hour one night--it is perfectly unlike any ear in Nature--& as Tristram Shandy might say requires a Chapter in itself'."""
"""Farewell Mephistocles--Luke Makey de la Touche Richard the 3 Valmont Machiavelli Napoleon [Prival?] the Wicked Duke of Orleans--for you are a little like them all'.."""
"""if you have no [italics] odd things [end italics] lying about you which I daresay you do not lack there are many pieces among those you published in your youth which are I deem not much known and which I think extremely beautifull if you would deign to favour us with something of either the one class or the other you can hardly conceive how much it would oblige [italics] me [end italics] in particular and turn as it were every letter of our little repository into gold'."""
"""By the by have you read my friend Mr Crag's [sic] """"""""Hunting of Badlewe"""""""" published by Colburne. If you have not I wish you would and tell me punctually what you think of him, and the utmost that may be anticipated of him as a poet and dramatist'."""
"""Pray have you seen a poem that was published last year entitled """"""""Anster Fair"""""""" I am vexed that it has never been noticed for their [sic]  is a strength of mind and a [TEAR] originality of conception manifested in it which I n[TEAR] before witnessed - it is anonymous but I understand it is written by a poor schoolmaster in Fife you must by all means see it'."""
"""It is Eveng. We have drank tea & I have torn through the 3d vol. of the Heroine, & do not think it falls off. - It is a delightful burlesque, particularly on the Radcliffe style.'"""
"""Henry is going on with Mansfield Park; he admires H. Crawford - I mean properly - as a clever, pleasant Man.'"""
"""Read in the Greek grammar'"""
"""Read and work in the evening'"""
"""Read in the Greek grammar'"""
"""Have you read Shakespear? If you have not, then I desire you, read it directly, and tell me what you think of him -which is his masterpiece. He is always excellent'"""
"""Read Bryan Edwards's account of the West Indies'."""
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"""Farewell--not as you say so to your favourites or they to you--not as any Woman ever spoke that Word for they never mean it to be what I will make it--but as nuns & those who die--as Madoc said it to Llewellyn--so will I to you'."""
"""Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814, on Frances Burney, The Wanderer (which contains episode recalling his ex-lover Lady Caroline Lamb's attempt to stab herself at a party) : 'I have turned over ye. book at least ye. part of it. -- & think the coincidence unlucky for many reasons ... '"""
"""Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814: 'I have seen the E[dinburgh] R[eview] and the compliment -- which Rogers says -- """"""""Scott and Campbell won't like"""""""" kind Soul!'"""
"""I wish you had been present when I opened the parcel and read the title page, the exclamations, the elevated voices, the """"""""O Mama pray let me look"""""""" and """"""""O Mama may [italics] I [end italics] read it?""""""""'"""
"""We were very much pleased with Mr Lovell Edgeworth's narrative which Mrs Marcet showed us, a very little addition from your pen would have made a very delightful fashionable tale'."""
"""One amongst the innumerable excellent things I have learnt from Practical Education is to consider what is passing in the child's mind at the moment, and I am sure this is a thing which is seldom if ever attended to.'"""
"""My dear Anna, I have been very far from finding your Book an Evil I assure you; I read it immediately - & with great pleasure.  I think you are going very well.'"""
"""read Philip Stanley - very stupid'."""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814: 'I saw two sections of Hazlitt's Review [of William Wordsworth, The Excursion, in the Examiner] at Rydale, and did not think them nearly so well written as I should have expected from him ... '"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814: 'I saw two sections of Hazlitt's Review [of William Wordsworth, The Excursion, in the Examiner] at Rydale, and did not think them nearly so well written as I should have expected from him ... '"""
"""My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics.  Among these may be enumerated """"""""The Death of Abel"""""""" which I read emphatically aloud.  Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Pope's Homer, Cicero's Letters, Elizabeth, or the Exile of Siberia, Dr Johnson's Rasselas, with many other works of established reputation."""
"""My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics.  Among these may be enumerated """"""""The Death of Abel"""""""" which I read emphatically aloud.  Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Pope's Homer, Cicero's Letters, Elizabeth, or the Exile of Siberia, Dr Johnson's Rasselas, with many other works of established reputation."""
"""My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics.  Among these may be enumerated """"""""The Death of Abel"""""""" which I read emphatically aloud.  Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Pope's Homer, Cicero's Letters, Elizabeth, or the Exile of Siberia, Dr Johnson's Rasselas, with many other works of established reputation."""
"""My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics.  Among these may be enumerated """"""""The Death of Abel"""""""" which I read emphatically aloud.  Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Pope's Homer, Cicero's Letters, Elizabeth, or the Exile of Siberia, Dr Johnson's Rasselas, with many other works of established reputation."""
"""My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics.  Among these may be enumerated """"""""The Death of Abel"""""""" which I read emphatically aloud.  Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Pope's Homer, Cicero's Letters, Elizabeth, or the Exile of Siberia, Dr Johnson's Rasselas, with many other works of established reputation."""
"""My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics.  Among these may be enumerated """"""""The Death of Abel"""""""" which I read emphatically aloud.  Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Pope's Homer, Cicero's Letters, Elizabeth, or the Exile of Siberia, Dr Johnson's Rasselas, with many other works of established reputation."""
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"""Shelley reads aloud the letters from Norway'."""
"""Shelley finishes Mary a fiction'."""
"""I think I shall live to see the day--when some beautiful & innocent Lady Byron shall drive to your door [...] I really believe that when that day comes, I shall buy a pistol at Mantons & stand before the Giaour [Lord Byron] & his legal wife & shoot myself'."""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814: 'Your anecdote of Tom [?Thomas Clarkson] that he sate up all night reading William's poem gave me as much pleasure as anything I have heard of the effect produced by it ... It speaks highly in favour of Tom's feeling and enthusiasm that he was so wrought upon.'"""
"""I faintly remember going through Aesop's Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember better, was the second.'"""
"""At that time [?my eighth year?] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Ceropaedia and Memorials of Socrates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian, and Isocrates ad Demonicum and ad Nicoclem.'"""
"""At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Ceropaedia and Memorials of Socrates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian, and Isocrates ad Demonicum and ad Nicoclem.'"""
"""At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Ceropaedia and Memorials of Socrates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian, and Isocrates ad Demonicum and ad Nicoclem.'"""
"""At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Ceropaedia and Memorials of Socrates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian, and Isocrates ad Demonicum and ad Nicoclem.'"""
"""At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Ceropaedia and Memorials of Socrates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian, and Isocrates ad Demonicum and ad Nicoclem.'"""
"""At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Ceropaedia and Memorials of Socrates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian, and Isocrates ad Demonicum and ad Nicoclem.'"""
"""At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Ceropaedia and Memorials of Socrates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian, and Isocrates ad Demonicum and ad Nicoclem.'"""
"""I faintly remember going through Aesop?s Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember better, was the second.'"""
"""Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso;  and it failed utterly [...] Not long after he was gone, I read both pieces in the nursery, one day; and straightway went into a transport, as if I had discovered myself in possession of a new sense.'"""
"""Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso;  and it failed utterly [...] Not long after he was gone, I read both pieces in the nursery, one day; and straightway went into a transport, as if I had discovered myself in possession of a new sense.'"""
"""[John Murray] was confirmed in his idea that Walter Scott was the author [of Waverley] after carefully reading the book. Canning called on Murray next day; said he had begun it, found it very dull, and concluded: """"""""You are quite mistaken; it cannot be by Walter Scott."""""""" But a few days later he wrote to Murray: """"""""Yes, it is so; you are right: Walter Scott, and no one else.""""""""'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: 'In the year 1814, Moore ... and I were going together, in the same carriage, to dine with Earl Grey ... [John] Murray ... had just sent me a Java gazette ... Pulling it out, by way of curiosity, we found it to contain a dispute ... on Moore's merits and mine.'"""
"""I now became anxious to read all that came in any way, and like most juveniles, felt a deep interest in the reading of """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", Philip Quarll, Boyle's Travels, and other such books as our school library contained.'"""
"""I now became anxious to read all that came in any way, and like most juveniles, felt a deep interest in the reading of """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", Philip Quarll, Boyle's Travels, and other such books as our school library contained.'"""
"""I now became anxious to read all that came in any way, and like most juveniles, felt a deep interest in the reading of """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", Philip Quarll, Boyle's Travels, and other such books as our school library contained.'"""
"""My father was likewise very fond of reading; he now proposed to encourage my love of books, by entering me a subscriber to one of the circulating libraries. I had the pleasure of being my father's instructor in reading and writing, and this kind offer to procure me books was a high reward for so doing - previously, I had great difficulty in getting books to read, except the tracks and magazines supplied by the chapel libraries and Sunday school teachers.'"""
"""My father was likewise very fond of reading; he now proposed to encourage my love of books, by entering me a subscriber to one of the circulating libraries. I had the pleasure of being my father's instructor in reading and writing, and this kind offer to procure me books was a high reward for so doing - previously, I had great difficulty in getting books to read, except the tracks and magazines supplied by the chapel libraries and Sunday school teachers.'"""
"""On presenting ourselves at a little shop in the Market Place, a popular circulating library, the old spectacle-nosed keeper told us, that his invariable rule was, before boys [underlined] were entrusted with his books, to have some one as surety for the payment - he accepted my father as such, and registered my name. The old man now asked what book I would like, but being unacquainted with works of fiction, I could not tell him; he handed to us a catalogue which only made the choice more bewildering. I at length selected one, which from its title I thought would be very mysterious - it was """"""""Splendid Misery"""""""". This I took home; it was on a Saturday evening. With the first broad light of morning, I arose and greedily devoured several chapters of the first volume.'"""
"""William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'When your Letter arrived I was in the act of reading to Mrs W[ordsworth] your Exile, which pleased me more, I think, than anything that I have read of yours ...  I was particularly charmed with the seventeenth stanza, first part ... which I shall often repeat to myself ... '"""
"""William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'I have read the Ruminator, and I fear that I do not like it quite as much as you would wish.  It wants depth and strength, yet it is pleasingly and elegantly written, and contains everywhere the sentiments of a liberal spirit.'"""
"""William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'I have seen a book advertised under your name, which I suppose to be a novel.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: """"""""In the year 1814, Moore ... and I were going together, in the same carriage, to dine with Earl Grey ... [John] Murray ... had just sent me a Java gazette ... Pulling it out, by way of curiosity, we found it to contain a dispute ... on Moore's merits and mine."""""""""""
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"""Even during their elopement in Switzerland and Germany in 1814, Shelley read to her: """"""""the siege of Jerusalem"""""""" from Tacitus is read by Lake Lucerne, and as they sail to Mainz he """"""""read aloud to us Mary Wollstonecraft's 'Letters from Norway'.""""""""'"""
"""Even during their elopement in Switzerland and Germany in 1814, Shelley read to her: """"""""The Siege of Jerusalem"""""""" from Tacitus is read by Lake Lucerne, and as they sail to Mainz he """"""""read to us Mary Wollstonecraft's 'Letters from Norway'.""""""""'"""
"""[I] could not like the """"""""Paradise of Coquettes""""""""'."""
"""I found a good deal of amusement in looking over the engravings in a Spanish volume, called, I think, """"""""The Visions of Don Quevedo"""""""". It was, of course, a book from which I could get but little information in the way of reading. The plates, however, told a tolerably clear story, and my host, who had learned something of the Spanish language, gave me such explanations as were necessary to my fully comprehending the meaning of the illustrations.'"""
"""My friend had a good deal to do in order to be prepared for his approaching voyage. While he was attending to these matters, I usually remained at home and read in such books as I found at hand. Among these was a copy of Mr. Hoole's translation of Tasso's """"""""Jerusalem Delivered"""""""", which poem I now read for the first time, and with much interest.'"""
"""At the request of our landlady, I looked over a volume of Sermons by the eminent Unitarian minister, Dr. Price. I did this, however, out of mere courtesy: for although I have no objection to read any regular treatise on theological subjects, I have never been much disposed to read sermons. I ventured to report so favourably concerning these discourses, that the good woman was quite satisfied that she would do well to read them.'"""
"""When I had been in school about twelve months, he resolved that one of the boys should read a chapter from the New Testament every Sunday after the opening prayer. I was the first one selected, and had to choose my chapter; I read, in a somewhat tremulous voice, the first chapter of the gospel according to St John. The master applauded my execution of the task. On the following Sunday, two or three others were named to read, but each one demured, and I had again to read the lesson. This circumstance, being new in the school, was sufficient to bring down upon me the ridicule of my fellow apprentices.'"""
"""Byron to John Herman Merivale, [January 1814]: 'I have redde Roncesvaux with very great pleasure ... You have written a very noble poem ... your measure is uncommonly well chosen & wielded [goes on to advise March publication].'"""
"""I read Carnot's memorial - he is a common place man'"""
"""Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, 4 February 1814: 'I see by the Mo[rning] C[hronicl]e there hathe been discussion in ye. Courier & I read in ye. Mo[rning] Post - a wrathful letter about Mr. Moore - in which some Protestant Reader has made a  sad confusion about India and Ireland.'"""
"""Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, 4 February 1814: 'I see by the Mo[rning] C[hronicl]e there hathe been discussion in ye. Courier & I read in ye. Mo[rning] Post - a wrathful letter about Mr. Moore - in which some Protestant Reader has made a  sad confusion about India and Ireland.'"""
"""There are two poems that I desire you at all events to read the one entitled """"""""Anster Fair"""""""" the most original production that ever this country gave birth to and another thing published lately by Colbourn London called """"""""The Hunting of Badlewe"""""""". There is hard struggling here with some kind of very sublime and metaphysical productions called """"""""Reviews"""""""" some of them will I fear prove [italics] Ephemeral [end italics] or very short lived. Mrs Grant's 1813 has excited little or no interest here and if some exertion is not made to save it in London it is lost, yet the second book in particular certainly contains something very good'."""
"""There are two poems that I desire you at all events to read the one entitled """"""""Anster Fair"""""""" the most original production that ever this country gave birth to and another thing published lately by Colbourn London called """"""""The Hunting of Badlewe"""""""". There is hard struggling here with some kind of very sublime and metaphysical productions called """"""""Reviews"""""""" some of them will I fear prove [italics] Ephemeral [end italics] or very short lived. Mrs Grant's 1813 has excited little or no interest here and if some exertion is not made to save it in London it is lost, yet the second book in particular certainly contains something very good'."""
"""There are two poems that I desire you at all events to read the one entitled """"""""Anster Fair"""""""" the most original production that ever this country gave birth to and another thing published lately by Colbourn London called """"""""The Hunting of Badlewe"""""""". There is hard struggling here with some kind of very sublime and metaphysical productions called """"""""Reviews"""""""" some of them will I fear prove [italics] Ephemeral [end italics] or very short lived. Mrs Grant's 1813 has excited little or no interest here and if some exertion is not made to save it in London it is lost, yet the second book in particular certainly contains something very good'."""
"""The attact [sic] upon you in the last Edin. Review was too palpably malevolent to produce any bad effect on the public feeling with regard to you, and it was (besides being evidently the words of a [italics] hurt person [end italics]) a very shabby article'."""
"""Read in the morning and work'"""
"""Read in the Greek grammar'"""
"""read Alexy Haimatoff - study a little greek - read Political Justice'."""
"""We read Shakespeare'."""
"""read Agathon part of which I like but it [is] not so good as Peregrine'."""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 5 July 1814: 'The Princess [of Wales] sent for me to read a letter that she had sent to the Speaker [re proposed increase to her allowance].'"""
"""Do not be angry with me for beginning another Letter to you.  I have read the Corsair, mended my petticoat, & have nothing else to do.'"""
"""Read a little in the Greek grammar'"""
"""Byron to James Perry, editor of the Morning Chronicle, 5 October 1814: 'Sir -- I perceive in your paper this day the contradiction of a paragraph copied from the Durham paper announcing the intended marriage of Ld. B. with Miss M[ilbank]e. -- How the paragraph came into the Durham or the other papers I know not -- but as it is founded on fact -- I will be much obliged if you will inform me -- who instructed you to contradict this?'"""
"""Shelley reads the Ancient Mariner aloud.'"""
"""My dear Caroline, I wish I could finish Stories as fast as you can. - I am much obliged to you for the sight of Olivia, & think you have done for her very well; but the good for nothing Father, who was the real author of all her Faults & Sufferings, should not escape unpunished.'"""
"""Henry has this moment said that he likes my M[ansfield] P[ark] better & better; - he is in the 3d vol. - I beleive [sic] now he has changed his mind as to foreseeing the end; - he said yesterday at least, that he defied anybody to say whether H.C. would be reformed, or would forget Fanny in a fortnight.'"""
"""At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- """"""""The Minstrel"""""""" Popes """"""""Iliad""""""""[,] some parts of the """"""""Odyssey"""""""" passages from """"""""Paradise lost"""""""" selected by my dearest Mama and some of Shakespeares plays among which were """"""""The Tempest,"""""""" """"""""Othello,"""""""" and a few historical dramatic pieces constituted my studies!'"""
"""Read a part of St Leon'"""
"""Read St. Godwin - it is ineffably stupid.'"""
"""Shelley is very unwell - he reads one canto of Queen Mab to me.'"""
"""Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day, particularly one in favour of the liberty of the press which Lady Holland has just sent to Sir Samuel, together with a very excellent one of Gallois's on the same side'."""
"""Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day, particularly one in favour of the liberty of the press which Lady Holland has just sent to Sir Samuel, together with a very excellent one of Gallois's on the same side'."""
"""If the Quarterly Reviewers should not think proper to publish it [an article by Edgeworth] Sir Saml wishes you would let it appear in the Philanthropist, a periodical Publication which is perhaps not much known in Ireland but which contains some very excellent articles.'"""
"""If the Quarterly Reviewers should not think proper to publish it [an article by Edgeworth] Sir Saml wishes you would let it appear in the Philanthropist, a periodical Publication which is perhaps not much known in Ireland but which contains some very excellent articles.'"""
"""Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day, particularly one in favour of the liberty of the press which Lady Holland has just sent to Sir Samuel, together with a very excellent one of Gallois's on the same side'."""
"""Work and read in the evening'"""
"""I am afraid that we do not admire """"""""Waverley"""""""" as much as it deserves. The praise you give it would almost induce me to change my opinion, but I must be honest above all things; I did not like the hero, and thought the whole more a portraiture of individual than of general manners, but this may have arisen from ignorance, and I find in general the Scotch pleased with it. Walter Scott, if he did not write it, certainly must have had a good deal to do with it, but there is a sort of notice prefix'd to the last edition which they seem to say makes it very improbable that it should have been written by him'."""
"""I am afraid that we do not admire """"""""Waverley"""""""" as much as it deserves. The praise you give it would almost induce me to change my opinion, but I must be honest above all things; I did not like the hero, and thought the whole more a portraiture of individual than of general manners, but this may have arisen from ignorance, and I find in general the Scotch pleased with it. Walter Scott, if he did not write it, certainly must have had a good deal to do with it, but there is a sort of notice prefix'd to the last edition which they seem to say makes it very improbable that it should have been written by him'."""
"""Byron to John Murray, 7 September 1814: 'I am very idle  I have read the few books I had with me -- & been forced to fish for lack of other argument ...'"""
"""I read in Stafford's library the wonderful news of the allies entering into Paris'."""
"""finish Agathon - I do not like it. Wieland displays some most detestable opinions - he is one of those men who alter all their opinions when they are about 40 and then thinking that it will be the same with every one think themselves the only proper monitors of youth'."""
"""We walk out - when we return Shelley talks with Jane and I read Wrongs of woman'."""
"""I read part of Alexy. I repeated one of my own poems.'"""
"""I read part of Alexy. I repeated one of my own poems.'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1814: 'I see Sotheby's tragedies advertised ... ' """
"""Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'I have been regaled at every Inn on the road [from Newstead to London] by lampoons and other merry conceits on myself in the ministerial gazettes ...'"""
"""Henry has finished Mansfield Park, & his approbation has not lessened.  He found the last half of the last volume [italics] extremely interesting [end italics].'"""
"""Read the wrongs of woman.'"""
"""In the evening Shelley reads Abbe Barruel to us.'"""
"""she was reading Dryden's """"""""Don Sebastian"""""""", which treats of incest, and happened to ask Byron a question. He said angrily: """"""""Where did you hear that?"""""""". """"""""I looked up and saw that he was holding over me a dagger which he usually wore. I replied, """"""""Oh, only from this book"""""""".  I was not afraid - I as persuaded he only did it to terrify me"""""""".'"""
"""they read books together and discussed them; Scott's """"""""Lord of the Isles"""""""" was sent to Byron by Murray. It they did not only discuss, for he pointed out to her, """"""""with a miserable smile"""""""", the description of the wayward bridegroom'."""
"""they read books together and discussed them; Scott's """"""""Lord of the Isles"""""""" was sent to Byron by Murray. It they did not only discuss, for he pointed out to her, """"""""with a miserable smile"""""""", the description of the wayward bridegroom'."""
"""It is a considerable time since I saw Leslie's review of La Place'[s] essay on chances - and remarked with considerable surprise - the bold avowall of his sentiments on Hume's doctrine - """"""""The Christian Instructor"""""""" attacks him with considerable asperity - and, I think, success. Hume's essays, I have not read - and therefore cannot condemn - The evidence of testimony, too, no doubt has its limits -  But as far as I can judge, all that is urged either by La Place or His reviewer - does not at all affect Christianity.' """
"""[Marginalia]"
"""Byron to Thomas Moore, 17 November 1816: 'By the way, I suppose you have seen """"""""Glenarvon"""""""".  Madame de Stael lent it to me to read from Copet last autumn.  It seems to me that if the authoress had written the truth ... the romance would not only have been more romantic, but more entertaining.'"""
"""Read Voltaire before breakfast (87)'"""
"""[italics to denote Shelley's hand] Mary reads the 3rd fable of ovid. S & Clare read Pastor Fido. S. Reads Gibbon - (To recollect the life of Rienzi  - Fortifiocca)[end italics]'"""
"""Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 January 1815: 'I have redde thee upon the Fathers, and it is excellent well ... you  must not leave off reviewing. You shine in it ...'"""
"""construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Shelley reads seneca every day & all day (308)'."""
"""construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Shelley reads seneca every day & all day (308)'."""
"""construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Shelley reads seneca every day & all day (308)'."""
"""read the 4th and 5th fables of Ovid'"""
"""at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, and sat themselves on a gun-carriage, to read by the light of the moon.  I looked at the boy's book, (the terrier, I suppose, read over the other's shoulder,) and found that it was """"""""The Sorrows of Werter"""""""". I asked who had lent him such a book, and whether it amused him?  He said that it had been made a present to him, and so he had read it almost through, for he had got to Werter's dying; though, to be sure, he did not understand it all, nor like very much what he understood; for he thought the man a great fool for killing himself for love.  I told him I thought that every man a great fool who killed himself for love or for any thing else: but he had no books but """"""""The Sorrows of Werter""""""""? - oh dear yes, he said, he had a great many more; but he had got """"""""The Adventures of a Louse"""""""", which was a very curious book, indeed; and he had got besides """"""""The Recess"""""""", and """"""""Valentine and Orson"""""""", and """"""""Roslin Castle"""""""", and a book of Prayers, just like the Bible; but he could not but say that he liked """"""""The Adventures of a Louse"""""""" the best of any of them.'"""
"""at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, and sat themselves on a gun-carriage, to read by the light of the moon.  I looked at the boy's book, (the terrier, I suppose, read over the other's shoulder,) and found that it was """"""""The Sorrows of Werter"""""""". I asked who had lent him such a book, and whether it amused him?  He said that it had been made a present to him, and so he had read it almost through, for he had got to Werter's dying; though, to be sure, he did not understand it all, nor like very much what he understood; for he thought the man a great fool for killing himself for love.  I told him I thought that every man a great fool who killed himself for love or for any thing else: but he had no books but """"""""The Sorrows of Werter""""""""? - oh dear yes, he said, he had a great many more; but he had got """"""""The Adventures of a Louse"""""""", which was a very curious book, indeed; and he had got besides """"""""The Recess"""""""", and """"""""Valentine and Orson"""""""", and """"""""Roslin Castle"""""""", and a book of Prayers, just like the Bible; but he could not but say that he liked """"""""The Adventures of a Louse"""""""" the best of any of them.'"""
"""at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, and sat themselves on a gun-carriage, to read by the light of the moon.  I looked at the boy's book, (the terrier, I suppose, read over the other's shoulder,) and found that it was """"""""The Sorrows of Werter"""""""". I asked who had lent him such a book, and whether it amused him?  He said that it had been made a present to him, and so he had read it almost through, for he had got to Werter's dying; though, to be sure, he did not understand it all, nor like very much what he understood; for he thought the man a great fool for killing himself for love.  I told him I thought that every man a great fool who killed himself for love or for any thing else: but he had no books but """"""""The Sorrows of Werter""""""""? - oh dear yes, he said, he had a great many more; but he had got """"""""The Adventures of a Louse"""""""", which was a very curious book, indeed; and he had got besides """"""""The Recess"""""""", and """"""""Valentine and Orson"""""""", and """"""""Roslin Castle"""""""", and a book of Prayers, just like the Bible; but he could not but say that he liked """"""""The Adventures of a Louse"""""""" the best of any of them.'"""
"""at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, and sat themselves on a gun-carriage, to read by the light of the moon.  I looked at the boy's book, (the terrier, I suppose, read over the other's shoulder,) and found that it was """"""""The Sorrows of Werter"""""""". I asked who had lent him such a book, and whether it amused him?  He said that it had been made a present to him, and so he had read it almost through, for he had got to Werter's dying; though, to be sure, he did not understand it all, nor like very much what he understood; for he thought the man a great fool for killing himself for love.  I told him I thought that every man a great fool who killed himself for love or for any thing else: but he had no books but """"""""The Sorrows of Werter""""""""? - oh dear yes, he said, he had a great many more; but he had got """"""""The Adventures of a Louse"""""""", which was a very curious book, indeed; and he had got besides """"""""The Recess"""""""", and """"""""Valentine and Orson"""""""", and """"""""Roslin Castle"""""""", and a book of Prayers, just like the Bible; but he could not but say that he liked """"""""The Adventures of a Louse"""""""" the best of any of them.'"""
"""at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, and sat themselves on a gun-carriage, to read by the light of the moon.  I looked at the boy's book, (the terrier, I suppose, read over the other's shoulder,) and found that it was """"""""The Sorrows of Werter"""""""". I asked who had lent him such a book, and whether it amused him?  He said that it had been made a present to him, and so he had read it almost through, for he had got to Werter's dying; though, to be sure, he did not understand it all, nor like very much what he understood; for he thought the man a great fool for killing himself for love.  I told him I thought that every man a great fool who killed himself for love or for any thing else: but he had no books but """"""""The Sorrows of Werter""""""""? - oh dear yes, he said, he had a great many more; but he had got """"""""The Adventures of a Louse"""""""", which was a very curious book, indeed; and he had got besides """"""""The Recess"""""""", and """"""""Valentine and Orson"""""""", and """"""""Roslin Castle"""""""", and a book of Prayers, just like the Bible; but he could not but say that he liked """"""""The Adventures of a Louse"""""""" the best of any of them.'"""
"""Byron to John Hanson, 11 July 1815: 'Dear Sir -- I have called about my Will -- which I hope is nearly ready. -- I also wish to have the robe and sword sent up to my house -- and the Pedigree this last must be looked for immediately -- I recollect perfectly seeing it at your house -- and trust that it is not lost or mislaid -- as it is not only a document of importance but beautiful and valuable as a piece of work from the inlaid engravings upon it.' """
"""Hogg reads the life of Goldoni aloud'"""
"""The """"""""Melodies"""""""" bear a few striking marks of the master's hand but there are some of them feeble and I think they must be Lady B's. He is not equal to Moore for [italics] melodies [end italics].'"""
"""The """"""""Melodies"""""""" bear a few striking marks of the master's hand but there are some of them feeble and I think they must be Lady B's. He is not equal to Moore for [italics] melodies [end italics].'"""
"""After dinner read Spenser - read over the ovid to Jefferson & construe about ten lines more - read Spenser (10 Canto of 4 book)'"""
"""After dinner read Spenser - read over the ovid to Jefferson & construe about ten lines more - read Spenser (10 Canto of 4 book)'"""
"""Mr Rocca's """"""""Memoirs sur la guerre Des Francois en Espagne"""""""" [sic] is just out. I have only read a very few pages but they give me a great desire to read more, particularly as Sophie who took it up could not lay it down again, and in general a girl of fourteen is a pretty good judge of the interest'."""
"""Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray correct Sir James Mackintosh's opinion [about """"""""Waverley""""""""], and for [italics] best [end italics] read [italics] worst [end italics] which was his opinion, altho' I was told the contrary. He is now I understand a little softened, and says it comes before Rokeby but after all the others. Have you read """"""""Discipline"""""""" by Mrs Brunton? With many defects it is much above the common class, and the last Volume is very pretty indeed some scenes nearly as good as """"""""Waverley"""""""" who I might have added to my list of Lovers belonging to Walter Scott one can take no interest in. - Have you read La Baume's act. of the Campaign in Russia? I am told it is very well done. I am sure you will be pleased with Mr Rocca's Book if you read it'."""
"""Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray correct Sir James Mackintosh's opinion [about """"""""Waverley""""""""], and for [italics] best [end italics] read [italics] worst [end italics] which was his opinion, altho' I was told the contrary. He is now I understand a little softened, and says it comes before Rokeby but after all the others. Have you read """"""""Discipline"""""""" by Mrs Brunton? With many defects it is much above the common class, and the last Volume is very pretty indeed some scenes nearly as good as """"""""Waverley"""""""" who I might have added to my list of Lovers belonging to Walter Scott one can take no interest in. - Have you read La Baume's act. of the Campaign in Russia? I am told it is very well done. I am sure you will be pleased with Mr Rocca's Book if you read it'."""
"""Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray correct Sir James Mackintosh's opinion [about """"""""Waverley""""""""], and for [italics] best [end italics] read [italics] worst [end italics] which was his opinion, altho' I was told the contrary. He is now I understand a little softened, and says it comes before Rokeby but after all the others. Have you read """"""""Discipline"""""""" by Mrs Brunton? With many defects it is much above the common class, and the last Volume is very pretty indeed some scenes nearly as good as """"""""Waverley"""""""" who I might have added to my list of Lovers belonging to Walter Scott one can take no interest in. - Have you read La Baume's act. of the Campaign in Russia? I am told it is very well done. I am sure you will be pleased with Mr Rocca's Book if you read it'."""
"""Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray correct Sir James Mackintosh's opinion [about """"""""Waverley""""""""], and for [italics] best [end italics] read [italics] worst [end italics] which was his opinion, altho' I was told the contrary. He is now I understand a little softened, and says it comes before Rokeby but after all the others. Have you read """"""""Discipline"""""""" by Mrs Brunton? With many defects it is much above the common class, and the last Volume is very pretty indeed some scenes nearly as good as """"""""Waverley"""""""" who I might have added to my list of Lovers belonging to Walter Scott one can take no interest in. - Have you read La Baume's act. of the Campaign in Russia? I am told it is very well done. I am sure you will be pleased with Mr Rocca's Book if you read it'."""
"""Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray correct Sir James Mackintosh's opinion [about """"""""Waverley""""""""], and for [italics] best [end italics] read [italics] worst [end italics] which was his opinion, altho' I was told the contrary. He is now I understand a little softened, and says it comes before Rokeby but after all the others. Have you read """"""""Discipline"""""""" by Mrs Brunton? With many defects it is much above the common class, and the last Volume is very pretty indeed some scenes nearly as good as """"""""Waverley"""""""" who I might have added to my list of Lovers belonging to Walter Scott one can take no interest in. - Have you read La Baume's act. of the Campaign in Russia? I am told it is very well done. I am sure you will be pleased with Mr Rocca's Book if you read it'."""
"""[italics]'Euripides qto edition - Aeschylus - Sophocles'."""
"""[italics]'Euripides qto edition - Aeschylus - Sophocles'."""
"""[italics]'Euripides qto edition - Aeschylus - Sophocles'."""
"""[italics] 'In the evening read Livy - p.385 2nd vol. - 1/2 1200p in 17 days desultory reading.' [end italics]"""
"""[italics] 'at night read Livy 385.450. - Seneca'. [end italics]"""
"""[italics] 'at night read Livy 385.450. - Seneca'. [end italics]"""
"""I was much pleased with your last Review upon the whole which was the only No. I ever read; it is a much more amusing Review than the Edin. and I should think more engaging to common readers'."""
"""[italics] 'The Maie 3th vol. of Gibbon 607. Virgils Georgics'. [end italics]"""
"""[italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibbon - We read and are delighted with Lara - the finest of Lord B's poems. S. reads Lara aloud in the evening. [end italics]"""
"""[italics] 'The Maie 3th vol. of Gibbon 607. Virgils Georgics'. [end italics]"""
"""[italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibbon - We read and are delighted with Lara - the finest of Lord B's poems. S. reads Lara aloud in the evening. [end italics]"""
"""[italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibbon - We read and are delighted with Lara - the finest of Lord B's poems. S. reads Lara aloud in the evening. [end italics]"""
"""Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts """"""""Lord of the Isles,"""""""" Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri, (of which a most delectable account is given in the Quarterly), Joanna Southcott, &c &c. I have been revising Akenside, since I saw you. - He pos[s]esses a warm imagination & great strength & beauty of diction. His poem, you know, does not like Campbell's """"""""Hope"""""""" consist of a number of little incidents told in an interesting manner - & selected to illustrate his positions - it is little else than a moral declamation. Nevertheless I like it. Akenside was an enthusiastic admirer of the ancient republics and of the ancient philosophers -  He thought highly of Lord Shaftesbury's principles & had a bad opinion of Scotsmen. For this last peculiarity, he has been severely caricatured by Smollet[t] in his Peregrine Pickle - under the character of the fantastic English Doctor in Franc[e] - When we mention Shaftesbury - is his book in your pos[s]ession, and can you let me have a reading of it?'"""
"""Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts """"""""Lord of the Isles,"""""""" Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri, (of which a most delectable account is given in the Quarterly), Joanna Southcott, &c &c. I have been revising Akenside, since I saw you. - He pos[s]esses a warm imagination & great strength & beauty of diction. His poem, you know, does not like Campbell's """"""""Hope"""""""" consist of a number of little incidents told in an interesting manner - & selected to illustrate his positions - it is little else than a moral declamation. Nevertheless I like it. Akenside was an enthusiastic admirer of the ancient republics and of the ancient philosophers -  He thought highly of Lord Shaftesbury's principles & had a bad opinion of Scotsmen. For this last peculiarity, he has been severely caricatured by Smollet[t] in his Peregrine Pickle - under the character of the fantastic English Doctor in Franc[e] - When we mention Shaftesbury - is his book in your pos[s]ession, and can you let me have a reading of it?'"""
"""Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts """"""""Lord of the Isles,"""""""" Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri, (of which a most delectable account is given in the Quarterly), Joanna Southcott, &c &c. I have been revising Akenside, since I saw you. - He pos[s]esses a warm imagination & great strength & beauty of diction. His poem, you know, does not like Campbell's """"""""Hope"""""""" consist of a number of little incidents told in an interesting manner - & selected to illustrate his positions - it is little else than a moral declamation. Nevertheless I like it. Akenside was an enthusiastic admirer of the ancient republics and of the ancient philosophers -  He thought highly of Lord Shaftesbury's principles & had a bad opinion of Scotsmen. For this last peculiarity, he has been severely caricatured by Smollet[t] in his Peregrine Pickle - under the character of the fantastic English Doctor in Franc[e] - When we mention Shaftesbury - is his book in your pos[s]ession, and can you let me have a reading of it?'"""
"""[during an encounter with a Madame de Villegard who showed her 'curious old books on the black art'] I read some of the letterpress of the cabalistic books, which indeed appeared to me nonsense. Madame de V[-] looked wise and pleased, because I listened to her, and she said, if I would study any branch of the occult sciences, all her works on these subjects were at my disposal'."""
"""Shelley reads Religio Medici aloud'"""
"""William Wordsworth to John Scott, 14 May 1815: 'Amid the hurry consequent upon a recent arrival, with a view to a short Residence in London - I have found leisure to peruse the volume [Scott's Visit to Paris (1815)] which you have presented to me ... '"""
"""Goldsmiths description of the Appennines is exact - """"""""Woods over Woods in [italics] gay theatric pride [end italics]"""""""". Never was epithet more appropriate to the whole scenery'."""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stael sur la litteratur - to page 113. of the third Vol. of Livy. [end italics]'."""
"""[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stael sur la litteratur - to page 113. of the third Vol. of Livy. [end italics]'."""
"""[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stael sur la litteratur - to page 113. of the third Vol. of Livy. [end italics]'."""
"""In a letter to W[ordsworth] dated 16 April 1815 Lamb remarks: """"""""Since I saw you I have had a treat in the reading way which does not come every day.  The Latin Poems of V. Bourne which were quite new to me.""""""""'"""
"""read a scene or two out of """"""""As You Like It"""""""" - go upstairs to talk with Shelley - Read Ovid (54 lines only) Shelley finishes the 3d canto of Ariosto'."""
"""read a scene or two out of """"""""As You Like It"""""""" - go upstairs to talk with Shelley - Read Ovid (54 lines only) Shelley finishes the 3d canto of Ariosto'."""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 16 March 1815: 'William has made a conquest of holy Hannah [More], though she had not seen the Book [The Excursion], had seen nothing but the extracts in the Edinbrough [sic] Review.  She intends to buy it; but is waiting for a cheaper Edition.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 16 March 1815: 'William has made a conquest of holy Hannah [More], though she had not seen the Book [The Excursion], had seen nothing but the extracts in the Edinbrough [sic] Review.  She intends to buy it; but is waiting for a cheaper Edition.'"""
"""Your late Works, Madam, and in particular Mansfield Park reflect the highest honour on your Genius & your Principles; in every new work your mind seems to increase its energy and powers of discrimination.  The Regent has read & admired all your publications'."""
"""Your late Works, Madam, and in particular Mansfield Park reflect the highest honour on your Genius & your Principles; in every new work your mind seems to increase its energy and powers of discrimination.  The Regent has read & admired all your publications'."""
"""Your late Works, Madam, and in particular Mansfield Park reflect the highest honour on your Genius & your Principles; in every new work your mind seems to increase its energy and powers of discrimination.  The Regent has read & admired all your publications'."""
"""Accept my sincere thanks for the pleasure your Volumes have given me: in the perusal of them I felt a great inclination to write & say so.'"""
"""After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her Read Voltaire's Essay on the Spirit of Nations'."""
"""After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her Read Voltaire's Essay on the Spirit of Nations'."""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'Mary is deep in the 2nd volume of the """"""""Recluse of Norway"""""""" by Miss Porter - there is a wonderful cleverness in this book, and notwithstanding the badness of the style the 1st vol is very interesting.  I began the 2nd last night but could do no more than skim it.'"""
"""[italics to denote Shelley's hand] S. reads Ovid - Medea and the description of the Plague - After tea M. reads Ovid 90 lines - S & C. read Ariosto - 7th Canto. M. reads Voltaire p. 126.'[end italics]"""
"""[italics to denote Shelley's hand] S. reads Ovid - Medea and the description of the Plague - After tea M. reads Ovid 90 lines - S & C. read Ariosto - 7th Canto. M. reads Voltaire p. 126.'[end italics]"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'It is 11 o'clock. William has been reading the Fairy Queen - he has laid aside his Book and Mary has set about putting her nightcap.'"""
"""A friend brought me in the last """"""""Quarterly"""""""" which I looked at tho' but slightly as yet not being able. There are by far too little variety in it though I think some of the articles good - I have always been afraid your Review would lose all character of independance [sic] by the system of one friend reviewing another but I never before thought you would suffer a poet to review himself'."""
"""Byron to unknown author of volume of poems sent to him the previous day, 18 July 1815: 'the satisfaction I experienced from the perusal, made me anxious for the immediate acquaintance and society of the Gentleman, who has so kindly favoured the world with the production of his leisure hours.'"""
"""Hogg reads Gibbon to me - go to Bullocks Museum - see the birds - return at 4 - work and H reads Gibbon aloud (finish 4 volume)'."""
"""During the Napoleonic Wars, Scottish cotton-spinner Charles Campbell earned 8s. to 10s. a week, but set aside a few pennies for a subscription library, where he read history, travels and the English classics. He joined a club of twelve men, mainly artisans and mechanics, who met weekly to discuss literary topics'."""
"""During the Napoleonic Wars, Scottish cotton-spinner Charles Campbell earned 8s. to 10s. a week, but set aside a few pennies for a subscription library, where he read history, travels and the English classics. He joined a club of twelve men, mainly artisans and mechanics, who met weekly to discuss literary topics'."""
"""During the Napoleonic Wars, Scottish cotton-spinner Charles Campbell earned 8s. to 10s. a week, but set aside a few pennies for a subscription library, where he read history, travels and the English classics. He joined a club of twelve men, mainly artisans and mechanics, who met weekly to discuss literary topics'."""
"""I left Ecclefechan on the evening of Tuesday the 19th Decr on the top of the Glasgow Mail.  Little occurred worthy of notice, till on my arrival in Moffatt, I discovered among my fellow travellers, along with three Lancashire cotton men, a pure species of popinjay - of whom all I can now say, is that he was much shocked at seeing [no] """"""""roasbeef fo suppa"""""""" and expressed his grief and surprise by several nondescript interjections; that he was unable to determine whether the fowl on the table was a tame duck or wild, and thereupon """"""""did patiently incline"""""""" to the reasonings of an ancient Scottish gourmand who at length succeeded in settling his mind upon this important subject; and that upon my inquiriing after the news of the paper which he was reading, he informed me that the Aachodoocs had returned to England, and that (this he preluded by three nods of satisfaction) the Prince Regent was gone to Brighton.'"""
"""talk with Hogg - and read Gibbon but very little (30) in the evening work & S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'."""
"""talk with Hogg - and read Gibbon but very little (30) in the evening work & S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'."""
"""read Tales of the castle'"""
"""read Bryan Edwards all evening'"""
"""Took notes from Miss Plumtre. Finished the first volume'"""
"""Southey had certainly read Dubartas by 2 March 1815 ... '"""
"""Activities listed by Byron, bored at wife's family home at Seaham, in letter to Thomas Moore, 2 March 1815, include 'trying to read old Annual Registers and the daily papers ...'"""
"""Activities listed by Byron, bored at wife's family home at Seaham, in letter to Thomas Moore, 2 March 1815, include 'trying to read old Annual Registers and the daily papers ...'"""
"""Shelley reads Voltaire Essai sur des Nations'"""
"""We have got """"""""Rosanne"""""""" in our Society, and find it much as you describe it; very good and clever, but tedious.  Mrs Hawkins' great excellence is on serious subjects.  There are some very delightful conversations and reflections on religion: but on lighter topics I think she falls into many absurdities; and, as to love, her heroine has very comical feelings.  There are a thousand improbabilities in the story. Do you remember the two Miss Ormesdens, introduced just at last? Very flat and unnatural. - Mlle Cossart is rather my passion.'"""
"""We have got """"""""Rosanne"""""""" in our Society, and find it much as you describe it; very good and clever, but tedious.  Mrs Hawkins' great excellence is on serious subjects.  There are some very delightful conversations and reflections on religion: but on lighter topics I think she falls into many absurdities; and, as to love, her heroine has very comical feelings.  There are a thousand improbabilities in the story. Do you remember the two Miss Ormesdens, introduced just at last? Very flat and unnatural. - Mlle Cossart is rather my passion.'"""
"""Shelley reads Livy - he has arrived at vol 3 - Page 307'."""
"""read 3 Canto's of the Lord of the Isles'."""
"""After dinner look over W. W.[ordsworth]'s Poems'."""
"""Byron to the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, 21 December 1815, regarding submission of MS [Bertram] to Drury Lane Theatre: 'Sir -- Mr. Lamb -- (one of my colleagues in the S[ub] Committee) & myself have read your tragedy: -- he agrees with me in thinking it a very extraordinary production ...'"""
"""You were very good to send me Emma - which I have in no respect deserved. It is gone to the Prince Regent.  I have read only a few Pages which I very much admired - there is so much nature - and excellent description of Character in every thing you describe.'"""
"""William Wordsworth to B. R. Haydon, 21 December 1815: 'Have you read the works of the Abbe [Johann Joachim] Winkelman on the study of the Antique, in Painting and Sculpture ... His Works are unknown to me, except a short treatise entitled Reflections concerning the imitation of the Grecian Artists in Painting and Sculpture, in a series of Letters.  A translation of this is all I have read having met with it the other day upon a Stal[l] at Penrith ... This Book of mine was printed at Glasgow 1766.'"""
"""Byron to the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, 21 December 1815, regarding submission of MS [Bertram] to Drury Lane Theatre: 'Sir -- Mr. Lamb -- (one of my colleagues in the S[ub] Committee) & myself have read your tragedy: -- he agrees with me in thinking it a very extraordinary production ...'"""
"""Read some Italian letters of Gallileo's [sic] and Raphael's, more for the names of the writers than the matter of the letters. How dull they are! how many letters written by less extraordinary persons, are ten thousand times more interesting'."""
"""Read some Italian letters of Gallileo's [sic] and Raphael's, more for the names of the writers than the matter of the letters. How dull they are! how many letters written by less extraordinary persons, are ten thousand times more interesting'."""
"""I had a note from Mr Jeffery [sic] on the very day after [Hogg's The Pilgrims of the Sun] was published who is not going to review it till he get another to join with it which makes me think it is no peculiar favourite with him, I copy his own words from the note he sent which was an invitation to sup """"""""I have run slightly over your new published poem - It unquestionably shows great powers of imagination and composition but I am afraid it is too [italics] stretchy [end italics] and desultory - the public estimation of your powers will lose nothing by it of your judgement it may but of this we shall have a long crack"""""""".'"""
"""The best book I have read, since I wrote you, is Hume's """"""""Essays, political and literary"""""""". It is indeed a most ingenious production - characterised by acuteness and originality, in all its parts. I have not room to tell you where I agree with its Author, and where I differ; nor how highly I admire his reasoning powers. What pity that he is a Deist! How much might his strong talents have accomplished in the cause of truth, when they did so much in that of error! It is indeed melancholy to behold so many men of talent, in our times all leaning to the same side - but I am much inclined to believe, that the reign of infidelity is past its height.'"""
"""I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. """"""""Blair"""""""" is an excellent piece - and very cheap. I am only sorry you sent it at all: I was in no particular want of it & you ought certainly to have done with the money whatever your situation required. -  One is apt to be put about, when obliged to equip for such an expedition as yours. - The Italian grammar is hardly calculated for me - but answers in the mean time. The Novelle morale is an excellent book for the purpose'."""
"""I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. """"""""Blair"""""""" is an excellent piece - and very cheap. I am only sorry you sent it at all: I was in no particular want of it & you ought certainly to have done with the money whatever your situation required. -  One is apt to be put about, when obliged to equip for such an expedition as yours. - The Italian grammar is hardly calculated for me - but answers in the mean time. The Novelle morale is an excellent book for the purpose'."""
"""I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. """"""""Blair"""""""" is an excellent piece - and very cheap. I am only sorry you sent it at all: I was in no particular want of it & you ought certainly to have done with the money whatever your situation required. -  One is apt to be put about, when obliged to equip for such an expedition as yours. - The Italian grammar is hardly calculated for me - but answers in the mean time. The Novelle morale is an excellent book for the purpose'."""
"""Shelley reads Livy and then reads Gibbon with me till dinner'."""
"""Recorded in Joseph Farington's diary, '[On 21 May] Sir George [Beaumont] mentioned the high encomiums for Wordsworth's """"""""Excursion"""""""" in the Eclectic Review.  Wordsworth had seen it, and could not but be pleased with the sentiments expressed in it.""""""""'"""
"""Your official opinion of the Merits of """"""""Emma"""""""", is very valuable & satisfactory.'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 22 June 1815: 'All the details that one hears of the victory of the 18th [June, at Waterloo] show that it was one of the most sanguinary battles that ever took place [...] I went to Lord Palmerston's, where I saw the """"""""Gazette,"""""""" and examined the large map of the country with Fanny Temple [Palmerston's sister].'"""
"""Talk and read the papers'"""
"""After dinner read Hermsprong'"""
"""Letter from Sedgwick to William Ainger dated 22/5/1815 says the former is reading Beasobre, and 'the task is a confounded dry one'."""
"""Byron to Leigh Hunt, 22 October 1815: 'My dear Hunt -- You have excelled yourself - if not all your Contemporaries in the Canto which I have just finished ...'"""
"""Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations'."""
"""Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations (203)'."""
"""Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations'."""
"""Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations'."""
"""I have likewise read """"""""Gil Blas"""""""", with unbounded admiration of the abilities of Le Sage.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 23 December 1815: 'We have now nine sheets of the journal [by Captain Luff re time in Mauritius] - I do not intend to read it until we have the whole, yet I have looked at and been detained by many parts and carried away, until the lively recollection of our dear Friend ... became so painful that I stopped ... '  """
"""read le diable boiteux [...] in the evening read le diable boiteux and play at chess'."""
"""[italics]'S. finishes the 2d vol of Livy 1657 page... S. unwell and exhausted' [end italics]"""
"""[Carlyle tells how he was trying to write a learned exegesis and came to a dead halt] 'One cannot long be idle - you will not wonder that I took up the first book that came in my way - and tho' it was the dullest of all dull books, yet by a fatality attendant on those things, I could not give it up. It purported to be a """"""""history of a lover"""""""" - showing how Cecilia (somebody) being poor but honest went to Paris, with some Brandy Irish Dowager (of Tipperary) and was much astounded at their goings on - yet very much liked by the beaux. Shewing how after divers trials and temptations she married with a lord (something) who had been a very great rascal in his early days but was now become a most delectable personage; how the[y] lived in great harmony of souls till the honest man one day riding on som[e] wold and happening to fall from his beast in the presence of this notable lady, she fell into hystericks or convulsions and was taken home in a wo[e]ful plight - where she loitered on till she was """"""""brought to bed"""""""", when she took her leave of the good man and all the world - Would you believe me, I read & read this horrid story & might have been reading yet had not a most dolorous ode to Matrimonial - no """"""""Monody on the Death of a beloved"""""""" &c compelled me to throw past the book; and set to writing you a letter.' """
"""Mathematics, I have absolutely never thought on - excepting some trifles from the Ladies' and Gentleman's diary - which I shall have conscience enough not to trouble you with at present."""
"""The first article in the last Quarterly review is [on] Stewart's second volume. The wise men of London are earnest in their censures of """"""""the metaphysical heresies"""""""" of their northern neighbours: and notwithstanding the high admiration they pay to Stewarts talents, the[y] differ from him in almost all his results - because they disbelieve his principles - the """"""""first principles"""""""" of Dr. Reid. Their opinion (and they give no reasons), on a point of this nature, is of little consequence. All the prejudices natural to Englishmen, they entertain in their full extent - and always modify their decisions accordingly[.] For my part, tho' far be it from me to attempt to disparage or vilipend this great man - I cannot help thinking, that, the perusal of his book has done me hurt. Perpetually talking about analysing perceptions, & retiring within ones self, & mighty improvements that we are to make?no one knows how, - I believe, he will generally leave the mind of his reader?crowded with disjointed notions & nondescript ideas - which the sooner he gets rid of, the better. I know you think differently; but de gustibus non est disputandum [concerning taste it is needless to dispute, ed. note]; and very probably, the fault is not with the Author - but his subject'."""
"""""""""""Guy Mannering"""""""" is reviewed in the same number [ of the Quarterly Review]. Tho' we have still more reason to question their competency here - you will probably admit that """"""""the Dutch boors of Mannering tho' never so well painted, must cause a different class of sensations from those excited by the Salvator banditti of Waverl[e]y."""""""" - Yet the only extract they give (the departure of the gypsies, and Meg Merrilies' address to Ellangowan) is very much in the Salvator stile.'"""
"""I am glad you saw Lara; and am indebted for your account of it. I read the review of it in the Quarterly review?some time ago.' [there follow Carlyle's observations on Mitchell's account of the plot; apparently Carlyle has not yet read the poem]"""
"""We talk of Waverly [sic] and Guy Mannering: Lady Jersey sent me the former [italics] as yours [end italics]. I vote with the Multitude, yet some pretend to know more & talk of revisals & amendments. I have a private Reason for my Opinion viz. my own Vanity. who but a friend would haved quoted me so often & once in a peculiar Manner? - I ask no Question! I ought not but I tell you what we say & think. Waverley may be best but Guy is most entertaining.'"""
"""We talk of Waverly [sic] and Guy Mannering: Lady Jersey sent me the former [italics] as yours [end italics]. I vote with the Multitude, yet some pretend to know more & talk of revisals & amendments. I have a private Reason for my Opinion viz. my own Vanity. who but a friend would haved quoted me so often & once in a peculiar Manner? - I ask no Question! I ought not but I tell you what we say & think. Waverley may be best but Guy is most entertaining.'"""
"""read Corinne (42)'."""
"""Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 26 January 1815: 'Your packet hath been perused ...'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 26 July 1815: 'I only went out for a short time to read the papers, in which is Captain Maitland's letter, announcing the arrival of Napoleon Bonaparte upon his vessel at Torbay.'"""
"""I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollection of me, which will procure me the pleasure of her acquaintance some days sooner than I shd otherwise have had it. - I am already become intimate in the Woodhouse family, & feel that they will not amuse & interest me less than the Bennetts, Bertrams, Norriss & all their admirable predecessors - I [italics] can [end italics] give them no higher praise.'"""
"""I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollection of me, which will procure me the pleasure of her acquaintance some days sooner than I shd otherwise have had it. - I am already become intimate in the Woodhouse family, & feel that they will not amuse & interest me less than the Bennetts, Bertrams, Norriss & all their admirable predecessors - I [italics] can [end italics] give them no higher praise.'"""
"""I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollection of me, which will procure me the pleasure of her acquaintance some days sooner than I shd otherwise have had it. - I am already become intimate in the Woodhouse family, & feel that they will not amuse & interest me less than the Bennetts, Bertrams, Norriss & all their admirable predecessors - I [italics]can [end italics] give them no higher praise.'"""
"""I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollection of me, which will procure me the pleasure of her acquaintance some days sooner than I shd otherwise have had it. - I am already become intimate in the Woodhouse family, & feel that they will not amuse & interest me less than the Bennetts, Bertrams, Norriss & all their admirable predecessors - I [italics] can [end italics] give them no higher praise.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Priscilla Wordsworth, 27 February 1815: 'The day before yesterday Miss Alne dined with us, and from her we learned that Chris[topher Wordsworth]'s sermons were just arrived at Brathay, so William walked to B. with Miss A. and borrowed one volume - It is the second.  William and Mary have read several of the sermons and are very much delighted with them ... '"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Priscilla Wordsworth, 27 February 1815: 'The day before yesterday Miss Alne dined with us, and from her we learned that Chris[topher Wordsworth]'s sermons were just arrived at Brathay, so William walked to B. with Miss A. and borrowed one volume - It is the second.  William and Mary have read several of the sermons and are very much delighted with them ... '"""
"""Rise - talk and read Corinne' / 'nurse the baby and read Corinne'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 28 June 1815, on learning of abdication of Napoleon: '11 o'clock.  Before I go to bed I must tell you that, saving grief for the lamentable loss of so many brave men, I have read the newspapers of to-night with unmingled triumph ... '"""
"""In the evening S[helley] C[lary] and H[ogg] sleep - read Gibbon'"""
"""of all the generations who have praised Madame de Sevigne, and commended her writings, I am certain no one has ever entered more completely into the sentiment of her delightful letters than myself. It is melancholy that no similar instance of so perfect a love between parent and child has since been upon record'."""
"""S reads Gibbon aloud to me (160) - Weeks calls - Hogg comes - work - S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'."""
"""S reads Gibbon aloud to me (160) - Weeks calls - Hogg comes - work - S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'."""
"""read talk and nurse - S reads the life of Chauser'."""
"""I entirely deprecate your opinion concerning Manwaring [sic--Mannering] or sooner the opinion you had borrowed for I am convinced if you had read it through or even half you would have admired it excessively--I judge by myself who never can get over ten pages of any Book[--]yesterday--I finished it--I liked it better than I did Waverly [sic] --the story is better told the Hero more interesting the Gypsies delightful the Characters very well drawn indeed--all good in short except the love & the Ladies which are flippant & vulgar as is the Fashion now'."""
"""I entirely deprecate your opinion concerning Manwaring [sic--Mannering] or sooner the opinion you had borrowed for I am convinced if you had read it through or even half you would have admired it excessively--I judge by myself who never can get over ten pages of any Book[--]yesterday--I finished it--I liked it better than I did Waverly [sic]--the story is better told the Hero more interesting the Gypsies delightful the Characters very well drawn indeed--all good in short except the love & the Ladies which are flippant & vulgar as is the Fashion now'."""
"""Many a dull thing goes down by a puff--& all in all is fame Witness the Hebrew Melodies which I have though you did not send them me--they are not worthy of him--trust one who can appreciate his Genius they are very common place lowly performances'."""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 31 December 1815: 'In reading the 3rd Book of the Excursion last night what a pang did I feel for our poor widowed Friend Mrs Luff when I came to these lines  """"""""Oh never let the Wretched, if a choice / Be left him, trust the freight of his distress / To a long voyage on the silent deep! ... """"""""'"""
"""S. reads Livy - talk - in the evening S. read[s] Paradise Regained alloud and then goes to sleep'."""
"""S. reads Livy - talk - in the evening S. read[s] Paradise Regained alloud and then goes to sleep'."""
"""During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a great number of pieces of dramatic biography and theatrical criticisms.'"""
"""During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a great number of pieces of dramatic biography, and theatrical criticisms."""
"""During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a great number of pieces of dramatic biography, and theatrical criticisms."""
"""During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a great number of pieces of dramatic biography, and theatrical criticisms."""
"""During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a great number of pieces of dramatic biography, and theatrical criticisms."""
"""During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a great number of pieces of dramatic biography, and theatrical criticisms."""
"""I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solitary Perusal and came boasting, at the End of the first Book of the Discovery he made there in those admirable Verses but he soon found that he had no peculiar Discernment.'"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solitary Perusal and came boasting, at the End of the first Book of the Discovery he made there in those admirable Verses but he soon found that he had no peculiar Discernment.'"""
"""""""""""Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scott's 'Lord of the Isles,' Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri (of which a most delectable account in the Quarterly), Joanne Southcott, &c &c""""""""."""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""It occurred to me; much about the same time that it would be proper to study Stewart's Essays, Berkel[e]y's principes of knowledge, Rumfords Essays, Newton ['s] Institutes, Simpson's Fluxions &c &c - If to these overpowering engagements you add the numberless fits of indolence - and the perpetual visitations of spleen, to which one is subjected in this dirty little uncomfortable planet of ours - I presume you will have a sufficient excuse for my silence; and will rather wonder indeed that you have heard from me at all.'"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""But the book I am most pleased with is 'cicero de Finibus' - not that there is much new discussion in it, but his manner is so easy and elegant; and, besides, there is such a charm connected with attending to the feelings and principles of a man over whom the 'tide of years has rolled.'  We are entertained even with a common sentiment; and when we meet with a truth which we ourselves had previously discovered, we are delighted with the idea that our minds are similar to that of the venerable Roman."""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""[Marginalia]"
"""We certainly do not think it as a [italics] whole [end italics], equal to P. & P. - but it has many & great beauties.  Fanny is a delightful Chracter! and Aunt Norris is a great favourite of mine.  The Characters are natural & well supported, & many of the Dialogues excellent. - You need not fear the publication being considered as discreditable to it's [sic] author'."""
"""Not so clever as P.&P. - but pleased with it altogether.  Liked the character of Fanny.  Admired the Portsmouth Scene.' - Mr K."""
"""Edward & George. - Not liked it near so well as P.& P. - Edward admired Fanny - George disliked her. - George interested by nobody but Mary Crawford. - Edward pleased with Henry C. - Edmund objected to, as cold & formal. - Henry C.'s going off with Mrs R. - at such a time, when so much in love with Fanny, thought unnatural by Edward.'"""
"""Mrs James Austen, very much pleased.  Enjoyed Mrs Norris particularly, & the scene at Portsmouth.  Thought Henry Crawford's going off with Mrs Rushworth, very natural.'"""
"""Miss Clewes's objections [to Mansfield Park] much the same as Fanny's [Fanny Knight]'."""
"""Cassandra - thought it quite as clever, tho' not so brilliant as P. & P. - Fond of Fanny.  - Delighted much in Mr Rushworth's stupidity.'"""
"""My Eldest Brother -  a warm admirer of it in general.  - Delighted with the Portsmouth scene.'"""
"""Mr B.L. - Highly pleased with Fanny Price - & a warm admirer of the Portsmouth Scene.  - Angry with Edmund for not being in love with her, & hating Mrs Norris for teazing her'."""
"""Mr & Mrs Cooke - very much pleased with it - particularly with the Manner in which the Clergy are treated. - Mr Cooke called it """"""""the most sensible Novel he had ever read.""""""""  - Mrs Cooke wished for a good Matronly character.'"""
"""Mr & Mrs Cooke - very much pleased with it - particularly with the Manner in which the Clergy are treated. - Mr Cooke called it """"""""the most sensible Novel he had ever read.""""""""  - Mrs Cooke wished for a good Matronly character.'"""
"""Mary Cooke - quite as much pleased with it, as her Father & Mother; seemed to enter into Lady B.'s character, & enjoyed Mr Rushworth's folly.  Admired Fanny in general, but thought she ought to have been more determined on overcoming her own feelings, when she saw Edmund's attachment to Miss Crawford.'"""
"""Miss Burrel - admired it very much - particularly Mrs Norris & Dr Grant.'"""
"""Mrs Bramstone - much pleased with it; particularly with the character of Fanny, as being so very natural.  Thought Lady Bertram like herself.  Preferred it to either of the others [Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility] - but imagined that might be her want of Taste - as she does not understand Wit'."""
"""Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense, but expected to like M.P. better, & having finished the 1st vol. - flattered herself that she had got through the worst.'"""
"""The families at Deane - all pleased with it.  Mrs Anna Harwood delighted with Mrs Norris & the green curtain.'"""
"""Mr Egerton the Publisher - praised it for it's [sic] Morality, & for being so equal a Composition. - No weak parts.'"""
"""Mrs Carrick. - """"""""All who think deeply and feel much will give the Preference to Mansfield Park.""""""""'"""
"""Mr J. Plumptre. - """"""""I never read a novel which interested me so very much throughout, the characters are all so remarkably well kept up & so well drawn, & the plot is so well contrived that I had not an idea till the end which of the two wd marry Fanny, H.C. or Edmd.  Mrs Norris amused me particularly, & Sir Thos. is very clever, & his conduct proves admirably the defects of the modern system of Education.""""""""  Mr J.P. made two objections, but only one of them was remembered, the want of some character more striking & interesting to the generality of Readers, than Fanny was likely to be.'"""
"""Sir James Langham & Mr Sanford, having been told that it was much inferior to P.& P. - began it expecting to dislike it, but were very soon extremely pleased with it - & I beleive [sic], did not think it at all inferior.'"""
"""Sir James Langham & Mr Sanford, having been told that it was much inferior to P.& P. - began it expecting to dislike it, but were very soon extremely pleased with it - & I beleive [sic], did not think it at all inferior.'"""
"""Charles - did not like it near so well as P. & P. - thought it wanted Incident.'"""
"""Mrs Dickson. - """"""""I have bought M.P. - but it is not equal to P. & P.'"""
"""Mrs Portal - admired it very much - objected cheifly [sic] to Edmund's not being brought more forward'."""
"""Lady Gordon wrote """"""""In most novels you are amused for the time with a set of Ideal People whom you never think of afterwards or whom you in the least expect to meet in common life, whereas in Miss A-s works, & especially in M.P. you actually [italics] live [end italics] with them, you fancy yourself one of the family; & the scenes are so exactly descriptive, so perfectly natural, that there is scarcely an Incident or conversation, or a person that you are not inclined to imagine you have at one time or other in your Life been a witness to, born a part in, & been acquainted with.""""""""'"""
"""Mrs Pole wrote, """"""""There is a particular satisfaction in reading all Miss A-s works - they are so evidently written by a Gentlewoman - most Novellists [sic] fail & betray themselves in attempting to describe familiar scenes in high Life, some little vulgarism escapes & shews that they are not experimentally acquainted with what they describe, but here it is quite different.  Everything is natural, & the situations & incidents are told in a manner which clearly evinces the Writer to [italics] belong [end italics] to the Society whose Manners she so ably delineates.""""""""  Mrs Pole also said that no Books had ever occasioned so much canvassing & doubt, & that everybody was desirous to attribute them to some of their own friends, or to some person of whom they thought highly.'"""
"""Adml Foote - surprised that I had the power of drawing the Portsmouth-Scenes so well.'"""
"""Mrs Creed - preferred S & S and P & P. - to Mansfield Park.'"""
"""We certainly do not think it [""""""""Mansfield Park""""""""] as a whole equal to P & P - but it has many & great beauties...'"""
"""[""""""""Mansfield Park"""""""" is] 'Not so clever as P & P - but pleased with it altogether' - Mr K."""
"""Edward & George. - Not liked it [""""""""Mansfield Park""""""""] near so well as P. & P.'"""
"""Anna liked it [""""""""Mansfield Park""""""""] better than P & P - but not so well as S & S - could not bear Fanny'"""
"""Anna liked it [""""""""Mansfield Park""""""""] better than P & P - but not so well as S & S - could not bear Fanny'"""
"""Cassandra - thought it quite as clever, tho' not so brilliant as P. & P.'"""
"""Miss Burdett - Did not like it [""""""""Mansfield Park""""""""] so well as P. & P.'"""
"""Mrs James Tilson - Liked it [""""""""Mansfield Park""""""""] better than P. & P.'"""
"""Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense.'"""
"""Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense.'"""
"""Charles - did not like it [""""""""Mansfield Park""""""""] near so well as P. & P. - thought it wanted Incident.'"""
"""Mrs Dickson. - """"""""I have bought M P. - but it is not equal to P. & P.'"""
"""Mrs Creed - preferred S & S and P & P. - to Mansfield Park.'"""
"""[George Goldie] earnestly requested to see my MS. I gave it to him with reluctance, being predetermined to have nothing to do with him. He had not, however, well looked into the work till he thought he perceived something above common-place; and, when I next saw him, he was intent on being publisher of the work, offering me as much as Mr Constable, and all the subscribers to myself over and above'."""
"""Edward & George. - Not liked it near so well as P.& P. - Edward admired Fanny - George disliked her. - George interested by nobody but Mary Crawford. - Edward pleased with Henry C. - Edmund objected to, as cold & formal. - Henry C.'s going off with Mrs R. - at such a time, when so much in love with Fanny, thought unnatural by Edward.'"""
"""Fanny Knight. - Liked it, in many parts, very much indeed, delighted with Fanny; - but not satisfied with the end - wanting more Love between her & Edmund - & could not think it natural that Edmd. shd. be so much attached to a woman without Principle like Mary C. - or promote Fanny's marrying Henry'."""
"""Anna liked it better than P.& P. - but not so well as S.&S. - could not bear Fanny. - Delighted with Mrs Norris, the scene at Portsmouth, & all the humourous [sic] parts.'"""
"""Miss Lloyd preferred it altogether to either of the others [Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility].  - Delighted with Fanny.  - Hated Mrs Norris'."""
"""My Mother - not liked it so well as P. & P. - Thought Fanny insipid.  Enjoyed Mrs. Norris.'"""
"""Edward - Much like his Father. - Objected to Mrs Rushworth's Elopement as unnatural'."""
"""The Kintbury Family - very much pleased with it; - preferred it to either of the others.'"""
"""Lady Rob: Kerr wrote - """"""""You may be assured I read every line with the greatest interest & am more delighted with it than my humble pen can express.  The excellent delineation of Character, sound sense, Elegant Language & the pure morality with which it abounds, makes it a most desirable as well as useful work, & reflects the highest honour &c. &c. Universally admired in Edinburgh, by all the [italics] wise ones [end italics]. - Indeed, I have not heard a single fault given to it.""""""""'"""
"""Miss Sharpe - """"""""I think it is excellent - & of it's [sic] good sense & moral Tendency there can be no doubt. - Your Characters are drawn to the Life - so [italics] very very [end italics] natural & just - but as you beg me to be perfectly honest, I must confess I prefer P. & P.""""""""' """
"""Alethea Bigg. - """"""""I have read M.P. & heard it very much talked of, very much praised.  I like it myself & think it very good indeed, but as I never say what I do not think, I will add that although it is superior in a great many points in my opinion to the other two Works [Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice], I think it has not the Spirit of P & P., except perhaps the Price family at Portsmouth, & they are delightful in their way.'"""
"""Edward & George. - Not liked it [""""""""Mansfield Park""""""""] near so well as P. & P.'"""
"""Miss Lloyd preferred it [""""""""Mansfield Park""""""""] altogether to either of the others'. [""""""""Pride and Prejudice"""""""" and """"""""Sense and Sensibility""""""""]"""
"""Miss Lloyd preferred it [""""""""Mansfield Park""""""""] altogether to either of the others'. [""""""""Pride and Prejudice"""""""" and """"""""Sense and Sensibility""""""""]"""
"""My Mother - not liked it """"""""[Mansfield Park""""""""] so well as P. & P.'"""
"""Fanny Cage - did not much like it [""""""""Mansfield Park""""""""] - not to be compared with P. & P.'"""
"""The Kintbury Family - very much pleased with it [""""""""Mansfield Park""""""""]; preferred it to either of the others.'"""
"""The Kintbury Family - very much pleased with it [""""""""Mansfield Park""""""""]; preferred it to either of the others.'"""
"""Miss Sharpe - """"""""I think it """"""""Mansfield Park""""""""] excellent... but since you beg me to be perfectly honest, I must confess I prefer P & P.'"""
"""I have read M P[""""""""Mansfield Park""""""""]... I will add that although it is superior in a great many points in my opinions to the other two Works, I think it has not the Spirit of P & P.'"""
"""I have read M P [""""""""Mansfield Park""""""""]... I will add that although it is superior in a great many points in my opinions to the other two Works, I think it has not the Spirit of P & P.'"""
"""Mrs Lefroy - liked it, but thought it a mere Novel.'"""
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"""I cried over Meg Merrilies when she met Brown again--at a little Inn at Cumberland & my tears are not apt to flow'."""
"""""""""""She walks in beauty like the night,"""""""" for example--if Mr. Twiss had written it how we should have laughed! Now we can only weep to see how little just judgement there is on earth, for I make no doubt the name of Byron will give even these lines a grace.  I who read his loftier lay with transport will not admire his flaws and nonsense. You will say it is only a song, yet a song should have sense'."""
"""?There are good characters I think in Guy [Mannering] ? the Scotch Lawyer ? the Farmer ? [...] the Gipsies[sic] & Brown himself as a Modern Tom Jones ? It certainly cannot be called a bad novel it is written by a clever man ? a man who knows human nature & has looked as closely as Claude Lauraine on views of skies & water & rocks ? but there is not much genius there as there was in Waverly'"""
"""?There are good characters I think in Guy [Mannering] ? the Scotch Lawyer ? the Farmer ? [...] the Gipsies[sic] & Brown himself as a Modern Tom Jones ? It certainly cannot be called a bad novel it is written by a clever man ? a man who knows human nature & has looked as closely as Claude Lauraine on views of skies & water & rocks ? but there is not much genius there as there was in Waverly [sic]'"""
"""?[N]ow that the Newspaper is so interesting it is difficult to read at all'"""
"""Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been reading in the yesterday's newspaper. I read this at a coffee shop, where I took an early breakfast on my way to work. These shops were but just then becoming general... The shop I selected was near the bottom of Oxford Street. It was in the direct path by which I made my way to work... The papers I generally preferred to read were the """"""""British Press"""""""", the """"""""Morning Chronicle"""""""", and the """"""""Statesman"""""""". I usually contrived to run over the Parliamentary debates and the foreign news, together with the leading articles. ...My shopmates were much pleased at the extent and variety of the intelligence which I was able to give them about public affairs, and they were the more pleased because I often told them about the contents of Mr. Cobbett's """"""""Political Register"""""""", as they were warm admirers of that clever and very intelligible writer.'"""
"""Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been reading in the yesterday's newspaper. I read this at a coffee shop, where I took an early breakfast on my way to work. These shops were but just then becoming general... The shop I selected was near the bottom of Oxford Street. It was in the direct path by which I made my way to work... The papers I generally preferred to read were the """"""""British Press"""""""", the """"""""Morning Chronicle"""""""", and the """"""""Statesman"""""""". I usually contrived to run over the Parliamentary debates and the foreign news, together with the leading articles. ...My shopmates were much pleased at the extent and variety of the intelligence which I was able to give them about public affairs, and they were the more pleased because I often told them about the contents of Mr. Cobbett's """"""""Political Register"""""""", as they were warm admirers of that clever and very intelligible writer.'"""
"""Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been reading in the yesterday's newspaper. I read this at a coffee shop, where I took an early breakfast on my way to work. These shops were but just then becoming general... The shop I selected was near the bottom of Oxford Street. It was in the direct path by which I made my way to work... The papers I generally preferred to read were the """"""""British Press"""""""", the """"""""Morning Chronicle"""""""", and the """"""""Statesman"""""""". I usually contrived to run over the Parliamentary debates and the foreign news, together with the leading articles. ...My shopmates were much pleased at the extent and variety of the intelligence which I was able to give them about public affairs, and they were the more pleased because I often told them about the contents of Mr. Cobbett's """"""""Political Register"""""""", as they were warm admirers of that clever and very intelligible writer.'"""
"""Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been reading in the yesterday's newspaper. I read this at a coffee shop, where I took an early breakfast on my way to work. These shops were but just then becoming general... The shop I selected was near the bottom of Oxford Street. It was in the direct path by which I made my way to work... The papers I generally preferred to read were the """"""""British Press"""""""", the """"""""Morning Chronicle"""""""", and the """"""""Statesman"""""""". I usually contrived to run over the Parliamentary debates and the foreign news, together with the leading articles. ...My shopmates were much pleased at the extent and variety of the intelligence which I was able to give them about public affairs, and they were the more pleased because I often told them about the contents of Mr. Cobbett's """"""""Political Register"""""""", as they were warm admirers of that clever and very intelligible writer.' """
"""I also had some good opportunities for borrowing books; and thus read that very interesting quarto volume, Mr Park's """"""""Travels in Africa"""""""". I also read Mr Colquhoun's large treatise on the """"""""Police of the Metropolis"""""""" from which I gleaned much information and amusement.'"""
"""For my private and sole use, seeing that my friends had no taste for poetry, I bought Mr. Pye's translation of Horace, and was well pleased with my purchase; for I found the old """"""""Roman poet"""""""" to be a very lively and shrewd companion. I also ventured to spend a guinea in the purchase of """"""""Kirke White's Remains"""""""": a large sum for one like myself to spend at one time in buying books; yet I had good reason to be satisfied; for the work was useful to me in the way of strengthening and confirming my habits of reading and observation.' """
"""For my private and sole use, seeing that my friends had no taste for poetry, I bought Mr. Pye's translation of Horace, and was well pleased with my purchase; for I found the old """"""""Roman poet"""""""" to be a very lively and shrewd companion. I also ventured to spend a guinea in the purchase of """"""""Kirke White's Remains"""""""": a large sum for one like myself to spend at one time in buying books; yet I had good reason to be satisfied; for the work was useful to me in the way of strengthening and confirming my habits of reading and observation.' """
"""I also had some good opportunities for borrowing books; and thus read that very interesting quarto volume, Mr Park's """"""""Travels in Africa"""""""". I also read Mr Colquhoun's large treatise on the """"""""Police of the Metropolis"""""""" from which I gleaned much information and amusement.'"""
"""Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso;  and it failed utterly [...] Not long after he was gone, I read both pieces in the nursery, one day; and straightway went into a transport, as if I had discovered myself in possession of a new sense.'"""
"""Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso;  and it failed utterly [...] Not long after he was gone, I read both pieces in the nursery, one day; and straightway went into a transport, as if I had discovered myself in possession of a new sense.'"""
"""The """"""""Edinburgh Review"""""""" will have praised """"""""Waverley"""""""" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the return of W. to the Barons, and the conduct of the poor innocent David Gellatley. Surely there is no doubt but that Walter Scott is the principal Author of it. The learned here do not affect to speak of it as belonging to anyone else -- I read """"""""The Lord of the Isles"""""""" last night it being lent me for the Evening. There is some beautiful description indeed in it, particlarly to my fancy a barren scene in one of the Isles. I own I expected more from the two opening cantos than I afterwards found, and on the whole was disappointed. The story of the Page is so hackneyd, and there is nothing to redeem it but a greater power of holding the tongue than is commonly given to Women, and, as in every thing Walter Scott writes one can never feel great interest for the Lover, which one certainly ought to do, Malcolm Graeme in the """"""""Lady of the Lake"""""""", """"""""Waverley"""""""", and the Lover in """"""""Marmion"""""""", and now Ronald, altho' I expected a great deal from him from the opening. I am however in love with the description of Robert Bruce, I think it beautiful. It is very presumptuous in me thus to give my opinion, [particularly as I have this morning heard that Sir James Mackintosh says it is by far the best thing Walter Scott has done, but then he is puffer general particularly to Scotsmen.] ' [Words inside brackets crossed out in original]"""
"""The """"""""Edinburgh Review"""""""" will have praised """"""""Waverley"""""""" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the return of W. to the Barons, and the conduct of the poor innocent David Gellatley. Surely there is no doubt but that Walter Scott is the principal Author of it. The learned here do not affect to speak of it as belonging to anyone else -- I read """"""""The Lord of the Isles"""""""" last night it being lent me for the Evening. There is some beautiful description indeed in it, particlarly to my fancy a barren scene in one of the Isles. I own I expected more from the two opening cantos than I afterwards found, and on the whole was disappointed. The story of the Page is so hackneyd, and there is nothing to redeem it but a greater power of holding the tongue than is commonly given to Women, and, as in every thing Walter Scott writes one can never feel great interest for the Lover, which one certainly ought to do, Malcolm Graeme in the """"""""Lady of the Lake"""""""", """"""""Waverley"""""""", and the Lover in """"""""Marmion"""""""", and now Ronald, altho' I expected a great deal from him from the opening. I am however in love with the description of Robert Bruce, I think it beautiful. It is very presumptuous in me thus to give my opinion, [particularly as I have this morning heard that Sir James Mackintosh says it is by far the best thing Walter Scott has done, but then he is puffer general particularly to Scotsmen.] ' [Words inside brackets crossed out in original]"""
"""The """"""""Edinburgh Review"""""""" will have praised """"""""Waverley"""""""" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the return of W. to the Barons, and the conduct of the poor innocent David Gellatley. Surely there is no doubt but that Walter Scott is the principal Author of it. The learned here do not affect to speak of it as belonging to anyone else -- I read """"""""The Lord of the Isles"""""""" last night it being lent me for the Evening. There is some beautiful description indeed in it, particlarly to my fancy a barren scene in one of the Isles. I own I expected more from the two opening cantos than I afterwards found, and on the whole was disappointed. The story of the Page is so hackneyd, and there is nothing to redeem it but a greater power of holding the tongue than is commonly given to Women, and, as in every thing Walter Scott writes one can never feel great interest for the Lover, which one certainly ought to do, Malcolm Graeme in the """"""""Lady of the Lake"""""""", """"""""Waverley"""""""", and the Lover in """"""""Marmion"""""""", and now Ronald, altho' I expected a great deal from him from the opening. I am however in love with the description of Robert Bruce, I think it beautiful. It is very presumptuous in me thus to give my opinion, [particularly as I have this morning heard that Sir James Mackintosh says it is by far the best thing Walter Scott has done, but then he is puffer general particularly to Scotsmen.] ' [Words inside brackets crossed out in original]"""
"""The """"""""Edinburgh Review"""""""" will have praised """"""""Waverley"""""""" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the return of W. to the Barons, and the conduct of the poor innocent David Gellatley. Surely there is no doubt but that Walter Scott is the principal Author of it. The learned here do not affect to speak of it as belonging to anyone else -- I read """"""""The Lord of the Isles"""""""" last night it being lent me for the Evening. There is some beautiful description indeed in it, particlarly to my fancy a barren scene in one of the Isles. I own I expected more from the two opening cantos than I afterwards found, and on the whole was disappointed. The story of the Page is so hackneyd, and there is nothing to redeem it but a greater power of holding the tongue than is commonly given to Women, and, as in every thing Walter Scott writes one can never feel great interest for the Lover, which one certainly ought to do, Malcolm Graeme in the """"""""Lady of the Lake"""""""", """"""""Waverley"""""""", and the Lover in """"""""Marmion"""""""", and now Ronald, altho' I expected a great deal from him from the opening. I am however in love with the description of Robert Bruce, I think it beautiful. It is very presumptuous in me thus to give my opinion, [particularly as I have this morning heard that Sir James Mackintosh says it is by far the best thing Walter Scott has done, but then he is puffer general particularly to Scotsmen.] ' [Words inside brackets crossed out in original]"""
"""The """"""""Edinburgh Review"""""""" will have praised """"""""Waverley"""""""" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the return of W. to the Barons, and the conduct of the poor innocent David Gellatley. Surely there is no doubt but that Walter Scott is the principal Author of it. The learned here do not affect to speak of it as belonging to anyone else -- I read """"""""The Lord of the Isles"""""""" last night it being lent me for the Evening. There is some beautiful description indeed in it, particlarly to my fancy a barren scene in one of the Isles. I own I expected more from the two opening cantos than I afterwards found, and on the whole was disappointed. The story of the Page is so hackneyd, and there is nothing to redeem it but a greater power of holding the tongue than is commonly given to Women, and, as in every thing Walter Scott writes one can never feel great interest for the Lover, which one certainly ought to do, Malcolm Graeme in the """"""""Lady of the Lake"""""""", """"""""Waverley"""""""", and the Lover in """"""""Marmion"""""""", and now Ronald, altho' I expected a great deal from him from the opening. I am however in love with the description of Robert Bruce, I think it beautiful. It is very presumptuous in me thus to give my opinion, [particularly as I have this morning heard that Sir James Mackintosh says it is by far the best thing Walter Scott has done, but then he is puffer general particularly to Scotsmen.] ' [Words inside brackets crossed out in original]"""
""" have not yet seen him [Sir James Mackintosh], but I hear that he has read or has heard some chapters of """"""""L'Angleterre"""""""". He says it is full of talent, but that there are some strange mistakes as to English Manners; but that a dinner at Lord Grey's is very well described'."""
"""The """"""""Edinburgh Review"""""""" will have praised """"""""Waverley"""""""" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the return of W. to the Barons, and the conduct of the poor innocent David Gellatley. Surely there is no doubt but that Walter Scott is the principal Author of it. The learned here do not affect to speak of it as belonging to anyone else -- I read """"""""The Lord of the Isles"""""""" last night it being lent me for the Evening. There is some beautiful description indeed in it, particlarly to my fancy a barren scene in one of the Isles. I own I expected more from the two opening cantos than I afterwards found, and on the whole was disappointed. The story of the Page is so hackneyd, and there is nothing to redeem it but a greater power of holding the tongue than is commonly given to Women, and, as in every thing Walter Scott writes one can never feel great interest for the Lover, which one certainly ought to do, Malcolm Graeme in the """"""""Lady of the Lake"""""""", """"""""Waverley"""""""", and the Lover in """"""""Marmion"""""""", and now Ronald, altho' I expected a great deal from him from the opening. I am however in love with the description of Robert Bruce, I think it beautiful. It is very presumptuous in me thus to give my opinion, [particularly as I have this morning heard that Sir James Mackintosh says it is by far the best thing Walter Scott has done, but then he is puffer general particularly to Scotsmen.] ' [Words inside brackets crossed out in original]"""
"""read Gibbon (end of I vol) S. reads Livy'."""
"""Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 (""""""""Alpine Journal""""""""), on seeing General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'I remember reading his memoirs in January 1815 (at Halnaby -- ) the first part of them very amusing -- the latter less so, -- I little thought at the time of their perusal by me of seeing his tomb --'"""
"""Shelley reads Gibbon alloud to me'."""
"""read Gibbon (end of I vol) S. reads Livy'."""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 28 June 1815: 'I have seen the British Critic which contains a Review by a Friend of the Coleridges' which between ourselves I think a very feeble composition.'"""
"""There is a great Peer in our neighbourhood, who gives me the run of his library while he is in town; and I am fetching up my arrears in books, which everybody (who reads at all) has read; among others, I stumbled upon the Life of Kotzebue, or rather his year of exile, and read it with the geatest interest. It is a rapid succession of very striking events, told with great force and simplicity. His display of sentiment seems very natural to the man, foolish as it sometimes is.'"""
"""With Madame de Staal's Memoirs, so strongly praised by the excellent Baron Grimm, I was a good deal disappointed: she has nothing to tell and does not tell it very well. She is neither important, nor admirable for talents or virtues. Her life was not worth recording.'"""
"""I see your name mentioned among the writers in Constable's Encyclopaedia; pray tell me what articles you have written: I shall always read anything which you write. The travels of the Gallo-American gentleman alluded to by Mr Constable are I suppose those of Mr Simon. He is a very sensible man, and I should be curious to see the light in which this country appeared to him. I should think he would be too severe'."""
"""""""""""The Lord of the isles"""""""" is in [the Edinburgh Review] and seems meant as a favourable review, in my opinion however it is [italics] scarce middling [end italics] as we Scots folks say'."""
""" I have got hold of the """"""""Quarterly"""""""" but have not yet got far on with it. The review of Gibbon is certainly a first rate article as indeed I think all your principal articles are, but O I am grieved to see such an ignorant and absurd review of Mannering so contrary to the feelings of a whole nation for I certainly never saw high and low rich and poor so unanimous about any book as that [... Hogg berates the reviewer] Scott has been the most strenuous supporter of the character of your Miscellany as excellent, and there is an indelicacy in the the [sic] whole thing that cannot be thought of'."""
""" I have got hold of the """"""""Quarterly"""""""" but have not yet got far on with it. The review of Gibbon is certainly a first rate article as indeed I think all your principal articles are, but O I am grieved to see such an ignorant and absurd review of Mannering so contrary to the feelings of a whole nation for I certainly never saw high and low rich and poor so unanimous about any book as that [... Hogg berates the reviewer] Scott has been the most strenuous supporter of the character of your Miscellany as excellent, and there is an indelicacy in the the [sic] whole thing that cannot be thought of'."""
"""she was reading Leigh Hunt's """"""""Rimini"""""""", and copied a passage of twenty lines on the character of Giovanni - evidently because it was to her as a portrait of another difficult husband: """"""""He kept no reckoning with his sweets and sours / He'd hold a sullen countenance for hours, / And then if pleased to cheer himself a space, / Look for immediate rapture in your face...""""""""'"""
"""Byron to Henry Gally Knight, 4 April 1815: 'Dear Knight -- I have read """"""""Alashtar"""""""" with attention and great pleasure.'"""
"""Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'."""
"""Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'."""
"""Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'."""
"""I am often ashamed when I read over what I have written, to see how I allow my mind to wander, and my pen to note down so many of its vagaries. Yet I never have resolution to amend the style of my diary. And why should I not indulge myself by giving way to my feelings?'"""
"""Have you seen Guy Mannering? I perfectly doat upon it. There is such skill in the management of the fable, & it is so eminently original in its characters and descriptions, that I think it bears the stamp of real genius'. """
"""""""""""Discipline"""""""" people tell me to read, but I have no stomach to it, I believe because of the [underlined] name [end underlining], fool that I am! - But one thing is, I did not like the other book by the author, Self Control, and so I have no appetite to try the second'. """
"""S finishes the life of Chauser'."""
"""Read Spenser (End of 9th canto) Shelley reads Seneca (143)'."""
"""Read Spenser (End of 9th canto) Shelley reads Seneca (143)'."""
"""S reads Ode to France aloud and repeats the poem to tranquility'."""
"""Byron to Leigh Hunt, [4-6 November, 1815]: 'The paper on the Methodists was sure to raise the bristles of the godly -- I redde it and agree with the writer on one point ... that an addiction to poetry is very generally the result of """"""""an uneasy mind in an uneasy body"""""""" ...' """
"""read man as he is - Hogg comes and reads Rokeby to me'."""
"""read man as he is - Hogg comes and reads Rokeby to me'."""
"""go to the British Museum - see all the fine things - ores, fossils, statues, divine &c &c. - return - read Rokeby - go upstairs to talk with S. - read and finish Rokeby'."""
"""I have read """"""""Ronald"""""""" with great care and much pleasure I think it is the most [italics] spirited [end italics] poem Scott ever wrote - He has availed himself of his particular forte, a kind of easy elastick rapidity which never once flags from beginning to end. It is a pity that the tale should be again butched the two females are but a clog upon it, and no one natural occurrence connected with them takes place - I likewise expected some finer bursts of feeling with regard to Scottish independence - the coaxing apology to England is below any Scot to have uttered - But these are quite subordinate matters and can never materially affect the poem and I have not a doubt, tho' the public seem to be receiving it with select caution, that it will finally succeed to the author's highest anticipation - If it do not none of his ever deserved to do so which is enough for you and me'"""
"""Hogg stays all day with us - talk with him and read the fall of the Jesuits and Rinaldo Renaldini - not in good spirits'."""
"""I hear nothing of the literary world very interesting except that people are commending some of Lord Byron's melodies as incomparably beautiful and laughing immoderately at Mr Wordsworth's new prefaces which certainly excel all that ever was written in this world in egotism vanity and absurdity'."""
"""after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg - [italics to indicate Shelley's hand] The Assassins - Gibbon Chap. LXIV - all that can be known of the assassins is to be found in Memoires of the Acad[e]my of Inscriptions tom. xvii p127-170'.[end italics]"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 8 April 1815, on following progress of Napoleon in British press: 'Those villainous Sunday newspapers are my abhorrence - I read in one the other day the following sentiment """"""""Surely it would be wise that the Allies should at length give Buonaparte time to show whether he is sincere or not!""""""""  In other words give him time to be quite prepared to fence himself in his wickedness.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 8 April 1815: 'I see by last night's paper (we take the evening Mail) that Murat stands against Buon[aparte].'"""
"""after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg - [italics to indicate Shelley's hand] The Assassins - Gibbon Chap. LXIV - all that can be known of the assassins is to be found in Memoires of the Acad[e]my of Inscriptions tom. xvii p127-170'.[end italics]"""
"""after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg - [italics to indicate Shelley's hand] The Assassins - Gibbon Chap. LXIV - all that can be known of the assassins is to be found in Memoires of the Acad[e]my of Inscriptions tom. xvii p127-170'.[end italics]"""
"""She reads a great deal, and buys all new books'"""
"""S reads Gibbon aloud to me (160) - Weeks calls - Hogg comes - work - S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'."""
"""Finish Renaldini - talk with Shelley- in very bad spirits but get better'."""
"""read some lines of Ovid before breakfast'"""
"""read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit des Nations (72). S. reads Pastor Fido (102) and Gibbon (vol 12 - 364) and the story of Myrrha in Ovid'."""
"""read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit des Nations (72). S. reads Pastor Fido (102) and Gibbon (vol 12 - 364) and the story of Myrrha in Ovid'."""
"""Read and talk - still think about my little baby - 'tis hard indeed for a mother to loose a child - Hogg and C.[harles] C.[lairmont] come in the evening - CC goes at 11. Hogg stays all night - read Fontinelle Plurality of Worlds'."""
"""I return you the Quarterly Reveiw [sic] with many Thanks. The Authoress of """"""""Emma"""""""" has no reason I think to complain of her treatment in it - except in the total omission of Mansfield Park. - I cannot but be sorry that so clever a Man as the Reveiwer [sic] of """"""""Emma"""""""" should consider it as unworthy of being noticed.'"""
"""Read twelve page[s] of Curt. write - & read the reveries of Rousseau - S. reads Pliny's Letters'"""
"""Read twelve page[s] of Curt. write - & read the reveries of Rousseau - S. reads Pliny's Letters'"""
"""Read twelve page[s] of Curt. write - & read the reveries of Rousseau - S. reads Pliny's Letters'"""
"""read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Chap. of Gibbon'"""
"""read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Chap. of Gibbon'"""
"""read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Chap. of Gibbon'"""
"""you can write: They really are very admirable Things and the Morality is as pure & useful as the literary merit is conspicuous: I am not sure that I have read all you have given us; but what I have read has really that rare and almost indifineable Quality Genius; that is to say, it Seizes on the Mind & commands Attention, & on the Heart & compels its feelings.'"""
"""read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Chap. of Gibbon'"""
"""Many thanks for the loan of """"""""Emma"""""""", which, even <in much> amidst languor and depression, forced from me a smile, & afforded me much amusement'. """
"""I am [underlined] so [end underlining] glad you like what you have read of """"""""Emma"""""""", and the dear old man's """"""""Gentle selfishness"""""""". - Was there ever a happier expression? - I have read no story book with such glee, since the days of """"""""Waverley"""""""" and """"""""Mannering"""""""", and, by the same author as """"""""Emma"""""""", my prime favourite of all modern Novels """"""""Pride and Prejudice""""""""'. """
"""I am [underlined] so [end underlining] glad you like what you have read of """"""""Emma"""""""", and the dear old man's """"""""Gentle selfishness"""""""". - Was there ever a happier expression? - I have read no story book with such glee, since the days of """"""""Waverley"""""""" and """"""""Mannering"""""""", and, by the same author as """"""""Emma"""""""", my prime favourite of all modern Novels """"""""Pride and Prejudice""""""""'. """
"""I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only just begun it, but it promises facility of style, & I think I shall like it. I tried Pallas's Travels in Russia lately: but there was too much about progressive improvements in agriculture, & manufactuaries amongst the grown-up Muscovite babes, & I got tired, as I easily do of all that relates to half civilised nations. Give me a whole Savage or no Savage at all.'"""
"""I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only just begun it, but it promises facility of style, & I think I shall like it. I tried Pallas's Travels in Russia lately: but there was too much about progressive improvements in agriculture, & manufactuaries amongst the grown-up Muscovite babes, & I got tired, as I easily do of all that relates to half civilised nations. Give me a whole Savage or no Savage at all.'"""
"""I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only just begun it, but it promises facility of style, & I think I shall like it. I tried Pallas's Travels in Russia lately: but there was too much about progressive improvements in agriculture, & manufactuaries amongst the grown-up Muscovite babes, & I got tired, as I easily do of all that relates to half civilised nations. Give me a whole Savage or no Savage at all.'"""
"""I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only just begun it, but it promises facility of style, & I think I shall like it. I tried Pallas's Travels in Russia lately: but there was too much about progressive improvements in agriculture, & manufactuaries amongst the grown-up Muscovite babes, & I got tired, as I easily do of all that relates to half civilised nations. Give me a whole Savage or no Savage at all.'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'I heard Mr. Lewis translate verbally some scenes of Goethe's Faust ... last Summer ...'"""
"""Shelley reads the life of Holcroft aloud all day'"""
"""Read Locke and Chesterfield - De Senectute and the wanderer'"""
"""Read Locke and Chesterfield - De Senectute and the wanderer'"""
"""Read Locke and Chesterfield - De Senectute and the wanderer'"""
"""read Grandison and Curt. Shelley reads and finishes Montainge [sic] to his great sorrow - he reads Lucian'."""
"""read Grandison and Curt. Shelley reads and finishes Montainge [sic] to his great sorrow - he reads Lucian'."""
"""read Grandison and Curt. Shelley reads and finishes Montainge [sic] to his great sorrow - he reads Lucian'."""
"""read Mrs Robinson's Valcenza'."""
"""Shelley reads Tacitus and I read Curt.'"""
"""read the Wanderer - read de Senectute & Chesterfield'"""
"""read the Wanderer - read de Senectute & Chesterfield'"""
"""read the Wanderer - read de Senectute & Chesterfield'"""
"""read the first vol. of the antiquary and work'"""
"""read the Edinburgh Review and the second vol. of the antiquary'"""
"""read the Edinburgh Review and the second vol. of the antiquary'"""
"""read le vieux de la montagne and write'"""
"""S reads Lucian and Gulliver in the evening'"""
"""S reads Lucian and Gulliver in the evening'"""
"""Read Patronage & the Milesian chief - finish 5th vol of Clarendon - Shelley reads life of Cromwell'"""
"""Read Patronage & the Milesian chief - finish 5th vol of Clarendon - Shelley reads life of Cromwell'"""
"""Read Patronage & the Milesian chief - finish 5th vol of Clarendon - Shelley reads life of Cromwell'"""
"""read Chrononhotonthologus'"""
"""Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'"""
"""Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'"""
"""Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'"""
"""Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'"""
"""Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary'"""
"""Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary'"""
"""Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary'"""
"""Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary'"""
"""William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies (postmarked 9 April 1816): 'Your obliging Present [new book of poems] reached me yesterday ... I read the volume through immediately: and paid particular attention to the parts that were new to me.'"""
"""finish the old man of the mountains - translate & read one book of the conjuration de Rienzi'."""
"""finish the old man of the mountains - translate & read one book of the conjuration de Rienzi'."""
"""When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts """"""""history [of] mathematics"""""""", Woods """"""""optics"""""""", Cunn's """"""""Euclid"""""""" and Newton's """"""""principia"""""""" constitute my [stock] of this sort - I got Lucans """"""""Pharsalia"""""""" also, and some little extracts of Fenelons """"""""dialogues des morts"""""""". If there are any of these (except Newton for which you would be [obliged] to wait awhile) that you wish to see - they are ready for you. I had read Bossut before - and have not done much at him of late. Neither have I read any quantity of Wood yet, having been nibbling at the """"""""Principia"""""""" (which with all my struggling, I come but ill at understanding - indeed in some places I don't understand it at all) ever since I came home. Of Lucan I have not read above seven lines.' """
"""When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts """"""""history [of] mathematics"""""""", Woods """"""""optics"""""""", Cunn's """"""""Euclid"""""""" and Newton's """"""""principia"""""""" constitute my [stock] of this sort - I got Lucans """"""""Pharsalia"""""""" also, and some little extracts of Fenelons """"""""dialogues des morts"""""""". If there are any of these (except Newton for which you would be [obliged] to wait awhile) that you wish to see - they are ready for you. I had read Bossut before - and have not done much at him of late. Neither have I read any quantity of Wood yet, having been nibbling at the """"""""Principia"""""""" (which with all my struggling, I come but ill at understanding - indeed in some places I don't understand it at all) ever since I came home. Of Lucan I have not read above seven lines.' """
"""When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts """"""""history [of] mathematics"""""""", Woods """"""""optics"""""""", Cunn's """"""""Euclid"""""""" and Newton's """"""""principia"""""""" constitute my [stock] of this sort - I got Lucans """"""""Pharsalia"""""""" also, and some little extracts of Fenelons """"""""dialogues des morts"""""""". If there are any of these (except Newton for which you would be [obliged] to wait awhile) that you wish to see - they are ready for you. I had read Bossut before - and have not done much at him of late. Neither have I read any quantity of Wood yet, having been nibbling at the """"""""Principia"""""""" (which with all my struggling, I come but ill at understanding - indeed in some places I don't understand it at all) ever since I came home. Of Lucan I have not read above seven lines.' """
"""I saw Scott's """"""""Waterloo"""""""" and """"""""Guy Mannering"""""""" when I was in Edinr[.] The former has been so dreadfully abused already - that I have nothing to add to the Newspaper puns, &c with which it has been assailed. The[re] are (as Gray said of the """"""""castle of Indolence"""""""") some good lines in it I have far too little room for speaking of Mannerings beauties and defects at present - I will discuss it next time I write, if I can find nothing better.' """
"""I saw Scott's """"""""Waterloo"""""""" and """"""""Guy Mannering"""""""" when I was in Edinr[.] The former has been so dreadfully abused already - that I have nothing to add to the Newspaper puns, &c with which it has been assailed. The[re] are (as Gray said of the """"""""castle of Indolence"""""""") some good lines in it I have far too little room for speaking of Mannerings beauties and defects at present - I will discuss it next time I write, if I can find nothing better.' """
"""I have been very much entertained by your story of Carolina & her aged Father, it made me laugh heartily, & I am particularly glad to find you so much alive upon any topic of such absurdity, as the usual description of a Heroine's father.'"""
"""It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two weeks. During two or three days, I was not able to speak plainly; & you will easily conceive, that I passed my time very heavily. I endeavoured to read several things: I tried a book of modern Biography """"""""The British Plutarch""""""""; but soon finding it to be a very miserable book, I shut it for good and all. I next opened the """"""""Spectator"""""""" - and tho' his ja[u]nty manner but ill accorded with my sulky humours, I toiled thro' a volume & a half, with exemplary patience. Lastly, I had recourse to Lord Chesterfield's """"""""advice to his son""""""""; and I think I never before so distinctly saw the pitiful disposition of this Lord. His directions concerning washing the face & paring the nails are indeed very praiseworthy: and I should be content to see them printed in a large type, and placed in frames above the chimneypieces of boarding-schools - for the purpose of enforcing the duties of cleanliness, upon the rising generation. But the flattery, the dissimulation & paltry cunning that he is perpetually recommending, leave one little room to regret that Chesterfield was not his father. Such was the result of my studies, in my sickness: - a result highly unfavourable to those feelings of prostration before high birth & weight of purse, which (many tell us) it is so eminently the duty of all men to cultivate. Indeed this is not the first time that I have noticed in my mind, a considerable tendency to undervalue the great ones of this world'."""
"""It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two weeks. During two or three days, I was not able to speak plainly; & you will easily conceive, that I passed my time very heavily. I endeavoured to read several things: I tried a book of modern Biography """"""""The British Plutarch""""""""; but soon finding it to be a very miserable book, I shut it for good and all. I next opened the """"""""Spectator"""""""" - and tho' his ja[u]nty manner but ill accorded with my sulky humours, I toiled thro' a volume & a half, with exemplary patience. Lastly, I had recourse to Lord Chesterfield's """"""""advice to his son""""""""; and I think I never before so distinctly saw the pitiful disposition of this Lord. His directions concerning washing the face & paring the nails are indeed very praiseworthy: and I should be content to see them printed in a large type, and placed in frames above the chimneypieces of boarding-schools - for the purpose of enforcing the duties of cleanliness, upon the rising generation. But the flattery, the dissimulation & paltry cunning that he is perpetually recommending, leave one little room to regret that Chesterfield was not his father. Such was the result of my studies, in my sickness: - a result highly unfavourable to those feelings of prostration before high birth & weight of purse, which (many tell us) it is so eminently the duty of all men to cultivate. Indeed this is not the first time that I have noticed in my mind, a considerable tendency to undervalue the great ones of this world'."""
"""It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two weeks. During two or three days, I was not able to speak plainly; & you will easily conceive, that I passed my time very heavily. I endeavoured to read several things: I tried a book of modern Biography """"""""The British Plutarch""""""""; but soon finding it to be a very miserable book, I shut it for good and all. I next opened the """"""""Spectator"""""""" - and tho' his ja[u]nty manner but ill accorded with my sulky humours, I toiled thro' a volume & a half, with exemplary patience. Lastly, I had recourse to Lord Chesterfield's """"""""advice to his son""""""""; and I think I never before so distinctly saw the pitiful disposition of this Lord. His directions concerning washing the face & paring the nails are indeed very praiseworthy: and I should be content to see them printed in a large type, and placed in frames above the chimneypieces of boarding-schools - for the purpose of enforcing the duties of cleanliness, upon the rising generation. But the flattery, the dissimulation & paltry cunning that he is perpetually recommending, leave one little room to regret that Chesterfield was not his father. Such was the result of my studies, in my sickness: - a result highly unfavourable to those feelings of prostration before high birth & weight of purse, which (many tell us) it is so eminently the duty of all men to cultivate. Indeed this is not the first time that I have noticed in my mind, a considerable tendency to undervalue the great ones of this world'."""
"""I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never read any thing but Pope's translation, and not above a single book of the original - & that several years ago. Indeed I know very little of the Greek at any rate. I have several times begun to read Xenophon's anabasis completely: but always gave it up in favour of something else - You complain that nothing that you do leaves a vestige behind it: - what do you make of Homer?'"""
"""I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never read any thing but Pope's translation, and not above a single book of the original - & that several years ago. Indeed I know very little of the Greek at any rate. I have several times begun to read Xenophon's anabasis completely: but always gave it up in favour of something else - You complain that nothing that you do leaves a vestige behind it: - what do you make of Homer?'"""
"""I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never read any thing but Pope's translation, and not above a single book of the original - & that several years ago. Indeed I know very little of the Greek at any rate. I have several times begun to read Xenophon's anabasis completely: but always gave it up in favour of something else - You complain that nothing that you do leaves a vestige behind it: - what do you make of Homer?'"""
"""Out of a considerable quantity of garbage which I have allowed myself, at different intervals, to devour, I have only to mention Crabbes Poems as worthy of being read. In addition to great powers of correct description, he pos[s]esses all the sagacity of an anatomist in searching into the stormy passions of the human heart - and all the apathy of an anatomist in describing them.'"""
"""For the rest - I continued reading Newton's """"""""Principia"""""""" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arriving a short way into the third book - I discovered that I had too little knowledge of Astronomy, to understand his reasoning rightly. And I forthwith sent to Edinr for De Lambre's """"""""abr?g? d'Astronomie""""""""; and in the mean time, betook myself to reading Wood's """"""""optics"""""""". I cannot say much about this book. Its author intermeddles not with the abstruse parts of the science - such as the causes of reflection & refraction?the reason why transparent bodies, at given angles of incidence, reflect their light almost entirely (concerning which, I meet with many learned details, in the Encyclopedia Britan) - but contents himself with demonstrating, in a plain enough manner, the ordinary effects of plane & spherical mirrors - and of lenses of various kinds - applying his doctrines, to the explanation of various optical instruments & remarkable phenomena. But in truth, I know little about it, I read it with too great velocity. - I also read Keil's """"""""introductio ad veram Physicam""""""""; but I shall let it pass till next time I write. In fine De Lambre arrived; & I have read into his fourth Le?on -and like it greatly.I intended to have told you some of his observations - but I would not overwhelm you with ennui all at once - and therefore, I shall be silent at present. - [italics]ne quid nimis[end italics] [moderation in all things - editor's note] ? as the proverb saith'."""
"""For the rest - I continued reading Newton's """"""""Principia"""""""" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arriving a short way into the third book - I discovered that I had too little knowledge of Astronomy, to understand his reasoning rightly. And I forthwith sent to Edinr for De Lambre's """"""""abr?g? d'Astronomie""""""""; and in the mean time, betook myself to reading Wood's """"""""optics"""""""". I cannot say much about this book. Its author intermeddles not with the abstruse parts of the science - such as the causes of reflection & refraction?the reason why transparent bodies, at given angles of incidence, reflect their light almost entirely (concerning which, I meet with many learned details, in the Encyclopedia Britan) - but contents himself with demonstrating, in a plain enough manner, the ordinary effects of plane & spherical mirrors - and of lenses of various kinds - applying his doctrines, to the explanation of various optical instruments & remarkable phenomena. But in truth, I know little about it, I read it with too great velocity. - I also read Keil's """"""""introductio ad veram Physicam""""""""; but I shall let it pass till next time I write. In fine De Lambre arrived; & I have read into his fourth Le?on -and like it greatly.I intended to have told you some of his observations - but I would not overwhelm you with ennui all at once - and therefore, I shall be silent at present. - [italics]ne quid nimis[end italics] [moderation in all things - editor's note] ? as the proverb saith'."""
"""For the rest - I continued reading Newton's """"""""Principia"""""""" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arriving a short way into the third book - I discovered that I had too little knowledge of Astronomy, to understand his reasoning rightly. And I forthwith sent to Edinr for De Lambre's """"""""abr?g? d'Astronomie""""""""; and in the mean time, betook myself to reading Wood's """"""""optics"""""""". I cannot say much about this book. Its author intermeddles not with the abstruse parts of the science - such as the causes of reflection & refraction?the reason why transparent bodies, at given angles of incidence, reflect their light almost entirely (concerning which, I meet with many learned details, in the Encyclopedia Britan) - but contents himself with demonstrating, in a plain enough manner, the ordinary effects of plane & spherical mirrors - and of lenses of various kinds - applying his doctrines, to the explanation of various optical instruments & remarkable phenomena. But in truth, I know little about it, I read it with too great velocity. - I also read Keil's """"""""introductio ad veram Physicam""""""""; but I shall let it pass till next time I write. In fine De Lambre arrived; & I have read into his fourth Le?on -and like it greatly.I intended to have told you some of his observations - but I would not overwhelm you with ennui all at once - and therefore, I shall be silent at present. - [italics]ne quid nimis[end italics] [moderation in all things - editor's note] ? as the proverb saith'."""
"""For the rest - I continued reading Newton's """"""""Principia"""""""" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arriving a short way into the third book - I discovered that I had too little knowledge of Astronomy, to understand his reasoning rightly. And I forthwith sent to Edinr for De Lambre's """"""""abr?g? d'Astronomie""""""""; and in the mean time, betook myself to reading Wood's """"""""optics"""""""". I cannot say much about this book. Its author intermeddles not with the abstruse parts of the science - such as the causes of reflection & refraction?the reason why transparent bodies, at given angles of incidence, reflect their light almost entirely (concerning which, I meet with many learned details, in the Encyclopedia Britan) - but contents himself with demonstrating, in a plain enough manner, the ordinary effects of plane & spherical mirrors - and of lenses of various kinds - applying his doctrines, to the explanation of various optical instruments & remarkable phenomena. But in truth, I know little about it, I read it with too great velocity. - I also read Keil's """"""""introductio ad veram Physicam""""""""; but I shall let it pass till next time I write. In fine De Lambre arrived; & I have read into his fourth Le?on -and like it greatly.I intended to have told you some of his observations - but I would not overwhelm you with ennui all at once - and therefore, I shall be silent at present. - [italics]ne quid nimis[end italics] [moderation in all things - editor's note] ? as the proverb saith'."""
"""Shelley reads Locke.'"""
"""S. finishes Gulliver and begins P.[aradise] L.[ost]'"""
"""S. finishes Gulliver and begins P.[aradise] L.[ost]'"""
"""[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will succeed--self is the sole inspirer of his genius he cannot like Homer Dante Virgil Milton Dryden Spencer Gray--Goldsmith [underlined] Tasso write on other subjects well[--]but what he feels he can describe extravagantly well--& therefore I never did doubt that he would one day or other write again as at first--but for God sake do not let this circumstance make you forget what a Rogue he is'."""
"""[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will succeed--self is the sole inspirer of his genius he cannot like Homer Dante Virgil Milton Dryden Spencer Gray--Goldsmith [underlined] Tasso write on other subjects well[--]but what he feels he can describe extravagantly well--& therefore I never did doubt that he would one day or other write again as at first--but for God sake do not let this circumstance make you forget what a Rogue he is''."""
"""[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will succeed--self is the sole inspirer of his genius he cannot like Homer Dante Virgil Milton Dryden Spencer Gray--Goldsmith [underlined] Tasso write on other subjects well[--]but what he feels he can describe extravagantly well--& therefore I never did doubt that he would one day or other write again as at first--but for God sake do not let this circumstance make you forget what a Rogue he is'."""
"""[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will succeed--self is the sole inspirer of his genius he cannot like Homer Dante Virgil Milton Dryden Spencer Gray--Goldsmith [underlined] Tasso write on other subjects well[--]but what he feels he can describe extravagantly well--& therefore I never did doubt that he would one day or other write again as at first--but for God sake do not let this circumstance make you forget what a Rogue he is'."""
"""[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will succeed--self is the sole inspirer of his genius he cannot like Homer Dante Virgil Milton Dryden Spencer Gray--Goldsmith [underlined] Tasso write on other subjects well[--]but what he feels he can describe extravagantly well--& therefore I never did doubt that he would one day or other write again as at first--but for God sake do not let this circumstance make you forget what a Rogue he is'."""
"""[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will succeed--self is the sole inspirer of his genius he cannot like Homer Dante Virgil Milton Dryden Spencer Gray--Goldsmith [underlined] Tasso write on other subjects well[--]but what he feels he can describe extravagantly well--& therefore I never did doubt that he would one day or other write again as at first--but for God sake do not let this circumstance make you forget what a Rogue he is'."""
"""[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will succeed--self is the sole inspirer of his genius he cannot like Homer Dante Virgil Milton Dryden Spencer Gray--Goldsmith [underlined] Tasso write on other subjects well[--]but what he feels he can describe extravagantly well--& therefore I never did doubt that he would one day or other write again as at first--but for God sake do not let this circumstance make you forget what a Rogue he is'."""
"""[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will succeed--self is the sole inspirer of his genius he cannot like Homer Dante Virgil Milton Dryden Spencer Gray--Goldsmith [underlined] Tasso write on other subjects well[--]but what he feels he can describe extravagantly well--& therefore I never did doubt that he would one day or other write again as at first--but for God sake do not let this circumstance make you forget what a Rogue he is'."""
"""[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will succeed--self is the sole inspirer of his genius he cannot like Homer Dante Virgil Milton Dryden Spencer Gray--Goldsmith [underlined] Tasso write on other subjects well[--]but what he feels he can describe extravagantly well--& therefore I never did doubt that he would one day or other write again as at first--but for God sake do not let this circumstance make you forget what a Rogue he is'."""
"""[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will succeed--self is the sole inspirer of his genius he cannot like Homer Dante Virgil Milton Dryden Spencer Gray--Goldsmith [underlined] Tasso write on other subjects well[--]but what he feels he can describe extravagantly well--& therefore I never did doubt that he would one day or other write again as at first--but for God sake do not let this circumstance make you forget what a Rogue he is'."""
"""in the evening walk out - read the Solitary wanderer'"""
"""read Walther and some of Rienzi'"""
"""read Walther and some of Rienzi'"""
"""Uncle Henry writes very superior Sermons. You & I must try to get hold of one or two & put them into our Novels; it would be a fine help to a volume; & we could make our Heroine read it aloud of a Sunday Evening, just as Isabella Wardour in the Antiquary, is made to read the History of the Hartz Demon in the ruins of St Ruth - tho I beleive [sic], on reflection, Lovell is the Reader.'"""
"""Uncle Henry writes very superior Sermons. You & I must try to get hold of one or two & put them into our Novels; it would be a fine help to a volume; & we could make our Heroine read it aloud of a Sunday Evening, just as Isabella Wardour in the Antiquary, is made to read the History of the Hartz Demon in the ruins of St Ruth - tho I beleive, on reflection, Lovell is the Reader.'"""
"""in the evening Shelley read[s] 2nd book of Paradise Lost. S. reads Locke'"""
"""in the evening Shelley read[s] 2nd book of Paradise Lost. S. reads Locke'"""
"""Write and read the memoirs of the princess of Bareith'"""
"""Read the Memoirs aloud'"""
"""Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - begin one of Madame de Genlis novels - Shelley finishes Tacitus'."""
"""Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - begin one of Madame de Genlis novels - Shelley finishes Tacitus'."""
"""Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - begin one of Madame de Genlis novels - Shelley finishes Tacitus'."""
"""Have you not been delighted with Mrs Marcet? What an extraordinary work for a woman! Everybody who understands the subject is in a state of astonishment, and those, who like me know very little or nothing about it, are delighted with the knowledge they have acquired. One of our ci-devant Judges, Sir James Mansfield, who in his 83rd year devours all that is new in Literature, is charmed and laments extremely that he did not know as much as that Book has taught him when he was at the Bar'."""
"""Have you not been delighted with Mrs Marcet? What an extraordinary work for a woman! Everybody who understands the subject is in a state of astonishment, and those, who like me know very little or nothing about it, are delighted with the knowledge they have acquired. One of our ci-devant Judges, Sir James Mansfield, who in his 83rd year devours all that is new in Literature, is charmed and laments extremely that he did not know as much as that Book has taught him when he was at the Bar'."""
"""Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? Her nerves must be strong if she can read it without shuddering. He is in Italy travelling with two ladies in his Suite. In """"""""Childe Harold"""""""" there is a novel enjoyment of a storm such I should think as a demon would feel, but I think that the stanza which describes the appearance of the morning after is beautiful. Sir Samuel says that he has lost his ear, and that his last poems are decidedly the worst he has written. Surely the man who wrote """"""""Darkness"""""""" must be mad or nearly approaching to it. Is there not something exceptionally riduculous in the idea of the two men, who survived the rest, frightening each other to death at last by their ugliness, ''een of their mutual ugliness they died"""""""", that is the line I think'."""
"""Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? Her nerves must be strong if she can read it without shuddering. He is in Italy travelling with two ladies in his Suite. In """"""""Childe Harold"""""""" there is a novel enjoyment of a storm such I should think as a demon would feel, but I think that the stanza which describes the appearance of the morning after is beautiful. Sir Samuel says that he has lost his ear, and that his last poems are decidedly the worst he has written. Surely the man who wrote """"""""Darkness"""""""" must be mad or nearly approaching to it. Is there not something exceptionally riduculous in the idea of the two men, who survived the rest, frightening each other to death at last by their ugliness, ''een of their mutual ugliness they died"""""""", that is the line I think'."""
"""Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? Her nerves must be strong if she can read it without shuddering. He is in Italy travelling with two ladies in his Suite. In """"""""Childe Harold"""""""" there is a novel enjoyment of a storm such I should think as a demon would feel, but I think that the stanza which describes the appearance of the morning after is beautiful. Sir Samuel says that he has lost his ear, and that his last poems are decidedly the worst he has written. Surely the man who wrote """"""""Darkness"""""""" must be mad or nearly approaching to it. Is there not something exceptionally riduculous in the idea of the two men, who survived the rest, frightening each other to death at last by their ugliness, ''een of their mutual ugliness they died"""""""", that is the line I think'."""
"""Pray read """"""""Tales of my Landlord"""""""". They are charming. I think there can be no doubt but that they are written by the Author of """"""""Waverley"""""""" altho' it is not avow'd who that is. If it is not Walter Scott it is marvellous. I saw a gentleman the other day who told me that he had seen the manuscript in America in the hands of Walter Scott's Brother who there avow'd himself the Author'"""
"""Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? Her nerves must be strong if she can read it without shuddering. He is in Italy travelling with two ladies in his Suite. In """"""""Childe Harold"""""""" there is a novel enjoyment of a storm such I should think as a demon would feel, but I think that the stanza which describes the appearance of the morning after is beautiful. Sir Samuel says that he has lost his ear, and that his last poems are decidedly the worst he has written. Surely the man who wrote """"""""Darkness"""""""" must be mad or nearly approaching to it. Is there not something exceptionally riduculous in the idea of the two men, who survived the rest, frightening each other to death at last by their ugliness, ''een of their mutual ugliness they died"""""""", that is the line I think'."""
"""Drawing lesson - read Alphonsine - Shelley reads Don Q.[uixote] aloud.'"""
"""Drawing lesson - read Alphonsine - Shelley reads Don Q.[uixote] aloud.'"""
"""Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 (""""""""Alpine Journal""""""""), on General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'black marble -- long inscription -- Latin -- but simple -- particularly the latter part -- in which his wife (Margaret de Thomas) records her long -- her tried -- and unshaken affection ...'"""
"""Shelley reads Plutarch in Greek - Lord B - comes down & stays here an hour - I read a novel in the evening'"""
"""Shelley reads Plutarch in Greek - Lord B - comes down & stays here an hour - I read a novel in the evening'"""
"""Related ms notes laid into book - two small notes about  distances, properties, owners, and other features either on specific local journeys e.g. Cupar to Perth, dated '10 Dec 1816' or in an area 'Southside of the Tay'."""
"""""""""""My beloved time of day was when the cloth was drawn, and I stole away from the dessert,""""""""..""""""""and again at a subsequent time when I took to newspaper reading very heartily""""""""...""""""""our newspaper was the Globe,"""""""""""
"""In a poor little struggling Unitarian periodical, the Monthly Repository, in which I made my first appearance in print, a youth, named Thomas Noon Talfourd, was about this time making his first attempts at authorship. [...] it was rather too luscious for my taste,[...] but it served to mislead me about Malthus.'"""
"""I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confidentially everywhere [end italics]. The usual consequence has happened, they appeared in one of the Sunday newspapers, and of course were copied on Monday a hundred times over. I send you what were in the """"""""Morning Chronicle"""""""" with an unintelligible preface, and a paragraph which appeared the next day, by which you will see what a persecution Lady Byron is enduring. Sir Samuel says that the """"""""Farewell"""""""" is a greater instance of wickedness than he thought was possible could have existed in human nature - and that the """"""""Sketch from Private Life"""""""" is a miserable blackguard production without merit. - Indeed I cannot help thinking that he has hurt himself more than Lady Byron by abusing the person of a Maid Servant who was Nurse to Lady Milbanke, and who is grown old in faithful service to the Family'."""
"""I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confidentially everywhere [end italics]. The usual consequence has happened, they appeared in one of the Sunday newspapers, and of course were copied on Monday a hundred times over. I send you what were in the """"""""Morning Chronicle"""""""" with an unintelligible preface, and a paragraph which appeared the next day, by which you will see what a persecution Lady Byron is enduring. Sir Samuel says that the """"""""Farewell"""""""" is a greater instance of wickedness than he thought was possible could have existed in human nature - and that the """"""""Sketch from Private Life"""""""" is a miserable blackguard production without merit. - Indeed I cannot help thinking that he has hurt himself more than Lady Byron by abusing the person of a Maid Servant who was Nurse to Lady Milbanke, and who is grown old in faithful service to the Family'."""
"""I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confidentially everywhere [end italics]. The usual consequence has happened, they appeared in one of the Sunday newspapers, and of course were copied on Monday a hundred times over. I send you what were in the """"""""Morning Chronicle"""""""" with an unintelligible preface, and a paragraph which appeared the next day, by which you will see what a persecution Lady Byron is enduring. Sir Samuel says that the """"""""Farewell"""""""" is a greater instance of wickedness than he thought was possible could have existed in human nature - and that the """"""""Sketch from Private Life"""""""" is a miserable blackguard production without merit. - Indeed I cannot help thinking that he has hurt himself more than Lady Byron by abusing the person of a Maid Servant who was Nurse to Lady Milbanke, and who is grown old in faithful service to the Family'."""
"""For once I must think differently from Mr Edgeworth. I have none of the fears that he has for the fate of """"""""Little Plays for Children"""""""". Those of Madame de Genlis have always been extremly [sic] successful, altho' not very good, and """"""""Old Poz"""""""" has been most successful, and has been acted by many a happy little party'."""
"""For once I must think differently from Mr Edgeworth. I have none of the fears that he has for the fate of """"""""Little Plays for Children"""""""". Those of Madame de Genlis have always been extremly [sic] successful, altho' not very good, and """"""""Old Poz"""""""" has been most successful, and has been acted by many a happy little party'."""
"""I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confidentially everywhere [end italics]. The usual consequence has happened, they appeared in one of the Sunday newspapers, and of course were copied on Monday a hundred times over. I send you what were in the """"""""Morning Chronicle"""""""" with an unintelligible preface, and a paragraph which appeared the next day, by which you will see what a persecution Lady Byron is enduring. Sir Samuel says that the """"""""Farewell"""""""" is a greater instance of wickedness than he thought was possible could have existed in human nature - and that the """"""""Sketch from Private Life"""""""" is a miserable blackguard production without merit. - Indeed I cannot help thinking that he has hurt himself more than Lady Byron by abusing the person of a Maid Servant who was Nurse to Lady Milbanke, and who is grown old in faithful service to the Family'."""
"""I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confidentially everywhere [end italics]. The usual consequence has happened, they appeared in one of the Sunday newspapers, and of course were copied on Monday a hundred times over. I send you what were in the """"""""Morning Chronicle"""""""" with an unintelligible preface, and a paragraph which appeared the next day, by which you will see what a persecution Lady Byron is enduring. Sir Samuel says that the """"""""Farewell"""""""" is a greater instance of wickedness than he thought was possible could have existed in human nature - and that the """"""""Sketch from Private Life"""""""" is a miserable blackguard production without merit. - Indeed I cannot help thinking that he has hurt himself more than Lady Byron by abusing the person of a Maid Servant who was Nurse to Lady Milbanke, and who is grown old in faithful service to the Family'."""
"""Finish """"""""les voeux temeraires"""""""" - write and read Rienzi'"""
"""Finish """"""""les voeux temeraires"""""""" - write and read Rienzi'"""
"""Finish 1st book of Locke - read Curt - & work - Shelley reads Locke, Plutarch, & Paradise Lost aloud.'"""
"""In the evening read the letters of Emile'."""
"""I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'."""
"""I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'."""
"""I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'."""
"""I have looked into the Belfast Town and Country Almanack - and consulted several cunning men upon the subject - and from all quartrs, I collect - that the moon will be full about one of the clock on the morning of Thursday the 9th inst.-' """
"""Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and work in the evening. Read severy [for several)] odes of Horace'"""
"""Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and work in the evening. Read severy [for several)] odes of Horace'"""
"""Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and work in the evening. Read severy [for several)] odes of Horace'"""
"""Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and work in the evening. Read severy [for several)] odes of Horace'"""
"""Write - read Davy - In the evening read Curt. and Les Incas'."""
"""Write - read Davy - In the evening read Curt. and Les Incas'."""
"""Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening'"""
"""Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening'"""
"""Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening'"""
"""read Hermann d'Unna'"""
"""begin Pamela. Shelley reads Locke and in the evening Paradise Lost aloud to me'."""
"""begin Pamela. Shelley reads Locke and in the evening Paradise Lost aloud to me'."""
"""In the review of Tweddell's Remains where it is said that out of religious motives he refrained from animal food.'"""
"""[Shelley] reads Montaigne - read Clarendon and O'Donnel'"""
"""[Shelley] reads Montaigne - read Clarendon and O'Donnel'"""
"""finish the letters of Emile and read a part of Clarissa Harlowe'."""
"""finish the letters of Emile and read a part of Clarissa Harlowe'."""
"""Byron to Augusta Leigh, 20 September 1816 (""""""""Alpine Journal""""""""), on evening arrival at inn: 'nine o clock -- going to bed ... women gabbling below -- read a French translation of Schiller ...'"""
"""finish Hermann d'Unna and write - Shelley reads Milton - After dinner Lord Byron comes down and Clare and  Shelley go up to Diodati - Read Rienzi'."""
"""finish Hermann d'Unna and write - Shelley reads Milton - After dinner Lord Byron comes down and Clare and  Shelley go up to Diodati - Read Rienzi'."""
"""finish Hermann d'Unna and write - Shelley reads Milton - After dinner Lord Byron comes down and Clare and  Shelley go up to Diodati - Read Rienzi'."""
"""Read Bingley's Useful Knowledge, Jocular Tenures, Pyle, much interrupted by Justice business'."""
"""Read Bingley's Useful Knowledge, Jocular Tenures, Pyle, much interrupted by Justice business'."""
"""[italics to indicate PB Shelley's hand] 'In the evening I walk alone a long way by the lake. Read Julie all day [end italics]'"""
"""Read Pamela - Little Babe not well - S. reads Locke & Pamela'."""
"""read Vol VI of Clarissa'."""
"""After dinner read some of Madme Genlis novels - Shelley reads Milton'"""
"""After dinner read some of Madme Genlis novels - Shelley reads Milton'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 22 July 1816, on advertisement falsely ascribing authorship of various poems to him: 'I enclose you an advertisement -- which was copied by Dr. P[olidori] -- & which appears to be about the most impudent imposition that ever issued from Grub Street.'"""
"""Read Shuckfords Connections, Galt's Life of West. The former is a work of a man of great learning and little judgement.'"""
"""Read [...] Galt's Life of West [...]is recorded one of the noblest instances of religious userality in a Quaker that I ever met with of any sect, the speech of John Williamson delivered in a meeting house at Springfield in America [quotes at length]'"""
"""read Vol VII of Clarissa - Shelley reads the letters of Emile'"""
"""Byron to Augusta Leigh, 22 September 1816 (""""""""Alpine Journal""""""""): 'Passed a rock -- inscription -- 2 brothers -- one murdered the other ...'"""
"""Read Curt. finish the """"""""noveaux novelles"""""""" de Mad. de Genlis'"""
"""Read Curt. finish the """"""""noveaux novelles"""""""" de Mad. de Genlis'"""
"""The """"""""Morning Chronicle"""""""" says the troops are to be withdrawn from France.'"""
"""Shelley goes alone to the Glacier of Boison - I stay at home - read several tales of Voltaire'"""
"""S. writes & reads Montaigne & Lucian & walks'."""
"""read """"""""Contes moreaux de Marmotel - Shelley reads the Germania of Tacitus'."""
"""read """"""""Contes moreaux de Marmotel - Shelley reads the Germania of Tacitus'."""
"""Binda gave us a satirical character of the Duke of Wellington said to be written by B.Constant 'un heros froid et mediocre [...]' I am quite sick of Hobhouse's book his abuse of the Bourbons is not worth answering; if it were true its unaltered violence defeats its own malignity. The publication of the Bodleian and Ashmolean letters are very amusing in three volumes.'"""
"""Binda gave us a satirical character of the Duke of wellington said to be written by B.Constant """"""""un heros froid et mediocre [...]"""""""" I am quite sick of Hobhouse's book his abuse of the Bourbons is not worth answering; if it were true its unaltered violence defeats its own malignity. The publication of the Bodleian and Ashmolean letters are very amusing in three volumes.'"""
"""We arrived wet to the skin - I read nouvelle nouvelles and write my story'."""
"""read the Rambler - S reads Montaigne's essays'"""
"""read the Rambler - S reads Montaigne's essays'"""
"""Write & read """"""""Contes Moreaux"""""""" - go down to the side of the lake to watch the waves - Lord Byron comes down - after dinner read Rienzi'."""
"""Write & read """"""""Contes Moreaux"""""""" - go down to the side of the lake to watch the waves - Lord Byron comes down - after dinner read Rienzi'."""
"""Shelley reads Germania and """"""""memoire d'un Detenu"""""""".'"""
"""The following written by Dr Worthington appeared in the Morning Chronicle. Epistle from Tom Cribb to Big Ben concerning some foul play in a late transaction. [transcribes verse] """"""""what, Ben, my big hero!...""""""""'"""
"""Shelley reads Curt - & Plutarch - read Pamela and Shelley read[s] Gibbon after tea'"""
"""The poorest review of any book that I have yet met in the Edinburgh is that of Goethe.'"""
"""I have now read three volumes of Madame de Sevigne - with a conviction that her letters are very much overpraised. Mr Thomas Grenville says he has made seven vigorous attacks on Madame de Sevigne and been as often repulsed'."""
"""[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of """"""""Glenarvon"""""""". Have you read the preface of the second edition? I took it up at the Library, having read an extract from it in the newspapers, I brought it home, and really think if Lady Caroline wrote it she deserves high place amongst the fair authors of the present day. I cannot think it is hers.'"""
"""[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of """"""""Glenarvon"""""""". Have you read the preface of the second edition? I took it up at the Library, having read an extract from it in the newspapers, I brought it home, and really think if Lady Caroline wrote it she deserves high place amongst the fair authors of the present day. I cannot think it is hers.'"""
"""Read Curt. and Caroline of Litchfield. Hobhouse and Scroop Davis come to Diodati - Shelley spends the evening there & reads Germania - Several books arrive among others Coleridges Christabel which Shelley reads aloud to me before we go to bed'."""
"""Read Curt. and Caroline of Litchfield. Hobhouse and Scroop Davis come to Diodati - Shelley spends the evening there & reads Germania - Several books arrive among others Coleridges Christabel which Shelley reads aloud to me before we go to bed'."""
"""After an absence of 9 months in Yarrow I returned here the night before last when for the first time I found a copy of your two last poems kindly sent to me by Murray, the perusal of which have so much renewed my love and admiration of you as a poet that I can no longer resist the inclination of once more writing to you'"""
"""After an absence of 9 months in Yarrow I returned here the night before last when for the first time I found a copy of your two last poems kindly sent to me by Murray, the perusal of which have so much renewed my love and admiration of you as a poet that I can no longer resist the inclination of once more writing to you'"""
"""I am highly dilighted [sic] with your two last little poems. They breathe a vein of poetry which you never once touched before and there is something in """"""""The Siege of Corinth"""""""" at least which convinces me that you have loved my own stile of poetry better than you ever acknowledged to me. Some of the people here complain of the inadequacy of the tales to the poetry I am perfectly mad at them and Mr Jeffery [sic] among the rest for such an insinuation. I look upon them both as descriptive poems descriptive of some of the finest and boldest scenes of nature and of the most powerful emotions of the human heart. Perdition to the scanty discernment that would read such poems as they would do a novel for the sake of the plot to the disgrace of the age however be it spoken in the light romantic narrative which our mutual friend Scott has made popular this is the predominant ingredient expected and to a certainty the reviewers will harp upon the shortcoming of it in your poems as a fault'."""
"""Wilson is publishing a poem entitled """"""""The City of the Plague"""""""". It is in the dramatic form and a perfect anomaly in literature. Wilson is a man of great genius and fancy but he is intoxicated with Wordsworth and a perfect dreamer of moons ships seas and solitudes were it not for this antihydrophobia (forgive my mangling of that long Greek word) I do not know what he might not be capable of'."""
"""Finish """"""""Caroline of Litchfield"""""""" and """"""""Marmotel's tales"""""""". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'."""
"""Finish """"""""Caroline of Litchfield"""""""" and """"""""Marmotel's tales"""""""". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'."""
"""Finish """"""""Caroline of Litchfield"""""""" and """"""""Marmotel's tales"""""""". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'."""
"""Finish """"""""Caroline of Litchfield"""""""" and """"""""Marmotel's tales"""""""". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'."""
"""Finish """"""""Caroline of Litchfield"""""""" and """"""""Marmotel's tales"""""""". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'."""
"""Mr Schlegel's Essays are most certainly worth reading, altho' you will not entirely agree with him in many of his opinions'."""
"""Byron to John Murray, 27 June 1816: 'I have traversed all Rousseau's ground -- with the Heloise before me -- & am struck to a degree with the force and accuracy of hs descriptions ...'"""
"""Read Curtius and work - Read the memoirs of the Prinsse of Bareith aloud.'"""
"""Shelley reads """"""""histoire de la Revolution par Rabault"""""""".'"""
"""William Wordsworth to John Scott, 25 February 1816, on own and contemporaries' endeavours to celebrate victory at Waterloo in verse: 'Southey is a Fellow labourer.  I have seen but little of his performance, but that little gave me great pleasure.'"""
"""I read Voltaires Romans. S. reads Lucretius ... talks with Clare'."""
"""I read Voltaires Romans. S. reads Lucretius ... talks with Clare'."""
"""In the evening I finish Curtius. S. reads & finishes Plutarchs life of Alexander. After tea S. reads the XXth chapter of Gibbon to me'"""
"""Read the Introduction to Sir H. Davy's Chemistry - write. In the evening read Anson's voyage and Curt. Shelley reads Don Q. aloud after tea - Finish Anson's voyage before night.'"""
"""Read the Introduction to Sir H. Davy's Chemistry - write. In the evening read Anson's voyage and Curt. Shelley reads Don Q. aloud after tea - Finish Anson's voyage before night.'"""
"""Shelley reads P.[eter] Pindars works aloud'"""
"""Write - read Voltaire and Quintus Curtius - a rainy day with thunder and lightning - Shelley finishes Lucretius and reads Pliny's letters'."""
"""Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read """"""""Glenarvon"""""""" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work which leaves an unpleasant impression ...' """
"""Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read """"""""Glenarvon"""""""" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work which leaves an unpleasant impression ...' """
"""Write - read Voltaire and Quintus Curtius - a rainy day with thunder and lightning - Shelley finishes Lucretius and reads Pliny's letters'."""
"""Write - read Voltaire and Quintus Curtius - a rainy day with thunder and lightning - Shelley finishes Lucretius and reads Pliny's letters'."""
"""after dinner read some of Livy but am stopt by the badness of the edition. Shelley reads Political justice'"""
"""Read Wilkins and Visconti on the Elgin marbles. Wilkins' assertions that Visconti does not think the relievos on the frieze and the metopes to be the work of Phillias not correct [...]'"""
"""Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in the evening'."""
"""Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in the evening'."""
"""Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in the evening'."""
"""Read Clarendon all day - Shelley writes to Albe [Byron] and other things - he finishes Lacratelle's history of the French Revolution - we walk out for a short time after dinner S. reads Lucian'."""
"""Read Clarendon all day - Shelley writes to Albe [Byron] and other things - he finishes Lacratelle's history of the French Revolution - we walk out for a short time after dinner S. reads Lucian'."""
"""Read Clarendon all day - Shelley writes to Albe [Byron] and other things - he finishes Lacratelle's history of the French Revolution - we walk out for a short time after dinner S. reads Lucian'."""
"""Drove out to Ledbury with Commeline, Ann, C, and M.N Junior [...]Having read Kitt's [NB Kett's] Flowers of Wit I pronounce them to be mere daisies. Everywhere there are anachronisms and tales so silly that it is surprising a man of any literary repute would set his name to them.'"""
"""Finish the 1st vol of Adele - & write - after dinner write to Fanny and go up to Diodati where I read the life Mad. Deffand'"""
"""Finish the 1st vol of Adele - & write - after dinner write to Fanny and go up to Diodati where I read the life Mad. Deffand'"""
"""I return always to the study of Physics with more pleasure - after trying """"""""The Philosophy of Mind"""""""". It is delightful, after wandering in the thick darkness of metaphysics?to behold again the fair face of truth. When will there arise a man who shall do for the science of mind - what Newton did for that of matter - establish its fundamental laws on the firm basis of induction - and discard forever those absurd theories - that so many dreamers have devised? - I believe this is a foolish question - for its answer is - never. - I am led to talk in this manner - by having lately read M[r.] Sweart's [Stewart's] """"""""History of Philosophy"""""""" in the supplement to the """"""""Encyclopedia Britannica""""""""[.] I doubt I am going to displease you - but I must say - that I do not recollect of ever having bestowed as much attention with so little effect - upon any author as upon Profr Stewart. Let me study his writings as I like - my mind seems only to turn on its axis - but without progressive or retrograde motion at all.' """
"""I return always to the study of Physics with more pleasure - after trying """"""""The Philosophy of Mind"""""""". It is delightful, after wandering in the thick darkness of metaphysics?to behold again the fair face of truth. When will there arise a man who shall do for the science of mind - what Newton did for that of matter - establish its fundamental laws on the firm basis of induction - and discard forever those absurd theories - that so many dreamers have devised? - I believe this is a foolish question - for its answer is - never. - I am led to talk in this manner - by having lately read M[r.] Sweart's [Stewart's] """"""""History of Philosophy"""""""" in the supplement to the """"""""Encyclopedia Britannica""""""""[.] I doubt I am going to displease you - but I must say - that I do not recollect of ever having bestowed as much attention with so little effect - upon any author as upon Profr Stewart. Let me study his writings as I like - my mind seems only to turn on its axis - but without progressive or retrograde motion at all.' """
"""read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - read several odes of Horace'"""
"""read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - read several odes of Horace'"""
"""read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - read several odes of Horace'"""
"""read Les Incas - Shelley reads Montaigne'"""
"""read Les Incas - Shelley reads Montaigne'"""
"""Not well - read Glenarvon all day and finish it'."""
"""Byron to Leigh Hunt, [?March-April 1816], on receptions of his poem The Story of Rimini: 'my sister and cousin ... were in fixed perusal & delight with it ...'"""
"""William Wordsworth to John Scott: """"""""I have read your late Champions with much pleasure"""""""""""
"""At a moment of such deep agony & I may add shame--when utterly disgraced judge Byron what my feelings must be at Murrays shewing me some beautiful verses of yours--I do implore you for God sake not to publish these could I have seen you one moment I would explain why--I have only time to add that however those who surround you may make you disbelieve it you will draw ruin on your own head and hers [Augusta Leigh's] if at this moment you shew these lines'."""
"""I speak of books as I read them, and I read them as I can get them. You are read up to twelve o' clock of the preceding day, and therefore must pardon the staleness of my subjects. I read yesterday the evidence of the Elgin Marble Committee. Lord Elgin has done a very useful thing in taking them away from the Turks. Do not throw pearls to swine; and take them away from swine when they are so thrown. They would have been destroyed there, or the French would have had them'."""
"""Read Quintius Curtius - Shelley reads Pliny's letters'"""
"""Read Quintius Curtius - Shelley reads Pliny's letters'"""
"""Byron to Pryce Gordon, [?June 1816]: '... I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of Casti has been to me; I have almost got him by heart.  I had read his """"""""Animali Parlanti,"""""""" but I think these """"""""Novelle"""""""" much better ...'"""
"""Byron to Pryce Gordon, [?June 1816]: '... I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of Casti has been to me; I have almost got him by heart.  I had read his """"""""Animali Parlanti,"""""""" but I think these """"""""Novelle"""""""" much better ...'"""
"""William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies: """""""" ... your poem [Rinaldo] I have read with considerable attention."""""""""""
"""I always tell you all the books worth notice that I read, and I rather counsel you to read Jacob's """"""""Spain"""""""", a book with some good sense in it, and not unentertaining; also, by all means, the first volume of Franklin's Letters. I will disinherit you if you do not admire everything written by Franklin. In addition to all other good qualities, he was thoroughly honest'."""
"""I always tell you all the books worth notice that I read, and I rather counsel you to read Jacob's """"""""Spain"""""""", a book with some good sense in it, and not unentertaining; also, by all means, the first volume of Franklin's Letters. I will disinherit you if you do not admire everything written by Franklin. In addition to all other good qualities, he was thoroughly honest'."""
"""read the memoirs aloud and begin the life of Holcroft'"""
"""read the memoirs aloud and begin the life of Holcroft'"""
"""Murray had written to Byron on September 12 [1816] that he had carried the manuscript of the third canto of Childe Harold to [William] Gifford [his literary advisor]... Although Gifford was suffering from jaundice, he sat up until he had finished the whole of it ...'"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""With regard to the division of the circle into 360 parts,- I think it cannot be done by elementary Geometry - at least if M. Gauss is right - who (Leslie tells us) has demonstrated that a polygon can be inscribed in a circle - directly - by means of circles and straight lines - only - when the number of its sides is a prime number and can be denoted by 2n + 1.'"""
"""Byron to Charles, 8th Lord Kinnaird, 15 May 1819: 'Three years & some months ago when you were reding [sic] """"""""Bertram"""""""" at your brother's -- on my exclaiming in the words of Parson Adams to his Son -- """"""""Lege Dick -- Lege"""""""" (on occasion of some interruption ... ) ... you replied ... """"""""my name is not Richard -- my Lord"""""""" ... This was a hint to me to address you in future with all Aristocratical decorum ...'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 7 June 1820: '[Goethe's] Faust I never read -- for I don't know German -- but Matthew Monk Lewis in 1816 at Coligny translated most of it to me viva voce ...'"""
"""[Marginalia]: an additional printed page, printed by the Buchan Portable Press, titled """"""""Letter from Princess Mary to Lord Buchan"""""""" has been inserted after p.196 and has the ms annotation 'This message is the last (as is believed) that his Majesty was capable of dictating in his right mind' . This appears to be in the same hand as the ms note at the end of the preface 'To Edwards [? deleted] Constable Esq. as a mark of my regard, Buchan: Edr. October 25th 1816' as does the ms poem pasted in facing the Contents page. Part Latin, part English, it begins 'Quanti est ostimanda [?] Virtus ...'. Page 195 has the line 'On literary envy ..' marked *  and the ms note '*In honour of the unfortunate ... George III'."""
"""Mr Sherer - did not think it [""""""""Emma""""""""] equal to either M P - which he liked the best of all - or P & P.'"""
"""Mr Sherer - did not think it [""""""""Emma""""""""] equal to either M P - which he liked the best of all - or P & P.'"""
"""Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it [""""""""Emma""""""""], but could not think it equal to P. & P. - Darcy & Elizabeth had spoilt them for anything else.'"""
"""Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it [""""""""Emma""""""""], but could not think it equal to P. & P. - Darcy & Elizabeth had spoilt them for anything else.'"""
"""Countess Craven - admired it [""""""""Emma""""""""] very much, but did not think it equal to P & P. - which she rqanked as the very first of it's [sic] sort.'"""
"""Miss Harriet Moore - admired it [""""""""Emma""""""""] very much, but M.P. still her favourite of all'."""
"""Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of """"""""Mansfield Park""""""""] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!'"""
"""Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of """"""""Mansfield Park""""""""] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!'"""
"""Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of """"""""Mansfield Park""""""""] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!'"""
"""Mrs Lutley Sclater - liked it [""""""""Emma""""""""] very much, better than M.P.'"""
"""Mrs Wroughton - did not like it so well as P. & P.'"""
"""I mentioned to Mr Blackwood that I had two tales I wished to publish, and at his request I gave him a reading of the manuscript. One of them was """"""""The Brownie"""""""", which, I believe, was not quite finished. He approved of it, but with """"""""The Bridal of Polmood"""""""" he would have nothing to do'."""
"""I mentioned to Mr Blackwood that I had two tales I wished to publish, and at his request I gave him a reading of the manuscript. One of them was """"""""The Brownie"""""""", which, I believe, was not quite finished. He approved of it, but with """"""""The Bridal of Polmood"""""""" he would have nothing to do'."""
"""In 1816, left alone in Bath by her husband, Mary Shelley records reading """"""""The Solitary Wanderer"""""""", Charlotte Smith's """"""""Letters of a Solitary Wanderer"""""""" (1799), a collection of interlocking tales in which a number of suffering women relate their stories. It is the single occasion her comprehensive reading diary mentions this book, which she seems to choose at this point to express a resentful, self-pitying protest against her desertion.'"""
"""Mrs Digweed - did not like it [""""""""Emma""""""""] so well as the others...'"""
"""Mrs Digweed - did not like it [""""""""Emma""""""""] so well as the others...'"""
"""Mrs Digweed - did not like it [""""""""Emma""""""""] so well as the others...'"""
"""For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr Johnson's, and many others. It was a usual practice for me to sit up to read after the family had retired for the night. I remember it was on one of these occasions that I read Lewis's """"""""Monk"""""""". On rising from my seat to go to bed, I was so impressed with dongeon horror, that I took the candle and stole up stairs, not daring to look either right or left, lest some Lady Angela should plunge a dagger into me!' """
"""For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr Johnson's, and many others. It was a usual practice for me to sit up to read after the family had retired for the night. I remember it was on one of these occasions that I read Lewis's """"""""Monk"""""""". On rising from my seat to go to bed, I was so impressed with dongeon horror, that I took the candle and ? up stairs, not daring to look either right or left, lest some Lady Angela should plunge a dagger into me!' """
"""For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr Johnson's, and many others. It was a usual practice for me to sit up to read after the family had retired for the night. I remember it was on one of these occasions that I read Lewis's """"""""Monk"""""""". On rising from my seat to go to bed, I was so impressed with dongeon horror, that I took the candle and ? up stairs, not daring to look either right or left, lest some Lady Angela should plunge a dagger into me!' """
"""For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr Johnson's, and many others. It was a usual practice for me to sit up to read after the family had retired for the night. I remember it was on one of these occasions that I read Lewis's """"""""Monk"""""""". On rising from my seat to go to bed, I was so impressed with dongeon horror, that I took the candle and ? up stairs, not daring to look either right or left, lest some Lady Angela should plunge a dagger into me!' """
"""For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, including Milton's, Shakespeare's, Sterne's, Dr Johnson's, and many others. It was a usual practice for me to sit up to read after the family had retired for the night. I remember it was on one of these occasions that I read Lewis's """"""""Monk"""""""". On rising from my seat to go to bed, I was so impressed with dongeon horror, that I took the candle and ? up stairs, not daring to look either right or left, lest some Lady Angela should plunge a dagger into me!' """
"""In early life, I have said, my attention was turned to politics. My first impressions were for universality. """"""""Cobbett's Register"""""""" and """"""""Wooler's Black Dwarf"""""""" were the first works I purchased and studied on political economy. It was my custom every Saturday evening, after my work was over, to go to the Market Place, and from a stall there, to purchase the breathings of those men of mind.'"""
"""In early life, I have said, my attention was turned to politics. My first impressions were for universality. """"""""Cobbett's Register"""""""" and """"""""Wooler's Black Dwarf"""""""" were the first works I purchased and studied on political economy. It was my custom every Saturday evening, after my work was over, to go to the Market Place, and from a stall there, to purchase the breathings of those men of mind.'"""
"""[EDITOR'S WORDS] She had, however, dwelt long enough on the idea [of aging] to make it the subject of a sportive poem, which she one evening read with a smiling countenance to her little family circle' [the poem is reproduced].'"""
"""[EDITOR'S WORDS] Although Mrs Hamilton never lost her relish for works of humour and imagination, she had, during the last six years of her life, a decided preference for compositions of a higher order. Dugald Stewart, Paley, and Allison, had long been the chosen companions of her private hours'."""
"""[EDITOR'S WORDS] Although Mrs Hamilton never lost her relish for works of humour and imagination, she had, during the last six years of her life, a decided preference for compositions of a higher order. Dugald Stewart, Paley, and Allison, had long been the chosen companions of her private hours'."""
"""[EDITOR'S WORDS] Although Mrs Hamilton never lost her relish for works of humour and imagination, she had, during the last six years of her life, a decided preference for compositions of a higher order. Dugald Stewart, Paley, and Allison, had long been the chosen companions of her private hours'."""
"""Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 24 February 1817: 'I saw in Switzerland in the autumn the poems of [James Wedderburn] Webster ... Amongst the ingredients of this volume I was not a little astonished to find an epitaph upon myself -- the desert of which I would postpone for a few years at least ...'"""
"""Mrs Lefroy - preferred it [""""""""Emma""""""""] to M.P - but like[d] M.P. least of all.'"""
"""He was reading an article by Darwin on Diseased Volition'"""
"""I have just read Dugald Stewart's """"""""Preliminary Dissertations"""""""". In the first place, it is totally clear of all his defects. No insane dread of misrepresentation; no discussion put off until another time, just at the moment it was expected, and would have been interesting; no unmanly timidity; less formality of style and cathedral pomp of sentence. The good, it would be trite to enumerate: - the love of human happiness and virtue, the ardour for the extension of knowledge, the command of fine language, happiness of allusion, varied and pleasing literature, tact, wisdom and moderation! Without these high qualities, we all know Stewart cannot write. I suspect he has misrepresented Horne Took, and his silence regarding Hartley is very censurable. I was amazingly pleased with his comparison of the universities to enormous hulks confined with mooring chains, everything flowing and progressing around them. Nothing can be more happy'."""
"""Dec 1816 - Fry recommences visits to Newgate prison: 'On her second visit, she was, at her own request, left alone amongst the women for some hours, and on that occasion, she read to them the parable of the Lord in the vineyard, in the 20th chapter of St Matthew; and made a few observations on the eleventh hour, and on Christ having come to save sinners, even those who might be said to have wasted the greater part of their lives estranged from Him. Some asked who Christ was; others feared that their day of salvation was passed.'"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""[Marginalia]"
"""[Marginalia]"
"""[Marginalia]"
"""[Byron] was reading an article by [Erasmus] Darwin on Diseased Volition (a semi-anticipation of Freud) and pointed out to her [Anne Isabella, his wife] a passage upon the patient's making a mystery of the diseased association, """"""""which if he could be persuaded to divulge, the effect would cease."""""""" Acting upon this hint from Darwin, and from him, she led him on to speak of his infirmity [i.e. his club foot]. He came to talk familiarly of his """"""""little foot"""""""" (as he called it) and said that some allowance must surely be made to him on the Day of Judgment, that he had often wanted to revenge himself on Heaven for it.'"""
"""My beloved hour of the day was when the [table] cloth was drawn, and I stole away from the dessert, and read Shakspere by firelight in winter in the drawing-room.  My mother was kind enough to allow this breach of good family manners; and again at a subsequent time when I took to newspaper reading very heartily [...] Our newspaper was the Globe'."""
"""Read ten pages of Quintius Curtius and Rousseau's reveries'."""
"""Read ten pages of Quintius Curtius and Rousseau's reveries'."""
"""William Wordsworth to Christopher Wordsworth: 'We thank you for your Consecration Sermon, which we received free of expense.  We have read it with much pleasure, and unite in thinking it excellently adapted to the occasion.  For my own part, I liked it still better upon the second than the first reading.'"""
"""[A]nd so you have never heard of Beppo--I think you said so at Devonshire House supper.  Now Heaven fail in granting me pardon for all my offenses if it is not by himself [Byron], & in his very best wit as good as any thing Swift ever wrote a flatterer would say better.  I read it having taken an Emetic for that head ache which troubled me so much the night I sat beside you & I must own it did delight me so that the Emetic faild [sic] in affecting me--now though this is not a pretty illustration of what should be felt in reading Poetry--believe me it is emphatic & expresses much more than fairer words--after all it would be kind in you to tell me if it is his'."""
"""[A]nd so you have never heard of Beppo--I think you said so at Devonshire House supper.  Now Heaven fail in granting me pardon for all my offenses if it is not by himself [Byron], & in his very best wit as good as any thing Swift ever wrote a flatterer would say better.'"""
"""How very very clever I think Beppo--I am quite sure it is his [Byron's]--& still more that Mr. Frere never could have written any thing like it'."""
"""Read bishop of Gloucester's Charge which I think excellent for its devotion, its liberality, its style and manner and think no harm would arrive to the church were all the bishops such Methodists as he appears in his charge.'"""
"""Byron to Augusta Leigh, 15 October 1816, from Milan: 'What has delighted me most is a manuscript collection (preserved in the Ambrosian library), of original love-letters and verses of Lucretia de Borgia & Cardinal Bembo ... the letters are so beautiful that I have done nothing but pore over them, & have made the librarian promise me a copy of them ... The verses are Spanish -- the letters Italian ... all in hr own hand-writing.'"""
"""Read Ides travels. S. reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening'."""
"""Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -- and their idol Goethe -- I have also read Wedderburne Webster -- and Ilderim -- and the Pamphleteer. -- --'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -- and their idol Goethe -- I have also read Wedderburne Webster -- and Ilderim -- and the Pamphleteer. -- --'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -- and their idol Goethe -- I have also read Wedderburne Webster -- and Ilderim -- and the Pamphleteer. -- --'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -- and their idol Goethe -- I have also read Wedderburne Webster -- and Ilderim -- and the Pamphleteer. -- --'"""
"""Byron to Thomas Moore, 6 November 1816: 'Among many things at Milan, one pleased me particularly, viz. the correspondence ... of Lucretia Borgia wth Cardinal Bembo ... I ... wished sorely to get a copy of one or two of the letters, but is was prohibited ... so I only got some of them by heart.  They are kept in the Ambrosian Library, which I often visited to look them over ...'"""
"""Read Ides travels. S. reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening'."""
"""Shelley's 24th birthday. Write  read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - after dinner we go up to Diodati but return soon - I read Curt. with Shelley and finish the 1st vol. after which we go out in the boat to set up the baloon but there is too much wind. We set it up from the land but it takes fire as soon as it is up - I finish the Reveries of Rousseau. Shelley reads and finishes Pliny's letters. & begins the panegyric of Trajan'."""
"""Shelley's 24th birthday. Write  read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - after dinner we go up to Diodati but return soon - I read Curt. with Shelley and finish the 1st vol. after which we go out in the boat to set up the baloon but there is too much wind. We set it up from the land but it takes fire as soon as it is up - I finish the Reveries of Rousseau. Shelley reads and finishes Pliny's letters. & begins the panegyric of Trajan'."""
"""Shelley's 24th birthday. Write  read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - after dinner we go up to Diodati but return soon - I read Curt. with Shelley and finish the 1st vol. after which we go out in the boat to set up the baloon but there is too much wind. We set it up from the land but it takes fire as soon as it is up - I finish the Reveries of Rousseau. Shelley reads and finishes Pliny's letters. & begins the panegyric of Trajan'."""
"""Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of the French papers chooses to tell me, -- or the advertisements of Mr. Colburn tagged to the end of your Quarterly review for the year ago.'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of the French papers chooses to tell me, -- or the advertisements of Mr. Colburn tagged to the end of your Quarterly review for the year ago.'"""
"""read the life of Lorenzo - shelley [sic] reads the appendix'"""
"""Pray say for me many grateful & kind things to Mr Young, with thanks for his dear Baxter, which I brought here with me, & read with pleasure very frequently. My friends in the opposite parlour have lent me another abridged work of Baxter's, edited by Benjamin Fawcett, & entitled """"""""Converse with God in Solitude"""""""". The chapter on friends taken from us by Death is worthy to be written in letters of gold; the rest, I have not yet read: but hope to like'."""
"""Pray say for me many grateful & kind things to Mr Young, with thanks for his dear Baxter, which I brought here with me, & read with pleasure very frequently. My friends in the opposite parlour have lent me another abridged work of Baxter's, edited by Benjamin Fawcett, & entitled """"""""Converse with God in Solitude"""""""". The chapter on friends taken from us by Death is worthy to be written in letters of gold; the rest, I have not yet read: but hope to like'."""
"""There is here a Mrs Hutton of Birmingham with whom I have struck up an acquaintance because she wrote a clever amusing little book called """"""""The Miser Married""""""""'."""
"""I have now read the remainder [underlined twice] nearly [end underlining] of Glenarvon! & should not give th[e Wr]iter as an Example of the good Ladies: the [wo]man absolutely holds forth the doctrine of [irre]sistable Passion, & that if Lady Avondale falls desperately in love with Lord Glenarvon, after marrying the Man of her own Choice, there is no help for it: if he spare her, well & good! if not she must fall! charming Morality & such as my dear Miss Houltons will never be taught.'"""
"""read Lucian aloud to Clare - I ode of Horace - In the evening the Quarterly Review and Lock [sic]'"""
"""read Lucian aloud to Clare - I ode of Horace - In the evening the Quarterly Review and Lock [sic]'"""
"""Draw and read Bryan Perdue'"""
"""Read Clarendon and Curtius - walk with Shelley - S. read Tasso'."""
"""Read Clarendon and Curtius - walk with Shelley - S. read Tasso'."""
"""Read Clarendon and Curtius - walk with Shelley - S. read Tasso'."""
"""Finish the 2nd vol. of Adele - write - read Curt. In the evening we go up to Diodati - Shelley finishes the Panegyric of Trajan and begins Tacitus'."""
"""Finish the 2nd vol. of Adele - write - read Curt. In the evening we go up to Diodati - Shelley finishes the Panegyric of Trajan and begins Tacitus'."""
"""finish Bryan Perdue - write - not well in the evening begin Sir C. Grandison'."""
"""finish Bryan Perdue - write - not well in the evening begin Sir C. Grandison'."""
"""Byron to Augusta Leigh, 6 November 1816: ' ... by the way Ada [his daughter]'s name is the same with that of the Sister of Charlemagne -- as I read the other day in a book treating of the Rhine.'"""
"""Very much struck at the unpreachable style of Clarke on the attributes, his logical and metaphysical views, his answers to Lucretius, Hobbesand spinoza. what a difference times and place create, were I to treat my congregation with the productions of this great writer, in three Sundays I should scarce expect half a dozen hearers, not six swine to devour his pearls'"""
"""[italics to indicate Percy Shelley's hand] Still at Havre - engage a passage - wind contrary [end italics] - read """"""""le crimenel secret"""""""" which is a very curious and striking book'"""
"""Read Rights of woman - Opuscula of Cicero'"""
"""Read Rights of woman - Opuscula of Cicero'"""
"""Byron to his father-in-law, Sir Ralph Noel, 7 February 1816: 'I have read Lady Byron's letter -- enclosed by you to Mrs. Leigh -- with much surprize and more sorrow.'"""
"""I have read both Emma and [torn and illegible]. In the first there is so little to remember, and in the last so much that one wishes to forget, that I am not inclined to write about them'."""
"""read Sir C.[harles] G.[randison]"""
"""Shelley reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening'"""
"""Read Curt. out in the boat with Shelley who reads Tacitus - translate and in the evening read Adele & Theodore'."""
"""Read Curt. out in the boat with Shelley who reads Tacitus - translate and in the evening read Adele & Theodore'."""
"""I have had a great treat this morning in perusing L. Byron's 3d Canto - Considered as a continuation of Child-Harold [sic] it has some incongruities and perhaps too much egoism still it is a powerful and energetic work and superior to every long poem of my noble friend's - I have had only time to read two articles of the Review which I was in a great hurry to do because I knew the authors of both and was informed of their being in Giffords hand before they were put to press, but I hope all the other articles are better'"""
"""I have had a great treat this morning in perusing L. Byron's 3d Canto - Considered as a continuation of Child-Harold [sic] it has some incongruities and perhaps too much egoism still it is a powerful and energetic work and superior to every long poem of my noble friend's - I have had only time to read two articles of the Review which I was in a great hurry to do because I knew the authors of both and was informed of their being in Giffords hand before they were put to press, but I hope all the other articles are better'"""
"""read Curt and Castle Rackrent aloud. S. finishes Castle Rackrent in the evening'."""
"""read Curt and Castle Rackrent aloud. S. finishes Castle Rackrent in the evening'."""
"""S. reads Don Quixote - afterwards read mem. of the Prin/sse of Ba/th aloud.'"""
"""S. reads Don Quixote - afterwards read mem. of the Prin/sse of Ba/th aloud.'"""
"""Finish the Rights of Woman - begin Chesterfields Letters to his son'"""
"""S. reads Gullivers Travels aloud'"""
"""We do not much like Mr Cooper's new Sermons; they are fuller of Regeneration & Conversion than ever - with the addition of his zeal in the cause of the Bible Society.'"""
"""I once parodied Gray's Bard without intending the least disrespect for that fine ode.'"""
"""S. finishes Political Justice Read Tacitus & Hume - work in the evening read Mandeville.'"""
"""S. finishes Political Justice Read Tacitus & Hume - work in the evening read Mandeville.'"""
"""S. finishes Political Justice Read Tacitus & Hume - work in the evening read Mandeville.'"""
"""Read Lalla Rookh. Not well all day'"""
"""Spent the afternoon in mending some of my things for the wash.  After tea, read aloud sermons 13+14 of Alison's."""
"""ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the Visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: '[school room] about twenty young women rose on our entrance and stood with their eyes cast to the ground. A young woman of respectable appearance, had offered herself as mistress, for keeping the young children in order; who were separated from their parents' words and placed in this room. I gave those who wished it permission to read to me, several could both read and write, some could say their letters, and others were in total ignorance, they wept as I asked them questions, and I read to them the parable of the prodigal son, as being particularly applicable to their present situation, they then resumed their needlework.'"""
"""ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: 'We next proceeded to the sick ward (it was in good order) and took a list of additional clothes wanted there, and read a chapter from the New Testament, we then bade adieu to this dismal abode'"""
"""It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, """"""""The Pleasures of Hope"""""""". I also repersued a large portion of Cowper's Poems; and, in spite of the unfavourable accounts of it given by critics, resolved upon reading Thomson's """"""""Liberty"""""""". This resolution I carried into effect, to my very considerable amusement, if not instruction. As to its poetical merits, I did not venture to sit in judgement upon them.'"""
"""It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, """"""""The Pleasures of Hope"""""""". I also repersued a large portion of Cowper's Poems; and, in spite of the unfavourable accounts of it given by critics, resolved upon reading Thomson's """"""""Liberty"""""""". This resolution I carried into effect, to my very considerable amusement, if not instruction. As to its poetical merits, I did not venture to sit in judgement upon them.'"""
"""[On hot summer afternoons Carter took shelter in the shaded parts of Hyde Park or Kensington Gardens] 'In the latter I remember to have passed one afternoon in a very pleasant way. I sat in a quiet, well-shaded spot, where I had the benefit of a cool atmosphere, and read once more Dr Beattie's """"""""Minstrel"""""""" - a poem which pleases me now quite as much as it did then. It is one of the poems of which I am never weary; from which circumstance alone, were there no other evidence, I should be led to infer that it is true poetry - the poetry of the heart no less than the imagination.'"""
"""S. reads Alcestes'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 10 January 1817, re visit to Mrs Threlkeld (very fond of C. Clarkson) at Halifax: 'I read her your last letter adding a few words for you, which were not there, of remembrance of her and her Daughter ... I hope my little trick ... was at the least an innocent one, and I flatter myself that, in the spirit ... what I made you say was just and true - indeed if I had not felt it to be so I should have been wounded instead of pleased by the pleasure which the dear good old lady expressed in hearing that she was remembered by you.'"""
"""Read Dante'"""
"""Read St. Leon aloud. Read Davis's travels in america - Tacitus'"""
"""Read St. Leon aloud. Read Davis's travels in america - Tacitus'"""
"""S. reads Wordsworths Poems aloud in the evening'."""
"""S. reads Hume'"""
"""Read Clarke and Madame La Roche Jaqueline'."""
"""Read Lambs Specimens'"""
"""Read Pliny.'"""
"""Read Warden's account of Buonuparte [sic]. Whether or not W wrote this account with a view to influence his readers in favour of Buonaparte I know not but I think there are few people who will not think rather better of napoleon after reading it than before.[continues on subject at length]'"""
"""My habits have been so much deranged by change of place, that I have not yet got rightly settled to my studies. I have read little since I saw you: and of that little, I doubt, I have not made the best use. Have you seen Playfairs introductory essay in the Encyclopedia? I am sure you will like it. It is distinguished for its elegance & perspicuity. I perused it some weeks ago, and thought it greatly preferable to Stewarts. Indeed I have often told you, that I am somewhat displeased with myself because I cannot admire this great philosopher, half as much as many critics do. He is so very stately - so transcendental - and withal so unintelligible, that I cannot look upon him with the needful veneration. I was reading the second volume of his """"""""Philosophy of the human mind"""""""", lately. It is principally devoted to the consideration of Reason. The greater part of the book is taken up with statements of the opinions of others; and it often required all my penetration to discover what the Author's own views of the matter were. He talks much about Analysis & Mathematics, and disports him very pleasantly upon geometrical reasoning; but leaves what is to me the principal difficulty, untouched. Tell me if you have read it.'"""
"""My habits have been so much deranged by change of place, that I have not yet got rightly settled to my studies. I have read little since I saw you: and of that little, I doubt, I have not made the best use. Have you seen Playfairs introductory essay in the Encyclopedia? I am sure you will like it. It is distinguished for its elegance & perspicuity. I perused it some weeks ago, and thought it greatly preferable to Stewarts. Indeed I have often told you, that I am somewhat displeased with myself because I cannot admire this great philosopher, half as much as many critics do. He is so very stately - so transcendental - and withal so unintelligible, that I cannot look upon him with the needful veneration. I was reading the second volume of his """"""""Philosophy of the human mind"""""""", lately. It is principally devoted to the consideration of Reason. The greater part of the book is taken up with statements of the opinions of others; and it often required all my penetration to discover what the Author's own views of the matter were. He talks much about Analysis & Mathematics, and disports him very pleasantly upon geometrical reasoning; but leaves what is to me the principal difficulty, untouched. Tell me if you have read it.'"""
"""You have no doubt seen the """"""""Tales of my Landlord"""""""". Certainly """"""""Waverl[e]y"""""""" and """"""""Mannering"""""""" and """"""""the Black Dwarf"""""""" were never written by the same person. If I mistake not - Dr M'Crie's strictures are a little too severe, on some occassions - and his love of the Cameronians too violent. The Worthy Doctor's humour is as heavy as lead'."""
"""You have no doubt seen the """"""""Tales of my Landlord"""""""". Certainly """"""""Waverl[e]y"""""""" and """"""""Mannering"""""""" and """"""""the Black Dwarf"""""""" were never written by the same person. If I mistake not - Dr M'Crie's strictures are a little too severe, on some occassions - and his love of the Cameronians too violent. The Worthy Doctor's humour is as heavy as lead'."""
"""A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the """"""""periodical line"""""""". A weekly newspaper the """"""""Scotsman"""""""" has reached the third number. I have seen them all - a little violent in their Whiggism; but well enough written in some places. Pillans & Jeffrey & Moncrieff and many others have been respectively named as the Editor. There is also a weekly essay """"""""The Sale Room"""""""" begun about six weeks ago - by whom, I know not. The writers are not without abilities; but the last numbers seemed to indicate that the work was about to give up the ghost.'"""
"""A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the """"""""periodical line"""""""". A weekly newspaper the """"""""Scotsman"""""""" has reached the third number. I have seen them all - a little violent in their Whiggism; but well enough written in some places. Pillans & Jeffrey & Moncrieff and many others have been respectively named as the Editor. There is also a weekly essay """"""""The Sale Room"""""""" begun about six weeks ago - by whom, I know not. The writers are not without abilities; but the last numbers seemed to indicate that the work was about to give up the ghost.'"""
"""read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya'"""
"""read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya'"""
"""'read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'In Coleridge's life I perceive an attack upon the then Committee of D[rury] L[ane] Theatre - for acting Bertram ... this is not very grateful nor graceful of the worthy auto-biographer [whom Byron had championed] ...'"""
"""Read Political Justice.'"""
"""After tea S. reads Spencer aloud.'"""
"""Shelley writes - reads Plato's Convivium - Gibbon aloud - Read several of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays'"""
"""Shelley writes - reads Plato's Convivium - Gibbon aloud - Read several of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays'"""
"""Shelley writes - reads Plato's Convivium - Gibbon aloud - Read several of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays'"""
"""S reads Berkeley and part of """"""""Much ado about nothing[""""""""] aloud; read XI XII XIII Essays of Hume.'"""
"""S. translates Promethes Desmotes and I write it'"""
"""read Pliny and Clarkes travels - Shelley writes his poem [The Revolt of Islam] - reads Hist. of Fr. Rev. and Spencer aloud in the evening'."""
"""between 1 and 2, the first 7 propositions of the 1st book of Euclid, with which I mean to renew my acquaintance and to proceed diligentlyin the hope that [...], may sometime attain a tolerable efficiency in mathematical studies[...] &"""
"""Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 14 April 1817: 'I have read a good deal of Voltaire lately ... what I dislike is his extreme inaccuracy ...'"""
"""It so happened that you were the very first man in England that testified approbation of my rude genius after the publication of the Mountain Bard, which you did to Mr Scott in very warm and friendly terms'."""
"""Finish the 1st book of Tacitus - become unwell - read Davis's travels in america - Godwins cursory strictures - reply to the attacks of Dr Parr'"""
"""S. reads Hist. de la philosophie Moderne. and Spencer aloud'"""
"""S. reads Hist. de la philosophie Moderne. and Spencer aloud'"""
"""S. reads Hist. of [French]. Rev. and corrects F. write Preface'"""
"""before breakfast, props.24+25 lib. Euclid"""
"""Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 15 December 1817: 'I think your Elegy a remarkably good one ... I do not know whether you wished me to retain the copy, but I shall retain it till you tell me otherwise; and am very much obliged by the perusal.'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 15 July 1817: 'I lent [M. G.] Lewis who is at Venice ... your extracts from Lalla Rookh -- & Manuel -- out of contradiction it may be -- he likes the last -- & is not much taken with the first of these performances.'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 15 July 1817: 'I lent [M. G.] Lewis who is at Venice ... your extracts from Lalla Rookh -- & Manuel -- out of contradiction it may be -- he likes the last -- & is not much taken with the first of these performances.'"""
"""All went to morning church & said the sacrement [...] Read the psalms & lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and...my aunt read aloud 17, Polwhele."""
"""Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817: 'I have read 'Lallah Rookh' -- but not with sufficient attention yet -- for I ride about -- & lounge -- & ponder & -- two or three other things -- so that my reading is very desultory & not so attentive as it used to be.'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am the more confirmed in this - by having lately gone over some of our Classics - particularly Pope ... I took Moore's poems & my own & some others - & went over them side by side with Pope's - and I was really astonished ... and mortified - at the ineffable distance in point of sense - harmony - effect - & even Imagination Passion - & Invention - between the little Queen Anne's Man - & us of the lower Empire ...'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am the more confirmed in this - by having lately gone over some of our Classics - particularly Pope ... I took Moore's poems & my own & some others - & went over them side by side with Pope's - and I was really astonished ... and mortified - at the ineffable distance in point of sense - harmony - effect - & even Imagination Passion - & Invention - between the little Queen Anne's Man - & us of the lower Empire ...'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am the more confirmed in this - by having lately gone over some of our Classics - particularly Pope ... I took Moore's poems & my own & some others - & went over them side by side with Pope's - and I was really astonished ... and mortified - at the ineffable distance in point of sense - harmony - effect - & even Imagination Passion - & Invention - between the little Queen Anne's Man - & us of the lower Empire ...'"""
"""S reads Lady Morgans """"""""France"""""""".'"""
"""Read, read, read M.Leod's Narrative of the Voyage of the Alceste to China, & her wreck in coming home. Ellis's Account of the Embassy is comparatively dull, but I had it lent me, & was glad to swap.'"""
"""Read, read, read M.Leod's Narrative of the Voyage of the Alceste to China, & her wreck in coming home. Ellis's Account of the Embassy is comparatively dull, but I had it lent me, & was glad to swap.'"""
"""An account in the papers of Mrs W. Long being married to Rich the Rope dancer, old Billy Long was a fine contrast to him.'"""
"""Read Cumberlands memoirs'"""
"""Mr Boswell the younger. Malone's papers.'"""
"""Read Buffon in the evening'"""
"""Read Buonaparte's Memorial to Sir Hudson Lowe, a poor performance and utterly unworthy his fallen greatness'."""
"""read George Dandin'"""
"""Read Pliny - work - Shelley read[s] Hist. French Revolution.'"""
"""Read Pliny - work - Shelley read[s] Hist. French Revolution.'"""
"""Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and begins Lalla Rookh'"""
"""[Shelley] begins reading aloud Cynthia's revels - writes - and read the Oedipus of Sophocles'"""
"""[Shelley] begins reading aloud Cynthia's revels - writes - and read the Oedipus of Sophocles'"""
"""Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and begins Lalla Rookh'"""
"""Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and begins Lalla Rookh'"""
"""Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and begins Lalla Rookh'"""
"""Read the little thief - walk. S reads """"""""France"""""""".'"""
"""Read the little thief - walk. S reads """"""""France"""""""".'"""
"""Account in paper of persons sent to tower for high treason.'"""
"""Not well - read the Martial Maid & the Wild goose chase of Beaumont and Fletcher'"""
"""Not well - read the Martial Maid & the Wild goose chase of Beaumont and Fletcher'"""
"""Had no time for Eudid but looked into Emerson's mechanics for 1/4 hour, as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalton's lectures which are to begin on Wednesday and which I mean to attend."""
"""had no time for Euclid but looked into Emerson's Mechanics for 1/4 hour as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalton's lectures which are to begin on Wednesday."""
"""Read the pamphlet Mr Boswell recommended:, natural, certainly, and the man had too much provocation for his act.'"""
"""[present at dinner at Mr Murray's was] 'The Mrs Graham who wrote the lively India Journal, a delightful woman!'"""
"""finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'."""
"""finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'."""
"""finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'."""
"""?Upon the whole, this play with the powerful assistance of eminent actors and scenical illusion and burning palaces, and processions with towers of the Inquisition in perspective and Moors who preach the Gospel to Christians just as they are going to be burnt for not believing it and half mad, half poisoned heroines who visit their lovers in dungeons with wreaths of flowers on their heads, may produce an effect on the stage ? but what effect will it produce in the closet??"""
"""H. J. Jackson notes Hester Lynch Piozzi's notes to Pettit's Anecdotes (borrowed from her friend Edward Mangin in 1817), written by her onto separate sheets of paper, which were cut up and pasted into the relevant sections of the text by Mangin."""
"""[Marginalia]: very brief annotations, bookmarks and marginal marks, indicating active use when on visit to Paris. Also has several tiny samples of fabric pinned into inside back cover with some notes eg """"""""'ong gloves 2-16'."""
"""Just after ten read aloud to my aunt the very favourable review of Lallah Rookh; an Oriental romance by Thomas Moore...The extracts from this poetic romance are very beautiful."""
"""S. reads """"""""France"""""""" - read Romans de Voltaire - Hume'"""
"""Read Mathilde et Eugenie'"""
"""They that cultivate literary small-talk have been greatly attracted for some / time by the late number of Blackwoods (formerly the Edinr) Magazine.  It contains many slanderous insinuations against the Publisher's rivals - particularly a paper entitled 'translation of a Chaldee manuscript'..."""
"""I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it."""
"""Some time since, all the world was astonished at the 2nd number of """"""""Blackwoods (formerly the Edinr) magazine"""""""" - The greater part of it is full of gall: but the most venomous article is the """"""""translation of a Chaldee manuscript"""""""" said to be found in the library of Paris -  It is written in the phrase of the Scriptures - [and gives] an allegorical account of the origin & end of the late """"""""Edinr magazine"""""""" - greatly to the [dis]paragement of Constable & the Editors - Most of the Authors of """"""""Edinr"""""""" are characterised with great acrimony - under the likeness of birds & beasts & creeping things -  """"""""Blackwood"""""""" is like to be beleaguered with prosecutions for it - two are already raised against him. Replies in the shape of """"""""explanations"""""""", """"""""letters to Drs M'Crie and Thomson"""""""" have been put forth - more are promised - and doubtless, rejoinders are in a state of preparation. Whatever may become of """"""""Blackwood"""""""" or his antagonists - the """"""""reading"""""""" or rather the talking """"""""public"""""""" is greatly beholden to the Author. He has kept its jaws moving these four weeks - and the sport is not finished yet'."""
"""I have laughed at least as heartily at the continuation of """"""""Daniel"""""""" as you did at the original the conceit is excellent indeed I see that mine was quite an imperfect thing without some description of the forces on the other side - the third chapter however is very faulty - the characters are made too plain and the language of scripture compleatly departed from. I have remedied that in proof in great measure but alas it is out of time! - As it is it will create great interest I am certain of its popularity as well as its being blamed. """"""""Maggy Scott"""""""" is likewise a good fancy it has no faults but one the name should not have been """"""""Dinmont"""""""" else he should have spoken [italics] Scotish [sic, end italics]'."""
"""I have laughed at least as heartily at the continuation of """"""""Daniel"""""""" as you did at the original the conceit is excellent indeed I see that mine was quite an imperfect thing without some description of the forces on the other side - the third chapter however is very faulty - the characters are made too plain and the language of scripture compleatly departed from. I have remedied that in proof in great measure but alas it is out of time! - As it is it will create great interest I am certain of its popularity as well as its being blamed. """"""""Maggy Scott"""""""" is likewise a good fancy it has no faults but one the name should not have been """"""""Dinmont"""""""" else he should have spoken [italics] Scotish [sic, end italics]'."""
"""I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'"""
"""I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'"""
"""I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'"""
"""I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'"""
"""I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'"""
"""I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'"""
"""Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plato'"""
"""Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plato'"""
"""Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plato'"""
"""Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plato'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817: 'There have been two Articles in the Venice papers one a review of C. Lamb's """"""""Glenarvon"""""""" ... the other a review of C[hilde] Har[ol]d in whiich it proclaims me the most rebellious and contumacious Admmirer of Buonaparte -- now surviving in Europe; -- both these Articles are translations from the literary Gazette of German Jena ... they are some weeks old ... I have conserved these papers as curiosities.'"""
"""Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plato'"""
"""Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plato'"""
"""Read Mandeville all day & finish it. S. reads Mandeville.'"""
"""Read Mandeville all day & finish it. S. reads Mandeville.'"""
"""Read Lord Chesterfield - part of the Lay sermon'"""
"""S. reads Homer and writes'"""
"""Finished second volume of Burder. Began Gibbon's account of his own life.'"""
"""Began Gibbon's account of his life; I think he is but a bad biographer having given little amiability to his own character, which is not increased by his noble commentator. [John Holroyd, Lord Sheffield]'"""
"""ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 2 May 1817: 'Rose early and visited Newgate where most of the Committee met to receive the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs, several Aldermen, among whom were Sir William Curtis, Atkins and some of the Gaol Committee ... The women were assembled as usual, looking particularly clean, and Elizabeth Fry had commenced reading a Psalm, when the whole of this party entered this already crowded room. Her reading was thus interrupted for a short time. She looked calmly on the approaching gentlemen, who, soon perceiving the solemnity of her occupation, stood against the multitude; whilst Elizabeth Fry resumed her office, and the women their quietude; and in an impressive tone told them, she never permitted any trifling circumstance to interrupt the very solemn and important engagement of reading the Holy Scriptures ... The usual silence ensued after the reading, then the women withdrew. We could not help feeling particularly glad that the gentlemen were present at this reading'"""
"""Read the Round Table'"""
"""Read Apuleius. S. reads Spencer aloud'."""
"""Read Apuleius. S. reads Spencer aloud'."""
"""I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c. Coxe is an intelligent man, and communicates in a very popular manner considerable information concerning the countries thro' which he passed - Hume you know to be distinct & impartial: but he has less sympathy than might be expected with the heroic patriots - the Hampdens & the Sidneys that glorify the pages of English history. I fear Smollett is going to be a confused creature. I have read but a volume of Gibbon - and I do not like him - his style is flowery - his sarcasms wicked - his notes oppressive, often beastly.'"""
"""I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c. Coxe is an intelligent man, and communicates in a very popular manner considerable information concerning the countries thro' which he passed - Hume you know to be distinct & impartial: but he has less sympathy than might be expected with the heroic patriots - the Hampdens & the Sidneys that glorify the pages of English history. I fear Smollett is going to be a confused creature. I have read but a volume of Gibbon - and I do not like him - his style is flowery - his sarcasms wicked - his notes oppressive, often beastly.'"""
"""I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c. Coxe is an intelligent man, and communicates in a very popular manner considerable information concerning the countries thro' which he passed - Hume you know to be distinct & impartial: but he has less sympathy than might be expected with the heroic patriots - the Hampdens & the Sidneys that glorify the pages of English history. I fear Smollett is going to be a confused creature. I have read but a volume of Gibbon - and I do not like him - his style is flowery - his sarcasms wicked - his notes oppressive, often beastly.'"""
"""I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c. Coxe is an intelligent man, and communicates in a very popular manner considerable information concerning the countries thro' which he passed - Hume you know to be distinct & impartial: but he has less sympathy than might be expected with the heroic patriots - the Hampdens & the Sidneys that glorify the pages of English history. I fear Smollett is going to be a confused creature. I have read but a volume of Gibbon - and I do not like him - his style is flowery - his sarcasms wicked - his notes oppressive, often beastly.'"""
"""I perused your theorems with some attention.  They are well worthy of a place in the Courier - though not for the purpose you mention. Mr Johnston, if I mistake not, is a small gentleman, whom it would be no honour to demolish.'"""
"""In the evening S. finishes reading MacBeth'"""
"""Read """"""""France""""""""'"""
"""Shelley reads the first act of the faithful Shepherdess aloud.'"""
"""Finish the Family of Montorio'"""
"""Read Tacitus and les lettres d'una Peruviana'"""
"""Read Tacitus - 100 lines of the Georgics'"""
"""S walks - & reads I book of Paradise Lost in the evening.'"""
"""Read Tacitus - Clarkes travels - transcribe for S. - S writes - reads several of the plays of Aeschylus and Spencer aloud in the evening'"""
"""Wiliam Wordsworth to Daniel Stuart, 22 June 1817: 'By the bye, it was not till this morning that I read the case of Stuart versus Lovell.  What a miscreant - If I had been upon the Jury, and had found that man possessed property that would bear the damages I should have fixed upon ?700 the precise sum which he accused you of embezzling ... '"""
"""read Tacitus and le Testament'"""
"""Ripon Ball [...] The papers full of the trial of and acquital of Hone who defended himself very ingeniously on his being indicted ex officio by the Atorney General for a libel on the Book of Common Prayer [Discusses parody] I once parodied Gray's Bard without intending the least disrespect to that fine ode.'"""
"""Read the report of the secret committee setting forth the treasonable attempts to overthrow the government and divide all the property.'"""
"""Went hunting [...] saw Mr Claridge's advertisement for the sale of 11, 695 trees of which 5241 were oaks.'"""
"""[James Edward Austen] read his two Chapters to us the first Evening; - both good - but especially the last in our opinion. We think it has more of the Spirit & Entertainment of the early part of his Work, the first 3 or 4 Chapters, than some of the subsequent...'"""
"""Your Anne is dreadful - . But nothing offends me so much as the absurdity of not being able to pronounce the word Shift. I could forgive her any follies in English, rather than the Mock Modesty of that french word...'"""
"""Shelley reads Arrian's Historia Indicae [sic]'"""
"""Do not oblige him to read any more. - Have mercy on him and tell him the truth [about the authorship of Austen's novels] & make him an apology...he deserves better treatment than to be obliged to read any more of my Works.'"""
"""read Pliny and walk. S. reads a canto of Spencer'"""
"""Read Tacitus and Hume. S reads Gibbon - read G[e]orgics - 194'"""
"""Saw today in the paper that Philip's Norton was given to Mr Warner'."""
"""We have been reading the """"""""Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo,"""""""" & generally with much approbation. Nothing will please all the world, you know; but parts of it suit me better than much that he has written before. The opening - the Proem I beleive [sic] he calls it - is very beautiful. One cannot but grieve for the loss of the Son so fondly described. Has he at all recovered it?' """
"""Read Miss Edgeworth's dramas'."""
"""ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 24 May 1817: 'I read to Woodman, who is not in the state of mind we could wish for her, indeed, so unnatural is her situation, that one can hardly tell how or in what manner to meet her case'"""
"""Read Anna St Ives'"""
"""I have had a proof of a review of my dramas by Gillies - the analysis is good but the whole of the part that refers to me as the author I dislike but an author has no right to be either satisfied or dissatisfied with a review - it is kindly meant in honest G. and I think must be admitted'."""
"""Assisted my Aunt in reading prayers in the afternoon. In the evening read aloud sermons 8+9, Hoole."""
"""Read sleeper awakened in the arabian nights'"""
"""Read Suetonius and finish Anna St Ives'"""
"""Read Suetonius and finish Anna St Ives'"""
"""What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my conscience with the thought that I shall study very diligently this winter. Heaven grant it be so! for without increasing in knowledge what profits it to live? Yet the commencement has been inauspicious. Three weeks ago I began to read Wallace's """"""""Fluxions"""""""" in the Encyclopaedia, and had proceeded a little way, when the """"""""Quarterly Review"""""""", some problems in a very silly Literary and Statistical Magazine of which the the schoolmasters are supporters, Madm de Sta?l's """"""""Germany"""""""", etc. etc., have suspended my operations these ten days. After all I am afraid that this winter will pass as others have done before it - unmarked by improvement; and what is to hinder the next, & its followers till the end of the short season allotted me to do so likewise?' """
"""What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my conscience with the thought that I shall study very diligently this winter. Heaven grant it be so! for without increasing in knowledge what profits it to live? Yet the commencement has been inauspicious. Three weeks ago I began to read Wallace's """"""""Fluxions"""""""" in the Encyclopaedia, and had proceeded a little way, when the """"""""Quarterly Review"""""""", some problems in a very silly Literary and Statistical Magazine of which the the schoolmasters are supporters, Madm de Sta?l's """"""""Germany"""""""", etc. etc., have suspended my operations these ten days. After all I am afraid that this winter will pass as others have done before it - unmarked by improvement; and what is to hinder the next, & its followers till the end of the short season allotted me to do so likewise?' """
"""What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my conscience with the thought that I shall study very diligently this winter. Heaven grant it be so! for without increasing in knowledge what profits it to live? Yet the commencement has been inauspicious. Three weeks ago I began to read Wallace's """"""""Fluxions"""""""" in the Encyclopaedia, and had proceeded a little way, when the """"""""Quarterly Review"""""""", some problems in a very silly Literary and Statistical Magazine of which the the schoolmasters are supporters, Madm de Sta?l's """"""""Germany"""""""", etc. etc., have suspended my operations these ten days. After all I am afraid that this winter will pass as others have done before it - unmarked by improvement; and what is to hinder the next, & its followers till the end of the short season allotted me to do so likewise?' """
"""I told you I had seen the """"""""Quarterly Review"""""""". You would notice its contents in the newspaper. It is a long time since I ceased to be one of its admirers. The writers pos[s]ess no inconsiderable share of dogmatism; and their learning, which they are, to an unpleasant degree, fond of displaying[,] is of that minute & scholastic nature which is eminently distinguished from knowledge. Moreover their zeal for the """"""""Social order"""""""" seems to eat them up[,] and their horror of revolution is violent as a hydrophobia. These qualities are prominent in the last number - and accordingly it contains much disgusting matter; but I like it better as a whole, than some of its predecessors. There is in it a distant and respectful but severe criticism on Dugald Stewart's writings, which comes much nearer my views of his character, than any of the panegyrics which the Edinr Reviewers have so lavishly bestowed upon him.' """
"""The other night I sat up till four o'clock, reading Matthew Lewis's """"""""Monk"""""""". It is the most stupid & villainous novel that I have read for a great while. Considerable portions of it are grossly indecent[,] not to say brutish - one does not care a straw about one of the characters - and tho' """"""""little Mat"""""""" has legions of ghosts & devils at his bidding - one views their movements with profound indifference.' """
"""Felicia Hemans to John Murray, 26 February 1817, having just sent to him the MS of """"""""Modern Greece"""""""": 'Had I been aware of the very limited taste for the Arts which you inform me is displayed by the Public, I should certainly have applied myself to some other subject; but having seen so many works advertised on Sculpture, painting, &c. I was naturally led to imagine the contrary'."""
"""Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus'"""
"""Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus'"""
"""Read Suetonius and Defoe on the Plague'"""
"""Finish Defoe'"""
"""[Attended] the Agricultural Committee in Ripon. Read Clarke, the first volume, and Burder's Illustration of Scripture, one volume'."""
"""[Attended] the Agricultural Committee in Ripon. Read Clarke, the first volume, and Burders Illustration of Scripture, one volume.'"""
"""Read Tacitus and Julie'"""
"""read and fin. City of the Plague'"""
"""Read Tacitus and the three brothers - S reads Gibbon'"""
"""Read Tacitus and the three brothers - S reads Gibbon'"""
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"""Read Suetonius and Miss Edgeworths Comic dramas. F[anny] Holcrofts novel'"""
"""Read Suetonius and Miss Edgeworths Comic dramas. F[anny] Holcrofts novel'"""
"""Read 3rd Canto of Childe Harold'"""
"""I cannot tell you how much I think of the Magazine it is so interesting and spirited throughout it is safe'"""
"""S. reads Spencer aloud & finishes the first & begins the second book.'"""
"""Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the plays of Sophocles - & Antony & Cleopatra of Shakespeare and Othello aloud'"""
"""Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the plays of Sophocles - & Antony & Cleopatra of Shakespeare and Othello aloud'"""
"""Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the plays of Sophocles - & Antony & Cleopatra of Shakespeare and Othello aloud'"""
"""Finish the three brothers'"""
"""I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Political Justice & 8 Cantos of his poem.'"""
"""I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Political Justice & 8 Cantos of his poem.'"""
"""I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Political Justice & 8 Cantos of his poem.'"""
"""Read Catiline's Conspiracy - Strath allan'"""
"""Read Catiline's Conspiracy - Strath allan'"""
"""Wood's account of the Isle of Man details some laws for the regulation of servants [...] which prevailed till 1777, so absurd as scarcely to be credible if they had not been inscribed in their statute book. Read Lord Chesterfields [...]'"""
"""Read Lord Chesterfield's letters to his gidson in which I see nothing to admire but the gentle-manly style, but his lax morality is shocking to every serious thinking man.'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1817, on review of his work in Quarterly Review received two days previously: '... I ... flatter myself that the writer ... will not regret that the perusal of this has given me as much gratification -- as any composition of that nature could give -- & more than any other ever has given ...'"""
"""write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'."""
"""write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'."""
"""write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'."""
"""His letters [PB Shelley's in relation to his desertion of his wife] were really curious. A more singular display of the total want of all moral feeling under the guise of liberality and enlightened sentiment I should suppose had never before been exhibited. The Cause was heard in the Chancellor's private room out of compassion to Mr Shelley and his family. The account which appeared in the papers must have been written by himself, or his friend Mr Hunt of the """"""""Examiner"""""""" who was present, and they went so far that the Chancellor intimated that he would have a rehearing of the cause in public and they immediately became silent'."""
"""His letters [PB Shelley's in relation to his desertion of his wife] were really curious. A more singular display of the total want of all moral feeling under the guise of liberality and enlightened sentiment I should suppose had never before been exhibited. The Cause was heard in the Chancellor's private room out of compassion to Mr Shelley and his family. The account which appeared in the papers must have been written by himself, or his friend Mr Hunt of the """"""""Examiner"""""""" who was present, and they went so far that the Chancellor intimated that he would have a rehearing of the cause in public and they immediately became silent'."""
"""Day on which E. Fry read the new rules to the female prisoners at Newgate: 'when this business was concluded, one of the visitors read aloud the 15th chapter of Luke - the parable of the barren fig tree, seeming applicable to the audience'"""
"""Byron to editor of a Venice newspaper, denying that Napoleon was the protagonist of (?) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III, [?April 1817]: 'Sir, In your Journal of 27th. March I perceive an article purporting to be translated from the literary Gazette of Jena, and referring to a recent publication of mine ...' """
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 30 August 1817, from Genoa: 'Mr. Wishaw leaves to-morrow for Florence.  I showed him a sketch of the beginning for """"""""The Life of Lady Russell,"""""""" which he much approved of [...] then during the evening he read to us the list of the MSS. of poor Horner, and some pieces of a journal of Lord Byron's in Switzerland, put down [italics]au coin de son etrange esprit[end italics].' """
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 30 August 1817, from Genoa: 'Mr. Wishaw leaves to-morrow for Florence.  I showed him a sketch of the beginning for """"""""The Life of Lady Russell,"""""""" which he much approved of [...] then during the evening he read to us the list of the MSS. of poor Horner, and some pieces of a journal of Lord Byron's in Switzerland, put down [italics]au coin de son etrange esprit[end italics].' """
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 30 August 1817, from Genoa: 'Mr. Wishaw leaves to-morrow for Florence.  I showed him a sketch of the beginning for """"""""The Life of Lady Russell,"""""""" which he much approved of [...] then during the evening he read to us the list of the MSS. of poor Horner, and some pieces of a journal of Lord Byron's in Switzerland, put down [italics]au coin de son etrange esprit[end italics].' """
"""Read the fall of Sejanus'"""
"""S reads Gibbon a[nd] 2 book of Paradise Lost.'"""
"""Read Julie - S reads Homer'"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""Read Julie - S reads Homer'"""
"""I received about a month ago the Revd Willm Thomson of Ochiltree's new translation of the Testament.  Of course I am no judge of his 'new renderings'; but the stile both of writing & thinking displayed in those parts which I have looked at, is dull & sluggish as the clay itself.  He brags of having altered the expressions of the old translation - every body I suppose will readily admit this - and be ready to wish him joy of all the honour than [that] can arise from such alterations...'"""
"""I have been reading little [since I last wrote to you] except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c.  Coxe is an intelligent man, and communicates in a very popular manner considerable information concerning the countries thro which he passed.'"""
"""Wiliam Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 19 [Sept] 1817: 'I have not read Mr. Coleridge's """"""""Biographia"""""""", having contented myself with skimming parts of it ... '"""
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"""Soon after my arrival here, I fell to Wallace's fluxions, with might and main.  I would study, I thought, with great vehemence, every night - and the two hours at noon, which I have to dispose of, I would devote to the reading of history and other lighter matters - But alas! two hours I found to be insufficien[t] - by degrees poor Wallace was encroached upon - and is now all but finally discarded.  His introduction, it must be confessed, is ponderous & repulsive.  His horror of the binomial theorem leads him into strange bye-paths.  But he demonstartes [sic] with great rigour.'"""
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"""Byron to Thomas Moore, 25 March 1817, on Alpine travels in 1816: 'I kept a journal of the whole for my sister Augusta, which she copied and let Murray see.' """
"""Byron to Thomas Moore, 25 March 1817, on Alpine travels in 1816: 'I kept a journal of the whole for my sister Augusta, which she copied and let Murray see.' """
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"""During my stay with the clergyman my mother again became a servant in the family and well do I remember reading by the kitchen fire, during the long winter nights. My favourite books were two folio volumes, with illustrations- one a history of Europe, the other a history of England. My interest in those books was intense, and many times have I thought whilst poring over them, 'shall I ever see any of the places here described?'"""
"""During my stay with the clergyman my mother again became a servant in the family and well do I remember reading by the kitchen fire, during the long winter nights. My favourite books were two folio volumes, with illustrations- one a history of Europe, the other a history of England. My interest in those books was intense, and many times have I thought whilst poring over them, """"""""shall I ever see any of the places here described?""""""""'"""
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"""The elderly Harriet Martineau reflects upon her altered reading capacity: 'I could not now read """"""""Lalla Rookh"""""""" through before breakfast, as I did when it appeared.  I cannot read new novels [...] while I can read with more pleasure than ever the old favourites, -- Miss Austen's and Scott's.  My pleasure in Voyages and Travels is almost an insanity'."""
"""Captain Austen. - liked it extremely, observing that though there might be more Wit in P & P - & an higher Morality in M P - yet altogether, on account of it's [sic] peculiar air of Nature throughout, he preferred it to either.'"""
"""Mrs F.A. - liked & admired it very much indeed, but must still prefer P & P.'"""
"""Mrs J. Bridges - preferred it to all the others.'"""
"""Miss Sharp - better than M.P. - but not so well as P. & P. - pleased with the Heroine for her Originality, delighted with Mr K - & called Mrs Elton beyond praise. - dissatisfied with Jane Fairfax.'"""
"""Cassandra - better than P. & P. - but not so well as M.P.'"""
"""Mr & Mrs J. A. - did not like it so well as either of the 3 others.  Language different from the others; not so easily read.'"""
"""Mr & Mrs J. A. - did not like it so well as either of the 3 others.  Language different from the others; not so easily read.'"""
"""Miss Bigg - not equal to either P & P. - or M.P. - objected to the sameness of the subject (Match-making) all through. - Too much of Mr Elton & H. Smith.  Language superior to the others.'"""
"""Mrs & Miss Craven - liked it very much, but not so much as the others.'"""
"""Mrs & Miss Craven - liked it very much, but not so much as the others.'"""
"""Mr Sherer - did not think it equal to either M P - (which he liked the best of all) or P & P. - Displeased with my pictures of Clergymen.'"""
"""Miss Bigg - on reading it a second time, liked Miss Bates much better than at first, & expressed herself as liking all the people of Highbury in general, except Harriet Smith - but could not help still thinking [italics] her [close italics] too silly in her Loves.'"""
"""The family at Upton Gray - all very amused with it. - Miss Bates a great favourite with Mrs Beaufoy.'"""
"""Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it, but could not think it equal to P & P. - Darcy & Elizabeth had spoilt them for anything else.  - Mr. K. however, an excellent character; Emma better luck than a Matchmaker often has. - Pitied Jane Fairfax - thought Frank Churchill better treated than he deserved.'"""
"""Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it, but could not think it equal to P & P. - Darcy & Elizabeth had spoilt them for anything else.  - Mr. K. however, an excellent character; Emma better luck than a Matchmaker often has. - Pitied Jane Fairfax - thought Frank Churchill better treated than he deserved.'"""
"""Countess Craven - admired it very much, but did not think it equal to P & P. - which she ranked as the very first of it's [sic] sort.'"""
"""Mrs Guiton - thought it too natural to be interesting.'"""
"""Miss Terry - admired it very much, particularly Mrs Elton.'"""
"""Henry Sanford - very much pleased with it - delighted with Miss Bates, but thought Mrs Elton the best-drawn Character in the Book. - Mansfield Park however, still his favourite.'"""
"""Mr Haden - [italics] quite [end italics] delighted with it.  Admired the Character of Emma.'"""
"""Miss Isabella Herries - did not like it - objected to my exposing the sex in the character of the Heroine - convinced I had meant Mrs & Miss Bates for some acquaintance of theirs - People whom I never heard of before.'"""
"""Miss Harriet Moore - admired it very much, but M.P. still her favourite of all.'"""
"""Countess Morley - delighted with it.'"""
"""Mr Cockerelle - liked it so little, that Fanny would not send me his opinion.'"""
"""Mrs Dickson - did not much like it - thought it [italics] very [end italics] inferior to P & P. - Liked it the less, from there being a Mr & Mrs Dixon in it.'"""
"""Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!'"""
"""Mr B. Lefroy - thought that if there had been more Incident, it would be equal to any of the others.  -The Characters quite as well drawn & supported as in any, & from being more everyday ones, the more entertaining. - Did not like the Heroine so well as any of the others.  Miss Bates excellent, but rather too much of her. Mr & Mrs Elton admirable & John Knightley a sensible Man.'"""
"""Mr Fowle - read only the first & last Chapters, because he had heard it was not interesting.'"""
"""Mrs Lutley Sclater - liked it very much, better than MP - & thought I had """"""""brought it all about very cleverly in the last volume.""""""""'"""
"""Mrs C. Cage wrote thus to Fanny - """"""""A great many thanks for the loan of """"""""Emma,"""""""" which I am delighted with. I like it better than any.  Every character is thoroughly kept up.  I must enjoy reading it again with Charles.  Miss Bates is incomparable, but I was nearly killed with those precious treasures! They are Unique, & really  more fun than I can express.  I am at Highbury all day, & I can't help feeling I have just got into a new set of acquaintance.  No one writes such good sense. & so very comfortable.""""""""'"""
"""Mrs Wroughton - did not like it so well as P & P. - Thought the Authoress wrong, in such times as these, to draw such Clergymen as Mr Collins & Mr Elton.'"""
"""Sir J. Langham - thought it much inferior to the others.'"""
"""Miss Murden - certainly inferior to all the others.'"""
"""Capt C. Austen wrote - """"""""Emma arrived in time to a moment.  I am delighted with her, more so I think than even with my favourite Pride & Prejudice, & have read it three times in the Passage.""""""""'"""
"""Mrs D. Dundas - thought it very clever, but did not like it so well as either of the others.'"""
"""Fanny K. - not so well as either P & P or M P. - could not bear Emma herself.  Mr Knightley delightful.  Should like J.F. - if she knew more of her.'"""
"""Edward - preferred it to M.P. - only.  - Mr. K liked by every body.'"""
"""My Mother - thought it more entertaining than M.P. - but not so interesting as P.& P. - No characters in it equal to Ly Catherine & Mr Collins.'"""
"""Miss Lloyd - thought it as [italics] clever [end italics] as either of the others, but did not receive so much pleasure from it as from P. & P - & MP.'"""
"""Fanny Cage - liked it very much indeed & classed it between P & P & M.P.'"""
"""Mrs Digweed - did not like it so well as the others, in fact if she had not known the Author, could hardly have got through it.'"""
"""Mrs Lefroy - preferred it to M.P. - but like[?]d M.P. the least of all.'"""
"""Mr Jeffery (of the Edinburgh Review) was kept up by it three nights.'"""
"""S goes to Egham - he reads Aeschylus and tavels in the kingdom of Caubul - read Rasselas - make jellies and work'"""
"""S goes to Egham - he reads Aeschylus and tavels in the kingdom of Caubul - read Rasselas - make jellies and work'"""
"""Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 31 March 1817: 'I have bought several books ... among others a complete Voltaire in 92 volumes -- whom I have been reading -- he is delightful but dreadfully inaccurate frequently.'"""
"""Byron to Thomas Moore, 31 March 1817: 'Did I tell you that I have translated two Epistles? -- a correspondence between St. Paul and the Corinthians, not to be found in our version, but the Armenian -- but which seems to me very orthodox, and I have done it into scriptural prose English.'"""
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"""I went home and told my wife and took my Bible and opened it upon the 37th Psalm I read it and found much Comfort from it and made it a matter of prayer and the Lord enabled me to bear the burden at this time.'"""
"""[Having heard some lectures on Spurzheim's ideas] 'I have since looked into the Dr's book, and if possible the case is worse. Certainly, it is not true, that, our intellectual & moral & physical powers are jumbled in such huge disorder - surely it will be marvellous if these powers can be defined and estimated with such Mathematical precision, from the size & figure of the scull; but it is very silly to say that Spurzhiem has demonstrated all this - Spurzhiem has demonstrated nothing; -for any thing he knows to the contrary, the faculties of the soul are to be ascertained from the figure & size of the abdomen - if the venerable science of palmistry is not to be revived - It is in vain to rail against the opposition shewn to novelties?the doctrine is not to be rejected for its novelty, but for its want of truth'"""
"""I have read little of any consequence since I wrote to you. You will have seen the last Numbers of the """"""""Edinr"""""""" & """"""""Quarterly"""""""" reviews. In the latter, among a great deal of foul & nauseating stuff, I was happy to see that due credit is at length given to Mr Duncan for his valuable institution.'"""
"""I have read little of any consequence since I wrote to you. You will have seen the last Numbers of the """"""""Edinr"""""""" & """"""""Quarterly"""""""" reviews. In the latter, among a great deal of foul & nauseating stuff, I was happy to see that due credit is at length given to Mr Duncan for his valuable institution.'"""
"""I was reading Pascal's """"""""lettres provinciales"""""""". None can help admiring his wit & probity. He sustains excellently the character of [italics]naivet?[end italics]which he has assumed - and with infinite dexterity, hunts the jesuits thro' all their doublings and subterfuges, till he has triumphantly exposed the wretched baseness of their conduct. It is pity that the Salvation of Europe required the reestablishment of this vile order of men.'"""
"""Last week I perused von Buch's """"""""travels in Norway & Lapland"""""""". Much of his attention is devoted to Mineralogy, of which I am very ignorant, and his movements are sometimes not a little mysterious, from the want of a proper map of the country. Nevertheless he communicates some valuable information respecting the natural productions - & the wandering inhabitants of those dreary regions. His manner is as clumsy & ponderous as that of German philosophers generally is - and no where is this [more ap]parent than when he attempts to be striking, or tries his powers in the pathetic lin[e].' """
"""I took Bail]ly's """"""""histoire d'Astronomie"""""""", out of the College library, last time I was over the firth. [He seems] to write with great eloquence & perspicuity; but I have read little of him.'"""
"""We get a """"""""Dumfries Courier"""""""" here amongst us. Our third Number reached us a few days ago. It seems M'Darmaid [M'Diarmid] is become sole Editor; - it is not the opinion of the readers here, that the paper has been a gainer by the change. The Ranger seems (under favour) to be but a silly kind of person - and his friend Mr Bright is a very vapid gentleman. It is a pity that Spoudastes his labours have been curtailed, before he has completed his investigations. But we must make a shift to live without knowing who wrote Mary's dream.'"""
"""??we were soon in a free conversation on the subject of parliamentary reform. When objections were stated, they listened candidly to our replies, and a good-humoured discussion, half serious, half joking, was prompted on both sides. I and Mitchell had with us, and it was entirely accidental, a few of Cobbett?s """"""""Registers"""""""" and Hone?s """"""""Political Pamphlets"""""""", to which we sometimes appealed, and read extracts from. The soldiers were delighted; they burst into fits of laughter; and all the copies we had, being given to them, one of them read the """"""""Political Litany"""""""" through, to the further great amusement of himself and the company. Thus we passed a most agreeable evening and parted only at the last hour.?   """
"""??we were soon in a free conversation on the subject of parliamentary reform. When objections were stated, they listened candidly to our replies, and a good-humoured discussion, half serious, half joking, was prompted on both sides. I and Mitchell had with us, and it was entirely accidental, a few of Cobbett?s """"""""Registers"""""""" and Hone?s """"""""Political Pamphlets"""""""", to which we sometimes appealed, and read extracts from. The soldiers were delighted; they burst into fits of laughter; and all the copies we had, being given to them, one of them read the """"""""Political Litany"""""""" through, to the further great amusement of himself and the company. Thus we passed a most agreeable evening and parted only at the last hour.?   """
"""Officials invited into Newgate to see the success of E. Fry's new prison routine: 'In compliance with this appointment, the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs and several of the Aldermen attended. The prisoners were assembled together, and it being requested that no alteration in their usual practice might take place, one of the ladies read a chapter in the Bibe, and then the females proceeded to their various avocations. Their attention during the time of reading; their orderly and sober deportment, their decent dress, the absence of everything like tumult, noise or contention, the obedience, and the respect shown by them, and the cheerfulness visible in their countenances and manners, conspired to excite the astonishment and admiration of their visitors'"""
"""Read Tacitus'"""
"""S. reads St Helena Manuscript'."""
"""I have now finished the morceau so highly reccomended by my nephew, the account of Gibbon's life and writings by himself and confess myself greatly disappointed, not indeed in the style which is like himself in the history, but I am disappointed in not being able to discover one single amiable trait. [continues at length]'"""
"""Translate Apuleius'"""
"""Got to Mr Knights 1/4 after 3 and was with him full an hour and a half [...]These questions were all asked as soon as I had done reading Latin. By the timeI began with Lucian, my mind was a little recovered and I construed Greek."""
"""S. finishes the plays of Aeschylus - finishes the Hist. of Caubul - writes - reads three chap. of Gibbon aloud'"""
"""S. finishes the plays of Aeschylus - finishes the Hist. of Caubul - writes - reads three chap. of Gibbon aloud'"""
"""S. reads Rights of man.'"""
"""Three weeks ago, I finished M. Bailly's """"""""histoire de l'Astronomie Modern[e.]"""""""" His acquaintance with the science seems to have been more extensive than profound; his stile is elegant - perhaps somewhat too florid, and interspersed with metaphors which an English critic might be tempted sometimes to call conceited - I wish I were an Astronomer - Is it not an interesting reflection to consider, that a little creature such as man-tho' his eye can see the heaven but as it were for a moment - is able to delineate the aspects which it presented long ages before he came into being - and to predict the aspects which it will present when ages shall have gone by. The past the present & the future are before him.'"""
"""But Dr Chalmers, it would seem, is fearful lest these speculations [on the nature of the universe] lead us away from Christianity and has written a volume of discourses to prove that the insignificance of our planet in the universe is no argument against the truth of religion. Orthodox men declare, of course, that he has completely discomfited his opponents - I read it sometime ago - It abounds in that fiery thoroughgoing stile of writing for which the Author is so remarkable: nevertheless his best argument seems to be, that as it is in the scriptures, we have no business to think about it [at] all - an argument which was well enough known to be a panacea in cases of that nature - before his volume saw the light. '"""
"""This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late """"""""Edinr review"""""""" - on the causes & cure of mendicity. After expatiating at considerable length on the evils of pauperism, he proposes as a remedy to increase the number of clergymen. They who know the general habits of Scottish ministers will easily see how sovereign a specific this is. The remainder of the review is good reading; but as you will have seen it before this time, I will not trouble you farther on the matter - I have seen the last Number of the """"""""Quarterly review"""""""". It seems to be getting into a very rotten frothy vein. Mr Southey is a most unblushing character; & his political lucubrations are very notable. He has been sorely galled by """"""""the Caledonian Oracle"""""""" poor man - I know nothing about Mr Duncan's controversy except thro the """"""""Scotsman""""""""; and they assign him the victory'"""
"""This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late """"""""Edinr review"""""""" - on the causes & cure of mendicity. After expatiating at considerable length on the evils of pauperism, he proposes as a remedy to increase the number of clergymen. They who know the general habits of Scottish ministers will easily see how sovereign a specific this is. The remainder of the review is good reading; but as you will have seen it before this time, I will not trouble you farther on the matter - I have seen the last Number of the """"""""Quarterly review"""""""". It seems to be getting into a very rotten frothy vein. Mr Southey is a most unblushing character; & his political lucubrations are very notable. He has been sorely galled by """"""""the Caledonian Oracle"""""""" poor man - I know nothing about Mr Duncan's controversy except thro the """"""""Scotsman""""""""; and they assign him the victory'"""
"""This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late """"""""Edinr review"""""""" - on the causes & cure of mendicity. After expatiating at considerable length on the evils of pauperism, he proposes as a remedy to increase the number of clergymen. They who know the general habits of Scottish ministers will easily see how sovereign a specific this is. The remainder of the review is good reading; but as you will have seen it before this time, I will not trouble you farther on the matter - I have seen the last Number of the """"""""Quarterly review"""""""". It seems to be getting into a very rotten frothy vein. Mr Southey is a most unblushing character; & his political lucubrations are very notable. He has been sorely galled by """"""""the Caledonian Oracle"""""""" poor man - I know nothing about Mr Duncan's controversy except thro the """"""""Scotsman""""""""; and they assign him the victory'"""
"""Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'"""
"""Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'"""
"""Read the psalms and lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and ...My aunt read aloud 17, Polwhele"""
"""Read Tacitus and St Helena manuscript'"""
"""Read Tacitus and St Helena manuscript'"""
"""An account of a Bill having past for the suspension of the habeas Corpus Act [...] I cannot refrain from quoting from one of Gibbons letters to Lord Sheffield in 1792 [quotes]'"""
"""Read Rousseau's letters.'"""
"""before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar + Bonney-Castle's algebra...went to Mr Knight at 3."""
"""Before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar and Bonnycastle's algebra..."""
"""What a pity it is that Mr B[entham] carries this oddity of language [which AR has just been joking about] into his works. It makes them unreadible [sic] and of much less use than they otherwise would be. He has just published a singular Book the title of which is """"""""Bentham on Codification"""""""", a great deal very excellent, Sir Samuel says, but most injudicious and injurious to the good cause, not only from throwing a ridicule on it, but also from going so much too far, for it is scarcely attempted to be disguised that Republicanism is his great object'."""
"""How merciless and ungentlemanlike the""""""""Quarterly Review"""""""" is upon Lady Morgan! It is the only thing that could have made me pity her, for she is very flippant and full of error from beginning to end'."""
"""How merciless and ungentlemanlike the""""""""Quarterly Review"""""""" is upon Lady Morgan! It is the only thing that could have made me pity her, for she is very flippant and full of error from beginning to end'."""
"""What a pity it is that Mr B[entham] carries this oddity of language [which AR has just been joking about] into his works. It makes them unreadible [sic] and of much less use than they otherwise would be. He has just published a singular Book the title of which is """"""""Bentham on Codification"""""""", a great deal very excellent, Sir Samuel says, but most injudicious and injurious to the good cause, not only from throwing a ridicule on it, but also from going so much too far, for it is scarcely attempted to be disguised that Republicanism is his great object'."""
"""Mr Mill's great work on India will soon be published in 3 vol. quarto. Sir Samuel saw the two first, and seems to think that it will be extremely curious, and very well done, but finds the style very bad'."""
"""Finish the 1st part of Humes Essays'"""
"""Shelley reads & finishes Coleridge's Liteerary [sic] life'"""
"""Read Kidd's Geological Essay and an account of 10 years residence in Tripoli. Kidd's a very bad embarresed [sic] style. Account of Tripoli; amusing enough. [Lists other readings]'"""
"""I read Wood's Isle of Man because I knew nothing of it and he has said little from there being very little to say'."""
"""Dallaway on sculpture is very slovenly from the little pains he takes to be clear. It is very difficult to know what antecedent word he refers to. His book suggests two things [...] I will endeavour to make out a statuary tour and insert it in my journal.'"""
"""Read Tacitus - The Persian letters - S. reads Homer & writes - reads a canto of Spencer and part of the gentle shepherdess aloud'"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""Read Tacitus - The Persian letters - S. reads Homer & writes - reads a canto of Spencer and part of the gentle shepherdess aloud'"""
"""In reading Franklin's correspondence, it is impossible not to be entertained by his lively style and I think not to be convinced that he did all in his power to prevent the rupture of Great Britain and the colonies, but I am astonished that the printer of it and the publisher have not been prosecuted for a libel.'"""
"""Before breakfast from line 36-86 Sophlocles 'Electra'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1817: 'I will tell you something about [The Prisoner of] Chillon. -- A Mr. De Luc ninety years old -- a Swiss -- had it read to him & is pleased with it -- so my Sister writes. -- He said that he was with Rousseau at Chillon -- & that the description is perfectly correct -- but this is not all -- I recollected something of the name & find the following passage in """"""""The Confessions""""""""  -- vol.3. page 247. Liv. 8th' [quotes passage mentioning """"""""De Luc pere"""""""" and """"""""ses deux fils"""""""" as companions on boat trip which took in scenery that inspired descriptions in Julie, and conjectures that this De Luc one of the """"""""fils""""""""]"""
"""Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch'"""
"""Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch'"""
"""Byron to John Murray 9 July 1817: 'I have got the sketch & extracts from Lallah Rookh ... the plan as well as the extract I have seen please me very much indeed ...'"""
"""Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 July 1817: '[John] Murray ... has contrived to send me extracts from Lalla Rookh ... They are taken from some magazine, and contain a short outline and quotations from the two first Poems.  I am very much delighted with what is before me, and very thirsty for the rest.'"""
"""Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch'"""
"""Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch'"""
"""S. reads Homer's Hymns'"""
"""Read...Demosthenes +...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' & I certainly feel considerably improved but I am disatisfied with myself for not having got up in the morning as early as I thought."""
"""Read...Demosthenes and ...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' and I certainly feel considerably improved."""
"""Read Pliny - transcribe - read Clarke's travels - Shelley writes and reads Apuleius and Spencer in the evening'."""
"""Byron to John Murray, 9 May 1817: 'The """"""""Tales of my Landlord"""""""" I have read with great pleasure ...'"""
"""Read Pliny - transcribe - read Clarke's travels - Shelley writes and reads Apuleius and Spencer in the evening'."""
"""Finish Rousseau's letters'"""
""" 'I have read your Poem. I like it better than any of the preceding ones.'"""
"""Read Livy - The Revolt of Islam - 1st Canto of Tasso'"""
"""Read Livy - The Revolt of Islam - 1st Canto of Tasso'"""
"""Too hoarse to do duty [at church] Read Paley's Evidences'."""
"""Scott probably knew de Stael, he was certainly acquainted with her work, friends, lifestyle etc. Here is a brief excerpt: '...the tendency of the last of her productions, which, as a posthumous work, connects itself most immedately with her memory, is for the most part as excellent as its execution is brilliant and masterly. To speak first of its style: we cannot refrain from noticing the rarer occurrence of that appearance of straining after eloquence and philosophy which defaced ....'"""
"""Return to Este. read Mrs C. Smiths novel of Emmeline'"""
"""Read Marco Polo's Travels which are amusing enough though containing a pretty large collection of absurdities [...]'"""
"""Read Hymns - Epithalamion &c of Spencer'"""
"""Read Hymns - Epithalamion &c of Spencer'"""
"""S. reads Theocritus - & Henry VIII aloud in the evening'"""
"""S. reads Theocritus - & Henry VIII aloud in the evening'"""
"""Read Livy - Adele de Senange - S reads Livy'"""
"""Read 42nd Canto - Livy - Anacharsis. Horace - and Shakespears Coriolanus - S. translates the Symposium & reads Philaster'"""
"""Read 42nd Canto - Livy - Anacharsis. Horace - and Shakespears Coriolanus - S. translates the Symposium & reads Philaster'"""
"""Read 15th Canto of Ariosto & the Polieucte of Corneille'"""
"""Read trans. of Lucian - S reads Euripides'"""
"""Read trans. of Lucian - S reads Euripides'"""
"""Finish Vita di Tasso - Read Timon of Athens - work - S finishes the Winter's Tale'"""
"""Finish Vita di Tasso - Read Timon of Athens - work - S finishes the Winter's Tale'"""
"""Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J.Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes on Bede. Mr Cline in his paper on breeding is quite decided that [...]but Mr Colling [...] is not of that opinion. [NB Henry Cline - on the form of animals]'"""
"""Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J. Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes on Bede. Mr Cline in his paper on breeding is quite decided that [...] but Mr Colling [...] is not of thatopinion. [NB Henry Cline - on the form of animals]'"""
"""Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J. Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes on Bede. Mr Cline in his paper on breeding is quite decided that [...] but Mr Colling [...]is not of that opinion [NB henry Cline - on the form of animals]'"""
"""Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela'"""
"""Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela'"""
"""S. reads Theocritus and Virgil's Georgics - after tea he reads aloud and finishes the play of Henry VIII'"""
"""S. reads Theocritus and Virgil's Georgics - after tea he reads aloud and finishes the play of Henry VIII'"""
"""Finish Gil Blas - read Livy'"""
"""S. translates the Symposium - & reads a king and no king'"""
"""Read M'cleod's Voyage of the Alceste, his account of the Island of Lewchew is an account of the most amiable pagans I ever read of N.B. little or nothing is said of the females.'"""
"""Shelley reads Manso's life of Tasso'"""
"""Read Timon of Athens'"""
"""Read Corinne and Livy - S reads Livy'"""
"""Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 12 December 1818, on Hobhouse's election campaign: 'I saw your late Speech in Galignani's newspaper -- & with all the disfiguration & curtailment of the reporter -- it was the best of the day.'"""
"""S. translates the Symposium - and reads a part of it to me - he reads the Laws of Candy'"""
"""S. translates the Symposium - and reads a part of it to me - he reads the Laws of Candy'"""
"""Read 16th Canto of Ariosto - Read Gibbon - S. reads the Memorabilia of Zenophon'"""
"""Read 16th Canto of Ariosto - Read Gibbon - S. reads the Memorabilia of Zenophon'"""
"""Arrive at Venise at 2 o'clock - Read alls well that ends well'"""
"""This last is not near so interesting as the former, there is too much of pompous fine writing in it at least attempts at it. Such papers as that declamatory one on the state of parties are not the kind of political papers that will stand the test. Besides how absurd is it to praise Madam [sic] de Stael and attack Playfair?!!'"""
"""My astonishment was very great at readind Canning's challenge to the anonymous pamphleteer. If it were the first proof of the kind it would be sufficient to create a general distrust of his sense, prudence and capacity for action... What does a politician know of his trade, when twenty years have not made him pamphlet-proof?'"""
"""Monday April 13th. [...] Read L'Etourdi of Moliere.'"""
"""Read Corinne & Livy - S reads Corinne'"""
"""After having read the accounts of the trial of the Glasgow Moters as managed by the Lord Advocate [...] I think a more disgraceful satin was never affixed to the character of any lawyer and the four worthies of the day ought to descend united in infamy to posterity.'"""
"""S finishes Homer's Hymns'"""
"""S. reads the Memorabilia - walk out & Read 250 lines of the 8th book of the Aenied[sic]'."""
"""S. reads the Memorabilia - walk out & Read 250 lines of the 8th book of the Aenied[sic]'."""
"""Finished Curwen's letters, I have recorded my opinion of the style, the commonplace of the abuse of tithes pervades the work tho' he fails more than most of the advocates for their abolition.'"""
"""I have also read Gisbourne's natural theology. The design and matter of the work are excellent but it is exceedingly deficient in that plainess and persipicuity in which an argument of so very popular a description should be pressed on the attention of common readers [... ] there is an imitation of Paley's manner of putting an argument but the manner very inferior [to]Paley.'"""
"""Tuesday April 14th.  Sit at home all day.  Read the Life of Tasso and L'Etourdi of Moliere.'"""
"""Tuesday April 14th.  Sit at home all day.  Read the Life of Tasso and L'Etourdi of Moliere.'"""
"""Copy S's Eclogue - Read Horace'"""
"""Copy S's Eclogue - Read Horace'"""
"""Finish Corinne & 7th Book of Livy - S reads Corinne'"""
"""Finish Corinne & 7th Book of Livy - S reads Corinne'"""
"""Read Tacitus - Clarke's travels & Guy Mannering - S reads Gibbon'."""
"""S. reads aloud 6 eclogues from the Shepherds Calender[sic]'"""
"""Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'"""
"""Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'"""
"""Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'"""
"""Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'"""
""" 'After an arduous str[uggle] with sundry historians of grea[t and] small renown I sit down to answer the much-valued epistle of my friend.  Doubtless you are disposed to grumble that I have been so long in doing so; but I have an argument in store for you.'"""
"""It is long since I told you that I had begun Wallace, and that foreign studies had cast him into the shade.  The same causes still obstruct my progress  You will perhaps be surprised that I am even now no farther advanced than the 'circle of curvature'.  I have found his demonstrations circuitous but generally rigorous."""
"""I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it.  My perusal of the continuation - eight volumes, of history as it is called, by Tobias Smollett MD and others was a much harder and more unprofitable task."""
"""I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it.  My perusal of the continuation - eight volumes, of history as it is called, by Tobias Smollett MD and others was a much harder and more unprofitable task.  Next I read Gibbon's decline and fall of the Roman empire - a work of immense research and splendid execution."""
"""But too much of one thing - as it is in the adage.  Therefore I reserve the account of Hume's essays till another opportunity.  At any rate the Second volume is not finished yet - and I do not like what I have read of any thing so well as I did the first."""
"""Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering'"""
"""Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering'"""
"""Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering'"""
"""Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 15 July 1818: '... I see by the papers that Captain Lew Chew [ie Captain Sir Murray Maxwell, formerly explorer of the Loo-Choo Islands and now Reform parliamentary candidate] has been well nigh slain by a potatoe -- so the Italian Gazettes have it ...'"""
"""S - translates the Symposium and Reads the wife for a Month - We ride out in the morning & after tea S. reads Hume's England'"""
"""There are some very able papers in the last Magazine as usual but I do not think the selection likely to add much to its popularity The Notices however are inimitable more finished but scarce so [italics] piquant [end italics] as the former ones'."""
"""S. reads a part of the Shepherds Calender [sic] aloud in the evening'"""
"""the papers announce the death of the King of Wurtemberg'."""
"""Read Livy - Manfredi of Monti - Shelley writes - Read 8 Canto of Dante'"""
"""Read Livy - Manfredi of Monti - Shelley writes - Read 8 Canto of Dante'"""
"""Shelley is not well - he reads Lucan'"""
"""finish the Andria of Terence & Guy Mannering'"""
"""Finish the Eunuchus of Terence - walk - S reads Gibbon'"""
"""Finish the Second book of Livy - Read Horace and Anacharsis - S. translates the Symposium and reads Herodotus'"""
"""Finish the Second book of Livy - Read Horace and Anacharsis - S. translates the Symposium and reads Herodotus'"""
"""Shelley reads Schlegel aloud [to] us - We sleep at Rheims.'"""
"""Wrote part of a sermon from Gisborne's Natural Theology'"""
"""Read Mille et un nuits'"""
"""Read the Filippo of Alfieri'"""
"""Friday April 17th.  Read Clarissa Harlowe and Amphitryon of Moliere.'"""
"""Friday April 17th.  Read Clarissa Harlowe and Amphitryon of Moliere.'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1818: 'I have seen one or two late English publications -- which are no great things --except Rob Roy.'"""
"""S. reads Gibbon and the Clouds of Aristophanes'"""
"""S. reads the Hippolitus of Euripides'"""
"""The 40th and 42nd Psalms spoke comfort to me this morning, and I may say they greatly expressed the language of my spirit'"""
"""Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri'"""
"""Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri'"""
"""Saturday April 18.  Read the Life of Tasso.  Shelley reads aloud Hamlet.  Read Lear.'"""
"""Saturday April 18. [...]  Shelley reads aloud Hamlet.  Read Lear.'"""
"""Saturday April 18. [...]  Shelley reads aloud Hamlet.  Read Lear.'"""
"""Finish Troilus and Cressida - read 3 books of Pope's Homer'"""
"""Finish Troilus and Cressida - read 3 books of Pope's Homer'"""
"""Read Livy - write out Shelley's poem'"""
"""Bedale Club, dined - ordered M'cleod's journal of the Alceste.  Dispute at club as to spelling of experience. No one but Mr Monson and I supported the above mode but both universities print it so in last Bibles.'"""
"""Having lately read Chalmers Sermons on Astronomy in which he has expressed the highest admiration and respect for I. Newton's modest and firm faith in christianity.'"""
"""Read Il tre Melerancie of Gozzi'"""
"""Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me'"""
"""Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me'"""
"""begin Clarissa Harlowe in Italian - S. reads and finishes Dante's Purgatorio'"""
"""begin Clarissa Harlowe in Italian - S. reads and finishes Dante's Purgatorio'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 19 December 1818: 'Sir James Mackintosh in my room this morning; hearing me read over and commenting on my """"""""Memoir of Lady Russell,"""""""" spoke frankly, seemed pleased, and satisfied me very tolerably with his opinion [...] In the evening he read some of Milton's """"""""Paradise Regained"""""""" to us.'"""
"""Finish Orlando Furioso - read Anacharsis - S. corrects the Symposium and reads Herodotus'"""
"""Finish Orlando Furioso - read Anacharsis - S. corrects the Symposium and reads Herodotus'"""
"""Read 23 Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S. finishes the clouds - Reads Humes England aloud in the evening'."""
"""Shelley reads Schlegel aloud and we travel on in a pleasant country among nice people - We sleep at Dijon'"""
"""Read Aristodemo with S. Walk out in the evening on the mole. Read the Adelphi of Terence'"""
"""Read Eustace's tour and think he is the best dissenter I have met with, rather prolix about churches, especially such as have nothing extraordinary about them.'"""
"""Finished the last """"""""Tales of My Landlord"""""""" of which the fourth volume is the worst. I think Walter Scott has the peculiar art of growing worse and worse yet preserving his popularity. One poem after another was worse than the former; just so his tales and every volume of every tale continues in a similar climax of deterioration.'"""
"""Read Clarke & 1st vol of Rob. Roy.'"""
"""S. reads the Philoctetes of Sophocles - Read 2nd and 3rd act of Phormio & Mille et une nuits'"""
"""Extract of letter from Lady Mackintosh to E. Fry: 'I have had a note from Sir James - """"""""I dined Saturday, June 3rd, at Devonshire House. The company consisted of the Duke of Norfolk, Lords Lansdowne, Lauderdale, Albermarle, Cowper, Hardwicke, Carnarvon, Sefton, Ossulton, Milton and Duncannon. The subject was Mrs Fry's exhortation to forty-five female convicts, at which Lord -- had been present on Friday. He could hardly refrain from tears in speaking of it. He called it the deepest tragedy he had ever witnessed. What she had read and expounded to the convicts, with almost miraculous effect, was the 4th chapter to the Ephesians.'"""
"""S. reads the Philoctetes of Sophocles - Read 2nd and 3rd act of Phormio & Mile et une nuits'"""
"""Read Italian operas - Montaigne'"""
"""Read Les Abderites. S. finishes Aristippe'"""
"""Read Les Abderites. S. finishes Aristippe'"""
"""Finish Emmeline - S. reads Joseph Andrews'"""
"""Finish Emmeline - S. reads Joseph Andrews'"""
"""Finish transcribing Mazeppa - Copy the ode'"""
"""'Monday April 20th.  Read the Life of Tasso by Marcantonio Serassi [sic].'"""
"""S reads Hamlet'"""
"""Copy S's critique on Rhododaphne'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'The books I have read, or rather am reading -- pray who may be the Sexagenarian -- whose gossip is very amusing ...'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'With the Reviews I have been much entertained -- it requires to be as far from England as I am -- to relish a periodical paper properly ...' """
"""S. finishes correcting the Symposium and I begin to transcribe it'"""
"""S. reads the Plutus of Aristophanes & Gibbon'"""
"""Bedale club. Sat next to Dr Scott who told wonderful stories of the effect which Bell's Mode of Education had caused at the charterhouse. [...] Some of Watson's life which I brought from Bedale.'"""
"""Finish the Adelphi of Terence - read Aristodemo'"""
"""Finish the Adelphi of Terence - read Aristodemo'"""
"""Read """"""""Women"""""""" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'"""
"""Read """"""""Women"""""""" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'"""
"""Read Mandeville'"""
"""Read the Georgics'"""
"""S reads Gibbon'"""
"""Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - GIbbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'"""
"""Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - GIbbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'"""
"""Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - GIbbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'"""
"""Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - GIbbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'"""
"""Read the 13th satyr of juvenal with J. Fendall as he is to be lectured on it the first term at Trinity Hall'."""
"""Wednesday April 22. [...] Read Clarissa Harlowe.'"""
"""S. unwell - he reads the Paradiso'"""
"""Sunday Feb. 22. [...] Read Berrington's History of the Middle Ages.'"""
"""Finish the Heautontimorumenos of Terence'"""
"""Began reading a Tour in Denmarkby Von Buch translated by Black with geological and mineralogical notes by Professor Jamieson [comments on contents]'"""
"""Read Tuckey's Voyage to the Congo or Zaire, seems to have brought on the mortality that precailed in his crew by sleeping too much in the open air, by the quantity of women eveywhere offered them and too great fatigue.'"""
"""The thermometer never being above 80 or under 69 and the """"""""St James' Chronicle"""""""" says today that while British troops were storming a fort in the E Indies the thermometer was 145. There is a letter of J.Hobhouse's [...] to the editor which does him more credit than all his other writings.'"""
"""Clare reads the memoir of Madme Ma[n]son aloud to us'"""
"""Read Armata, said to be Lord Erskine's, very unworthy of his name 'tho his politics are displayed which are pretty nearly my opinions and I should therefore be more inclined to judge favourably.  The allegory [...] is not well kept up, but degennerates into matter of fact [...]'"""
"""Wednesday Jany. 28. [...] Read Anarcharsis.'"""
"""S. reads Aristophanes - & Anarcharsis [sic]'"""
"""read Aristippus of Wieland - Shelley read[s] Rob Roy'"""
"""Read Pope's Homer - finish it - read Paul et Virginie'"""
"""Read Pope's Homer - finish it - read Paul et Virginie'"""
"""I am very desirous to hear what your Vote is about Walter Scott; I think it excellent, quite as good as any of his novels excepting that in which Claverhouse is introduced, and of which I forget the name. It made me laugh, and cry fifty times, and I read it with the liveliest interest. He repeats his characters but it seems that they will bear repetition'."""
"""Brougham's pamphlet accidentally happens to be very dull. It is not of much importance but there was no absolute necessity for its being so. Wit and declamation would be misplaced, but a clever man may be bright and flowing while he is argumentative and prudent. He makes out a great case in general: and nobody would accuse Lord Lonsdale and the Bishop of undue precipitation if they were to make some sort of reply to the charge of particular delinquencies levelled against them'."""
"""Finish 1st Book of the Georgics - S. begins reading Winkhelmann's Histoire de l'art to me in the evening'"""
"""Finish 1st Book of the Georgics - S. begins reading Winkhelmann's Histoire de l'art to me in the evening'"""
"""After reading Junius identified with a living character I am pretty well satisfied that Sir P. Francis was the man.'"""
"""Letter from Whewell to Rose, dated 24/6/1818, discusses Butler's argument."""
"""I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly """"""""Fearon"""""""". There is nothing to me so curious and intersting as the rapidity with which they are spreading themselves over that vast continent'."""
"""I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly """"""""Fearon"""""""". There is nothing to me so curious and intersting as the rapidity with which they are spreading themselves over that vast continent'."""
"""I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly """"""""Fearon"""""""". There is nothing to me so curious and intersting as the rapidity with which they are spreading themselves over that vast continent'."""
"""I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly """"""""Fearon"""""""". There is nothing to me so curious and intersting as the rapidity with which they are spreading themselves over that vast continent'."""
"""Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, explaining reasons for animosity toward Robert Southey: 'I have read his review of Hunt [in the Quarterly Review], where he has attacked Shelley in an oblique and shabby manner.'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, """"""""The Literary Character"""""""", in which marginal remarks from Byron in first edition quoted): 'It was not fair in you to show him [Disraeli] my copy of his former one, with all the marginal notes and nonsense made in Greece when I was not two-and-twenty, and which certainly were not meant for his perusal ... I have a great respect for Israeli [sic] and his talents, and have read his works over and over repeatedly ... I don't know a living man's books I take up so often, or lay down so reluctantly, as Israeli's [sic] ...'"""
"""Read the Quarterly'"""
"""This is the Journal book of misfortunes - Read Livy - A great many of the plays of Alfieri - S writes - he reads Oedipus Tyrannos to me'"""
"""This is the Journal book of misfortunes - Read Livy - A great many of the plays of Alfieri - S writes - he reads Oedipus Tyrannos to me'"""
"""Saw the names of three old acquaintances written with a diamond on the window of our sitting room, viz, Mrs Rewe, Mrs Price, Miss S.Hatton, Sep.1793'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 25 March 1818: 'Rose's Animali I never saw till a few days ago ...'"""
"""Finish copying the Cenci'"""
"""I had read some little of Laplace when I saw you; & I continue to advance with a diminishing velocity.  I turned aside into Leslie's conics - '"""
"""I had read some little of Laplace when I saw you; & I continue to advance with a diminishing velocity.  I turned aside into Leslie's conics - & went thro' it, in search of two propositions, which when in your geometrical vein, you will find little difficulty in demonstrating'."""
"""I likewise turned into Charles Bossut's Mecanique - to study his demonstration of pendulums, and his doctrine of forces.  The text is often tediously explanatory - & in the notes, it is but a dim hallucination of the truth that I can obtain thro' the medium of integrals & differentials by which he communicates it.'"""
"""Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations.  It was foolish, you may think, to exchange the truths of philosophy, for the airy nothings of these sweet singers: but I could not help it.  Do not fear that I will spend some time in criticising the tulip-cheek.'"""
"""Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations.  It was foolish, you may think, to exchange the truths of philosophy, for the airy nothings of these sweet singers: but I could not help it.  Do not fear that I will spend some time in criticising the tulip-cheek.'"""
"""This is emphatic enough.- I need not speak of Dr Chalmers' boisterous treatise upon the causes & cure of pauperism in the last Edinr review.  His reasoning (so they call it) is disjointed and absurd - & his language a barbarous jargon - agre[e]able neither to Gods nor men. """
"""Read the life of Virgil'"""
"""S. calls on Lord B - He [presumably Shelley] reads the 4th Canto of Childe Harold'"""
"""Read 1st ode of Horace - Aristippe'"""
"""Read 1st ode of Horace - Aristippe'"""
"""Read Prisoner of Chillon &c. to Mrs G'"""
"""Having read Hutton's life of himself which afforded me much amusement I mean to get a book and attempt something of the kind though aware I have not his memory, industry or energy. It may gratify [...] those who love me, to peruse it as it will be true if nothing else.'"""
"""read 2 plays in the ancient drama'"""
"""Read part of the 7th book of Virgil - walk - finish the 3rd vol of Clarke'"""
"""Read part of the 7th book of Virgil - walk - finish the 3rd vol of Clarke'"""
"""Read 2nd act of the Aminta - read Livy Finish Anacharsis - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus'"""
"""Read 2nd act of the Aminta - read Livy Finish Anacharsis - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus'"""
"""Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis'"""
"""Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis'"""
"""Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis'"""
"""Read 1st Canto of Ariosto & 1st act of Phormio'"""
"""Read 1st Canto of Ariosto & 1st act of Phormio'"""
"""Read the Black dwarf'"""
"""I have got the fourth canto to day - It is a glorious morsel!'"""
"""Mr G. read 18 Canto of Tasso to me - read the Symposium to Mrs G'"""
"""Read the merry beggars. Elvira'"""
"""Fry explains reading to prisoners to Committee of House of Commons on the Prisons of the Metropolis, 27 Feb 1818: 'our habit is constantly to read the Scriptures to them twice a day; many of them are taught, and some of them have been enabled to read a little themselves; it has an astonishing effect: I never saw the Scriptures received in the same way, and to many of them they have been entirely new, both the great system of religion and of morality contained in them; and it has been very satisfactory to observe the effect on their minds; when I have sometimes gone and said it was my intention to read, they would flock upstairs after me, as if it were a great pleasure, I had to afford them'"""
"""Friday Feb. 27th. [...] Read Tristram Shandy.'"""
"""Finish 3rd Book of Livy - Read 3rd act of the Aminta'"""
"""Finish 3rd Book of Livy - Read 3rd act of the Aminta'"""
"""Read 31 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & Epicoene or the silent woman'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 27 March 1818: 'I went with the Comte Bardi to the Laurentian Library.  Saw the travels (MSS.) of Cosmo III. in England in the year 167-, accompanied by Magalotti, who gives the description of the travels, and by an artist who made drawings of all the small towns where they stopped, and of all the country houses they saw. I remarked Wilton, Billingbear, Audley Inn, &c.'"""
"""Read 2nd Canto of Oriosto [sic] & Mille et une nuits in the evening'"""
"""Read 2nd Canto of Oriosto [sic] & Mille et une nuits in the evening'"""
"""Read the Hecyra of Terence - dine at the Hoppners - read an Italian translation of Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche'"""
"""Read the Hecyra of Terence - dine at the Hoppners - read an Italian translation of Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche'"""
"""Read 4th Canto'"""
"""William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: '[Samuel] Rogers read me his Poem when I was in Town about 2 months ago; but I have heard nothing of it since.'"""
"""Finish the Aminta - Read Livy - Transcribe the Symposium - Read the Revolt of Islam'"""
"""Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis'"""
"""Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis'"""
"""Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis'"""
"""Finish Terence'"""
"""Read Vth and VIth vol. of Clarke, admired his account of pyramids, catacombs and hatching of chickens [...]His supposition [...] that the Soros in the Chamber of the Great Pyramid might contain the body of Joseph delighted me much.'"""
"""read Sterne & the 2nd Canto of Childe Harold'"""
"""read Sterne & the 2nd Canto of Childe Harold'"""
"""Read Tristram Shandy.'"""
"""Read Livy - The Bartholomew Fair of Ben Johnson [sic]'"""
"""Read 33rd Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & The Magnetick lady - S reads Aristophanes & Anarcharsis - & Hume's England aloud in the evening after our walk.'"""
"""Read 33rd Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & The Magnetick lady - S reads Aristophanes & Anarcharsis - & Hume's England aloud in the evening after our walk.'"""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 30 March 1818: 'Mr Clarkson's letter [refusing support to Lowther interest in Westmorland elections] was published in yesterday's paper; and I have read it with delight, as an admirable letter and a faithful picture of his noble mind, but I feel assured that it will serve a cause  which he would not wish to serve if he were acquainted with all its bearings.'"""
"""[From SHR's introduction] 'The assistance to her husband in his professional duties consisted, so we are told in another obituary notice, in reading his briefs aloud to him when he returned home tired from the House of Commons, and marking from his dictation those passages he deemed of importance'."""
"""Read Saadye's [for Saabye's] Journal in Greenland'"""
"""S. reads the Persae of Aeschylus & Eustace's travels'"""
"""S. reads the Persae of Aeschylus & Eustace's travels'"""
"""S reads Livy'"""
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"""S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'."""
"""S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'."""
"""S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'."""
"""Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a perspiration, the sun fell on my room and very hot."""
"""Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a perspiration, the sun fell on my room and very hot."""
"""S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'."""
"""S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'."""
"""Byron to Samuel Rogers, 3 March 1818: 'I read my death in the papers, which was not true.'"""
"""read Saul - S. reads Malthus.'"""
"""I have done little since I wrote last but revised Leslie's conics, and read a part of Laplace's 'exposition du systeme du monde' not the mecanique celeste for I alas, am not one of the gifted half-dozen that can understand it - but the original of that book which Smeal once brought from Selkirk and lent to you.'"""
"""Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the evening'"""
"""Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the evening'"""
"""Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the evening'"""
"""Read Anacharsis'."""
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"""finished my morning's work a few minutes before 2. Made an extract or 2 from Lord Byron's Childe Harold + the lyrics at the end of the book in readiness to take it back. Set off down the old bank a little before 4. Staid at the library above an hour looking out a couple of books with proper prints for the children to copy at Pye Nest.'"""
"""Birkbeck's second book is not so good as his first. He deceives himself - says he wishes to deceive himself - and is not candid. If a man chuses to say: I will live up to my neck in mud, fight bears, swim in rivers, and combat with backwoodsmen that I may ultimately gain an independence for myself and my children, this is plain, and intelligible: but by Birkbeck's account it is much like settling at Putney or Kew, only the people are more liberal and enlightened'."""
"""Birkbeck's second book is not so good as his first. He deceives himself - says he wishes to deceive himself - and is not candid. If a man chuses to say: I will live up to my neck in mud, fight bears, swim in rivers, and combat with backwoodsmen that I may ultimately gain an independence for myself and my children, this is plain, and intelligible: but by Birkbeck's account it is much like settling at Putney or Kew, only the people are more liberal and enlightened'."""
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"""I have thought of your lines, and will claim your pardon when I suggest another alteration. The boy and the butterfly, though a beautiful, is a common image; and harebells have not only the same objection, but they are so seldom seen in cultivated ground that the name brings the idea of a wood or wild scene. I therefore prefer the boy's pursuit of insects and flowers in general to these particular instances.'"""
"""Transcribe Mazeppa'"""
"""William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 22 September 1818: 'Your two interesting Letters, the Pamphlet, and Sun and Chronicle, have been duly received ... The Pamphlet I have carefully read ... '"""
"""Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 30 September 1818: """"""""' saw the other day by accident your """"""""Historical &c."""""""" -- the Essay [on Italian literature, actually by Ugo Foscolo] is perfect ...'"""
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"""There is a grat difference of opinion about Scott's new novel. At Holland House it is much run down: I dare not oppose my opinion to such an assay or proof-house; but it made me cry and laugh very often and I was very sorry when it was over, and so I cannot in justice call it dull'."""
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"""Annabella could read the new novels, """"""""Northanger Abbey"""""""" and """"""""Persuasion"""""""" (recommended by Augusta, and contrast that kind of real life with the kind she had learned to know better)'."""
"""Annabella could read the new novels, """"""""Northanger Abbey"""""""" and """"""""Persuasion"""""""" (recommended by Augusta, and contrast that kind of real life with the kind she had learned to know better)'."""
"""By the bye, I think I read your Mr Morritt's account of Hampton Court in Herefordshire, one of the oldest baronial seats in the kingdom, lately purchased by Sir -- Arkwright, son of the cotton-mill inventor. I can now tell you the fate of Newstead Abbey'."""
"""William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 6 April 1818: 'Had the Correspondence [between Henry Brougham and William Wilberforce, 1806] been published upon Mr B[rougham]'s first appearance in the Country, I think it might have done much service ... the sooner it sees the light the better. With Lord L[owther']'s approbation I have glanced at it, in a passage added to some able Comments on Mr B[rougham]'s first speech at Kendal, by a Friend of mine, which are about to appear.'"""
"""The last time that Mrs Fry was on board the Maria, whilst she lay at Deptford, was one of those solemn and interesting occasions that leave a lasting impression on the minds of those who witness them. There was a great uncertainty whether the poor convicts would see their benefactress again. She stood at the door of the cabin, attended by her friends and the Captain; the women on the quarter-deck facing them. The sailors, anxious to see what was going on, clambered into the rigging, on to the capstan, or mingled in the outskirts of the group. The silence was profound - when Mrs Fry opened her Bible, and in a clear audible voice, read a portion from it. The crews of the other vessels in the tier, attracted by the novelty of the scene, lent over the ships on either side and listened apparently with great attention; she closed the Bible, and after a short pause, knelt down on the deck, and implored a blessing on this work of Christian charity from that God, who, though one may sow and another water, can alone give the increase. Many of the women wept bitterly, all seemed touched'"""
"""On the evening of the days when it was necessary for him to stay in the City, to """"""""lock up"""""""" [the family banking-house], George occupied himself principally with study. He had contracted a strong taste for the classics at Charterhouse, and felt prompted to cultivate them on quitting the scene of his boyish training.'"""
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"""It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first becam acquainted with politics and theology. Passingalong Briggate one evening, I saw at the corner of Union Court a bill, which stated that the Radical Reformers held their meetings in a room in that court. Curiosity prompted me to go and hear what was going on. I found them reading Woller's Black Dwarf, Carlile's Republican, and Cobbett's Register. I remembered my mother being in the habit of reading Cobbett's Register, and saying she '""""""""ondered people spoke so much against it; she saw nothing bad in it, but she saw a great many good things in it."""""""" After hearing it read in the the meeting room, I was of my mother's opinion.'"""
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"""I read a volume which was called """"""""The Guide to Domestic Happiness"""""""", but found that it had no direct bearing upon the case of a working man - all its reasonings, counsels, and encouragements being based on upon the supposition of the reader's being a person of substance and education. the only publication I met with which at all came up to my wishes was one called """"""""Letters on the Marriage State""""""""; but even this bore only in a distant way upon the case in question.'"""
"""I read a volume which was called """"""""The Guide to Domestic Happiness"""""""", but found that it had no direct bearing upon the case of a working man - all its reasonings, counsels, and encouragements being based on upon the supposition of the reader's being a person of substance and education. the only publication I met with which at all came up to my wishes was one called """"""""Letters on the Marriage State""""""""; but even this bore only in a distant way upon the case in question.'"""
"""I suffered unjustly in the eyes of the world with regard to that tale ['The Brownie of Bodsbeck'], which was looked on as an imitation of the tale of """"""""Old Mortality"""""""", and a counterpart to that; whereas it was written long ere the tale of """"""""Old Mortality"""""""" was heard of, and I well remember my chagrin on finding the ground, which I thought clear, pre-occupied before I could appear publicly on it, and that by such a redoubted champion.'"""
"""Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke'"""
"""Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke'"""
"""Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke'"""
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"""I am much pleased by your attention in sending me such [CUT] and confess my weakness that such [CUT] and Z. to Leigh Hunt are quite delicious pray may I ask if the Indian Officer is from the same pen of masterly humour as the article on Cookery? I wish Z. had left out the allusion to primrose and Mildmay altogether all the rest is in his best genuine stile The Shepherd's dog is also very well indeed Hoy was my uncle the anecdote is quite true'."""
"""I am much pleased by your attention in sending me such [CUT] and confess my weakness that such [CUT] and Z. to Leigh Hunt are quite delicious pray may I ask if the Indian Officer is from the same pen of masterly humour as the article on Cookery? I wish Z. had left out the allusion to primrose and Mildmay altogether all the rest is in his best genuine stile The Shepherd's dog is also very well indeed Hoy was my uncle the anecdote is quite true'."""
"""Read Livy - The case is altered of B. Jonson'"""
"""Letter from Aikin to her brother Edmund, dated March 1818: 'It is curious to observe the native eloquence of Humboldt struggling with the encombrance of all the sciences. Did ever mortal man study so many ologies, or travel with so many ometers!'"""
"""William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 14 March 1818: 'If you continue to read the Kendal Chronicle you must be greatly concerned to see that the Liberty of the Press should be so grossly abused.  This Paper as now conducted reminds me almost at every  sentence of those which I used to read in France during the heat of the Revolution.'"""
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"""I went to Norwich & past two Days with Mrs Opie who has written some pleasant books, particularly the [italics] Father & Daughter [end italics].'"""
"""S. reads ye Phaedrus of Plato'"""
"""Finish Rob. Roy'"""
"""Read 37 Canto - Virgil - & Perigrine Proteus'"""
"""Read 37 Canto - Virgil - & Perigrine Proteus'"""
"""Another of Von Buch's Miraculous Tales. On the coast of Norway are many rocks [...] This is the nineteenth hot day without any rain voila Mr Buch once more. At Skey eagles are much dreaded [...]'"""
"""Read 9th Canto of Ariosto - Finish Phormio - S reads Ajax'"""
"""Some of my friends think that the introduction and moral of the """"""""Frogs"""""""" are too highly wrought and polished for the simplicity of the fable; it is however a very ingenious little thing'."""
"""finish Joseph Andrews'"""
"""Read Livy - Alfieri's Agide - S. reads Malthus'"""
"""Read Livy - Alfieri's Agide - S. reads Malthus'"""
"""Read Golownins Captivity in Japan, well told but he was a silly man, suspicious yet not cautious. Read Rob Roy.'"""
"""Read Golownins Captivity in Japan, well told but he was a silly man, suspicious yet not cautious. Read Rob Roy.'"""
"""Read 10th Canto of Ariosto - the Mahomet of Voltaire'"""
"""Read Walpole's Turkey and M'Cleod's Voyage of the Alceste to China'."""
"""Read Walpoe's Turkey amd M'Cleod's Voyage of the Alceste to China.'"""
"""Saw the death of Sir S. Romilly by his own hand in a feverish frenzy in the """"""""St James' Chronicle"""""""" this morning, in consequence of the loss of his wife.'"""
"""Finished Marco Polo, a very curious book for the time in which it was written, wonderfully accurate in the account of the people bating his miracles [...] which was the fault of his age rather than himself.'"""
"""Read Aminta with Shelley - he reads Vita del Tasso'"""
"""S. reads Richard III in the evening'"""
"""Read Gil Blas'"""
"""Friday.  Feb 6th.  Look at Work. Read Rob Roy.'"""
"""Read 2nd book of the Aeneid - read Dr Clarke's travels'"""
"""Read 2nd book of the Aeneid - read Dr Clarke's travels'"""
"""Von Buch says that it is only lately that the Holy Sacrament has been better understood by the Laplanders [...]'"""
"""Read 11th Canto of Ariosto & Merope & Simiramis [sic] of Voltaire'"""
"""Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud'"""
"""Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud'"""
"""Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud'"""
"""Proceeded with Denham's """"""""Physico-Theology"""""""". Read Hurd's sermon on """"""""Every soul shall be salted with fire"""""""", an odd mode of preaching he seems to give two guesses at the meaning of the passage and tells his audience they may take which they like'."""
"""Proceeded with Denham's """"""""Physico-Theology"""""""". Read Hurd's sermon on """"""""Every soul shall be salted with fire"""""""", an odd mode of preaching he seems to give two guesses at the meaning of the passage and tells his audience they may take which they like'."""
"""Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne  and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'"""
"""Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne  and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'"""
"""Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne  and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'"""
"""Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne  and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'"""
"""Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne  and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'"""
"""Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 7 December 1818: 'We have all here been very much pleased with Hobhouse's book on Italy -- some part of it the best he ever wrote ... '"""
"""read H. Monteagle.'"""
"""Saturday.  Feb 7th. [...] Finish Rob Roy.'"""
"""S reads the Symposium and translates a part of it - he finishes Anacharsis & reads Hume's England aloud in the evening'."""
"""S reads the Symposium and translates a part of it - he finishes Anacharsis & reads Hume's England aloud in the evening'."""
"""Read 12 Canto of Ariosto - & L'orphelin de Chine & Tancrede of Voltaire'"""
"""Read 12 Canto of Ariosto - & L'orphelin de Chine & Tancrede of Voltaire'"""
"""27th June - The last book worth mentioning, which I perused was Stewart's preliminary dissertation - for the second time.  The longer I study the works of this philosopher, the more I become convinced of two things.  First, that in perspicacity & comprehensiveness of understanding he yields to several.  But, secondly, that in taste, variety of acquirements, and, what is of more importance, in moral dignity of mind, he has no rival that I know of.'"""
"""Read Montaigne and Terence'"""
"""Read Montaigne - S. reads Plato's republic'"""
"""Read Montaigne - S. reads Plato's republic'"""
"""Read Vita di Alfieri - & Livy - S. goes to Padua - Reads Cymbeline to me in the evening'"""
"""Bad account of the Queen in today's St. James' Chronicle'."""
"""William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 8 December 1818: 'I have seen Mr Fleming, and told him everything you wished ... I read him a considerable part of your last Letter ...'"""
"""Read the Giaur[sic] & the Corsair'"""
"""Read the Giaur[sic] & the Corsair'"""
"""Sunday Feb. 8. [...] Read Helen Monteagle by A. Lefanu  Stupid foolish Book.'"""
"""After breakfast...dawdling awaythe morning in looking over medical Mss, weighing out powders [...]."""
"""finish the first book of Horace's odes - S reads and translates Plato's Symposium - he reads Peregrinus Proteus and Hume's England aloud in the evening'"""
"""finish the first book of Horace's odes - S reads and translates Plato's Symposium - he reads Peregrinus Proteus and Hume's England aloud in the evening'"""
"""Read 13 Canto of Ariosto - Le Cid - Horace of Corneille'"""
"""Read voyage to Corea'"""
"""Sleep at Bologna - S. reads 4th Canto aloud to me - read Montaigne'"""
"""Read Vita di Alfieri & Livy - S. reads Winter's tale aloud to me'."""
"""Read Vita di Alfieri & Livy - S. reads Winter's tale aloud to me'."""
"""In the evening read an Italian Translation of Pamela'"""
"""Thursday April 9th [...] Read [...] Le Tartuffe of Moliere'."""
"""Read Livy - Claire d'Albe - Gilblas - walk in the gardens - S reads Livy'"""
"""Read Lara'"""
"""S. translates the Symposium and reads the Maid's Tragedy of Beaumont'"""
"""Read a french translation of Lucien [sic]'"""
"""Finish the II book of Horace & read Montaigne'"""
"""Read Vita di Alfieri  - half the 9th book of Virgil - S reads Winters tale aloud'"""
"""Read Vita di Alfieri  - half the 9th book of Virgil - S reads Winters tale aloud'"""
"""Saw a very bad account of the Queen today in the Courier at Camp Hill.'"""
"""Finished Derham's """"""""Physico Theology"""""""" and read Campbell's narrative of a Voyage round the world'."""
"""Finished Derham's """"""""Physico Theology"""""""" and read Campbell's narrative of a Voyage round the world'."""
"""Read Romeo & Juliet - S. reads the Hipolitus of Euripides'"""
"""Thursday [...] April 1st. [...] In the Evening <read Lettres de Madame de Pompadour>'."""
"""William Wordsworth describes his eldest son's slowness in reading to his brother  Christopher Wordsworth,  1 January 1819: ' ... he is so long in finding his words in his dictionary ... '"""
"""Thursday July 1st. [...] Read the Spectator.'"""
"""Tuesday June 1st. [...] <Read Boccaccio>'."""
"""Read Livy - and Romans Chevaleresques'"""
"""Saturday [...] May 1st. [...] Read 1st Canto of Dante's Paradiso'."""
"""Saturday April 10th [...] Read Tour by Forsyth'."""
"""Read Sismondi - & Faublas'"""
"""Wednesday March 10th [...] Read Voyage de Constantinople by a frenchman [sic].'"""
"""Do not suppose, however, that I am at present reading the [""""""""Bride of Lammermoor"""""""" and """"""""Legend of Montrose""""""""] for the first time. I have had it by heart these five weeks. It possesses the same power of captivating the attention as its predecessors; one may find this or that fault but who does not read on? The Master of Ravenscroft is perhaps the best [italics] lover [end italics] the author ever drew; and oh! how glad I was to hear the true notes of the old lyre in Annot Lyle's matin song!'"""
"""I believe most people would say of the four-and-twenty volumes, what I have known parents of large families do of their children: """"""""you may think them a great many, yet there is not one we could spare"""""""". For my own part I acknowledge I am not a fair judge; all these writings, all the author's works confessed and unconfessed, are so much associated in my mind with, not the earliest, but the pleasantest, part of my life, that they awaken in me many feelings I could hardly explain to another. They are to me less like books, than like the letters one treasures up, """"""""pleasant yet mournful to the soul"""""""", and I cannot open one of them without a thousand recollections that as time rolls on, grow precious, although they are often painful. Independent of this, how many hours of mine have they soothed and softened! and still do soothe and soften, for I can read them over and over again'."""
"""Do not suppose, however, that I am at present reading the [""""""""Bride of Lammermoor"""""""" and """"""""Legend of Montrose""""""""] for the first time. I have had it by heart these five weeks. It possesses the same power of captivating the attention as its predecessors; one may find this or that fault but who does not read on? The Master of Ravenscroft is perhaps the best [italics] lover [end italics] the author ever drew; and oh! how glad I was to hear the true notes of the old lyre in Annot Lyle's matin song!'"""
"""Write. Read Lucan & the wife for a Month - & 2 Cantos of Purgatorio with S. - he reads Philaster - & copies his tragedy'"""
"""Write. Read Lucan & the wife for a Month - & 2 Cantos of Purgatorio with S. - he reads Philaster - & copies his tragedy'"""
"""Thursday March 11th [...] Read Vie de Mademoiselle de Montpensiers ecrite par elle meme.'"""
"""After an interval of 5 hours, spent in reading the Edinr Review and excecuting various commissions, I resume my lucubrations.  the unhappy carrier is not come.'"""
"""S. finishes the 1st vol of Clarendon - Read the little Theif [sic]'"""
"""S. finishes the 1st vol of Clarendon - Read the little Theif [sic]'"""
"""Spent the evening reading History of the Devil, a shallow subject.'"""
"""Read Sismondi - & the Purgatorio'"""
"""I sat up till two, as I did last night, to finish """"""""Pride and Prejudice"""""""".  This novel I consider as one of the most excellent of the works of our female novelists. Its merits lie in the characters, and in the perfectly colloquial style of the dialogue. Mrs. Bennet, the foolish mother, who cannot conceal her projects to get rid of her daughters, is capitally drawn.  There is a thick-headed servile parson, also a masterly sketch.  His stupid letters and her ridiculous speeches are as delightful as wit.  The two daughters are well contrasted - the gentle and candid Jane and the lively but prejudiced Elizabeth, are both portraits, and the development of the passion between Elizabeth and the proud Darcy, who at first hate each other, is executed with skill and effect.'"""
"""S reads Clarendon aloud'"""
"""Copy Shelleys Prometheus - work - read Beaumont & Fletcher's plays'"""
"""Read Dante - History of 2 Viziers - Sismondi'"""
"""Saturday March 13.  Read Cobbett, which is a strange book to read with one's head full of the ruins of Rome.'"""
"""In the evening, between 8+9, read from pp 263-307, vol I, Gibbon's Miscellaneous works. He died in London [...] 16 January"""
"""read the Decameroni'"""
"""Read Horace & the life of Gusman d'Alfarache - S reads Clarendon aloud'"""
"""S. reads Bocaccio [sic] aloud - & Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont]'"""
"""Wednesday April 14th. [...] Read S--'s translation of Plato's Symposium.'"""
"""You have to answer for the sin of keeping me almost two hours from """"""""Planta's history of the Helvetic confederacy"""""""" - which is a small [/] sin it must be owned, the said Planta being (under favour) little better than a conceited dolt, and his """"""""history"""""""" a Gazette in 1000 pages - of quarto letter-press- ' """
"""I am glad you ha[ve] attacked Hume.  Your remarks are just as far as I can determine'."""
"""I was truly sorry and at the same time tickled to observe the abrupt conclusion of your letter.  The thunder of Jack's snoring is not unknown to me; but poor fellow!  you would pity his cold and rejoice that he could sleep at all.' [A large number of Carlyle's reading experiences were letters. We have not included them all, but this is included as a sample of the type of response]."""
"""Mr Wishaw' to Mary Berry, 14 July 1819: 'On returning from the country I find your kind and acceptable present [Berry's Life of Lady Russell] [...] I have read over the whole with great interest and satisfaction'."""
"""I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and most victorious, it could not without partiality be left destitute - But if there be, she certainly looks on with an approving smile - when in a supine posture, I lie for hours with my eyes fixed upon the pages of Lady Morgan's France or the travels of Faujas St Fond - my mind seldon taking the pains even to execrate the imbecile materialism, the tawdry gossiping of the former, or to pity the infirm speculations and the already antiquated mineralogy of the latter.'"""
"""I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and most victorious, it could not without partiality be left destitute - But if there be, she certainly looks on with an approving smile - when in a supine posture, I lie for hours with my eyes fixed upon the pages of Lady Morgan's France or the travels of Faujas St Fond - my mind seldom taking the pains even to execrate the imbecile materialism, the tawdry gossipping of the former, or to pity the infirm speculations and the already antiquated mineralogy of the latter.'"""
"""I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and most victorious, it could not without partiality be left destitute - But if there be, she certainly looks on with an approving smile - when in a supine posture, I lie for hours with my eyes fixed upon the pages of Lady Morgan's France or the travels of Faujas St Fond ... What shall I say to the woebegone Roderick last of the Goths; and others of a similar stamp?  They go through my brain as light goes thro' an achromatic telescope.'"""
"""Read Montaigne - the Bible & Livy - Walk to the Coliseum - S. reads Winkhelmann'"""
"""Sunday March 14th.  Read Cobbett'."""
"""Read Montaigne - the Bible & Livy - Walk to the Coliseum - S. reads Winkhelmann'"""
"""Afternoon reading some History of the Devil'."""
"""Finish Gusman d'A. - read Horace'"""
"""Read Huon de Bourdeaux a Roman de la Chevalerie'"""
"""Thursday April 15th. [...] Read Plato's Symposium.'"""
"""Early in July appeared the first part of """"""""Don Juan"""""""". """"""""The impression was not so disagreeable as I expected"""""""", wrote Annabella. """"""""In the first place I am very much relieved to find that there is not anything which I can be expected to notice... I do not feel inclined to continue the perusal. It is always a task to me now to read his works, in which, through all the levity, I discern enough to awake very painful feelings"""""""".'"""
"""Read Lucan - S. reads Calderon - & Ben Jonson's Sad Shepherd aloud in the evening - read 24th Canto of Dante with him'"""
"""Friday April 16 -- Finish the Symposium of Plato'."""
"""Tuesday March 16th. Go in the Morning to the Gardens of the Villa Borghese -- sit on the steps of the temple of Esculapius and read Wordsworth'."""
"""Sunday May 16th.  Read 4 Canto's [sic] of Dante's Purgatorio.'"""
"""read Lucan - S. reads Calderon - Dante with me - & finishes the Sad Shepherd aloud in the evening'"""
"""Read Metastasio - S. reads Paradise Lost aloud'"""
"""Saturday April 17th. [...] Read La Fleur des Batailles a history of Chivalry'."""
"""Read Metastasio - S. reads Paradise Lost aloud'"""
"""Wednesday March 17th.  Walk in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese -- <read Vie de Ninon de L'Enclos>'."""
"""Monday May 17th. [...]  Read 5th. 6th. 7th. & 8 Canto of Dante's Purgatorio.'"""
"""[Shelley] reads the Trionfe della Morte aloud in the evening & Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont] & Mrs G.'"""
"""Sunday April 18th.  Read Regner Lodborg a history of Chivalry'."""
"""Byron to John Murray, 18 May 1819: 'I have read Parson Hodgson's """"""""Friends"""""""" in which he seems to display his knowledge of the Subject by a covert Attack or two on Some of his own.'"""
"""Tuesday May 18th. [...]  Read Alfieri's Tragedy of Mirra [...] Read 9 & 10th Canto of Dante's Purgatorio.'"""
"""Tuesday May 18th. [...]  Read Alfieri's Tragedy of Mirra [...] Read 9 & 10th Canto of Dante's Purgatorio.'"""
"""Without reluctance, I push aside the massy quarto of Millar on the English government, to perform ther more pelasing duty of writing a few lines to you, by the conveyance of Mr Duncan.'"""
"""I have read Millar on the English government &c-'"""
"""W[ordsworth] asked [William] Mathews in Oct. 1795 to """"""""make me a present of that vol: of Bells forgotten poetry which contains The Minstrel and Sir martyn"""""""" ... [he]included an extract from [William Julius Mickle's] Sir Martyn in the Album he compiled for Lady Mary Lowther in 1819 ... '"""
"""H. J. Jackson notes S. T. Coleridge's presentation of a copy of Richard Field, Of the Church, annotated by himself, to his son Derwent in 1819."""
"""Dorothy Wordsworth to Cathrine Clarkson, 19 December 1819: 'I do not know whther I ought to tell you that [Sara Hutchinson] is most eagerly and happily employed in knitting yarn stockings for Mr Clarkson.  She knits and reads by the hour together.'"""
"""Afternoon and evening, reading Gifford's History[of the] French Revolution. The fate of Louis xvi soffiiently points oot the instability of human greatness. In his first speach to his parliament he says 'I am resolved to retain my authority in all its plentitude[..]'See him in 1790 accepting a new constitution that abolishes nobility and all hereditary offices and distinctions. In 1792, his authority is laid aside and royalty abolished. In 1793, he is taken to a scaffold and beheaded.  Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall."""
"""I received your splendid work the other day; and have placed it in my little library, having only looked over the plates, and some references from these; and read the general history, in which I have found many things that interested me in no ordinary degree.' [Later in the same letter, after recounting a local farmer's amazement at the size of the book, Hogg calls it 'your extraordinary work, in which the labour and research truly confounds me']"""
"""The Howard book I had read, but had not a copy of it. I have the Sonnet to Sharpe, which I admired greatly for its simplicity, and truly antique style, long ere I knew who was the author'"""
"""The Howard book I had read, but had not a copy of it. I have the Sonnet to Sharpe, which I admired greatly for its simplicity, and truly antique style, long ere I knew who was the author'"""
"""The Howard book I had read, but had not a copy of it. I have the Sonnet to Sharpe, which I admired greatly for its simplicity, and truly antique style, long ere I knew who was the author'"""
"""Friday March 19th. [...] Walk in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese -- Read the second Volume of [...] Schlegel's [Criticism]'."""
"""Wednesday May 19th. [...] Read 11th. & 12th. Cantos of Purgatorio [...] <read a few tales of Boccaccio>'."""
"""Wednesday May 19th. [...] Read 11th. & 12th. Cantos of Purgatorio [...] <read a few tales of Boccaccio>'."""
"""Read King Lear'"""
"""Read Dante - S. reads Winkhelmann aloud'"""
"""Read Dante - S. reads Winkhelmann aloud'"""
"""Wednesday June 2nd. [...] Read <Le petit Charles ou Neveu de Mon Oncle>.' """
"""Sunday May [...] 2nd  Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et la Belle Maguelone -- Also 1st Chapter of Winkelmann'."""
"""Sunday May [...] 2nd  Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et la Belle Maguelone -- Also 1st Chapter of Winkelmann'."""
"""Sunday May [...] 2nd  Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et la Belle Maguelone -- Also 1st Chapter of Winkelmann'."""
"""Sunday May [...] 2nd  Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et la Belle Maguelone -- Also 1st Chapter of Winkelmann [sic]'."""
"""Read Horace - work - finish copying Peter Bell which is sent'"""
"""Hallam's style does not appear to me so bad as it has been represented; indeed I am ashamed to say I rather think it a good style. He is a bold man and great names do not deter him from finding fault; he began with Pindar, and who has any right to complain after that? The characteristic excellencies of the work seem to be fidelity, accuracy, good sense, a love of Virtue and a zeal for Liberty'."""
"""I have finished a short article of Heude's travels across the desert, from Bagdad to Constantinople'."""
"""I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made more entertaining. The article upon, and by Brougham is too long for the distressing brevity of human life'."""
"""I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made more entertaining. The article upon, and by Brougham is too long for the distressing brevity of human life'."""
"""Tuesday April 20th. Read Huon de Bordeaux'."""
"""Copy S's Tragedy'"""
"""S. reads Beaumonts & Fletchers plays - and the Revolt of Islam aloud in the evening'"""
"""S. reads Beaumonts & Fletchers plays - and the Revolt of Islam aloud in the evening'"""
"""I have read the Review and no 23 of the Magazine and never did I read any works with so much interest Though quite different messes they are both exquisite in kind a feast of fat things. No previous number of the Review has been better; no one of the Magazine has been near so good: for some months past I felt as if I suspected a falling off, but this must give it a heeze again else originality of composition has lost its value'"""
"""I have read the Review and no 23 of the Magazine and never did I read any works with so much interest Though quite different messes they are both exquisite in kind a feast of fat things. No previous number of the Review has been better; no one of the Magazine has been near so good: for some months past I felt as if I suspected a falling off, but this must give it a heeze again else originality of composition has lost its value'"""
"""Finish the Inferno of Dante & the 9th book of Livy - S & I read Sismondi'"""
"""Thursday May 20th.  Read 13th. 14th. 15th. & 16th Cantos of Dante's Purgatorio.'"""
"""S. visits the galleries - writes - reads Spinosa - Clarendon aloud'"""
"""Read Metastasio - S. reads the Hist. P.[lay]s of Shakespeare'"""
"""Wednesday April 21st.  Read 1 Canto of Ricciardetto'."""
"""Read Metastasio - S. reads the Hist. P.[lay]s of Shakespeare'"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""Friday May 21st.  [...] <Read a few of the tales of Boccaccio>.'"""
"""Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last """"""""Quarterly Review"""""""" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in liking the article upon our statute laws, which is very clear and convincing, and pleases me better than anything else in it, though I think it is on the whole an amusing number. Mr Humboldt and his ([italics] crodo, crodo [end italics] ) crocodiles entertained me; the account of Hayti was interesting; the first dissertation (on Aristophanes) and the last. Yet I am no convert to Messrs Whistlecraft & Co., I cannot like slipshod verse or be convinced that it is not as easily written as read; the burlesque of one country can hardly ever be well copied in the language of another. As for Plato and Xenophon, it revolts all my old prejudices to hear them discussed as if they were members of the Alfred, or the French Academy - to be told that Plato had delicacy of [italics] tact [end italics] taught him at the [italics] court [end italics] of Dionysius. It puts me in mind of Gray's simile about some book upon antiquity which he says was like an antique statue dressed in a negligee made by a Yorkshire mantua-maker'. """
"""Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last """"""""Quarterly Review"""""""" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in liking the article upon our statute laws, which is very clear and convincing, and pleases me better than anything else in it, though I think it is on the whole an amusing number. Mr Humboldt and his ([italics] crodo, crodo [end italics] ) crocodiles entertained me; the account of Hayti was interesting; the first dissertation (on Aristophanes) and the last. Yet I am no convert to Messrs Whistlecraft & Co., I cannot like slipshod verse or be convinced that it is not as easily written as read; the burlesque of one country can hardly ever be well copied in the language of another. As for Plato and Xenophon, it revolts all my old prejudices to hear them discussed as if they were members of the Alfred, or the French Academy - to be told that Plato had delicacy of [italics] tact [end italics] taught him at the [italics] court [end italics] of Dionysius. It puts me in mind of Gray's simile about some book upon antiquity which he says was like an antique statue dressed in a negligee made by a Yorkshire mantua-maker'. """
"""Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last """"""""Quarterly Review"""""""" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in liking the article upon our statute laws, which is very clear and convincing, and pleases me better than anything else in it, though I think it is on the whole an amusing number. Mr Humboldt and his ([italics] crodo, crodo [end italics] ) crocodiles entertained me; the account of Hayti was interesting; the first dissertation (on Aristophanes) and the last. Yet I am no convert to Messrs Whistlecraft & Co., I cannot like slipshod verse or be convinced that it is not as easily written as read; the burlesque of one country can hardly ever be well copied in the language of another. As for Plato and Xenophon, it revolts all my old prejudices to hear them discussed as if they were members of the Alfred, or the French Academy - to be told that Plato had delicacy of [italics] tact [end italics] taught him at the [italics] court [end italics] of Dionysius. It puts me in mind of Gray's simile about some book upon antiquity which he says was like an antique statue dressed in a negligee made by a Yorkshire mantua-maker'. """
"""Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last """"""""Quarterly Review"""""""" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in liking the article upon our statute laws, which is very clear and convincing, and pleases me better than anything else in it, though I think it is on the whole an amusing number. Mr Humboldt and his ([italics] crodo, crodo [end italics] ) crocodiles entertained me; the account of Hayti was interesting; the first dissertation (on Aristophanes) and the last. Yet I am no convert to Messrs Whistlecraft & Co., I cannot like slipshod verse or be convinced that it is not as easily written as read; the burlesque of one country can hardly ever be well copied in the language of another. As for Plato and Xenophon, it revolts all my old prejudices to hear them discussed as if they were members of the Alfred, or the French Academy - to be told that Plato had delicacy of [italics] tact [end italics] taught him at the [italics] court [end italics] of Dionysius. It puts me in mind of Gray's simile about some book upon antiquity which he says was like an antique statue dressed in a negligee made by a Yorkshire mantua-maker'. """
"""Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last """"""""Quarterly Review"""""""" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in liking the article upon our statute laws, which is very clear and convincing, and pleases me better than anything else in it, though I think it is on the whole an amusing number. Mr Humboldt and his ([italics] crodo, crodo [end italics] ) crocodiles entertained me; the account of Hayti was interesting; the first dissertation (on Aristophanes) and the last. Yet I am no convert to Messrs Whistlecraft & Co., I cannot like slipshod verse or be convinced that it is not as easily written as read; the burlesque of one country can hardly ever be well copied in the language of another. As for Plato and Xenophon, it revolts all my old prejudices to hear them discussed as if they were members of the Alfred, or the French Academy - to be told that Plato had delicacy of [italics] tact [end italics] taught him at the [italics] court [end italics] of Dionysius. It puts me in mind of Gray's simile about some book upon antiquity which he says was like an antique statue dressed in a negligee made by a Yorkshire mantua-maker'. """
"""Plato and tact sounds like Plato and puppy, an incongruous mixture of ancient and modern, such as only suits the language of second-rate novels. Lady Morgan, I suppose, talked of tact in her """"""""Ida of Athens"""""""".'"""
"""Thursday April 22nd. Finish Huon de Bordeaux'."""
"""I have been principally engaged this day studying at an encyclopaedia by Nicholson, six octavo [volumes], a book sent by George Clark, bookseller, Aberdeen. Invoiced at six guineas."""
"""Monday March -- 22nd [...] <Read Memoires de Madame de Pompadour>'."""
"""Finish the Decamerone'"""
"""Saturday May 22nd.  [...] <Read a few of the tales of Boccaccio>.'"""
"""Felicia Hemans to James Simpson, 22 October 1819: 'I have been much interested in the perusal of a work sent me some time since by Mr. Murray, the memoirs of the late Mrs Brunton, and her beautiful though unfinished tale of """"""""Emmeline.""""""""'"""
"""Felicia Hemans to James Simpson, 22 October 1819: 'I have been much interested in the perusal of a work sent me some time since by Mr. Murray, the memoirs of the late Mrs Brunton, and her beautiful though unfinished tale of """"""""Emmeline.""""""""'"""
"""Friday April 23rd. Read Guerin de Montglave -- and 2nd Canto of Ricciardetto'."""
"""Friday April 23rd. Read Guerin de Montglave -- and 2nd Canto of Ricciardetto'."""
"""The Dr [Brewster] stopped to tell me that he had got a paper on Chemistry written (in French) by Berzelius, professor of that science in Stockholm - which was to be published in April:- would I translate it?  I answered in the affirmative; and next day went over to get the paper in question.  It consists of six long sheets, written in a cramp hand, & in a very diffuse [s]tile.  I have it more than half done.  The labour of writing it down is the principal one.  In other respects there is no difficulty.'"""
"""Tuesday March 23rd. <Read Memoires de Madame de Pompadour>'."""
"""Sunday May 23rd.  [...] <Read Boccaccio>.'"""
"""Read the Chances'"""
"""Saturday April 24th. [...] Read 3rd. & 4th. Canto of Ricciardetto.'"""
"""Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 24 July 1819: 'Your """"""""Life of Lady Russell,"""""""" as far as my acquaintance extends, gives general satisfaction [...] I must thank you again for your copy so kindly bestowed upon your unworthy servant [...] I have, indeed, read it with great interest'."""
"""Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June].  Stay there a week. [...] Remove to Villetta Valsovano near Monte nero  Read Cobbett's Journal in America  Birbeck's Notes on the Illinois  Nightmare Abbey & the Heart of MidLothian by Walter Scott.'"""
"""Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June].  Stay there a week. [...] Remove to Villetta Valsovano near Monte nero  Read Cobbett's Journal in America  Birbeck's Notes on the Illinois  Nightmare Abbey & the Heart of MidLothian by Walter Scott.'"""
"""Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June].  Stay there a week. [...] Remove to Villetta Valsovano near Monte nero  Read Cobbett's Journal in America  Birbeck's Notes on the Illinois  Nightmare Abbey & the Heart of MidLothian by Walter Scott.'"""
"""Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June].  Stay there a week. [...] Remove to Villetta Valsovano near Monte nero  Read Cobbett's Journal in America  Birbeck's Notes on the Illinois  Nightmare Abbey & the Heart of MidLothian by Walter Scott.'"""
"""Monday May 24th. [...] Read the Infernal Quixote.'"""
"""At home without company afternoon and evening, looking over a little of the history of Aberdeen, which I have got lately."""
"""Read 2 book of Horace - Read Undine & c - S. finishes the 3 vol of Carendon aloud & reads Peter Bell - he reads Plato's republic'"""
"""Read 2 book of Horace - Read Undine & c - S. finishes the 3 vol of Carendon aloud & reads Peter Bell - he reads Plato's republic'"""
"""Sunday April 25th.  Read 5th. & 6th. Canto of Ricciardetto'. """
"""Above a month ago, I found Raynal's history of the E. and W. Indies, in a farmer's house of this neighbourhood.  It were long to tell you fully my opinion of the work, which (according to Gibbon) the author, by a happy audacity, names philosophical as well as political.  The abbe's researches embrace almost the whole habitable globe; his narrative, too much chequered by boisterous speculations, is generally conducted in a distinct, easy manner...'"""
"""Above a month ago, I found Raynal's history of the E. and W. Indies, in a farmer's house of this neighbourhood.  It were long to tell you fully my opinion of the work, which (according to Gibbon) the author, by a happy audacity, names philosophical as well as political... Opposite the title-page, beneath the picture of a sullen, thoughtful countenance, Sterne's Eliza Draper has written: William Thomas Raynal, defender of truth, humanity and liberty.  An enlightened admirer of those sacred qualities...'"""
"""Have you read """"""""Ivanhoe""""""""? It is the least dull, and the most easily read through, of all Scott's novels; but there are many more powerful. The subject, in novels, poems, and pictures, is half the battle. The representation of our ancient manners is a fortunate one, and ample enough for three or four more novels'."""
"""finish Sismondi'"""
"""Rogers has at length appeared; an old friend must be a good poet; but without reference to this feeling there are some good descriptions - the Mother and Child, Mr Fox at St Annes and a few more. The beginning of the verses at Paestum are good, but there are many lines and couplets all over the poem quite unintelligible; particularly I recommend your attention to those verses on a sleeping boy on the 2d or 3d page - what is meant by the emmets and the wrens?'"""
"""Tell Lord Grey to read Bennet's pamphlet; it is a little long, but good and right in the main object. At the end is a very affecting letter from the Botany Bay Chaplain'."""
"""I found your Poem some days before at Mr Hoare's who has paid his Annual Visit to Bath. Give me full Credit when I assure you that I heard, no inferior or ordinary Judge speak feelingly, warmly and accurately of the Verses. Those on Page 41 are most admired by Ladies who feel tenderly & correctly & indeed, though I have other passages in as high Estimation & indeed higher, I am [underlined twice] not [end underlining] insensible to the Images which those lines Excite'."""
"""Tuesday May 25th.  [...] <Read Boccaccio>.'"""
"""Monday April 26th.  Read 7th Canto of Ricciardetto'. """
"""Tell my Lord, if he wants to read a good savory ecclesiastical pamphlet, to read Jonas Dennis' """"""""Concio Cleri"""""""", a book of about 150 pages. He is the first parson who has caught scent of the Roman Catholic Bill passed at the end of the last Parliament, and no she-bear robbed of her whelps can be more furious'."""
"""Friday March 26th. Read Memoires de Madame de Pompadour'. [scored out in source]"""
"""S. reads Medea Euripedes [sic]'"""
"""Wednesday May 26th. <Read Boccaccio>.'"""
"""am studying part of the Encyclopaedia Edinensis, brought by a bookman, George Anton"""
"""Byron to the Editor of Galingani's Messenger, 27 April 1819: 'Sir, -- In various numbers of your Journal -- I have seen mentioned a work entitled """"""""The Vampire"""""""" with the addition of my name as that of the Author. -- I am not the author and never heard of the work in question until now. In a more recent paper I perceive a formal annunciation of """"""""the Vampire"""""""" with the addition of an account of my """"""""residence in the Island of Mitylene"""""""" ... which [island] I have occasionaly sailed by ... but where I have never yet resided.'   """
"""Byron to Jean Antoine Galignani, 27 April 1819: 'In various numbers of your Journal -- I have seen mentioned a work entitled """"""""the Vampire"""""""" with the addition of my name as that of the Author. -- I am not the author ...'"""
"""Tuesday April 27th.  Read 8th. & 9th. Canto of Ricciardetto'. """
"""Saturday March 27th [...] Read Schlegel Criticism'."""
"""In the afternoon at 3.40, down the old bank to the library...No Miss Browne. I could have said, changing only the gender, (as Gibbons wrote toDeyverdum, vol. 604/703..."""
"""Wednesday April 28th.  [...] Read the tenth Canto of Ricciardetto'. """
"""Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise Lost aloud'"""
"""Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise Lost aloud'"""
"""Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise Lost aloud'"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""I am rather afraid that I have not been quite regular in reading that best of books which you recommended to me.  However last night I was reading upon my favourite Job; and I hope to do better in time to come.  I entreat you to believe that I am sincerely desirous of being a good man; and tho' we may differ in some few unimportant particulars: yet I firmly trust that the same Power who created us with imperfect faculties, will pardon the errors of every one (and none are without them) who seeks truth and righteousness, with a simple heart.'"""
"""Thursday April 29th. Read 11th. Canto of Ricciardetto'. """
"""With respect to my occupations at this period; they are not of the most important nature.  Berzelius' paper is printed - I was this day correcting the proof-sheet-.  The translation looks not very ill in print.  I wish I had plenty more of a similar [sor]t to translate and good pay for doing it.'"""
"""At present, I am reading a stupid play of Kotzebue's - but to-night I am to have the history of Frederick the Great from Irving.  I will make an affu' struggle to read a good deal of it & of the Italian in Summer - when at home.'"""
"""Saturday May 29th. [...] Read Tableau de Societe de P-- [...] Le Baune [sic].'"""
"""[Critics] have been as graciously disposed towards me as I could expect. The Edinborough more particularly who have praised me into some Reputation for writing Lyrical Verses, that is to say, Songs, a Talent with which I did not previously flatter myself that I was I possession of & it is marvelous how much even acute Readers are led & influenced by these periodical Critics who dictate to us all more than perhaps any of us are willing to allow.'"""
"""I find your Mag. a great favourite in Dumfriesshire especially with the ladies. Macculloch had been trying to stir up a party against it - It is little wonder With all the cleverness and carelessness of composition (which has generally I think a good grace) I cannot help feeling that the last two numbers are too egotistical which never has a good grace But perhaps this will not be generally felt if they have not that fault they have no other I am wearying terribly for this month's one.'"""
"""Fininsh [sic] Lucan's Pharsalia'"""
"""S reads Livy & Winkhelmann aloud - read Dante - And Sismondi'"""
"""I assure you she [Mrs Murray] was a Shield to me on the Night when I read my Verses.' [to Murray and others, prior to agreeing on their publication]"""
"""William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 7 April 1819: 'Having occasion to go to Sockbridge along with our Rector, Mr Jackson, I begged of Mr Lumb to meet us there.  he did so - he shewed us a List of Applicants for Enfranchisement ... '"""
"""Friday April 30th. Read the 12th. Canto of Ricciardetto and read no further.  I find it so stupid'. """
"""[Marginalia]"
"""William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 16 June 1819: 'On looking over Mr Lumb's list of new freeholders in this neighbourhood, I was sorry to find that half a dozen whose names I expected to see were not there - owing, principally to delays at Kendal in executing the deeds ... '"""
"""William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 16 June 1819: 'I have seen the Article in the E[dinburgh]. R[eview]. [re Charities Question] - it is as your Lordship describes, feeble and false ... '"""
"""I have been reading Galiani's correspondence. I had no conception that Abbes and ladies wrote to each other in such a style and feel ashamed of my Simplicity and innocence'."""
"""I have read Galiani's letters, but they are so utterly insignificant, that there is nothing more to be said of them than that they are not worth speaking about. I scarcely ever read a more insignificant collection of letters'."""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""Tuesday March 30th. [...] Finish Schlegel's Critiscism [sic].'"""
"""Sunday May 30th. [...] <Read Boccaccio>.'"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""[Marginalia]"
"""I love the Warder as much as I detest these radicals and the general harping spirit of the Whigs Pray is my dear friend Cunninghame the author of The Cameronians Surely he must it is so like him and so graphic'."""
"""I love the Warder as much as I detest these radicals and the general harping spirit of the Whigs Pray is my dear friend Cunninghame the author of The Cameronians Surely he must it is so like him and so graphic'."""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""On the penult of the year 1819 I reached the last line of the """"""""Iliad"""""""".   To speak of the merits of the Maeonian Bard from one perusal only may be deemed presumption - yet I may be allowed to say that my Enjoyment fell far short of Expectation.  I found, & I am ashamed to say it, little to please and much to offend- The Morals of his Divinities are those of St Giles- their language that of Billingsgate or Wapping- His Nestors are garrulous beyond endurance...'"""
"""The acute and learned Paley sums up in the following beautiful and energetic language the results of the minute and elegant investigations persued in his invaluable volume on NaturalTheology...'[there follows an extended quote from Paley]."""
"""I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament'"""
"""William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [mid December 1819]: 'The Guardian a loyal Newspaper has found its way here.  It promises well but a weekly London paper crowded with advertizements, is not likely to suit the Country.  It is dated Sunday, also; this would prove an objection to its circulation in many houses in the country, especially as I observe Quack medicines, etc. etc. - advertized.'"""
"""William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [mid December 1819]: 'The Guardian a loyal Newspaper has found its way here.  It promises well but a weekly London paper crowded with advertizements, is not likely to suit the Country.  It is dated Sunday, also; this would prove an objection to its circulation in many houses in the country, especially as I observe Quack medicines, etc. etc. - advertized.'"""
"""William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 31 December 1819: 'In the last Kendal Chronicle appeared a most malignant misrepresentation of the words you used upon the searching for arms Bill ... I was requested to animadvert upon this Letter, which indeed I had felt some disposition to do when I first read it.'"""
"""William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 31 December 1819: 'In the last Kendal Chronicle appeared a most malignant misrepresentation of the words you used upon the searching for arms Bill ... I was requested to animadvert upon this Letter, which indeed I had felt some disposition to do when I first read it.'"""
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"""Looking over the Annals of philosophy for November last.  Population of Moscow - effect of bathing in the Red Sea [...]"""
"""I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament'"""
"""I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament'"""
"""Lady Caroline Lamb informed [John] Murray [Byron's publisher]: """"""""You cannot think how clever I think 'Don Juan' is, in my heart.""""""""'"""
"""Harriet Martineau on period spent with relatives at Bristol: 'I read some analytical books,  on logic and rhetoric [...] I read a good deal of History too'."""
"""Harriet Martineau on period spent with relatives at Bristol: 'I read some analytical books,  on logic and rhetoric [...] I read a good deal of History too'."""
"""Harriet Martineau on period spent with relatives at Bristol: 'I read some analytical books,  on logic and rhetoric [...] I read a good deal of History too'."""
"""Rogers is in an indescribable agony about his poem. The Hollands have read and like it. The verses on Paestum are said to be beautiful. The whole poem is not more than 800 lines. Fazackerly thinks it poor meagre stuff; Luttrell approves it; I have not seen it'."""
"""Read Hamlet'"""
"""Do you remember when Jeannie Deans went to London for her sister the gentle Gertie [sic--Geordie] Robertson gave her a [illegible] among the Robbers.'"""
"""I know that during Elections songs & squibs are fair on each side & much bad wit & many severe things must be said--but I am sure that neither you nor Sir Frances Burdett can see without disgust what is now handed about and sent here & every where and must be sanctioned by some of the people in your Committee [...] I know you are too clever & far too much of a Gentleman to have any thing to do with the common placards sent about in the way this is--but as I read part of it in the Statesman I think you could at all events stop its being inserted and ask yourself what your feelings would be if your found the grossest insults & imputations sanctioned by any of our Party against yr Birth or yr relations'."""
"""In the 4th ed. [of [italics]A Tour through Italy[end italics], [italics]A Classical Tour through Italy, An. MDCCCII[end italics], 4 vols. (London, 1817) [...] [John Chetwode Eustace] relates the legends of the Unterberg (1.76-77), some of which F[elicia]H[emans] copied into her commonplace book, 20-22 (Houghton Library MS Eng 767).'"""
"""William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 22 May [1819]: 'I have deferred thanking your Lordship for your kind attention in sending me (through the hands of Col: Lowther) the Q[uarterly]. R[eview]., till I could give it an attentive perusal.  This I have now done, and been most gratified.'"""
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"""Monday May 31st. [...] <Read Boccaccio>.'"""
"""It is the rainy evening of a dull day which I have spent in reading a little of Klopstock's Messiah (for the man Jardine, who broke his engagement); and in looking over the inflated work of 'Squire Bristed on """"""""America and her resources"""""""".  """"""""Vivacity"""""""", therefore, on my part, is quite out of the question-' """
"""It is the rainy evening of a dull day which I have spent in reading a little of Klopstock's Messiah (for the man Jardine, who broke his engagement); and in looking over the inflated work of 'Squire Bristed on """"""""America and her resources"""""""".  """"""""Vivacity"""""""", therefore, on my part, is quite out of the question-' """
"""I have done, as usual, almost nothing since we parted- Some one asked me with a smile, of which I knew not the meaning, if I would read that book, putting into my hands a volume of Rousseau's confessions.  It is perhaps the most remarkable tome, I ever read.  Except for its occassional obscenity, I might wish to see the remainder of the book: to try if possible to connect the character of Jean Jacques with my previous ideas of human nature.'"""
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"""Read Othello'"""
"""Sunday April 4th. [...] <Finish Lettres de Madame de Pompadour>'."""
"""Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'"""
"""Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'"""
"""Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'"""
"""Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'"""
"""Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'"""
"""Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'"""
"""Write - read Lucan & the Bible  S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Purgatorio'"""
"""Write - read Lucan & the Bible  S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Purgatorio'"""
"""Write - read Lucan & the Bible  S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Purgatorio'"""
"""Write - read Lucan & the Bible  S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Purgatorio'"""
"""Write - read Lucan & the Bible  S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Purgatorio'"""
"""S. reads Bocaccio [sic] - The Greek Tragedians & Calderon'"""
"""Read King John - & Livy'"""
"""Write - Read the Edinburgh Review'"""
"""Lord Grey will like that article in the Edinburgh Review upon Universal Suffrage; it is by Sir James McIntosh. There is a pamphlet on Bullion by Mr Copplestone of Oxford much read; but bullion is not I think a favourite dish at Howick'."""
"""Lord Grey will like that article in the Edinburgh Review upon Universal Suffrage; it is by Sir James McIntosh. There is a pamphlet on Bullion by Mr Copplestone of Oxford much read; but bullion is not I think a favourite dish at Howick'."""
"""Read Sismondi and Dante - S. finishes Livy'"""
"""Read Livy - & Chrysostome'"""
"""Read Horace - Memoires du Comte Grammont - S. writes his letter concerning Carlile - & reads Mme de Staels account of the Revolution - & Clarendon aloud'"""
"""Read the Quarterly review & Remorse - an unhappy day - S. reads one act of the alchemist to the G[isborne]'s in the evening - read 2 Canto of the Purgatorio'"""
"""Read the Quarterly review & Remorse - an unhappy day - S. reads one act of the alchemist to the G[isborne]'s in the evening - read 2 Canto of the Purgatorio'"""
"""Read the Quarterly review & Remorse - an unhappy day - S. reads one act of the alchemist to the G[isborne]'s in the evening - read 2 Canto of the Purgatorio'"""
"""This morning's post brought me (from York, directed by Anne Belcombe, Petergate) the Manchester Observer [etc] 2 sheets of 4 columns each,one of the most inflamatory radical papers published. hen in Manchester I said to Dr Lyon, I should like to have one to see what it was like, but would be ashamed to ask for it."""
"""S read Plutarch's lives.'"""
"""William Wordsworth to Hans Busk, 6 July 1819: 'Dear Sir, Your writings are not to be hurried over; this must plead my excuse for not having thanked you earlier for the """"""""Vestriad""""""""; which, though detained on the road, by a fault of some of Mr Longman's people ... reached me some time since ... I was particularly pleased with the descents into the submarine regions, and the infernal.  These two Cantos I liked best ... The serious passages ... will excite a wish in many as they did in me, that you would favour the world with something in downright earnest ... I noticed in your Vestriad with particular pleasure, your flight in the Balloon.'"""
"""Read the vision of Quivedo'"""
"""Read Horace and Lettres de Sevigne'"""
"""Write - Finish the 5th book of Lucan - Read the bible & with S. two Canto's of the Purgatorio'"""
"""Read Georgics and Dante - S. read Euripides'"""
"""Sunday March 7 -- 1819 Remove from La Villa di Parigi to Palazzo Verospi upon the Corso -- Read the Edinburgh & Quarterly Reviews.'"""
"""Sunday March 7 -- 1819 [...] Read the Edinburgh & Quaterly [sic] Reviews.'"""
"""read Bocaccio'"""
"""Finish 3rd book of Horace's Odes - Madme de Sevignes letters - & Fletcher's Love's Pilgrimage'"""
"""Read Forsyth's tour'"""
"""I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself.  It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to criticise the elegant and ingenious rather than powerful or philosophical narrative which Horace Benedict Saussure gives of his journeys in the Alps.  I am in the third quarto-'"""
"""I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself.  It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to criticise the elegant and ingenious rather than powerful or philosophical narrative which Horace Benedict Saussure gives of his journeys in the Alps.  I am in the third quarto- Nor shall I speak about Biot's traite de physique of which, to tell the truth, I have scarcely read 100 pages.'"""
"""There is also Madame de Stael on the French revolution - first volume only finished - remarks (if any) in the next letter.' """
"""With regard to reading, you would think I have enough of time upon my hands at present: yet the truth is, I have often read more, almost never studied less!... There is Jameson with his most crude theories - his orders Mammalia, Digitala & fencibles of gli[illegible]rac & bruta with [chi[sel]-shaped foreteeth && grieves me every day.'"""
"""In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much conscience to dilate upon this subject.  Besides, it is not so easy to criticise the brilliant work of Madame de Stael-considerations sur quelques evenemen[t]s de la revolution - as to tell you, what I learnt from a small Genevese attending Jameson's class, that she was very ugly and very immoral- yet had fine eyes, and was very kind to the poor people of Coppet & the environs.'"""
"""In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much conscience to dilate upon this subject... On the same authority [a small Genevese], I inform you that Horace Benedict Saussure (whose beautiful voyages I have not yet finished) died 20 years ago; but Theodore, his son, is still living.'"""
"""I read Bailly's memoires d'un temoin de la revolution, with little comfort.  The book is not ill-written: but it grieved me to see the august historian of astronomy, the intimate of Kepler, Gallileo & Newton- """"""""thrown into tumult, raptur'd or alarm'd,"""""""" at the approbation or the blame of Parisian tradesmen - not to speak of the """"""""pouvres ouvriers"""""""" [poor workers], as he fondly names the dogs, du faubourg St Antoine."""
"""Finish Forsyth's tour'"""
"""Write - Read the New Inn of Ben Jonson & 2 canto's of Dante with S. - he reads the Alchemist aloud in the evening'."""
"""Before breakfast + afterwards, from 11 to 1, making minutes + extracts from Hall's travels in France (it must go to the library today...He is an arrant republican in politics + would perhaps, style himself a philosopher in religion. Consequently, his sentiments + mine on these subjects who as a limited monarchist + a ProtestantChristian according to the established Church of England, are opposite almost as the poles. However, there is some information useful to a tourist."""
"""Finish the Georgics - read 25th & 26th Cantos of Dante'"""
"""Finish the Georgics - read 25th & 26th Cantos of Dante'"""
"""Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic'"""
"""Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic'"""
"""Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic'"""
"""Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th Book & all we mean to read of 5th book of Virgil - Visit at Casa Silva. S. reads Locke'"""
"""Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th Book & all we mean to read of 5th book of Virgil - Visit at Casa Silva. S. reads Locke'"""
"""[Shelley] reads Appolonius [sic] Rhodius'"""
"""Don Quixote & Calderon'"""
"""Don Quixote & Calderon'"""
"""Tuesday February 1st. [...] Read Paine [...] In Paine I find an account of the English cruelties in America and India'."""
"""Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'"""
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"""Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'"""
"""Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'"""
"""Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'"""
"""Finish 38th Book of Livy. read Post. Letters.'"""
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"""Send me word directly about Wilson's success. I cannot tell you how anxious I am about. I would not even wish him to know how anxious I am about as I look on it to be a desiderratum in his literary life. It is a most friendly review and will help the sale of the tales greatly but the Magazine on the whole is not a superior one. The first article is however [italics] very good [end italics]'"""
"""Send me word directly about Wilson's success. I cannot tell you how anxious I am about. I would not even wish him to know how anxious I am about as I look on it to be a desiderratum in his literary life. It is a most friendly review and will help the sale of the tales greatly but the Magazine on the whole is not a superior one. The first article is however [italics] very good [end italics]'"""
"""S. reads Herodotus - Gillies & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'"""
"""Muratori - greek - Irish books'"""
"""I was on the amoroso till M- made me read aloud the first 126pp, vol 2, of Sir walter Scott's(he has just been made a baronet) last novel The Monastery, in 3 vols, 12 mo stupid enough. Tea at 7:30."""
"""Finish Julie. Read the Fable of the Bees.'"""
"""Finish Julie. Read the Fable of the Bees.'"""
"""[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'"""
"""[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'"""
"""[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'"""
"""Read the Bible'"""
"""Melville is a terribly dull book: I do not think it will take so well as Knox'."""
"""Melville is a terribly dull book: I do not think it will take so well as Knox'."""
"""Read Middletons Cicero'"""
"""S. reads Tobit aloud.'"""
"""S finishes the Trajedy to me'"""
"""Friday Nov. 10th. [...] Read Hyperion of Keats.'"""
"""Monday Dec. 11th.  Begin the Observations of Macchiavelli upon the Decades of Livy.'"""
"""I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other Lady Louisa should be scandalized; pray tell her so. My own notions are that comical books rarely do harm, unless when they try to throw ridicule on sacred subjects; and, I am tempted to say, """"""""Have fixed principles deeply rooted, and then read what you please"""""""". I agree with her that Tardif de Courtrac, tho' always clever, is sometimes very tedious, especially in America, from one's indifference respecting the subject. For """"""""Ivanhoe"""""""", make yourself easy, I am its sincere partisan and Rebecca's devoted admirer. I would rather the templar had burst a blood vessel, because that is really often the effect of a conflict of violent passions and tho' they may bring on an apoplexy also , it is not apt to ensue so immediately'. [LS then discusses several characters in Ivanhoe at length]"""
"""If the paper today speaks truth about the King's sending for the Duke of Sussex, he begins as he should do, for no one's behaviour can have been worse. But they (the newspapers) make me absolutely sick with the stuff they insert about his poor father, sometimes absolutely false, sometimes stories caught by the tail, twisted and blundered, till the original teller could not know them again' """
"""Friday Feb. 11th. [...] Begin La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon della Barca [...] In the Evening read [...] the second part of Paine's Rights of Man [goes on to comment on this].'"""
"""S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees'"""
"""S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees'"""
"""Tuesday Jany. 11th.  Finish the Life of Lycurgus -- Begin that of Numa'."""
"""S. reads the Fall of Sejanus aloud. reads Hobbes. On Man.'"""
"""Write - read Astronomy - Finish Robinson Crusoe'"""
"""Write - read Astronomy - Finish Robinson Crusoe'"""
"""read Corinne'"""
"""Saturday Nov. 11th. [...] Read the 1st. Act of Prometheus unbound.'"""
"""Copy the Witch of Atlas'"""
"""[Tuesday] Dec. 12th. [...] Read Indicators by Hunt'."""
"""Saturday Feb. 12th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon de la Barca. Finish the second part of Paine's Rights of Man [goes on to comment on this].'"""
"""Saturday Feb. 12th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon de la Barca. Finish the second part of Paine's Rights of Man [goes on to comment on this].'"""
"""Wednesday Jany. 12. [...] Read & finish the Life of Numa -- Begin Solon [makes notes from this reading]'."""
"""Shelley reads the Tempest alout [sic] - & the Bible & Sophocles to himself'"""
"""Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]'"""
"""Greek - not well - Indicators'"""
"""Wednesday Dec. 13th. [...] Read Indicators'."""
"""Sunday Feb. 13th.  Begin Locke's essay on the Understanding'. """
"""Thursday Jany. 13th.  Finish the Life of Solon'."""
"""S. finish Greek Romances'"""
"""S reads Hobbes - Catalines plot aloud.'"""
"""Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'"""
"""Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'"""
"""Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'"""
"""Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'"""
"""Read Livy & the F. of the Bees. Read Las Casas - S. reads Plato'"""
"""Little doing this day...Have been reading at Gifford's History of the War and have followed Bonaparte into Egypt in July 1798. That summer I was at Rothie keeping Mr Hays cows and was ten years old."""
"""Finish the book of Proverbs. S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - Finishes the Tempest aloud to me.'"""
"""Finish the book of Proverbs. S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - Finishes the Tempest aloud to me.'"""
"""Tuesday March 14th.  [...] Read Dramatic Biography'."""
"""Afternoon reading Rollin's history of Antiochus Epiphanus, who persecuted the Jews."""
"""Write - Read Homer - Targione - Spanish - A rainy day. S. reads Calderon'"""
"""Write - Read Homer - Targione - Spanish - A rainy day. S. reads Calderon'"""
"""Read Don Juan'"""
"""Read Villani - Travels of Rolando'"""
"""S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - he reads the Hercules of Sophocles aloud to me'."""
"""Ciceros 2nd oration - Hist. of Engd'"""
"""Ciceros 2nd oration - Hist. of Engd'"""
"""Read Lambs Specimens'"""
"""Wednesday Feb. 16th. [...] Read a little of La Cisma de Ingalaterra.'  """
"""Friday June 16th. [...] Read Bride of Lammermoor.'"""
"""Tuesday May 16th. [...] Read Plays by Farquhar.'"""
"""Thursday Feb. 17th. [...] Read 1st Chapter of Locke's Essay. [...] Finish the 2nd part of Paine's Age of Reason.'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sanuto -- Sandi -- Navagero -- & an anonymous Siege of Zara -- besides the histories of Laugier Daru -- Sismondi &c.' """
"""Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sanuto -- Sandi -- Navagero -- & an anonymous Siege of Zara -- besides the histories of Laugier Daru -- Sismondi &c.'  """
"""Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sanuto -- Sandi -- Navagero -- & an anonymous Siege of Zara -- besides the histories of Laugier Daru -- Sismondi &c.'  """
"""Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sanuto -- Sandi -- Navagero -- & an anonymous Siege of Zara -- besides the histories of Laugier Daru -- Sismondi &c.'"""
"""Friday March 17th. [...] Read [...] the Play of Beggar's Bush.'"""
"""Wednesday May 17th. [...] Read Vanburgh Plays.'"""
"""Read Prometheus Unbound - papers - & Indicators'"""
"""Read Prometheus Unbound - papers - & Indicators'"""
"""Friday Feb. 18th. [...] Read Locke [goes on to make detailed notes].'"""
"""S. begins Hist of Engd'"""
"""S. reads Hyperion aloud'"""
"""H. J. Jackson notes Hester Lynch Piozzi's extensive 1819-20 annotations to The Imperial Family Bible, lent to her by its owner, Mrs Susanna Rudd. """
"""I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last """"""""Edinr reviews"""""""" - and if you honour the maxim, audi alteram partem [hear the other side], to sundry delicious speculations from the pen of Mr Southey, wherein these points are handled at considerable length in the """"""""Quarterly review"""""""".'"""
"""I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last """"""""Edinr reviews"""""""" - and if you honour the maxim, audi alteram partem [hear the other side], to sundry delicious speculations from the pen of Mr Southey, wherein these points are handled at considerable length in the """"""""Quarterly review"""""""".'"""
"""I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last """"""""Edinr reviews"""""""" - and if you honour the maxim, audi alteram partem [hear the other side], to sundry delicious speculations from the pen of Mr Southey, wherein these points are handled at considerable length in the """"""""Quarterly review"""""""".'"""
"""I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last """"""""Edinr reviews"""""""" - and if you honour the maxim, audi alteram partem [hear the other side], to sundry delicious speculations from the pen of Mr Southey, wherein these points are handled at considerable length in the """"""""Quarterly review"""""""".'"""
"""Saturday Feb. 19th.  Read 1 Scene in the Cisma de Ingalaterra.  Begin Davanzati's Tacitus.' """
"""Saturday Feb. 19th.  Read 1 Scene in the Cisma de Ingalaterra.  Begin Davanzati's Tacitus.' """
"""S. reads Henry IV aloud'"""
"""Read Davanzati's Tacitus' [entered in Claire Clairmont's 1820 Journal on 22, 24, 27 Feb and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 12, 15, 17, 19 March (reading begun 19 February); 'Read a little of Davanzati's Tacitus' entered on 18 March."""
"""Read, if you have not read, all Horace Walpole's letters, wherever you can find them; - the best wit ever published in the shape of letters'."""
"""Sunday Nov. 19th. [...] read Conversazione da Bondi.'"""
"""Ride to Pisa - Keats' poems'"""
"""S. reads the history of Charles 5th by Robertson'"""
"""Saturday Dec. 2nd. [...] Read 1 Canto of Purgatorio.'"""
"""Wednesday Feb. 2nd. [...] Read Paine's Works.'"""
"""read Julie - S returns [from Leghorn] - he reads Isaiah aloud to me.'"""
"""Sunday Jan. 2nd.  1820  Florence  Read a little Spanish -- Los Cabellos de [...] Absalon de Calderon de la Barca.'"""
"""S. reads Henry V'"""
"""S finishes Phaedrus'"""
"""finish Caleb Williams. S. reads Euripides'"""
"""finish Caleb Williams. S. reads Euripides'"""
"""Saturday May 20th.  Read History of the Revolution at Naples.'"""
"""S. reads to me Spencer's Virgil's Gnat'"""
"""I have had within these few days a curious MS. sent to me by an English gentleman a Dr T. Brown who intreats me to take a hand in editing it and I think it would take remarkably well both in schools and as a cabinet work. It is """"""""The art of reading and conversing on the works of the living poets of Great Britain"""""""" with many most beautiful extracts [...] If close printed it would be 7/ and you might have it on your own terms. I go over it every word and will answer for the ingenuity of it but it is not really mine so cannot be in my name but I declare on honour it is a great deal more ingenious than I could have written it'."""
"""Monday Feb. 21st.  Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.' """
"""Monday Feb. 21st.  Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.' """
"""Monday Feb. 21st.  Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.' """
"""Read Livy & F of the Bees. S. reads Solis' History of Mexico'"""
"""Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, Ecclesiastes & Solomon's Song'"""
"""Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, Ecclesiastes & Solomon's Song'"""
"""Friday Jany. 21st.  Begin Life of Pericles.'"""
"""Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, Ecclesiastes & Solomon's Song'"""
"""Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, Ecclesiastes & Solomon's Song'"""
"""Finish the oration for Roscius amerinus'"""
"""Read Sterne's Sentimental Journey'"""
"""Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] with Shelley - Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. finishes the Leviathan of Hobbes. reads the Bible aloud'"""
"""Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] with Shelley - Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. finishes the Leviathan of Hobbes. reads the Bible aloud'"""
"""S. reads Antient Metaphysics'"""
"""24pp pamphlet describing a reading by Mrs Fry to the female prisoners at Newgate, at which the author was present. pp.8-9: 'The silence was at length broken by that mild voice which the prisoners had often heard. Mrs Fry began to read from the Bible. She had selected the 12th and 13th chapters of the epistle to the Romans. This selection did honour to her judgement, and while, with distinct articulation, she dwelt upon the more important of the words of Holy writ, every hearer appeared affected. The convicts shewed their interest in the instruction thus afforded them by the eye fixed on the reader, and their anxiety by heads put, as it were, forward to meet the sound, while the eye had the tear quivering on the lash, or the cheek shewed that it had overflowed its bounds. When she had finished the chapters which she had read slowly, to give time to the hearers to receive the words, and to comprehend their meaning, she remained for a few seconds perfectly silent, and the silence was a silence which might be felt.'"""
"""The Oration for Roscius the Comedian - Hist of Engd'"""
"""Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. reads Ezechiel aloud. Reads Political Justice -'"""
"""Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. reads Ezechiel aloud. Reads Political Justice -'"""
"""Read and finnish [sic] Vind. of the Rights of Woman - finish Sand. & Merton'"""
"""Read and finnish [sic] Vind. of the Rights of Woman - finish Sand. & Merton'"""
"""Spent the evening reading Paulus Emillius's Campaign in Macedonia and the Overthrow of Perseus, the last king thereof."""
"""Sismondi - B.[occaccio] - S. reads A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'"""
"""Write - Read - I am sure I forget what'"""
"""S. reads the bible - and Muller's universal History'"""
"""First oration of Verres. Hist of Engd.'"""
"""a thousand thanks for [your letter], and for Sir John Stanley's speech, which I like very much, though I own I think he gives a little into commonplace towards the end, when he says the French Revolution would never have happened if so and so - forgetting that the unfortunate sovereign under whom it did happen was religious, moral, and virtuous to the highest degree, solely attached to his own wife, - and it was an old observation that a wife, a Queen's having any influence over her husband was a thing the French at no time could bear' [LS critiques various other points of the speech at length] """
"""There is a part of Sir John's speech I think quite beautiful, that which describes the sensation of vacancy; and his waiving any observations of a political nature is extremely judicious.'"""
"""This [talking about feuds between families] reminds me of """"""""Ivanhoe"""""""". I take the introduction of Scripture phrases to be neither intentional profaneness in the author nor carelessness, but adherence to the strict letter of the time he describes. It was their constant language. They had few books to read, and they quoted [italics] a tort et a travers [end italics] the one they knew, just as in the 17th century they did the Classics. Even Jeremy Taylor cannot bid us do as we would be done by without bringing in a passage from Plato or Homer'"""
"""Read Villani'"""
"""Sismondi - Greek - Petrarch - S. reads Gillies Greece & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'"""
"""Sismondi - Greek - Petrarch - S. reads Gillies Greece & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'"""
"""At Kirk as usual. Spent the rest of the day and evening reading Addison's Evidences of the Christian Religion"""
"""Greek - Sintram - S. not well'"""
"""Thursday Feb. 24th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra [...] Also a little of Locke.'"""
"""Thursday Feb. 24th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra [...] Also a little of Locke.'"""
"""If you want to read an agreeable book, read Galownin's narrative of his confinement in and escape from Japan; and I think it may do very well for reading out, which I believe is your practice - a practice which I approve rather than follow: - and neglect it from mere want of virtue. I think also you may read De Foe's Life of Colonel Jack, - entertaining enough when his heroe is a scoundrel, but waxing dull as it gets moral. I never set you any difficult tasks in reading, but am as indulgent to you as I am to myself'."""
"""If you want to read an agreeable book, read Galownin's narrative of his confinement in and escape from Japan; and I think it may do very well for reading out, which I believe is your practice - a practice which I approve rather than follow: - and neglect it from mere want of virtue. I think also you may read De Foe's Life of Colonel Jack, - entertaining enough when his heroe is a scoundrel, but waxing dull as it gets moral. I never set you any difficult tasks in reading, but am as indulgent to you as I am to myself'."""
"""Read the Quarterly'"""
"""Friday Nov. 24th. Read Newspapers.'"""
"""Troilus & Cressid [sic] in the evening'"""
"""Shelley writes an ode to Naples - Reads Mrs Macauly [sic]. finishes Appolonius [sic] Rhodius - Begins Swellfoot the Tyrant - suggested by the pigs at the fair of St Giuliano - Reads the double marriage aloud'"""
"""In my shop doing little business there, and in the intervals reading Gifford's History of the War."""
"""I am much obliged by your present of The Monastery, which I have read, and which I must frankly confess I admire less than any of the others - much less. Such I think you will find the judgement of the public to be. The idea of painting ancient manners in a fictitious story and in well-known scenery is admirable, and the writer has admirable talents for it; but nothing is done without pains, and I doubt whether pains have been taken in The Monastery, - if they have, they have failed. It is quite childish to introduce supernatural agency; as much of the terrors and follies of supersition as you please, but no actual ghosts and hobgoblins. I recommend one novel every year, and more pains. So much money is worth getting; so much deserved fame is worth keeping, so much amusement we ought all to strive to continue for the public good. You will excuse my candour - you know I am your wellwisher. I was the first to praise Ivanhoe, as I shall be to praise the next, if I can do so conscientiously'."""
"""Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 25 May 1820: 'A German named Rupprecht has sent me heaven knows why several Deutsche Gazettes of all which I understand neither word nor letter. -- I have sent you the enclosed to beg you to translate to me some remarks -- which appear to be Goethe's upon Manfred -- & if I may judge by two notes of admiration ... and the word """"""""hypocondrisch"""""""" are any thing but favourable ...'"""
"""S finishes 8th book of Virgil - read Ovid'"""
"""Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, and am more and more delighted.  I think that I even prefer them to his poetry, which ... I redde for the first time in my life in your rooms in Trinity College.'"""
"""Finish 40th Book of Livy - Finish Virgil - S. reads Riciadetto to me'"""
"""Afternoon reading Rollin's History"""
"""Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] - S. reads 1 1/2 Virgil aloud - he reads Political Justice - Read Tasso'"""
"""Sunday March 26th [...] Begin Condorcet's Life of Voltaire [goes on to note anecdote from this]'."""
"""Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] - S. reads 1 1/2 Virgil aloud - he reads Political Justice - Read Tasso'"""
"""S. reads Theocritus'"""
"""read Robinson Crusoe'"""
"""Read a book of Tasso to Shelley.'"""
"""I thank you very much for the entertainment I have received from your book. I should however have been afraid to marry such a woman as Lady Rachel; it would have been too awful. There are pieces of china very fine and beautiful, but never intended for daily use'."""
"""Thursday Jany 27th. [...] Read an Irish pamphlet'."""
"""Finish 4th book of Lucretius. Ricciardetto'"""
"""Byron to Jean Antoine Galignani, 28 April 1820: 'I perceive in a long advertisement of what you are pleased to call Ld. Byron's works -- the name of an """"""""Ode to the land of the Gaul"""""""" -- it is not my production ...'"""
"""Friday Jany 28th.  Rainy -- Read Irish Pamphlet & Travels before the Flood -- Also two chapters in Schlegel's Dramactic [sic] Criticism'."""
"""Friday Jany 28th.  Rainy -- Read Irish Pamphlet & Travels before the Flood -- Also two chapters in Schlegel's Dramactic [sic] Criticism'."""
"""Friday Jany 28th.  Rainy -- Read Irish Pamphlet & Travels before the Flood -- Also two chapters in Schlegel's Dramactic [sic] Criticism'."""
"""I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Stott [end italics] had been left out of Scott's prize poem It is exceedingly shrewd and clever. New York I do not understand The poetry of Cunningham is perfectly beautiful'"""
"""I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Stott [end italics] had been left out of Scott's prize poem It is exceedingly shrewd and clever. New York I do not understand The poetry of Cunningham is perfectly beautiful'"""
"""I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Stott [end italics] had been left out of Scott's prize poem It is exceedingly shrewd and clever. New York I do not understand The poetry of Cunningham is perfectly beautiful'"""
"""A review for Brewster's philosophical journal of a German book on Magnetism, I must also write or say I cannot - the former alternative is better: and then (as our man of Law concludes in a few days) I am my own master to go whithersoever I list.'"""
"""Muratori - Greek - finish Lucretius'"""
"""Saturday Jany. 29th. [...] Read another Irish Pamphlet -- also one of Chateaubriand's -- De Buonaparte et des Bourbons'."""
"""Saturday Jany. 29th. [...] Read another Irish Pamphlet -- also one of Chateaubriand's -- De Buonaparte et des Bourbons'."""
"""Read Livy - Mrs Macauly's hist. of England - Lucretius with S. - he reads Greek Romances & Ricciardetto aloud in the evening'"""
"""Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 29 March 1820: 'I congratulate you on your change of residence, which I perceive by the papers, took place on the dissolution of King and parliament.'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 29 September 1820: '... on reading more of the 4 volumes on Italy [attacked by Byron in note to Marino Faliero] ... I perceive (horresco referens [Virgil, Aeneid II.204: """"""""I shudder to recall""""""""]) that it is written by a WOMAN!!!'"""
"""At even reading from Rollin the defeat of the Romans under Crassus, 54 BC, the history of Hieron, the good king of Syracuse and the siege of Suracuse by the Romans under Marcellus, when it was reduced by them."""
"""Monday Jany. 3rd.  [...] Read Don Juan.  Read the Life of Plutarch.'"""
"""Monday Jany. 3rd.  [...] Read Don Juan.  Read the Life of Plutarch.'"""
"""S. reads D.[on] Juan aloud in the evening'"""
"""Nothing material has occurred to me since I returned from Mainhill.  I wrote the first half of """"""""Hunsteen"""""""" and translated, from the German, the first half of """"""""Mohs"""""""";'"""
"""Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of literature have scarcely been wider.  Rousseau's """"""""Contrat Social"""""""" - in spite of the frightful notoriety which circumstances gave it - seems little calculated for a remote posterity.'"""
"""Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of literature have scarcely been wider... With respect to Goethe's """"""""Faust"""""""" - if I were at your side you should hear of nothing else for many hours; and sorry am I that your brows will suddenly contract - if I give free scope to my notions even by this imperfect vehicle.'   """
"""I see no paper but an old Examiner - strong meat - an Olla Podrida, high-flavoured but coarse and na[u]seous to a sentimentalist.'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at least once a day for an hour or so.  The last are too hurried -- he forgets Ravenswood's name ... and he don't make enough of Montrose -- but Dalgetty is excellent ...' """
"""Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at least once a day for an hour or so.  The last are too hurried -- he forgets Ravenswood's name ... and he don't make enough of Montrose -- but Dalgetty is excellent ...' """
"""I like some things in the last Mag. very well but there is a grievious [sic] falling off in Cunningham's Cameronian The one is a drawing from life the other a composition and not at all in keeping'."""
"""I have just read """"""""The Abbot""""""""; it is far above common novels, but of very inferior execution to his others, and hardly worth reading. He has exhausted the subject of Scotland, and worn out the few characters that the early periods of Scotch history ould supply him with. Meg Merrilies appears afresh in every novel'."""
"""Afternoon reading Rollin, wherein instruction may be learned.  Indulge not in ease. It enfeebles the body and ,although one could afford luxury, it should not be indulged. It enervates the whole mind and by imperceptible steps overcomes the whole frame."""
"""Muratori - Greek - Queen's Letter - K.[ing] Swellfoot'"""
"""Muratori - Greek - Queen's Letter - K.[ing] Swellfoot'"""
"""Begin Julie'"""
"""Sunday Jany. 30th.  Read Rousseau sur Les Arts & Les Sciences -- a piece of most extraordinary Prejudice and envious wailing -- It had better have been entitled a Disquisition on the Military Art since it teaches the way to make good Soldiers but not [...] Philosophers.'"""
"""When [winter] was over, I began to steal a few moments occasionally for the purpose of looking upon the fair and sweet face of nature. It was at this time, I think, that I read Mr. Rogers's very beautiful poem called """"""""Human Life"""""""" and also a history of the recent wars.'"""
"""When [winter] was over, I began to steal a few moments occasionally for the purpose of looking upon the fair and sweet face of nature. It was at this time, I think, that I read Mr. Rogers's very beautiful poem called """"""""Human Life"""""""" and also a history of the recent wars.'"""
"""S finishes aloud the 3rd book of the Aenied [sic] aloud'"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""Thursday Nov. 30th. [...] Read the [...] Novella of Belfegor da Macchivelli.'"""
"""Mary Berry, in letter of August 1820: 'I have been reading after dinner, when it is too hot to write, """"""""Anastatius.""""""""  It is, as I had supposed, the substance of the MS. travels in the East which he long ago gave me to read.  But in this new form so arranged!  in such a pert style -- such an evident copy of Lord Byron's prose'."""
"""[Marginalia]"
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"""[Tennyson] was sent to the Grammar School [at Louth] [...] I still have the books which he used there, his Ovid, Delectus, Analecta Graeca Minora, and the old Eton Latin Grammar, originally put together by Erasmus, Lilly and Colet.'"""
"""[Tennyson] was sent to the Grammar School [at Louth] [...] I still have the books which he used there, his Ovid, Delectus, Analecta Graeca Minora, and the old Eton Latin Grammar, originally put together by Erasmus, Lilly and Colet.'"""
"""[Tennyson] was sent to the Grammar School [at Louth] [...] I still have the books which he used there, his Ovid, Delectus, Analecta Graeca Minora, and the old Eton Latin Grammar, originally put together by Erasmus, Lilly and Colet.'"""
"""I have been reading for the first time 2 of yr Tales & am delighted with them.  They not only amuse & interest & affect extremely but they amend--and it must be a delightful reflection for a Person who has written for others to feel that they have done good instead of harm.'"""
"""I was unable to work for a fortnight through lameness... While laid by from work, I read Mr. MacKenzie's """"""""Man of Feeling"""""""" and other tales. I thought them a little too highly coloured to be of any great use, considered as pictures of men and manners.'"""
"""""""""""Jane Austen herself, the Queen of novelists, the immortal creator of Anne Elliott, Mr Knightley, and a score or two more of unrivalled intimate friends of the whole public, was compelled by the feelings of her family to cover up her manuscripts with a large piece of muslin work."""""""""""
"""""""""""Now it was meeting James at seven in the morning to read Lowth's Prelections in the Latin,"""""""""""
"""""""""""Now it was translating Tacitus, in order to try what was the utmost compression of style that I could attain.""""""""..""""""""I went into such an enthusiasm over the original, and especially over the celebrated concluding passage, that I thought I would translate it, and correct it by Dr Aitkins, which I could procure from our public library""""""""."""
"""""""""""Now it was translating Tacitus, in order to try what was the utmost compression of style that I could attain.""""""""..""""""""I went into such an enthusiasm over the original, and especially over the celebrated concluding passage, that I thought I would translate it, and correct it by Dr Aitkins, which I could procure from our public library""""""""."""
"""I strongly recommend to you Captain Golownin's narrative of his imprisonment in Japan; it is one of the most entertaining books I have read for a long time.'"""
"""Monday Jany. 31st. [...] Read Common Sense by Paine and two numbers of the Crisis a Paper which he published during the American War.'"""
"""Monday Jany. 31st. [...] Read Common Sense by Paine and two numbers of the Crisis a Paper which he published during the American War.'"""
"""Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aenied aloud - read Condorcet's life of Voltaire - S. reads Locke.'"""
"""Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, '[After Feb 7, 1820?]' (translated from Italian) : 'I have read the """"""""few lines"""""""" of your note with all due attention ...'"""
"""Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aenied aloud - read Condorcet's life of Voltaire - S. reads Locke.'"""
"""By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's """"""""Iliad"""""""" and """"""""Odyssey"""""""". I also read Mr. Hervey's """"""""Theron and Aspasia"""""""", but with no great pleasure, because of its chiefly dwelling upon controverted points of theology. I was induced to read it by a sense of what was due to the request of a valued friend. As to Mr. Pope's works and translations, I read them with much satisfaction. In passing, I must observe that of Homer's poems I greatly preferred the """"""""Odyssey""""""""; for the """"""""Iliad"""""""" was too full of warlike descriptions for one of my pacific temper. I still retain this preference. My reading times were at my meals, and after I had left work in the evening.'"""
"""By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's """"""""Iliad"""""""" and """"""""Odyssey"""""""". I also read Mr. Hervey's """"""""Theron and Aspasia"""""""", but with no great pleasure, because of its chiefly dwelling upon controverted points of theology. I was induced to read it by a sense of what was due to the request of a valued friend. As to Mr. Pope's works and translations, I read them with much satisfaction. In passing, I must observe that of Homer's poems I greatly preferred the """"""""Odyssey""""""""; for the """"""""Iliad"""""""" was too full of warlike descriptions for one of my pacific temper. I still retain this preference. My reading times were at my meals, and after I had left work in the evening.'"""
"""By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's """"""""Iliad"""""""" and """"""""Odyssey"""""""". I also read Mr. Hervey's """"""""Theron and Aspasia"""""""", but with no great pleasure, because of its chiefly dwelling upon controverted points of theology. I was induced to read it by a sense of what was due to the request of a valued friend. As to Mr. Pope's works and translations, I read them with much satisfaction. In passing, I must observe that of Homer's poems I greatly preferred the """"""""Odyssey""""""""; for the """"""""Iliad"""""""" was too full of warlike descriptions for one of my pacific temper. I still retain this preference. My reading times were at my meals, and after I had left work in the evening.'"""
"""By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's """"""""Iliad"""""""" and """"""""Odyssey"""""""". I also read Mr. Hervey's """"""""Theron and Aspasia"""""""", but with no great pleasure, because of its chiefly dwelling upon controverted points of theology. I was induced to read it by a sense of what was due to the request of a valued friend. As to Mr. Pope's works and translations, I read them with much satisfaction. In passing, I must observe that of Homer's poems I greatly preferred the """"""""Odyssey""""""""; for the """"""""Iliad"""""""" was too full of warlike descriptions for one of my pacific temper. I still retain this preference. My reading times were at my meals, and after I had left work in the evening.'"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariosto and """"""""Six weeks at Longs."""""""" The latter end of this day will thus be better than the beginning.'"""
"""I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariosto and """"""""Six weeks at Longs."""""""" The latter end of this day will thus be better than the beginning.'"""
"""Friday Feb. 4th  Read Paine [goes on to make detailed notes of issues concerning the American War of Independence, based on The American Crisis no.10] [...] Walk with Laurette on the Argine -- Finish Paine's Crisis -- The last number which congratulates the Americans on the conclusion of the War is fine'. """
"""Read Don Juan'"""
"""Read Letters from Norway'"""
"""Read Common Sense'"""
"""When ever I saw your Cameronians I knew the hand but I do not like your last ideal picture half so well as the one you drew from life.'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 4 November 1820: 'I have read part of the Quarterly just arrived ...'"""
"""Muratori - Greek - Rebellion of Ireland'"""
"""S. finishes Mrs Macauly [sic] - Reads the Republic of Plato'"""
"""S. finishes Mrs Macauly [sic] - Reads the Republic of Plato'"""
"""Wednesday April 5th. [...] Read Memoires of Voltaire written by himself [notes anecdote from this]'."""
"""Saturday Feb. 5th. [...] Read Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal.  Read Travels before the Flood which I like much [makes detailed notes on this text].'"""
"""Saturday Feb. 5th. [...] Read Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal.  Read Travels before the Flood which I like much [makes detailed notes on this text].'"""
"""The Hon. James Abercrombie to Mary Berry, 5 January 1820: 'I am reading Coxe's """"""""Life of Marlborough;"""""""" the subject, in spite of the dulness and want of capacity in the writer, renders it most truly interesting.'"""
"""Read Livy - work - Read Mazeppa - S. reads Sophocles - & St Mathew [sic] aloud to me - Translate S.[pinoza]'"""
"""Read Livy - work - Read Mazeppa - S. reads Sophocles - & St Mathew [sic] aloud to me - Translate S.[pinoza]'"""
"""Thursday Jany 6. [...] Finish reading los Cabellos de Absalon of Calderon. Read the Life of Theseus.'"""
"""Thursday Jany 6. [...] Finish reading los Cabellos de Absalon of Calderon. Read the Life of Theseus.'"""
"""Wednesday Jany -- 5th. [...] Read Mazeppa.'"""
"""S. reads Paradise regained aloud.'"""
"""Read Letter to the Abbe Raynal &c - ride with M.M. - finish XXXIII book of Livy. Begin the age of Reason.'"""
"""Wednesday Dec. 6th. [...] Read a Canto of Purgatorio.'"""
"""Have had no company this day with myself, and have gone on with my studies, tracing the courses of the French and British armies in Egypt in 1801."""
"""Finish Letters from No[r]way'"""
"""At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit & poetic excellence.  I was familiar with Shakespeare Milton Homer and Virgil Locke Hooker Pope -- I read Homer in the original with delight inexpressible together with Virgil.'  """
"""Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli,  7 August 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I am reading the second volume of the proposal of that classical cuckold Perticari ...'"""
"""Monday Feb. 7th. [...] Read and finish Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal the feeling of this letter I admire exceedingly -- it is truly cosmopolitan -- Finish the travels before the Flood.'"""
"""Monday Feb. 7th. [...] Read and finish Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal  the feeling of this letter I admire exceedingly -- it is truly cosmopolitan -- Finish the travels before the Flood.'"""
"""Friday Jany. 7th. [...] Read -- the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon.  Finish the Life of Theseus.'"""
"""Friday Jany. 7th. [...] Read -- the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon.  Finish the Life of Theseus.'"""
"""Read Livy - Mary - a fiction'"""
"""Having just concluded the first volume of Sismondi's history, and the other not being yet arrived from Edinr, I think I cannot better employ the hour of leisure, which necessarily intervenes between the end of this and the beginning of a fresh employment, than in returning you my thanks for the kind and good-humoured letter which I received last Saturday.'"""
"""read Armata - read Homer'"""
"""read Armata - read Homer'"""
"""I do not rank this Maga very high but would like much to know who this new village poet is this juvenile Crab Coleridge's letter is great stuff but correspondence of the Pringles continues to be excellent'."""
"""I do not rank this Maga very high but would like much to know who this new village poet is this juvenile Crab Coleridge's letter is great stuff but correspondence of the Pringles continues to be excellent'."""
"""I do not rank this Maga very high but would like much to know who this new village poet is this juvenile Crab Coleridge's letter is great stuff but correspondence of the Pringles continues to be excellent'."""
"""Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 8 August 1820: 'Fletcher reads you in Galignani -- and comes grinning over your speeches to me -- he has already noted Seventeen ...'"""
"""Saturday Jany. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon -- Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Evening while Shelley reads the Gospel of Mathew [sic] aloud.'"""
"""Saturday Jany. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon -- Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Evening while Shelley reads the Gospel of Mathew [sic] aloud.'"""
"""Saturday -- Jan. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno.  Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Evening while Shelley reads the Gospel of Mathew [sic] aloud.'"""
"""Read Legend of Montrose - Indicators'"""
"""Read Robinson Crusoe. S. finishes the tragedy of Bonduca to me'"""
"""Read Robinson Crusoe. S. finishes the tragedy of Bonduca to me'"""
"""Muratori - greek - finish the Rebellion of Ireland'"""
"""Sunday Jany. 9th.  Finish the Life of Romulus and half that of Lycurgus.'"""
"""Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'Galignani has just sent me the Paris edition of your works (which I wrote to order), and I am glad to see my old friends with a French face.  I have been skimming and dipping, in and over them, like a swallow, and as pleased as one.'"""
"""Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then in my fifteenth summer.'"""
"""S. reads Hobbes. Ezechiel aloud'"""
"""Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me'"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me'"""
"""Read the Hist. of Shipwrecks'"""
"""Last night, I was listening to music and the voice of song amid dandy clerks and sparkling females - laughing at times even to soreness at the marvellous Dr John Scott (see Blackwood's Magazine); and to-night, I am alone in this cold city - alone to cut my way into the heart of its benefices by the weapons of my own small quiver.'"""
"""Begin the Defence of Poesy by Sir P. Sidney.'"""
"""Osservatore Fiorentino'"""
"""Saturday Feb. 10th. [...] Read Das Gluck a poem by Schiller.'"""
"""There is a project on foot about translating one D'Aubuisson [a] Frenchman's geology - a large book, for the first edition I am to have 60 guineas - the same sum for every succeeding edition. Brewster was very diligent in forwarding it; and tho' I neither like the book or the terms excessively, I feel much o[blige]d to him for his conduct.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts.  Read Campbell's Poets -- marked errors of Tom (the author) for correction.  Dined ...'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts.  Read Campbell's Poets -- marked errors of Tom (the author) for correction.  Dined ...'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: '[after going out to hear music]  Came home -- read.  Corrected  Tom Campbell's slips of the pen.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets.  I rarely read their works, unless an occasional flight over the classical ones, Pope, Dryden, Johnson, Gray, and those who approach them nearest ...'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets.  I rarely read their works, unless an occasional flight over the classical ones, Pope, Dryden, Johnson, Gray, and those who approach them nearest ...'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets.  I rarely read their works, unless an occasional flight over the classical ones, Pope, Dryden, Johnson, Gray, and those who approach them nearest ...'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets.  I rarely read their works, unless an occasional flight over the classical ones, Pope, Dryden, Johnson, Gray, and those who approach them nearest ...'"""
"""S. reads fragments of Aeschylus'"""
"""finish the First book of the Odessey [sic] - read old plays'"""
"""Read the German's tale'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Read the letters ... Dined ...'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets, and an anecdote in Spence.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets, and an anecdote in Spence.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'In reading, I have just chanced upon an expression of Tom Campbell's; speaking of Collins, he says that """"""""no reader cares any more about the characteristic manners of his Eclogues than about the authenticity of the tale of Troy.""""""""  'Tis false ...'"""
"""Sir P. Sydneys defence of poetry'"""
"""Walk with S. - he reads some of the tales of Sacchetti aloud in the evening'"""
"""Read Ivanhoe'"""
"""Finish the Vita Nuova.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Read the Poets -- English that is to say -- out of Campbell's edition.  There is a good deal of taffeta in some of Tom's prefatory phrases, but his work is good as a whole.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'How strange are my thoughts! -- The reading of the song of Milton, """"""""Sabrina fair"""""""" has brought back upon me ... the happiest, perhaps, days of my life ... when living at Cambridge with Edward Noel Long ...'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Midnight. Read the Italian translation by Guido Sorelli of the German Grillparzer ...'"""
"""copy for S. - he  reads to me the tale of a Tub'"""
"""copy for S. - he  reads to me the tale of a Tub'"""
"""Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent.  I have read them over (with the notes) with great pleasure.  I receive your compliments kindly and your censures temperately ...' """
"""Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent.  I have read them over (with the notes) with great pleasure.  I receive your compliments kindly and your censures temperately ...' """
"""Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; 'Two hours after the """"""""Ave Maria"""""""", the Italian date of twilight ... I have ... dined, and turned over yr. notes.'"""
"""After tea procured 'The Hull Advertiser' and looked over the Advertisement of a Bookselling & Stationary Business to be disposed of at Scarborough."""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 January 1821: 'Sketched the outline and Drams. Pers. of an intended tragedy of Sardanapalus ... read over a passage in the ninth vol. octavo of Mitford's Greece, where he rather vindicates the memory of this last of the Assyrians.'"""
"""Finish the Osservatore F.'"""
"""S. reads L.[ord] B.[yron]'s  - Heaven and Earth in the evening'."""
"""from 1 to 3, read the first 100pp. vol 3 Leontine de Blondheim...It is altogether a very interesting thing +have read it with a sort of melancholy feeling, the very germ of which I thought had died for ever. I cried a good deal over the second + more over the third this morning, + as soon as I was alone during supper."""
"""Read the Abbot'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Turned over Seneca's tragedies.  Wrote the opening lines of the intended tragedy of Sardanapalus.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, and some other books.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, and some other books.'"""
"""Wednesday August 15th. [...] Read Mrs. Hutchinson'. """
"""Read Homer and Waverly'"""
"""Read Homer and the Antiquary'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: '... dined -- dipped into a volume of Mitford's Greece -- wrote part of a scene of """"""""Sardanapalus"""""""".'"""
"""Mrs Hutchinson's Memoirs'"""
"""read Caleb Williams to Jane'"""
"""Byron to Thomas Moore, 16 November 1821, on literary ambitions of an Irish visitor, John Taaffe: 'I read a letter of yours to him yesterday, and he begs me to write to you about his Poeshie.'"""
"""Spent the evening reading Fleetwood's Lives of the Apostles [NB part of life of Christ]"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 February 1821: 'At nine [pm] went out -- at eleven returned ... Read """"""""Tales of my Landlord"""""""" ...'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols -- returned -- dined ...'"""
"""The colossal """"""""Wallenstein"""""""" and Thekla the angelical, and Max her impetuous lofty-minded lover are all gone to rest; I have closed Schiller for a night; and what can I do better than chat for one short hour with my old, earliest friend?'"""
"""I have read the """"""""Parish Register"""""""" with great attention. It is rather lifeless and wants character and point but I like it for its simplicity and extraordinary resemblance to truth in my estimation the first properties that any work of the same stamp can possess. It will not however sell extensively for the matter was much better calculated for a periodical work. If it had appeared piecemeal among other things it would have taken very well but as the old proverb runs """"""""ower muckle o' ae' thing's gude for naething"""""""".'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 17 January 1821: 'Arrived a packet of books from England and Lombardy -- English, Italian, French, and Latin.  Read till eight -- went out.'"""
"""Read 3 odes of Anacreon'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 February 1821: 'In turning over Grimm's Correspondence to-day, I found a thought of Tom Moore's in a song of Maupertuis to a female Laplander ...'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 January 1821: '... the post arriving late, did not ride.  Read letters ...'"""
"""Read Ludlow's Memoirs'"""
"""read Malthus'"""
"""S. begins King Lear in the evening.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 19 January 1821: 'I have been reading the Life, by himself and daughter, of Mr. R. L. Edgeworth, the father of the Miss Edgeworth.'"""
"""Read - Tegrino'"""
"""Tell David Fergusson that I am charmed with his manuscript [a handwritten copy of Carlyle's """"""""Life of Pascal""""""""]; it is the prettiest [that] ever was written for the Encyclopaedia, and perfectly correct.'"""
"""Mr T.[aaffe] in the evening - read his notes to Dante'"""
"""Monday April 2nd.  [...] Read Der Ring des Polycrates.' """
"""Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 August 1821: 'You may probably have seen all sorts of attacks upon me in some gazettes in England some months ago.  I only saw them, by Murray's bounty, the other day.'"""
"""Sunday Dec 2nd. [...] Read Julius Caesar of Shakespeare.'"""
"""I have read Southey and think it so fair and reasonable a book, that I have little or nothing to say about it; so that I follow your advice and abandon it to any one who may undertake it'."""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 2 February 1821, on tendency to attacks of thirst: 'I read in Edgeworth's Memoirs of something similar ... in the case of Sir F. B. Delaval ...'"""
"""Wednesday May 2nd. [...] Read La Buona Moglie di Goldoni.'"""
"""read Cain'"""
"""Read Rob Roy'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 February 1821: 'Within these few days I have read, but not written.'"""
"""[Lady Caroline Lamb's] novel of Glenarvon showed much genius, but of an erratic kind; and false statements are so mingled with true in its pages, that the next generation will not be able to separate them; otherwise, if it were worth any person's while [italics] now [end italics] to write explanatory notes on that work, it might go down to posterity as hints for memoirs of her times. Some of the poetry scattered throughout the volumes is very mellifluous, and was set to music by more than one composer'."""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 January 1821: 'Rode -- fired pistols.  Read from Grimm's Correspondence. Dined ...'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1821: 'I have just read in an Italian paper """"""""That Ld. B. has a tragedy coming out"""""""" &c. &c ... I do reiterate -- and desire that every thing may be done to prevent it from coming out ...'"""
"""W. dines with us - walk with him - his play - S finishes Every Man in his Humour'"""
"""Sunday May 20th.  Read L'Adulatore, di Goldoni.'"""
"""W. dines with us - walk with him - his play - S finishes Every Man in his Humour'"""
"""I am much obliged by your kindness in sending me The Pirate. You know how much I admire the genius of the author, but even that has its limits and is exhaustible. I am afraid this novel will depend upon the former reputation of the author, and will add nothing to it [...] I do not blame him for writing himself out, if he knows he is doing so, and has done his [italics] best [end italics] and his [italics] all [end italics]. If the native land of Scotland will supply no more scenes and characters, for he is always best in Scotland [...] pray (wherever the scene is laid) no more [italics] Meg Merrilies and Dominie Sampson [end italics] - very good the first and second times, but now quite worn out, and always recurring. All human themes have an end (except Taxation); but I shall heartily regret my annual amusement if I am to lose it'."""
"""In letter to John Murray of 21 February 1821, Byron makes various comments and corrections, with page references, on William Turner, Journal of a Tour in the Levant (and in particular with regard to swimming the Hellespont, his own attempt being mentioned by Turner), recently sent by Murray."""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 21 January 1821: 'Dined -- visited -- came home -- read.  Remarked on an anecdote in Grimm's Correspondence ... [reproduces part of text of vol. VI]'"""
"""Read Treatise on Magic & Malthus'"""
"""S. reads the first book of Troilus & Cressida aloud in the evening.'"""
"""Have amused myself this evening reading the Life of Christ."""
"""Byron to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 22 July 1823, thanking him for 'lines' forwarded by Charles Sterling and received at Leghorn: ' ... [I] arrived here ... this morning ... here ... I found your lines ... and I could not have had a more favourable Omen or more agreeable surprise than a word from Goethe written by his own hand.'"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 February 1821:'""""""""... rode, &c. -- visited -- wrote nothing -- read Roman History.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols, and returned.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Dined -- read.  Went out at eight ...'"""
"""During this winter I fell into Company with some men in my journeys to and from my work that were of a Deistical principle these men had got several books that were written by Cobbet woler and Carlisle against all revealed religion and these men often put them into my hands and I at this time thought myself a sufficient Judge to read them without any danger of being drawn aside by them...'"""
"""During this winter I fell into Company with some men in my journeys to and from my work that were of a Deistical principle these men had got several books that were written by Cobbet woler and Carlisle against all revealed religion and these men often put them into my hands and I at this time thought myself a sufficient Judge to read them without any danger of being drawn aside by them...'"""
"""During this winter I fell into Company with some men in my journeys to and from my work that were of a Deistical principle these men had got several books that were written by Cobbet woler and Carlisle against all revealed religion and these men often put them into my hands and I at this time thought myself a sufficient Judge to read them without any danger of being drawn aside by them...'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, October 23 1821: 'Went on a visit to Sir John and Lady Oswald.  Sir John had given me a collection of his grandfather's letters to Ministers and several distinguished persons of his day, since the years 1742 and 1767 [...] The reading of these letters, which make two large MS. books, occupied me very agreeably all the morning.'"""
"""[Tuesday] July 24th.  Shelley comes to breakfast.  Read Adonais.'"""
"""read the Answer to Malthus - finish it'"""
"""Sunday June 24th. [...] Read the Abbot by Walter Scott'."""
"""Before breakfast from 7 3/4 to 9 1/4, from 10 3/4 to 2 1/2 (including an interruption of 20 minutes)read from V.1304 to 1527, end of Philoctetes of Sophlocles, & afterwards from p.288 to 296, end of vol.2 Adams translation of the 7 remaining plays of Sophlocles...I feel myself improved & only hope to be going on prosperously [plans further improvement]"""
"""Finish Oedipus Tyrannus'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 25 January 1821: 'Answered [John] Murray's letter -- read -- lounged.'"""
"""Read Ludlow's Memoirs'"""
"""Wednesday July 25th. [...] Read Sandford and Merton.'"""
"""Monday June 25th. [...] Read Melincourt'."""
"""Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821, on death of Keats after adverse reviews: 'I read the review of """"""""Endymion"""""""" in the Quarterly. It was severe. -- but surely not so severe as many reviews in that and other journals upon others.' """
"""Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821: 'I read [The] Cenci ...'"""
"""To my utter mortification and dissappointment I have this day received a letter from my Bookseller refusing my new work on his usual terms of publishing with me. For what? Because forsooth I copy his own words """"""""Though it displays great originality of thought and a good deal of fancy it is of that cast that must draw down comparisons with the romances of the author of Waverly [sic] and manifestly to its disadvantage these being made the criterion of judging of merit therefore he is sorry &c."""""""" but the truth is I believe he found I was going to press too hard for money at too early a date'."""
"""finish the Antigone'"""
"""[Tuesday] Feb. 27th. [...] Read Hyperion of Keats.'"""
"""Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost as much pleased with it as with the Abbot: but not quite; the catastrophe is painful, & Elizabeth figures not so appropriately in a Romance, as her beautiful Rival; <might> neither is the false varnish given to Leicester's character capable of making one forget his historical turpitude. The introduction of Raleigh is a delightful relief; and I wanted Sir Philip Sidney to boot; and more about several others only incidentally mentioned. It would perhaps have been too hazardous to bring in dear Shakespear: I cannot, however, but wish that he had adventured it. May be, I am a fool, and Scott's enemy for desiring it: but with his versatility of power; his happy embodyings of fictitious characters, he might surely have given form and pressure (if any man could) to the realities of Shakespear mind, and manners, & person. - At all events, Raleigh being so well delineated, I hope he will soon take some other historical personage in hand.'"""
"""Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost as much pleased with it as with the Abbot: but not quite; the catastrophe is painful, & Elizabeth figures not so appropriately in a Romance, as her beautiful Rival; <might> neither is the false varnish given to Leicester's character capable of making one forget his historical turpitude. The introduction of Raleigh is a delightful relief; and I wanted Sir Philip Sidney to boot; and more about several others only incidentally mentioned. It would perhaps have been too hazardous to bring in dear Shakespear: I cannot, however, but wish that he had adventured it. May be, I am a fool, and Scott's enemy for desiring it: but with his versatility of power; his happy embodyings of fictitious characters, he might surely have given form and pressure (if any man could) to the realities of Shakespear mind, and manners, & person. - At all events, Raleigh being so well delineated, I hope he will soon take some other historical personage in hand.'"""
"""Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost as much pleased with it as with the Abbot: but not quite; the catastrophe is painful, & Elizabeth figures not so appropriately in a Romance, as her beautiful Rival; <might> neither is the false varnish given to Leicester's character capable of making one forget his historical turpitude. The introduction of Raleigh is a delightful relief; and I wanted Sir Philip Sidney to boot; and more about several others only incidentally mentioned. It would perhaps have been too hazardous to bring in dear Shakespear: I cannot, however, but wish that he had adventured it. May be, I am a fool, and Scott's enemy for desiring it: but with his versatility of power; his happy embodyings of fictitious characters, he might surely have given form and pressure (if any man could) to the realities of Shakespear mind, and manners, & person. - At all events, Raleigh being so well delineated, I hope he will soon take some other historical personage in hand.'"""
"""I have just begun Belzoni, & like his simple style very much. Miss Porter (Anna Maria) has published a new Novel, The Village of Mariendorpt, full of the most touching passages, but, as a whole, it drags. Her knowledge of military details appears to me marvellous; the period at which she makes her people act and talk, is during the Protestant War in Germany; she carries you to the dreadful siege of Magdebourg, & takes you into the camp and tent of Forstenson, Konigsmark, and I cannot tell you how many others, & seems to know more of warriors and warfare than, as a woman myself, I can at all account for'."""
"""I have just begun Belzoni, & like his simple style very much. Miss Porter (Anna Maria) has published a new Novel, The Village of Mariendorpt, full of the most touching passages, but, as a whole, it drags. Her knowledge of military details appears to me marvellous; the period at which she makes her people act and talk, is during the Protestant War in Germany; she carries you to the dreadful siege of Magdebourg, & takes you into the camp and tent of Forstenson, Konigsmark, and I cannot tell you how many others, & seems to know more of warriors and warfare than, as a woman myself, I can at all account for'."""
"""Read Villani'"""
"""read greek - read Mackenzies works'"""
"""read greek - read Mackenzies works'"""
"""I hope you do not estimate my mind by Davie Laing's canting and insolent review or by your friend Goldie's lies [Hogg then complains at Boyd's unwillingness to publish """"""""The Three Perils of Man""""""""] I neither could have expected such an insolent nor such an ignorant review from D. Laing.'"""
"""I cannot think one thing and say another to a friend or indeed to any man and it was owing to a review written by you in the Edin. Quarterly of The Mountain Bard that hindered me to call as I was wont. I thought that article illiberal from a friend and wrong view taken of the Memoir but I am so used to these rubs that I have learned the virtue of forgiveness a good deal; and hereby promise and swear that now when I have told you what I felt that article shall never be mentioned nor thought of more between the writer and me, [italics] whoever he may be [end italics].'"""
"""From Hope went to the library and staid about an hour reading... In monthly Magazine of July 1820 remarkable praise of the life + writings of the celestial German philosopher + professor, Kant, born , I think in 1723, died 1804. Turned to the article again. I must know more about this extraordinary man + his works by & by."""
"""Sunday July 29th. [...] Read Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress.'"""
"""Those latter volumes of the Allemagne will perplex you, I fear. The third in particular is very mysterious; now and then quite absurd. Do not mind it much.'"""
"""I must tell you an act of kindness of William Lamb--he has been looking over and correcting Ada Reis for me'."""
"""On the 28th September I was reading """"""""Blackwood"""""""", when the magazines of our metropolis were just getting on their outer garments; while their northern brethren were quietly reposing, in well arranged heaps, in our southern warehouses, perfectly sleek and dry, after a happy voyage of sixty hours.  This new condition upon which competition was to be carried on made the London publishers more solicitous for the excellence, rather than the cheap cost, of their periodical offerings to a public that had begun to be solicitous for the excellence, rather than the cheap cost, of their periodical offerings to a public that had begun to be clamorous for novelties, and somewhat more critical than a previous generation.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 28 January 1821 entry: 'Past Midnight.  One o' the clock.  I have been reading W[ilhelm]. F[riedrich]. S[chlegel] ... till now, and I can make out nothing ... [two paragraphs later] Continuing to read Mr. F[rederick] S[chlegel].  He is not such a fool as I took him for ...'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 29 January 1821 entry: 'Read S[chlegel].'"""
"""Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 29 June 1821: 'Instead of receiving a letter from you per post -- I have been reading one in the papers -- as secondary to Burdett and Canning.'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 29 June 1821: 'I have just read """"""""John Bull's letter"""""""" -- it is diabolically well written -- & full of fun and ferocity' [goes on to speculate as to who author might be.]"""
"""Thursday March 29th. [...] Read L'Avaro Fastoso di Goldoni.'"""
""" I mark this day because I begin my Greek again - and that is a study which ever delights me - I do not feel the bore of it as in learning another language although it be so difficult - it so richly repays one. Yet I read little for I am not well.'"""
"""Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Rome, 3 April 1821: 'I have got a charming little [italics]savant[end italics], who reads with me two or three times a week [...] I have been excessively amused in reading Martial, Livy, Suetonius, &c. &c. with him on the spot where they were written, and comparing the descriptions with the actual state of the scenes described.' """
"""Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Rome, 3 April 1821: 'I have got a charming little [italics]savant[end italics], who reads with me two or three times a week [...] I have been excessively amused in reading Martial, Livy, Suetonius, &c. &c. with him on the spot where they were written, and comparing the descriptions with the actual state of the scenes described.' """
"""Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Rome, 3 April 1821: 'I have got a charming little [italics]savant[end italics], who reads with me two or three times a week [...] I have been excessively amused in reading Martial, Livy, Suetonius, &c. &c. with him on the spot where they were written, and comparing the descriptions with the actual state of the scenes described.' """
"""Waugh (the Review-man) sent me a book the other day, with a wish and an assurance that I """"""""would write a very elegant and spirited critique on it"""""""" - which I am not so certain of as the magistrate pretends to be, but shall attempt notwithstanding.  It is poetry, by Joanna Baillie, about Wallace and Columbus and patient Griseld, and so forth. I am to begin forthwith; should have begun indeed already, but Schiller and others stand in the way.'"""
"""Finish C.A. to Jane'"""
"""Greek - Tasso'"""
"""Read Philoctetes'"""
"""I received the Mag. with the inclosures last night; a great store of amusement The former I have not got time to read but I see there are some excellent articles in it as well as true comic ones. I like """"""""Mediocrity"""""""". The Jacobite relics are doubtless very curious but they are totally English. They appear to me to be all the work of one man and I think them Tom D'Urfys I know they are; and I think that perhaps they are in his hand writing'. """
"""I received the Mag. with the inclosures last night; a great store of amusement The former I have not got time to read but I see there are some excellent articles in it as well as true comic ones. I like """"""""Mediocrity"""""""". The Jacobite relics are doubtless very curious but they are totally English. They appear to me to be all the work of one man and I think them Tom D'Urfys I know they are; and I think that perhaps they are in his hand writing'."""
"""Monday April 30th. [...] Read La Moglie Saggia ed Il Feudataria da Goldoni.'"""
"""Monday April 30th. [...] Read La Moglie Saggia ed Il Feudataria [sic] da Goldoni.'"""
"""Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'"""
"""Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'"""
"""Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'"""
"""Dante's Vita Nuova'"""
"""In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's """"""""Sketch-Book"""""""". I thought it very beautiful, and only wished that he had more fully carried his fine imaginative powers beyond """"""""this visible diurnal sphere"""""""". By the way, I must observe a similar defect exists in Akenside's """"""""Pleasures of the Imagination""""""""; a poem which in every other respect gives me very great satisfaction. I also read some volumes of the """"""""London Magazine"""""""", which I thought to be a very cleverly conducted publication.'"""
"""In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's """"""""Sketch-Book"""""""". I thought it very beautiful, and only wished that he had more fully carried his fine imaginative powers beyond """"""""this visible diurnal sphere"""""""". By the way, I must observe a similar defect exists in Akenside's """"""""Pleasures of the Imagination""""""""; a poem which in every other respect gives me very great satisfaction. I also read some volumes of the """"""""London Magazine"""""""", which I thought to be a very cleverly conducted publication.'"""
"""Byron to John Sheppard, who had sent him a prayer apparently written for him (Byron) by his (Sheppard's) late wife, 8 December 1821: """"""""I have received yr. letter ... the Extract which it contains has affected me ... it would imply a want of all feeling to have read it with indifference ... for whomever it was meant [this apparently uncertain] -- I have read it with all the pleasure  which can arise from so melancholy a topic."""""""""""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""read 2 books of Homer'"""
"""Harriet Martineau hears her first (pseudonymously) published work read by her unsuspecting eldest brother: 'After tea he said """"""""[...] I will read you something""""""""; and he held out his hand for the new """"""""[Monthly] Repository."""""""" After glancing at it, he exclaimed, """"""""They have got a new hand here.  Listen.""""""""  After a paragraph, he repeated, """"""""Ah! this is a new hand; they have had nothing so good as this for a long while."""""""" [...] I was silent, of course.' """
"""Harriet Martineau on her early writings: 'I immediately after [the publication of her first periodical essay] began to write my first work, -- """"""""Devotional Exercises,"""""""" [...] I remember my brother's anxious doubting looks, as he read the M.S.'"""
"""Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a thousand pages about Hamlet...Miranda and Juliet: To say that Juliet and Miranda might very well be one seems to me to show a lamentable want of perception... Romeo and Juliet ...When the old nurse cackles of leaning against the dove-house wall it's just as though a beam of sunlight struck through the curtains and discovered her sitting there in the warmth with a tiny staggerer...Twelfth Night...Oh, doesn't that reveal the thoughts of all those strange creatures who attend upon the lives of others! Antony and Cleopatra...Marvellous words!...A creature like Cleopatra always expects to be paid for things.'"""
"""Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a thousand pages about Hamlet...Miranda and Juliet: To say that Juliet and Miranda might very well be one seems to me to show a lamentable want of perception... Romeo and Juliet ...When the old nurse cackles of leaning against the dove-house wall it's just as though a beam of sunlight struck through the curtains and discovered her sitting there in the warmth with a tiny staggerer...Twelfth Night...Oh, doesn't that reveal the thoughts of all those strange creatures who attend upon the lives of others! Antony and Cleopatra...Marvellous words!...A creature like Cleopatra always expects to be paid for things.'"""
"""Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a thousand pages about Hamlet...Miranda and Juliet: To say that Juliet and Miranda might very well be one seems to me to show a lamentable want of perception... Romeo and Juliet ...When the old nurse cackles of leaning against the dove-house wall it's just as though a beam of sunlight struck through the curtains and discovered her sitting there in the warmth with a tiny staggerer...Twelfth Night...Oh, doesn't that reveal the thoughts of all those strange creatures who attend upon the lives of others! Antony and Cleopatra...Marvellous words!...A creature like Cleopatra always expects to be paid for things.'"""
"""Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a thousand pages about Hamlet...Miranda and Juliet: To say that Juliet and Miranda might very well be one seems to me to show a lamentable want of perception... Romeo and Juliet ...When the old nurse cackles of leaning against the dove-house wall it's just as though a beam of sunlight struck through the curtains and discovered her sitting there in the warmth with a tiny staggerer...Twelfth Night...Oh, doesn't that reveal the thoughts of all those strange creatures who attend upon the lives of others! Antony and Cleopatra...Marvellous words!...A creature like Cleopatra always expects to be paid for things.'"""
"""Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a thousand pages about Hamlet...Miranda and Juliet: To say that Juliet and Miranda might very well be one seems to me to show a lamentable want of perception... Romeo and Juliet ...When the old nurse cackles of leaning against the dove-house wall it's just as though a beam of sunlight struck through the curtains and discovered her sitting there in the warmth with a tiny staggerer...Twelfth Night...Oh, doesn't that reveal the thoughts of all those strange creatures who attend upon the lives of others! Antony and Cleopatra...Marvellous words!...A creature like Cleopatra always expects to be paid for things.'"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""[Marginalia]"
"""Byron to John Murray, 1 March 1821: 'Give my love to Sir W. Scott -- & tell him to write more novels; -- pray send out Waverley and the Guy M[annering] -- and the Antiquary -- It is five years since I have had a copy -- -- I have read all the others forty times.'"""
"""Byron to Bryan Waller Procter, 1822, regarding Procter's drama Mirandola: ' ... """"""""Mirandola"""""""" [was] not announced till the winter following [summer 1820]. The first time I saw it mentioned was in a newspaper ...'  """
"""As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the books with which the shelves were stored. The """"""""Age of Reason"""""""" was among the first; and, in order that both sides of the question might be fairly presented to my mind, was immediately followed by Bishop Watson's """"""""Apology for the Bible"""""""". I should have read neither. What mischief the infidel writer effected the Bishop failed to repair.'"""
"""As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the books with which the shelves were stored. The """"""""Age of Reason"""""""" was among the first; and, in order that both sides of the question might be fairly presented to my mind, was immediately followed by Bishop Watson's """"""""Apology for the Bible"""""""". I should have read neither. What mischief the infidel writer effected the Bishop failed to repair.'"""
"""He also again freely supplied me with the loan of books. At this time he lent me several volumes of the """"""""New Monthly Magazine"""""""", among the very many interesting articles in which I was especially pleased with the """"""""Letters from Algiers"""""""", written by Mr. Thomas Campbell, the eminent poet'."""
"""at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation and not to murmur at the dispensations of providence for we had not so much punishment as our sins deserved and in fact there was but little else to be heard from the pulpit or the press and those kind of books were often put into my hands in a dictatorial way in order to Convince me of my errors. for instance there was the Sheperd of Salsbury Plain ... the Farmers fireside and discontented Pendulum and many others which drove me almost into despair for I Could see their design.'"""
"""at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation and not to murmur at the dispensations of providence for we had not so much punishment as our sins deserved and in fact there was but little else to be heard from the pulpit or the press and those kind of books were often put into my hands in a dictatorial way in order to Convince me of my errors. for instance there was the Sheperd of Salsbury Plain ... the Farmers fireside and discontented Pendulum and many others which drove me almost into despair for I Could see their design.'"""
"""at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation and not to murmur at the dispensations of providence for we had not so much punishment as our sins deserved and in fact there was but little else to be heard from the pulpit or the press and those kind of books were often put into my hands in a dictatorial way in order to Convince me of my errors. for instance there was the Sheperd of Salsbury Plain ... the Farmers fireside and discontented Pendulum and many others which drove me almost into despair for I Could see their design.'"""
"""He also again freely supplied me with the loan of books. At this time he lent me several volumes of the """"""""New Monthly Magazine"""""""", among the very many interesting articles in which I was especially pleased with the """"""""Letters from Algiers"""""""", written by Mr. Thomas Campbell, the eminent poet'."""
"""At the same time [as undertaking studies in Italian], I went on studying Blair's Rhetoric [...] and inclining mightily to every kind of book or process which could improve my literary skill'. """
"""Harriet Martineau on Bible studies in early adulthood: 'I studied the Bible incessantly and immensely; both by daily reading of chapters [...] and by getting hold of all commentaries and works of elucidation that I could lay my hands on.  A work of Dr. Carpenter's, begun but never finished, called """"""""Notes and Observations on the Gospel History"""""""" [...] first put me on this track of study [...] It was while reading Mr. Kenrick's translation from the German of """"""""Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem,"""""""" with which I was thoroughly bewitched, that I conceived [...] the audacious idea of giving a somewhat resembling account of the Jews and their country, under the immediate expectation of the Messiah, and even in his presence'."""
"""Harriet Martineau on Bible studies in early adulthood: 'I studied the Bible incessantly and immensely; both by daily reading of chapters [...] and by getting hold of all commentaries and works of elucidation that I could lay my hands on.  A work of Dr. Carpenter's, begun but never finished, called """"""""Notes and Observations on the Gospel History"""""""" [...] first put me on this track of study [...] It was while reading Mr. Kenrick's translation from the German of """"""""Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem,"""""""" with which I was thoroughly bewitched, that I conceived [...] the audacious idea of giving a somewhat resembling account of the Jews and their country, under the immediate expectation of the Messiah, and even in his presence'."""
"""Harriet Martineau on Bible studies in early adulthood: 'I studied the Bible incessantly and immensely; both by daily reading of chapters [...] and by getting hold of all commentaries and works of elucidation that I could lay my hands on.  A work of Dr. Carpenter's, begun but never finished, called """"""""Notes and Observations on the Gospel History"""""""" [...] first put me on this track of study [...] It was while reading Mr. Kenrick's translation from the German of """"""""Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem,"""""""" with which I was thoroughly bewitched, that I conceived [...] the audacious idea of giving a somewhat resembling account of the Jews and their country, under the immediate expectation of the Messiah, and even in his presence'."""
"""Harriet Martineau on philosophical studies in early adulthood: 'The edition of Hartley that I used was Dr. Priestley's [...] That book I studied with a fervour and perseverance which made it perhaps the most important book in the world to me, except the bible'."""
"""Harriet Martineau on philosophical studies in early adulthood: 'I surrendered myself [...] to the charm of Dugald Stewart's writings'."""
"""""""""""I studied the Bible incessantly and immensely;both by daily reading of chapters,after the approved but mischievous method, and by getting hold of all commentries and works of elucidation that I could lay my hands on."""""""""""
"""""""""""A work of Dr Carpenter's,begun but never finished,called """"""""Notes and Observations on the Gospel history"""""""", which his catechuments used in class, first put me on this track of study.-the results of which appeared some years afterwards in my """"""""Traditions of Palestine""""""""."""
"""""""""""Dr Carpenter was inclined also to the study of philosophy,and wrote on it,-on mental and moral philosophy;and this was enough,putting all predisposition out of the question,to determine me to the study. He was of the Locke and Hartley school altogether, as his articles on 'Mental and Moral Philosophy' in Ree's Encyclopedia,and his work on 'Systemic Education' show."""""""""""
"""""""""""It was while reading Mr Kendrick's translation from the German of 'Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem',with which I was thoroughly bewitched, that I conceived, and communicated to James, the audacious idea of giving a somewhat resembling account of the Jews and their country, under the immediate expectation of the Messiah, and even in his presence, while abstaining from permitting more than his shadow to pass over the scene.""""""""""""""""I regard that little volume witha a stronger affection than any other of my works but one;-that one being""""""""Eastern Life""""""""."""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 31 January 1821 entry: 'Midnight. I have been reading Grimm's Correspondence.'"""
"""S. reads the vita nuova aloud to me in the evening'"""
"""I likewise received the Tales you sent me before from your friend in Edinburgh, and should have acknowledged them long ago; but a multiplicity of family and farming concerns have put literary correspondence out of my head [...] The Tales are all ingenious and bear evident marks of old tradition; but, unfortunately, I have finished my """"""""Winter Evening Tales"""""""", and can make no use of them. In the mean time I am as much obliged to you as though I could, and if ever I think of making another collection I shall apply to you'."""
"""At church [...] Had Dr Argo part of this evening, who was down seeing the boys head.[...] Filled up the rest of the time reading the Life of Christ, a work that suggests good ideas."""
"""The first scene is the Lamentation of Sampson [sic] which possesses much pathos of sublimity ... I think this is beautiful... '"""
"""Read Tacitus'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1821: 'By extracts in the English papers in your holy Ally -- Galignani's messenger -- I perceive that the """"""""two greatest examples of human vanity -- in the present age"""""""" are firstly """"""""the Ex-Emperor Napoleon"""""""" -- and secondly -- """"""""his Lordship the noble poet &c."""""""" -- meaning your hunble servant ...' """
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821:  ' ... out of spirits -- read the papers ...'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: 'Came home at eleven [pm] ... Read a Life of Leonardo da Vinci by Rossi [ed. notes that this perhaps misreading of Bossi]...'"""
"""In the morning, looking over the abridgement of Spence's Polymetics... that was Isabella's... gave me the idea of writing a work on antiquities."""
"""Thursday Oct. 4th. [...] Finish Ivanhoe.'"""
"""read Matilda to Jane'"""
"""Well sir you have now put the crown on all the injurious abuse that I have suffered from you for these three years and a half, and that in despite of your word of honour which no miserable pretext can justify. If I have ever done ought either to you or your correspondents to deserve this it was unintentional. For my own part I would have regarded this wanton attack as I did all the rest of the ribaldry and mockery that has been so liberally vomited forth on me from your shop but there are other feelings now besides my own that I am bound to respect, and on these the blows that you inflict wound deeper and smart with more poignancy' [Hogg is referring to his wife]"""
"""Read Matilda to E.'"""
"""Read Milton on divorce'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: ' ... dined -- read -- went out ...'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: 'Read some of Bowles's dispute about Pope, with all the replies and rejoinders.  Perceive that my name has been lugged into the controversy ...' """
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoon) to copy out 7 or 8 apophthegms of Bacon, in whiich I have detected such blunders as a school-boy might detect rather than commit.  Such are the sages! What must they be, when such as I can stumble on their mistakes or misstatements?'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read the conclusion, for the fifitieth time (I have read all W. Scott's novels at least fifty times) of the third series of """"""""Tales of my Landlord"""""""" ...'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's Retreat of the Ten Thousand.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's Retreat of the Ten Thousand.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: '[after visit to friends at 11pm] Came home -- read the """"""""Ten Thousand"""""""" again, and will go to bed.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoon) to copy out 7 or 8 apophthegms of Bacon, in which I have detected such blunders as a school-boy might detect rather than commit.  Such are the sages! What must they be, when such as I can stumble on their mistakes or misstatements?'"""
"""Read Homer - Old plays'"""
"""Read Homer - Old plays'"""
"""Byron to Thomas Moore, 5 July 1821: 'I have had a curious letter to-day from a girl in England ... It is signed simply N. N. A. ... She simply says that she is dying, and that as I had contributed so highly to her existing pleasure, she thought that she might say so ...'"""
"""Byron's """"""""Detached Thoughts"""""""" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 5 November 1821: 'I have lately been reading Fielding over again.'"""
"""Byron to Octavius Gilchrist, 5 September 1821, acknowledges receipt and reading of three pamphlets (by Gilchrist) relating to Bowles-Pope controversy."""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders in nine apophthegms of Bacon -- all historical -- and read Mitford's Greece.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders in nine apophthegms of Bacon -- all historical -- and read Mitford's Greece.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders in nine apophthegms of Bacon -- all historical -- and read Mitford's Greece.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto in Lord Holland's Lope de Vega.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto in Lord Holland's Lope de Vega.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Came home [after going visiting at 8pm], and read Mitford again, and played with my mastiff ...'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 7 August 1821: 'I have just been turning over the homicide review of J. Keats ...'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a passage I have not found.  Read the 4th. vol. of W. Scott's second series of """"""""Tales of my Landlord"""""""".'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a passage I have not found.  Read the 4th. vol. of W. Scott's second series of """"""""Tales of my Landlord"""""""".'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read the 4th. vol of W. Scott's second series of """"""""Tales of my Landlord"""""""".'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined.  Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forget what.  At 8 went to conversazione.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined.  Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forget what.  At 8 went to conversazione.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'It wants half an hour of midnight ... Turned over and over half a score books for the passage in question, and can't find it.'"""
"""Read Homer - Diary of an Invalid'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at 8pm] -- read History of Greece -- beore dinner had read Walter Scott's Rob Roy.'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at 8pm] -- read History of Greece -- beore dinner had read Walter Scott's Rob Roy.'"""
"""S. reads the Case is Altered of B.[en] Jonson aloud in the evening'."""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""Was some little time up at my Father's this afternoon. Afterwards reading Fleetwood's Life of Christ, an engaging discourse although not handled in my opinion to the same advantage it might have been."""
"""Friday Feb. 9th. [...] Read Das Geheimniss one of Schiller's minor Poems.'"""
"""Your common student wrote to me about Blackwood's Magazine, shewing who wrote in it and who spoke of it; he talks about 'Kenilworth a Romance'; he then describes his stomach-complaints, and wishes me better fortune, sometimes the dog even pities me.'"""
"""Your common student wrote to me about Blackwood's Magazine, shewing who wrote in it and who spoke of it; he talks about 'Kenilworth a Romance'; he then describes his stomach-complaints, and wishes me better fortune, sometimes the dog even pities me.'"""
"""Greek - Voltaire's Tales'"""
"""Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 9 January 1821: 'Dined.  Read Johnson's """"""""Vanity of Human Wishes"""""""" ...'"""
"""Byron to Thomas Moore, 1 March 1822: 'In the impartial Galignani I perceive an extract from Blackwood's Magazine, in which it is said that there are people who have discovered that you and I are no poets.'"""
"""The article which I inclose """"""""The History of Tom M. Fribble"""""""" is not mine. It is written by a Mr William Clerk a teacher here who copies a good many things for me therefore the allowance for it (if published) must be mentioned by itself. It is a very ingenious allegorical tale but ill wound up at the close'."""
"""By the way did you know Miss Austen Authoress of some novels which have a great deal of nature in them - nature in ordinary and middle life to be sure but valuable from its strong resemblance and correct drawing.'"""
"""Sunday March 10th. [...] Read Romeo and Juliet.'"""
"""[9 September has problem getting book from] Reading a few pp. of my Paris guide, in French, for the sake of reading French + it being the only book I get."""
"""Finish the 1st Vol of Geografica Fisica'"""
"""read Florence Macarthy'"""
"""There is no plainer way of testifying my entire approval of the matter contained in your last letter than rigidly adhering to the plan you have sketched for me.  This I am endeavouring to do - I immediately commenced an active search through the libraries of my acquaintance for some of the books you named... I prefer[r]ed acqu[a]inting myself with the history of England through the medium of Clarendon.  Clarendon however is 'out of fashion'.'"""
"""There is no plainer way of testifying my entire approval of the matter contained in your last letter than rigidly adhering to the plan you have sketched for me.  This I am endeavouring to do - I immediately commenced an active search through the libraries of my acquaintance for some of the books you named... My next attempt was on Rollin and that proved more successful.  I read his Ancient History in my infancy; but remembered no more of it than the number of volumes. I have already finished the first volume.'"""
"""During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of 'Tacitus' (which by the way is the hardest Latin I ever saw) - when you devoted four hours of my day to the study of history, what did you mean should become of my Italian and my dear German?'"""
"""During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of 'Tacitus' (which by the way is the hardest Latin I ever saw) - when you devoted four hours of my day to the study of history, what did you mean should become of my Italian and my dear German?'"""
"""During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of 'Tacitus' (which by the way is the hardest Latin I ever saw) - when you devoted four hours of my day to the study of history, what did you mean should become of my Italian and my dear German?'"""
"""I must own that Virgil's """"""""Envy"""""""" and Spenser's """"""""Cave of Error"""""""" are my aversion, as well as some other most exquisitely disgusting allegories. Our own Milton, I think, always keeps clear of this fault, and I cannot believe, in spite of Mr. Maturin, and Mr. Wilson, and Lord Byron, that it is true taste which tolerates it.'"""
"""Did you ever read """"""""The City of the Plague""""""""? If you have, did you not regret that so many passages, such pure poetry, tenderness, and sublimity are mixed with descriptions that would almost prevent one from ever re-opening the volume.  Plague and famine are fine subjects for the Muse, but she need not give one a medical detail of their physical horrors.'"""
"""In truth I have read nothing these three months but """"""""Strathallan,"""""""" which I heard much of when it came out, but feel disappointed in now.  The fact is that the time is past for it. The best parts of it are those which describe feelings that during the late war came home to the bosoms of all.  Since the peace, or, at least, since her most precious majesty's trial, all our political and public feelings have been in a manner asleep...'"""
"""I have finished Julia - Divine Julia!  What a finshed picture of most sublime virtue!'"""
"""Now that you have finished Rollin, I think you ought to begin some other book on general literature, directed if possible like it, in some degree to the progress of your classical studies.'"""
"""I return the first two volumes of Julia with many thanks - It seems to me, that the most proper way of testifying my gratitude to the amiable Jean Jacques for the pleasure he has afforded me, is to do what in me lies to extend the circle of his admirers - I shall begin with you - Do read this book -'"""
"""I have read the Tragedies - I thank you for them - they are Byron's. Need I praise them.  I have also read your eloquent history of Faust - For it too I thank you.  It has fewer faults and greater merits than its Author led me to expect - '"""
"""I have read the Tragedies - I thank you for them - they are Byron's. Need I praise them.  I have also read your eloquent history of Faust - For it too I think you.  It has fewer faults and greater merits than its Author led me to expect -' """
"""I had also to go this morning and read some old black-letter poems in the Advocates' Library: and the stomach, like a true British subject, is rebelling not a little against all these infringements of its rights and privileges.'"""
"""Read Homer and Anastatius [sic]'"""
"""Went downstairs a very little after 9 so as to have 1/2 hour before church for reading 2 or 3 old papers my uncle gave me."""
"""Began Dr Johnson's tour to the Hebrides, A journey to the western Isles of scotland... My aunt and I read aloud the evening service."""
"""Byron to the Rev Thomas Hall, 14 August 1822: 'I have observed in Galignani's paper lists of the Subscribers and Subscriptions for the Irish poor from Florence, but not from Leghorn.'"""
"""I think very highly of both the books you have sent me but far most highly of Lights and Shadows in which there is a great deal of very powerful effect purity of sentiment and fine writing but with very little of real nature as it exists in the walks of Scottish life The feelings and language of the author are those of Romance Still it is a fine and beautiful work.'"""
"""I think very highly of both the books you have sent me but far most highly of Lights and Shadows in which there is a great deal of very powerful effect purity of sentiment and fine writing but with very little of real nature as it exists in the walks of Scottish life The feelings and language of the author are those of Romance Still it is a fine and beautiful work.'"""
"""The following paragraph, apparently cut-out from a newspaper, but without date or reference, has been lent me by Mrs Norcliffe. 'Old Maids'. A sprightly writer expresses his opinions of old maids in the folowing manner:- I am inclined to believe that many of the satirical aspersions..."""
"""dine with Jane - Read Albe's tragedy to her'"""
"""Finish Anastatius [sic]'"""
"""Thursday Jany. 17th. [...] Read King Lear.'"""
"""I have been pleased with some tracts on political Economy by William Alias Entomology Spence esq. F.L.S. Just reprinted since 1806, or 1808, but the reasoning not out of date."""
"""Thank you for being pleased with your visit and not displeased with Graham [Hamilton]'."""
"""I read in a chinese book today--converse with clever people when I say a chinese Book I mean a book with 2 chinese stories in it the one is very curious & amusing about Too and Twan--it is called the """"""""Shadows in the Water"""""""" two people kept separate fall in love thus by seeing each others shadows'."""
"""I read in a chinese book today--converse with clever people when I say a chinese Book I mean a book with 2 chinese stories in it the one is very curious & amusing about Too and Twan--it is called the """"""""Shadows in the Water"""""""" two people kept separate fall in love thus by seeing each others shadows'."""
"""[Y]ou interested me very much about Coleridge--I wish I had ever known him--his translation of Wallenstein is in my opinion perfectly beautiful'."""
"""I was much better pleased with it [""""""""Foscari""""""""] than I expected, though I can truly add that my expectations were somewhat highly raised.  The interest begins at once, and continues throughout, and there are a thousand little touches of great beauty, although (and this in a drama is perhaps the best praise) there is no one passage on which I can fix as possessing a distinct and paramount superiority... In your """"""""Foscari"""""""" I find also a much greater strength than is usual from a female pen, accompanied with many a lambent spark of genuine heartfelt feeling... which none but a woman could have given.'"""
"""I should think the first volume of his [Sismondi's] """"""""Literature du Midi de l'Europe"""""""" would be of some use in collateral information, and at any rate that is amusing.'"""
"""This unfortunate O'Meara, It was the merest chance he was not sent to extend his localities in the Highlands.  I would have returned the book immediately, finding how long it had been here, had the subject been any other than Napoleon - however I made what haste I could with it; but though I read whenever a temporary cessation of civilities on the part of the inhabitants left a minute at my own disposal, I only finished it at twelve o'clock the night you wrote for it - '"""
"""I liked Milman's books better than your scanty recommendation led me to expect- The gentleman is certainly a poet - he excells in description - the outlines of his pictures want charecter [sic] but his colouring is rich and brilliant, and on the whole his manner is very graceful - he fails sadly when he makes his personages speak and feel - however 'the Bright City' is not without heart - the episode of Lilian and Vortimer is very natural and pathetic, and Rowena's love is quite Byronical - I think if you have not read it, it is worth your time - How very presumptuous it is in me to attempt criticising such an Author as Milman!-'"""
"""I am indeed highly delighted with the magazine as I well may for in all my life I never saw a more original miscellany. I think the letter from THE GOTH the shrewdest and cleverest thing I ever saw but every thing is a gem though they are all of different waters. The Stott is rather too bad. It was hardly worth while tearing the guts out of the thing in such a turgid butcherlike stile. Believe me there will be some kick up about it. The critique on the [italics] jubilee [end italics] is a real good natured thing one would have thought it hardly possble to have made as much out of a trifle'."""
"""Read Letters from Norway'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 2 January 1822, during stay at Guy's Cliff: 'Mrs Siddons read """"""""Othello,"""""""" the two parts of Iago and Othello quite [italics]a merveille[end italics].'"""
"""Read Homer & Virgil - And Bacon's Natural Hist. & Apothegms.'"""
"""Read Homer & Virgil - And Bacon's Natural Hist. & Apothegms.'"""
"""I have read the first volume of The Fortunes of Nigel, which I like much better than the Pirate. I never could feel perfectly reconciled to having a Freebooter for a Hero, and a romantic, half crazy girl falling in love with him from mistaking him for an honest bold man'."""
"""I have read the first volume of The Fortunes of Nigel, which I like much better than the Pirate. I never could feel perfectly reconciled to having a Freebooter for a Hero, and a romantic, half crazy girl falling in love with him from mistaking him for an honest bold man'."""
"""In the evening read the last volume of """"""""Emma"""""""", a novel evincing great good sense, and an acute observation of human life, but it is not interesting.  One cares little for Harriet, the kind-hearted girl who falls in love with three men in a year, and yet hers is the best conceived character after all.  Emma, the heroine, is little more than a clever woman who does foolish things - makes mistakes for others, and is at last caught unawares herself.  We hear rather too much about fools: the kind-hearted but weak father, the silly chattering Miss Bates, who gabbles in the style of polite conversation, and the vulgar impertinence of the Eltons.'"""
"""down the newbank to Halifax. Called at a shop or 2, and at Miss Kitson's. Went for 1/2 hour tothe library till the Saltmarshes had done dinner. Read a few pp. of a translation of Cicero's treatise on old age. Went to the Saltmarshes at 3."""
"""Well Sir - I have to thank you for your last, which certainly is the most tasteful Epistle I ever, in my life, received.  I verily believe there is not a word of it, that could offend the nicest tastem or most musical ear - All is harmony, from beginning to end - and the Metaphor and Antithesis in which it abounds render the style surprisingly rich & striking.'"""
"""I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'."""
"""I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'."""
"""Read Homer - & Macchiavelli'"""
"""Read Homer - & Macchiavelli'"""
"""Many thanks for Nigel; a far better novel than The Pirate, though not of the highest order of Scott's novels. It is the first novel in which there is no Meg Merrilies. There is, however, a Dominie Sampson in the horologer. The first volume is admirable. Nothing can be better than the apprentices, the shop of old Heriot, the state of the city. James is quite excellent wherever he appears. I do not dislike Alsatia. The miser?s daughter is very good; so is the murder. The story execrable; the gentlemanlike, light, witty conversation always (as in all his novels) very bad. Horrors on humour are his forte. He must avoid running into length?great part of the second volume very long and tiresome; but upon the whole the novel will do?keeps up the reputation of the author; and does not impair the very noble and honourable estate which he has in his brains'."""
"""I thought to rise at five on Thursday morning, but fatigue made my head bad.  I slept till nine - I opened """"""""Mary Stewart"""""""" after breakfast but Dr Fiffe interrupted me, and teazed me to play at shuttlecock till I consented-'"""
"""Read Wrongs of Woman'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 25 October 1822, sending back unread Quarterly Review (having decided to read no more reviews): '[Galignani] ... has forwarded a copy of at least one half of it -- in his indefatigable Catch-penny weekly compilation -- and ... I have looked through it...'"""
"""[He wishes to express] 'the high gratification I have received from the perusal of """"""""Foscari"""""""". I must frankly tell you that the play has very much surprised me.  I gave you credit for a great deal, but not for what you are mistress of. The drama is your proper walk, and I pray you heartily henceforth to make the right use of your great talents, and to contribute something to the solid, permanent literature of your age.'"""
"""Friday March 28th. [...] Read Il Poeta Fanatico di Goldoni.'"""
"""Did [Benjamin Bell] write these verses?  If so, he seems young at the art like us, but not without powers of doing better; dactyls are always difficult to manage, and his accordingly are but a kind of flash in the pan - no damage is done; but the other piece has a sort of pococurante [little-caring] air about it which looks more like genius and truth, and answers greatly better.  Except the last stanza, they are good.  If he is only about twenty years of age or so, he may cultivate poetry with considerable hope: if nearer thirty I advise him never to write another line.'"""
"""At Sarzana - read Memoirs of the court of Charles II - Attala'"""
"""At Sarzana - read Memoirs of the court of Charles II - Attala'"""
"""Sunday March 3rd. [...] Read Hamlet.'"""
"""I was rather unwell for about an hour, but not very bad when I could go on reading The Vicar of Wakefield"""
"""Read Lindsays dramas & Telemaque'"""
"""Read Lindsays dramas & Telemaque'"""
"""I think Adam Blair beautifully done?quite beautifully. It is not every lady who confesses she reads it; but if you had been silent upon the subject, or even if you had denied it, you would have done yourself very little good with me.'"""
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"""F[elicia]H[emans] [...] read a """"""""Memoir of the Queen of Prussia"""""""" in 1822'."""
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"""whilst yet in the nursery, I learned the greater portion of the first chapter of Isaiah, and can repeat it to this day. No one told me to do so, or even knew that I had done it. The beauty of the language, the exquisite musical rhythm of the sentences caught my ear, but I had little perception of anything beyond.'"""
"""I have made it [the plot of a novel she is writing] two stories--principle or the Brothers is full of events rather terrific & in Monk Lewis's style--all the people whether the Daemons or the angels male or female act from determination'."""
"""[A]sk Ld M[orpeth] to read you the lost Peri & see the lines about the boy kneeling & the man of crime are not passing beautiful read it too with your heart and not with rules of criticism--I think many parts of Lalla Rookh perfectly beautiful & the idea and often the poetry but he has heaped such a mass of affection about it & affects such discord to make his harmony more sudden & conspicuous that it requires much good humour to admire'."""
"""[W]ould to God I had been an Adam Blair & not a Mrs Campbell [...] I am only miserable--because I dare not die--and like Adam Blair cannot say my prayers'."""
"""During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the """"""""Anti-Jacobin-Review"""""""", from which I gathered a little that pleased me. Among other things I met with some views respecting the conduct of Judas Iscariot towards his Divine Master which to me were quite new. I, however, thought them both reasonable and probable. I also read Mr. O'Meara's """"""""Voice from St Helena"""""""", Dr. Henderson's """"""""Travels in Iceland"""""""", and Captain Parry's """"""""Narrative"""""""" of his Arctic Voyage. I must here beg the reader to remember that henceforth when I say that I have read any book it will only mean that I gave it a hasty perusal, for I had no time for close reading.'"""
"""During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the """"""""Anti-Jacobin-Review"""""""", from which I gathered a little that pleased me. Among other things I met with some views respecting the conduct of Judas Iscariot towards his Divine Master which to me were quite new. I, however, thought them both reasonable and probable. I also read Mr. O'Meara's """"""""Voice from St Helena"""""""", Dr. Henderson's """"""""Travels in Iceland"""""""", and Captain Parry's """"""""Narrative"""""""" of his Arctic Voyage. I must here beg the reader to remember that henceforth when I say that I have read any book it will only mean that I gave it a hasty perusal, for I had no time for close reading.'"""
"""During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the """"""""Anti-Jacobin-Review"""""""", from which I gathered a little that pleased me. Among other things I met with some views respecting the conduct of Judas Iscariot towards his Divine Master which to me were quite new. I, however, thought them both reasonable and probable. I also read Mr. O'Meara's """"""""Voice from St Helena"""""""", Dr. Henderson's """"""""Travels in Iceland"""""""", and Captain Parry's """"""""Narrative"""""""" of his Arctic Voyage. I must here beg the reader to remember that henceforth when I say that I have read any book it will only mean that I gave it a hasty perusal, for I had no time for close reading.'"""
"""During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the """"""""Anti-Jacobin-Review"""""""", from which I gathered a little that pleased me. Among other things I met with some views respecting the conduct of Judas Iscariot towards his Divine Master which to me were quite new. I, however, thought them both reasonable and probable. I also read Mr. O'Meara's """"""""Voice from St Helena"""""""", Dr. Henderson's """"""""Travels in Iceland"""""""", and Captain Parry's """"""""Narrative"""""""" of his Arctic Voyage. I must here beg the reader to remember that henceforth when I say that I have read any book it will only mean that I gave it a hasty perusal, for I had no time for close reading.'"""
"""Young as he [Allan Cunningham] was, I had heard of his name, although slightly, and, I think, seen one or two of his juvenile pieces. Of an elder brother of his, Thomas Mouncey, I had, previous to that, conceived a very high idea, and I always marvel how he could possibly put his poetical vein under lock and key, as he did all at once; for he certainly then bade fair to be the first of Scottish bards'."""
"""A Mr Gally Knight the Author of a Book of very fair Poetry, told me a Story which He thought would suit me [as the basuis of a poem]'"""
"""Mr Murray made me a present of the 5 Octavo Vols of Mr Irvings Works, the Sketch-Book & some others: I do understand this but it is not of Importance that I should'"""
"""Sunday March 31st.  Read Il Matrimonio per Concorso di Goldoni.'"""
"""Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata'"""
"""Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata'"""
"""Byron to Edward J. Dawkins, 17 May 1822: """"""""I return you the paper with many thanks for that and your letter. -- It is the first English Newspaper (except Galignani's Parisian English) which I have seen for a long time -- and I was lost in admiration of it's size and volume."""""""""""
"""It is already past twelve o'clock, and I am tired and sleepy; but I cannot go to rest without answering the kind little note which you sent me, and acknowledging these new instances of your unwearied attention to my interests and comfort.'  """
"""Kant's Geografica Fisica'"""
"""begin Macchiavelli's history.'"""
"""Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante'"""
"""Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante'"""
"""Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante'"""
"""Byron to the editor of The Courier, 5 February 1822: 'Sir / -- I have read in your Journal some remarks of Mr. Southey ... which he is pleased to entitle a reply to """"""""a note relating to himself."""""""" appending to [Byron's ] the """"""""two Foscari"""""""".' """
"""Have you seen Dr Ures notice of Leslie's Meteorology, in Brande's Journal?  Some one shewed it to me and it seemed a very unpalatable morsel: I know not whether you will care for i[t].'  """
"""At present the honest people of """"""""the letters"""""""" are much shocked at the appearance of Byron's and Hunt's Magazine """"""""The Liberal"""""""", which hardly one of the Bibliopolists will venture to sell a copy of.  The first two articles, seemingly Byron's, are exceedingly potent - very clever and very wicked; the rest is in Hunt's vein, and no better or worse than a common examiner.'"""
"""I have spent a stupid day reading the Abbe de Sade's Memoirs of Petrarch.  What a feeble whipster was this Petrarch with all his talents!  To go dangling about, for the space of twenty years, puffing and sighing after a little coquette, whose charms lay briefly in the fervour of his imagination, and the art she had to keep him wavering between hope and despondency - at once ridiculous and deplorable - that he might write sonnets in her praise!'"""
"""Thursday Feb. [...] 7th. [...] Read Southey's and Lord B's squabble in Galignani'."""
"""read - Jacopo Ortis - 2nd Vol of Geographica Fisica - &c &c'"""
"""read - Jacopo Ortis - 2nd Vol of Geographica Fisica - &c &c'"""
"""I told no one my state until about the time to get up. I then dressed. I felt bound to have my husband, children, my dear sister Elizabeth Gurney, Susan Pitchford as such maids as liked to join us, collected together. Doctor Sims was also with us. When after reading I poured forth my soul in [underline] fervent prayer [end underline] for my [underline] dearest Rachel [end underline] and myself, as to our time of conflict, for help spiritually, and [underline] naturally [end underline] for tender mercy'"""
"""I have just this instant finished the O'Meara - and have no time to write.  You quite distress me by sending me so many books-'"""
"""I have received my desk today [shipped from England] & have been reading my letters to mine own Shelley during his absences at Marlow. What a scene to recur to! My William, Clara, Allegra are all talked of - They lived then - They breathed this air & their voices struck on my sense; their feet trod the earth beside me - & their hands were warm with blood and life when clasped in mine'."""
"""Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 August 1822: 'I have not seen the thing you mention [John Watkins, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord Byron] ... nor have I any desire.  The price is, as I saw in some advertisement, fourteen shillings, which is too much to pay for a libel on oneself.'"""
"""Have employed this evening reading the history and theory of the gas lights from a number of the Encyclopaedia"""
"""Read 3rd Canto of l'Inferno'"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 8 February 1822: 'Attacks upon me were to be expected [following publication of his Biblical drama Cain] -- but I perceive one upon you in the papers which I confess that I did not expect.'"""
"""Read Homer - 3rd Georgic - Geografica Fisica & Samson Agonistes'"""
"""Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 June 1822: 'I have read the recent article of Jeffrey in a faithful transcription of the impartial Galignani.'"""
"""Here is Mr Mackensie - with the Surprise I heard it - the Author of """"""""the Man of Feeling"""""""" & indeed he is so called.'"""
"""Mr Blackwood the Editor of the Magazine which goes under his Name & who this Morning - in Modo Mr Murray of London - very kindly prest me to accept a Volume & a very pleasing Volume of Miscellanies which I will take with me if I live to reach Trowbridge again.'"""
"""Called at Whiteley's. Saw there the Leeds Mercury & my father's estate advertised in it. Went to the library for a little while then went back to Northgate [...] Isabella had walked to the library newsroom and came to Northgate"""
"""Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1822, on his recent illness (painfully and ineffectually treated by a local doctor): 'At last I seized Thompson's book of prescriptions -- (a donation of yours) and physicked myself with the first dose I found in it ...'"""
"""I am busy with the fourth volume of Gibbon and Machiavelli's discourses on Livy.  He is the only Italian that has interested me - '"""
"""I am busy with the fourth volume of Gibbon and Machiavelli's discourses on Livy.  He is the only Italian that has interested me - '"""
"""[Letter dated 1823, to Miss Pickford].  Madame Marcet is a very good guide as far as she goes, but surely respecting the system of pulleys she has not gone quite far enough. She has left us to ourselves rather too soon'."""
"""I finished Rollin before these people came.  I am quite distressed about my memory - after all the time and pains I have bestowed on this ancient history I find my mind retains but a faint outline of it.  - I did not read the dissertation on the arts and sciences it seemed lumpish stuff, and foreign to my present purpose[.] However if you think it for my good to spend a fortnight on these three volumes I will not grudge it.'"""
"""I finished your Musaeus ten days ago: it is a nice little book and will do very well.  You shall have it at Had[dingto]n whenever you get there, with multifarious advices and palavers.'"""
"""Finished Peveril of the Peak."""
"""I took up the Economy of Human Life, and was much pleased with the simplicity, ease and elegance of its style. The Biographical Sketch of Dodsley is drawn with much beauty and taste."""
"""Dined at five - went on with Boswell having discontinued it, since Saturday January 23rd."""
"""Did not come to breakfast till 10. Read M some of my journal.  Dawdled away the morning, talking to one another, till 3 when we dined."""
"""In the afternoon, read aloud the first 30pp. glenarvon, vol.2.  Miss Goodricke called and sat a little while with us. the girls introduced me. She thanked me for the book I had bought for Miss Morritt from Miss Emily Cholmley..."""
"""I read Spenser these some mornings, while eating my breakfast.  He is a dainty little fellow, as ever you saw: I propose that you and he shall be closely acquainted by and by.'"""
"""[Extensive discusion of the text in a letter to Marianne Lawson 15/03/1823.] ...Throw in too, I grant, some fine poetry from p.48 to 63 but [it] is too voluptuous, too Anacreonic, too much that 'by the wildered senseis caught' ' [Quotes from 'The Second Angel's Tale' several times]."""
"""[Letter to M. Lawson dated Saturday 15 March 1823] I have no room for more about the Retrospective Review, than that I think it one of the best periodicals of the day.  The style is to my mind beautiful, bearing rich impress of the hand of scholarship; and the writers ideas of women, whereoccasionally expressed, are free from the Mohamedanism of Moore, and breath rather the unaffected purity of chivalrous respect...'"""
"""I am busy with Gibbon, my adorable's life of Necker (not yours) and Fiesko. Either Schiller's prose is much more difficult than his verse or my head is much thicker than it was in winter.- I hope it is not putting you to inconvenience my detaining these books so long[.] If you want them tell me instantly- '"""
"""I am busy with Gibbon, my adorable's life of Necker (not yours) and Fiesko. Either Schiller's prose is much more difficult than his verse or my head is much thicker than it was in winter.- I hope it is not putting you to inconvenience my detaining these books so long[.] If you want them tell me instantly-'"""
"""I thought I heard My Shelley call me - Not my Shelley in Heaven - but My Shelley - my companion in my Daily tasks - I was reading - I heard a voice say """"""""Mary"""""""" - """"""""It is Shelley"""""""" I thought - the revulsion was of agony - Never more shall I hear his beloved voice'"""
"""I have now finished [the 12th book, represented by a Greek character] of the Odyssey'"""
"""Byron has sent us a new poem the Age of Bronze: it is short, and pithy - but not at all poetical.  Byron may still easily fail to be a great man.  You shall see his Bronze (a poetical squib) when you arrive; and another Liberal which is on the way.'"""
"""""""""""The heart knows its own bitterness + it is enough. Je sens moncover, et je connais les hommes. Je ne suis fait comme [...] Rousseau's confessions, volume and page, first"""""""""""
"""Upon reading the 2nd Chap. in Deuteronomy I felt this verse so much the acknowledgement of my heart, though all the works of my hands, may not yet have appeared to be fully blessed, yet in many, may I not say [underline] most [end underline], a peculiar blessing has I think rested on them. I transcribe here, from Deuteronomy 2: verse 7 """"""""For the Lord thy God have blessed thee in all the works of thy hand. He knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness these forty years, these forty years the Lord thy God has been with thee. Thou hast lacked nothing.'"""
"""I finished Allan Ramsay's """"""""Gentle Shepherd"""""""", and with some parts have been much pleased - the Scotch is interesting to me from not being acquainted with it."""
"""Looked through a volume of the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - read an account of Gordon's Portable Gas Lamp, and of the tides of the Mediterranean. At Venice they..."""
"""As for reading, I have much to say of the """"""""Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon"""""""", but not time for it till quiet in my own house. I piously believe them genuine; they have the [italics] sceau [end italics] of his genius and of his profound art. I am also reading """"""""Journal de Las Cases"""""""". I shut one book where he himself details the precautions taken to secure personal liberty under his government, the strict laws for the purpose, no person could be kept in prison a day without so, and so, and so, judges, privy council, and I know not what. I opened the other where Las Cases says that on looking over papers at St Helena, the Emperor was himself surprised to see the number of books prohibited and of [italics] persons arrested by the police [end italics], whom he had never heard of and knew nothing about'."""
"""Pray, if you love laughing, read """"""""the [italics] Entail [end italics] or the Lairds of Grippy"""""""". It is admirable for that purpose, tho' far more broadly Scotch than I can understand; but besides the patois, the old lady has a slip-slop of her own quite incomparable - [italics] concos montes [end italics] for [italics] compos mentis [end italics], etc. - and the author [Galt] this time is so wise as to keep quite out of good company, avoid lords and ladies, and only describe the people he has seen'. """
"""Besides the highland impediment we have had daily visitors for a whole fortnight so I have got nothing read except Turnadot and Napoleon's memoirs - I assure you I have made a violent effort to keep my temper-'"""
"""Besides the highland impediment we have had daily visitors for a whole fortnight so I have got nothing read except Turnadot and Napoleon's memoirs - I assure you I have made a violent effort to keep my temper-'"""
"""I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled me so excessively that I thought it adviseable to let it alone for a little and try something else - I chose Stella as I had read it in french and with great difficulty I have got through it and part of Clavigo - I do not think I shall like Goethe much unless he improves greatly-'"""
"""I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled me so excessively that I thought it adviseable to let it alone for a little and try something else - I chose Stella as I had read it in french and with great difficulty I have got through it and part of Clavigo - I do not think I shall like Goethe much unless he improves greatly-'"""
"""I have read no more of Boccac[c]io than his description of the plague which is extremely powerful from the hesitation you seemed to have in allowing me to read him I felt inclined to return it immediately - but on reflection I thought it silly to deprive myself of the pleasure of reading a clever work because it contained some exceptionable passages which I might pass of[f] even if I found them disagreeable - so I shall go on - at least as long as I find it for my good- '"""
"""I shall turn for a while to Urquhart's comentaries on classical learning. O books! books! I owe you much. Ye are my spirits oil without which, its own friction against itself would wear out."""
"""A good novel, but not so good as either of the two last, and not good enough for such a writer. The next must be better or it will be the last. There is I see Flibbertigibbet over again. Bridgenorth is not new, Charles is the best done. My opinion is worth but little but I am always sincere. There is one comfort, however, in reading Scott?s novels, that his worst are better than what are called the successful productions of other persons'."""
"""Tell me - did you write the critic [critique] on his [Edward Irving's] book, which appeared in the Sunday Times - I had not read two sentences of it till I said to myself """"""""this is He"""""""" do not forget to tell me - I shall be disappointed if I find I have mistaken your style -'"""
"""If you have heard no news lately from the south, it will be fresh intelligence for you that Lawson had a call to Selkirk, which as I learn from this day's newspaper (after his opinion faintly declared to the contrary) the Synod compelled him to decline.'  """
"""Commenced Boswell's Life of Johnson and was much pleased with it."""
"""Wholesome dinners produce haviness and ill humour commenced Peveril of the Peak."""
"""I have finished the second voluime of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier.  I am near the end of Egmont which I like infinitely better than then two following pieces - At last I am beginning to recognise the Goethe you admire -'"""
"""I have finished the second volume of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier.  I am near the end of Egmont which I like infinitely better than then two following pieces - At last I am begnining to recognise the Goethe you admire -'"""
"""Boccac[c]io I return! - I have read the introduction and three of the tales which I took by chance from different parts of the book - in the two first my choice was fortunate and I was inclined to think the work had been belied - the third was enough - I will never open the book again -'"""
"""In the evening, read in the European magazine for last month, an additional memoir of the life of Napoleon...Madame de Stael rather too tender to Napoleon. One day to get quit of her visit, he sent to say he was not quite dressed. She replied, it mattered not, genius is of no sex."""
"""Got home a few minutes past one. M- + I tete-a-tete in the drawing [room]... Brought down Dr Ash's little book, Institute of English Grammar, trying to give M - some instruction + lent her the book."""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 28 August 1823: 'Loitered in the garden with Car. [Hon. Mrs Scott, novelist], and read the MS. which she gave me.'"""
"""Many thanks for St Ronan, by far the best that has appeared for some time,?I mean the best of Sir Walter?s, and therefore, of course, better than all others. Every now and then there is some mistaken and over-charged humour?but much excellent delineation of character,?the story very well told, and the whole very interesting. Lady Binks, the old landlady, and Touchwood are all very good. Mrs Blower particularly so. So are MacTurk and Lady Penelope.  I wish he would give his people better names: Sir Bingo Binks is quite ridiculous. I was very glad to find Dryasdust and Meg Merrilies excluded; one was never good, and the other too often good. The curtain should have dropped on finding Clara?s glove. Some of the serious scenes with Clara and her brother are very fine,?the Knife scene masterly. In her light and gay moments Clara is very vulgar; but Sir Walter always fails in well bred men and women,?and yet, who has seen more of both? and who in the ordinary intercourse of Society is better bred? Upon the whole, I call this a very successful exhibition'."""
"""At 4 3/4 read from p.91 to 138 The art of employing time, which, from p.134 to where I have left off, I am more particularly pleased. There are several hints for journal keeping on which I shall think seriously. There is something highly novel in this work altogether + withal interesting"""
"""Had no company. Passed the afternoon reading part of Boston's Fourfold State."""
"""I spent the day in reading part of Irving's sermons, which I have not finished.  On the whole he should not have published it - till after a considerable time.  There is strong talent in it, true eloquence, and vigorous thought: but the foundation is rotten, and the building itself is a kind of monster in architecture - beautiful in parts - vast in dimensions - but on the whole decidedly a monster.'"""
"""Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only """"""""Rome"""""""", etc., the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure on Racine and Shakespeare.'"""
"""Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only """"""""Rome"""""""", etc., the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure on Racine and Shakespeare.'"""
"""Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only """"""""Rome"""""""", etc., the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure on Racine and Shakespeare.'"""
"""Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only """"""""Rome"""""""", etc., the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure on Racine and Shakespeare.'"""
"""Susan J. Wolfson notes Felicia Hemans's reading of Herder's ballad collection """"""""Volkslieder""""""""."""
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"""Harriet Martineau on a stay with her brother and his wife at Torquay in spring 1823: 'It was my office to read aloud for many hours of each day [...] Before breakfast, and while he [the brother] enjoyed his classical reading on the sofa, I rambled about the neighbourhood of Torquay, -- sometimes sketching, sometimes reading'. """
"""Harriet Martineau on a stay with her brother and his wife at Torquay in spring 1823: 'It was my office to read aloud for many hours of each day [...] Before breakfast, and while he [the brother] enjoyed his classical reading on the sofa, I rambled about the neighbourhood of Torquay, -- sometimes sketching, sometimes reading'. """
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"""In the 9th mo. [1800] died Thos Rutter, of Bristol ... His amiable character is so ably pourtrayed [sic] in 142 & c of the 1oth part of """"""""Piety Promoted"""""""", 43 that it is needless for me to attempt any farther delineation.'"""
"""Sometime about the twenty first year of my age I perceived the great advantage possessed by those who received a classical education.  I had read Byron's """"""""Childe Harold"""""""" and the passage """"""""Alas for Tully's voice"""""""" and Virgil's Lay And Troy's pictured page &c inspired me with a desire to dive deeper into Latin Literature.'"""
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"""It must have been during this year [1823] that I began to read a work which gave me much and unalloyed pleasure: this was """"""""The Modern Traveller"""""""", edited by Mr. Conder. I read the parts consecutively and was so much pleased with them that I looked for their publication with great interest.'"""
"""By favour of my friendly draper I also had the satisfaction of looking over the elegantly written and very entertaining """"""""Letters"""""""" of Mr. Gray together with M. Sismondi's """"""""History of the Literature of the South of Europe"""""""".' """
"""By favour of my friendly draper I also had the satisfaction of looking over the elegantly written and very entertaining """"""""Letters"""""""" of Mr. Gray together with M. Sismondi's """"""""History of the Literature of the South of Europe"""""""".' """
"""I hope you have read and admired Doblado. To get a Catholic Priest who would turn King's Evidence is a prodigious piece of good luck, but it may damage the Catholic question'."""
"""Byron thanks J. J. Coulmann for books sent, July 1823: 'I have also to return thanks to you for having honoured me with your compositions ... As to the Essay, etc., I am obliged to you for the present, although I had already seen it joined to the last edition of the translation.  I have nothing to object to it ... though naturally there are ... several errors ...'"""
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"""Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 28 May 1823: """"""""I read your various speeches in the Times."""""""""""
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"""This last is indeed a [italics] redeeming Number [end italics] even if the fallings off had been greater Nothing like it has I think appeared'."""
"""Meantime I am reading Grubers Wieland: he is about equal to Doctor Joralic our worthy friend: a more learned man, but at bottom another of the same.-'"""
"""Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 5 April 1823: 'I return the C[ount] D'O[rsay]'s journal which is a very extraordinary production ... I know or knew personally most of the personages and societies which he describes -- and after reading his remarks -- have the sensation fresh upon me as if I had seen them yesterday.'"""
"""Byron to John Hunt, 5 July 1823: 'I have seen the Blackwood [review of The Age of Bronze]: but I still think it a pity to prosecute.'"""
"""Byron to Madame Sergent-Marceau, 5 May 1823 (translated from Italian): 'no present you might give me would be more welcome than the short work in which the actions of your Brother [General Marceau], whose memory I revere, are so well described.  I have read this work with the greatest pleasure ...'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 5 November 1823, from Guy's Cliff: 'In the evening, Greathead read a portion of Irving's """"""""Dscourses:"""""""" very bombastic and high-flown; strong in words and weak in argument.'"""
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"""Just before tea... read from p.126 to 168, collections and recollections the last article a pretty well done account of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby."""
"""Came upstairs at 10 1/2 [...] musing melancholily over the fire till 11. From then till 3.10, read the whole of (M-sen t it to me Saturday 15 November) some passages in the life of Mr Adam Blair, Minister of the Gospel at Cross-Meikle-Wm Blackwood, Edinburgh + London, 1822.[...]It is a singularly interesting pathetic story, doubly so because told as truth + not improbable [...] I read and roared over this thing till my head ached [...]"""
"""You did not mean me to return your story?  I hope not - I shall soon be able to say it by heart - how I envy you!  I would give Shandy and my pearl necklace to be able to write such an other - but that I shall never be!'"""
"""I have finished William Tell - and mean to commence Turandot on Monday - I could read Schiller for ever - who but himself could have made such a play as Tell on such a plan?'"""
"""Metastatio is improving I finish Themistocles and the second book of Annals today also - what tempted you to send me that deplorable (these blots are no work of mine) volume of calamities?  it was enough to throw any one in my case into the blue devils for a twelvemonth to come.'"""
"""Lord Byron, to whom Mr. Murray sent a copy of [Belzoni's] work, said: """"""""Belzoni [italics]is[end italics] a grand traveller, and his English is very prettily broken.""""""""' """
"""I must tell you that Lord Byron said Mrs Lee [Augusta Leigh?] & Lady Byron had read all my letters [and] verses'."""
"""I must tell you that Lord Byron said Mrs Lee [Augusta Leigh?] & Lady Byron had read all my letters [and] verses'."""
"""I told Murray to tell you that I read his journal with sorrow & perhaps with anger'."""
"""I am much charmed with Wilhelm Meister,  the book I had begun to read with much prejudice of mind & forebodings that I should not like it, as I had been told such would be the case- but on the contrary I have met with nothing for a long time that pleased me half so well, or that has suggested to me so many profitable trains of thought-'"""
"""What matters it to me if Young was an ambitious man or not? He wrote what I feel; and tho' not his wishes, his words would often have been mine, if heaven had endowed me withsuch giant-powers of speech. Were ever lines more beautiful than the first five of the first night? Shakespeare might have written them. What a description of night!  Less beautiful than Milton's so celebrated descrip- -tion of evening (book 4), but moresublime?  [quotes from 'Night One'and 'Night two']... I wished I had marked all, or half, my favourite passages- they would shew you a mind fond of deep thought- a haughty spirit unyielding to the storms of time and circumstance - a heart when lulled in Friendship's lap. perhaps as warmly gentle as your own.'"""
"""[Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated Saturday 10 July 1824] You remind me of Dr Gregory's advive to his daughter. A woman should never shew the full extent of her regard, even to her husband. Perhaps you are right. But neither right nor Dr. Gregory prescribes that words shoulkd never be employed ...'"""
"""Read """"""""Macbeth"""""""" what a soul thrilling power hovers about this tragedy I have read it over about twenty times'"""
"""a wet day have finished the life of savage in Johnsons """"""""lives of the poets""""""""'"""
"""Read in the afternoon Erskines """"""""Evidence of Revealed Religion"""""""" and find in it some of the best reasoning in favour of its object I have ever read...'"""
"""I have been dipping into """"""""the miserys of human life"""""""" here & there'"""
"""Read the September No of the London Mag: only 2 good articles in it-'Blakesmore in H-shire' by Elia & review of 'Goethe' by De Quincey these are excellent and sufficient to make a bad No. interesting."""
"""I have read the first chapter of Genesis the beginning of which is very fine but the sacred historian took a great deal on credit for this world when he imagines that god created the sun moon & stars [...] for no other purpose than its use """""""" the greater light to rule the day & the lesser light to rule the night"""""""" ...'"""
"""Lookd into Thompsons Winter there is a freshness about it I think superior to the others [...] the following minute descriptions are great favourites of mine [...] [he misquotes ll 104-5, 130-31]'"""
"""Lookd over the magaze for amusement [...] the letter on mackadamizing is good - the review on Walladmoor is 30 pages long I wish De Quincey had better subjects for his genius'"""
"""read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see what he says about flowers & have found that he speaks of the Lady smock [quotes from 'The Battle of Hastings']."""
"""read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see what he says about flowers & have found that he speaks of the Lady smock [quotes from 'The Battle of Hastings']."""
"""I would have answered your letter sooner but for a long series of movements and countermovements I have had to execute.  I also wished to read Goethe's book, before determining on your proposal with regard to it.  This I have at length done: I find it will not answer.  The work is incomplete, the first volume only having yet appeared; and it consists of a series of fragments, individually beautiful, but quite disjointed, and in their present state scarcely intelligible.'"""
"""I endeavour to read & write - my ideas a [for 'are'] stagnate and my understanding refuses to follow the words I read'"""
"""Read in old Tusser with whose quaint ryhmes I have often been entertaind [...] he seems to have felt a taste for inclosures and Mavor that busy notemaker and book compiler [...] has added an impertinent note [...] as an echo of feint praise'"""
"""Read some passages in the poems of Tannahill some of his songs are beautiful particularly """"""""Loudons bonny woods and braes"""""""" """"""""We'll meet beside the dusky glen"""""""" and """"""""Jessey""""""""'"""
"""Read some passages in the poems of Tannahill some of his songs are beautiful particularly """"""""Loudons bonny woods and braes"""""""" """"""""We'll meet beside the dusky glen"""""""" and """"""""Jessey""""""""'"""
"""Went to Milton saw a fine Edition of Leniuses Botany [...] saw also a beautiful book on insects with the plants they feed on by Curtis'"""
"""From 7.40 to 9 1/2 reading aloud to myself from p.42 to 50 (very carefully) vol.I Rousseau's Confessions. I READ this work so attentively for the style's sake. Besides this is a singularly unique display of character."""
"""The other afternoon, as I was lying dozing in a brown study after dinner, a lord's lackey knocked at the door and delivered me a little blue parcel, requiring for it a ntoe of delivery.  I opened it, and found two pretty stitched little books, and a letter from - Goethe!  I copy it from the fractur [Gothic script] hand it was written in, and send it for your edification.  The patriarchal style of it pleases me much.'"""
"""I read his own [Byron's] memoirs before Murray burnt them.'"""
"""Lookd in the poems of Coleridge, Lamb and Loyde - Colridges monody on Chatterton is beautiful but his sonnets are not happy ones they seem to be a labour after exelence which he did not reach [.] some of those by his friend Lloyd are exelent [...] """"""""Craig Millar Castle"""""""" and """"""""To November"""""""" are the best [...] Lambs best poetry is in """"""""Elia""""""""'"""
"""[Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated August 18 1824] I should have marked, and doubtless, have done so in my little edition at home (got another directly), the very lines youmention. I have also marked the following, """"""""Celestil happiness! Where e'er she stoops / To visit earth, one shrine the goddess finds"""""""" [Night II, ll.516-17]"""
"""Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength of colouring. In nature and interest it is defective but I cannot tell you the half I would say about it in this line. The Maga. is excellent. no dross. But I think I am still most delighted with old Tim of them all. He is uniformly the first I read and Wrestliana is the very thing for me.'"""
"""Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength of colouring. In nature and interest it is defective but I cannot tell you the half I would say about it in this line. The Maga. is excellent. no dross. But I think I am still most delighted with old Tim of them all. He is uniformly the first I read and Wrestliana is the very thing for me.'"""
"""Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength of colouring. In nature and interest it is defective but I cannot tell you the half I would say about it in this line. The Maga. is excellent. no dross. But I think I am still most delighted with old Tim of them all. He is uniformly the first I read and Wrestliana is the very thing for me.'"""
"""I would like well to know who is the author of ST JOHNSTON. It is rather better than ordinary. Pray does any of you know who is the editor of """"""""The Northern Whig""""""""? It comes hither from Belfast. Can it be Gray?'"""
"""I would like well to know who is the author of ST JOHNSTON. It is rather better than ordinary. Pray does any of you know who is the editor of """"""""The Northern Whig""""""""? It comes hither from Belfast. Can it be Gray?'"""
"""From 2-6 looking over volumes 2, 3, 4 + 5 as far as p.111 of my journal. Volume three that part containing the account of my intrigue with Anne Belcombe I read over attentively exclaiming to myself, 'oh women, women'"""
"""read in Southeys """"""""Wesley""""""""'"""
"""""""""""Bought the John Bull Magazine out of curiosity to see if I was among the black sheep it grows in dulness thats one comfort to those that it nicknames 'Humbugs' [.]"""""""""""
""" Went out [..] to the Tuileries Gardens at 8.55. In going, bought at the 1st shop on the left, under the arcades. a pamphlet by M.Chateaubriand. ' Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi'. Read this as I walked along. Then paid a sol for the Journal Politique.'"""
"""[ Had bought and read pamphlet immediately prior to this experience] 'Paid a sol for the Journal Politique which I read in 1/2 hour while walking in the Gardens' [she goes on to describe death of King reported in paper]."""
"""The first thing which struck me in your essays was the exact accordance between your printed and epistolary style.  Are you aware how very little the idea of writing of the public changes your mode of expression? Some of your sketches I like very much.  """"""""Hannah"""""""" I had read before, as well as the """"""""Talking Lady,"""""""" with whose portrait I was particularly struck...'"""
"""P.S. - I have seen no public notice of your book, except the advertisement a fortnight since.'"""
"""Isabella sent me, from Croft, the Globe + Traveller of last Friday, containing the account of the death of Lord Byron [...] Who admiredhim as a man? yet 'he is gone forever!' The greatest poet of the age! And I am sorry"""
"""Lookd over a new vol of provincial poems by a neighbouring poet Bantums """"""""Excursions of Fancy"""""""" and poor fancys I find them' [lists vols by other local poets]"""
"""till noon returnd & read snatches in several poets & the Song of Solomon thought the supposed illusions in that luscious poem to our saviour very overstrained....'."""
"""Am in shop about steady this day doing little else but reading Humes' England"""
"""Read the poems of Conder over a second time [...] I am much pleasd with many more which I shall read anon'"""
"""Did you get the two Examiners I sent you?  The last of them was forced into my hand by a news-vender, just as I was mounting the Coach at 7am, and what should I see in it but a review of Meister!  I bought it, read it, and sent it to you.'"""
"""Even as it is, I contrive to in general to get along very reasonably.  Jack comes down to me every night: we have a talk and a walk: we correct the Printer's sheets together, and are very happy.  He is a kind faithful slut of a fellow."""
"""Even as it is, I contrive to in general to get along very reasonably.  Jack comes down to me every night: we have a talk and a walk: we correct the Printer's sheets together, and are very happy.  He is a kind faithful slut of a fellow.'"""
"""[Letter to Sarah Maclean, dated Monday 21 June 1824] Your being so fond of Cowper tells me half of your character- How passing sweet were solitude with such an one! """"""""Well born- apart from vulgar minds- the polish of the manners clear"""""""" '[quotation from lines 728-733 of'Retirement' by Cowper]."""
"""With your Letter I found a Parcel containing 2 vols of Poetry from a Gentleman who some time since wrote to me upon the Subject: it is rather unmerciful, but I must bear it.'"""
"""Byron to the Chronica Greca, 23 May 1824 (translated from Italian): 'I have read for the first time yesterday an article in the Chronica Greca [paper actually entitled the Hellenica Chronica] -- denouncing the Danish Baron Adam Friedel -- who is not here to respond. -- I do not know if this is just but it does not appear to me to be generous.'"""
"""Lookd into Miltons """"""""Paradise Lost"""""""" I once read it thro when I was a boy at the time I liked the """"""""Death of Abel"""""""" better [...] I cannot help smiling at my young fancys in those days of happy ignorance'"""
"""Read Hazlitts """"""""lectures on the poets"""""""" [...] he is one of the very best prose writers of the present day [...]'"""
"""The short and simple annals of the poor, which have lately poured in such profusion from the Scottish press, I thought at first exquisitely beautiful and pathetic, and the tone of piety which pervaded them, at once appeared as a national characteristic, and was sublime in its simplicity.  But after reading a succession of them I wearied of the beauty, the pathos, and even the piety, for they were brought forward too often, and betrayed too much of stage trick.'"""
"""I think the public taste is not in any danger of relapsing into Arcadian pastorals, but I suspect these Caledonian pastorals to be almost as ideal.  Crabbe, with his occasional coarseness and propensity to dwell upong hte disgusting """"""""where there is no need of such vanity,"""""""" is almost the only one who has dared to be correct, and he has given us some beautiful specimens of """"""""lights"""""""" as well as """"""""shadows.""""""""...'"""
"""...Washington Irving, too, has a few delightful fragments of equal fidelity, rendered elegant by the elegance of his own mind.'"""
"""Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shaksperr [.] His """"""""View of the English Stage"""""""" is not so good as either [...] His other works I have not seen'"""
"""Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shaksperr [.] His """"""""View of the English Stage"""""""" is not so good as either [...] His other works I have not seen'"""
"""Read in Shakspear """"""""The Midsummer Nights Dream"""""""" for the first time - I have still got 3 parts out of 4 plays to read yet and hope I shall not leave the world without reading them'"""
"""Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shakspear [.] His """"""""View of the English Stage"""""""" is not so good as either [...] His other works I have not seen'"""
"""Mary Berry, Journal, 23 September 1824, from Edinburgh: 'Went with Mr. and Mrs. Davenport to [...] the Advocate's Library and Stamp Office, where Mr. Thompson, the Deputy Registrar, showed us very curious MS. letters.'"""
"""Did you get Meister; did they get them at Annan?  It is slowly and sparingly coming forth here: I see it in the windows of the principal booksellers - there was a kind of notice of it in the Examiner (wherein my performance was called admirable!) and lately in the Scotsman (where it was able).'"""
"""lookd into """"""""Maddox on the culture of flowers"""""""" and the """"""""Flora Domestica"""""""" which with a few improvments and additions woud be one of the most entertaining books ever written - if I live I will write one on the same plan'"""
"""lookd into """"""""Maddox on the culture of flowers"""""""" and the """"""""Flora Domestica"""""""" which with a few improvments and additions woud be one of the most entertaining books ever written - if I live I will write one on the same plan'"""
"""I think it [""""""""Rienzi""""""""] extremely clever; some scenes are very powerful, and capable of being wrought into a most effective play.'"""
"""Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading them [...] I find in the same Vol Odes by a poet of the name of Oglivie [...] they appear to me to be bold intruders to claim company with Gray and Collins'."""
"""Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading them [...] I find in the same Vol Odes by a poet of the name of Oglivie [...] they appear to me to be bold intruders to claim company with Gray and Collins'."""
"""came home & read a chapter or two in the New Testament'"""
"""Read in Milton: his account of his blindness is very pathetic & I am always affected to tears'. Makes reference to 'Paradise Lost and 'regaind' """"""""'Comus' & 'Allegro' & 'Penserose' are those which I take up most often""""""""Quotes from 'Comus' ll.291-3."""
"""I did not write one syllable of Hall's book. When first he showed me his manuscript, I told him it would not do; it ws too witty and brilliant. He then wrote it over again, and I told him it would do very well indeed; and it [italics] has [end italics] done very well. He is a very painstaking person'."""
"""Is there any decent review of Meister?  I have seen only one, in the London Magazine, it did not make me angry- I should have grieved to see you well treated in the same page where Goethe was handled so unworthily.'"""
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"""Read Bacons essay on the idea of compleat garden divided into every month of the year [...] What beautiful essays these are.'"""
"""read some pages in Shakspear - turnd over a few leaves of Knoxes Essays'"""
"""read some pages in Shakspear - turnd over a few leaves of Knoxes Essays'"""
"""For the last ten days I have been getting on again in good style.  I have finished Charles and am in the second volume of the History of America.  At this rate I calculate on getting through with all the books which you recommend to me in about twenty years.'"""
"""For the last ten days I have been getting on again in good style.  I have finished Charles and am in the second volume of the History of America.  At this rate I calculate on getting through with all the books which you recommend to me in about twenty years.'"""
"""I am daily expecting a letter from you on the subject of the Life of Schiller.  I have got a copy of his Works beside me, which I have been glancing over; and I feel anxious to commence the business fo remoulding and enlarging, in due form.'"""
"""This morning I received a copy of Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (Travels), a sort of sequel to Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, which is at present stealing into what notice it can attain among you.  The Travels was written two years ago by Goethe, and promises so far as I can yet judge to be a very special work.  I am not without some serious thoughts of putting it into an English dress to follow its elder brother.'"""
"""I ought to have thanked you for """"""""Redgauntlet"""""""" a fortnight ago, but I stayed to read it, and then to read it again. It has taken my fancy very particularly, though (not to flatter you) I could almost wonder why: for there is no story in it, no love, no hero - unless Redgauntlet himself, who would be such a one as the Devil in Milton; yet in spite of all these wants, the interest is so strong one cannot lay it down, and I prophesy for it a great deal of mauling and abuse, and a second edition before the maulers know where they are'."""
"""I read her [Miss Murray] the legend of Steenie Steenson the other night, and we agreed it was in the author's very best manner. I felt disappointed, though, at Wandering Willie's not coming forward more effectually after that very interesting scene of using old times as a sort of telegraph. I thought he was to be a prime agent, and then I heard no more of him; that is to say, the aforesaid author grew tired and flung the cards into the bag as fast as he could. I know his provoking ways.'"""
"""I will not forget Blackwood's Magazine, for though you will not approve much you will certainly be entertained by some Things.'"""
"""I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & good humoured. Faust was not so terrific as I apprehended from the seduction of a Philosopher by an evil Spirit. I verily think that Business is conducted better (than in far more ostentatious works) in the Arabian Tales, (not Nights) where a pious old Lady is wrought upon by her Vanity into Compliance with a Devil who takes the Character of a pious old Man:I want this second part of these strange Tales & to have done with the Subject of Books I treated myself with Warton's History of Poetry: I have long wished for it, but the Quarto edition was so dear £ 5 that I waited for a Octavo & it is just published: it has a great deal of dull Matter but with much Information & Amusement & moreover it is in the way of my Vocation. There is a good Print of the Author & John having seen that, I believe has no wish to look a page further.'"""
"""I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & good humoured. Faust was not so terrific as I apprehended from the seduction of a Philosopher by an evil Spirit. I verily think that Business is conducted better (than in far more ostentatious works) in the Arabian Tales, (not Nights) where a pious old Lady is wrought upon by her Vanity into Compliance with a Devil who takes the Character of a pious old Man:I want this second part of these strange Tales & to have done with the Subject of Books I treated myself with Warton's History of Poetry: I have long wished for it, but the Quarto edition was so dear £ 5 that I waited for a Octavo & it is just published: it has a great deal of dull Matter but with much Information & Amusement & moreover it is in the way of my Vocation. There is a good Print of the Author & John having seen that, I believe has no wish to look a page further.'"""
"""I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & good humoured. Faust was not so terrific as I apprehended from the seduction of a Philosopher by an evil Spirit. I verily think that Business is conducted better (than in far more ostentatious works) in the Arabian Tales, (not Nights) where a pious old Lady is wrought upon by her Vanity into Compliance with a Devil who takes the Character of a pious old Man:I want this second part of these strange Tales & to have done with the Subject of Books I treated myself with Warton's History of Poetry: I have long wished for it, but the Quarto edition was so dear £ 5 that I waited for a Octavo & it is just published: it has a great deal of dull Matter but with much Information & Amusement & moreover it is in the way of my Vocation. There is a good Print of the Author & John having seen that, I believe has no wish to look a page further.'"""
"""I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & good humoured. Faust was not so terrific as I apprehended from the seduction of a Philosopher by an evil Spirit. I verily think that Business is conducted better (than in far more ostentatious works) in the Arabian Tales, (not Nights) where a pious old Lady is wrought upon by her Vanity into Compliance with a Devil who takes the Character of a pious old Man:I want this second part of these strange Tales & to have done with the Subject of Books I treated myself with Warton's History of Poetry: I have long wished for it, but the Quarto edition was so dear £ 5 that I waited for a Octavo & it is just published: it has a great deal of dull Matter but with much Information & Amusement & moreover it is in the way of my Vocation. There is a good Print of the Author & John having seen that, I believe has no wish to look a page further.'"""
"""I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & good humoured. Faust was not so terrific as I apprehended from the seduction of a Philosopher by an evil Spirit. I verily think that Business is conducted better (than in far more ostentatious works) in the Arabian Tales, (not Nights) where a pious old Lady is wrought upon by her Vanity into Compliance with a Devil who takes the Character of a pious old Man:I want this second part of these strange Tales & to have done with the Subject of Books I treated myself with Warton's History of Poetry: I have long wished for it, but the Quarto edition was so dear £ 5 that I waited for a Octavo & it is just published: it has a great deal of dull Matter but with much Information & Amusement & moreover it is in the way of my Vocation. There is a good Print of the Author & John having seen that, I believe has no wish to look a page further.'"""
"""Began to read again the 'Garden of Florence' by Reynolds it is a beautiful simple tale' [describes other poems in vol]."""
"""read in the testamentthe Epistle of St John I love that simple hearted expression of brotherly affection & love'"""
"""[Marginalia]"
"""She [Lady Caroline Lamb] wrote at length to defend herself to [Thomas] Medwin, whom she treats respectfully, though she had told [John Cam] Hobhouse that it would have been better to publish Byron's journal rather than burn it, for Medwin's book [Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron] was """"""""full of vulgarity & erros--even as to dates""""""""'."""
"""With the most intense interest I have just finished your Book which does you credit as to the manner in which it is executed, and after the momentary pain in part which it excites in many a bosom, will live in despight [sic] of censure and be gratefully accepted by the Public as long as Lord Byron's name is remembered--yet as you have left to one who adored him a little legacy and as I feel secure the lines """"""""remember thee-thou false to him then friend time""""""""--were his--and as I have been very ill I am not likely to trouble any one much longer--you will I am sure grant me one favour--let me to you at least confide the truth of the past--you owe it to me--you will not I know refuse me [...] Still I love him [Byron]--witness the agony I experienced at his death & the tears your book has cost me.  Yet, Sir, allow me to say, although you have unitentionally given me pain I had rather have experienced it than not have read your book.  Parts of it are beautiful, and I can vouch for the truth of much as I read his own memoirs before Murray burnt them.'"""
"""Look'd over the """"""""Human Heart"""""""" the title has little connection with the contents- it displays the art of book making in half filld pages & fine paper'"""
"""The natural theology of Dr. Paley is so generally recommended and read in this University, that I need not here insist either on the scope or the utility of the argument so powerfully and at te sane time so beautifullyenforced in that work.' [p.1] [The lecture also contains various other summaries, comments and references to paley's work.]"""
"""She delighted in Singing, & Prayer, & reading the Scriptures, Particularly the 14 Chapter of John &c- this was a favourite Virse of hers, Arise my Soul arise, Shake off thy guilty fears, The bleeding Sacrifice in my behalf appears, Before thy throne my surety stands, my name is written on his hands'"""
"""My dear Miss Mitford, May I be permitted to address thus familiarly a lady with whom, though not personally acquainted, I have long been on terms of intimacy, and for whom I have felt the most lively sentiments of regard and esteem.  Ever since I had the pleasure of being a fellow contributor of yours in the Ladies? Magazine, I have most anxiously wished for an introduction to you, but was deterred from seeking an opportunity of making myself known by the consciousness of my own obscurity?When, however, I became an inhabitant of the house in Hans Place, which I knew to be the scene of your juvenile days, from the description given in the """"""""Boarding School Recollections,"""""""" and began to entertain a hope that my intimacy with Miss Landon and the acquaintance of Miss Skerrit would sanction my long-cherished wish?.'"""
"""From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and Goethe, Korner).'"""
"""From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and Goethe, Korner).'"""
"""From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and Goethe, Korner).'"""
"""From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and Goethe, Korner).'"""
"""During these twelve months [in prison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's """"""""Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"""""""", Hume's """"""""History of England"""""""", and many other standard works- amongst others, Mosheims """"""""Ecclesiastical History"""""""". The reading of that book would have made me a freethinker if I had not been one before.'"""
"""During these twelve months [inprison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Hume's """"""""History of England"""""""", and many other standard works- amongst others, Mosheims """"""""Ecclesiastical History"""""""". The reading of that book would have made me a freethinker if I had not been one before.'"""
"""During these twelve months [in prison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's """"""""Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"""""""", Hume's """"""""History of England"""""""", and many other standard works- amongst others, Mosheims """"""""Ecclesiastical History"""""""". The reading of that book would have made me a free thinker if I had not been one before."""
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"""Tea between 9 and 10. I read aloud a little of 'The Pleasures of Hope'. Mrs Barlow [friend and lover] sat hemming one end of tablecloth and we were very cosy and comfortable.'"""
"""... at the end of my fourth year I drew a small weekly salary one half of which my father allowed me for my own use... I bought books, and read as much as possible, and reflected upon what I read while engaged in my daily avocations.'"""
"""[Smith joins a reading group of seven with a view to self-improvement] 'We got a good room, with such attendance as we required, at the sum above named; and thus, for sixpence a week each, with an additional three-halfpence in winter time for firing, we had an imperfect, it is true, but still an efficient means of improvement at our command. Here we met nearly three hundred nights in the year, and talked, read, disputed and wrote """"""""de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis"""""""" until the clock struck eleven.'"""
"""[T]he few men who are about me are all eager to get yr books but what has vexd me is that the 2 children & 4 young Women to whom I endeavoured to read them did not chuse to attend'."""
"""pray have you read Medwin's Book--the part respecting me gives me much pain--this is strange--why need I care--I do however [...]'"""
"""The Royal Mandate deserves to be printed in letters of gold - how sweetly descriptive it is, the help to private devotion too, I think very spiritual, for a small work. I have not met with any thing equal [underlined] to it.'"""
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"""Lookd into the two vols of Sermons from Lord R. the texts are well selected and the sermons are plainly and sensibly written they are in my mind much superior to Blairs popular sermons'"""
"""From 8.30 to 9.10 walked on the terrace, occasionally reading Young's Night Thoughts. Coffee at 9.10."""
"""Walked forward to Lightcliffe. Mrs W. Priestley + Miss Hodgson at dinner... would call again in 1/2 hour. Did so, after loitering that time, reading the gravestones in the churchyard."""
"""I was very much obliged by the Scotsman you sent me to Foley Place, and the criticism of Meister contained in it - shallow and narrow enough it is true, but favourable and on the whole the best it has yet received.'"""
"""this morning a play bill was thrown into my house with this pompous blunder on the face of it [...]."""
"""have been in the shop steadily this day (which has been cold and blowing), reading in Hume's History of England- the Norman Conquest."""
"""Recievd the """"""""London Magazine"""""""" by my friend Henderson who bought if from town with him a very dull no [.] [...] the article on Byron carrys ignorance in the face of it [.]'"""
"""all I have read today is Moores Almanack for the account of the weather which speaks of rain tho it is very hot."""
"""Read """"""""Solomons Song"""""""" and beautiful as some of the images of that poem are some of them are not recognisable in my judgement above the ridiculous [...] the more I read the scriptures the more I feel astonishment at the sublime images'"""
"""Got a parcel from London """"""""Eltons Brothers"""""""" """"""""Allins Grammar"""""""" gifts of the authors: and Esrkines """"""""internal evidences of religion"""""""" the gift of Lord Radstock [...] a very sensible book this passage struck me which I first opend - """"""""to walk without God in the world is to walk in sin & sin is the way of danger...""""""""'"""
"""I have read Foxes book of Martyrs & finished it today"""
"""Read over the magazine [received from London on Sunday 7 Nov] the review of Lord Byrons conversations is rather entertaining the pretendery letter of James Thompson is a bold lye [letter is actually by Thompson].'"""
"""The rainy morning has kept me at home & I have amused myself heartily sitting under Waltons Sycamore tree hearing him discourse of fish ponds & fishing. What a delightful book it is the best English Pastoral"""
"""read Shakspears """"""""Henry The Fifth"""""""" of which I have always been very fond from almost a boy I first met with it in an odd vol which I got for 6d [...] I can never lay it down till I see the end of it'"""
"""My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides """"""""Rutledges's Sermons"""""""" and """"""""Black's sermons"""""""" neither of which I have any relish for, and the """"""""Juvenile Library"""""""" which, with the exception of """"""""Jack the Gi[ant] Killer"""""""", [""""""""]Blue Beard"""""""" and the """"""""Wishing cap"""""""" that I read last night, does not appear to be particularly edifying...'"""
"""My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides """"""""Rutledges's Sermons"""""""" and """"""""Black's sermons"""""""" neither of which I have any relish for, and the """"""""Juvenile Library"""""""" which, with the exception of """"""""Jack the Gi[ant] Killer"""""""", [""""""""]Blue Beard"""""""" and the """"""""Wishing cap"""""""" that I read last night, does not appear to be particularly edifying...'"""
"""My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides """"""""Rutledges's Sermons"""""""" and """"""""Black's sermons"""""""" neither of which I have any relish for, and the """"""""Juvenile Library"""""""" which, with the exception of """"""""Jack the Gi[ant] Killer"""""""", [""""""""]Blue Beard"""""""" and the """"""""Wishing cap"""""""" that I read last night, does not appear to be particularly edifying...'"""
"""Colonel R. told me that the European government had discoverd an ingenious mode of diminishing the number of burnings of widows...This is the reverse of our system of increasing game by shooting the old cock-birds.  It is a system would aid Malthus rarely.' (Footnote: Scott sent to Lockhart on 17 February a short article on the burnings for publication in the Representative)."""
"""""""""""Read in Robinson's 'Scripture characters' and in 'The wonders of the vegetable kingdom', which is a very instructive, amusing and well-written volume.'"""
"""""""""""Read in Robinson's 'Scripture characters' and in 'The wonders of the vegetable kingdom', which is a very instructive, amusing and well-written volume.'"""
"""Saw a reciept to mend broken china in the """"""""Stamford Mercury"""""""" [...] news papers have been famous for hyperbole and the """"""""Stamford Mercury"""""""" has long been one at the head of the list of extravagance - in an article relating an accident at Drury Lane Theatre is the following'"""
"""A salmon near ['near' in italics] 20 lbs weight ...' 'Stamford Mercury'"""
"""I did not think very highly of last Maga This appears more spirited the former part of the NOCTES is very good my part abominable'."""
"""Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps """"""""mightily"""""""" weary now & then, but on the whole amused - There is a interesting History of the Tower of London lately published, which read when you can, for its historical anecdotes - and also (if you like Tours) read John Russel's Tour in Germany in 1820, 21, 22.'"""
"""Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps """"""""mightily"""""""" weary now & then, but on the whole amused - There is a interesting History of the Tower of London lately published, which read when you can, for its historical anecdotes - and also (if you like Tours) read John Russel's Tour in Germany in 1820, 21, 22.'"""
"""Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps """"""""mightily"""""""" weary now & then, but on the whole amused - There is a interesting History of the Tower of London lately published, which read when you can, for its historical anecdotes - and also (if you like Tours) read John Russel's Tour in Germany in 1820, 21, 22.'"""
"""Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps """"""""mightily"""""""" weary now & then, but on the whole amused - There is a interesting History of the Tower of London lately published, which read when you can, for its historical anecdotes - and also (if you like Tours) read John Russell's Tour in Germany in 1820, 21, 22.'"""
"""What paltry stuff the Memoirs of poor vain Genlis are!'"""
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"""Monday [...] Dec. 12th. [...] read some of Schiller's riddles'."""
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"""There is a Spaniard here (one of the refugees) who from Catholic has become Protestant, a very honest shrewd little fellow, between whom and Irving I have had occasion frequently of late to officiate as interpreter (the Sp[an]iard speaking only French). I have bethought me of turning his skill [to] account; I have bought a Spanish grammar, and begun yesterday to take lessons from him in his language, which I may repay by giving him lessons in mine.'"""
"""Wednesday Dec. [...] 14th. [...] Read [...] Milton's Paradise Lost.'"""
"""Recieved the April and May ma[ga]zine from London with a letter from Hessey and one from Vandyke [...] the magazine is very dull.'"""
"""I have been reading over Mrs Barbaulds """"""""Lessons for Childern"""""""" to my eldest child who is continually tearing me to read them I find by this that they are particularly suited to the tastes of childern as she is never desirous of hearing anything read a second time but them'"""
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"""Extracts from the """"""""Stamford Mercury""""""""' [copies two stories]"""
"""I have had a letter from Mrs Montague and, (which is still more extraordinary) I have answered it. What on earth did you say, to make her so good to me?  She could not have written more frankly and affectionately if I had been her own child.  I have never met with any thing like this from Woman before- I purpose loving Mrs Montague all my life; if I find her always the same as she has introduced herself to me.'"""
"""I have read nothing, but half of one German novel, last sunday! Not long ago, all this would have made me miserable; but at present I submit to it with equanimity, and even find enjoyment in the thought that in this humblest of spheres of existence I am doing all I can do save my spirit and my fortunes from the shipwreck which threatened then, and to fit me for discharging to myself and others whatever duties my natural or accidental capabilities, slender but actually existing as they are, point out and impose upon me.'"""
"""It is many a weary year since I have been so idle or so happy. I have not done two sheets of Werter yet; I read Richter and Jacobi, I ride, and hoe cabbages, and like Basil Montague, am """"""""a lover of all quiet things""""""""'."""
""" Reading from pp 22 to 32, II, Nouvelle Heloise.'"""
"""[Letter to Maria Barlow, dated Tuesday Morning, 16 August 1825] ...It is as I have just read from the pen of Madme Cottin """"""""La musique, comme un seductor adroit, va toucher ce qu'ill y a deplus tendre dans le couer, reveile toutes les idees sensibles, et dispose au regret du bonheur et meme a' Celui de la peine."""""""" ... My leisure is passed in rummaging all over the French Novels the miserable public library here affords! I have just finishedAmelie Mansfield. My Aunt fancies I read for the sake of keeping up my French. I seem to be reading the language you are probably speaking."""
"""Well!  Dearest you have criticised my letter - it is now my turn to criticise yours.  Be patient, then, and good-tempered, I beg; for you shall find me a severer critic than the Opiumeater-'"""
"""Recieved a letter & present of books from Lord Radstock containing Hannah Moores """"""""Spirit of Prayer"""""""" - Bp Wilsons """"""""Maxims"""""""", Burnets """"""""Life of God in the Soul of Man"""""""" - """"""""A New Manual of Prayer"""""""" and Watsons """"""""Answer to Paine"""""""" - a quiet unaffected defence of the Bible [...] I have not read Tom Paine but I have always [...] a low blackguard'"""
"""At a meeting of florists held at the Old Kings Head at Newark last week prizes were adjudged as follows' [quotes results published in 'Stamford Mercury']"""
"""Thursday Nov. [...] 17th. [...] Read after dinner Rosamond to the children.'"""
"""Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends all her time reading, though she insists that she read very little (""""""""only... Gil Blas, now and then a newspaper, two or three of Lady M. W. Montagu's letters, and <i>few</i> pages in a magazine'), and only because her hosts rose so late. Since her literacy is important as a sign of status, she repeatedly presents herself not as a reader of low status texts like novels but of travels, education works, memoirs and letters, including Boswell's """"""""Tour of the Hebrides"""""""", the Travels of Mungo Park, and Mme de Genlis' work. She approves some novels, like Hamilton's """"""""The Cottagers of Glenburnie"""""""", but generally finds them a """"""""dangerous, facinating kind of amusement"""""""" which """"""""destroy all relish for useful, instructive studies'."""
"""Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends all her time reading, though she insists that she read very little (""""""""only... Gil Blas, now and then a newspaper, two or three of Lady M. W. Montagu's letters, and <i>few</i> pages in a magazine'), and only because her hosts rose so late. Since her literacy is important as a sign of status, she repeatedly presents herself not as a reader of low status texts like novels but of travels, education works, memoirs and letters, including Boswell's """"""""Tour of the Hebrides"""""""", the Travels of Mungo Park, and Mme de Genlis' work. She approves some novels, like Hamilton's """"""""The Cottagers of Glenburnie"""""""", but generally finds them a """"""""dangerous, facinating kind of amusement"""""""" which """"""""destroy all relish for useful, instructive studies'."""
"""Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends all her time reading, though she insists that she read very little (""""""""only... Gil Blas, now and then a newspaper, two or three of Lady M. W. Montagu's letters, and <i>few</i> pages in a magazine'), and only because her hosts rose so late. Since her literacy is important as a sign of status, she repeatedly presents herself not as a reader of low status texts like novels but of travels, education works, memoirs and letters, including Boswell's """"""""Tour of the Hebrides"""""""", the Travels of Mungo Park, and Mme de Genlis' work. She approves some novels, like Hamilton's """"""""The Cottagers of Glenburnie"""""""", but generally finds them a """"""""dangerous, facinating kind of amusement"""""""" which """"""""destroy all relish for useful, instructive studies'."""
"""Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends all her time reading, though she insists that she read very little (""""""""only... Gil Blas, now and then a newspaper, two or three of Lady M. W. Montagu's letters, and <i>few</i> pages in a magazine'), and only because her hosts rose so late. Since her literacy is important as a sign of status, she repeatedly presents herself not as a reader of low status texts like novels but of travels, education works, memoirs and letters, including Boswell's """"""""Tour of the Hebrides"""""""", the Travels of Mungo Park, and Mme de Genlis' work. She approves some novels, like Hamilton's """"""""The Cottagers of Glenburnie"""""""", but generally finds them a """"""""dangerous, facinating kind of amusement"""""""" which """"""""destroy all relish for useful, instructive studies'."""
"""Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends all her time reading, though she insists that she read very little (""""""""only... Gil Blas, now and then a newspaper, two or three of Lady M. W. Montagu's letters, and <i>few</i> pages in a magazine'), and only because her hosts rose so late. Since her literacy is important as a sign of status, she repeatedly presents herself not as a reader of low status texts like novels but of travels, education works, memoirs and letters, including Boswell's """"""""Tour of the Hebrides"""""""", the Travels of Mungo Park, and Mme de Genlis' work. She approves some novels, like Hamilton's """"""""The Cottagers of Glenburnie"""""""", but generally finds them a """"""""dangerous, facinating kind of amusement"""""""" which """"""""destroy all relish for useful, instructive studies'."""
"""Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends all her time reading, though she insists that she read very little (""""""""only... Gil Blas, now and then a newspaper, two or three of Lady M. W. Montagu's letters, and <i>few</i> pages in a magazine'), and only because her hosts rose so late. Since her literacy is important as a sign of status, she repeatedly presents herself not as a reader of low status texts like novels but of travels, education works, memoirs and letters, including Boswell's """"""""Tour of the Hebrides"""""""", the Travels of Mungo Park, and Mme de Genlis' work. She approves some novels, like Hamilton's """"""""The Cottagers of Glenburnie"""""""", but generally finds them a """"""""dangerous, facinating kind of amusement"""""""" which """"""""destroy all relish for useful, instructive studies'."""
"""Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends all her time reading, though she insists that she read very little (""""""""only... Gil Blas, now and then a newspaper, two or three of Lady M. W. Montagu's letters, and <i>few</i> pages in a magazine'), and only because her hosts rose so late. Since her literacy is important as a sign of status, she repeatedly presents herself not as a reader of low status texts like novels but of travels, education works, memoirs and letters, including Boswell's """"""""Tour of the Hebrides"""""""", the Travels of Mungo Park, and Mme de Genlis' work. She approves some novels, like Hamilton's """"""""The Cottagers of Glenburnie"""""""", but generally finds them a """"""""dangerous, facinating kind of amusement"""""""" which """"""""destroy all relish for useful, instructive studies'."""
"""Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends all her time reading, though she insists that she read very little (""""""""only... Gil Blas, now and then a newspaper, two or three of Lady M. W. Montagu's letters, and <i>few</i> pages in a magazine'), and only because her hosts rose so late. Since her literacy is important as a sign of status, she repeatedly presents herself not as a reader of low status texts like novels but of travels, education works, memoirs and letters, including Boswell's """"""""Tour of the Hebrides"""""""", the Travels of Mungo Park, and Mme de Genlis' work. She approves some novels, like Hamilton's """"""""The Cottagers of Glenburnie"""""""", but generally finds them a """"""""dangerous, facinating kind of amusement"""""""" which """"""""destroy all relish for useful, instructive studies'."""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia at the beginning of Plato's Gorgias]: """"""""This was my favourite dialogue at College.  I do not know whether I shall like it as well now.  May 1, 1837."""""""""""
"""Friday August [...] 19th. [...] Read Le Distrait by Regnier [sic].'"""
"""Recieved a news paper from Montgomery in which my poem of the """"""""Vanitys of Life"""""""" was inserted with an ingenius and flattering compliment past upon it'"""
"""Mr Donaldson has seen my will too with your name written in it in great letters.  No matter!  why should I be ashamed of shewing an affection which I am not ashamed to feel- But we will talk over all these things when we meet- It will take all your indulgence to excuse this breathless letter- God bless you my darling.'"""
"""I had two sheets from Mrs Montagu the other day trying to prove to me that I knew nothing at all of my own heart (Mercy how romantic she is[.)] write presently to Templand."""
"""""""""""The Lingfield and Crowhurst Choir sung several select pieces from Handel in the cavity of a yew tree [continues for whole of report]"""""""" """"""""Stamford Mercury""""""""'"""
"""Read a portion of Harvey's Theron and Aspasio...'"""
"""Read one of Bradley's Sermons and some pieces in The Sacred Lyre.'"""
"""Read one of Bradley's Sermons and some pieces in The Sacred Lyre.'"""
"""He has infinite wit and a great turn for antiquarian lore as the publications of Kirkton etc. bear witness.'"""
"""Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42mo. Price 5/-, 5th edition."""
"""At 12 Marianna and I went upstairs. She sat sewing and I reading aloud to her the first 3 or 4 pages of the M.S. Lectures on physiology Dr Scudamore lent me 10 days ago. The writing so bad we could not get on very fast. Both of us uninterested.'"""
"""Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42 mo. Price 5/-, 5th edition"""
"""Had a double Polanthus & single white Hepatica sent me from Stamford round which was rapped a curious prospectus of an """"""""Every day book"""""""" by W. Hone. If such a thing was well got up it woud make one of the finest things ever published [...] there is a fine quotation from Herrick for a motto how delightful is the freshness of these old poets it is meeting with green spots in deserts'"""
"""[quotes from 4 separate stories] 'Stamford Mercury' '""""""""A black birds nest with four young ones was found a few days ago in Yorkshire"""""""" - """"""""Stamford Mercury""""""""'"""
"""News paper odditys [quotes article on salt mine in Poland] """"""""Stamford Mercury""""""""'"""
"""Saturday October [...] 22nd. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny. Read the lives of the Saints.' """
"""Saturday October [...] 22nd. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny. Read the lives of the Saints.' """
"""Saw in the Stamford paper that the lost leaf of """"""""Dooms day book"""""""" was found and had no time to copy out the account'"""
"""News paper wonders - """"""""There is now living at Barton an old lady of the name of Faunt who has nearly attaind the great age of 105 years - she has lately cut new teeth to the great surprise of the family"""""""" """"""""Stamford Mercury""""""""'"""
"""Recieved a parcel from Holbeach with a letter and the Scientific Receptacle from J. Savage - they have inserted my poems and have been lavish with branding every corner with """"""""J. Clares"""""""" how absurd are the serious meant images or attempts at fine writing in these young writers'"""
"""More wonders from the """"""""Mercury"""""""" """"""""A clergyman of the established church name Benson now attracts larger congregations [...] then the celebrated Mr Irving [.] 211 stage coaches pass weekly through Daventry Northamptonshire"""""""" """"""""Stamford Mercury""""""""'"""
"""Sunday October [...] 23rd. [...] Read Tarlton with Johnny.'"""
""" Could not resist unpacking my books from Paris...About ten [servant] came and curled my hair. Stood musing. Peeped into some of my books. Vol.I Nouvelle Heloise.'"""
"""The catholics have lost their bill once more [they] shoud when one beholds the following sacred humbugs [...] From """"""""Nugents Travels"""""""" [1768][Clare quotes list of relics quoted from Nugents by Stamford Mercury]'"""
"""Monday October [...] 24th. [...] Read Barring out with Johnny in the Evening'."""
"""I have looked over the articles Hogg v. Campbell and Noctes and am not only not angry but highly satisfied and pleased with both. I had forgot to mention to you that I was afraid terrified for high praise in Maga because our connection considered it would have been taken for puffing a thing of all things that I detest and one I think has ought but a good effect a bitter good humoured thing like this was just what I wanted'."""
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"""""""""""A hive of bees natives of New South Wales [...] The bees are very small and have no sting but their honey is peculiarly fine"""""""" """"""""Stamford Mercury""""""""'"""
"""Read Jeffrey's neat and well intended address to the Mechanics upon their combinations.'"""
"""Never was there such a representative of Wall in Pyramus and Thisbe.'"""
"""Just as this is written enter my Lord of St Albans and Lady Charlotte to beg I recommend a book of sermons to Mrs. Coutts - much obliged for her good opinion - recommended Logan's - One poet should always speak for another - '"""
"""Which resolutions with health and my habits of indutry will make me 'Sleep in spite of thunder'."""
"""She sulked for four and twenty hours, and then wrote me a long epistle; wherein she demonstrated (not by geometrical reasonings) that I was utterly lost to all sense of duty; and towards you.  """"""""She had, indeed, given her consent to our union"""""""" (she said) """"""""when you should have made yourself a name and a situation in life [entire phrase underscored twice]; but only because I asked it, with tears, upon my bended knees, at a time, too, when my life seemed precarious!!""""""""'"""
"""I have had an answer from Mrs Montagu full of rhetoric, and kindness; but no matter for the rhetoric!  She is good to me; and charity covereth a multitude of sins- She says """"""""Mr Carlyle ought not to have stept in between you and your kind intention; nay more, he ought himself to have seen my boy""""""""-'"""
"""Yesterday I had a letter from Murray in answer to one I had written in something of a determined stile for I had no idea of permitting him to start from the course after my son giving up his situation and profession merely because a contributor or two chose to suppose gratuitously that Lockhart was too imprudent for the situation.  My physic has wrought well for it brought a letter from Murray saying all was right (Footnote: Scott enclosed Murray's letter in one written to Lockhart the previous day.  Murray writes that 'There is nothing to apprehend'), that D'Israeli was sent to me not to Lockhart, and that I was only invited to write two confidential letters, and other incoherencies which intimate his fright has got into another quarter. It is interlined and franked by Barrow (Footnote: That interlineation reads 'No one has any ill will against Mr Lockhart!!!') which shows that all is well and that John's induction in to his office will be easy and pleasant.'"""
"""Monday September [...] 26th. [...] Read the story of the Basket Woman to Johnny.'"""
"""Recieved the 28 No of the """"""""Everyday book"""""""" in which is inserted a poem of mine'"""
"""I have been reading a sweet work lately, and earnestly recommend it to you my dear, pray let me have your opinion when you have read it. """"""""Looking into Jesus"""""""" is the title, written by Isaac Ambrose [sic] The original was a large book, the one I speak of is about the size of a New Testament having been abridged by Rev Robert Cox-Hackney to render it a more saleable work.'"""
"""I don't know what I have done to gain so much credit for generosity but I suspect I owe it to being supposed, as Puff says, one of """"""""those whom Heaven has blessed with afluence.""""""""'"""
"""My dear Carlyle, I received your letter with the inclosed addressed to Mr Burns, which I had the pleasure of delivering to him about three weeks ago. I reached Edinburgh about mid-day; took the coach at three o'clock, and arrived in Haddington about seven."""
"""On turning to my book, I find I have journalised only one day, during this summer vis [sic] July 29, when I walked after tea with Mrs Cole a new walk down Penny-black Lane, across Chapman's Common, & into the Scalby Road - a short way into the Whitby Road, & returned over the fields by the bleach yard on the Whitby Road - a delightful rural walk. Read in Dibdin's Decameron - Delany's Life of King David, & Gay's Choir.'"""
"""Friday July [...] 29th. [...] Read Travels in Germany.'"""
"""The following advertisement is from the """"""""Observer"""""""" of Sunday May 22 1825. """"""""Just published the speech of his Royal Highness the Duke of York in the house of Lords the 25 April 1825 Printed by J Whittaker [...] in letters of gold [...] 10s/6 sold by Septimus Prowett 23 Old Bond Street Well done Septimus Prowet""""""""'"""
"""A letter from Southey, malcontent about Murray having accomplished the change in the Quarterly without speaking to him and quoting the twaddle of some old woman, male or female, about Lockhart's earlier jeux d'espirt but concluding most kindly that in regard to my daughter and me he did not mean to withdraw.  That he has done the yeoman's service to the Review is certain - and his genius, his universal reading, his powers of regular industry and at the outset a name which though less generally popular than it deserves is still to respectable to be withdrawn without injury."""
"""If it had not been for Dugald Gilchrist who reads any thing (or nothing) and wears spectacles besides, I should undoubtedly have curled my hair with your Examiner, without discovering that it contained such interesting news.'"""
"""My dear Alick, No piece of news that I have heard for a long time has given me more satisfaction than the intelligence contained in your letter of yesterday.  For several weeks I had lived in a total dearth of tidings from you; and both on account of your welfare, and of our mutual projects in the farming line, I had begun to get into the fidgets, and was ready to hasten homewards with many unpleasant imaginations to damp the expected joy of again beholding friends so dear to me.'"""
"""Yesterday Badams wrote me (from admist the 'wild beasts of Ephesus,' as he calls the new Mining Companies, with whom he is in constant treaty about some important smelting schemes): he wishes me to stay till his return, but if I cannot, he entreats me to take Taffy (a little fiery corn-fed indefatigable Welsh Pony of his, on which I ride) with all its furniture, for the love of him.'"""
"""He has written to me twice since his departure; he insists that I shall take a little pony of his with all its furniture; ride home on it thro' the Peak country in Derbyshire, and keep the steed in remembrance of him.'"""
"""Recieved a letter from Mrs Emmerson and a """"""""Literary Gazette"""""""" from somebody in which is a review of an unsuccesful attempt to reach Repulse Bay [...] by Captain Lyon from which the following curious incident is extracted'"""
"""My own Jane!- You are a noble girl; and your true and generous heart shall not lie oppressed anotehr instant under any weight that I can tkae from it... This letter is, I think, the best you ever sent me; there is more of the true woman, of the essence of my Jane's honourable nature in it, than I ever saw before.  Such calm quiet good-sense, and such confiding simple true affection!  I were myself a pitiable man, if it did not move me.'"""
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"""I am come to the time when those who look out at the windows shall be darkend.'"""
"""Seams will slit and elbows will out quoth the tailor -  and as I was fifty four on 15 August last my mortal vestments are none of the newest.'"""
"""Now hating to deal with ladies when they are in an unreasonable humour I have got the goodhumoured Man of Feeling to find out the lady's mind and I take on myself the task of making her peace with Lord M-' (Footnote: Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831) author of Man of Feeling)."""
"""Sunday October [...] 30th. [...] Read Paul & Virginia.'"""
"""Friday September [...] 30th. [...] After dinner read to Johnny the story of Tarlton.'"""
"""a newspaper lye of the first order - """"""""Mr Gale of Holt in the parish of Bradford Witts has at present a Pear of the jagonel kind in his possession which was taken [...] 49 years ago and is now as sound as the first moment it was gathered[...]"""""""" - it must have been a wooden one'"""
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"""we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Gospels, and Acts of the Apostles in a class every day, using Mrs Trimmer's """"""""Selections""""""""; and on Sundays we repeated the Collect and learned Watts's hymns, besides going through the Church Catechism. We also had Crossman's Catechism given us as an explanation of the Church Catechism'"""
"""we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Gospels, and Acts of the Apostles in a class every day, using Mrs Trimmer's """"""""Selections""""""""; and on Sundays we repeated the Collect and learned Watts's hymns, besides going through the Church Catechism. We also had Crossman's Catechism given us as an explanation of the Church Catechism'"""
"""we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Gospels, and Acts of the Apostles in a class every day, using Mrs Trimmer's """"""""Selections""""""""; and on Sundays we repeated the Collect and learned Watts's hymns, besides going through the Church Catechism. We also had Crossman's Catechism given us as an explanation of the Church Catechism'"""
"""we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Gospels, and Acts of the Apostles in a class every day, using Mrs Trimmer's """"""""Selections""""""""; and on Sundays we repeated the Collect and learned Watts's hymns, besides going through the Church Catechism. We also had Crossman's Catechism given us as an explanation of the Church Catechism'"""
"""I rose with a heavy heart on the Sunday morning, and read mechanically a chapter in the little Bible in which my mother had blotted my name upon the title page: but my thoughts were far away, and I knew not what I had read.'"""
"""Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for a franc, and a pocket dictionnary for another. A fellow lodger lent me a Testament and a Telemaque; and to these materials I applied dogedly from six in the morning til dinnertime. I read the Grammar through first, and then made an abridgement of it on a small pack of plain cards... By these means ... I made rapid progress.'"""
"""Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for a franc, and a pocket dictionary for another. A fellow lodger lent me a Testament and a Telemaque; and to these materials I applied dogedly from six in the morning til dinnertime. I read the Grammar through first, and then made an abridgement of it on a small pack of plain cards... By these means ... I made rapid progress.'"""
"""Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for a franc, and a pocket dictionary for another. A fellow lodger lent me a Testament and a Telemaque; and to these materials I applied dogedly from six in the morning til dinnertime. I read the Grammar through first, and then made an abridgement of it on a small pack of plain cards... By these means ... I made rapid progress.'"""
"""One day, [after] an hour's study, I managed to get all the meaning of an advertisement in the Moniteur...'"""
"""""""""""Hajji Baba"""""""" was more read than any other of [James Morier's] works. Sir Walter Scott was especially pleased with it, and remarked that """"""""Hajji Baba"""""""" might be termed the Oriental """"""""Gil Blas.""""""""'"""
"""In the course of a fortnight I could manage, with the help of a dictionary, to read the advertisements in the French newspapers, which I now began to peruse, not without a hope of finding employment of some other kind, in case the printing should fail.'"""
"""PS Since I finished this, I have got Alick's letter, and the Courier all in order!  Thank Alick and my dear Father for the pleasure and contentment they have given me: had I got their letter a day sooner, this sheet had not been yours.'"""
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"""In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's """"""""Essays on the Human Mind"""""""", together with a part of Dr. Reid's on the same subject. I also read Mr. Cary's translation of Dante and Mr. Jowell's 'Christian Researches'.'"""
"""In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's """"""""Essays on the Human Mind"""""""", together with a part of Dr. Reid's on the same subject. I also read Mr. Cary's translation of Dante and Mr. Jowell's """"""""Christian Researches"""""""".'"""
"""In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's """"""""Essays on the Human Mind"""""""", together with a part of Dr. Reid's on the same subject. I also read Mr. Cary's translation of Dante and Mr. Jowell's """"""""Christian Researches"""""""".'"""
"""In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's """"""""Essays on the Human Mind"""""""", together with a part of Dr. Reid's on the same subject. I also read Mr. Cary's translation of Dante and Mr. Jowell's """"""""Christian Researches"""""""".'"""
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"""Have you read Mathilda? If you have, you will not tell me what you think of it, you are as cautious as Wishaw. I mentioned to Lord Normanby, that it was the book selected as a victim for the next No of the Edinburgh Review, and that my brethren had complimented me with the Knife?Lady Normanby gave a loud shriek.'"""
"""Read Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron this summer, & Davis's Second Tour round a Bibliomaniac's Library.' """
"""Read a continuation of a good paper in the London on """"""""A Poor Students Struggles thro Cambridge"""""""" [""""""""The Struggles of a Senior Wrangler""""""""] the rest are moderates among the middlings'"""
"""Wednesday [...] October 5th. [...] Read the Edinburgh Review.'  """
"""How kind, how simple, true and good!  Beautifully welcome, in my sombre vacancy here! (Dumfries, Septr, 1868) This Letter to my Mother (dear kind Letter!) I must have brot [sic] with me from Templand.  Legible without commentary,- or with almost none.  The Nithsdale Visit is ab[ou]t terminating; and dull distant Haddington, with an uncertain future, lies ahead.'"""
"""Found on the table at the inn ( in no.9, a very nice small parlour with a lodging openinginto it), among several other books, Rhodes Peak Scenery, in 4, I think, thin 4 to vols, with plates. Read there the account of Bakewell Church, Haddon Hall etc.'"""
"""A rare thing this literature or love of fame or notoriety which accompanies it.  Here is Mr H.M. [Henry Mackenzie] on the very brink of human dissolution as actively anxious about it as if the curtain must not soon be closed on that and every thing else...No man is less known from his writings. """
"""Recieved a parcel from Hessey with the """"""""Magazine"""""""" & a leaf of the new poems also a present of Miss Kents """"""""Sylvan Sketches"""""""" she seems to be a thorough bookmaker'"""
"""Parish officers are modern savages as the following fact will testifye - Crowland Abbey """"""""Certain surveyors have lately dug up several foundation stones of the Abby [...] for the purpose of repairing the parish roads!!"""""""" """"""""Stamford Mercury""""""""'"""
"""I have been engaged by Spurzheims new Edition of his Phrenology: he does not write English Accurately & even where I understand, I cannot always agree & that in Assertions which do not immediately relate to the Science to which I lean sceptically.'"""
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""" Came up to bed at 9.50. Read from pp55 to 65 Vol.I Rousseau's Confessions.'"""
""" Tea at 8. Read aloud to my aunt the first 31pp of Moore's Buxton and Castleton Guide.'"""
"""Recieved another parcel from Hessey [...] a present of """"""""Aytons Essays"""""""" a young writer of great promise which was killed in the bud these essays are excelent and contain a deal More of the Human Heart than an affectedly written book with that title'"""
"""Talking of Vixisse it may not be impertinent to notice that Knox (Footnote: William Knox), a young poet of considerable talent, died here a week or two since...His poetical talent - a very fine one - then shewd itself in a fine strain of pensive poetry calld I think the Lonely Hearth, far superior to those of Michael Bruce, whose consumption by the way has been the life of his verses.'"""
"""Talking of Vixisse it may not be impertinent to notice that Knox, a young poet of considerable talent, died here a week or two since...His poetical talent - a very fine one - then shewd itself in a fine strain of pensive poetry calld I think the Lonely Hearth, far superior to those of Michael Bruce (Footnote: Scott probably had in his mind his 'Elegy - Written in Spring'), whose consumption by the way has been the life of his verses.'"""
"""His last works were Spiritual hymns and which he wrote very well.  In his own line of Society he was said to exhibit infinite humour but all his works are grave and pensive a stile, perhaps like Master Stephen's melancholy affected for the nonce (Footnote: an allusion to Ben Jonson's Everyman in his Humour).'"""
"""A ryhming school master is the greatest bore in literature the following ridiculous advertisement proves the assertion taken from the """"""""Stamford Mercury"""""""" [quotes advert]'"""
""" Tea at 8. Then read aloud to my aunt the first 74pp Vol I, """"""""Sayings and Doings'.""""""""Excellent. Dont know when I have laughed so much or so heartily. We both laughed. Came up to bed at 9.35.'"""
""" At 2.30 went out to the library [..]Subscribed for a month [...] Came up to bed at 9.35. Sat up reading the first 79pp and several pages at the end of Amelie Mansfield. The story interesting. How poor the language after that of Rousseau.'"""
"""lent Miss Fanny Knowlton Bloomfields """"""""Hazlewood Hall & Remains"""""""" & Aytons """"""""Essays"""""""" - Got a look at Gilleads of Spaldings """"""""Alworth Abbey"""""""" & I neve[r] saw such a heap of unnatural absurditys & ridiculous attempts at wit & satire strung together in my reading existance'"""
"""The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebrated Harriet Wilson.'"""
"""Newspaper Miracles Wonders Curiositys etc under these heads I shall insert anything I can find worth reading and laughing at' [quotes 2 stories from the 'Stamford Mercury']"""
"""These drawings were placed on the hands of Mr C J Smith, with whom I had become acquainted through an advertisement.'"""
"""There is one of the best satirical pieces in the last Examiner (alias Tom Tit) on the King's speech which I almost ever read on any subject,it is a real cutter.'"""
"""I remember that I had to learn, with another schoolfellow (Nesbet), an act from Home's tragedy of Douglas, and a long passage from Campbell's Poems, entitled """"""""The Wizard's Warning"""""""", and recite, or rather act the passages with as much eloquence and action as we could muster.'"""
"""I remember that I had to learn, with another schoolfellow (Nesbet), an act from Home's tragedy of Douglas, and a long passage from Campbell's Poems, entitled """"""""The Wizard's Warning"""""""", and recite, or rather act the passages with as much eloquence and action as we could muster.'"""
"""Wednesday [...] January 11th. ...] read Ritter Gluck by Hoffman with Mr. Gambs.'"""
"""Thursday [...] January 12th. [...] read Hoffman (Kreussleriana [sic]) untill bed-time.'"""
"""I see by the Times this morning there is a project for two prices, paper & cash, viz paper one fourth of gold, it appears to be a wild scheme, however I cannot understand it. Cobbett has often said...'"""
"""Recd a parcel from William... [Cobbett] seems to bear it admirably for he says it was a triumph...'"""
"""Recd a parcel from William last night. I was at the time reading Boswell's Life of Johnson, but it was immediately laid down, for the entertainment I anticipated, from hearing how Cobbett stood...'"""
"""I have only read the first article of Maga which is a glorious confusion a miscellany of itself the other long articles I dont like'."""
"""Recd a parcel from WM last night, containing new cravats. Cobbett is most fierce on Mr Hume, but what good will he do? For my part I am sorry to see the mighty fallen so low...'"""
"""I see by the Times this morning that a young man of the name of Dunn from Hull has been robbing his employers Sewell & Co... May this be a warning to all young men... [aimed at his son, the reader of the diary]'"""
"""Also read again and for the third time at least Miss Austen's very finely written novel of """"""""Pride and Prejudice"""""""".  That young lady had a talent for describing the involvement and feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with.  The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going, but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment is denied to me.  What a pity such a gifted creature died so early!'"""
"""Recd two Papers this morning, and was like the Ass between the bundles of Hay, not knowing which to begin to read first, however I even thought it was as well to begin in order so I read the oldest first.'"""
"""Pray read Agar Ellis's ' Iron Mask;' not so much for that question [that of old age], though it is not devoid of curiosity, as to remark the horrible atrocities perpetrated under absolute monarchies; and to justify and extol Lord Grey, and, at the humblest distance, Sydney Smith and other men, who, according to their station in life and the different talents given them, have defended liberty.'"""
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"""two papers this morning, the one that missed yesterday came today [...] I see there is a great deficiency in the Quarter's Revenue - were an individual to go in the manner the government does he would soon be in a state of insolvency [...] but a change certainly must take place'."""
"""I saw a piece in the times headed 'Poor old Cobbett' where it seems to be insinuated that he has not spent all the money which he has given an acccount of, I suppose he will be in a short time falling foul of the """"""""Bloody old Times"""""""".'"""
"""Dearest - I found not only a load of Books on Saturday, but eight proof sheets besides; the consideration and alteration of which, attended with other sorry enough drawbacks, has kept me occupied to the present hour.  Henceforth nothing but fireman haste awaits me, for week after week!  My spare hours filled with critical meditations, and ever and anon the thought of this solemn treaty intervening!'"""
"""The Times called Cobbett a """"""""comical miscreant"""""""", and the """"""""vagabond"""""""" in an article on the """"""""Poor Man's Friend"""""""", it appears there is another poor Man's friend published by H Stemman... the object of the Article is to reccomend [sic] the latter, and condemn Cobbett's work, but the Vagabond will not mind much what is said by Anna Brodie...'"""
"""I have read all the Rural Rides of Cobbett he is very excellent at description, he has just opened on the Greek Patriots. I expect he will give them no quarter...'"""
"""I have read most of Moore's Life of Sheridan, I see Mr Canning first came into notice in 1794...'"""
"""There is a paragraph in the Times this morning on the subject of large farms, which is much to the purpose...'"""
"""Reading astromomy at even. [ I suspect this is Scott's Guy Mannering, the Astrologer]"""
"""Our mother started with joy at the sight of 'great fall in Tea' printed in the last newspaper, at the head of an advertisement by, I think, one Melrose in South-Bd street Edinr: if you can get a quarter of a pound [pack?]ed in next time (about 1/6 worth) you may send it.'"""
"""I guessed what was detaining your letter: but I scarcely dared to expect it on Saturday.  It came in company with a quarter of a volume of Proofs, or I should have answered it yesterday.  But the villainous sheets kept me working till midnight; and now I am to be busy beyond all measure for a week or more."""
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"""I have been reading Boswell's Life of Johnson which is very entertaining; I never saw Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides or Western Islands, I suppose it is an amusing Book.'"""
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"""I see by the Times this morning there is likely to be some stir with the supporters of the Bible society, it is no more than I have cooked for; I expect there is good pickings from the simpletons who give away their money...'"""
"""I have lately read a report of the Corn Laws made in 1814 before the house of Commons, one witness says... It came out in evidence that most of the witnesses were land Valuers, appointed by the land Leviathans to value their estates...'"""
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"""The paper which should have been here yesterday arrived today, so that there were two this morning... I see by the Rockingham that the last voyage of the Steam Packets from Hull this season will be on the 11th Nov next...'"""
"""Another thing pleases me, the general approbation of the last """"""""Quarterly Review"""""""", Mr Lockhart's first, I believe, and one in which your cloven foot is visible. It had something to set it off, however; for I think verily the temporary editor of the work during the [italics] interregnum [end italics] must have been bribed into his extreme degree of dullness'. """
"""Another thing pleases me, the general approbation of the last """"""""Quarterly Review"""""""", Mr Lockhart's first, I believe, and one in which your cloven foot is visible. It had something to set it off, however; for I think verily the temporary editor of the work during the [italics] interregnum [end italics] must have been bribed into his extreme degree of dullness'. """
"""I have lately had a long bad cold, such as reduces one to trash and slops, novels and barley water, and amongst the books my friends kindly sent me to while away time was the first volume of one puffed in the newspaper, """"""""The Last Man"""""""", by the authoress of """"""""Frankenstein"""""""". I would not trouble them for any more of it, but really there were sentences in it so far exceeding those Don Quixote ran mad in trying to comprehend, that I could not help copying out a few of them; they would have turned Feliciano de Silva's own brains. [LS then quotes passages beginning """"""""Her eyes were impenetrably deep"""""""" and """"""""The overflowing warmth of her heart""""""""...] Since the wonderful improvement that somebody who shall be nameless, together with Miss Edgeworth and one or two more, have made in novels, I imagined such stuff as this had not ventured to show its head, though I remember plenty of it in the days of my youth. So for old acquaintance-sake I give it welcome. But if the boys and girls begin afresh to take it for sublime and beautiful, it ought to get a rap and be put down'."""
"""I have lately had a long bad cold, such as reduces one to trash and slops, novels and barley water, and amongst the books my friends kindly sent me to while away time was the first volume of one puffed in the newspaper, """"""""The Last Man"""""""", by the authoress of """"""""Frankenstein"""""""". I would not trouble them for any more of it, but really there were sentences in it so far exceeding those Don Quixote ran mad in trying to comprehend, that I could not help copying out a few of them; they would have turned Feliciano de Silva's own brains. [LS then quotes passages beginning """"""""Her eyes were impenetrably deep"""""""" and """"""""The overflowing warmth of her heart""""""""...] Since the wonderful improvement that somebody who shall be nameless, together with Miss Edgeworth and one or two more, have made in novels, I imagined such stuff as this had not ventured to show its head, though I remember plenty of it in the days of my youth. So for old acquaintance-sake I give it welcome. But if the boys and girls begin afresh to take it for sublime and beautiful, it ought to get a rap and be put down'."""
"""Thank you for Herder which came in the nick of time; as I had just heard the last oracle of Nathan, and was ennuying myself with Tasso's Aminta- '"""
"""I have read these leaves of your thesis; and really I find them very far beyond my expectation, which had satisfied itself with ranking your Latin (I now discover) far too little above the usual Grinder Latin.  Some of these sentences are quite good.  The sense too so far as it extends in these few lines is clear and flowing; and I have no doubt, if the rest in any way correspond to it, your Essay will be very far above the average.'"""
"""Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they have found their way into the newspapers. I did not read them with much attention, but saw that in the main they contained better advice than might have been expected from such a father, amongst other subjects, a strong censure passed on [italics] cunning [end italics], and, what was odd enough (addressed to a little boy), instances given in the characters of public men, particularly Sheridan and Tierney. Then followed, in the """"""""Courier"""""""" and """"""""Morning Post"""""""", two or three lines of ::: *** dots, stars, or whatever you call them. By chance seeing another paper, I found the dots held the place of an admonition to take warning by what had happened to Mr C.'"""
"""Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they have found their way into the newspapers. I did not read them with much attention, but saw that in the main they contained better advice than might have been expected from such a father, amongst other subjects, a strong censure passed on [italics] cunning [end italics], and, what was odd enough (addressed to a little boy), instances given in the characters of public men, particularly Sheridan and Tierney. Then followed, in the """"""""Courier"""""""" and """"""""Morning Post"""""""", two or three lines of ::: *** dots, stars, or whatever you call them. By chance seeing another paper, I found the dots held the place of an admonition to take warning by what had happened to Mr C.'"""
"""Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they have found their way into the newspapers. I did not read them with much attention, but saw that in the main they contained better advice than might have been expected from such a father, amongst other subjects, a strong censure passed on [italics] cunning [end italics], and, what was odd enough (addressed to a little boy), instances given in the characters of public men, particularly Sheridan and Tierney. Then followed, in the """"""""Courier"""""""" and """"""""Morning Post"""""""", two or three lines of ::: *** dots, stars, or whatever you call them. By chance seeing another paper, I found the dots held the place of an admonition to take warning by what had happened to Mr C.'"""
"""Do tell me what more you have heard about the poor Fans. [Fanshawes]. Is it to such an extent as is rumoured? the newspapers said £19,000 or £29,000. Ten thousand makes some difference, but even the smaller sum would be tremedous.'"""
"""Recd this morning a small parcel from WM I think Cobbett's greatest antipathy at present...'"""
"""The Times recd this morning gives an account of the printing trade being in a very depressed state at present. I think Cobbett has commited himself dreadfully...'"""
"""I see the account is contradicted that Walter Scott has been appointed the King's printer, the Newspapers contradict one day what they have confidently asserted the day before...'"""
"""You will never in the world guess what sort of a pastime I have had resourse to in this windbound portion of my voyage.  Nothing less than the reading of Kant's Transcendental Philosophy!  So it is: I am at the hundred and fiftieth page of the Kritik der reinen verbubft; not only reading but partially understanding, and full of projects for instructing my benighted countrymen on the true merits of this sublime system at some more propitious season.'"""
"""These words in Eccles. struck me much. Ch. II v 21 & 22: """"""""Marvel not at the works of sinners, but trust in the Lord and abide in thy labour, for it is one easy thing in the sight of the Lord, to make a poor man rich""""""""'"""
"""The women do this better - Edgeworth, Ferrier, Austen have all had their portraits of real society, far superior to any thing Man, vain Man, has produced of the like nature.'"""
"""The women do this better - Edgeworth, Ferrier, Austen have all had their portraits of real society, far superior to any thing Man, vain Man, has produced of the like nature.'"""
"""Isaac Wilson in his paper of the 16th inst said that the Poll was settled at Preston and Cobbett thrown out, but it appears the contest is still continued, but without any probability ofhis being returned...'"""
"""A pack of sheets came down on Monday morning, with a long letter from the Bibliophile requiring an alteration in the Title-page and Preface; then Jonathan on Wednesday morning; the management of all which things has occiped my whole disposable time till this morning.'"""
"""Mrs C read me part of Murray's Power of religion.'"""
"""At church twice today as usual; the Parson at his work amongst the children, armed with a huge octavo which he called Archbishop Secker's Lectures on the Church Catechism which he fired off to the confusion of the understanding of the children... If he be not tired, I know I am with hearing him.'"""
"""Re[ceived] a parcel from WM this night by the carrier, containing two of Cobbett's & a court calendar, I am glad to hear he is well, I expected that Cobbett's conduct at Preston had been blackened to the utmost, I should have liked to have seen him in Parliament but that is over...'"""
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"""Her own private readings here were chiefly on Divinity, a volume in 8 vo. consisting of """"""""Lectures on the Bible and liturgy"""""""" being her principal vade mecum [sic] - this looked well, as though she bore in mind - the end - """"""""that bourne whence no traveller returns!""""""""'"""
"""Are not Maria and Anny a thousand times preferable to the Miss in """"""""Inheritance"""""""", who describes the Lakes of Cumberland?'"""
"""draw her [Harriet, a girl LC is teaching] to such books as White's """"""""Natural History of Selborne"""""""", but do not bother and (though I hate the word) [italics] bore [end italics] her with what she has no relish for'."""
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"""James Burn, on his first contact with literature after years of having seen none: '""""""""In the  latter end of the year of 1826, a friend made me a present of an old edition of Chevalier Ramsay's """"""""Life of Cyrus"""""""". This little volume opened up to my enquiring mind a rich field of useful knowledge.  The apendix to the work contained the [italics]heathen mythology[end italics]: this part of the work completely fascinated me, and for a considerable time became my constant companion.""""""""'"""
"""During Mr Montgomery's stay he read books from my library, and on his returning Byron's Doge of Venice.'"""
"""I see it is strongly reported that the difference between Spain and Portugal is made up. I hope it is, for I do not like to hear the sound of War.'"""
"""[Part of a description of his wife] very impatient of contradiction, Reproof She cannot Brook- Milton' [This is a misquotation of 'restraint she will not brook', Book IX, l.1184]."""
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"""the last weeks paper stated, that 200, 000 were out of work within 20 miles of manchester, &c, & the long drought is expected to have materially inguered [injured] the Harvest ...'"""
"""?While in this state I read the """"""""Letters"""""""" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays?, together with part of Dr Beattie?s ?Essay on Truth?.?"""
"""?While in this state I read the """"""""Letters"""""""" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays?, together with part of Dr Beattie?s ?Essay on Truth?.?"""
"""?While in this state I read the """"""""Letters"""""""" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays?, together with part of Dr Beattie?s ?Essay on Truth?.?"""
"""?While in this state I read the """"""""Letters"""""""" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays?, together with part of Dr Beattie?s ?Essay on Truth?.?"""
"""In the spring of 1826, after getting through Valpy's Delectus, and a part of Stewart's """"""""Cornelius Nepos, """""""" and also a part of Justin, but somewhat clumsily, with the help of Ainsworth's Dictionary, I commenced Caesar, and sped on well, so that by the time I had reached the third book, """"""""De Bello Gallico, """""""" I found myself able to read page after page, with scarcely more than a glance, now and then, at the dictionary.  I remember wll myfirst triumphant feeling of this kind. I sat on Ping"""
"""Upon on of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which display their leafy banners along the quays of the seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for a Franc and a pocket dictionary for another. A fellow lodger lent me a Testament and a Telemaque, and to these materials I applied doggedly from six in the morningtill dinner time. I read the grammer through first, and then made an abridgement of it on a small pack of plain cards ..."""
"""I paid a very interesting visit to two female convict ships with my dear sister E. Fry and cousin Sarah last 6th day, and met William Wilberforce and Sophie Vansittart and many others. The exercise of my mind was deep, and the trial of body not inconsiderable from the inconvenient situation that I had to read in, being below deck, surrounded by poor prisoners, and the company. What I feel on such occasions is difficult to describe. 1st that it should be done unto the Lord, and 2nd that it may be a time of edification. 3rd that none may in any way be hurt by it. 4th my natural great fear of man, and of his judgement. 5th that self may neither glory if helped, nor be unduly mortified if causes for humiliation arise. I think I was on this occasion much helped to declare Gospel Truth with some power, and to pray to my Lord; but I felt that if watchful enough and patient enough, I might have said much more to a good purpose. But it may be safer to say too little, than too much. After this was over I saw a change in the feeling of the company towards me. They were so much more loving: I believe some of their hearts were tendered. I think it was a uniting time, I trust many of the poor prisoners felt it also, many of them I believe wept in both ships.'"""
"""I was very much obliged by your copy of Doering's Jean Paul and the manuscript sent along with it; whch tho' too late for assisting my printed critical labours I perused with great interest.  My curiosity indeed was rather excited than satisfied by the strange 'string of shreds and patches' which Doering calls a Life; but Richter is a subject of such attraction that any account of him however meagre was peculiarly welcome.'"""
"""It is amazing how many clever things are written about the embarrassments of the country there has one appeared in Blackwood and another in the weekly journal which I cannot but admire'."""
"""It is amazing how many clever things are written about the embarrassments of the country there has one appeared in Blackwood and another in the weekly journal which I cannot but admire'."""
"""I thank you for your Letter & Mr Scott's Treatise. True! I agree with him in his principal Idea, though even there I do not like the Expression that Regeneration must precede Faith, but it is his Intricacy and his so strongly contending that Things must be as he has stated. There is too much of the Logician & though he is in Earnest, It is with the spirit of one who Fights for the Truth & loves the Fighting. He narrows the way & then what plain unlettered Christian is able to comprehend his Meaning? I do not say He is wrong, but I have no Doubt of there being many who differ very much from him & yet [5X] equal Reasons may be urged for them. In fact tho' I can but accord with Mr Scott on the Nature of saving Faith as distinguished from unproductive Belief, yet there is much in his tract which I do not understand & not a little which I cannot agreed to. see his Definition of Faith Page 9-10'"""
"""I, who was the reader, had not seen it for several years, the rest did not know it at all. I am afraid I perceived a sad change in it, or myself ? which was worse; and the effect altogether failed. Nobody cried, and at some of the passages, the touches that I used to think so exquisite ? Oh Dear! They laughed."""
"""I remember so well its first publication, my mother and sisters crying over it, dwelling upon it with rapture! And when I read it, as I was a girl of fourteen not yet versed in sentiment, I had a secret dread I should not cry enough to gain the credit of proper sensibility."""
"""I see by the Times of Saturday last that Hunt retired from the contest'."""
"""I see a review of Moxon's book in the Imperial Mag. For July, it is very fair I think.'"""
"""The Times this morning seems to think that the corn question will meet with the same treatment as catholic emancipation'"""
"""I know that Historians are very subject to give us their own views, instead of Facts. Hume is very partial to Royalty, and at every opportunity is ready to sneer at Religion, for which I do not admire him.'"""
"""I have tried to follow your advice about the Bible, what part of the Bible do you like best? I like the Gospels. Do you know which of them is generally reckoned the best?'"""
"""I read in the Edinburgh Review the Remarks there made on the Hamiltonian System of acquiring languages. I think it merits being attended to from the specimens of the Italian with the English literal translation. It does not appear to be difficult to understand.'"""
"""Cobbett is quite entertaining in his Rural Rides, he indeed excels in rural descriptions; he sees as well as all may who do not shut their eyes, the poverty and degradation of what were once called the lower classes, then the peasantry...'"""
"""It must be labour that makes things valuable Princes & Lords may flourish and may fade But a bold Peasantry, the Country's pride When once destroy'd can never be supplied.' [this is the first of a number of references to Goldsmith's poem]"""
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"""Recd the Courier this morning with an account of the Death of Mr Canning...'"""
"""Saw in the Paper this morning the official account of the Death of the Duke of York; the paper in mourning.'"""
"""Joanna Baillie to Felicia Hemans, 11 May 1827: 'Yesterday your American volume from the Author was put into my hands, and dipping into it here & there without cutting the leaves, I see that it is full of Poetic beauty of the highest value, and that I have a rich feast abiding me'.  """
"""In the Times there is an Order from the Magisterial Gentlemen of Beverley at the last sessions...'"""
"""The whole three are sitting sewing in the most peaceful manner at my hand: our Mother has been reading the Man of Feeling and my last Paper (with great estimation) in the Edinburgh Review."""
"""The whole three are sitting sewing in the most peaceful manner at my hand: our Mother has been reading the Man of Feeling and my last Paper (with great estimation) in the Edinburgh Review."""
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"""Tor Hill, I have read - and was amused to find myself [underlined] en pays de connaissance [end underlining]. Many years ago, I walked with my poor brothers James & Martin, from a little village in Somersetshire called Uphill, to Glastonbury, and thence three miles further, to visit Glastonbury Tor, on the Summit of a high hill. The local descriptions are very accurate, at least as far as I remember - and there are some interesting sketches of character - of personages who attach - but the concluding part of the story is wretchedly huddled together -the attempts at facetiousness beneath contempt - and throughout, there is a hardness of manner which gives to the book what the earliest Masters gave to their paintings, dryness, meagerness, & want of gradual light and shade. [underlined] He [end underlining] cope with the Author of Waverley! - he be hanged!'"""
"""The most spirit-stirring author, next to the Great Unknown [walter Scott], that I have met with, is the American who has written the spy, and the Last of the Mohicans, & various pothers. He copies nobody, & he has an energy, a power of developing what he has previously enveloped, and of keeping the interest upon the stretch, that is admirable.'"""
"""The most spirit-stirring author, next to the Great Unknown [walter Scott], that I have met with, is the American who has written the spy, and the Last of the Mohicans, & various pothers. He copies nobody, & he has an energy, a power of developing what he has previously enveloped, and of keeping the interest upon the stretch, that is admirable.'"""
"""I have bought a book lately full of general information, & written in a good spirit - that is containing a happy mixture of religious feeling with Science. Its title is """"""""Good's Book of Nature"""""""". Have you heard of it? It is by a Dr Good, an M.D.F.R.S. who delivered Lectures at the London Institution'."""
"""Was engaged this forenoon sorting some lint yarn, and all the rest of my spare time reading [Guy] Mannering"""
"""A very small market this day... I saw Bells's life in London with a portrait of Mr Canning. It is a strange rough concern, the onlyconsolation is that it cannot be his likeness...'"""
"""I see Cobbett has been calling the toll collectors to account...'"""
"""The first day before leaving home I must also describe if I can. It was one of the most interesting nature. In the first place I had [underline] all [end underline] the servants collected at the morning reading, and expressed very fully my desires for them'"""
"""I have read the """"""""Literary Gazette""""""""; the notice of the Life of Bonaparte is quite entertaining, some of the names of the French Revolutionists who were quite familiar about 30 years ago, are now almost forgotten or only remembered with horror.'"""
"""Felicia Hemans to William Blackwood, 13 June 1827: 'I beg to thank you for your obliging letter and valuable present of books, from the perusal of which I have derived great pleasure.  The little work called """"""""Solitary hours"""""""" interested me particularly: some of the pieces it contains had before struck me in your Magazine'."""
"""Felicia Hemans to William Blackwood, 13 June 1827: 'I beg to thank you for your obliging letter and valuable present of books, from the perusal of which I have derived great pleasure.  The little work called """"""""Solitary hours"""""""" interested me particularly: some of the pieces it contains had before struck me in your Magazine'."""
"""14/1/1827 ? 'I read """"""""Galt?s Life of Wolsey"""""""" with interest. To be thankful, and rather better, could only read a psalm to the servants.'"""
"""14/1/1827 ? 'I read """"""""Galt?s Life of Wolsey"""""""" with interest. To be thankful, and rather better, could only read a psalm to the servants.'"""
"""Saw in the Rockingham that seven of the Ministers have sent in their resignation - Amongst the rest the Lord, Chancellor..."""
"""I have been in the shop all day and during the intervals of business reading Scott's novel of Redgauntlet"""
"""I see by the paper this morning that the Corn question in Parliament is put off till the 26th inst this almost confirms the report that the ministers have no plan ready...'"""
"""Recd by the Carrier last night from WM the Judgement of Sir John Nichols, on the burial of Persons baptized by Dissenters. I am glad to find that the survivors of such persons are not to beg as a favour to have their friends interred in the Parish Church Yard; it is their undoubted right...'"""
"""Very little news of importance in the Papers. I see Mr Hume is still strenuous for Economy, particulary in the Navy estimates...'"""
"""Very little news of importance in the Papers. I see Mr Hume is still strenuous for Economy, particulary in the Navy estimates...'"""
"""The German book is getting praise rather than censure: I was about sending Alick a copy of the last Examiner Newspaper, where it was rather sensibly criticised.  The man praises me for this and that: but then, it seems, I am terribly to blame for condemning Voltaire and the Sceptics!'"""
"""A fine morning. Recd the Examiner this morning which is soon as can be expected. The times very copious on the approaching funeral of the Duke of York. All the honours paid to a nauseous carcase will not in the least procure any favour from a righteous judge.'"""
"""Mrs Graham, the maker of this hat, is a poor but industrious woman, about five-and-thirty years of age, resident with her husband and daughter, in a cottage belonging to a little farm called Myer, in the parish of Hoddam, Dumfriesshire...About four years ago she procured a loan of Cobbet[t]'s Cottage Economy from a Farmer of that district, and finding there some instructions about the plaiting of Leghorn Bonnets, she forthwith set about turning it to advantage.  By means of Cobbet[t]'s figures & descriptions she succeeded in discovering the proper sort or rather sorts of Grass in the fields...'"""
"""The Edinr Review is out some time ago; and the 'State of German Literature' has been received with considerable surprise and approbation by the Universe.  Thus for instance, de Quinc[e]y praises it in his Saturday Post.  Sir W. Hamilton tells me that it is 'cap'tal'; and Wilson informs John Gordon that it has 'done me a deal o'good'.'"""
"""""""""""Blessings on his head said Sancho Panza who first invented sleep"""""""", But what shall we say of the character of the French which I lately saw in """"""""Moor's France""""""""...'"""
"""The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's house, are so instructive both to masters and servants... The facts stated were communicated by her to two of the ladies of the Newgate Association who visited her ... [in the condemned cell in Newgate] She asked for Toplady's beautiful hymn, beginning, """"""""Rock of Ages, cleft for me""""""""; and on receiving a hymn-book which contained it read it with great interest, saying it exactly described her feelings'"""
"""Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-room, a little place all fitted up like a lady's work-box; where a 'spunk of fire' is lit for the forenoon; and I meanwhile sit scribbling and meditating, and wrestling with the powers of Dulness, till one or two o'clock; when I sally forth into city, or towards the sea-shore, taking care only to be home for the important purpose of consuming my mutton-chop at four.  After dinner, we all read learned languages till coffee (which we now often take instead of tea), and so on till bed-time...'"""
"""My sisters Catherine, Rachel, Chenda and myself had a very remarkable morning, I felt most easy to stay at home from Meeting to be with my beloved sick sister, and had a desire for some religious time with her. After she was dressed and removed into the Dressing Room on her couch, we read in the Bible, but so overcome was she from weakness and sleepiness, that she could not keep awake, however I went on reading, and then knelt down in prayer and thanksgiving for her and for us'"""
"""I see by the Hull packet that the Brothers has sailed for London...'"""
"""I see Lord Liverpool has been taken very ill, some of the farmers were so devoted as to say that providence has interfered so far as to put a stop to any alteration to the Corn laws. This is not my opinion."""
"""By the paper I see there has been a great deal of crowding about St James's to see the laying in state of the Royal Duke...'"""
"""I see by the Paper this morning that Mr Canning is going to allow all corn in bond before the first of July...'"""
"""Cobbett thinks that Mr Canning would not have pressed on the Corn Bill in the manner it is, if he had not been threatened..."""
"""On the paper I received this morning was written near the seals """"""""Billy's away"""""""" and a sketch of some kind of head... The prosecutors for libel have Reaped but little benefit lately...'"""
"""The public opinion [of the trial of Catherine Cook, a servant convicted of theft] is, I think, expressed in the Morning Herald. Other papers I do not see, except the provincial.'"""
"""I just peeped into Cobbett last night but had not time to read much I looked over the Dialogue between the King and the seven sages... It is a curious concern is this same Dialogue and managed with a good deal of humour..."""
"""I have read in the Times this day with great satisfaction the proceedings of a meeting in London to protect & defend the rights of the Welsh cottagers.'"""
"""Recd 2 papers from WM yesterday morning, the Examiner not come to hand all this week... I see Taylor, the orator, Philosopher and Fool has been obliged to find Bail for his good behaviour, on account of some of the nonsense he has been trying to promulgate...'"""
"""Last night I sat down to read Cobbett, and very cold it was, but I was left by myself at the fire-side; I never have a great fire, I would rather have a little one and sit very close to it, which I always do when I have an opportunity - Cobbett does belabour Mr Canning and his furies.... He (Cobbett) still augurs evil from the Papersystem, how far he is right time will determine.'"""
"""I continue in the shop; am occupying my spare time reading Scott's novel of the Abbot. The subject is cheifly on the manner of Queen Mary's imprisonment in the Castle of Loch Leven, with her escape from that imprisonment and from Scotland"""
"""Cobbett has rubbed down Sir Francis pretty roughly, it appears that when self interest is contrasted with Patriotism the latter in general gives way...'"""
"""Jeffrey has sent me a note requesting the Ops Majus by the middle of next month, and enclosing a draft of twenty guineas for the article on Richter.  You may conceive whether I am in a hurry, for I have not yet put pen to paper!  I have merely been reading Horn, somewhat of Fichte, Schelling, etc., and have not yet shaped the thing into any form.'"""
"""Did you see in the newspaper that W.S. has avowed himself the author of """"""""Waverley"""""""" etc.? He said at a public meeting that the secret had been remarkably well kept, considering above twenty people knew it, [italics] one [end italics] of whom, to say truth, is now writing to you'."""
"""The Examiner for last week arrived yesterday... I hear that the corn question is put off till Thursday next...'"""
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"""While Cobbett has been at the Crown & Anchor amongst [the] Philistines they would not suffer him to speak...'"""
"""I have recieved your's with the £5 inclosed and also the two Magas the last article of each only I have read and dread that you are too hard on Canning and his party'."""
"""I have only got about half through Cyral Thornton as yet and cannot therefore be decided on its merits. But I suspect it to have one grievious fault that of introducing innumerable curous [sic] and original characters of whom you would like to be well acquainted and of whom you hear no more. I have no patience at all with this rambling and deesultory mode of running through a life, and if it do not turn out better embodied ultimately than it has done thus far I shall damn it as the work of a man of high accomplishments given to prosing and garrulity'"""
"""I have been engaged this day posting my shop books etc. during my spare time reading a novel- The Pirate [Scott]"""
"""It appears by the Times that there are several dreadful houses in the Neighbourhood of Bow Street, where the unthinking are robbed of their property...'"""
"""Cobbett on the Corn laws is almost above himself it is the best exposition I ever saw of the frantic cry of the Agriculturalists that they bear exclusive burdens, just as if they were the sole consumers of all the fruits of the land.'"""
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"""Sent last night to WM a Basket... after that amused myself by reading in the Spectator the account of Sir Roger de Coverley, It really is an entertaining description of the old knight.'"""
"""I have begun to read Hill's history of Chivalry, the author seems to be delighted with his subject, and I have no doubt but he treats it in a proper manner; - This is a glorious day'"""
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"""Mr Sykes will not take any more of Cobbett's registers for the abuse heaped on Mr Canning and for the observations made on Mr Brougham's speech at Liverpool...'"""
"""April 20 1828 / on Betty Shaw wife of Benj. Shaw / ... this washer favourite verse Who suffer with our master here We shall before his face appear And by his side sit down To patient faith the prize is sure And all who to the end endure The Cross shall wear the Crown.'"""
"""Thank you for it [""""""""Cromwell""""""""]. It is a strange, clever, absurd, lively, queer, farcical, indescribable production. It is impossible not to be amused - impossible not occasionally to admire.  On the other hand, the Liston farce of part of it - even exceeds my notion of the liberty of the genre romantique.'"""
"""We have not got a circulating library. It was too near Glasgow to thrive, and I am no ways acquainted in Glasgow. I am, therefore, famishing for the want of books.  I have to pick up all my news of literature from the newspapers. I saw a delightful piece of yours quoted there lately from a book called """"""""The Coronet, or Literary and Christian Remembrancer."""""""" It was entitled """"""""Fanny's Fairings.""""""""'"""
"""I think Mrs Hall's book beautiful, but am not in love with her dedicatory letter [to Mary Russell Mitford]. It is meagre.'"""
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"""This is to let you know that I am at present in the classiz neighbourhood of Bolton Abbey whither I was led the other day by some half-remembrance of a note to one of Wordsworth's poems which told with me (to speak the truth) more than the poem itself: said Wordsworth having stated ... that everything which the eyes of man could desire in a lordship was to be found at and about the Abbey aforesaid.'"""
"""[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Ode to the closing year'; [Text] 'Oh why should I attempt to ring/The knell of Time in sorrowing tone  / Or sadly tune my lyre to sing/ A requiem to the year that's gone? ...' [total = 24 lines of verse followed by 1.5 pp of related prose]"""
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"""My father said that he [...] received a good but not a regular classical education. At any rate he became an accurate scholar, the author """"""""thoroughly drummed into"""""""" him being Horace; whom he disliked in proportion. He would lament, """"""""[...] It was not till many years after boyhood that I could like Horace. Byron expressed what I felt. 'Then farewell Horace whom I hated so.' Indeed I was so over-dosed with Horace that I hardly do him justice even now that I am old.""""""""'"""
"""After reading the Bride of Lammermoor [Tennyson] wrote the following [reproduces juvenile poem """"""""The Bridal""""""""]'."""
"""Houlston [Harriet Martineau's publisher] wrote to ask for another story of somewhat more substance and bulk [than the first two he had taken from her].  My """"""""Globe"""""""" newspaper readings suggested to me the subject of Machine-breaking as a good one'."""
"""It was in the autumn of 1827, I think, that a neighbour lent my [Harriet Martineau's] sister Mrs. Marcet's """"""""Conversations on Political Economy.""""""""  I took up the book, chiefly to see what Political Economy precisely was; and great was my surprise to find that I had been teaching it unawares, in my stories about Machinery and Wages.'"""
"""From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader.  'Then died lamented in the strength of life 1827 """"""""Called not away, when time had loosed each hold/ On the fond heart, and each desire grew cold; / But when to all that knit us to our kind,/ He felt fast-bound, as Charity can bind..."""""""" Crabbe.'"""
"""Mr Nelson's estate which is advertised for sale in the Hull papers. I likewise saw it in The Times."""
"""Mr Nelson's estate which is advertised for sale in the Hull papers. I likewise saw it in The Times."""
"""Recd from WM the Morning Herald of Friday, which pleased me to find him so attentive, to what he knows gives me satisfaction; I am now beforehand with the knowing ones I thinkfor my own part Mr Canning proposes the duty too high... [NB passes this text on to his brother the next day]"""
"""Of all the new works you have sent me I admire Gillies' stories by far the most. I have scarcely ever met with a work that pleased me better and was so truly congenial to my mind. The ease and simple elegance of the stile is exquisite. That work should certainly have a great circulation I have great faults with Mrs Johnston's work in which there is however great genius but the anachronisms are without end and the characters too much borrowed from Scott Beyond all the story is forced and confused beyond all measures. Our ladies were pleased with it beyond measure so it must have something very fascinating'"""
"""Of all the new works you have sent me I admire Gillies' stories by far the most. I have scarcely ever met with a work that pleased me better and was so truly congenial to my mind. The ease and simple elegance of the stile is exquisite. That work should certainly have a great circulation I have great faults with Mrs Johnston's work in which there is however great genius but the anachronisms are without end and the characters too much borrowed from Scott Beyond all the story is forced and confused beyond all measures. Our ladies were pleased with it beyond measure so it must have something very fascinating'"""
"""Reading Scott's Tales of My Landlord. Consists of the prosecutions and slaughters by the Military [of] Covenanters in Charles 2nd's time.  Scene of the story lies in the County of Lanark"""
"""I have read over the """"""""History of Chivalry"""""""", it really is true to the title page as nothing but Chivalry can befound in it. I cannot say that it is very amusing or instructive, altho' one sees a little more of its folly than is to be found in Walter Scott.'"""
"""Madam, I can hardly feel that I am addressing an entire stranger in the author of """"""""Our Village"""""""", and yet I know it is right and proper that I should apologize for the liberty I am taking. But really, after having accompanied you, as I have done again and again, in """"""""violeting,"""""""" and seeking for wood-sorrel ? after having been with you to call upon Mrs. Allen in """"""""the dell"""""""", and becoming thoroughly acquainted with May and Lizzie, I cannot but hope that you will kindly pardon my obtrusion, and that my name may be sufficiently known to you to plead my case.  There are writers whose works we cannot read without feeling as if we really had looked with them upon the scenes they bring before us, and as if such communion had almost given us a claim to something more than the mere intercourse between authors and """"""""gentle readers"""""""".  Will you allow me to say that your writings have this effect up me, and that you have taught me, in making me know and love your """"""""Village"""""""" so well, to wish for further knowledge also of her who has so vividly impressed its dingles and copses upon my imagination, and peopled them so cheerily with healthful and happy beings?'"""
"""I have seen some advertisements of Books from Ths. Hurst & Co in St Paul's Church yard...'"""
"""I recd two papers this morning packed up together, so that if news be like wine which improves in the keeping, I am very well off this day[.] It is all new to me. It is plain as a mathematical demonstration that the Duty on Corn is too high...'"""
"""Employed myself reading Constables Miscellany- voyages, mutinies and shipwrecks in the Southern Ocean"""
"""Read the last Nos of Cobbett to the 24th Feb he has no compassion for Lord Liverpool; The Elegy on Bric is as ludicruous as can be well concieved.  He still persuades his readers to keep Gold when they get it. I have not followed this advice..."""
"""There is a fine cover on one of the Registers which I must preserve, it has been a Wrapper to a No of Hogarth's works, there are such droll figures on it as I can scarcely make out, but it is very fine... so these figures with monkey heads, must be something above the common vulgar.'"""
"""I see by the paper that Mr Canning is indeed very ill..."""
"""Cobbett tells a very plausible tale of being deceived by the man who was to have been his surety..."""
"""Newspaper from WM this morning... Also two Examiners the last week and this, so that I revel in news this day. The Old ministers seem very sore at losing or giving up their places..."""
"""Say, too, that I received his Life of Napoleon, and have read it this winter - in the evening and at night - with attentino from beginning to end.  To me it was full of meaning to observe how the first novelist of the century took upon himself a task and business, so apparently foreign to him, and passed under review with rapid stroke those important events of which it had been our fate to be eyewtinesses.  The division into chapters, embracing masses of intimately connected events, gives a clearness to the historical sequence that otherwise might have been only to easily confused, while, at the same time, the individual events in each chapter are described with a clearness and a vividness quite invaluable.'"""
"""On the morning of the New Year we assembled almost all our large household, and many guests, principally young ones. Before we began reading, I expressed many of the striking marks of Providential care and mercy shown us in the last year, that are mentioned here. We then read, and afterwards had a solemn time.'"""
"""Felicia Hemans to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 November 1828: 'My dear Miss Mitford, Accept my late, though sincere and cordial congratulations on the brilliant success of """"""""Rienzi,"""""""" of which I have read with unfeigned gratification [...] I have yet only read of Rienzi a few noble passages given by the Newspapers and Magazines, but in a few days I hope to be acquainted with the whole'."""
"""Felicia Hemans to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 November 1828: 'My dear Miss Mitford, Accept my late, though sincere and cordial congratulations on the brilliant success of """"""""Rienzi,"""""""" of which I have read with unfeigned gratification [...] I have yet only read of Rienzi a few noble passages given by the Newspapers and Magazines, but in a few days I hope to be acquainted with the whole'."""
"""I have just been looking over the trial of Mr Corder for the murder of Maria Martin.'"""
"""On my having read some portion of the preceding narrative to Mr Fenn Bookseller at Charing Cross he related circumstances respecting some families in the Strand and its neighbourhood which were similar to those I have related."""
"""I have had the perseverance to read Sir W. Scotts Boney - and hackneyed as is the subject, I was lured on from page to page, with unwearied interest and entertainment. I am longing for Bishop Heber's Journal. Did you read, in one of the Quarterly's <a Review>, an Article relating to him, remarkably well written, and worthy in all respects of its subject. - It must be now nearly a year ago that it appeared. I wish you could get it - and there is also a more recent article, published in the very last Review - quite excellent'."""
"""I have had the perseverance to read Sir W. Scotts Boney - and hackneyed as is the subject, I was lured on from page to page, with unwearied interest and entertainment. I am longing for Bishop Heber's Journal. Did you read, in one of the Quarterly's <a Review>, an Article relating to him, remarkably well written, and worthy in all respects of its subject. - It must be now nearly a year ago that it appeared. I wish you could get it - and there is also a more recent article, published in the very last Review - quite excellent'."""
"""I like your Capt. Franklin mainly - and his manly & respectful commendation of my poor dear James, is charming. - I am (though a little ashamed to own it) not fond, in general, of Voyages. Many women are, and I wish I were one - for the more innocent amusements we have the better. But when scientific purposes are to be answered by such voyages, I have great respect for them, and only wish I could get at their marrow, without being obliged to read about the gluttonous, dirty, lying, thieving, and brutal Savages! - To think that such creatures are really our fellow-beings, and that we might have been such as they are, but for the favour of God, is to me the most melancholy consideration in the world'."""
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"""How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was amusing: """"""""not so Gayeties & Gravities"""""""" an affected work & here is the journal of a young Officer but not yet read: a pretty good Quarterly Review & John's Gentleman's Magazine'"""
"""How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was amusing: """"""""not so Gayeties & Gravities"""""""" an affected work & here is the journal of a young Officer but not yet read: a pretty good Quarterly Review & John's Gentleman's Magazine'"""
"""How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was amusing: """"""""not so Gayeties & Gravities"""""""" an affected work & here is the journal of a young Officer but not yet read: a pretty good Quarterly Review & John's Gentleman's Magazine'"""
"""Now the other morning Dr Irving shows me the last vol. of Constable's Miscellany, and a most magnificent passage in the Preface about this very book.  Be so good as to look at that before we go farther."""
"""Felicia Hemans to the Reverend Samuel Butler, 19 February 1828: 'I do not know whether you are at all a Lover of German Literature, but there is a poem in that Language, a beautiful nuptial benediction pronounced by a Father over his child [...] which some parts of your letter [about his daughter's forthcoming marriage] recalled to my mind.  I have copied Madame de Stael's translation of it, and take the liberty of including it for you.' """
"""Felicia Hemans to the Reverend Samuel Butler, 19 February 1828: 'I do not know whether you are at all a Lover of German Literature, but there is a poem in that Language, a beautiful nuptial benediction pronounced by a Father over his child [...] which some parts of your letter [about his daughter's forthcoming marriage] recalled to my mind.  I have copied Madame de Stael's translation of it, and take the liberty of including it for you.' """
"""We are greatly pleased with your sketches of 'German character'; your Oken, your pert Surgeon, your Schelli[n]g &c must surely be pictures from the Life.  Becker says Oken and Wilhelmi are true portraits, as I described them from your letter.  Above all I am glad to find both that you admire Schelling and know that you do not understand him.'"""
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"""Dear Madam, Accept my best thanks for the copy of """"""""Rienzi"""""""", and allow me to assure you that it has not been thrown away, for, as [Rev William] Harness can bear witness, I can repeat long passages of it by heart. I have now the pleasure of forwarding to you the volumes I mentioned...'"""
"""Began Clinton's Introduction &c.'"""
"""Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 24 April 1828, acknowledging receipt, the previous day, of her copy of Berry's """"""""The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England"""""""" (vol.1): 'I have had no opportunity of reading it, part of the introduction excepted, which I liked much.  It reads well, being clear and sensible, and happily expressed'."""
"""Lady Charlotte Lindsay to Mary Berry, 25 April 1828, on vol.1 of Berry's """"""""Comparative View of Social Life in France and England"""""""": 'Your book is [italics]quite new[end italics] and perfectly delightful to me [...] I had no idea that I should have derived so much amusement from it [...] it exactly suits the extent of my reading and reasoning powers'."""
"""I have lately been reading some of my old journals in the year 1801. It has been very affecting to me; In what a low state I was, and how much I passed through, unbelief has been ready to say how was it such a poor young creature in a spritual sense should have been permitted such conflict in my first lying-in, after my marriage, etc.'"""
"""[transcribed in what appears to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'With modest sidelong look and downcase glance /  Behold the well matched couple now advance /  His hand held hers. The other grasped her hip[...]'"""
"""[transcription of Moore's poem 'Gazel' in what seems to be Lady Caroline's Hand]"""
"""[transcibed in what seems to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'What is Majesty without its externals?-- / by Burke'"""
"""I have read Knight's pamphlet. Pretty good, though I think, if I had seen as much, I could have told my story better'."""
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"""Bland &mdash; Clinton &mdash; a little Herodotus.'"""
"""Wrote another chapter of my Life read a little in Gray's Letters [...] they are the best letters I have seen & I consider Burns very inferior [.]"""
"""I have recieved Maga with the inclosures safe to night but have only as yet got her looked over. For one thing I percieve that Mr More's hymn to the Evening star is perfectly beautiful and I think the masterpiece of all he has yet written'."""
"""Thucydides &mdash; Clinton &mdash; Public Lecture in Diff. Calc &mdash; reading it & Questions ..."""
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"""Letter from brother-in-law, T.F. Buxton, to E. Fry, Northrepps, 1 Dec 1828: 'I very quiet day yesterday, and a long time spent over the 69th Psalm, from the 13th to the 17th verse, with peculiar reference to you, have given me more encouragement'"""
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"""A joiner's son in an early-nineteenth century Scottish village recalled [reading] his first novel, David Moir's The Life of Mansie Wauch (1828): """"""""I literally devoured it... A new world seemed to dawn upon me, and Mansie and the other characters in the book have always been historical characters with me, just as real as Caius Julius Caesar, Oliver Cromwell or Napoleon Bonaparte... So innocent, so unsophisticated - I may as well say, so green - was I, that I believed every word it contained"""""""".'"""
"""Professor W. Smythe to Mary Berry, [1828]: 'Your book [vol. 1 of """"""""The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England""""""""] quite succeeded with me, giving me a great deal of information that was very entertaining, and that had not reached me before [...] I still observe in it some long sentences, which it would have been very easy for you, I should have thought, to have broken up [...] You have not always remembered that you are writing for an English, not a French public -- where not only men, but men, women, and children, read, when a book is considered worth reading.'  """
"""Charles Poulett Thomson to Mary Berry, [1828]: 'I return you your book [vol. 1 of """"""""The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England"""""""" with many thanks for the instruction and amusement which it has afforded me [...] I hope you have not abandoned your intention of following it up by a second volume.'  """
"""My two articles in your work has [sic] been very much praised in this country. Prof. Wilson said in a very large public company that """"""""The Cameronian's Tale"""""""" was """"""""not only better than any of Sir Walter's in the Keepsake but that it had ten times more merit than them all put together""""""""'"""
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"""I have been seeking 'Falkland' here for a long time without success. Those beautiful extracts of it which you showed me at Tealby haunted me incessantly.'"""
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"""Read Juvenal all the morning- (save that I now read a few verses of Greek Testament the first thing)- finished Clinton's Introduction."""
"""[...] Stanley- Gisborne- Shelley- Lancaster: exceedingly desultory & alas exceedingly idle. Did a very few Lat. vss & Greek Iambb."""
"""She sade she was happy in her mind & had many a Comfortable hour when she could not Sleep in reading her testament & hymn book & praying &c'"""
"""She sade she was happy in her mind & had many a Comfortable hour when she could not Sleep in reading her testament & hymn book & praying &c'"""
"""I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and Contingency, of Predestination & Free-will, which are his Subjects,that I do not cordially assent to. He pretends not to see farther into the mill-stone than you & I do. I may read the Cardiophonia of Mr Newton as you recommend it, but the Title offends my Taste & who could guess what Cardiophonia was about? - I have been engaged by the confessions of St Augustine in Milner's History of the Church: the piety is impressive and the Story of his philosophic-Life & Conversation, curious: His """"""""City of God"""""""" I expect to find very interesting.'"""
"""I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and Contingency, of Predestination & Free-will, which are his Subjects,that I do not cordially assent to. He pretends not to see farther into the mill-stone than you & I do. I may read the Cardiophonia of Mr Newton as you recommend it, but the Title offends my Taste & who could guess what Cardiophonia was about? - I have been engaged by the confessions of St Augustine in Milner's History of the Church: the piety is impressive and the Story of his philosophic-Life & Conversation, curious: His """"""""City of God"""""""" I expect to find very interesting.'"""
"""I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and Contingency, of Predestination & Free-will, which are his Subjects,that I do not cordially assent to. He pretends not to see farther into the mill-stone than you & I do. I may read the Cardiophonia of Mr Newton as you recommend it, but the Title offends my Taste & who could guess what Cardiophonia was about? - I have been engaged by the confessions of St Augustine in Milner's History of the Church: the piety is impressive and the Story of his philosophic-Life & Conversation, curious: His """"""""City of God"""""""" I expect to find very interesting.'"""
"""I have been reading the Duke of Rovigo - a fool, a Villain, and as dull as it is possible for any book to be about Buonaparte'."""
"""Mrs Hughes insists on the Confessions of a Sinner being republished with my name as she say it is the best story of that frightful kind that ever was written'."""
"""Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 9 June 1828: 'I have read your """"""""View of the Social Life, &c.,"""""""" twice; and it has lost nothing, but rather gained, on the second perusal.  The style is clear and scholar-like [...] it is written in a good spirit of liberality and rectitude, and it abounds in excellent observations concisely and cleverly expressed' [goes on to express reservations, among these being that Berry's account of Voltaire's mistress Madame du Chatelet """"""""rather offends as to that delicacy which is expected in the writings of a woman""""""""]."""
"""Robert has in several instances spoiled the effect of the tales at the close by winding them too abruptly up The Marvellous Doctor is quite ruined for though previously shortened one half to suit Maga that was no reason the other half should now have been withheld'."""
"""I am reading Hall's book, but will read it through before I say a word about it, for I find my opinion changes so much between the first and third volume of a book'."""
"""Assure Mr Montagu, that his Book was the most delightful I have read for many days.  Your hand also was visible in it.  Why does he not publish more such?'  """
"""I have got old Ascham, and read a little of him, when I have done work, every evening.'"""
"""Everything here is going on in the common routine. The only things of peculiar interest are those which we get from the London papers.'"""
"""Uriah Plant, a wheelwright's son, affirmed that """"""""My uncertainty about the truth of religion not only increased my sense of its importance... but gave me a habit of thinking, a love of reading, and a desire after knowledge""""""""... he organized a discussion group devoted to religion and, over six years spent """"""""only"""""""" ?21 10s. 9d. on books, mostly secondhand. He fearlessly read across the spectrum of theological opinion, including The Age of Reason'."""
"""Peter J. Manning, """"""""Wordsworth in the Keepsake, 1829"""""""": """"""""Charles Lamb, perusing the notices blazoning the annuals forthcoming in 1829, scoffed: 'Wordsworth I see has a good many pieces announced in one of em ...'"""""""""""
"""Our wedding day twenty nine years since we married! My texts for the morning are applicable: """"""""Our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and external weight of glory""""""""; """"""""We walk by faith and not by sight""""""""'"""
"""I have within these few minutes recieved Friendship's Offering. It is splendid and far outvies any of the foregoing numbers. I really anticipate good news of it this year.'"""
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"""Let me tell you that I never see a paper professing to give literary news from England without anxiously looking for your name.. I have read whole pages of extracts from the Annuals and """"""""Our Village"""""""" - so well do the savages know how to make their papers sell - but I have not seen, what I chiefly [sic] sought, any account of the noble tragedy, three acts of which you read to me when I last saw you.'"""
"""Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of """"""""The Bann of the Church of the German Empire,"""""""" I take the liberty of sending them to you [...] You will find it in """"""""Les Anecdotes Germaniques,"""""""" page 151, and as I have experienced so much pleasure from the perusal and representation of your beautiful tragedies, I shall have great satisfaction in being of the smallest use to you.'"""
"""Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of """"""""The Bann of the Church of the German Empire,"""""""" I take the liberty of sending them to you [...] You will find it in """"""""Les Anecdotes Germaniques,"""""""" page 151, and as I have experienced so much pleasure from the perusal and representation of your beautiful tragedies, I shall have great satisfaction in being of the smallest use to you.'"""
"""21/8/1829 ? 'The General gave us an account of the early years of the [French] revolution, the other gentlemen assisting. The evening ended only too soon, but I read in my own room the M?moirs of S?gur, and with a curious feeling lay down, knowing I should see Lafayette next day!'"""
"""Did you read Sir W Hamilton on Cousin's Metaphysics in the last Edinburgh Review?  And what inferences are we to draw from it?  Pity that Sir W. had not the gift of delivery!  He has real knowledge on those matters; but all unsorted, and tumbled topsy-turvy like a """"""""bankrupt stock.""""""""'"""
"""[Meta] has a little orphan boy to teach French to, reads with Elliot every night, etc: etc: and has always more books she [is] wanting to read than she can get through, being a very slow reader.'"""
"""I have read the Briefechsel, a second time, with no little satisfaction; and even today am sending off an Essay on Schiller, grounded on that work, for the Foreign Review.'"""
"""the whole of the Church concerned with us in sentiment except my Brother and his wife and they stedfastly opposed us but this we did not mind for we gave up ourselves up to the constant practice of reading and Studying the Scripture and we made it our practice to meet every night in the week except Saturday night at one private house or other.'"""
"""That is a curious kind of Hallucination which Miss B. discovers in her Addresses to imaginary Beings: it comes very near to a case I read, long since, in the Trials of Witches, a book wh I should like to see again'. [Crabbe outlines the witchcraft case in question]"""
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"""I am exceedingly disgusted with the last beastly Noctes and as it is manifest that the old business of mockery and redicule [sic] is again beginning I have been earnestly advised by several of my best and dearest friends to let you hear from me in a way to which I have a great aversion'."""
"""I do not like your Tragedy; there is little interest in it; no material fault but the absence of anything very good. I am not the less obliged to you for sending it. You will hate me for giving you my true opinion, but you have asked me to do so and in such matters I never deceive'."""
"""With my own share of the Packet I feel not less contented.  Especially glad was I to find my old favourite the Wanderjahre so considerably enlarged: the new portions of the Book it was my very first business to read; and I can already discover no little matter for reflexion in that wonderful Makarie, and the many other extensions, and new tendencies, which that most beautiful of all Fragments has hereby acquired.'"""
"""The Briefwechsel [Goethe-SChiller correspondence] I have also read; and must soon read again; purposing to make it the handle for an Essay on Schiller, in the Foreign Review.  I particularly admired the honourable relation that displays itself between Schiller and his Friend; the frankness in mutual giving and receiving; the noble effort on both sides; a reverence for foreign excellence is finely united with a modest self-dependence, in Schiller; whose simple, high, earnest nature again comes into clear light, in this Correspondence.'"""
"""The Farbenlehre [The Theory (or Science) of Colour], which you are so good as to offer me, I have never seen, and shall thankfully accept, and study, it.'"""
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"""Read """"""""Laurie Todd"""""""" by Galt. It is excellent; no surprising events, or very striking characters, but the humorous and entertaining parts of common life, brought forward in a tenour of probable circumstances. Read Raffles's Life. A virtuous, active, high-minded man; placed at last where he ought to be: a round man, in a round hole'."""
"""Read """"""""Laurie Todd"""""""" by Galt. It is excellent; no surprising events, or very striking characters, but the humorous and entertaining parts of common life, brought forward in a tenour of probable circumstances. Read Raffles's Life. A virtuous, active, high-minded man; placed at last where he ought to be: a round man, in a round hole'."""
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"""[I] had made myself miserable, after reading about Jephtha's vow, because I imagined that every time the thought of making a vow came into my head I had actually made it and was bound to keep it.'"""
"""?As to reading, I had neither time not strength for more than a very little, yet I did something; as I looked through a translation of the works of that eminent divine, James Arminius, with which I was well satisfied, but especially so with the prefixed memoir of his life. I had also, for a few days, the loan of Mr. Montgomery?s ?Lectures on poetry?, a book which I should have been glad to read thoroughly.?"""
"""?As to reading, I had neither time not strength for more than a very little, yet I did something; as I looked through a translation of the works of that eminent divine, James Arminius, with which I was well satisfied, but especially so with the prefixed memoir of his life. I had also, for a few days, the loan of Mr. Montgomery?s ?Lectures on poetry?, a book which I should have been glad to read thoroughly.?"""
"""I hate these things of de Q-s in Maga'"""
"""In a letter addressed to me, dated Newcastle Jan 5 1829 from his son, Robert Elliot Benick, thanking me for a copy of 'The Scarborough Souvenir', he writes """"""""this would have been done sooner by my late lamented father had he been able to have visited Scarborough, as he once intended to have done last summer"""""""".'"""
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"""I quite agree about Napier's book. I did not think that any man would venture to write so true, bold and honest a book; it gave me a high idea of his understanding, and makes me very anxious about his [italics]caractere[end italics].'"""
"""There is a new work lately come to my hand """"""""The Jacobite Minstrelsy of Scotland"""""""" which is the most bare-faced plagiarism that ever was attempted. It is by a Griffin & Co Glasgow Nearly one half of the songs are my own genuine copyright attained by myself at great trouble and expense'"""
"""Have you read Hall's America? If you have, I hope you dislike it as much as I do. It is amusing but very unjust and unfair. It will make his fortune at the Admiralty. Then he temporizes about the Slave Trade; with which no man should ever hold parley, but speak of it with abhorrence, as the greatest of all human abominations'."""
"""I enclose you two poems one by Mr Riddell which I have copied and corrected a sublime and beautiful thing, its only fault being a small shade of redundancy of thought but that I cannot help. It gives great promise and I want to bring him in as my [italics]assistant [end italics] and [italics]successor [end italics]'."""
"""The two Examiners came on Wednesday: we like them much.'"""
"""The Examiner comes with perfect regularity; and tho' a week old is a great blessing.  Continue it, if you can.  Nay, if it came on Saturday (that is half a week old) this were perhaps the best of all arrangements.'"""
"""[Hogg is enclosing his 'Adventures of Colonel Peter Aston'] 'No body ever saw it but Dr Moir (Delta) who read it and will recognize it at first sight but as it is likely he will be of the fraternity I hope this will be no objection' [Hogg wants the story to appear in The Club Book]"""
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"""[Sunday] Short's Serm. Heard Buckley. Lancaster &c &C. [...]."""
"""18,19. Frid. Sat. Two very idle days- read a little Allgebraic Geometry, in Powell and Lardner [...]. """
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"""On Monday morning Grahame came down to breakfast, read your St John Long;, and insisted on my riding up with him to Grange: we went by Waterbeck and Torbeckhill, over the wet moor; had a meek, gently pleasant afternoon; I returned about eight o'clock, and found &mdash; O wonder and terror &mdash; an Express from Dumfries with tidings that the Jeffreys had notified that they would all be at Craigenputtoch that night!'"""
"""Have you read Moore? I come in, I see, for a little notice once or twice. I find the Peer and Poet (and I knew it only yesterday) has dedicated a stanza or two to me in Don Juan'."""
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"""I read only Italian books - and have just finished Niccolini's Foscarini, which is a fine masculine, energetic performance, & gave me much pleasure, and makes me admire and respect the Author'."""
"""If you want light easy Italian reading, get Giraud's Commedie - They are excessively amusing - Some are farcical & some are grave, but all full of action, & with a great deal of character well delineated and well supported - Books are so cheap here, that I bought Nota's Comedies, which are in great repute & often acted, and are printed in eight duodecimo volumes for six Pauls!'."""
"""If you want light easy Italian reading, get Giraud's Commedie - They are excessively amusing - Some are farcical & some are grave, but all full of action, & with a great deal of character well delineated and well supported - Books are so cheap here, that I bought Nota's Comedies, which are in great repute & often acted, and are printed in eight duodecimo volumes for six Pauls!'."""
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"""[Sunday] Chapel & Serm. mg & aft. Whateley. Lancaster. Sleepy. [...]."""
"""You and I both love reading, and it is well for me that I do; but at your time reading is but one employment, whereas with me it is almost all. And yet I often ask myself, at the end of my volumes, - Well! what am I the wiser, what the better, for this? Reading for amusement only, and, as it is said, merely to kill time, is not the satisfaction of a reasonable being. At your age, my dear Caroline, I read every book which I could procure. Now, I should wish to procure only such as are worth reading; but I confess I am frequently disappointed'."""
"""I now, after too long delays, return you the Westminster Review, with Chalmers' Picture of Scotland; both of which I was very glad to see. The Picture is a very amusing work, of a proper plan and tone; only, I fear, it is defective in accuracy.'"""
"""The Scottish Songs and Ballads, by the same collector, were a highly acceptable present to mel for which pray accept my best thanks.  A work of that kind was certainly needed, and must be or have already been widely popular.'"""
"""Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this morning, he [Wordsworth] kindly passed in reading to me a great deal from Spenser, and afterwards his own """"""""Laodamia,"""""""" my favourite """"""""Tintern Abbey,"""""""" and many of those noble sonnets which you, like myself, enjoy so much.'  """
"""Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this morning, he [Wordsworth] kindly passed in reading to me a great deal from Spenser, and afterwards his own """"""""Laodamia,"""""""" my favourite """"""""Tintern Abbey,"""""""" and many of those noble sonnets which you, like myself, enjoy so much.'  """
"""Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this morning, he [Wordsworth] kindly passed in reading to me a great deal from Spenser, and afterwards his own """"""""Laodamia,"""""""" my favourite """"""""Tintern Abbey,"""""""" and many of those noble sonnets which you, like myself, enjoy so much.'  """
"""Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this morning, he [Wordsworth] kindly passed in reading to me a great deal from Spenser, and afterwards his own """"""""Laodamia,"""""""" my favourite """"""""Tintern Abbey,"""""""" and many of those noble sonnets which you, like myself, enjoy so much.'  """
"""I have been feasting upon the Demonology and Witchcraft; yet some stories freshly rung in my ears, and I am sure fully equal to any of those you tell, give me a longing to attack you for civilly supposing the present [italics] enlightened age [end italics] rejects the superstitions of our forefathers because they were absurd' [LS then talks about the vogue for 'Animal Magnetism', saying superstitions are a matter of fashion]"""
"""In the bushel of advertisements tacked to the """"""""Quarterly Review"""""""", I spy two from Cadell that I am very glad to see - """"""""New Tales of a Grandfather"""""""" and """"""""Robert of Paris"""""""". By the bye, it has struck me that the review of Southey's """"""""John Bunyan"""""""" bears some tokens of coming from that quarter.'"""
"""In the bushel of advertisements tacked to the """"""""Quarterly Review"""""""", I spy two from Cadell that I am very glad to see - """"""""New Tales of a Grandfather"""""""" and """"""""Robert of Paris"""""""". By the bye, it has struck me that the review of Southey's """"""""John Bunyan"""""""" bears some tokens of coming from that quarter.'"""
"""I am much obliged to you for Tytler, which I have read with pleasure and not without profit: it is a smooth, easy Book; seems well-founded, accurate, authentic; and without pretending to be a classical History, may well enjoy several years of extensive popularity.  I shall be very glad to see the First and all the other Volumes, when they appear.'"""
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"""Read occasionally during my walk in Macdiarmid's """"""""Sketches of nature"""""""".'"""
"""I have received the foregoing little poem from a townsman of your's which I think so good I transmit it to you for insertion in the Juvenile Keepsake and hope you will oblige me by giving it a place'"""
"""Their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Albans arrived at Scarborough this day, and in the afternoon paid me a visit, accompanied by Lord Amelius, and the Ladies Beauclerk. The Duchess entered her name in my library subscription book. A newspaper of the day was placed in her Grace's hands, who seated herself and read aloud a paragraph - the great gaiety and spirit in a silver toned voice, to her Grace's party.'"""
"""I really wonder at, and am sorry that our tastes differ so much that you do not like Pignotti, though I like him so very much. I have read as far as the beginning of the seventh vol: and every day my interest in the work encreases. His reflexions indeed are not very brilliant, deep, or new, but they are sagacious and just; and independently of the style, the subject is, to my thinking, highly curious, and chiefly from its extraordinary resemblance to the turbulent spirit of the little Grecian Republics, who, like the Florentines, the inhabitants of Pisa, Gennoa, and Venice, were always at daggers drawn, and yet flourishing, wealthy, and devotedy fond of the fine arts' [Burney then goes on to summarise further the content of the book]"""
"""I am much interested by Pignotti's history, which [underlined] though I bought [end underlining], I am reading, and have got into the seventh volume. The squabbles and turbulence of the little Italian Republics, puts one in mind of the Greeks, where so much of the same spirit reigned. The gradual progress to celebrity of the Medici family keeps up ones attention, and the little that is interspersed concerning the other Italian rulers, the Visconti, the Gonzagni, the Sforza family, & the great Condottieri of the day, is all very entertaining'."""
"""I performed one Herculean task, having nearly finished Clarissa Harlowe, the most glorious novel ever written, & I advise you begin it as soon as you can.'"""
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"""My father said of his friend: """"""""Arthur Hallam could take in the most abstruse ideas with the utmost rapidity and insight [...] On one occasion, I remember, he mastered a difficult book of Descartes at a single sitting.'"""
"""There is no book which that word [""""""""vulgaire""""""""] would suit so little... Every village could furnish matter for a novel to Jane Austen. She did not need the common materials for a novel - strong passion, or strong incident.'"""
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"""The idea of connecting it [""""""""Laneton Parsonage"""""""", by Sewell] with the Church Catechism had been originally suggested to me by Mrs Sherwood's stories on the same subject, which in my childhood had been a great source of Sunday amusement'."""
"""Whewell, who was [Tennyson's] tutor, he called """"""""the lion-like man"""""""" and had for him a great respect. It is reported that Whewell, recognising his genius, tolerated in him certain informalities which he would not have overlooked in other men. Thus, """"""""Mr Tennyson, what's the compound interest of a penny put out at the Christian era up to the present time?"""""""" was Whewell's good-natured call to attention in the Lecture Room while my father was reading Virgil under the desk.' """
"""""""""""'ne morning as we were sitting at breakfast, about 9 o'clock, ... in the garden, the postman, who had been knocking at the door, ... flung a paid letter on the path. Patty picked it up - it was directed to my father, and my mother opened it... My mother put a half-sheet into my hand from Dr D of Prospect Villa, ... """"""""There"""""""", said she, """"""""is something which I hope will prevent your going to Caudon - read it"""""""". The note was an acknowledgement...'"""
"""?Of him [lodger ? a Wesleyan minister] I had the loan of a work which I had indeed previously read; but of which I was not tired, nor I believe ever should be. This was the ?Journal? of that great and good man, the Rev. J. Wesley. I have long regarded it as being equal in interest to Mr Boswell?s ?Life of Dr Johnson? although its contents are, of course, very dissimilar. I also read many of his other works in the course of the two years during which our lodgers remained with us. I may just observe that Mr Wesley?s style of writing is eminently concise and clear; well adapted to the capacity of the uneducated reader.? """
"""?Of him [lodger ? Wesleyan minister] I had the loan of a work which I had indeed previously read; but of which I was not tired, nor I believe ever should be. This was the ?Journal? of that great and good man, the Rev. J. Wesley. I have long regarded it as being equal in interest to Mr Boswell?s ?Life of Dr Johnson? although its contents are, of course, very dissimilar. I also read many of his other works in the course of the two years during which our lodgers remained with us. I may just observe that Mr Wesley?s style of writing is eminently concise and clear; well adapted to the capacity of the uneducated reader.? """
"""Harriet Martineau mentions using 'Sale's Koran', borrowed from a public library, in preparation for entering a Central Unitarian Assocation competition for the best essay explaining Unitarianism to 'Mohammedans'."""
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"""On turning to """"""""The Magazine of Natural History"""""""" for March 1830, I find by Mr Dovaston's Account of his life in that Miscellany, that early June 1827, he was at Buxton, whither he was hurried by his medical friends for the gout in his stomach, accompanied by his daughters Jane and Isabella.'"""
"""Though Maga would have the better [sic] of something of mine it is nevertheless an excellent number. """"""""The Age"""""""" is inimitable so is """"""""The Currency""""""""and indeed the whole is excellent save that our friend has rather overstrained the """"""""wishing Gate""""""""'"""
"""I have not yet had time to read through the Twin Sisters but there is a certain stile apparent in the Fall of Nineveh &c which is always irrestible [sic] though not equal to """"""""Stop Stop Snip"""""""" I would not wonder to see the sale of Maga extend to 50=000.'"""
"""I have read your Anim. Magnetism, and think it among the best in the Number; worthy indeed of a far better place.  I durst bet, the Blacks have not paid you yet: they are among the worst payers in existence.'"""
"""Do you know Doven's and Hagen's Hist. of German Poetry?  I have seen it in the Edinr College Library, but read only a few pages of it.'  """
"""6/11/1830 - I have just read the speeches of our Parliament in the Journal des Debats. How entirely I agree with Lord Grey; but the bare possibility of war with France is insupportable ... Brougham does not mention such a possibility, and I think his opinion nearly as good as Lord Grey's'."""
"""My dear Miss Mitford, I cannot employ the formal address of a stranger towards one who has inspired the vivid feeling of intimate acquaintance, a deep and affectionate interest in her occupations and happiness.  You cannot be ignorant that your books are re-printed and widely circulated on this side of the Atlantic? your name has penetrated beyond our maritime cities, and is familiar and loved through many a village circle and to the borders of the lonely depths of unpierced woods ? that we eagerly gather the intimations of your character and history that we fancy are dispersed through your productions ? that we venerate """"""""Mrs. Mosse"""""""", are lovers of """"""""Sweet Cousin Mary"""""""" and  have wept and almost worn mourning for dear bright little """"""""Lizzie"""""""", that, in short, such is your power over the imagination that your pictures have wrought on our affections like realities.'"""
"""My dear Miss Mitford,I cannot miss the opportunity my aunt allows me of writing to the author of """"""""Our Village,"""""""" to express my interest in her, and in the perusal of her charming book, one of the most valuable in my library, which I have read several times, and at each repetition have experienced increased delight.'"""
"""You mention Miss Austen; her novels are more true to nature, and have (for my sympathies) passages of finer feeling than any others of this age.'"""
"""Some three weeks ago, a packet of Books arrived here, accompanied with a Letter addressed A l'Auteur de l'Article intitule, Caractere de notre Epoque, the whole perfectly uninjured, the Books complete according to the list sent with them.  Being actually the writer of that Paper, headed Signs of the Times, in the Edinburgh Review, there referred to, I cannot but cheerfully accept this present: by what route it came hither I shall perhaps learn by and by... Pursuant to your directions, I have looked over these Writings, with such leisure and composure as I could command; well purposing to investigate the matter farther, as I have opportunity.'"""
"""Some three weeks ago, a packet of Books arrived here, accompanied with a Letter addressed A l'Auteur de l'Article intitule, Caractere de notre Epoque, the whole perfectly uninjured, the Books complete according to the list sent with them.  Being actually the writer of that Paper, headed Signs of the Times, in the Edinburgh Review, there referred to, I cannot but cheerfully accept this present: by what route it came hither I shall perhaps learn by and by... Pursuant to your directions, I have looked over these Writings, with such leisure and composure as I could command; well purposing to investigate the matter farther, as I have opportunity.'"""
"""Some three weeks ago, a packet of Books arrived here, accompanied with a Letter addressed A l'Auteur de l'Article intitule, Caractere de notre Epoque, the whole perfectly uninjured, the Books complete according to the list sent with them.  Being actually the writer of that Paper, headed Signs of the Times, in the Edinburgh Review, there referred to, I cannot but cheerfully accept this present: by what route it came hither I shall perhaps learn by and by... Pursuant to your directions, I have looked over these Writings, with such leisure and composure as I could command; well purposing to investigate the matter farther, as I have opportunity.'"""
"""Some three weeks ago, a packet of Books arrived here, accompanied with a Letter addressed A l'Auteur de l'Article intitule, Caractere de notre Epoque, the whole perfectly uninjured, the Books complete according to the list sent with them.  Being actually the writer of that Paper, headed Signs of the Times, in the Edinburgh Review, there referred to, I cannot but cheerfully accept this present: by what route it came hither I shall perhaps learn by and by... Pursuant to your directions, I have looked over these Writings, with such leisure and composure as I could command; well purposing to investigate the matter farther, as I have opportunity.'"""
"""Some three weeks ago, a packet of Books arrived here, accompanied with a Letter addressed A l'Auteur de l'Article intitule, Caractere de notre Epoque, the whole perfectly uninjured, the Books complete according to the list sent with them.  Being actually the writer of that Paper, headed Signs of the Times, in the Edinburgh Review, there referred to, I cannot but cheerfully accept this present: by what route it came hither I shall perhaps learn by and by... Pursuant to your directions, I have looked over these Writings, with such leisure and composure as I could command; well purposing to investigate the matter farther, as I have opportunity.'"""
"""Some three weeks ago, a packet of Books arrived here, accompanied with a Letter addressed A l'Auteur de l'Article intitule, Caractere de notre Epoque, the whole perfectly uninjured, the Books complete according to the list sent with them.  Being actually the writer of that Paper, headed Signs of the Times, in the Edinburgh Review, there referred to, I cannot but cheerfully accept this present: by what route it came hither I shall perhaps learn by and by... Pursuant to your directions, I have looked over these Writings, with such leisure and composure as I could command; well purposing to investigate the matter farther, as I have opportunity.'"""
"""Have you met with a Work called Scripture Difficulties? - C. Benson in the Hulsean Lectures?'"""
"""I am reading & have nearly read, a Work upon Enthusiasm, [the] 3d Edition, the author unknown to me, but a thinking Man of good Sense & a stedd[y] Believer in what he does believe, which is not all that imaginative people [suppose.] He thinks the spread of Christianity over the World is rapidly going on with ev[ry] Prospect of Success, & that Every Believer should be a persuader & maker of Converts as far as his Abilities & powers &c extend-'"""
"""They did not return until past nine; & I meanwhile was hard at work at Antoninus.  Finished his 5th book ? read 7 chap: in the Bible, & then went out to walk in the dark."""
"""They did not return until past nine; & I meanwhile was hard at work at Antoninus.  Finished his 5th book ? read 7 chap: in the Bible, & then went out to walk in the dark."""
"""Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: """"""""Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', the 'Fare thee well', and the 'Satire'. With the first she was highly pleased, from its efusion-of-feeling character; the 2nd she thought laboured and inferior in pathos; the 3rd very amusing though very unlike the person"""""""".'"""
"""Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: """"""""Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', the 'Fare thee well', and the 'Satire'. With the first she was highly pleased, from its efusion-of-feeling character; the 2nd she thought laboured and inferior in pathos; the 3rd very amusing though very unlike the person"""""""".'"""
"""Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: """"""""Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', the 'Fare thee well', and the 'Satire'. With the first she was highly pleased, from its efusion-of-feeling character; the 2nd she thought laboured and inferior in pathos; the 3rd very amusing though very unlike the person"""""""".'"""
"""In the spring of 1831 my father was much distressed about the condition of his eyes and feared that he was going to lose his sight [...] He took to a milk diet for some months, which apparently """"""""did good."""""""" At all events his eyesight was strong enough to allow him to study Don Quixote in the original.'"""
"""I have finished Dr. Clark?s Discourse.  It is very clever: but as all metaphysical discourses on scriptural subjects, must be, - seeking only to convince the human reason, it is unconvincing.  At least this is true of one or two material parts, where even I have detected fallacies.  Dr. Card?s sermon on the Athanasian creed, is bound up in the same volume; & I have read it.  """
"""I have finished Dr. Clark?s Discourse.  It is very clever: but as all metaphysical discourses on scriptural subjects, must be, - seeking only to convince the human reason, it is unconvincing.  At least this is true of one or two material parts, where even I have detected fallacies.  Dr. Card?s sermon on the Athanasian creed, is bound up in the same volume; & I have read it.  """
"""I like - I admire the Italian translation of the Gospels & Psalms, which are what I have hitherto read. If the Prophetical books are not so well rendered, I will abide by my dear English version'."""
"""Mr Layard has lent me Sir Humphry Davy's """"""""Consolations in Travel, or the Last Days of a Philosopher"""""""". It is a posthumous publication, & the editor says that """"""""Had his life been prolonged, it is probable that some additions and some changes would have been made"""""""". - There are many fanciful and unwarranted ideas on the subject of the creation of this world, & the state of existence in the next: but, on the whole, it is a most interesting work, and shews a mind anxious to discern the right, and well prepared to love and glorify its Creator.'"""
"""Another book of a very different character has amused me mightily; it is entitled """"""""Tablettes Romaines"""""""", and is full of wit and vivacity, and gives a very just and true picture of modern Rome, at least, as far as I am competent to judge. I wish you could get it. The pretended name of the Author is Santo Domingo, but, somehow, I suspect that to be a fudge. It was printed at Bruselles, for neither in Italy nor at Paris would such free opinions have been allowed to see the light - at least during the Carlists day'."""
"""I read the papers, Reviews &c &c and cannot help perceiving strong prejudices on both Sides of the Reform Question. Blackwoods last Number, Numbers I should say for there are 2 for the present Month & one filled with Reviews & Remarks on this Bill. With him it is Ruin: with his Opponents it is Renovation.'"""
"""I read the papers, Reviews &c &c and cannot help perceiving strong prejudices on both Sides of the Reform Question. Blackwoods last Number, Numbers I should say for there are 2 for the present Month & one filled with Reviews & Remarks on this Bill. With him it is Ruin: with his Opponents it is Renovation.'"""
"""I have not done much with the Sermons you sent me nor after the Bristol Huricanes Would you expect it, still I have not been altogether idle, for vamping old Sermons is to me no unpleasant kind of Employment.'"""
"""I send you two pieces which were sent me for the proposed Poetic Mirror long ago and which are not in print to my knowledge. Southey's is one of his very best'"""
"""On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the end.  My energies felt dead within me: & how could I do anything without them?  Nothing but reading the 3d. vol: of Mrs. Shelley, which I despatched in two hours ? (which did come at last!! - )  No going out today.  Marcus Antoninus after Mrs. Shelly [sic], and drinking tea after Marcus."""
"""On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the end.  My energies felt dead within me: & how could I do anything without them?  Nothing but reading the 3d. vol: of Mrs. Shelley, which I despatched in two hours ? (which did come at last!! - )  No going out today.  Marcus Antoninus after Mrs. Shelly [sic], and drinking tea after Marcus."""
"""On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the end.  My energies felt dead within me: & how could I do anything without them?  Nothing but reading the 3d. vol: of Mrs. Shelley, which I despatched in two hours ? (which did come at last!! - )  No going out today.  Marcus Antoninus after Mrs. Shelly [sic], and drinking tea after Marcus."""
"""The papers are sent to me very regularly by the kind Shuldhams, and I read them with indescribable eagerness; but they take away my spirits for the rest of the day. The affairs of Ireland - the horrors that appear to be hanging over the heads of the poor dear Poles - the Conflagrations in England, &c, &c - all these, are tremendous circumstances'."""
"""I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine Tragedy of Caius Gracchus. I like it much better than his Aristodemus - and I suspect I shall also prefer it to his Galeotto Manfredi, tho' the opening scene of this last is admirable. The story however is an odious one, and all the worse for being true'."""
"""I have been reading with much encreased admiration Paul Clifford - It is a wonderful, a sublime book - What will Bulwer become? the first Author of the age? I do not doubt it - he is a magnificent writer'"""
"""Mrs. Martin lent me Dr. Channing?s treatise ?On the importance & means of a national Literature?, & I ought to be grateful to her.  I have been reading it this morning.  It is a very admirable, & lucidly & energetically written production.  The style is less graceful than powerful.  Indeed it has so much strength, that the muscles are by necessity, rather too obvious & prominent.  But its writer is obviously & prominently an extraordinary man."""
"""Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia.  Feel very unwell today, & nervous.  Read the mysteries of Udolpho ? by way of quieting my imagination? & heard the boys read Homer & Zenophon - & read some of Victor Hugo?s & Lamartine?s poetry ? his last song of Childe Harold.  Miss Steers kindly sent a packet of French poetry to Mr. Boyd?s for me yesterday.  Le dernier chant wants the Byronic character (- an inevitable want for a French composition ? ) and is not quite equal even to Lamartine."""
"""Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia.  Feel very unwell today, & nervous.  Read the mysteries of Udolpho ? by way of quieting my imagination? & heard the boys read Homer & Zenophon - & read some of Victor Hugo?s & Lamartine?s poetry ? his last song of Childe Harold.  Miss Steers kindly sent a packet of French poetry to Mr. Boyd?s for me yesterday.  Le dernier chant wants the Byronic character (- an inevitable want for a French composition ? ) and is not quite equal even to Lamartine."""
"""Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia.  Feel very unwell today, & nervous.  Read the mysteries of Udolpho ? by way of quieting my imagination? & heard the boys read Homer & Zenophon - & read some of Victor Hugo?s & Lamartine?s poetry ? his last song of Childe Harold.  Miss Steers kindly sent a packet of French poetry to Mr. Boyd?s for me yesterday.  Le dernier chant wants the Byronic character (- an inevitable want for a French composition ? ) and is not quite equal even to Lamartine."""
"""Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia.  Feel very unwell today, & nervous.  Read the mysteries of Udolpho ? by way of quieting my imagination? & heard the boys read Homer & Zenophon - & read some of Victor Hugo?s & Lamartine?s poetry ? his last song of Childe Harold.  Miss Steers kindly sent a packet of French poetry to Mr. Boyd?s for me yesterday.  Le dernier chant wants the Byronic character (- an inevitable want for a French composition ? ) and is not quite equal even to Lamartine."""
"""Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia.  Feel very unwell today, & nervous.  Read the mysteries of Udolpho ? by way of quieting my imagination? & heard the boys read Homer & Zenophon - & read some of Victor Hugo?s & Lamartine?s poetry ? his last song of Childe Harold.  Miss Steers kindly sent a packet of French poetry to Mr. Boyd?s for me yesterday.  Le dernier chant wants the Byronic character (- an inevitable want for a French composition ? ) and is not quite equal even to Lamartine."""
"""Read as I have done lately, not for the pleasure of thinking: but for the comfort of not thinking."""
"""I read parts of scripture with reference to the Calvinistic controversy, & little else today.  I am going thro? all the epistles, marking with my pencil every expression that seems to glance at or against the doctrine of particular exclusive election."""
"""Solved my doubts, & read half Cebes?s dialogue before I went to bed.  It is rather a pleasing than a profound performance, - & on this account as well as on account of the extreme facility of the Greek, it can bear fast reading."""
"""Who the devil was it who wrote the last article of the Quarterly? He is a lad of some spirit and I must have a half mutchkin with him.'"""
"""At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road.  Fresh from the carrier.  Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting.  The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again.  Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me.  I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?.  I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries.  It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?.  Read some of the Alcestis.  Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too."""
"""At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road.  Fresh from the carrier.  Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting.  The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again.  Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me.  I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?.  I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries.  It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?.  Read some of the Alcestis.  Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too."""
"""At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road.  Fresh from the carrier.  Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting.  The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again.  Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me.  I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?.  I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries.  It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?.  Read some of the Alcestis.  Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too."""
"""At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road.  Fresh from the carrier.  Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting.  The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again.  Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me.  I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?.  I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries.  It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?.  Read some of the Alcestis.  Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too."""
"""At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road.  Fresh from the carrier.  Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting.  The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again.  Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me.  I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?.  I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries.  It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?.  Read some of the Alcestis.  Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too."""
"""At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road.  Fresh from the carrier.  Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting.  The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again.  Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me.  I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?.  I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries.  It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?.  Read some of the Alcestis.  Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too."""
"""At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road.  Fresh from the carrier.  Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting.  The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again.  Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me.  I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?.  I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries.  It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?.  Read some of the Alcestis.  Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too."""
"""At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road.  Fresh from the carrier.  Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting.  The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again.  Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me.  I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?.  I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries.  It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?.  Read some of the Alcestis.  Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too."""
"""At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road.  Fresh from the carrier.  Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting.  The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again.  Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me.  I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?.  I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries.  It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?.  Read some of the Alcestis.  Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too."""
"""At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road.  Fresh from the carrier.  Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninus, Callimachus, the Anthologia, Epictetus, Isocrates, & Da Vinci?s Painting.  The last I had sent for, for Eliza Cliffe, but the externals are so shabby that I have a mind to send it back again.  Finished my dream about Udolpho; - & began Destiny, a novel by the author of the Inheritance [Susan Ferrier] which Miss Peyton lent me.  I liked the Inheritance so much that my desires respecting this book were ?all alive?.  I forgot to say that I don?t like the conclusion of the Mysteries.  It is ?long drawn out? & not ?in linked sweetness?.  Read some of the Alcestis.  Mr. Boyd wishes me to read it; & I wished so too."""
"""Comparing scripture with scripture.  Reading besides Self control [by Mary Brunton] which Henrietta has borrowed from Mrs. Martin.  It is formed on the model of Clarissa Harlowe; but the heroine is more immaculate than even Clarissa, & more happy finally! ? The book is well-written & interesting.  A combination of fortitude & delicacy always interests me in a particular manner."""
"""Comparing scripture with scripture.  Reading besides Self control [by Mary Brunton] which Henrietta has borrowed from Mrs. Martin.  It is formed on the model of Clarissa Harlowe; but the heroine is more immaculate than even Clarissa, & more happy finally! ? The book is well-written & interesting.  A combination of fortitude & delicacy always interests me in a particular manner."""
"""The twin Magas are excellent with the exception of """"""""La petite Madelaine"""""""" which to me is quite despicable! To slight your old friend for such feminine frible-frable! Wilson [TEAR] poem is most splendid but I have never been able to get straight through it nor I don't think any man ever will'"""
"""The twin Magas are excellent with the exception of """"""""La petite Madelaine"""""""" which to me is quite despicable! To slight your old friend for such feminine frible-frable! Wilson [TEAR] poem is most splendid but I have never been able to get straight through it nor I don't think any man ever will'"""
"""Read, as I do every day, seven chapters of Scripture.  My heart & mind are not affected by this exercise as they should be ? witness what I have written today.  I would erase every line of it, could I annihilate the feelings, together with the descriptions of them; but, since I cannot, let the description pass!"""
"""Harriet Martineau on German studies continued during stay in Kent: 'There I refreshed myself among pretty scenery, fresh air, and pleasant drives [...] and with the study of Faust at night'. """
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"""I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast.  The three first disappointed me.  The extracts I had seen of them, were undeniably the finest things in them.  But there is some surprising poetry ? poetry of wonderful grandeur, in the Hyperion.  The effect of the appearance of Hyperion, among the ruined Titans, is surpassingly fine.  Poor poor Keats.  His name shall be in my ?Poets Record.?  """
"""I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast.  The three first disappointed me.  The extracts I had seen of them, were undeniably the finest things in them.  But there is some surprising poetry ? poetry of wonderful grandeur, in the Hyperion.  The effect of the appearance of Hyperion, among the ruined Titans, is surpassingly fine.  Poor poor Keats.  His name shall be in my ?Poets Record.?  """
"""I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast.  The three first disappointed me.  The extracts I had seen of them, were undeniably the finest things in them.  But there is some surprising poetry ? poetry of wonderful grandeur, in the Hyperion.  The effect of the appearance of Hyperion, among the ruined Titans, is surpassingly fine.  Poor poor Keats.  His name shall be in my ?Poets Record.?  """
"""I am glad you have read Madame de Stael?s """"""""Allemagne"""""""".  The book is a foolish one in some respects; but it abounds with information, and shows great mental power.  She was certainly the first woman of her age; Miss Edgeworth, I think, the second; and Miss Austen the third.'"""
"""I finished the Endymion today.  I do not admire it as a fine poem; but I do admire many passages of it, as being very fine poetry.  As a whole, it is cumbrous & unwieldy.  You don?t know where to put it.  Your imagination is confused by it: & your feelings uninterested.  And yet a poet wrote it.  When I had done with Keats, I took up Theophrastus.  Theophrastus has a great deal of vivacity, & power of portraiture about him; & uplifts that veil of distance ? veiling the old Greeks with such sublime mistiness; & shows you how they used to spit & take physic & wear nailed shoes tout comme un autre?Theophrastus does me no good just now: & as I can?t laugh with him, I shall be glad when I have done hearing him laugh."""
"""I finished the Endymion today.  I do not admire it as a fine poem; but I do admire many passages of it, as being very fine poetry.  As a whole, it is cumbrous & unwieldy.  You don?t know where to put it.  Your imagination is confused by it: & your feelings uninterested.  And yet a poet wrote it.  When I had done with Keats, I took up Theophrastus.  Theophrastus has a great deal of vivacity, & power of portraiture about him; & uplifts that veil of distance ? veiling the old Greeks with such sublime mistiness; & shows you how they used to spit & take physic & wear nailed shoes tout comme un autre?Theophrastus does me no good just now: & as I can?t laugh with him, I shall be glad when I have done hearing him laugh."""
"""Read the Bible, & Horne on its critical study.  I do not think enough of the love of God, graciously as it has been manifested to me."""
"""Read the Bible, & Horne on its critical study.  I do not think enough of the love of God, graciously as it has been manifested to me."""
"""Getting on with Iphigenia [in Aulide]  I am very much interested in it ? particularly in the scene between Iphigenia & her father.  How much simple affectionate nature there is in her character!  The opposition between her?s, & Clytemnestra?s stately dignity, is skilfully conceived."""
"""I read half the 6th book of Antoninus today ? so I can?t say, after all, perdidi diem [I have lost a day]."""
"""I liked my solitude, even tho? I had no one to say so to - & in spite of La Bruy?re & Cowper! ? Nearly finished the Alcestis.  I will finish it tomorrow, before breakfast"""
"""I read Mr. Beverley?s pamphlets which Mr. Boyd had lent to me; the letter to the Archbishop of York, & the Tombs of the prophets. ? They are clever & forcible; coarse enough, & in some places too highly colored.  For instance, I do not believe that the body of the established clergy are as much opposed to the reading of the scriptures, as the papistical clergy are; and I do know instances of members of that body, refusing the sacrament to persons of immoral character?"""
"""I read Mr. Beverley?s pamphlets which Mr. Boyd had lent to me; the letter to the Archbishop of York, & the Tombs of the prophets. ? They are clever & forcible; coarse enough, & in some places too highly colored.  For instance, I do not believe that the body of the established clergy are as much opposed to the reading of the scriptures, as the papistical clergy are; and I do know instances of members of that body, refusing the sacrament to persons of immoral character?"""
"""Finished the Hippolytus, - & began the Supllices of Aeschylus.  I read a part of it before; but I have left off now my partial habits of reading."""
"""Finished the Hippolytus, - & began the Supllices of Aeschylus.  I read a part of it before; but I have left off now my partial habits of reading."""
"""Fanny Kemble, 22 July 1831, following record of discussion with her aunt Dall in which the prospect was raised of her having to give up her career and personal wealth if she should marry: 'I took up Dante, and read about the devils boiled in pitch, which refreshed my imagination and cheered my spirits very much'."""
"""So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost to me, and I must read them myself before I can apply your remarks.'"""
"""So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost to me, and I must read them myself before I can apply your remarks.'"""
"""25 Fri. [...] Rode to Cuddesdon with Bruce- to remain there for a fortnight. read Powell's Differential Calculus in aftn & evg [...]. """
"""Read some passages from Shelley?s Revolt of Islam before I was up.  He is a great poet; but we acknowledge him to be a great poet as we acknowledge Spenser to be so, & do not love him for it.  He resembles Spenser in one thing, & one thing only, that his poetry is too immaterial for our sympathies to enclasp it firmly.  It reverses the lot of human plants: its roots are in the air, not earth! ? But as I read him on, I may reverse this opinion."""
"""[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings, """"""""listening all day to the song of the larks on the cliffs,"""""""" and reading Destiny and Inheritance.'"""
"""[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings, """"""""listening all day to the song of the larks on the cliffs,"""""""" and reading Destiny and Inheritance.'"""
"""""""""""The Child of Earth"""""""" by the Hon. Mrs Norton Fainter Her Slow Step falls from day to day...  Otley - February 15th 1831. Benj. Beanlands'"""
"""Felicia Hemans to a new friend in Dublin, early 1831: 'Some """"""""Quarterly Reviews"""""""" have lately been sent to me, one of which contains an article on Byron, by which I have been deeply and sorrowfully impressed.'"""
"""The logic of this book [Paley's Evidences] and as I may add of his Natural Theology gave me as much delight as did Euclid.' [Darwin's Autobiography]"""
"""We [EB & Mr Boyd] read passages from Gregory?s apologetick, - comparing his marks with mine, in different copies, - & came to the conclusion, that our tastes certainly do agree!! And so they do."""
"""I am tired, & have been resting my body in my arm chair, & my mind in Goldoni.  Read his Pamela, & Pamela Maritata.  The merit of the first, is Richardson?s; & there is not much in the second, for anybody to claim!"""
"""I am tired, & have been resting my body in my arm chair, & my mind in Goldoni.  Read his Pamela, & Pamela Maritata.  The merit of the first, is Richardson?s; & there is not much in the second, for anybody to claim!"""
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"""Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, [1831]: 'I have just read your proof-sheet [of second volume of Berry's """"""""Comparative View of Social Life in France and England""""""""] [goes on to express pleasure at Berry's mentions of herself (Baillie) in the work)]'. """
"""The Minstrel Boy' 'The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone, /...  Moore. Benj. Beanlands, Otley, December 1831'"""
"""1831' 'Farewell to 1831 year of Whig Ministry of Shen reform...  Extracted from Fraser's Magazine by Benj. Beanlands'"""
"""Everything in the Bible that was at all perplexing was turned into a stumbling-block, and came before me, not only during the reading of the Scriptures but at all times. I tried to reason against the difficulties, but that only increased the evil'."""
"""Miss Aldridge gave us Henry's """"""""Communicant's Companion"""""""" - a fearful book filled with questions which it would have taken months to answer - and I tried to find time for self-examination out of school hours, and at first thought myself obliged to answer every question, and at last gave up the attempt in despair. my own sense told me it was in vain'."""
"""[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoyed """"""""the old fellow Blackstone,"""""""" culling for Alfred [Tennyson] poetic words like """"""""forestal.""""""""'"""
"""[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoyed """"""""the old fellow Blackstone,"""""""" culling for Alfred [Tennyson] poetic words like """"""""forestal"""""""" [...] The friends exchanged thoughts on the political state of the world [...] Miss Austen's novels were read and compared. My father preferred Emma and Persuasion, and Hallam wrote, """"""""Emma is my first love, and I intend to be constant. The edge of this constancy will soon be tried, for I am promised the reading of Pride and Prejudice.""""""""'"""
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"""We learned passages from the best authors, and my delight in Walter Scott made me add to the regular lesson large portions of """"""""The Lady of the Lake"""""""" which are fresh in my memory at this moment'."""
"""Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother [...] and how he might often be found in her room reading aloud, with his flexible voice, Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, Spenser, and Campbell's patriotic ballads.'"""
"""Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother [...] and how he might often be found in her room reading aloud, with his flexible voice, Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, Spenser, and Campbell's patriotic ballads.'"""
"""Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother [...] and how he might often be found in her room reading aloud, with his flexible voice, Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, Spenser, and Campbell's patriotic ballads.'"""
"""Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother [...] and how he might often be found in her room reading aloud, with his flexible voice, Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, Spenser, and Campbell's patriotic ballads.'"""
"""Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother [...] and how he might often be found in her room reading aloud, with his flexible voice, Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, Spenser, and Campbell's patriotic ballads.'"""
"""[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoyed """"""""the old fellow Blackstone,"""""""" culling for Alfred [Tennyson] poetic words like """"""""forestal"""""""" [...] The friends exchanged thoughts on the political state of the world [...] Miss Austen's novels were read and compared. My father preferred Emma and Persuasion, and Hallam wrote, """"""""Emma is my first love, and I intend to be constant. The edge of this constancy will soon be tried, for I am promised the reading of Pride and Prejudice.""""""""'"""
"""[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoyed """"""""the old fellow Blackstone,"""""""" culling for Alfred [Tennyson] poetic words like """"""""forestal"""""""" [...] The friends exchanged thoughts on the political state of the world [...] Miss Austen's novels were read and compared. My father preferred Emma and Persuasion, and Hallam wrote, """"""""Emma is my first love, and I intend to be constant. The edge of this constancy will soon be tried, for I am promised the reading of Pride and Prejudice.""""""""'"""
"""In order to pass the BA examination, it was also necessary to get up Paley's """"""""Evidences of Christianity"""""""" and his """"""""Moral Philosophy"""""""". This was done in a thorough manner, and I am convinced I could have written out the whole of the """"""""Evidences"""""""" with perfect correctness...'"""
"""In order to pass the BA examination, it was also necessary to get up Paley's """"""""Evidences of Christianity"""""""" and his """"""""Moral Philosophy"""""""". This was done in a thorough manner....'"""
"""Felicia Hemans to John Lodge, July 1831, on visit to Woodstock, Ireland: 'Amongst other persons of the party was Mr Henry Tighe, the widower of the poetess [Mary Tighe].  He had just been exercising, I found, one of his accomplishments in the translation into Latin of a little poem of mine [identified by source editor as """"""""The Graves of a Household""""""""]; and I am told that his version is very elegant.'"""
"""We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Medea."""
"""We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Medea."""
"""We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Medea."""
"""We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Medea."""
"""We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Medea."""
"""I read the other half of Antoninus?s sixth book, - & half his seventh, besides.  What a creature I am ? to spend my time in this way, between philosophy & folly.  Anoninus wd. not be well pleased, if he could know whom he has for a reader!"""
"""I read some of Chrysostom's commentary on the Ephesians.  I am getting tired of this commentary.  Such underground dark passages before you get at anything worth standing to look at!  Very eloquent sometimes: but such a monotony & lengthiness! Sunday is not a reading day with me.  Driving to church, driving back again, driving to chapel, driving back again - & prayers three times at home besides!  All that fills up the day, except the few interstices between the intersections."""
"""I have recieved Maga to night and looked it over but think very poorly of it You need not send any more of them as I would not be at the pains to cut them up for the sake of their endless repetitions of political dogmas'."""
"""I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine Tragedy of Caius Gracchus. I like it much better than his Aristodemus - and I suspect I shall also prefer it to his Galeotto Manfredi, tho' the opening scene of this last is admirable. The story however is an odious one, and all the worse for being true'."""
"""I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine Tragedy of Caius Gracchus. I like it much better than his Aristodemus - and I suspect I shall also prefer it to his Galeotto Manfredi, tho' the opening scene of this last is admirable. The story however is an odious one, and all the worse for being true'."""
"""I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine Tragedy of Caius Gracchus. I like it much better than his Aristodemus - and I suspect I shall also prefer it to his Galeotto Manfredi, tho' the opening scene of this last is admirable. The story however is an odious one, and all the worse for being true'."""
"""And besides she [Mrs Cliffe] wd. lend me the first two vols of the mysteries of Udolpho before she had finished them herself ? a kind of generosity which quite dazzled my weak moral sense.  I have read the mysteries; but am anxious to read them again ? being a worshipper of Mrs. Radcliffe.'"""
"""In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous light witness the long Noctes's in the Newcastle Magazine. Bobby Chambers' paper, and the Lit. Jour. &c &c'"""
"""In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous light witness the long Noctes's in the Newcastle Magazine. Bobby Chambers' paper, and the Lit. Jour. &c &c'"""
"""In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous light witness the long Noctes's in the Newcastle Magazine. Bobby Chambers' paper, and the Lit. Jour. &c &c'"""
"""Fanny Kemble, 9 October 1832: 'I have begun Grahame's """"""""History of America"""""""", and like it """"""""mainly,"""""""" as the old plays say'."""
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"""All day I have been arranging prints for Grainger's Biography.  There is a good story of Jerry White, Cromwell's Chaplain.'"""
"""Continuing the arrangement of Plates for Grainger and have met with several anecdotes worth noting [on Elizabeth I, CharlesII, Nell Gwynne, and Arabella Churchill].'"""
"""I read in Bourchette's """"""""British Provinces Now"""""""" in North America of the meteorlogical state of the two Canadas in the year 1820, monthly and yearly.'"""
"""This evening I read Spenser's poem called 'Mother Hubbard's Tale', a very long one. It is evidently a satire on the court and clergy, and a very bitter one too.' [Editors note: 'Then follow three pages of extracts from the above named poem, very accurately done']."""
"""It has made me extravagant, for I have ordered the four other volumes.  the work is perfectly unique. I know nothing like it in any language, and it is among the few to which one can turn again and again with even new pleasure. The """"""""Farewell"""""""" is one of the sweetest bits of writing that I know.'"""
"""By the way, have you read Mr Morier's Hohrab, or the Hostage? And if you have, do you (as I hope) like it? And if you have not, can you tell whether others like it? I was charmed with it here in manuscript, when he kindly lent it to me. Besides, I delight in Mr Morier as a man, as well as an author'."""
"""I have been reading Thompson's """"""""History of the Late War in Britain""""""""; Decrees Blockades.'"""
"""All the mob of Potton made a great riot to celebrate the passing of the Reform Bill, and paraded the town with the most hideous yells, accompanying a triumphal car in the shape of a waggon completely covered with fresh boughs and bearing flags. They had also with them a band and three large flags bearing the following inscriptions: 'EARL GREY AND HIS COLLEAGUES', 'TAVISTOCK AND PAYNE FOR EVER', 'EARL GREY AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY', 'W.R. IV AND REFORM'. [...] The procession took place late in the evening; the band entered our garden and played several tunes, while the flags were all the while waving before the windows.'   """
"""Till lately I have never read Spenser, and therefore was not personally acquainted with his beauties. Neither do I mean to say now that I have read his """"""""Fairie Queen""""""""; but having accidentally met with an extract from his """"""""Hymn of Heavenly Love"""""""", a long poem, I went to Papa's study and read the whole poem, which is most exquisitely beautiful, and is perhaps equal to anything Milton ever wrote. [...] I was so much delighted with it that I read another, his """"""""Hymne of Heavenly Beautie"""""""", Which in point of poetic excellence perhaps exceeds the other. [...] Papa's copy of his poems is a very old edition, prinnted in the time of Queen Elizabeth, to whom it is dedicated. The illuminations are very curious, and the engravings most laughable; the print is small, and the old words make it rather difficult to read.'  """
"""Nobody could possibly be better fitted out in every respect for collecting than I am: many cooks have not spoiled the broth this time; Mr Brownes little hints about microscopes &c have been invaluable.? I am well off in books, the Dic: Class: is most useful.? If you should think of any thing or book that would be useful to me; if you would write one line E Darwin Whyndham Club St James Sqr.?' """
"""[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to """"""""my having kept company with the older English writers - the Addisons, Popes and Robertsons of the last century at a time when I had no opportunity of becoming acquainted with the authors of the present time"""""""". Growing up in Cromarty, Miller had access to the substantial personal libraries of a carpenter and a retired clerk, as well as his father (sixty volumes), his uncles (150 volumes) and a cabinet-maker poet (upwards of 100 volumes). These collections offered a broad selection of English essayists and poets - of the Queen Anne period.'"""
"""[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to """"""""my having kept company with the older English writers - the Addisons, Popes and Robertsons of the last century at a time when I had no opportunity of becoming acquainted with the authors of the present time"""""""". Growing up in Cromarty, Miller had access to the substantial personal libraries of a carpenter and a retired clerk, as well as his father (sixty volumes), his uncles (150 volumes) and a cabinet-maker poet (upwards of 100 volumes). These collections offered a broad selection of English essayists and poets - of the Queen Anne period.'"""
"""[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to """"""""my having kept company with the older English writers - the Addisons, Popes and Robertsons of the last century at a time when I had no opportunity of becoming acquainted with the authors of the present time"""""""". Growing up in Cromarty, Miller had access to the substantial personal libraries of a carpenter and a retired clerk, as well as his father (sixty volumes), his uncles (150 volumes) and a cabinet-maker poet (upwards of 100 volumes). These collections offered a broad selection of English essayists and poets - of the Queen Anne period.'"""
"""Fanny Kemble, 20 August 1832, on board ship to America: 'I have done more in the shape of work to-day, than any since the first two I spent on board; translated a German fable without much trouble, read a canto in Dante, ending with a valuation of fame.'"""
"""Fanny Kemble, 20 August 1832, on board ship to America: 'I have done more in the shape of work to-day, than any since the first two I spent on board; translated a German fable without much trouble, read a canto in Dante, ending with a valuation of fame.'"""
"""there is no news of the New York ship in yesterday's National Gazette of Philadelphia'."""
"""I drove into town ... with Miss Greaves and read the English papers which came [by ship]. Oh! the injustice shown the Irish by the House of Lords ... Oh!  the injustice ... of the English press; not only the """"""""Courier"""""""" but """"""""The Morning Chronicle"""""""" too...'"""
"""Fanny Kemble, 21 September 1832: 'The few critiques that I have seen upon our acting have been, upon the whole, laudatory.  One was sent to me from a paper called the Mirror, which pleased me very much [...] it was written with great taste and feeling, and was evidently not the produce of a common press hack'."""
"""Fanny Kemble, 21 September 1832: 'The few critiques that I have seen upon our acting have been, upon the whole, laudatory.  One was sent to me from a paper called the Mirror, which pleased me very much [...] it was written with great taste and feeling, and was evidently not the produce of a common press hack'."""
"""We have read """"""""Zohrab the Hostage"""""""" with the greatest pleasure. If you have not read it, pray do. I was so pleased with it that I could not help writing a letter of congratulation and collaudation to Morier, the author, who, by the bye, is an excellent man'."""
"""I was not lucky enough to see Miss Sedgwick, but I will transcribe for you a passage from the journal of a lady, which has just been lent me...'"""
"""I did not go to Church but read the New Testament.'"""
"""I suppose you all well know Heads book.? for accuracy & animation it is beyond praise.'"""
"""I went to town with Miss Greaves and read the English papers to the 16 August, which had just arrived...'"""
"""I went to town with Miss Greaves and read the English papers to the 16 August, which had just arrived. I read Sir Jonah Barrington in the Monthly Review.'"""
"""At the Athenaeum I read the papers and ... Advice to a Young Man and Padre.'"""
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"""My spirit is however brought low before the Lord, on behalf of some most dear - ah, the unutterable conflict that giving way to evil produces in ourselves and others. And for one I feel so inexpressibly for, I found consolation and hope in these parts of Scripture...'"""
"""I told him of my having now read every play of Euripides; & he seemed very much surprised [...] and observed, that very few men had done as much'."""
"""Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib.  As I was removing """"""""Contarini Fleming"""""""" [a novel by Disraeli],in order to lie down, a lady said to me, """"""""Let me look at one of those books,"""""""" and without further word of question or acknowledgement, took it from my hand, and began reading [...] Arrived at the Delaware, we took boat again; and, as I was sitting very quietly reading """"""""Contarini Fleming"""""""", with the second volume lying on the stool by my feet, the same unceremonious lady who had [italics]borrowed[end italics] it before, snatched it up without addressing a single syllable to me, read as long as she pleased, and threw it down again in the same style before she went to dinner.'"""
"""Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'Arrived at Amboy [from New York], we disembarked [from steamboat] and bundled ourselves into our coach, ourselves, our namesake, and a pretty quiet lady [...] The roads were unspeakable [...] I attempted to read, but found it utterly impossible to do so.'"""
"""Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'Arrived at the Mansion House [in Philadelphia], which I was quite glad to gain [after coach and steamboat journey].  Installed myself in a room, and while they brought in the packages, finished """"""""Contarini Fleming"""""""". It reminded me of Combe's [George Combe, Scottish phrenologist] book'."""
""" [Letter to Aunt dated 3 February 1832] I do not think any books so bad to read as a newspaper. [...]If you ever read novels, do send for Eugene Aram. Miss Hobart and I have just read it, and thought it well done. ...' """
"""I have just finished Trelawney's Adventures of a Younger Brother. It is a book that excites whilst reading, and leaves behind it, many painful feelings. A true radical spirit runs thoughout it; - a contempt of all establishments, social, political, or religious; - a mad ferocity of disposition that causes the narrative to be filled with details of atrocious murders, so minutely described that ones flesh creeps upon ones bones whilst reading. Yet - to give even the devil his due, he has succeeded in drawing a female character of surpassing loveliness, purity, and tender faithfulness. He makes her an Arab however, that European women may take no pride to themselves from the favourable description he gives of her.'"""
"""Sunday I dined with Captain Castle and did not go to Church but read the Bible at home.'"""
"""[Annabella] had been reading Harriet Martineau's """"""""Five Years of Youth"""""""", and wrote to a friend: """"""""it is very good - chiefly directed against Romance, and therefore not necessary for Ada"""""""".'"""
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"""Harriet Martineau on reading for research toward her series of 'Tales', during 1832: 'The scenery was furnished by books of travel obtained from the Public Library [...] The books of travel were Lichtenstein's South Africa for """"""""Life in the Wilds:"""""""" Edwards's (and others') """"""""West Indies"""""""" for """"""""Demerara;"""""""" and McCulloch's """"""""Highlands and Islands of Scotland"""""""" for the two Garveloch stories.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau on reading for research toward her series of 'Tales', during 1832: 'The scenery was furnished by books of travel obtained from the Public Library [...] The books of travel were Lichtenstein's South Africa for """"""""Life in the Wilds:"""""""" Edwards's (and others') """"""""West Indies"""""""" for """"""""Demerara;"""""""" and McCulloch's """"""""Highlands and Islands of Scotland"""""""" for the two Garveloch stories.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau on reading for research toward her series of 'Tales', during 1832: 'The scenery was furnished by books of travel obtained from the Public Library [...] The books of travel were Lichtenstein's South Africa for """"""""Life in the Wilds:"""""""" Edwards's (and others') """"""""West Indies"""""""" for """"""""Demerara;"""""""" and McCulloch's """"""""Highlands and Islands of Scotland"""""""" for the two Garveloch stories.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau on her concerns about the acceptability of some of her writings: 'While writing """"""""Weal and Woe in Garveloch,"""""""" the perspiration many a time streamed down my face, though I knew there was not a line in it which might not be read aloud in any family.  The misery arose from my seeing how the simplest statements and reasonings might and probably would be perverted [...] when the number was finished, I read it aloud to my mother and aunt [...] they were as complacent and easy as they had been interested and attentive.'"""
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"""I read yesterday in Mr. Joseph Clarke?s Sacred Literature, that Nonnus is an author whom few can read, & fewer admire.  So that my opinion is nothing outrageous.  I do not feel well; & look like a ghost."""
"""I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris.  Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'"""
"""Yesterday... reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris.  Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'"""
"""In Ireland from an extract from the Dublin Evening Post that I read yesterday, it appears, as far as I can remember, that the disease had killed upwards of 3,000 people ...'"""
"""I came home and read Hudibras and William Byrd ...'"""
"""Yesterday and today I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'"""
"""Yesterday and today I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'"""
"""Yesterday... reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris.  Cholera is reported in Philadelphia..."""
"""Finished the Choephori, & began the Eumenides.  Read more than 500 lines of Greek, & was more tired by them than by the 800 the other day, because I met with more difficulties."""
"""Finished the Choephori, & began the Eumenides.  Read more than 500 lines of Greek, & was more tired by them than by the 800 the other day, because I met with more difficulties."""
"""If you really want to have a [notion] of tropical countries, study Humboldt.? Skip th[e] scientific parts & commence after leaving Teneriffe.? My feelings amount to admiration the more I read him.'"""
"""Mr Dunn has Grainger's """"""""Biographical History of England"""""""". A medallion of Cromwell is mentioned having Oliver's head engraved on one side, and on the reverse ... his head in Britannia's lap, his backside bare ...'"""
"""Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume.  And yet I really read nothing superficially.  There is a great deal in Synesius which is very fine.  He stands on a much higher step than Gregory does, as a poet; tho? occasional diffuseness is the fault of each.  I like the 7th. hymn extremely.  A slip of paper in the first leaf, tells me that in Mr. Boyd?s opinion the 1st. 5th. & 6th. are perhaps the finest, next to the 9th.  I wd. lay a very strong emphasis on perhaps.  The 9th. is, I agree with him, decidedly the finest."""
"""Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume.  And yet I really read nothing superficially.  There is a great deal in Synesius which is very fine.  He stands on a much higher step than Gregory does, as a poet; tho? occasional diffuseness is the fault of each.  I like the 7th. hymn extremely.  A slip of paper in the first leaf, tells me that in Mr. Boyd?s opinion the 1st. 5th. & 6th. are perhaps the finest, next to the 9th.  I wd. lay a very strong emphasis on perhaps.  The 9th. is, I agree with him, decidedly the finest."""
"""I dined with Captain Castle yesterday; who lent me the Backwoodsman by Dunlop; which I have read through. After doing so [...] I am more than ever pleased with this country.' [Buys a copy of this text on Monday 10 Dec 1832]."""
"""27/1/1833 ? Read Carne?s """"""""letters from the East"""""""", which, though not new to me, were most pleasing; so absorbed with his accounts of the Holy Land, I could scarcely quit them to go to bed.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau describes reading, on Good Friday 1833, a 'forthcoming' number of the """"""""Quarterly Review"""""""" containing a negative review of her work, lent to her by a clergyman the day previous to its publication, and at his request '[marking] all the lies in the margin'."""
"""Judging from the Pamphlet, you gave me & which I have found very useful, the insects of the Rio Plata are tolerably well-known.'"""
"""Fanny Kemble, 10 July 1833: 'Mr. [Edward Trelawny, writer and friend of Byron and Shelley] read Don Quixote to us [on board boat travelling up 'valley of the Mohawk']: he reads very peculiarly; slowly, and with very marked emphasis.' """
"""We had each seen the """"""""Derbyshire Patriot"""""""" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the people would not hear Hobhouse speak but pelted him with vegetables...'"""
"""Went with E. Allen to the Swan to see a London paper, saw one and learnt from it that Col. Evans was return'd to Westminster ... a sad shock to the Ministry- Bells - in noticing this says [quotes from paper]...'"""
"""Work'd all day. In the evening was visited by Wm Camm and Geo Seston to the latter of whom I lent Watts """"""""Improvement of the Mind"""""""". Read part of """"""""Corn Law Rhymes"""""""" to my friends. G. Ward was then added to the number- staid up till 11 o'clock.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau to her mother, 17 June 1833: '[Coleridge] read me (most exquisitely) some scraps of antique English'."""
"""I was reading your inimitable description of Dora Creswell the other day to a friend of mine who was confined to his bed by illness. He laughed and cried by turns, and averred there could not be a word changed for the better, except that of reaper applied to Dora.'"""
"""Bentley's puffs in the newspaper (for Jane Scott's """"""""Trevelyan"""""""") quite sicken me, all admirable and charming alike, written by his [italics] literary adviser [end italics] you may be sure, just in the same spirit as the puffs of Warren's blacking and Rowland's kalydor. Oh dear! it is a degradation I cannot bear'. [LS is arguing that aristocrats ought not admit to publishing books]"""
"""""""""""And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to read had been awakened.  Books, however, were very scarce.  The Bible and Bunyan were the principle; he committed many chapters of the former to memory, and accepted all Bunyan's allegory as bona fide history.  Afterwards, he obtained access to 'Robinson Crusoe', a few old Wesleyan magazines and some battle histories.  These constituted his sole reading, until he came up to London, at the age of fifteen, as an errand boy."""""""""""
"""""""""""And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to read had been awakened.  Books, however, were very scarce.  The Bible and Bunyan were the principle; he committed many chapters of the former to memory, and accepted all Bunyan's allegory as bona fide history.  Afterwards, he obtained access to 'Robinson Crusoe', a few old Wesleyan magazines and some battle histories.  These constituted his sole reading, until he came up to London, at the age of fifteen, as an errand boy."""""""""""
"""""""""""And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to read had been awakened.  Books, however, were very scarce.  The Bible and Bunyan were the principle; he committed many chapters of the former to memory, and accepted all Bunyan's allegory as bona fide history.  Afterwards, he obtained access to 'Robinson Crusoe', a few old Wesleyan magazines and some battle histories.  These constituted his sole reading, until he came up to London, at the age of fifteen, as an errand boy."""""""""""
"""""""""""And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to read had been awakened.  Books, however, were very scarce.  The Bible and Bunyan were the principle; he committed many chapters of the former to memory, and accepted all Bunyan's allegory as bona fide history.  Afterwards, he obtained access to 'Robinson Crusoe', a few old Wesleyan magazines and some battle histories.  These constituted his sole reading, until he came up to London, at the age of fifteen, as an errand boy."""""""""""
"""""""""""And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to read had been awakened.  Books, however, were very scarce.  The Bible and Bunyan were the principle; he committed many chapters of the former to memory, and accepted all Bunyan's allegory as bona fide history.  Afterwards, he obtained access to 'Robinson Crusoe', a few old Wesleyan magazines and some battle histories.  These constituted his sole reading, until he came up to London, at the age of fifteen, as an errand boy."""""""""""
"""Still unwell ... had in the course of the day read a good deal of """"""""Colton's Work"""""""" with which I was very well satisfied. Concluded it after I went to bed- very well satisfied.'"""
"""27/1/1833 - In the evening read some pages of S. Crisp's """"""""Sermons"""""""" - admirable! Read Newton's """"""""Cardiphonia"""""""" and in the Acts; an edifying evening, still to bed discouraged, though much enabled to pray during day.'"""
"""27/1/1833 - In the evening read some pages of S. Crisp's """"""""Sermons"""""""" - admirable! Read Newton's """"""""Cardiphonia"""""""" and in the Acts; an edifying evening, still to bed discouraged, though much enabled to pray during day.'"""
"""I had a letter from Ly. -- on Tuesday that gave me great content, for I, like you, felt a little afraid that the Lady Augusta might give offence. However, her withers are altogether unwrung, and she speaks of """"""""Trevelyan"""""""" just as I could wish, enumerating all her bothers and businesses, but saying she cannot resist taking it up at odd times, """"""""it is so very, very interesting!!"""""""" She has not yet come to the end; however, this has quite dispelled my fears. For that matter, when we all read """"""""Emma"""""""" together at poor Bothwell - the duchess one - we could not help laughing a little more at the devotion of father and daughter to their respective apothecaries, and all the coddling that ensued from it, but we did not find that it struck the devotees in existence. People are so used to themselves! One of Foote's most comical farces represented to the life a certain Mr. Ap. Rees, whom, as old people told me, it did not in the least exaggerate. They swore to having heard him utter the very things the farce put in his mouth. But he himself never found it out. He was intimate with Foote, read the play, told him it was d- stupid and would not suceed, wondered it did, yet went to it and laughed for company, till some good-natured friend informed him he was the person ridiculed; then he went in a rage to the Lord Chamberlain and desired it might be suppressed'."""
"""The newspapers having transferred their puffs from """"""""Trevelyan"""""""" to something more recent I am tranquillized again, and almost regret my sincerity in taking notice of them to [italics] her [end italics] lest she should be hurt; for I cannot help saying what I think just [italics] as [end italics] I think it'."""
"""I wish you would like my poor friend Miss Knight's """"""""Guy de Lusignan"""""""" a little better: the style is very good, the descriptions very exact, the history very exact; but, alas! it is not """"""""Trevelyan"""""""".'"""
"""Nothing to put down these last two days unless I go back to my old practice of recording what I read, and which I rather think I left off because I read nothing and had nothing to put down: but last two days, read a little of Cicero's Second Philippic, Voltaire's Siecle de Louis XVI, Coleridge's Journey to the West Indies; bought some books...'"""
"""Saw the """"""""Sheffield Iris"""""""" paper- and in it the report of a division in the House of Commons on a motion of Sir W. Ingilby """"""""For reducing or repealing the malt tax' ...this was hailed throughout the country as something being done for the people...'"""
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"""I cannot but urge on all those who are commencing their academic course, the natural study of his delightful work on natural Theology' [p.88] [And more references & comments on the following pages]"""
"""[This section is a strong attack on the utilitarian principles explained in Paley's work.]"""
"""Read Hamilton';s """"""""America"""""""", it is quite excellent'."""
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"""Harriet Martineau, on research for a story on Bills of Exchange to be set either in Holland or South America: 'I thought Holland on the whole the more convenient of the two; so I dipped into some book about that country (Sir William Temple, I believe it was), picked out the two ugliest Dutch names I could find, made them into a firm, and boldly advertised them.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, on her research for a story to be set in Ceylon: 'I gathered what I could from books, but really feared being obliged to give up a singularly good illustrative scene for want of the commonest facts concerning the social life of the Cingalese.  I found scarcely anything even in Maria Graham and Heber.  At this precise time, a friend happened to bring to my lodging [...] Sir Alexander Johnstone, who had just returned from governing Ceylon [...] Before we had known one another half an hour, I confided to him my difficulty.  He started of [...] and was soon at the door again, with his carriage full of books, prints and other illustrations [...] Among the volumes he left with me was a Columbo almanack, which furnished me with names, notices of customs, and other valuable matters.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, on her research for a story to be set in Ceylon: 'I gathered what I could from books, but really feared being obliged to give up a singularly good illustrative scene for want of the commonest facts concerning the social life of the Cingalese.  I found scarcely anything even in Maria Graham and Heber.  At this precise time, a friend happened to bring to my lodging [...] Sir Alexander Johnstone, who had just returned from governing Ceylon [...] Before we had known one another half an hour, I confided to him my difficulty.  He started of [...] and was soon at the door again, with his carriage full of books, prints and other illustrations [...] Among the volumes he left with me was a Columbo almanack, which furnished me with names, notices of customs, and other valuable matters.'"""
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"""Read an important letter of Mr E. Elliot's to the editor of the """"""""Morning Chronicle also an extract from the """"""""Parliamentary Review"""""""" on the state of the public mind and the conduct of the Whigs, Neithyer of which hesitate to say that the time is almost arriv'd for a change and both intimate that the most likely way to affect it is by force.'"""
"""Read an important letter of Mr E. Elliot's to the editor of the """"""""Morning Chronicle also an extract from the """"""""Parliamentary Review"""""""" on the state of the public mind and the conduct of the Whigs, Neithyer of which hesitate to say that the time is almost arriv'd for a change and both intimate that the most likely way to affect it is by force.'"""
"""I am always glad when a clever book has been written; not only because it pleases me, but because it is a new triumph for Brains. I have had very great pleasure in reading the stories; it is very difficult to say what they are made of, but they are very agreeable, and I beg for more. There is only one I dislike, it is too inocent for me - and yet I consider myself a very innocent person. I never read any stories which had so much the manners and conversation of real life; all aim at it, none have ever succeeded so well. I always write to everybody who publishes a book that gives me pleasure - so excuse me and believe me, dear Lady Dacre, ever sincerely yours...'"""
"""Saw an advertisement that Mr Berry was to preach at South Street on the following Sunday and at once determined (health and circumstances permitting) to hear him.  [Berry was a Methodist preacher from Bolton]."""
"""Sent 29 stuff hats to Mr Booth -heard the """"""""Iris"""""""" Paper read by Tom, find the country is much agitated at the conduct of ministers.'"""
"""We have been favoured the last two days to have all our fifteen children around us ... After dinner we walked a little and then had tea, and after tea a number of the children sang in company some of our old Earlham songs and ended with two hymns. We were then silent and read the 103rd Psalm, and I spoke earnestly to my children impressing them with the importance, now that most of them were no longer under our restraint, that they should be conformed to the will of God'"""
"""would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols. - Histoire de la Revolution, par Thiers, 10. vols. - Botta's Storia d'Italia, continued from Guicciardini; there are ten vols: I have read only 6 yet. Memoires de l'Abbe Morellet, very entertaining. Memoires de Mde Dubarry, very naughty, but very amusing, & she the best natured of the vicious, envious, spightful Court - and sundry other vols, dotted about, & lent me by one body or other. - I hope you are edified, Sister Emma.'"""
"""would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols. - Histoire de la Revolution, par Thiers, 10. vols. - Botta's Storia d'Italia, continued from Guicciardini; there are ten vols: I have read only 6 yet. Memoires de l'Abbe Morellet, very entertaining. Memoires de Mde Dubarry, very naughty, but very amusing, & she the best natured of the vicious, envious, spightful Court - and sundry other vols, dotted about, & lent me by one body or other. - I hope you are edified, Sister Emma.'"""
"""would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols. - Histoire de la Revolution, par Thiers, 10. vols. - Botta's Storia d'Italia, continued from Guicciardini; there are ten vols: I have read only 6 yet. Memoires de l'Abbe Morellet, very entertaining. Memoires de Mde Dubarry, very naughty, but very amusing, & she the best natured of the vicious, envious, spightful Court - and sundry other vols, dotted about, & lent me by one body or other. - I hope you are edified, Sister Emma.'"""
"""would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols. - Histoire de la Revolution, par Thiers, 10. vols. - Botta's Storia d'Italia, continued from Guicciardini; there are ten vols: I have read only 6 yet. Memoires de l'Abbe Morellet, very entertaining. Memoires de Mde Dubarry, very naughty, but very amusing, & she the best natured of the vicious, envious, spightful Court - and sundry other vols, dotted about, & lent me by one body or other. - I hope you are edified, Sister Emma.'"""
"""would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols. - Histoire de la Revolution, par Thiers, 10. vols. - Botta's Storia d'Italia, continued from Guicciardini; there are ten vols: I have read only 6 yet. Memoires de l'Abbe Morellet, very entertaining. Memoires de Mde Dubarry, very naughty, but very amusing, & she the best natured of the vicious, envious, spightful Court - and sundry other vols, dotted about, & lent me by one body or other. - I hope you are edified, Sister Emma.'"""
"""During the period of the writing of the three Series, -- the Political Economy, Taxation, and Poor-laws -- I never remember but once sitting down to read whatever I pleased.  That was a summer evening [...] I sat down to study the geography and relations of the States of the American Union; and extremely interesting I found it'."""
"""Lord Durham to Harriet Martineau, 1 January 1834: 'I have read your excellent paper with great pleasure'."""
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"""From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'From Bell's weekly Messenger, April 13 1834. """"""""The late Rudolph Ackermann, Esqr, whose death we announced in our last weeks paper, was born at Schneeberg, in the Kingdom of Saxony, in 1764, and bred to the trade of a coach-builder...."""""""" Mr and Mrs Ackermann were my neighbours for the seven years I have lived at Finchley. CMG. April 16 1834. Finchley Common.'"""
"""Finished Miss Austen's """"""""Emma"""""""", which amused me very much, impressing me with a high opinion of her powers of drawing and sustaining character, though not satisfying me always with the end and aim of her labours.  She is successful in painting the ridiculous to the life, and while she makes demands on our patience for the almost intolerable absurdities and tediousness of her well-meaning gossips, she does not recompense us for what we suffer from her conceited and arrogant nuisances by making their vices their punishments.  We are not much better, but perhaps a little more prudent for her writing.  She does not probe the vices, but lays bare the weaknesses of character; the blemish on the skin, and not the corruption at the heart, is what she examines.  Mrs. Brunton's books have a far higher aim; they try to make us better, and it is an addition to previous faults if they do not.  The necessity, the comfort, and the elevating influence of piety is continually inculcated throughout her works - which never appear in Miss Austen's.'"""
"""Mary Berry to Thomas Babington Macaulay, 15 October 1834: 'Have they sent you among your books """"""""Victor Jaquemont's Letters?"""""""" they are perfectly original [...] I never knew before half so much of the life of our countrymen in India; and the author himself is so natural and unaffected a character, that I had well-night cried at his death, as if it had not been true.'"""
"""Mary Berry to Earl Granville, Monday 18 November 1834, on recent dissolution of Government: 'On Saturday, Lady Lansdowne read the paragraph in the """"""""Times"""""""" to her lord at breakfast; they both smiled at it, and thought no more of the matter.'"""
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"""I returned from Brighton the day before yesterday having felt a drawing of love to visit the Friends; and to attend to the difficulties of the District Society. I went [underline] quite alone [end underline], and yet not alone because I believe my master was with me. I had amongst the Friends some weighty, close service, some very encouraging. My way appeared curiously opened in the hearts of the people and I hope and trust the valued District Society will be continued. I had about a hundred visitors to meet me, and read the 100th Psalm: and prayed for them, and the Society, and strongly pressed the importance of different Christians working together, and of unity of spirit'"""
"""You surprise me greatly by what you say of """"""""Emma"""""""" and the other books.  They enjoy the highest reputation, and I own, for my part, I was delighted with them.  I fear they must have been badly read aloud to you.  At all events, they are generally much admired, and I was quite serious in my praise of them.'"""
"""dined at Lord Bexley's, afterwards led to many fears - worry about showing off - But a few words in the Proverbs encouraged me """"""""Reproofs of instruction are the way of life"""""""" chap 6 v.23. I see it well to be reproved, may I profit by it.'"""
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"""From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. '""""""""Weep not for me ye daughters of Jerusalem"""""""" St Luke 23 Chapters 20 to 30'. Here follows a poem, by """"""""CMG"""""""", dated March 26, 1834, Finchley which is clearly a reflection on the Biblical text."""
"""Shall I confess to you that I have some dread of this wonderful lady [Harriet Martineau]...I agree with a good, simple lady of my acquaintance that """"""""political economy is an excellent thing,"""""""" but, alas! when I read Miss M's books, I slip [possibly skip?] the political economy as a friend of mine did the muscles when he studied anatomy'"""
"""Dear Miss Mitford, I rejoice in finding an occasion to address you, that I may express the very great pleasure both my husband and myself have always derived from your writing.  We know your """"""""village"""""""" and all its crofts, and lanes and people, and we wish we had the happiness of peronally knowing you.'"""
"""Journal of Miss Fraser, Newgate prison visitor, dated 29 Nov 1834: 'I spent an interesting time in Newgate, Mrs Fry and I went there together for several hours. She went with me to the cells and read to the men just sentenced to death. Amongst them, there were two brothers, convicted, I believe, for housebreaking. The youngest was drawn into the commission of the crime by the elder brother. James, the youngest, could not read; he was married to a very pleasing looking young woman, and had two children. I recollect Mrs Fry told the poor men who could not read that if they would try to learn while they were in Newgate, she would give those who succeeded, each a Bible. James took very great pains, and before he left the prison to be transported he could read tolerably. On the 7th of January following, Mrs Fry again went with me to the cells. James then read the 7th chapter of St Matthew's gospel, and received his Bible. He became a valuable servant to the gentleman to whom he was assigned in New South Wales'"""
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"""William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her """"""""National Lyrics and Songs for Music"""""""": 'many of the Pieces had fallen in my way before they were collected; and had given me more or less pleasure [...] the pleasure is yet to come of perusing your Pieces in succession.  I can only say that whenever I have peeped into the volume -- I have been well recompensed. This morning I glanced my eye over the Pilgrim Song to the evening Star with great pleasure.'  """
"""William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her """"""""National Lyrics and Songs for Music"""""""": 'many of the Pieces had fallen in my way before they were collected; and had given me more or less pleasure [...] the pleasure is yet to come of perusing your Pieces in succession.  I can only say that whenever I have peeped into the volume -- I have been well recompensed. This morning I glanced my eye over the Pilgrim Song to the evening Star with great pleasure.'  """
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"""William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, September 1834, praising her verse collection """"""""Scenes and Hymns"""""""", of which he was the dedicatee: 'This morning I have read the stanzas upon """"""""Elysium"""""""" with great pleasure.  You have admirably expanded the thought of Chateaubriand.'"""
"""William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, September 1834, praising her verse collection """"""""Scenes and Hymns"""""""", of which he was the dedicatee: 'This morning I have read the stanzas upon """"""""Elysium"""""""" with great pleasure.  You have admirably expanded the thought of Chateaubriand.'"""
"""Mary Berry to 'Mrs Somerville', from Bellevue, September 1834: 'I have just finished reading your book [apparently on astronomy], which has [italics]entertained[end italics] me extremely, and at the same time, I hope, improved my moral character in the Christian virtue of humility [...] Humbled I must be, by finding my own intellect unequal to following, beyond a first step, the explanations by which you seek to make easy to comprehension the marvellous phenomena of the universe'."""
"""Journey into Scotland in Aug 1834 with husband and two daughters: 'At Kenmore, they enjoyed a quiet Sunday and tolerable highland accommodation. In the evening, anxious to turn the day to some good account, Mrs Fry invited the servants of the inn, to attend the reading she intended to have with her own family. Some ladies were polite enough to offer the use of their sitting room as it was more roomy; a large congregation of barefooted chambermaids, and blue-bonnetted hostlers, assembled. She read part of her brother Joseph John Gurney's letter to a Friend, on the evidences of Christianity; the people were very attentive and anxious each to possess a copy, that they might read the remainder of the book to themselves. The next day, some gamekeepers who came to the inn requested a similar gift, having heard from the people there all that had taken place.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, recalling acquaintances of her youth: 'Mr. Hallam one day called, when, as it was the first day of the month, my table was spread with new periodicals, sent me by publishers.  I was not in the room when Mr. Hallam entered; and I found him with the """"""""Monthly Repository"""""""" in his hands, turning over the pages.  He pointed to the Editor's name (Mr. Fox) on the cover, and asked me some questions about him.  After turning over, and remarking upon a few others, he sat down for a chat.' """
"""One day my [Harriet Martineau's] mother was distressed at finding in the """"""""Times"""""""" a ribald song addressed to me.'"""
"""I [Harriet Martineau] was spending a couple of days at Mrs. Marsh's, when she asked me whether I would let her read to me """"""""one or two little stories"""""""" which she had written.  From her way of speaking of them, and from her devotion to her children [...] I concluded these to be children's stories.  She ordered a fire in her room, and there we shut ourselves up for the reading. What she read was no child's story, but """"""""The Admiral's Daughter.""""""""  My amazement may be conceived.  We were going to dine at the Wedgwoods': and a strange figure we must have cut there; for we had been crying so desperately that there was no concealing the marks of it.' """
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"""By a quaint coincidence I received your letter directed (I suppose) by Phillip van Artevelde with Philip himself (not the man but the book) and I wish to tell you that I think him a noble fellow. I close with him in most that he says of modern poetry... etc.'"""
"""[S. T. Coleridge] told me [Harriet Martineau] that he (the last person whom I should have suspected) read my tales as they came out on the first of the month'."""
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"""As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into Marurice's work Eustace Conway, which appears [from letters] to have been in great disfavour, and into Arthur Coningsby by John Sterling, """"""""a dreary book""""""""'."""
"""As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into Marurice's work Eustace Conway, which appears [from letters] to have been in great disfavour, and into Arthur Coningsby by John Sterling, """"""""a dreary book""""""""'."""
"""As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into Marurice's work Eustace Conway, which appears [from letters] to have been in great disfavour, and into Arthur Coningsby by John Sterling, """"""""a dreary book""""""""'."""
"""As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into Marurice's work Eustace Conway, which appears [from letters] to have been in great disfavour, and into Arthur Coningsby by John Sterling, """"""""a dreary book""""""""'."""
"""As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into Marurice's work Eustace Conway, which appears [from letters] to have been in great disfavour, and into Arthur Coningsby by John Sterling, """"""""a dreary book""""""""'."""
"""A very fair measure of French and some skill in drawing appear to have been the most striking accomplishments which Charlotte carried back from Roe Head [school] to Haworth. There are some twenty drawings of about this date, and a translation into English verse of the first book of Voltaire's Henriade.'"""
"""Mrs. Marsh asked me what I thought of getting her tales published.  I offered to try if, on reading the manuscript at home, I thought as well of it [""""""""The Admiral's Daughter""""""""] as after her own most moving delivery of it.  A second reading left no doubt in my mind; and I had the pleasure of introducing the """"""""Two Old Men's Tales"""""""" to the world through Messrs. Saunders and Otley'."""
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"""I always thought Chateaubriand had a great deal of the mountebank in him. I bought the play [which she also watched] so you will see it. In his preface he talks of Racine's sacred dramas, but, after all, the histories of Esther and Athalie, though in the Bible, are [italics] mere history [end italics; this is significant because LS is objecting to Chateaubriand representing Moses on stage - implicitly a different thing from what Racine did - this is elaborated on] When I got the book I could scarcely follow the actors, who ate half their words and bellowed the other half.'"""
"""""""""""The Times"""""""" newspaper was taken in daily, and it was the office of each compositor in town to read the debates and leaders aloud for the benefit of the rest. When it came to my turn, they could never understand my """"""""professional"""""""" mode of reading, and made me many humble requests for explanation.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau's American Journal, 31 October 1834: 'Read Norton's excellent, but supercilious, truth-telling Preface to work in disproof of Trinitarian doctrines, and some of the chapters [...] Read some of Palfrey's Sermons [...] Read Reports of Blind Institution at Philadelphia: of House of Refuge, interesting [...] and of Penitentiary, interesting.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau's American Journal, 31 October 1834: 'Read Norton's excellent, but supercilious, truth-telling Preface to work in disproof of Trinitarian doctrines, and some of the chapters [...] Read some of Palfrey's Sermons [...] Read Reports of Blind Institution at Philadelphia: of House of Refuge, interesting [...] and of Penitentiary, interesting.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau's American Journal, 31 October 1834: 'Read Norton's excellent, but supercilious, truth-telling Preface to work in disproof of Trinitarian doctrines, and some of the chapters [...] Read some of Palfrey's Sermons [...] Read Reports of Blind Institution at Philadelphia: of House of Refuge, interesting [...] and of Penitentiary, interesting.'"""
"""I am so delighted with Barrow?s note on the qualities of Tobacco (communicated by Harfield) that I can think of nothing else."""
"""Give Mr Whewell my best thanks for sending me his tide paper: all on board are much interested by it.'"""
"""Looked over Piercy's Retford and Benick's Birds - the birds are admirable; beyond all praise; they appear to be all life, or almost alive; they are admirably true to nature. Examined the plan of Hornsey's Eng Gram.r.'"""
"""Looked over Piercy's Retford and Benick's Birds - the birds are admirable; beyond all praise; they appear to be all life, or almost alive; they are admirably true to nature. Examined the plan of Hornsey's Eng Gram.r.'"""
"""Looked over Piercy's Retford and Benick's Birds - the birds are admirable; beyond all praise; they appear to be all life, or almost alive; they are admirably true to nature. Examined the plan of Hornsey's Eng Gram.r.'"""
"""Have you Tom Davis's Life of David Garrick? I have been reading Boswell's Life of Johnson, and should like to peruse the life of his (Johnson's) contemporary. Mrs Hannah More's life has just come out.'"""
"""Your last book still rolls on, gathering golden opinions, and I for one thank you, for I have been passing the last fortnight in the country, and perhaps there is no book in the world so pleasant to be on the grass with and read to a charming woman. I have only grudged the transfer of leaves from my right hand to my left, and if you had heard the """"""""Is that all?"""""""" of my listener as I closed the last volume, you would have felt that you had not lived in vain - as who has, who has given pleasure to the world, or beguiled weariness, or refined the aspect of life?'"""
"""Looked into Pulleyn's Etymological Compendium for Maps &c.'"""
"""Read """"""""The Telegraph"""""""" in Evans.'"""
"""Used B[isho]p Andrew's exct Prayers both mg & aftn - read one of Blair's sermons morng. Evg read one of B[isho]p Moore's sermons.'"""
"""Used B[isho]p Andrew's exct Prayers both mg & aftn - read one of Blair's sermons morng. Evg read one of B[isho]p Moore's sermons.'"""
"""Used B[isho]p Andrew's exct Prayers both mg & aftn - read one of Blair's sermons morng. Evg read one of B[isho]p Moore's sermons.'"""
"""Looked over Rhind's """"""""Studies in Natural History"""""""", read a portion of the month in """"""""Annals of my Village"""""""".'"""
"""Looked over Rhind's """"""""Studies in Natural History"""""""", read a portion of the month in """"""""Annals of my Village"""""""".'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Journal, 14 January [?1835]: 'Read Carlyle's article on Burns.  Was mightily cheered and lifted up by it.'"""
"""I have just finished Fanny Kemble's books, and when I say that I read them the next after your most charming volumes, and was amused, and on the whole much pleased with them. I am sure they are meritorious, let the critics say what they may.'"""
"""I have just finished Fanny Kemble's books, and when I say that I read them the next after your most charming volumes, and was amused, and on the whole much pleased with them. I am sure they are meritorious, let the critics say what they may.'"""
"""The best account I have read of America, as it now is, I have found in a book written by H. Tudor, Esq. (a townsman of my own whom I knew very well in his early life, some thirty years since). He is their warm admirer...'"""
"""With Willis's Melaine, etc., I have been delighted, and indeed affected, more than with any poetry I ever read in my life. I wonder if he is the gentleman I met at Mr. Wilson's...'"""
"""I send you with this all Dr. Channing's works, and the little series of four small volumes, in whcih Miss Sedgwick's """"""""Home"""""""" is to be found, and I send them very gladly, both because I think them good and because the last of them, """"""""Gleams of Truth"""""""", is a practical illustration of the principles touching the relations of the more favoured and less favoured classes of society, which are so ably and so beautifully set forth in the separate sermon of Dr. Channing which I send with them.'"""
"""In introductory note to Felicia Hemans, """"""""The American Forest-Girl"""""""": 'F[elicia]H[emans] [...] read Catherine Maria Sedgwick's """"""""Hope Leslie"""""""" [...] a novel published in 1827 about the Pequod War in 17th-c. New England.'"""
"""Susan J. Wolfson notes Felicia Hemans's reading (probably some time after 1830) of Thomas Moore's """"""""Life of Byron"""""""", 'which dismayed her.'"""
"""Thank you very much for the gift of """"""""Ion""""""""; the tragedy was known to us by extracts, and our desire to see it was great. We like it very much - it is a noble descendant of the noble Greek tragedy.'"""
"""Have you seen Robert Nicholls' poems? If you are a reader of """"""""Tait's Magazine"""""""", you will see the review of them; that is a right manly and sterling volume of poetry, full of life, humour, and the noblest elements of poetry. I cannot tell you how such poems as """"""""Arouse the Soul,"""""""" """"""""I Dare not Scorn,"""""""" and others such of which this volume has many, affect me.  It is such writing as this which makes one feel that talent is nobler than birth, and high-mindedness of more worth than gold.'"""
"""Read Natural History of the Stickleback, which is a very interesting, though common fish.'"""
"""""""""""And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a Master,' together with English, Roman, and Grecian history."""""""""""
"""""""""""And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a Master,' together with English, Roman, and Grecian history."""""""""""
"""""""""""And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a Master,' together with English, Roman, and Grecian history."""""""""""
"""""""""""And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a Master,' together with English, Roman, and Grecian history."""""""""""
"""""""""""And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a Master,' together with English, Roman, and Grecian history."""""""""""
"""""""""""And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a Master,' together with English, Roman, and Grecian history."""""""""""
"""Read the extraordinary Acct of the Retirement of the Emperor Charles V.'"""
"""There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breathes the very soul of poetry. There are only three books in the world that are worth the opening in search of mottos and quotations, and all of them are alike rich. These are, the Old Testament, Shakspeare, and the poetical works of Wordsworth, and, strange to say, the """"""""Excursion"""""""" abounds most in them'."""
"""There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breathes the very soul of poetry. There are only three books in the world that are worth the opening in search of mottos and quotations, and all of them are alike rich. These are, the Old Testament, Shakspeare, and the poetical works of Wordsworth, and, strange to say, the """"""""Excursion"""""""" abounds most in them'."""
"""There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breathes the very soul of poetry. There are only three books in the world that are worth the opening in search of mottos and quotations, and all of them are alike rich. These are, the Old Testament, Shakspeare, and the poetical works of Wordsworth, and, strange to say, the """"""""Excursion"""""""" abounds most in them'."""
"""You talk of reading """"""""a very old book"""""""": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underlined] compared to my present reading. I am reduced to a perusal of my own little library, and am solacing myself with Plutarch's Lives, and Robertson's History of Charles V. and vary my sport occasionally with an Historical Play of Shakespear, or a good Sunday Book.'"""
"""You talk of reading """"""""a very old book"""""""": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underlined] compared to my present reading. I am reduced to a perusal of my own little library, and am solacing myself with Plutarch's Lives, and Robertson's History of Charles V. and vary my sport occasionally with an Historical Play of Shakespear, or a good Sunday Book.'"""
"""You talk of reading """"""""a very old book"""""""": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underlined] compared to my present reading. I am reduced to a perusal of my own little library, and am solacing myself with Plutarch's Lives, and Robertson's History of Charles V. and vary my sport occasionally with an Historical Play of Shakespear, or a good Sunday Book.'"""
"""Read in Sir Phillip's """"""""Personal Tour"""""""" - curios of natural history... Read a portion of Blair on death.'"""
"""Read in Sir Phillip's """"""""Personal Tour"""""""" - curios of natural history... Read a portion of Blair on death.'"""
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"""We are now reading at the tea table, Evan's Tourist.'"""
"""Read in Evan's Tourist. The vulgar pronunciation of Brumidgham is nearer the true derivation than the modern name of Birmingham. """"""""It is said that it was formerly called Birmicham, from a family of that name, who were benefactors to it"""""""".'"""
"""I think you will like Sir James Mackintosh's Life; it is full of his own thoughts upon men, books and events, and I derived from it the greatest pleasure. He makes most honourable mention of your mother, whom I only know by one of her productions, - enough to secure my admiration'."""
"""Amongst others, I have had Keith on the Evidences of Prophecy put into my hands, and a most masterly and striking performance it is. Totally dissimilar from Newton on the Prophecies, an excellent book, but not in any degree equal in force or in ability to the work in question, which has already gone through thirteen editions'."""
"""Amongst others, I have had Keith on the Evidences of Prophecy put into my hands, and a most masterly and striking performance it is. Totally dissimilar from Newton on the Prophecies, an excellent book, but not in any degree equal in force or in ability to the work in question, which has already gone through thirteen editions'."""
"""Extracted from Bridges. Looked over the Acct. of Croyland Abbey, which supplied me with a hint for the Acct. of Wellingbro' Church, which I added [...] I looked over Parry's Woburn.'"""
"""Extracted from Bridges. Looked over the Acct. of Croyland Abbey, which supplied me with a hint for the Acct. of Wellingbro' Church, which I added [...] I looked over Parry's Woburn.'"""
"""Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in this life' [...] Read portions of Bryant 'On the plagues of Egypt' [...] In the Evening read Archp. Tellotison's Sermon 'On the happiness of heaven', which I found interesting & in simple language... Read sev.l Poetical pieces suitable to this sacred day among others Edmaston's delightful sonnet.'"""
"""Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in this life' [...] Read portions of Bryant 'On the plagues of Egypt' [...] In the Evening read Archp. Tellotison's Sermon 'On the happiness of heaven', which I found interesting & in simple language... Read sev.l Poetical pieces suitable to this sacred day among others Edmaston's delightful sonnet.'"""
"""Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in this life' [...] Read portions of Bryant 'On the plagues of Egypt' [...] In the Evening read Archp. Tellotison's Sermon 'On the happiness of heaven', which I found interesting & in simple language... Read sev.l Poetical pieces suitable to this sacred day among others Edmaston's delightful sonnet.'"""
"""Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in this life' [...] Read portions of Bryant 'On the plagues of Egypt' [...] In the Evening read Archp. Tellotison's Sermon 'On the happiness of heaven', which I found interesting & in simple language... Read sev.l Poetical pieces suitable to this sacred day among others Edmaston's delightful sonnet.'"""
"""Read portions if Sir Rd Phillip's """"""""Tour"""""""" and Journal.'"""
"""Read an Acct of the celebration of the Games in the Colloseum at Rome.'"""
"""After the service we inspected the monument of Thomas Robinson... The Saviour appearing in the clouds with an open book in his hands on which is written these words [sic]: """"""""Feed my sheep"""""""" which he is in the act of presenting to the Pastor of St Mary's.'"""
"""During our readings at our lodgings, Dr Clarke's Lake of Riberias formed an interesting portion. King's Hymns too were our companion.'"""
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'"""
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835.  During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.' """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835.  During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'  """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'  """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.' """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.' """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.' """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'  """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.' """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'  """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.' """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.' """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.' """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'  """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'  """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.' """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'  """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'  """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'  """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'  """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'  """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'  """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'  """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.' """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.' """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'  """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'  """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.' """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.' """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'  """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.' """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.' """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'  """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'  """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'  """
"""I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.  I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days.  I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'  """
"""I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History having been interrupted by my leaving Florence, I could not for the life of me connect it again; and I got hold of other books - read no Italian for ages - and, at last, pounced one fine day upon a good, clear edition of Ariosto, and have been and am reading him with even more delight than when he first fell into my hands. Here and there, he is a bad boy, and as the book is my own, & I do not like indecency, I cut out whole pages that annoy me, & burn them before the Author's face, which stands at the beginning of the first volume, and I hope feels properly ashamed. Next to Ariosto, by way of something new, I treat myself now and then with a play of one Wm Shakespear, and I am reading Robertson's Charles Vth which comes in well after that part of Botta's History at which I left off - viz: just about the time of the council of Trent. And, as I love modern reading, I was glad to find myself possessed of a very tidy edition of a Biographical work you may perhaps have heard tell of - Plutarch's Lives. If you should ever meet with it, I think I might venture to say you would not dislike it'."""
"""I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History having been interrupted by my leaving Florence, I could not for the life of me connect it again; and I got hold of other books - read no Italian for ages - and, at last, pounced one fine day upon a good, clear edition of Ariosto, and have been and am reading him with even more delight than when he first fell into my hands. Here and there, he is a bad boy, and as the book is my own, & I do not like indecency, I cut out whole pages that annoy me, & burn them before the Author's face, which stands at the beginning of the first volume, and I hope feels properly ashamed. Next to Ariosto, by way of something new, I treat myself now and then with a play of one Wm Shakespear, and I am reading Robertson's Charles Vth which comes in well after that part of Botta's History at which I left off - viz: just about the time of the council of Trent. And, as I love modern reading, I was glad to find myself possessed of a very tidy edition of a Biographical work you may perhaps have heard tell of - Plutarch's Lives. If you should ever meet with it, I think I might venture to say you would not dislike it'."""
"""I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History having been interrupted by my leaving Florence, I could not for the life of me connect it again; and I got hold of other books - read no Italian for ages - and, at last, pounced one fine day upon a good, clear edition of Ariosto, and have been and am reading him with even more delight than when he first fell into my hands. Here and there, he is a bad boy, and as the book is my own, & I do not like indecency, I cut out whole pages that annoy me, & burn them before the Author's face, which stands at the beginning of the first volume, and I hope feels properly ashamed. Next to Ariosto, by way of something new, I treat myself now and then with a play of one Wm Shakespear, and I am reading Robertson's Charles Vth which comes in well after that part of Botta's History at which I left off - viz: just about the time of the council of Trent. And, as I love modern reading, I was glad to find myself possessed of a very tidy edition of a Biographical work you may perhaps have heard tell of - Plutarch's Lives. If you should ever meet with it, I think I might venture to say you would not dislike it'."""
"""I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History having been interrupted by my leaving Florence, I could not for the life of me connect it again; and I got hold of other books - read no Italian for ages - and, at last, pounced one fine day upon a good, clear edition of Ariosto, and have been and am reading him with even more delight than when he first fell into my hands. Here and there, he is a bad boy, and as the book is my own, & I do not like indecency, I cut out whole pages that annoy me, & burn them before the Author's face, which stands at the beginning of the first volume, and I hope feels properly ashamed. Next to Ariosto, by way of something new, I treat myself now and then with a play of one Wm Shakespear, and I am reading Robertson's Charles Vth which comes in well after that part of Botta's History at which I left off - viz: just about the time of the council of Trent. And, as I love modern reading, I was glad to find myself possessed of a very tidy edition of a Biographical work you may perhaps have heard tell of - Plutarch's Lives. If you should ever meet with it, I think I might venture to say you would not dislike it'."""
"""I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History having been interrupted by my leaving Florence, I could not for the life of me connect it again; and I got hold of other books - read no Italian for ages - and, at last, pounced one fine day upon a good, clear edition of Ariosto, and have been and am reading him with even more delight than when he first fell into my hands. Here and there, he is a bad boy, and as the book is my own, & I do not like indecency, I cut out whole pages that annoy me, & burn them before the Author's face, which stands at the beginning of the first volume, and I hope feels properly ashamed. Next to Ariosto, by way of something new, I treat myself now and then with a play of one Wm Shakespear, and I am reading Robertson's Charles Vth which comes in well after that part of Botta's History at which I left off - viz: just about the time of the council of Trent. And, as I love modern reading, I was glad to find myself possessed of a very tidy edition of a Biographical work you may perhaps have heard tell of - Plutarch's Lives. If you should ever meet with it, I think I might venture to say you would not dislike it'."""
"""Read November in """"""""Annals of my Village"""""""".'"""
"""The only gleam of romance I had in connection with the place [a house in John St, Bedford Row, London] was derived from the fact that the large bare house reminded me of a description of one like it in an old novel by Miss Hawkins - """"""""The Countess and Gertrude"""""""".'"""
"""On the circular table in the centre of the room was placed among other books an album, and Mr Storey being called away, I noted the following excellent morsels of literature: """"""""It is a good rule that our conversation should rather be of things than of persons: for thus obvious reason, that things have not a character to lose."""""""" """"""""To take sunshine pleasure in the blessings and excellencies of others is a much surer mask of benevolence than pity their calamities"""""""".'"""
"""Have you read Bourrienne's Memoirs? Sick as I thought myself of Buonaparte and all that related to his tremendous though short-lived success (I always consider him as a permitted scourge), Bourrienne's book caught fast hold of me, & I was really sorry when I had finished it. Yet, I could only get it in English: but the translation is not very bad'."""
"""As a young man in America, he had been deeply impressed by """"""""Salathiel"""""""", a pious prose romance of that then popular writer, the Rev. George Croly."""""""""""
"""In 1835, [James] Edwards [Sewell, reader's brother] [...] had the curacy of Hursley.  Mr. Gilbert Heathcote held the living, and Ellen [reader's sister] and I were sent to Hursley [...] whilst Lucy [reader's friend] was ill.  We were at the old vicarage [...] [Mr. Heathcote's books] were very kindly left for our use, and I made an acquaintance with Sir Walter Scott's """"""""Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk"""""""", and read Shakespeare to Ellen, and led a quiet life, seeing no one.'"""
"""Evidence of E. Fry to parliamentary Select Committee - Fry explains that she is careful in her prison readings to have a regard to the feelings of the women. For instance, on one occasion a Jewess objected to religious instruction provided by the ladies: 'On account of our reading in the New Testament. Afterwards she came and we endeavoured to adapt the reading a little to her, we reading the Psalms and a portion of the Old Testament'"""
"""My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the """"""""Spectator"""""""" and """"""""The Rambler"""""""", Mason's plays, Addison's """"""""Cato"""""""" etc. This we were often called upon to do when we were invited to dine with Aunt Clarke'."""
"""My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the """"""""Spectator"""""""" and """"""""The Rambler"""""""", Mason's plays, Addison's """"""""Cato"""""""" etc. This we were often called upon to do when we were invited to dine with Aunt Clarke'."""
"""My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the """"""""Spectator"""""""" and """"""""The Rambler"""""""", Mason's plays, Addison's """"""""Cato"""""""" etc. This we were often called upon to do when we were invited to dine with Aunt Clarke'."""
"""My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the """"""""Spectator"""""""" and """"""""The Rambler"""""""", Mason's plays, Addison's """"""""Cato"""""""" etc. This we were often called upon to do when we were invited to dine with Aunt Clarke'."""
"""My first sight of German letters, and my first wish to know the language, was gained from being allowed to look at a  beautiful copy of Burger's """"""""Lenore"""""""", illustrated by striking line engravings, and having the German on one page and the English translation on the other.'"""
"""I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's """"""""History of Modern Europe"""""""" and Robertson's """"""""Charles the Fifth"""""""", I read, and also Watts on the """"""""Improvement of the Mind"""""""", and I plodded through an Italian history of the Venetian Doges, lent me by an intimate and valued friend of my father, Mr Turnbull'."""
"""I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's """"""""History of Modern Europe"""""""" and Robertson's """"""""Charles the Fifth"""""""", I read, and also Watts on the """"""""Improvement of the Mind"""""""", and I plodded through an Italian history of the Venetian Doges, lent me by an intimate and valued friend of my father, Mr Turnbull'."""
"""I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's """"""""History of Modern Europe"""""""" and Robertson's """"""""Charles the Fifth"""""""", I read, and also Watts on the """"""""Improvement of the Mind"""""""", and I plodded through an Italian history of the Venetian Doges, lent me by an intimate and valued friend of my father, Mr Turnbull'."""
"""I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's """"""""History of Modern Europe"""""""" and Robertson's """"""""Charles the Fifth"""""""", I read, and also Watts on the """"""""Improvement of the Mind"""""""", and I plodded through an Italian history of the Venetian Doges, lent me by an intimate and valued friend of my father, Mr Turnbull'."""
"""I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish """"""""Don Quixote"""""""" lying about, which no-one claimed, I took possession of it, bought a grammar and dictionary, and set to work to master the contents of the book which I knew so well by name'."""
"""I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish """"""""Don Quixote"""""""" lying about, which no-one claimed, I took possession of it, bought a grammar and dictionary, and set to work to master the contents of the book which I knew so well by name'."""
"""The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies were very superficial: I knew nothing perfectly, but I read everything that came in my way. There was an excellent town library in Newport, from which I could get any good modern works; and, besides the graver literature, I had always some lighter book on hand, and especially delighted in Walter Scott's novels and poetry. Byron, too, was a great favourite'"""
"""The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies were very superficial: I knew nothing perfectly, but I read everything that came in my way. There was an excellent town library in Newport, from which I could get any good modern works; and, besides the graver literature, I had always some lighter book on hand, and especially delighted in Walter Scott's novels and poetry. Byron, too, was a great favourite'"""
"""The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies were very superficial: I knew nothing perfectly, but I read everything that came in my way. There was an excellent town library in Newport, from which I could get any good modern works; and, besides the graver literature, I had always some lighter book on hand, and especially delighted in Walter Scott's novels and poetry. Byron, too, was a great favourite'"""
"""We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the floor of the other room was covered with Mr Heathcote's books. They were very kindly left for our use, and I made an acquaintance with Sir Walter Scott's """"""""Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk"""""""", and read Shakespeare to Ellen, and led a quiet life, seeing no one'."""
"""During some months of 1837 my father was deeply immersed in Pringle's Travels, and Lyell's Geology'."""
"""Mr Gilman of South Carolina to his brother, 1835, on visit from Harriet Martineau: 'She found out our hours of family prayer and always came in most punctually with her favourite Bible, the Porteusian edition, which she reads more than any other book.'"""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus, below the last line of the dialogue]: """"""""Calcutta, May 1835."""""""""""
"""Read letter from Rev R Garvey of Lincoln (?) reps. Lecture'."""
"""Read Blair's sermon on the Divine Presence, with other appropriate proceedings. Evening had social prayers and read aloud a sermon.'"""
"""Read Blair's sermon on the Divine Presence, with other appropriate proceedings. Evening had social prayers and read aloud a sermon.'"""
"""Our little community have been delighting themselves with your """"""""Belford Regis""""""""; accept their untied thanks for it [...] The book is republished rather shabbily by Carey. I am in great hopes that we shall get our ungracious laws altered at the next congressional session, so that you English contributors to our advantage shall get some remuneration for your pains.'"""
"""Craster letter received'.. """
"""About this period, Mr Tymms sent down for inspection the proof of his Acct. of Northamptonshire for the Family Topographer to which I added several paragraphs and corrected others.'"""
"""[came home to find one of her sons drinking ale with some men with fireworks] I slept only at short intervals, up and down all night, in the morning shaken and jaded. But I had my poor wanderer in my little room, read part of the 51st Psalm; earnestly prayed for him, exhorted, reproved, but all in tender love: he was humbled, very sorry, very affectionate, entire peace was made between us'"""
"""Read portions if Sir Rd Phillip's """"""""Tour"""""""".'"""
"""Read St Limerick's Bells, """"""""The word we have not seen"""""""", and sev.l other interesting pieces.'"""
"""Read St Limerick's Bells, """"""""The word we have not seen"""""""", and sev.l other interesting pieces.'"""
"""Journal of Miss Fraser, Newgate prison visitor, dated 29 Nov 1834: 'I spent an interesting time in Newgate, Mrs Fry and I went there together for several hours. She went with me to the cells and read to the men just sentenced to death. Amongst them, there were two brothers, convicted, I believe, for housebreaking. The youngest was drawn into the commission of the crime by the elder brother. James, the youngest, could not read; he was married to a very pleasing looking young woman, and had two children. I recollect Mrs Fry told the poor men who could not read that if they would try to learn while they were in Newgate, she would give those who succeeded, each a Bible. James took very great pains, and before he left the prison to be transported he could read tolerably. On the 7th of January following, Mrs Fry again went with me to the cells. James then read the 7th chapter of St Matthew's gospel, and received his Bible. He became a valuable servant to the gentleman to whom he was assigned in New South Wales'"""
"""Read an acct of the walkers of Rotherham in Sir Rich'd's book. I knew them well at Scarborough i.e. the descendents of the original where, in the season, they were constant visitors ... [quote form book] ... Sir Rd's character of the Yorkshire people is very good and correct: it is the character of praise.'"""
"""Afternoon: read one of Blair's Sermons.'"""
"""Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835: 'I read my Bible diligently every day'."""
"""I have been reading aloud Beauvilliers book of Cookery. I find as I suspected that garlic is power; not in its despotic shape but exercised with the geatest discretion'."""
"""I am very desirous to read Mrs Trollope's Paris and the Parisians; her Tremordyn Cliff I read with considerable pleasure. She must be an amorous Old Dame; all these matters she describes with the most juvenile warmth and impetuosity'."""
"""Finished """"""""Mansfield Park"""""""", which hurried with a very inartificial [sic] and disagreeable rapidity to its conclusion, leaving some opportunities for most interesting and beautiful scenes particularly the detailed expression of the """"""""how and the when"""""""" Edward's love was turned from Miss Crawford to Fanny Price.  The great merit of Miss Austen is in the finishing of her characters; the action and conduct of her stories I think frequently defective.'"""
"""I have brought Coleridge with me, & am [italics] doing [end italics] him & Wordsworth [-] [italics] fit place for the latter! [end italics]"""
"""I have brought Coleridge with me, & am [italics] doing [end italics] him & Wordsworth [-] [italics] fit place for the latter! [end italics]"""
"""I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryden & Pope - so now I'm all clear & straight before me.'"""
"""I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryden & Pope - so now I'm all clear & straight before me.'"""
"""I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryden & Pope - so now I'm all clear & straight before me.'"""
"""I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryden & Pope - so now I'm all clear & straight before me.'"""
"""Mary Berry , Journal, 18 September 1836: 'I have been unequal this day to anything but reading my Bible for amusement; for I cannot say that I am capable of any reasonings on it.'"""
"""[Marginalia]: marginal pencil annotations throughout the book, either English or Persian, mainly appear to comment or disagree with translations eg. p.35 one line of text is annotated in Persian and another is marked * and in the margin is a ms note '*When the sun of the wine arises from east of the goblet a thousand tulips spring from the cheek of the cupbearer'; p.158 has the text 'The lion is a cat in catching a mouse; but the mouse is a tiger in battle' marked * and the  ms annotation 'nonsense ', '*The cat is tiger in catching a mouse; but a mouse in the claws of a tiger'."""
"""[Marginalia]: substantial annotations on several pages, usually associated with marked passages in the text: eg p. 8 para beginning 'I admit that the existing stock of specie, at any given moment [underlined and with the word always in ms above], constitutes the capital, or a portion of the capital  of many individuals *...' has ms annotation '*& hence certainly of the nation; a conclusion directly contrary to his position p.3. The function of currency is neither more nor less than the barter of one commodity for another'; p. 20 The first 2 complete paras are marked with vertical lines and have the ms annotation 'extremely inaccurate to calculate our resources from this particular branch of trade'."""
"""H. J. Jackson notes annotations by Macaulay made in 1836 in his copy of Joseph Milner, History of the Church of Christ; these include: """"""""'You bolt every lie that the Fathers tell as glibly as your Creed',"""""""" and """"""""'Here I give in.  I have done my best -- But the monotonous absurdity dishonesty & malevolence of this man are beyond me.  Nov 13'.'""""""""  """
"""I have read """"""""Astoria"""""""" with great pleasure; it is a book to put in your library, as an entertaining, well written - [italics]very[end italics] well written - account of savage life, on a most extensive scale'."""
"""I [Harriet Martineau] saw much of Fanny [Kemble] in America [...] She showed me the proof-sheets of her clever """"""""Journal,"""""""" and, as she chose to require my opinion of it, obtained a less flattering one than from most people [...] I was sufficiently shocked at certain passages to induce her to cancel some thirty pages.'"""
"""""""""""In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon..."""""""""""
"""""""""""In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon, ran through the Odes of Anacreon, ..."""""""""""
"""In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon, ran through the odes of Anacreon, and then commenced the Iliad.  I worked hard at Greek."""
"""""""""""Under his instruction -while we read together part of Voltaire's 'Charles the Twelfth' and 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme' of Moliere - I caught hold of such good French pronunciation as would have enabled me soon to converse very pleasantly in the language, could I have found acompanion"""""""""""
"""""""""""Under his instruction - while we read together part of Voltaire's 'Charles the Twelfth' and Moliere's 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme' - I caught hold of such good French pronunciation as would have enabled me soon to converse very pleasantly in the language, could I have found a companion."""""""""""
"""""""""""As I thought I could easily learn Italian, I took lessons from Signor D'Albrione...  So we read together part one of the comedies of Goldoni...."""""""""""
"""So we read together ... a part of the beautiful """"""""Gerusalemme Liberata"""""""", of Tasso, in that most beautiful tongue."""
"""I was soon able to make my way in a volume of tales by Herder, Lessing , and others.  My school prospered for I took care to attend to its duties assiduously; and yet kept firm hold of my studies, rising early in the morning, and, with my book in my hand, as of old, walked from our little home in St. Mary's Street, along the Sincil Dyke, and on to Canwick Common, whenever weather permitted me to do so."""
"""I was soon able to make my way in a volume of tales by Herder, Lessing , and others.  My school prospered for I took care to attend to its duties assiduously; and yet kept firm hold of my studies, rising early in the morning, and, with my book in my hand, as of old, walked from our little home in St. Mary's Street, along the Sincil Dyke, and on to Canwick Common, whenever weather permitted me to do so."""
"""in expressing our acknowledgement of the good they have done, it is our duty to point out those parts of their proceedings which appear to us inexpedient and injudicious, and to interfere materially with the laudable objects which they themselves have in view. We think the introduction of the visitors who now attend on Fridays the readings of the women highly improper. On one occasion, when we were present, there were 23 visitors; whilst owing to the want of room thus caused, only 28 prisoners could attend the lecture. Not only were there many prisoners, who might otherwise have been present, thus deprived of this opportunity of receiving instruction, but the sight of so many strangers distracted the attention even of those who were there. We observed the absence of that strict attention which is so necessary to the profitable reception of religious instruction.'"""
"""When, in the course of a year or two, we removed to the vicinity of Edinburgh, matters in respect of books brightened a little. I then obtained access to a greater variety, and, as I well remember, greatly enjoyed reading some numbers of a periodical called """"""""The Schoolmaster"""""""", edited by Mr Johnstone, or, to speak more correctly, by Mrs Johnstone.'"""
"""This new edition of """"""""Our Village"""""""" I have been coveting ever since I saw the advertisement of it, and I will tell you why. It is one of those cheerful, spirited works, full of fair pictures of humanity, which, especially where there are children who love reading and being read to, becomes a household book, turned to again and again, and remembered and talked of with affection.  So it is by our fireside; it is a work our little daughter has read, and loves to read, and which our little son Alfred, a most indomitable young gentleman, likes especially - not so much for its variety of character, which gives its charm to his sister's mind, but for its descriptions of the country... Such, dear Miss Mitford, being the case, when I saw the new edition advertised, I began to cast in my mind whether or not we could not buy it...'"""
"""This new edition of """"""""Our Village"""""""" I have been coveting ever since I saw the advertisement of it, and I will tell you why. It is one of those cheerful, spirited works, full of fair pictures of humanity, which, especially where there are children who love reading and being read to, becomes a household book, turned to again and again, and remembered and talked of with affection.  So it is by our fireside; it is a work our little daughter has read, and loves to read, and which our little son Alfred, a most indomitable young gentleman, likes especially - not so much for its variety of character, which gives its charm to his sister's mind, but for its descriptions of the country... Such, dear Miss Mitford, being the case, when I saw the new edition advertised, I began to cast in my mind whether or not we could not buy it...'"""
"""I have read Bulwer's """"""""Rienzi"""""""" and yours also. I always thought your tragedy the best of your works, and I think so still.  It is a glorious thing. I like Bulwer's too, very much, but unless there were historical ground for the love between a Colonna and the family of Rienzi, he has injured his work by the introduction.  It is so palpably an imitation of the tragedy and with much less effect...'"""
"""I saw it [praise of Joanna Baillie] in """"""""Blackwood's"""""""" this present month, and with indignation too. I never deny the wonderful excellence of Joanna Baillie, but no one shall persuade me that """"""""Rienzi"""""""" is not as good as any drama by her.' """
"""New Years Day - fourteen children to dine with us - had meant to read them my concentrated journal of the year; but courage failed me ... Since, I have read my journal to almost all of them who are round us'"""
"""After dinner read a part of """"""""Northanger Abbey"""""""", which I do not much like.  Heavy, and too long a strain of irony on one topic.'"""
"""Lay down on the sofa, reading Miss Austen's """"""""Mansfield Park""""""""... The novel, I think, has the prevailing fault of the pleasant authoress's books; it deals too much in descriptions of the various states of mind, into which her characters are thrown, and amplifies into a page a search for motives which a stroke of the pen might give with greater power and interest.  Is Richardson her model? She is an excellent portrait painter, she catches a man near to the life.'"""
"""""""""""went to church, came back, got parlour lunch, had my own dinner, sit by the fire and red (sic) the Penny magazine and opened the door when any visitors came."""""""""""
"""Charlotte Bronte to Robert Southey, 16 March 1837: 'At the first perusal of your letter I felt only shame, and regret that I had ever ventured to trouble you [with request for advice on starting literary career] ...' """
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal,1 October 1837: 'This morning I read the anti-slavery documents.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal,1 October 1837: '[italics]Evening[end italics]. -- Read some of Pascal's """"""""Pensees"""""""". They show great knowledge of men [...] they are very gloomy; but I do love these speculative writers.'"""
"""I have been reading """"""""Emma"""""""".  Everything Miss Austen writes is clever, but I desiderate something.  There is a want of [italics] body [close italics] to the story.  The action is frittered away in over-little things.  There are some beautiful things in it. Emma herself is the most interesting to me of all her heroines.  I feel kind to her whenever I think of her.  But Miss Austen has no romance - none at all.  What vile creatures her parsons are! she has not a dream of the high Catholic ethos. That other woman, Fairfax is a dolt - but I like Emma.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 October 1837: 'Read some of Channing's """"""""Texas.""""""""'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 September 1837: 'Read Gibbon.  Selfish, vain, unhappy man! [goes on to discuss Gibbon]'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 September 1837: 'Read to Mrs ---- my last chapters of my first volume of """"""""Retrospect.""""""""  She says the book will do.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 12 October 1837: 'Read some of Beaumont's """"""""Marie.""""""""  Sentimental and un-American'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 16 December 1837: 'Morning, read one of my own stories, -- """"""""Loom and Lugger.""""""""  Was quite disappointed in it.  It has capital material, but is obscure, and not simple enough.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 16 December 1837: 'Read Midsummer Night's Dream in the evening.  Surprised to find how completely I remembered it.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 19 October 1837: 'At night, read some of """"""""Archy Moore.""""""""  A terrible story, which stirred me deeply [...] It is truer than any slave-story I ever read.'"""
"""Journal 20 Dec 1837: 'Afterwards I went to Clapham to visit a poor dying converted Jew, who had sent a letter to beg me to go and see him ... A man of pleasing countenance, greatly emaciated, was lying on a little white bed; all clean and in order, his Bible by his side, and animated almost beyond description at seeing me; he kissed my hand, the tears came into his eyes, his poor face flushed, and he was ready almost to raise himself out of his bed. I sat down, and tried to quiet him, and by degrees succeeded. We had a very interesting conversation; he had been in the practice of frequently attending my readings at Newgate, apparently with great attention; latterly I had not seen him, and was ready to suppose, that like many others his zeal was of short duration; but I lately heard that he had been ill ... I found that when he used to come so often to Newgate, he was a man of good moral character, seeking the truth ... he said that his visits to Newgate had been to him beyond going to any church; indeed I little know how much was going on in his heart. He requested me to read a Psalm that I had read one day in Newgate, the 107th. This I did, and he appeared to deeply feel it'"""
"""Journal 20 Dec 1837: 'Afterwards I went to Clapham to visit a poor dying converted Jew, who had sent a letter to beg me to go and see him ... A man of pleasing countenance, greatly emaciated, was lying on a little white bed; all clean and in order, his Bible by his side, and animated almost beyond description at seeing me; he kissed my hand, the tears came into his eyes, his poor face flushed, and he was ready almost to raise himself out of his bed. I sat down, and tried to quiet him, and by degrees succeeded. We had a very interesting conversation; he had been in the practice of frequently attending my readings at Newgate, apparently with great attention; latterly I had not seen him, and was ready to suppose, that like many others his zeal was of short duration; but I lately heard that he had been ill ... I found that when he used to come so often to Newgate, he was a man of good moral character, seeking the truth ... he said that his visits to Newgate had been to him beyond going to any church; indeed I little know how much was going on in his heart. He requested me to read a Psalm that I had read one day in Newgate, the 107th. This I did, and he appeared to deeply feel it'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 20 December 1837: '[italics]Afternoon[end italics] Read in the Pictorial Bible, which is to me very interesting.'"""
"""At a concert at the Hanover Square Rooms, some time before [Queen Victoria's accession] (I forget what year it was) the Duchess of Kent sent Sir John Conroy to me [Harriet Martineau] with a message of acknowledgement of the usefulness of my books to the Princess [Victoria]: and I afterwards heard more particulars of the eagerness with which the little lady read the stories on the first day of the month [...] Her """"""""favourite"""""""" of my stories is """"""""Ella of Garveloch.""""""""'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 23 October 1837: 'I read Whateley's review of Miss Austen.  Good, but not particularly striking.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 24 September 1837: 'Revelled in Lamb's letters.  What an exquisite specimen is that man of our noble, wonderful, frail humanity!'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 24 September 1837: '[italics]Evening[end italics] Read [...] to my mother [...] my Sedgwick article, which she likes.'"""
"""Mr Girle wrote a history of his blue coat days, which he was anxious should appear in """"""""Tait"""""""", and one day, at his request, I carried the MS to the warehouse, but it did not appear in the magazine. He read it, however, to the boys of """"""""George Heriot's Hospital"""""""", of which great institution he was one of the """"""""Governors"""""""" and it was printed for private circulation.'"""
"""[Whewell read Babbage, and was concerned that it had been his own Bridgewater which had stimulated Babbage to write one]"""
"""My mind also had become much quieted and strengthened by the reading of Butler's """"""""Analogy"""""""", which I had always heard mentioned with admiration, and which I stumbled upon, as it seemed accidentally (though doubtless it was a Providential help sent me), while we were spending a few days at the Hermitage. I took it up first for curiosity, and read it through nearly, but not quite to the end; feeling very much afraid all the time that some one would inquire into my studies, and being greatly humiliated by an observation made by William, who one day found me with it in my hand. His surprised tone as he exclaimed, """"""""You can't understand that"""""""", made me shrink into my shell of reserve, and for years I never owned to anyone that Butler's """"""""Analogy"""""""" had been to me, as it has been to hundreds, the stay of a troubled intellect and a weak faith'."""
"""At the beginning of each month, too, there fell to be collected from the various agents a large number of English magazines for Mr Tait's customers, as also a few copies of """"""""Blackwood""""""""; and at the contents of some of those I often contrived to get a surreptitious """"""""read"""""""".' """
"""At the beginning of each month, too, there fell to be collected from the various agents a large number of English magazines for Mr Tait's customers, as also a few copies of """"""""Blackwood""""""""; and at the contents of some of those I often contrived to get a surreptitious """"""""read"""""""".' """
"""I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially """"""""Bentley's Miscellany"""""""", which contained in my young days """"""""Jack Sheppard"""""""".'"""
"""I [Harriet Martineau] was completely carried away by the article on St. Domingo in the Quarterly Review, (vol.xxi.) which I lighted upon, one day at this time [c.1837], while looking for the noted article on the Grecian philosophy in the same volume.  I pursued the study of Toussaint L'Ouverture's character in the Biographie Universelle; and though it is badly done [...] the real man shone into my mind'."""
"""I [Harriet Martineau] was completely carried away by the article on St. Domingo in the Quarterly Review, (vol.xxi.) which I lighted upon, one day at this time [c.1837], while looking for the noted article on the Grecian philosophy in the same volume.  I pursued the study of Toussaint L'Ouverture's character in the Biographie Universelle; and though it is badly done [...] the real man shone into my mind'."""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, late November 1837: 'Read some of Brougham's education speech, but not all; so have no judgement to give.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 5 December 1837: 'Read the newspaper aloud.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 September 1837: 'I read Gibbon.  It makes me dread a single literary life, so selfish, so vain and blind, as ths great man grew to be!' """
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 September 1837: 'Read Gibbon's correspondence.  Selfish, vain creature! -- beyond almost all I ever read of.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 7 November 1837: 'Read Waldo Emerson's oration.  Though fanciful, it has much truth and beauty.  It moved, roused, soothed and consoled me.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 8 September 1837: 'Looked over frescoes from the Niebelungen Lied, in Penny Magazine.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 October 1837: 'I read Felkin's excellent report on the working-classes of Nottingham, showing clearly that there are resources enough for all necessary comfort [...] but that fathers spend nearly all their resources, almost, on themselves.' """
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 January 1838: 'Read """"""""Les Precieuses Ridicules,"""""""" which did not amuse me very much; though acted I can fancy it capital.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 11 January 1838: 'Read """"""""Northanger Abbey.""""""""  Capital: found two touches of pathos.'"""
"""My journey lay over the field of Thrasymenus, and as soon as the sun rose, I read Livy's description of the scene [...] I was exactly in the situation of the consul, Flaminus - completely hid in the morning fog...So that I can truly say that I have seen precisely what the Roman army saw on that day.'"""
"""Wm read his first 2 lectures on Poetry &c aloud which people seemed very much to like & I lay on the sofa & enjoyed myself in listening'."""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 14 January 1838: 'Read Channing's """"""""Texas,"""""""" and found it nobler than ever before [...] Read aloud Southey's article in the Quarterly on Cemeteries; much learning, but little interest.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 14 January 1838: 'Read Channing's """"""""Texas,"""""""" and found it nobler than ever before [...] Read aloud Southey's article in the Quarterly on Cemeteries; much learning, but little interest.'"""
"""[Letter dated Monday 15 January 1838] Have you seen that book of Bernard's on the Constitution? Not fit for every eye. On electing monarchy and state religion he seems a visionary and a madman, but he is strong and clever against democracy. A person like Lady Stuart de Rothesay, or such as she has taught me to believe Lady Hardwicke [to be] might read this book, cull out the good, and be interested and instructed. ...'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 15 January 1838: 'Probably the greatest day of my year. While I was reading one article in the twenty-first volume of the Quarterly, on Greek philosophy, there being an article in the same number on Hayti, it flashed across me that my novel must be on the Haytian revolution, and Toussaint my hero.' """
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 16 January 1838: 'Wrote notes and letters, and then sat down to read Smedley. What a tale of privation and suffering! total deafness first,  -- then gradual incapacity of every sort [...] He was a hack writer and small poet.'"""
"""Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker minister. Mr Ball kept a journal during the journey. 18 Aug 1838: 'These journeys are, I trust, not lost time; we have two Scripture readings daily in the carriage, and much instructive conversation; also abundant time for that which is so important, the private reading of the Holy Scripture. This is very precious to dear Elizabeth Fry, and I have often thought it a privilege to note her reverent """"""""marking and learning"""""""" of these sacred truths of divine inspiration. Often does she lay down the Book, close her eyes, and wait upon Him, who hath the key of David to open and seal the instruction of the sacred page. Truly it helps to explain how her """"""""profiting appears unto all"""""""" when she is thus diligent and fervent, in """"""""meditating upon these things"""""""", and giving herself wholly to them' """
"""I like your expression of 'an unwritten tragedy'. It quite answers to the sadness which fills my heart as I look on some of those deserrted old halls. Do they not remind you of Tennyson's 'Deserted House' - 'Life and thought are gone away', &c.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 18 February 1838: 'Read beautiful speeches at the Lovejoy meeting in Boston, in the """"""""Liberator.""""""""'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 February 1838: '[At Captain Beaufort's] Met [...] C. Darwin, Mr. F. Edgeworth, and Mr. Hamilton, brother-in-law of the Duke of Wellington, who had been reading my book up to dinner-time, and took a good gaze at me.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 18 January 1838: 'Read much of """"""""Emma"""""""" this evening'."""
"""""""""""This volume was being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness overtook him. CPT"""""""" [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan]. Under this """"""""He died on August 19th 1928 at Wallington MKT"""""""" [i.e. Lady Mary Katharine Trevelyan]. Book also contains MS marginal corrections to text. """
"""He used to read Courier aloud to his sister at Calcutta of a June afternoon,  - in the darkened upstairs chamber, with the punkah swinging overhead, with as much enjoyment as ever Charles James Fox read the romances of Voltaire to his wife in the garden at St. Anne's Hill, though with a less irreproachable accent.'"""
"""All I can say at all likely to give you any pleasure is, that I read poor dear Charles Lamb's Memoirs and Letters with the utmost delight; & not the less so for seeing such continual allusions to one """"""""H.C. Robinson"""""""". Do you know such a person? And my dear brother James too, and kind-hearted Martin - these reminiscences were very pleasant to me. But of Lamb himself - what an affectionate disposition - what originality, what true wit, & what a singular, and I must say, melancholy combination of the truest & warmest piety, with the most extraordinary and irreverent profaneness. I cannot understand the union of two such opposites: but I believe there have been many other instances of it. Amongst fools who may take up the work, the oaths and the levity might do harm, & therefore I regret their insertion: but those who knew him, can only regret, & love him [underlined] notwithstanding [ end underlining].'"""
"""Dr Nott has lent me a Work that I find very interesting, & which comes well after reading Wilkinson's Manners & Customs of the Ancient Egyptians; - It is, Lane's Manners & Customs of the Modern Egyptians: both works are full of Wood cuts in illustration of the subjects they describe, and in Wilkinson's work I found an ancient Egyptian Car, & a wooden pillow hollowed out for the head, which I immediately remembered having seen at Professor Roselini's Egyptian Museum at Florence'."""
"""Dr Nott has lent me a Work that I find very interesting, & which comes well after reading Wilkinson's Manners & Customs of the Ancient Egyptians; - It is, Lane's Manners & Customs of the Modern Egyptians: both works are full of Wood cuts in illustration of the subjects they describe, and in Wilkinson's work I found an ancient Egyptian Car, & a wooden pillow hollowed out for the head, which I immediately remembered having seen at Professor Roselini's Egyptian Museum at Florence'."""
"""One Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1838, whilst crossing Brumsfield links on my way home to Morningside, endeavouring as I walked over the grass to read a story in one of the volumes of """"""""Chambers's Journal"""""""", then of a somewhat unwielding size, I was stopped by two gentlemen, one of whom asked what I was reading...'"""
"""Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker minister. Mr Ball kept a journal during the journey. 23 Aug 1838 - large meeting of ladies to form a society for visiting prisons of Aberdeen and vicinity: 'Between the formation of the association, and proceeding to select the various  officers, Elizabeth Fry read a Psalm, spoke very nicely upon it to the ladies, and was then engaged in prayer'"""
"""In the interim walked on the Sands & when there the rain descended more heavily, I nevertheless searched up some seaweed. Returned. Took shelter under the Museum cornice, & examined the Old Effigy, of which I had a plate engraved during my residence at Scarbro'. On looking at Posters on the walls, I discovered the announcements of Lectures on Geology on the Tuesday of the next week. This, thought I, is against me; and the weather unfavourable; & no lodgings at my old resort, made me regret my excursion; but subsequent success in obtaining subscribers for my lectures re-invigorated my spirit.'"""
"""Visit to France, 1838, accompanied by Joseph Fry, friend Josiah Forster, and Lydia Irving. Letter to children, Abbeville, 28 Jan 1838: 'We left Boulogne yesterday morning in a very comfortable French carraige after some delay in our departure, from various difficulties with luggage, we enjoyed our reading and conversation, until we arrived at Montreuil ... After breakfast we read as usual, then Josiah Forster went out ... picture us - our feet on some fleeces that we have found, generally wrapped up in cloaks, surrounded by screens to keep off the air, the wood fire at our feet. We have just finished an interesting reading in French, in the New Testament, with the landlady, her daughters and some of the servants of the hotel; they appeared very attentive and much interested'"""
"""From Harriet Martineau's account of Queen Victoria's coronation: 'I remember remarking to my mother on the impiety of the service, when a copy of it was kindly sent to me the evening before'."""
"""Visit to France, 1838, accompanied by Joseph Fry, friend Josiah Forster, and Lydia Irving. Letter to children, Abbeville, 28 Jan 1838: 'We left Boulogne yesterday morning in a very comfortable French carraige after some delay in our departure, from various difficulties with luggage, we enjoyed our reading and conversation, until we arrived at Montreuil ... After breakfast we read as usual, then Josiah Forster went out ... picture us - our feet on some fleeces that we have found, generally wrapped up in cloaks, surrounded by screens to keep off the air, the wood fire at our feet. We have just finished an interesting reading in French, in the New Testament, with the landlady, her daughters and some of the servants of the hotel; they appeared very attentive and much interested'"""
"""Visit to France, 1838, accompanied by Joseph Fry, friend Josiah Forster, and Lydia Irving. Letter to children, Abbeville, 28 Jan 1838: 'We left Boulogne yesterday morning in a very comfortable French carraige after some delay in our departure, from various difficulties with luggage, we enjoyed our reading and conversation, until we arrived at Montreuil ... After breakfast we read as usual, then Josiah Forster went out ... picture us - our feet on some fleeces that we have found, generally wrapped up in cloaks, surrounded by screens to keep off the air, the wood fire at our feet. We have just finished an interesting reading in French, in the New Testament, with the landlady, her daughters and some of the servants of the hotel; they appeared very attentive and much interested'"""
"""From Harriet Martineau's account of Queen Victoria's coronation: 'About nine, the first gleams of the sun slanted into the abbey [...] The brightness, vastness, and dreamy magnificence of the scene produced a strange effect of exhaustion and sleepiness [...] I determined to withdraw my senses from the scene, in order to reserve my strength [...] for the ceremonial to come.  I had carried a book; and I read and ate a sandwich, leaning against my friendly pillar, till I felt refreshed.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 30 June 1838: 'Read the Gospel of John in Porteusian Bible.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 26 August 1838: 'Very happy in reading American newspapers.'"""
"""Get, and read, Macaulay's Papers upon the Indian courts and Indian Education. They are admirable for their talent and their honesty. We see why he was hated in India, and how honourable to him that hatred is'."""
"""Nickleby is very good. I stood out against Mr Dickens as long as I could, but he has conquered me'."""
"""Read Spry's account of India - and believe if you can (I do) that within 150 mles of Calcutta there is a nation of Cannibals living in trees. It is an amusing Book.'"""
"""Before leaving the cotton mill I had the good fortune to make my first acquaintance with the earlier works of Charles Dickens. Our manager, who was a reading man, was subscribing to periodically issued numbers of the """"""""Pickwick Papers""""""""... and he generously offered me an early perusal of the """"""""Pickwick Papers"""""""", on the condition that I fetched the numbers as they were due from a little stationer's shop near the Navigation Inn. This was a double pleasure to me, as in addition to reading the pamphlet I could have half-an-hour's breathing outside the mill. Dickens assisted in lightening the burden of a weary time. I gathered fresh life from his admirable writings; and even then began to look into the distant future, with the hope that at sometime I might be enabled to track his footsteps, however far I might be behind. This prospect constantly buoyed up my hopes; and, when at last I was taken away from the mill I felt a regret that by this proceeding I sacrificed a glorious opportunity of making myself known in the world.'"""
"""Dear Sir, Before saying any thing on the subject of my own prospects I wish to notice two trifling inaccuracies in the 'Handbook' in compliance with the invitation there given, for it is a sort of public duty to assist in rendering so useful and creditable a work as free as possible from even the slightest errors.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, [?6] January 1838: 'Read, in Blackwood, article on Mademoiselle Gautier, a devotee, -- much like other devotees, whose tales are, however, very instructive.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 7 January 1838: 'Read  Life of Scott, Vol. VI.  It is far more interesting than the former ones'."""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 January 1838: 'Read  """"""""Pride and Prejudice"""""""" again last night.  I think it as clever as before.'"""
"""Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker minister. Mr Ball kept a journal during the journey. 8 Sept 1838: 'Invited the landlord of our Greenock Hotel, and his wife, and servants, to our Scripture reading this morning. They came in and we were favoured with an instructive session'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 January 1838: 'Finished Judges, in Pictorial Bible, which is a great treat to me. Finished """"""""Pride and Prejudice.""""""""  It is wonderfully clever, and Miss Austen seems much afraid of pathos.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 January 1838: 'Finished Judges, in Pictorial Bible, which is a great treat to me. Finished """"""""Pride and Prejudice.""""""""  It is wonderfully clever, and Miss Austen seems much afraid of pathos.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 11 December 1837: '""""""""Evening"""""""".-- Read aloud Southey's famous article in the Quarterly on British Monachism [sic].  Entertaining, but with a vain attempt to prop up Lady Isabella King's institution.' """
"""In the evening we had many young women but hardly any men. Our great object was to stimulate them in every good word and work. We ended with a reading in the Holy Scriptures'"""
"""I was reading to-day and I have since finished Miss Martineau's """"""""Deerbrook"""""""", a capital novel though it is too full of preaching.  It is inferior in execution to Miss Austen's novels in the development of common characters, but is suprior in the higher parts.'"""
"""Had three pints of beer at the Harrow then came home, I afterwards read my opportioned [sic] quantity of """"""""Watts Logic"""""""", smoked a pipe and am now ready to retire.' [On Friday 13 Jenkinson had laid out a 'systematic' plan to read 'Watts Logic' at the rate of 20 pages per day, which was to be followed by a second reading including notemaking. p.54.]"""
"""Trade very dull - weather very wet and rather windy as predicted by Murphy'."""
"""I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers in Tait? They are very interesting , but, it seems to me, the most tremendous breach of confidence ever committed; - particularly the giving an account of the """"""""most sublime passage"""""""" of Wordsworth's great posthumous work. I wonder what you think of Chorley's """"""""Lion"""""""". I don't think it can live, but that there is good enough in it to make one hope he may do something that will'."""
"""I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers in Tait? They are very interesting , but, it seems to me, the most tremendous breach of confidence ever committed; - particularly the giving an account of the """"""""most sublime passage"""""""" of Wordsworth's great posthumous work. I wonder what you think of Chorley's """"""""Lion"""""""". I don't think it can live, but that there is good enough in it to make one hope he may do something that will'."""
"""I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers in Tait? They are very interesting , but, it seems to me, the most tremendous breach of confidence ever committed; - particularly the giving an account of the """"""""most sublime passage"""""""" of Wordsworth's great posthumous work. I wonder what you think of Chorley's """"""""Lion"""""""". I don't think it can live, but that there is good enough in it to make one hope he may do something that will'."""
"""Read until near dinner [goes to chapel] came home, had a glass of gin and water read my quantum of """"""""Watts Logic"""""""" smoked a pipe and am now ready to retire'. """
"""We had a large meeting at one of the pasteurs at Aix en Provance the few Protestants there and their Pastor requested me to have a reading with them, which we had, but in this instance I had only my husband and Josiah to interpret which does not fully answer, but I thought we had a uniting time with them'"""
"""At Nismes we found a large party at one of the Pasteurs, where we had some further conversation on District Societies, Prisons, etc and ended with a Scripture reading'"""
"""I also had a serious reading of the Holy Scriptures with many English, who came to see us at our hotel, and a time of prayer'"""
"""Tokk a little supper and afterwards read 28 pages of """"""""Watts Logic"""""""". Now feel weary and am on the point of retiring with the hope that my evenings improvement will be a little set off for the cares of the day. [criticises government for unemployment]'"""
"""Now going to bed having completed my daily reading 12 o'clock -news today of Don Carlos quitting Spain and taking refuge in France.'"""
"""Came home about half past 10 p.m. Read my stinted quantity of """"""""Watts"""""""".'"""
"""I had read in Cobbett's """"""""Advice to Young Men"""""""" a caution not to depend upon the Muses for substantial support ... he illustrated the sufferings of Bloomfield ...'"""
""""""""""" ... Elizabeth Sewell's consumption of 'modern' works in the late 1820s and 1830s, she records [in her autobiography], specifically mentioning Scott and Byron, led to worry and 'hysteria' based on the feeling that it would be pleasant to have someone caring for her.  She had not yet learnt, she claims, the joy that comes through caring for others."""""""""""
""""""""""" ... Elizabeth Sewell's consumption of 'modern' works in the late 1820s and 1830s, she records [in her autobiography], specifically mentioning Scott and Byron, led to worry and 'hysteria' based on the feeling that it would be pleasant to have someone caring for her.  She had not yet learnt, she claims, the joy that comes through caring for others."""""""""""
"""My brother-in-law’s newspaper furnished an occasional opportunity to me, though no doubt, he considered that he could fill his twice-a-week journal without my help. He was, however, helpful in other ways. He was one of the subscribers to a Reading Club, and through him I had access to newspapers and magazines. The South Australian Institute was a treasure to the family. I recollect a newcomer being astonished at my sister Mary having read Macaulay’s “History.” :""""""""Why, it was only just out when I Left England,” said he. “Well, it did not take longer to come out than you did”, was her reply. We were all omnivorous readers, and the old-fashioned accomplishment of reading aloud was cultivated by both brothers and sisters. I was the only one who could translate French at sight, thanks to Miss Phin’s [Scottish schoolteacher] giving me so much of Racine and Moliere and other good French authors in my school days.’"""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: """"""""Polus is much in the right.  Socrates abused scandalously the advantages which his wonderful talents, and his command of temper, gave him."""""""""""
"""Read my usual quantity, and retired quite fatigued.'"""
"""Sent for a pot of porter. J.I. and myself drank it, I smoked a pipe read a little in an old """"""""Sheffield Iris""""""""- then wrote this paragraph.'"""
"""The """"""""Morning Chronicle"""""""" of this day announced the death of Henry Lord Brougham... The editor very kindly and very justly bewails his death.' [NB Brougham had not in fact died]"""
"""I was reading yesterday and to-day """"""""Sense and Sensibility"""""""", which I resumed at the second volume. The last volume greatly improves on the first, but I still think it one of the poorest of Miss Austen's novels - that is inferior to """"""""Mansfield Park"""""""" and """"""""Pride and Prejudice"""""""", which is all I have read.'"""
"""I am amusing myself with Miss Austin's [sic] novels.  She has great power and discrimination in delineating common-place people; and her writings are a capital picture of real life, with all the little wheels and machinery laid bare like a patent clock.  But she explains and fills out too much.  Those who have not power to fill up gaps and bridge over chasms as they read, must therefore take particular delight in such minuteness of detail.  It is a kind of Bowditch's Laplace in the romantic astronomy.  But readers of lively imagination naturally prefer the original with its unexplained steps, which they so readily supply.'"""
"""I am amusing myself with Miss Austin's [sic] novels.  She has great power and discrimination in delineating common-place people; and her writings are a capital picture of real life, with all the little wheels and machinery laid bare like a patent clock.  But she explains and fills out too much.  Those who have not power to fill up gaps and bridge over chasms as they read, must therefore take particular delight in such minuteness of detail.  It is a kind of Bowditch's Laplace in the romantic astronomy.  But readers of lively imagination naturally prefer the original with its unexplained steps, which they so readily supply.'"""
"""Did not read much tonight -but if all be well I intend to bring up the arears to morrow. (Sat 21 did not read my stated quantity. Friday 20: came into the sitting room and read for an hour)'"""
"""And in the evening strength was given me with a very large party to speak a little on the subject of slavery and then finished with a short lively Scripture reading'"""
"""Commenced reading at 7 p.m. and continued till half past 9. Made up for the last nights neglect and am now going to bed nearly 10 p.m.'"""
"""I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have done well enough lately with Montaigne, and a bit of Moliere with the boys, now and then, and I Promessi Sposi with Fanny discovering thereby that I can read Italian almost like French or English, which I was not aware of'."""
"""I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have done well enough lately with Montaigne, and a bit of Moliere with the boys, now and then, and I Promessi Sposi with Fanny discovering thereby that I can read Italian almost like French or English, which I was not aware of'."""
"""I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have done well enough lately with Montaigne, and a bit of Moliere with the boys, now and then, and I Promessi Sposi with Fanny discovering thereby that I can read Italian almost like French or English, which I was not aware of'."""
"""Is not """"""""Cinq Mars"""""""" very fine? I should like to read more of De Vigny'."""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 28 December 1837: 'Read Defoe's """"""""Plague.""""""""  Was somewhat disappointed [...] The best part is where he describes the reception of the news of the decrease in the bills of mortality.'"""
"""Trade awfully bad the money market depressed and deplorable accounts from the manufacturing districts ... says the """"""""Morning Chronicle""""""""'."""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: """"""""There you are in the Sophist's net.  I think that, if I had been in the place of Polus, Socrates would hardly have had so easy a job of it."""""""""""
"""Last evening we had more than fifty guests, some influential persons of this world, young and old, French and English - one Spaniard, two Americans. We first had the subject of slavery brought before us, for rather more than an hour ... I finished with a Scripture reading, referring to the subject that had been brought before us; the first part of the 61st chapter of Isaiah. """"""""The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me"""""""" etc and a portion in Luke where our Lord brings it forward. I felt a real unction I believe I may say from the spirit, to speak such words as I had to say, with power.'"""
""""""""""" ... when he (and all other readers) had failed to decipher the shorthand of [John] Flamsteed's most informed correspondent, Abraham Sharp, [Francis] Baily turned to Charles Babbage ... Babbage agreed to assist, and eventually succeeded in decoding Sharp's text."""""""""""
"""A few years ago the curate of the village called upon the old man to converse with him on religious matters; after some talk, he promised to send him a Bible, """"""""his honour"""""""" also promising to read it after he received it. Shortly afterwards the curate was passing the cottage-door, and observed the old man employed with the book. The curate accosting him, said, """"""""Well, Isaac, I am glad to see you reading your Bible."""""""" """"""""Oh yes"""""""", replied Isaac, in a gruff tone of voice, - gruff, but not intentionally uncivil. """"""""Will you tell me what you are reading about?"""""""" said the clergyman. """"""""O, to be sure I will"""""""", was the answer, """"""""I am reading all the wars of rascally Jews, and all that sort of thing; why, what a blood-thirsty race of men they were, Sir"""""""".'"""
"""When I had made a few visits to him, Mr De Quincey was so kind as to take some particular notice of me; and afterwards when he wrote his Grasmere article about """"""""George and Sarah Green"""""""" (1839), he spoke to me of the subject, and read me a passage from the proof before it appeared in """"""""Tait"""""""".'"""
"""The nineteenth-century cabinet maker William Lovett on the development of his literary and intellectual interests after joining 'The Liberals', a literary and debating association, during a period of residence in London: '""""""""I [...] became seized with an enthusiastic desire to read and treasure up all I could meet with on the subject of Christianity [...] often have I sat up till morning dawned reading and preparing myself with arguments [for use at Liberals meetings] in support of its principles.""""""""'  """
"""?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?, the ?Memoirs of Mr. Samuel Drew? and Dr. Stilling?s ?Theory of Pneumatology?, together with same odd volumes of the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews.?"""
"""?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?, the ?Memoirs of Mr. Samuel Drew? and Dr. Stilling?s ?Theory of Pneumatology?, together with same odd volumes of the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews.?"""
"""?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?, the ?Memoirs of Mr. Samuel Drew? and Dr. Stilling?s ?Theory of Pneumatology?, together with same odd volumes of the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews.?"""
"""?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?, the ?Memoirs of Mr. Samuel Drew? and Dr. Stilling?s ?Theory of Pneumatology?, together with same odd volumes of the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews.?"""
"""?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?, the ?Memoirs of Mr. Samuel Drew? and Dr. Stilling?s ?Theory of Pneumatology?, together with same odd volumes of the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews.?"""
"""?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?, the ?Memoirs of Mr. Samuel Drew? and Dr. Stilling?s ?Theory of Pneumatology?, together with same odd volumes of the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews.?"""
""" [Maraulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: """"""""You have made a blunder, and Socrates will have you in an instant."""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: """"""""Hem! Retiarium astutum!"""""""" [Cunning netter]."""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: """"""""What a command of his temper the old fellow [Callicles] had, and what terrible, though delicate, ridicule! A bitter fellow, too, with all his suavity."""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: """"""""This is not pure morality; but there is a good deal of weight in what Callicles says.  He is wrong in not perceiving that the real happiness, not only of the weak many, but of the able few, is promoted by virtue.  [...] When I read this dialogue as a lad at college, I wrote a trifling piece for Knight's Magazine, in which some Athenian characters were introduced, I made this Callicles the villain of the drama.  I now see that he was merely a fair specimen of the public men of Athens in that age.  Although his principles were those of aspiring and voluptuous men in unquiet times, his feelings seem to have been friendly and kind."""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias]: """"""""This is one of the finest passages in Greek literature.  Plato is a real poet."""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias.  He marks the the doctrine """"""""that we ought to be more afraid of wronging than of being wronged, and that the prime business of every man is, not to seem good, but to be good, in all his private and public dealings"""""""" with three pencil lines, and writes]: """"""""This just and noble conclusion atones for much fallacy in the reasoning by which Socrates arrived at it [...] it is impossible not to consider it [the Gorgias] as one of the greatest performances which have descended to us from that wonderful generation."""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, by the trial of Socrates, when Socrates expressed a serene conviction that to die is gain, even if death were nothing more than an untroubled and dreamless sleep]: """"""""Milton thought otherwise"""""""" [Macaulay quotes the lines """"""""Sad cure! For who would lose,/Though full of pain, this intellectual being;/ Those thoughts that wander through eternity?""""""""] """"""""I once thought with Milton; but every day brings me nearer and nearer the doctrine here laid down by Socrates."""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, at the end of the trial of Socrates]: """"""""A most solemn and noble close! Nothing was ever written, or spoken, approaching in sober sublimity to the latter part of the Apology.  It is impossible to read it without feeling one's mind elevated and strengthened."""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia on the last page of the Crito]: There is much that may be questioned in the reasoning of Socrates; but it is impossible not to admire the wisdom and virtue which it indicates.  When we consider the moral state of Greece in his time, and the revolution which he produced in men's notions of good and evil, we must pronounce him one of the greatest men that ever lived."""""""""""
"""In Mr Tait's warehouse I read Hogg's """"""""Shepherd's Calendar"""""""" and some of his poems also, while, at various times, many opportunities of hearing much about him.'"""
"""Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 4 August 1839, about event following visit of David Pryce, a young Irish curate, to Haworth Parsonage: 'A few days after I got a letter the direction of which puzzled me it being in a hand I was not accustomed to see ... having opened & read it it proved to be a declaration of attachment -- & proposal of Matrimony -- expressed in the ardent language of the sapient young Irishman!'"""
"""When you have time & spirits for it, pray read """"""""Sketches by Boz"""""""" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scripture reading, I like no books that do not make me laugh, provided the laugh is not provoked by anything bordering upon indecency. - A little innocent vulgarity or even coarseness, I do not mind, if accompanied by wit & humour. Dickens has edited a delightful Life of poor dear Grimaldi. Have you seen Benson Earl Hill's """"""""Recollections of an Artillery Officer""""""""? I was much amused by it.'"""
"""When you have time & spirits for it, pray read """"""""Sketches by Boz"""""""" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scripture reading, I like no books that do not make me laugh, provided the laugh is not provoked by anything bordering upon indecency. - A little innocent vulgarity or even coarseness, I do not mind, if accompanied by wit & humour. Dickens has edited a delightful Life of poor dear Grimaldi. Have you seen Benson Earl Hill's """"""""Recollections of an Artillery Officer""""""""? I was much amused by it.'"""
"""When you have time & spirits for it, pray read """"""""Sketches by Boz"""""""" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scripture reading, I like no books that do not make me laugh, provided the laugh is not provoked by anything bordering upon indecency. - A little innocent vulgarity or even coarseness, I do not mind, if accompanied by wit & humour. Dickens has edited a delightful Life of poor dear Grimaldi. Have you seen Benson Earl Hill's """"""""Recollections of an Artillery Officer""""""""? I was much amused by it.'"""
"""Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of Mathews, edited & mostly written by his wife. Well, and another lively amusing book of the same class is the Life of Grimaldi, by Dickens. Both Mathews & Grimaldi, though considered as Buffoons, were full of good feeling, & excellent private characters. I arose from the perusal of each work, with respect & love for both men; and since the publication of Crabb's Memoirs, and Campbell's Life of Mrs Siddons, I have read no Biography I like half so well'."""
"""Reader, how is our family circle this evening? I will tell you. We are seated around a circular table. On my right is WLC copying some matter for me out of Dr Dick's works. Next to him is Tho_s drawing on a slate one of the mountains on the highlands of Scotland... Next is rank sits Mary, putting some reparation to a white cotton stocking, and then follows Emma [...] The scenery of the table consists of Wakefield's Family tour - Dr Dick's Christian philosopher, a vol or two of the Children's Friend - slate - inkstand - cotton-box lined with pink, knife and scissors.'  """
"""The account of the money market rather more favourable.'"""
"""Read the paper and smoked a pipe.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 December 1837: 'Read some of Hall in afternoon, till time to dress for ball.'"""
"""Rose at 7 am wash'd looked over the paper etc.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 1 January 1840: 'Read Examiner [...] but could not write at all.  Made a cap, therefore.'"""
"""Charlotte Bronte to Hartley Coleridge, 10 December 1840: 'I am sorry Sir I did not exist forty or fifty years ago when the """"""""Lady's magazine"""""""" was flourishing like a green bay tree ... You see Sir I have read the """"""""Lady's Magazine"""""""" and know something of its contents ... I read them before I knew how to criticize or object -- they were old books belonging to my mother or my Aunt; they had crossed the Sea, had suffered ship-wreck and were discoloured with brine -- I read them as a treat on holiday afternoons or by stealth when I should have been minding my lessons ... One black day my father burnt them because they contained foolish love-stories.' """
"""In the evening we had a very large party to our reading and worship. I should think nearly a hundred persons ... we had a very solemn time after our reading in the morning at Antwerp, the last reading we had of this kind'"""
"""Read a little more of """"""""Amelia"""""""", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; """"""""Gil Blas"""""""" has always some tangled connection and momentary interest; """"""""Don Quixote"""""""" is so intensely amusing that the want of plan is easily forgiven; but to bring on a storm merely that a hero may escape in a boat is the kind of thing I had not expected to find in what is said to be one of the first of English novels. The irony is forced, and the feeling bad; but the characters are highly and equisitely finished, and clearly conceived.'"""
"""Read a little more of """"""""Amelia"""""""", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; """"""""Gil Blas"""""""" has always some tangled connection and momentary interest; """"""""Don Quixote"""""""" is so intensely amusing that the want of plan is easily forgiven; but to bring on a storm merely that a hero may escape in a boat is the kind of thing I had not expected to find in what is said to be one of the first of English novels. The irony is forced, and the feeling bad; but the characters are highly and equisitely finished, and clearly conceived.'"""
"""Read a little more of """"""""Amelia"""""""", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; """"""""Gil Blas"""""""" has always some tangled connection and momentary interest; """"""""Don Quixote"""""""" is so intensely amusing that the want of plan is easily forgiven; but to bring on a storm merely that a hero may escape in a boat is the kind of thing I had not expected to find in what is said to be one of the first of English novels. The irony is forced, and the feeling bad; but the characters are highly and equisitely finished, and clearly conceived.'"""
"""""""""""Chartism"""""""" gave me more pleasure and less pain than I expected: but the more I think it over the worse it looks. There is a fine sympathy with the many at the bottom; but it is stuck all thro' with prejudices and bits of injustice, as thick as a tipsy cake with almonds; and the excessive conceit, connected with want of knowledge, will do him harm. I think it will do no other harm, and a great deal of good...'"""
"""Though one former ploughboy extolled Shakespeare for possessing a deep sense of the pure morality of the Gospel"""""""" and quoted from him on most of the 440 pages of his autobiography, he was anxious to insist that """"""""Shakespeare can be far more appreciated and better understood in the closet than in a public theater"""""""".'"""
"""We were sent for to visit Prince and Princess Charles and their children and paid them an agreeable and I hope not unprofitable visit. The Crown Prince and Princess sent for us again; after much conversation upon many subjects I asked them to allow me to read a portion of Holy Scriptures with them, which gave me an opportunity for weightly religious communication with them'"""
"""I had then to enter a drawing room full of company to receive numbers of foreigners, and our ambassador Lord William Russell, and many others in and out. After some went away we had a solemn time of Scripture reading and prayer'"""
"""...and this morning the Morning Chronicle puts forth an article having every appearance of being written by Palmerston himself (as I have no doubt it was) most violent, declamatory and insulting to France...'"""
"""[Friday 20 November 1840]. Before prayers work with my Father- cards at night- shooting - read Stahl- Clarendon- Burnet (Own Time, began)."""
"""[Saturday 21 November 1840]. [...] read Clarendon- Burnet - worked on Ch. & State [...]."""
"""[Monday 23 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & State [...]."""
"""[Tues 24 November 1840]. read Burnet - Bruce on Assam- Clarendon- [...]."""
"""[Weds 25 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Neal - Clarendon- [...]."""
"""...This morning I learnt (by reading it in the Globe) the sudden death of Lord Holland after a few hours' illness, and whom I left not a fortnight ago in his usual health and likely to live many years ...'"""
"""Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of Mathews, edited & mostly written by his wife. Well, and another lively amusing book of the same class is the Life of Grimaldi, by Dickens. Both Mathews & Grimaldi, though considered as Buffoons, were full of good feeling, & excellent private characters. I arose from the perusal of each work, with respect & love for both men; and since the publication of Crabb's Memoirs, and Campbell's Life of Mrs Siddons, I have read no Biography I like half so well'."""
"""Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of Mathews, edited & mostly written by his wife. Well, and another lively amusing book of the same class is the Life of Grimaldi, by Dickens. Both Mathews & Grimaldi, though considered as Buffoons, were full of good feeling, & excellent private characters. I arose from the perusal of each work, with respect & love for both men; and since the publication of Crabb's Memoirs, and Campbell's Life of Mrs Siddons, I have read no Biography I like half so well'."""
"""Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of Mathews, edited & mostly written by his wife. Well, and another lively amusing book of the same class is the Life of Grimaldi, by Dickens. Both Mathews & Grimaldi, though considered as Buffoons, were full of good feeling, & excellent private characters. I arose from the perusal of each work, with respect & love for both men; and since the publication of Crabb's Memoirs, and Campbell's Life of Mrs Siddons, I have read no Biography I like half so well'."""
"""[Thurs 26 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon Life- d[itt]o Reln and Policy- Poems- Tyler- H[enry] V. [...]."""
"""Thank you for your beautiful play - so full of poetry & philosophy and all the loveliest things of this (when you write about it) lovely world.'"""
"""[Fri 27 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & St. [...]."""
"""[Sat 28 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & St. [...]."""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 3 January 1840: '[italics]Evening[end italics]. -- Read Wilberforce, and looked over Dr. Crowther's book.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 3 January 1840: '[italics]Evening[end italics]. -- Read Wilberforce, and looked over Dr. Crowther's book.'"""
"""I am very deep in Lord Stowell's """"""""Reports"""""""", and if it were wartime I should officiate as Judge of the Admiralty Court. It was a fine business to make a public law for all nations, or to confirm one; and it is rather singular that so sly a rogue should have done it so honestly'."""
"""I am reading again Madame du Deffand. God forbid I should be as much in love with anybody (yourself excepted) as the poor woman was with Horace Walpole!'"""
"""The Rev. Sydney Smith to Mary Berry, [1840]: 'I am reading again Madame du Deffand.'"""
"""?In one of my early schoolbooks, indeed, I had read """"""""Lucy Gray"""""""" and """"""""We are seven"""""""". The music of these simple lays had charmed my boyish fancy and lingered in my memory.?"""
"""?In one of my early schoolbooks, indeed, I had read """"""""Lucy Gray"""""""" and """"""""We are seven"""""""". The music of these simple lays had charmed my boyish fancy and lingered in my memory.?"""
"""Lord Jeffrey to 'Mr. Empson', December 1840: 'I have read Harriet [Martineau]'s first volume [of """"""""The Hour and the Man""""""""], and give in my adhesion to her Black Prince [Toussaint L'Ouverture] with all my heart and soul. The book is really not only beautiful and touching, but [italics]noble[end italics]; and I do not recollect when I have been more charmed, whether by very sweet and eloquent writing and glowing description, or by elevated as well as tender sentiments.  I do not believe that the worthy people ever spoke or acted as she has so gracefully presented them, and must confess that in all the striking scenes I entirely forgot their complexion, and drove the notion of it from me as often as it occurred.  But this does not at all diminish, but rather increases the merit of her creations.'"""
"""I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of """"""""Amy Herbert"""""""" to my sisters, and they liked them'."""
"""I was reading the little book aloud to my mother one evening when he was in the room, and not being well was lying on the sofa half asleep, as I thought; but he listened, and I think was interested, for he asked me what I was reading. I forget exactly what answer I made, but it certainly was not that I was reading anything of my own, and so I lost the opportunity of giving him pleasure'."""
"""Mary Berry on the Life and writings (including memoirs) of the Princess Dashkoff, published 1840: 'The whole work -- of which I saw only the first part, which comes down to 1783, when she returned to Russia after her tour through Italy -- is the picture, not only of a human mind and character placed in most extraordinary circumstances, and acting a most extraordinary part, but endowed by nature with those extraordinary powers, and that energy, which I have ever thought [...] always accompanied by [...] warm, pure, and ardent affections of the heart.'"""
"""""""""""The story of Eyes and No Eyes in Evenings at Home is intended only to illustrate the difference between inattention and vigilance, but the exercise in narration is a subsequent and separate one, it is in the lucidity, completeness and honesty of statement.""""""""'"""
"""I must include. under the general title of these [fairy legends], the stories in """"""""Evenings at Home"""""""" of the Transmigrations of Indur, the Discontented Squirrel, the Travelled Aunt, the Cat and her Children, and Little Fido.'"""
"""[footnote includes a quote from Evenings and the following:] 'Nevertheless, the germs of all modern conceit and error respecting manufacture and industry ads rivalsto Art and Genius, are concentrated in """"""""Evenings at Home"""""""", and Harry and Lucy S...'"""
"""...one classical in my early days, called """"""""Evenings at Home"""""""". It contained, among many well-written lessons, one, under the title of """"""""Eyes and No Eyes"""""""", which some of my older hearers may remember, and which I should myself be sorry to forget."""""""""""
"""In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the """"""""Life of General Washington"""""""".'"""
"""In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the """"""""Life of General Washington"""""""".'"""
"""In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the """"""""Life of General Washington"""""""".'"""
"""Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefore mention that my prime favourites while at Tait's were """"""""Cobbett's advice to young men"""""""", and Charles Knight's """"""""Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties""""""""; which I read over and over again with great zest, and, I hope, much benefit. As a matter of course, I also read """"""""Tait's Magazine"""""""" regularly, making myself familiar with its contents even before publication; the elaborate reviews of many of the best books of the period affording me the opportunity of picking up a considerable amount of useful information. Curiously enough, the reading of the """"""""Waverley novels"""""""" was to me a task of difficulty; and I am ashamed to say that I have only read few of them, """"""""Guy Mannering"""""""", """"""""The Heart of Midlothian"""""""", """"""""The Bride of Lammermoor"""""""" and """"""""St Ronan's Well"""""""". """"""""Waverley"""""""", although attempted more than once, failed to attract.'"""
"""Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefore mention that my prime favourites while at Tait's were """"""""Cobbett's advice to young men"""""""", and Charles Knight's """"""""Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties""""""""; which I read over and over again with great zest, and, I hope, much benefit. As a matter of course, I also read """"""""Tait's Magazine"""""""" regularly, making myself familiar with its contents even before publication; the elaborate reviews of many of the best books of the period affording me the opportunity of picking up a considerable amount of useful information. Curiously enough, the reading of the """"""""Waverley novels"""""""" was to me a task of difficulty; and I am ashamed to say that I have only read few of them, """"""""Guy Mannering"""""""", """"""""The Heart of Midlothian"""""""", """"""""The Bride of Lammermoor"""""""" and """"""""St Ronan's Well"""""""". """"""""Waverley"""""""", although attempted more than once, failed to attract.'"""
"""Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefore mention that my prime favourites while at Tait's were """"""""Cobbett's advice to young men"""""""", and Charles Knight's """"""""Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties""""""""; which I read over and over again with great zest, and, I hope, much benefit. As a matter of course, I also read """"""""Tait's Magazine"""""""" regularly, making myself familiar with its contents even before publication; the elaborate reviews of many of the best books of the period affording me the opportunity of picking up a considerable amount of useful information. Curiously enough, the reading of the """"""""Waverley novels"""""""" was to me a task of difficulty; and I am ashamed to say that I have only read few of them, """"""""Guy Mannering"""""""", """"""""The Heart of Midlothian"""""""", """"""""The Bride of Lammermoor"""""""" and """"""""St Ronan's Well"""""""". """"""""Waverley"""""""", although attempted more than once, failed to attract.'"""
"""Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefore mention that my prime favourites while at Tait's were """"""""Cobbett's advice to young men"""""""", and Charles Knight's """"""""Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties""""""""; which I read over and over again with great zest, and, I hope, much benefit. As a matter of course, I also read """"""""Tait's Magazine"""""""" regularly, making myself familiar with its contents even before publication; the elaborate reviews of many of the best books of the period affording me the opportunity of picking up a considerable amount of useful information. Curiously enough, the reading of the """"""""Waverley novels"""""""" was to me a task of difficulty; and I am ashamed to say that I have only read few of them, """"""""Guy Mannering"""""""", """"""""The Heart of Midlothian"""""""", """"""""The Bride of Lammermoor"""""""" and """"""""St Ronan's Well"""""""". """"""""Waverley"""""""", although attempted more than once, failed to attract.'"""
"""Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefore mention that my prime favourites while at Tait's were """"""""Cobbett's advice to young men"""""""", and Charles Knight's """"""""Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties""""""""; which I read over and over again with great zest, and, I hope, much benefit. As a matter of course, I also read """"""""Tait's Magazine"""""""" regularly, making myself familiar with its contents even before publication; the elaborate reviews of many of the best books of the period affording me the opportunity of picking up a considerable amount of useful information. Curiously enough, the reading of the """"""""Waverley novels"""""""" was to me a task of difficulty; and I am ashamed to say that I have only read few of them, """"""""Guy Mannering"""""""", """"""""The Heart of Midlothian"""""""", """"""""The Bride of Lammermoor"""""""" and """"""""St Ronan's Well"""""""". """"""""Waverley"""""""", although attempted more than once, failed to attract.'"""
"""Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefore mention that my prime favourites while at Tait's were """"""""Cobbett's advice to young men"""""""", and Charles Knight's """"""""Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties""""""""; which I read over and over again with great zest, and, I hope, much benefit. As a matter of course, I also read """"""""Tait's Magazine"""""""" regularly, making myself familiar with its contents even before publication; the elaborate reviews of many of the best books of the period affording me the opportunity of picking up a considerable amount of useful information. Curiously enough, the reading of the """"""""Waverley novels"""""""" was to me a task of difficulty; and I am ashamed to say that I have only read few of them, """"""""Guy Mannering"""""""", """"""""The Heart of Midlothian"""""""", """"""""The Bride of Lammermoor"""""""" and """"""""St Ronan's Well"""""""". """"""""Waverley"""""""", although attempted more than once, failed to attract.'"""
"""Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefore mention that my prime favourites while at Tait's were """"""""Cobbett's advice to young men"""""""", and Charles Knight's """"""""Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties""""""""; which I read over and over again with great zest, and, I hope, much benefit. As a matter of course, I also read """"""""Tait's Magazine"""""""" regularly, making myself familiar with its contents even before publication; the elaborate reviews of many of the best books of the period affording me the opportunity of picking up a considerable amount of useful information. Curiously enough, the reading of the """"""""Waverley novels"""""""" was to me a task of difficulty; and I am ashamed to say that I have only read few of them, """"""""Guy Mannering"""""""", """"""""The Heart of Midlothian"""""""", """"""""The Bride of Lammermoor"""""""" and """"""""St Ronan's Well"""""""". """"""""Waverley"""""""", although attempted more than once, failed to attract.'"""
"""Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefore mention that my prime favourites while at Tait's were """"""""Cobbett's advice to young men"""""""", and Charles Knight's """"""""Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties""""""""; which I read over and over again with great zest, and, I hope, much benefit. As a matter of course, I also read """"""""Tait's Magazine"""""""" regularly, making myself familiar with its contents even before publication; the elaborate reviews of many of the best books of the period affording me the opportunity of picking up a considerable amount of useful information. Curiously enough, the reading of the """"""""Waverley novels"""""""" was to me a task of difficulty; and I am ashamed to say that I have only read few of them, """"""""Guy Mannering"""""""", """"""""The Heart of Midlothian"""""""", """"""""The Bride of Lammermoor"""""""" and """"""""St Ronan's Well"""""""". """"""""Waverley"""""""", although attempted more than once, failed to attract.'"""
"""The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, including his """"""""Lives of the players"""""""", and once every year I peruse """"""""Sir Andrew Wyllie""""""""; also that most realistic production, the """"""""Annals of the Parish"""""""": both books undeserving of the neglect which has befallen them.'"""
"""As an apprentice I was a subscriber to the Mechanic's Library, from which I borrowed a great supply of books - my tastes lying largely in the direction of biography ... series of books of Mr Smiles, is still worth the attention of young men in search of wholesome reading.'"""
"""Another book I read with much zest was the autobiography of Lackington, the bookseller, a copy of which amusing and instructive work I still possess and read occasionally.'"""
"""I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially """"""""Bentley's Miscellany"""""""", which contained in my young days """"""""Jack Sheppard"""""""".'"""
"""When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of """"""""Maga"""""""", its chief attraction was the later series of """"""""The Diary of a late physician"""""""". I greatly enjoyed the papers, and also, later on, the same author's story of """"""""Ten Thousand a Year"""""""". [when the journal came out] I would sit on the steps [of George Street] for nearly an hour engrossed by the perusal of some interesting portion of its pages, munching at the same time my dinner of bread-and-cheese. The pages of the copies of the magazine in my custody as collector were, of course, uncut, but having as many as eight or ten in my charge, I managed without it being discovered to cut open one leaf in each of the numbers in order to master the narrative.'"""
"""When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of """"""""Maga"""""""", its chief attraction was the later series of """"""""The Diary of a late physician"""""""". I greatly enjoyed the papers, and also, later on, the same author's story of """"""""Ten Thousand a Year"""""""". [when the journal came out] I would sit on the steps [of George Street] for nearly an hour engrossed by the perusal of some interesting portion of its pages, munching at the same time my dinner of bread-and-cheese. The pages of the copies of the magazine in my custody as collector were, of course, uncut, but, having as many as eight or ten in my charge, I managed without its being discovered to cut open one leaf in each of the numbers in order to master the narrative.'"""
"""When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of """"""""Maga"""""""", its chief attraction was the later series of """"""""The Diary of a late physician"""""""". I greatly enjoyed the papers, and also, later on, the same author's story of """"""""Ten Thousand a Year"""""""". [when the journal came out] I would sit on the steps [of George Street] for nearly an hour engrossed by the perusal of some interesting portion of its pages, munching at the same time my dinner of bread-and-cheese. The pages of the copies of the magazine in my custody as collector were, of course, uncut, but, having as many as eight or ten in my charge, I managed without its being discovered to cut open one leaf in each of the numbers in order to master the narrative.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau on inspirations and research for her story 'Settlers at Hoime': 'Tait's Magazine of last year had an article of De Quincy's which made me think of snow-storms for a story: -- then it occurred to me that floods were less hackneyed [...] Floods suggested Lincolnshire for the scene, and Lauder's book (Sir Thomas Dick Lauder's """"""""Floods in Morayshire,"""""""" read many years before) for the material.  For Lincolnshire I looked into the Penny Cyclopedia, and there found references to other articles'. """
"""Harriet Martineau on inspirations and research for her story 'Settlers at Hoime': 'Tait's Magazine of last year had an article of De Quincy's which made me think of snow-storms for a story: -- then it occurred to me that floods were less hackneyed [...] Floods suggested Lincolnshire for the scene, and Lauder's book (Sir Thomas Dick Lauder's """"""""Floods in Morayshire,"""""""" read many years before) for the material.  For Lincolnshire I looked into the Penny Cyclopedia, and there found references to other articles'. """
"""As our roads home from school lay for a considerable distance in the same direction, Tommy Davies...and I generally walked home together, making numerous stoppages along the way to read, admire and compare the playbills of the different theatres. One afternoon in the latter end of the month of October we were going home, when our attention was forcibly arrested by a bill of an unusually attracive character. It was a very large, very highly coloured and very profusely illustrated bill...'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 4 January 1840: 'Read Mr. Thom's account of the Oxford theology, drawn from their own writings: good [...] Have been reading Wilberforce: grows twaddling in his old age, through want of cultivation of mind.  Very noble, however, -- his keeping back Brougham's pledge about the Queen, and silently suffering universal censure.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, Journal, 4 January 1840: 'Read Mr. Thom's account of the Oxford theology, drawn from their own writings: good [...] Have been reading Wilberforce: grows twaddling in his old age, through want of cultivation of mind.  Very noble, however, -- his keeping back Brougham's pledge about the Queen, and silently suffering universal censure.'"""
"""September 5 1840. Went this morning to the house in Ship and Anchor court. On the parlour window of the house formerly kept by my father was a bill, 'a first, second and third floor to be let unfurnished'. Saw a dirty, Ruffianly looking man in the Parlour in which there wa[s] an old mangle and great appearance of miserable poverty."""
"""Looking at Sismondi's """"""""Italian Republics"""""""" an odd fit of industry came over me in the morning.'"""
"""I have been reading Carlyle, like all the rest of the world. He has been writing a sort of pamphlet on the state of England called ''Chartism.'' It is full of compassion and good feeling but utterly unreasonable.'"""
"""I liked the Athenaeum on Chartism much. Thank you for sending it. One has great pleasure in reading the Athenaeum - the spirit is so good'."""
"""Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 2 April 1841: 'If you think I'm going to refuse your invitation ... you're mistaken -- as soon as I read your shabby little note -- I gathered up my spirits -- walked on the impulse of the moment into Mrs White [her employer]'s presence -- popped the question ... will she refuse me [time off] when I work so hard for her? thought I.  Ye-es-es, drawled Madam ... thank you Madam said I ...' """
"""I have begun Alison's """"""""Europe"""""""" - a pompous title, by the by, for an account of the Bedlam devilries of the French revolution. Good deal of inaccurate English, but clever on the whole.'"""
"""I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and """"""""The Scholar Armed"""""""", to say nothing of a very popular book called """"""""The Dissenter tripped up"""""""".'"""
"""I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and """"""""The Scholar Armed"""""""", to say nothing of a very popular book called """"""""The Dissenter tripped up"""""""".'"""
"""I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and """"""""The Scholar Armed"""""""", to say nothing of a very popular book called """"""""The Dissenter tripped up"""""""".'"""
""" I find I like reading stories far better than writing them. I have been reading a very sad one recently, - Capn' Grey's discoveries in Australlia. There is an anecdote there which shows how little some people are in the habit of regarding savages as men...'"""
"""Read the Clementina part of """"""""Sir Charles Grandison"""""""". I have never met with anything which affected me so powerfully; at present I feel disposed to place this work above all other works of fiction I know. It is very, very grand, and has, I think, a greater practical effect on me for good than anything I ever read in my life.'"""
"""I began the """"""""Poissons"""""""" regularly; pretty hard work; finished """"""""Kenilworth"""""""". I think Amy deserved her fate, she is unworthy of being one of Scott's heroines. The book wants both a hero and a heroine, for Tressilian, who is unsuccessful in almost all he does, is too unlucky. Leicester too vacillating. Raleigh and Elizabeth have more of the interest, or of claim to it at least.'"""
"""I began the """"""""Poissons"""""""" regularly; pretty hard work; finished """"""""Kenilworth"""""""". I think Amy deserved her fate, she is unworthy of being one of Scott's heroines. The book wants both a hero and a heroine, for Tressilian, who is unsuccessful in almost all he does, is too unlucky. Leicester too vacillating. Raleigh and Elizabeth have more of the interest, or of claim to it at least.'"""
"""Looking at Galiffe's tour - he has a curious theory that the language of old Rome was Russian.'"""
"""[Sunday 21 November 1841]. [...] Read Knight's Life of Colet. [...]."""
"""Looking this evening at Jacob Bryant's remarks on history of Isaiah; fanciful, but very interesting.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Pease, 27 February 1841: 'I have read the statements in """"""""Right and Wrong among the Abolitionists of the United States"""""""", with respect to the differences between the two antislavery societies in America, with a strong and painful interest [...] I am not more firmly persuaded of anything, than that those who [...] listen to one side only, or refuse to hear either, are doing the deepest injury in their power to the antislavery cause'."""
"""Marryat's diary on Continent gives many interesting anecdotes of animals, but I am afraid to remember them, lest they should not be true'"""
"""""""""""My books"""""""" - I have a few of my own - pick up a loom where it can be had; so of course my reading is without choice or system.'"""
"""I am much obliged to you for the volume of Emerson Essays. I had heard of him before and I know that Carlyle rates him highly. He has great thoughts and imaginations, but he sometimes misleads himself by his own facility of talking brilliantly. However, I have not perhaps studied him sufficiently.'"""
"""Mary Berry to a friend, [1841]: 'I have read every word of Mazzini, and agree entirely with him in his views of what civil liberty ought to be, and with most of his statements on the absence of it in Italy.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau on inspirations for her story 'Feats on the Fjord': 'Mr Laing's book on Norway fell in my way, and set my imagination floating on the fjords [...] I procured Inglis's Travels and every thing that I could get hold of about the state of Norway while connected with Denmark; and hence arose """"""""Feats on the Fjord.""""""""'"""
"""Harriet Martineau on inspirations for her story 'Feats on the Fjord': 'Mr Laing's book on Norway fell in my way, and set my imagination floating on the fjords [...] I procured Inglis's Travels and every thing that I could get hold of about the state of Norway while connected with Denmark; and hence arose """"""""Feats on the Fjord.""""""""'"""
"""[A friend] one day desired to be allowed to see and criticise the first chapter of my [Harriet Martineau's] """"""""Retrospect of Western Travel.""""""""  I gave him the MS. at night; and in the morning he produced it, covered with pencil marks.'  """
"""I read Guizot's Washington in the Summer; nothing can be better, more succinct more judicious, more true more just; but I think I have done with reviewing'."""
"""I have read Susan Hopley - the incidents are improbable but the Book took me on - and I kept reading it'."""
"""Pray Read the first Vol of Elphinstone's India - the News from China gives me the greatest pleasure. I am for bombarding all the exclusive Asiatics who shut up the Earth and will not let me walk civilly and quietly through it, doing no harm, and paying for all I want'."""
"""Have you read Emerson's Essays? I suppose it is the first immortal Amern book. It has come to me like a visitation of health'."""
"""It poured the whole afternoon, and, after writing, I read to Albert the three first cantos of The Lay of the Last Minstrel, which delighted us both.'"""
"""You should read Napier's two little volumes of the war in Portugal. He is an heroic fellow, equal to anything in Plutarch; and moreover a long-headed, clever hero, who takes good aim before he fires'."""
"""Read """"""""A Life in the Forest"""""""", skipping nimbly; but there is much of good in it'."""
"""At two o'clock we passed the famed St. Abb's Head, which we had so longed to see on our first voyage to Scotland. I read a few stanzas out of Marmion, giving an account of the voyage of the nuns to Holy Island, and saw the ruins of the convent on it; then Bamborough Castle, and a little further on the Ferne Islands.' """
"""Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies and clergymen'."""
"""Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies and clergymen'."""
"""It being Sunday, we read prayers from a Bible and a Prayer Book that were picked up on the field at Bhoodkhak. The service was scarcely finished when a clannish row commenced. Sine tribes from a neighbouring fort who have a blood feud with the chiefs with us came against the fort: a few juzails were fired; there was a great talking and noise; and then it was all over.'"""
"""We went below at half-past seven, and I read the fourth and fifth cantos of The Lay of the Last Minstrel to Albert, and then we played on the piano.' """
"""Have you read Macaulay's Lays? they are very much liked. I have read some but I abor all Grecian and Roman subjects'."""
"""by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. But two authors in paticular offered magnificent revelations. First there was Emerson on Nature; and later, as a governess for a Scotby leatherworks owner, she discovered Thomas Carlyle: """"""""Emerson and he henceforth became my two great masters of thought for the rest of my life. Carlyle's gospel of Work and exposure of Shams, and his universal onslaught on the nothings and appearances of society, gave strength and life to my vague but true enthusiasm. They proved a new Bible of blessedness to my eager soul, as they did thousands beside, who had become weary of much of the vapid literature of the time"""""""".'"""
"""by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. But two authors in paticular offered magnificent revelations. First there was Emerson on Nature; and later, as a governess for a Scotby leatherworks owner, she discovered Thomas Carlyle: """"""""Emerson and he henceforth became my two great masters of thought for the rest of my life. Carlyle's gospel of Work and exposure of Shams, and his universal onslaught on the nothings and appearances of society, gave strength and life to my vague but true enthusiasm. They proved a new Bible of blessedness to my eager soul, as they did thousands beside, who had become weary of much of the vapid literature of the time"""""""".'"""
"""by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. But two authors in paticular offered magnificent revelations. First there was Emerson on Nature; and later, as a governess for a Scotby leatherworks owner, she discovered Thomas Carlyle: """"""""Emerson and he henceforth became my two great masters of thought for the rest of my life. Carlyle's gospel of Work and exposure of Shams, and his universal onslaught on the nothings and appearances of society, gave strength and life to my vague but true enthusiasm. They proved a new Bible of blessedness to my eager soul, as they did thousands beside, who had become weary of much of the vapid literature of the time"""""""".'"""
"""by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. But two authors in paticular offered magnificent revelations. First there was Emerson on Nature; and later, as a governess for a Scotby leatherworks owner, she discovered Thomas Carlyle: """"""""Emerson and he henceforth became my two great masters of thought for the rest of my life. Carlyle's gospel of Work and exposure of Shams, and his universal onslaught on the nothings and appearances of society, gave strength and life to my vague but true enthusiasm. They proved a new Bible of blessedness to my eager soul, as they did thousands beside, who had become weary of much of the vapid literature of the time"""""""".'"""
"""Note the following passages respecting Edom. Genes. xxxvi. Num. xx, 14, xxi, 4, xxiv, 18, xxxiii, 7. Judges v, 4. Deut. ii, 4, 8, 12. 2 Sam. viii, 14. 1 Kings xi, 15, xxii, 47. 2nd Kings iii, 9, viii, 20, xiv, 7. conf. 2 Ch. xxv. Isaiah xi, 14, xxi, 12. I Ch. xviii, 12. 2 Ch. xx, 10. Is. lxiii, 1, conf. Jerem. xlix, 7, 13, xxv, 21, 23. Lament iv, 21. Ezek. xxv, 8, 12, xxxv, 5. Amos i, II, 12, ii, I. Obediah all.'"""
"""Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 22 April 1842 ('Friday Evening'): 'I have just been reading over your admirable letter for a third time, and, after nourishing the meditations to which it led by gazing for half-an-hour on the long waves which come glittering in the moonlight to the beach below my windows [...] find that I cannot lay myself down with a quiet conscience till I have thanked you for the pleasure it has given, [italics]and the good it has done me[end italics].'"""
"""I am reading """"""""Peculiarities of Behaviour"""""""" by Wilhelm Stekel. It is curious how these psychoanalysts boil everything down to food urge or sex urge.'"""
"""Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 23 April 1842 (in letter begun 22 April): 'I still read a good deal [...] I have just finished the last number of the """"""""Edinburgh Review,"""""""" and have been charmed more than ever, I think, with that splendid paper of Macaulay's on Frederic of Prussia.  I have read it twice over already, with thrillings of admiration whcih make my very weak heart leap rather too strongly; but it is delightful.'"""
"""Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 23 April 1842 (in letter begun 22 April): 'I still read a good deal [...] I have just finished the last number of the """"""""Edinburgh Review,"""""""" and have been charmed more than ever, I think, with that splendid paper of Macaulay's on Frederic of Prussia.  I have read it twice over already, with thrillings of admiration whcih make my very weak heart leap rather too strongly; but it is delightful.'"""
"""I went on with """"""""Persuasion"""""""", finished it, began """"""""Northanger Abbey"""""""", which I have now finished.  These two novels have sadly reduced my estimation of Miss Austen.  They are little more than galleries of disagreeables and the would-be heroes and heroines are scarcely out of the class of insignificants.  Yet I ought to be suspicious perhaps of my own declining judgement.'"""
"""I went on with """"""""Persuasion"""""""", finished it, began """"""""Northanger Abbey"""""""", which I have now finished.  These two novels have sadly reduced my estimation of Miss Austen.  They are little more than galleries of disagreeables and the would-be heroes and heroines are scarcely out of the class of insignificants.  Yet I ought to be suspicious perhaps of my own declining judgement.'"""
"""I read the """"""""Syonan Times"""""""" it says: """"""""The era of equality for all in Greater Asia is at hand""""""""'"""
"""I am reading """"""""Puppets into Scotland"""""""" by W. Wilkinson - it makes one very homesick'"""
"""I finish the """"""""Puppets"""""""" book; it induced too great a longing for home and freedom and the end of this nightmare the world is plunged into - to appreciate it as I should have done'"""
"""Have you seen the Journal & letters of my dear Sister? & Charlotte Barrett's pretty Introduction. I earnestly hope the work will be liked; and I think it stands a very fair chance, so many celebrated people will be brought forward. - This is a very tolerable place for getting books (English [underlined] s'entend [end underlining]) but my copy is a present, & will have a fine gauntlet to run, I promise it'."""
"""Am charmed to find """"""""The Diary"""""""" is approved by the General. The third vol: I think must be universally interesting - the [underlined] first [end underlining], to own the truth, contained too much about the <first> early appearance of Evelina, to please me. - But it went down well with many people, & has caused a fresh demand for Evelina & Cecilia at every Library in Cheltenham'."""
"""You want to know what I think of the """"""""Diary"""""""". I wil tell you fairly & impartially. after wading with pain and sorrow through the tautology and vanity of the first volume, I began to be amused by the second, and every suceeding volume has, to my thinking, encreased in power to interest & entertain. That there is still considerable vanity I cannot deny. In her life, she bottled it all up, & looked and generally spoke with the most refined modesty, & seemed ready to drop if ever her works were alluded to. But what was kept back, and scarcely suspected in society, wanting a safety valve, found its way to her private journal. Thence, had Mrs Barrett been judicious, she would have trundled it out, by half quires, and even whole quires at a time'."""
"""Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, [1842]: 'I have been amusing myself lately by looking over the catalogue of the Strawberry Hill collections, and, as you may suppose, have had you often enough in my mind as I went through names and little anecdotes which must be pregnant to you with so many touching reflections.'"""
"""Conversion of convict J- V-; when came on board the ship he was a convinced socialist, and when appointed school teacher he wanted to use the position to convince others, but he changed: 'As a teacher, he was most useful to me, and most exemplary. He became a diligent student of the Bible, and of other devotional books. He appeared to grow in grace as well as in knowledge.'"""
"""Conversion of convict J- V-; when came on board the ship he was a convinced socialist, and when appointed school teacher he wanted to use the position to convince others, but he changed: 'As a teacher, he was most useful to me, and most exemplary. He became a diligent student of the Bible, and of other devotional books. He appeared to grow in grace as well as in knowledge.'"""
"""Conversion of F.M., while greatly affected by death of fellow convict, John Williams: 'My feelings I cannot describe. I never felt the like before. But I remembered what Dr Browning had often told us, and which I was reading in my Testament everyday, """"""""that Jesus died to save sinners"""""""".'"""
"""One berth was occupied by George Day... He appeared to be always humble, always contented and resigned, always grateful to God for the abundance of His mercies, frequently praying, or reading, or listening to his Bible.'"""
"""for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their affairs in print: sometimes, indeed, a few stray deliquents, from their vast numbers, find their way into the police reports of the newspapers; and in penny tracts, now and then, a """"""""Mary Smith"""""""" or """"""""Susan Jones"""""""" is introduced, in the last stage of consumption, or some other lingering disease, of which they die, in a heavenly frame of mind and are duly interred.'"""
"""for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their affairs in print: sometimes, indeed, a few stray deliquents, from their vast numbers, find their way into the police reports of the newspapers; and in penny tracts, now and then, a """"""""Mary Smith"""""""" or """"""""Susan Jones"""""""" is introduced, in the last stage of consumption, or some other lingering disease, of which they die, in a heavenly frame of mind and are duly interred.'"""
"""This book has helped me incalculably in surmounting coterie-notions of the nature of another life, as well as of the objects of this.'"""
"""One of my many visitors this summer, - R.M. Milnes, made earnest enquiry for you.  I do hope you like his poetry almost as much as he likes yours.  I keep a vol. of his always beside me, - & find some things there almost too beautiful.  How wonderful, - almost miraculous is his sympathy, - his understanding of Evil in all its forms, - in combination with his robust cheerfulness of spirits & manners! I know it is the fashion among London people who despise speculative men to dislike Milnes.  I cordially honour & like him. """
"""I do not defend the bad construction of his story.  I lament it, & can only wonder what bewitches us all, - us story-makers, - that we cannot make a story, - Boz, Bulwer, myself & others - while some excel in that particular art whom we do not at all envy in other respects.'"""
"""Blackguardly letter in """"""""Art Union"""""""", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great length.'"""
"""Blackguardly letter in """"""""Art Union"""""""", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great length.'"""
"""very good, rather political in character'"""
"""Much disappointed with Wilkie's life: he is a thoroughly low person and his biographer worse. I could not have imagined Cunningham could have so little knowledge of art'"""
"""Much disappointed with Wilkie's life: he is a thoroughly low person and his biographer worse. I could not have imagined Cunningham could have so little knowledge of art'"""
"""Note Baxter's opinion in describing George Lawson: """"""""the ablest man of them all, or of almost any I know in England, especially by the advantage of his age and very hard studies and methodological head, but above all by his great skill in politicks, wherein he is most exact, and which contributeth not a little to the understanding of Divinity.""""""""'"""
"""a vague subject, but treated in the refined & elevated spirit peculiar to him'"""
"""Read Lady Vavasour's """"""""Last Tour, and First Work, or a visit to the Baths of Wildbad, & Rippoldsau"""""""". - It is only one Volume, & is very entertaining and often clever, & lively, with considerable general information. Campbell's Editorship of the """"""""Life of Frederick the Great"""""""" has also amused me much'."""
"""Read Lady Vavasour's """"""""Last Tour, and First Work, or a visit to the Baths of Wildbad, & Rippoldsau"""""""". - It is only one Volume, & is very entertaining and often clever, & lively, with considerable general information. Campbell's Editorship of the """"""""Life of Frederick the Great"""""""" has also amused me much'."""
"""Now I will quit these dreary subjects, and tell you of a few nice books for you to read & like - The 1st Vol. of Campbell's life of Frederic the Great. The others [underlined] I [end underlining] did not enjoy so much. They are chiefly about the seven year's [sic] war: but there are parts even of that, which interested me very much. - Then """"""""Stevenson's Central South America"""""""". That is not the full title, but I forget exactly how the book is called. - I suppose you know the Life of Lord Howe. I was delighted with it; and it is only in one volume. There, if you chuse to try any of the above, I think I have cut you out work enough to last a good while'."""
"""Read Dumas's """"""""Essai de Statique Chimique"""""""" - clear but too short.'"""
"""Note in the beginning of the """"""""Phaedrus"""""""", in the speech attributed to Lysias, the ironical introduction of our Saviour's command, to call to the feast only the poor, the maimed, the halt and the blind.'"""
"""very good, with his peculiar views'"""
"""Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.'"""
"""Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.'"""
"""Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't find it - and a little bit of Rio.'"""
"""Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't find it - and a little bit of Rio.'"""
"""Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't find it - and a little bit of Rio.'"""
"""Read a little Plato; wrote a bit; and composed a good study for a vignette.'"""
"""Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Chess.'"""
"""Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Chess.'"""
"""Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Chess.'"""
"""written in a bad American style, turgid, & obscurely fractious, but interesting from its matter'"""
"""I have been extremely interested by it, and think it a most remarkable book, beyond measure severe, every line is written with a brand of frame, but I feel that my recollections and convictions assent the whole way… I image he does justice to the character of the Emperor, a great sovereign, not a great man; who thinks it would show weakness ever to forgive'. The reader continues to say that the book showed 'an indignation against oppression & fraud too well-grounded and too energetic not to be in great part genuine'."""
"""Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.'"""
"""Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.'"""
"""pithy & good. He is sure never to offend, usually to instruct & amend'"""
"""Read loud… I like better & better, it is so clever & so practical'"""
"""Read """"""""King John"""""""" completely for the first time; I like the historical plays myself better than the pet ones. """"""""Midsummer Night's Dream"""""""" I like least of any in Shakespeare. I think the death scene in """"""""King John"""""""" one of the very finest things in Shakespeare; but Constance talks too much Billingsgate.'"""
"""Curious essay of Newman's I read some pages of - about the ecclesiastical miracles; full of intellect but doubtful in tendency. I fear insidious, yet I like it.'"""
"""the founder of the Ministry at large, excellent. I must have talk with Ly Byron about this subject, & the similar institution that has been set on foot here'"""
"""interesting, but I should say indicative of rather a deficient moral standard & Providential recognition'"""
"""Read a little of the life of Baxter; very interesting, and apparently deserving Coleridge's recommendation. Dreadful picture of the state of the church at that time - players, gamblers, drunkards with forged notes; men 80 or 90 years old, of course never preaching; Maypole dancing &c. on the Sunday.'"""
"""fine imagery, but is too speculative'"""
"""short as all his are, & excellent as almost all are'"""
"""very interesting & able. I have read the entire contents of his published works, and every page has impressed upon me increased admiration, sympathy & veneration. I make of course the deduction which is to be set down to his Unitarian doctrines, though even with respect to these what I have read has led me to modify much that was uncharitable and ignorant'"""
"""Got a good deal out of Waagen, but he is an intolerable fool - good authority only in matters of tradition.'"""
"""full of good & useful matter'"""
"""The Lambtons sent me the last Edinburgh, prematurely brought out for the Eastern article. That art: was bad enough; but North did me good, like a canter over a Scotch moor: and Mrs Austin's """"""""Social Lfe in Germany"""""""" has some interest: and that on Manufacturing Folk is delightful'."""
"""Journal, Boulogne 28 May 1843: 'The afternoon of the Sabbath I paid a distressing visit to the St Lazare Prison; such a scene of disorder and deep evil I have seldom witnessed - gambling, romping, screaming. With much difficulty we collected four Protestant prisoners, and read with them. I spoke to those poor disorderly women, who appeared attentive, and showed some feeling.'"""
"""read some Greek'"""
"""Now I will quit these dreary subjects, and tell you of a few nice books for you to read & like - The 1st Vol. of Campbell's life of Frederic the Great. The others [underlined] I [end underlining] did not enjoy so much. They are chiefly about the seven year's [sic] war: but there are parts even of that, which interested me very much. - Then """"""""Stevenson's Central South America"""""""". That is not the full title, but I forget exactly how the book is called. - I suppose you know the Life of Lord Howe. I was delighted with it; and it is only in one volume. There, if you chuse to try any of the above, I think I have cut you out work enough to last a good while'."""
"""Now I will quit these dreary subjects, and tell you of a few nice books for you to read & like - The 1st Vol. of Campbell's life of Frederic the Great. The others [underlined] I [end underlining] did not enjoy so much. They are chiefly about the seven year's [sic] war: but there are parts even of that, which interested me very much. - Then """"""""Stevenson's Central South America"""""""". That is not the full title, but I forget exactly how the book is called. - I suppose you know the Life of Lord Howe. I was delighted with it; and it is only in one volume. There, if you chuse to try any of the above, I think I have cut you out work enough to last a good while'."""
"""find Rippingille all wrong in his """"""""Essay on Beauty"""""""": shall have the field all open. All comfortable.'"""
"""while in the """"""""Artist and Amateur"""""""" I see a series of essays on beauty commenced, which seem as if they would anticipate me altogether.'"""
"""Sydney Smith to Mary Berry, [1843]: 'I saw a piece of news the other day, in which a gentleman made his good fortune known to the world in the public papers: -- """"""""Last week the Rev. Elias Johnson was made examining chaplain to the Bishop of Jerusalem!""""""""'"""
"""Tell William Murray, with my kindest regards, to get for you, when he comes to town, a book called """"""""Arabiniana, or Remains of Mr Serjeant Arabin"""""""", - very witty and humorous. It is given away - not sold, but I have in vain endeavoured to get a copy'."""
"""a little reading of Southey's """"""""Colloquies"""""""" with which I was much pleased.'"""
"""The """"""""Inheritance"""""""" is excellent, & perhaps, Miss Ferrier's best - at least, it has left the best taste in my mouth: but I quite, & always did, prefer Miss Austen'."""
"""Have you read 'Zanoni'? And do you relish the gathering up of dropped (or strewed) Platonisms, & forming them into such a crown of glory, - of holy radiance, as the moral of that book?  Nothing wd. beforehand have persuaded me that such an allegory as that wd. be given us in our day, - though I had caught glimpses in Bulwer's mind of higher powers & better thoughts than he had been used to give out.  But this book is such a spring above all his former efforts - such a soaring - as has surprised me: - & others, to judge by the pertinacity of some people in declaring that he cd. not have meant the allegory we hold between our hands; - a thing they might as well say of the maker of a clock, or a county map."""
"""Read some of Coleridge's """"""""Friend"""""""", which gives one a higher notion of him than even his poetry'"""
"""I quite agree with you about Leonidas &c.  I have greatly enjoyed finding myself a child again over Macaulay's 'Lays'.  Castor & Pollux really took away my breath.  How beautiful those Lays are!'"""
"""I suppose you shared the benefit, so common, thank God! in our generation, - of an early, & thorough familiarity with Mrs Barbauld's Prose Hymns.  I know no book influence (out of the bible) at all to be compared to the hallowing & ripening influence of that little book.[...] I know of no woman's intellect like Mrs. Barbauld's.'"""
"""Note Ezekiel 22.30. """"""""I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it but I found none.""""""""'"""
"""good, with the Unitarian views'"""
"""I hope you like Horner's """"""""Life"""""""". It succeeds extremely well here. It is full of all the exorbitant and impracticable views so natural to young men at Edinburgh; but there is great order, great love of knowledge, high principle and feelings, which ought to grow and trive in superior minds'."""
"""My lamp is burning out, and it is time I was going to my chamber fireside, - there to finished the last 1/2 vol of """"""""Clarissa Harlowe"""""""" which I have borrowed from Lambton. What a very bad book it is! - and I expected quite the contrary, tho' hating Grandison. Clarissa herself is odious, - with her rash actions suiting so ill with her passionless, reasoning, self-possessed character...'"""
"""I think I said in one of myy recent scrawls all I had to say concerning Mr Macauley's Review: every part of which I like mainly, except his severe mention of the Royal Family, and his unnecessary critique of my Sister's Life of Dr Burney. Surely Croker had cut that up quite bitterly enough; - I cannot see why it need have been brought forward again'."""
"""""""""""Past and Present"""""""", <italics>very</italics> bad, insolent, bitter, one-sided and full of weary repetitions. I found it weary and irritating reading, except abbot Samson and some few passages.'"""
"""it is very eloquent &amp; I wish the Tories would promote him'"""
"""I have been reading the new Edinburgh and much like the first article. I wonder who wrote it. The one on Ireland I like, except the sad party stuff in the last 3pp.'"""
"""I have held off reading Walpole's Correspondences till now. I am in the former series to Mann. At first, I was agreeably disappointed: but now my pain and disgust are growing fast. What a horrid spirit it is!'"""
"""I am beginning Burke's Letters or rather have gone through one volume but it is (I mean the Volume) full of details which do not interest me and there are no signs yet of that beautiful and fruitful imagination which is the great charm of Burke; and with the politics of so remote a period I do not concern myself'."""
"""It bears marks of being written by an English Tory High Churchman, the last very abundantly, but there is much in it very striking & elevating. Above all it holds an adequate tone on the subject of slavery'."""
"""It is clear to me that mesmerism is not to be poo-pood, but diligently & reverently investigated'"""
"""Though it is probably the mightiest mind ever engaged in our politics, & tho there seems to have been great elevation & principle in is views, I am struck with the very personal nature of the politics of the day; so much more full of what the Dukes of Bedford & Richmond may think or do than of actual measures. He seems to have had strong religious convictions, but there is a want of gentleness & spirit'"""
"""loud... parts of it forcibly stated, but too inflamatory'"""
"""Fanny Kemble to Harriet St. Leger, 14 July 1844: 'I read but very little.  My leisure is principally given to my German, in which I am making some progress.'"""
"""I could not have liked a book more; the predominant feelings has been but selfish - oh, why was I not brought up under him, or as that could not be, why could Inot have known more of him? It might perhaps have led me into too much idolatry of him… With all his immense merits, I think one may trace some fancifulness & precipitancy of judgement… I think the Editor's part has been admirable done'"""
"""parts are eloquent & true, some too partial & self-satisfied, underrating the evil more than overrating the good, a little of it we should formerly at Christ Church have thought Ex-Collegee'"""
"""Read some of """"""""Clouds"""""""".'"""
"""Read Stanleys Life of Arneld, Twiss Life of Ld Eldon'."""
"""Read Stanleys Life of Arneld, Twiss Life of Ld Eldon'."""
"""I think I have already mentioned to you the Life of Ld Eldon by Horace Twiss. It is not badly done, and I think it would very much amuse Ld Grey as it is the history almost of his times. He seems (Lord Eldon) to have been a cunning canting old Rogue whose object was to make all the money he [could] by office at any expence of the public happiness'."""
"""[""""""""The Great Drought""""""""] is 'full of a truth like that of Defoe... that story might be bound up with the History of the Great Plague.'"""
"""Curious account in the """"""""Witness"""""""" of a rock, 8 tons in weight, being carried three hundred yards over sand by ice.'"""
"""entertained me much, though they would probably have not so much interest out of this family, to which so many of them relate. My father is much annoyed at having so many particulars disclosed'"""
"""very striking; it has his peculiar view of the identity of Church & Nation, & is very much against living exclusively in a religious church'"""
"""We have been extremely interested & amused, I think there is more power in the story, & perhaps more vigor in the characters than in any of the others, rather an increased tendency to exaggeration & a minute length of description'"""
"""Read a little """"""""Faery Queene"""""""" also, but it is heavy, though with sweet lines occasionally.'"""
"""Has Lord Grey read the Edinburgh Review? the article on Barrere is by Macaulay, that upon Lord St Vincent by Barrow; I thnk this latter very entertaining, but it was hardly worth while to crucify Barrere - Macauley might as well have selected Turpin'."""
"""for which I coin a word which will speak to myself, """"""""epochable""""""""'"""
"""Dull walk under cloudy sky; learned a few passages from """"""""Clouds"""""""", as appropriate.'"""
"""Mary Berry to Joanna Baillie, 24 October 1844: 'I have been reading """"""""Mrs. Grant's Letters"""""""" with considerable amusement.  She often writes very well, and [italics]thinks[end italics] well, within her horizon; but her horizon is a narrow one, and her mistakes of character often laughable.'"""
"""Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'"""
"""Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'"""
"""I think """"""""Ireland and its Leaders"""""""" worth reading and beg of you to tell me who wrote it if you happen to know, for you though you call yourself solitary live much more in the world than I do while I am in the Country'."""
"""I think Channing an admirable writer, so much eloquence so much sense so much command of Language; yet admirable as his Sermon on War is, I have the Vanity to think my own equally good quite as sensible quite as eloquent as full of good parables and of fine Language, and you will be more inclined to agree with me in this Comparison when I tell you that I preached in St Paul's the identical Sermon which Ld Grey so much admires. - I thought I could not write anything half so good so I preached Channing'."""
"""read a little Sir Joshua'"""
"""it is a novel of really great power & very strong interest, rather of a painful kind, a very pure and high strain of sentiment, with now & then to much of Puseyite tendencies, especially upon the doctrine of confession, not I think very great pathos, very good style, and where it is attempted successful delineation of character'"""
"""Ps. Have you read Miss Martineau on Mesmerism in the Athenaeum (two of them). I have got  them and if you like I will send them to you. They are very wonderful [underlined]'"""
"""In ... [a] letter to Maria Lewis, of September 1840 ... [George Eliot] enthusiastically advised her to 'recommend to all your married friends """"""""Woman's Mission"""""""" a 3/6d book and ... the most philosophical and masterly on the subject I ever read or glanced over' ..."""
"""Read Travels in the East called Eothen, they are by a Mr Kinglake of Taunton a Chancery Barrister, and are written in a very lively manner; they will amuse Lord Grey who I presume is regularly read to every day'."""
"""In a short time after, I procured the """"""""Life of Susan Hopley"""""""", and felt disappointed at finding it to be a work of fiction.' [However, Ashford was inspired by this work to write her own life story]"""
"""Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had """"""""come across Alfred Tennyson."""""""" """"""""We looked out some Latin translations of his poems by Cambridge men, and read some poems of Leigh Hunt's, and some of Theocritus and Virgil [...] I had no idea Virgil could ever sound so fine as it did by his reading....Yesterday I went to see him again. After some chat we sat down in two separate rooms to read Ellen Middleton, by Lady Georgiana Fullerton -- very highly spoken of.""""""""'"""
"""eminently vindictive, frequently unchristian in spirit, with scarcely any recognition of an over-ruling Providence'"""
"""They give the picture of a consumate man, in whom the signal aptitude for detail does not detract from, but adds largely to the impression of his even & capacious greatness. For the drawbacks which human character must always furnish, certainly when not attended by a paramount spirit of religion, I should be inclined to mention his abstinence from praise, & a misgiving whether he interfered energetically enough to prevent the horrors that attended the stormings of his great sieges'"""
"""Have you noticed the Abuse of St Pauls in the Times - I ws moved to write but kept Silence though it was pain and grief to me'."""
"""Read Captain Marryats Settlement in Canada'."""
"""Read first number of Owen's """"""""mammalia"""""""" in the evening.'"""
"""excellent, some antidote is salutary amidst such frivolities'"""
"""Read some Sir Joshua"""""""""""
"""As I have no people to tell you of, so have I very few books, and know nothing of what is stirring in the literary world.  I have read the Life of Arnold of Rugby, who was a noble fellow; and the letters of Burke, which do not add to, or detract from, what I knew and liked in him before.  I am meditating to begin Thucydides one day; perhaps this winter. . . """
"""elaborate, striking, almost too glaring'"""
"""A most striking book, & gives abundant food for thought & admiration, one of those which to read is an epoch for the mind… I think the whole book calculated to be of great use both to invalids & still more to those who are with them, it is so searching & so ennobling; at the same time there is a good deal of pride and sterness, perhaps of self-sufficiency which seem s the besetting taint of her line of opinions, & she presents rather an appalling idea of pain.'"""
"""Shower over the Breven as I returned (after sitting under a vast rock, rich with Alpine rose, reading Mr Ritchie's tract, """"""""Catholick and Apostolick Church"""""""") and past away to the Col de Balme.'"""
"""I have just read Miss Martineau's """"""""Sick Room"""""""". I cannot understand it. It is so sublime, and mystical that I frequently cannot guess at her meaning; all that I can find out is that in long chronical illnesses, a patient finds sources of amusement that do not at first occurr, but which have a tendency to engage the mind, and alleviate pain; all this however I could have conjectured without the assistance of an Octavo book'."""
"""It is a very clear, agreeably-written narrative and though often partial & one-sided, in a good spirit on the whole & with enlightened views'."""
"""full of his living wit & wisdom, & not without some of his flippancy on solemn themes, however there is so much of manly justice in the whole argument that I could only wish for the suppression of one or two unnecessary jokes about extreme unction'"""
"""?I read in the newspaper the day before yesterday an account of a lad brought up for not supporting his child.   The father was fifteen or sixteen years old, the mother a year or two less, and the Grandmother of the child ? the girl?s mother ? appeared, who was twenty-nine years old and had fourteen children.  This seems to me to be curious enough to be worth recording?'"""
"""Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, c.13 March 1845: 'Do you read Blackwood? & in that case, have you had deep delight in an exquisite paper by the Opium-eater, which my heart trembled through from end to end? What a poet that man is! how he vivifies words, & deepens them, & gives them profound significance'."""
"""We had a wet day yesterday, and amused ourselves with reading aloud """"""""The Life of Stephen Langton"""""""" in """"""""The Lives of the English Saints"""""""" (These lives were small biographies written by the more extreme members of the Oxford party.) It is well written and interesting, but I cannot go with it Thomas a Becket is no saint to my mind, and I dislike the uncalled-for hits at the Reformation'. [text in parenthesis added by the author or editor, it is unclear which, when turning journal text into publishable material]"""
"""""""""""4/2/1845 - I have read two volumes (the last two, I think) of Lord Malmesbury's Diaries, and with intense interest. I knew so many of the men he writes about, and lived on the spot where they acted."""""""""""
"""Charlotte Bronte, Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, 1850:  'One day, in the autumn of 1845, I accidentally lighted on an MS. volume of verse in my sister Emily's handwriting ... I looked it over, and something more than surprise seized me, -- a deep conviction that these were not common effusions ...'"""
"""The Church though may mean the Catholic or Universal Church and so Rome may be included. It is a horrid, startling notion, but a sermon of Newman's I was reading to-night would be a great safeguard against being led into mischief by it, """"""""Obedience, the remedy for religious pereplexity"""""""".'"""
"""Which has indeed very much of good thought & happy expression & confirms the feeling of satisfaction that he in any way belonged to me'"""
"""It has most glaring faults as a historical style, but in spite of its obscurity, barbaric whirl of words, & the still graver charge of a certain indifferentism or fatalism in its moral theory, it has brilliant flashes of thought & great occasional loftiness & generosity of sentiment'"""
"""I think he has great merit, uncommon clearness of style & thought, as an historian and a general impartiality, which extends sometimes to vice and virtue, despotism & liberty, Louis, Robespierre, Bonaparte & the Almighty'"""
"""Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 3 January 1845: 'I send back your """"""""Vestiges of Creation"""""""" [...] it appears to me that I have read in my life few more melancholy books'."""
"""From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's works, the """"""""Memoirs of Mr William Hutton"""""""", and Dr Stilling's Autobiography; with some of the works of Sir Walter Scott, Dr Southey, and Miss Martineau.'"""
"""From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's works, the """"""""Memoirs of Mr William Hutton"""""""", and Dr Stilling's Autobiography; with some of the works of Sir Walter Scott, Dr Southey, and Miss Martineau.'"""
"""From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's works, the """"""""Memoirs of Mr William Hutton"""""""", and Dr Stilling's Autobiography; with some of the works of Sir Walter Scott, Dr Southey, and Miss Martineau.'"""
"""From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's works, the """"""""Memoirs of Mr William Hutton"""""""", and Dr Stilling's Autobiography; with some of the works of Sir Walter Scott, Dr Southey, and Miss Martineau.'"""
"""From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's works, the """"""""Memoirs of Mr William Hutton"""""""", and Dr Stilling's Autobiography; with some of the works of Sir Walter Scott, Dr Southey, and Miss Martineau.'"""
"""From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's works, the """"""""Memoirs of Mr William Hutton"""""""", and Dr Stilling's Autobiography; with some of the works of Sir Walter Scott, Dr Southey, and Miss Martineau.'"""
"""Anne Bronte, diary paper for 31 July 1845 'Emily is engeaged [sic] in writing the Emperor Julius's life  She has read some of it and I want very much to hear the rest ...'"""
"""The """"""""Penny Magazine"""""""" was published - I borrowed the first volume, and determined to make an effort to possess myself with the second; accordingly, with January 1833, I determined to discontinue the use of sugar in my tea, hoping that my family would not then feel the sacrifice necessary to buy the book. Since that period, I have expended large sums in books, some of them very costly ones, but I never had one so truly valuable, as was the second volume of the """"""""Penny Magazine""""""""; and I look as anxiously for the issue of the monthly part, as I did for the means of getting a living. I continued to be a subscriber to this periodical up to the publication of the last number...'"""
"""""""""""4/2/1845 - I am also reading Carlyle's History of the French Revolution - full of genius, pathos, and pictures; with all its faults (and it has great ones) still, I can hardly lay it down."""""""""""
"""we have been much pleased with it… it is clear, well put together, skillfully developed, & the argument for a complete change of ecclesiastical policy comes out all but irresistibly. Perhaps he does not lay the stress he ought on Irish idiosyncracy, but still that does not touch the real question of our conduct to them'"""
"""Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 6 January 1845: 'Have you read Mr Serjeant Talfourd's """"""""Rambles & thoughts""""""""? With some wordiness, & faults of taste otherwise, it is a very pleasant book & has set me on the desire of climbing to the top of Mont Blanc [...] It improves as you read.'"""
"""which has much that is able, startling, striking; it is said not be be accurate in its details, & it obviously strikes out often at random, his account of creation does not seem to me to conflict more with the Masonic accounts than the received theories of modern Geology; the order assigned to the appearance of man certainly harmonises with them. I do not care much for the notion that we are engendered by monkeys... I do not like the idea of all the starts [possibly stars] all being just the same as this world'"""
"""which I have encountered trying to think that it is curious to see what he has to say about the Jesuits, to excuse the frivolity'"""
"""Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6-[8] January 1845: 'As to Napoleon, if he had walked less in blood, I could have given him a fuller sympathy -- but there were fine things in him [...] Las Casas [sic] I read years ago, & will read soon over again.'"""
"""Byron had intoxicated him """"""""with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelings and with the dark and terrible pictures which he seemed to take pleasure in painting"""""""". The general effect of reading Milton, Hobbes, Locke and Newton had been """"""""to make me resolve to be free. I saw that it was impossible for the soul of man to answer the end for which it was created, while tramelled by human authority, or fettered with human creeds. I saw that if I was to do justice to truth, to God, or to my own soul, I must break loose from all creeds and laws of men's devising, and live in full and unrestricted liberty...""""""""'"""
"""Byron had intoxicated him """"""""with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelings and with the dark and terrible pictures which he seemed to take pleasure in painting"""""""". The general effect of reading Milton, Hobbes, Locke and Newton had been """"""""to make me resolve to be free. I saw that it was impossible for the soul of man to answer the end for which it was created, while tramelled by human authority, or fettered with human creeds. I saw that if I was to do justice to truth, to God, or to my own soul, I must break loose from all creeds and laws of men's devising, and live in full and unrestricted liberty...""""""""'"""
"""Byron had intoxicated him """"""""with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelings and with the dark and terrible pictures which he seemed to take pleasure in painting"""""""". The general effect of reading Milton, Hobbes, Locke and Newton had been """"""""to make me resolve to be free. I saw that it was impossible for the soul of man to answer the end for which it was created, while tramelled by human authority, or fettered with human creeds. I saw that if I was to do justice to truth, to God, or to my own soul, I must break loose from all creeds and laws of men's devising, and live in full and unrestricted liberty...""""""""'"""
"""Byron had intoxicated him """"""""with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelings and with the dark and terrible pictures which he seemed to take pleasure in painting"""""""". The general effect of reading Milton, Hobbes, Locke and Newton had been """"""""to make me resolve to be free. I saw that it was impossible for the soul of man to answer the end for which it was created, while tramelled by human authority, or fettered with human creeds. I saw that if I was to do justice to truth, to God, or to my own soul, I must break loose from all creeds and laws of men's devising, and live in full and unrestricted liberty...""""""""'"""
"""Fanny Kemble, 20 April 1846: 'My friend has given me a charming little Sicilian song, of which the following is a free translation.  The pathetic and graceful idea is, however, a thousand times more appropriately clothed in the soft dialect from which I have transferred it [transcribes eight-line verse]'.  """
"""I never saw our good children looking better, or in higher spirits. I contrived to give Vicky a little lesson, by making her read in her English history.' """
"""Lady Theresa Lewis reproduces letter from Mary Berry to 'Mr. Everett' of Harvard College, of 25 August 1846, in which she praises, and discusses in detail, the 'inaugural discourse at Harvard College' (on educational issues) of which he had sent her a copy within the past year."""
"""I read nothing scarcely, all my spare time being given to German exercises. Miss Martineau's """"""""Tales on the Game Laws"""""""" I began, but they are so dull to me that I have scarcely patience to finish. The thing I like about them is their fairness. The rich people are not all wretches,though Miss Martineau's sympathies are evidently with the poor'."""
"""... therefore was my satisfaction great to receive (as I did this morning) a copy of your works with your own friendly autograph. I need not say how much I feel the honour you have done me in translating some of my poems... I have not yet had time and leisure sifficient to read your translations from myself carefully; but from what I have seen, ... they are not dry bones, but seem full of a living warmth in fact a Poet's [underlined] translation of poetry.'"""
"""I took up """"""""Chollerton"""""""" (a Church tale) and skimmed parts through the uncut leaves and was not fascinated. It seemed strained and the fasting was brought forward prominently, and there seemed too much womanish humility. In one place the authoress cannot follow a young clergman, by description, in his feelings, or intrude """"""""into that sacred edifice which formerly a woman's foot was forbidden to profane"""""""". This is, if I remember rightly, the drift of the observation, and really my humility cannot reach that depth. I think I [italics] can [end italics] imagine something of what a clergyman might feel, and I should never consider it an intrusion to go wherever men go, taking them as men. Of course the altar is different; but there the distinction is not between men and women, but between God and man'."""
"""I read a little now, and am almost afraid I am learning to do without reading. Napoleon's battles in Alison's history are so dreadfully dry, after one has been writing and working all day.'"""
"""I have been reading Berkeley's paper, no. 55, in the """"""""Guardian"""""""". There is this curious inconsistency in it, that setting out with deprecating any intention to turn argument into satire, by attributing ill designs to his opponents, the writer yet uses no argument throughout but what is derived from designs supposed of one sort or another...'"""
"""I read, as I was sitting at the window, during the sunset of one of the most burning and brilliant days I remember out of Italy, among several other papers, the 81st, of the """"""""Guardian"""""""", wherein I was much pleased first by that soliloquy attributed to Alcibiades, of which I would fain see the original, and again by the conclusion'"""
"""In the reading of the psalms this morning, I was struck by the 5th and 6th verses of V, where the abhorrence or contrariety of God to evil is expressed as regards his three attributes of wisdom, truth and love...'"""
"""Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 18 December 1847: '""""""""The Observer"""""""" has just reached me ... I always compel myself to read the Analysis [of her work] in every newspaper-notice.'"""
"""Christopher Thomson was a """"""""zealous"""""""" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a circulating library. When his absence from Sunday chapel was noticed, """"""""I was called to account for it; by way of defence I pleaded my desire for, and indulgence in, reading. This appeared rather to aggravate than serve my cause. It was evidently their opinion, that all books, except such as they deemed religious ones, ought not be read by young men. I ventured somewhat timidly to hint, that it was possible for a young man to read novels, and other works of fiction, and still keep his mind free from irreligion and vice..."""""""".'"""
"""Christopher Thomson was a """"""""zealous"""""""" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a circulating library. When his absence from Sunday chapel was noticed, """"""""I was called to account for it; by way of defence I pleaded my desire for, and indulgence in, reading. This appeared rather to aggravate than serve my cause. It was evidently their opinion, that all books, except such as they deemed religious ones, ought not be read by young men. I ventured somewhat timidly to hint, that it was possible for a young man to read novels, and other works of fiction, and still keep his mind free from irreligion and vice..."""""""".'"""
"""Christopher Thomson was a """"""""zealous"""""""" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a circulating library. When his absence from Sunday chapel was noticed, """"""""I was called to account for it; by way of defence I pleaded my desire for, and indulgence in, reading. This appeared rather to aggravate than serve my cause. It was evidently their opinion, that all books, except such as they deemed religious ones, ought not be read by young men. I ventured somewhat timidly to hint, that it was possible for a young man to read novels, and other works of fiction, and still keep his mind free from irreligion and vice..."""""""".'"""
"""Christopher Thomson was a """"""""zealous"""""""" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a circulating library. When his absence from Sunday chapel was noticed, """"""""I was called to account for it; by way of defence I pleaded my desire for, and indulgence in, reading. This appeared rather to aggravate than serve my cause. It was evidently their opinion, that all books, except such as they deemed religious ones, ought not to be read by young men. I ventured somewhat timidly to hint, that it was possible for a young man to read novels, and other works of fiction, and still keep his mind free from irreligion and vice..."""""""".'"""
"""very powerful & interesting, in parts very fine, not altogether pleasing &mdash; some striking delineation of character; it is said to be by a woman, but it is not feminine &mdash; I should certainly say by a Socinian &mdash; not by Miss Martineau'."""
"""W. M. Thackeray to William Smith Williams, 23 October 1847: 'I wish you had not sent me """"""""Jane Eyre.""""""""  It interested me so much that I have lost (or won if you like) a whole day in reading it ... Some of the love passages made me cry, to the astonishment of John who came in with the coals ... Give my respect and thanks to the author, whose novel is the first English one (and the French are only romances now) that I've been able to read for many a day.'  """
"""I finished chiefly in bed after the House. I like it extremely; perhaps there is not quite so much power as in Ellen Middleton, but it is full of beauty & interest; one sees she is now a very fervent Catholic, but there is not a word of offence to any others'."""
"""J. G. Lockhart to a friend, 29 December 1847: 'I have finished the adventures of Miss Jane Eyre, and think her far the cleverest that was written since Austen and Edgeworth were in their prime.'"""
"""George Smith, A Memoir (London, 1902): 'The MS. of """"""""Jane Eyre"""""""" was read by Mr Wiliams ... he brought it to me on a  Saturday, and said that he would like me to read it ... after breakfast on Sunday morning I took the MS. of """"""""Jane Eyre"""""""" to my little study, and began to read it.  The story quickly took me captive.  Before twelve o'clock my horse came to the door, but I could not put the book down ... Presently the servant came to tell me that luncheon was ready; I asked him to bring me a sandwich and a glass of wine, and still went on with """"""""Jane Eyre"""""""" ... before I went to bed that night I had finsihed reading the manuscript.'"""
"""George Smith, A Memoir (London, 1902): 'The MS. of """"""""Jane Eyre"""""""" was read by Mr Wiliams ... he brought it to me on a  Saturday, and said that he would like me to read it ... after breakfast on Sunday morning I took the MS. of """"""""Jane Eyre"""""""" to my little study, and began to read it.  The story quickly took me captive.  Before twelve o'clock my horse came to the door, but I could not put the book down ... Presently the servant came to tell me that luncheon was ready; I asked him to being me a sandwich and a glass of wine, and still went on with """"""""Jane Eyre"""""""" ... before I went to bed that night I had finsihed reading the manuscript.'"""
"""Charlotte Bronte, Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, 1850:  'Currer Bell [ie Charlotte Bronte]'s book [The Professor] found acceptance nowhere ... he tried one publishing house more -- Messrs Smith and Elder.  Ere long ...there came a letter ... he took out of the envelope a letter of two pages.  He read it trembling.  It declined ... to publish that tale ... but it discussed its merits and demerits so courteously, so considerately ... that this very refusal cheered the author better than a vulgarly-expressed acceptance could have done.'"""
"""""""""""The Earl's Daughter"""""""" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be sad, and I think it rather oppressed her. """"""""Margaret Percival"""""""" I read to her entirely, and also a portion of """"""""Laneton Parsonage"""""""", and I remember being obliged to reassure her that Alice Lennox (in the latter tale) when taken ill would not die, she took such a vivid interest in the story - which was only completed after her death'."""
"""Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 21 November 1847: 'I saw a sort of scared smile on Mrs. ----'s face the other day, when in talking about education, I said we had yet to see what could be done by a direct appeal to human nature.  She, liberal as she is, thinks we have such active bad tendencies [...] that we can do nothing without [...] Help.  Yet she, and Mrs. ---- too, devours my Household education papers, as if she had never met with anything true before on that subject.'"""
"""I noticed in Dante today, the two lines, """"""""quali dal vento &c."""""""" (Inferno, book 7th, 12) as curiously describing the moment chosen by Turner in the battle of Trafalgar.'"""
"""Note the definition of a critic in """"""""Guardian"""""""" No.103: """"""""A man who on all occasions is more attentive to what is wanting that to what is present.""""""""' """
"""I must interrupt myself to note the 86th paper in the """"""""Guardian"""""""" useful to my chapter on penetrative imagination.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 7 November 1847: 'Tomorrow morning I begin upon my (necessary) sketch of the history of Egypt; and in preparation I have been reading again Heeren and Warburton [...] I cannot but dissent from their inferences [...] For instance, Warburton declares that rulers have ever strenuously taught the people the doctrines of a future life, and reward and punishment, without believing them'."""
"""Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 7 November 1847: 'Tomorrow morning I begin upon my (necessary) sketch of the history of Egypt; and in preparation I have been reading again Heeren and Warburton [...] I cannot but dissent from their inferences [...] For instance, Warburton declares that rulers have ever strenuously taught the people the doctrines of a future life, and reward and punishment, without believing them'."""
"""Note the passage in the 93rd paper of """"""""Guardian"""""""" respecting our admiration of the oder of motions of heavenly bodies, to be expressed by imitation of this order in our lives, and conf. Dante, """"""""Inferno"""""""" VII. 75-80.'"""
"""Read the 8th of Jerem this morning. Note the 7th verse very beautiful, comparing Isaiah i. 3. The ninth verse too important.'"""
"""Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 14 December 1847: 'A few days since I looked over """"""""The Professor.""""""""  I found the beginning very feeble, the whole narrative deficient in incident and in general attractiveness; yet the middle and latter portion of the work ... is as good as I can write ...' """
"""I am quite sure that you felt impelled to write these striking verses - that they would be written, that they, so to say, wrote themselves - & I rejoice at it since by non-exercise it is certainly a faculty that deserts us, & you are too truly a poetess to be lost to literature even through great domestic happiness...'"""
"""If you happen to have heard Mr. Sullivan's conversation with me about """"""""From Oxford to Rome' it may interest you to know that the authoress is a Miss Harris, daughter of a Dissenting Minister at Wallingford, & that she is still a Roman Catholic, in spite of her book.'"""
"""'4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elwood's, Capt. Crichton's autobiography by Dean Swift. Crichton was an old cavalry officer, an Irishman, who had served in Scotland under the bloodhound Dalzell, against the Covenanters: and as he could not tell his story decently himself, the Dean, while he was staying at Markethill, took down the facts from the old man and set them forth in his own words, but using the first person - Crichton loquente. The product is highly amusing: in every page you see a Dean of St Patrick's riding down the Whigamores, or a Sergeant Bothwell in canonicals thundering against Wood's Copper. But the best thing is that our admirable Dean makes Crichton (who did not care a button about the matter) deliver with bitter venom some of his, the Dean's, own Jonathan-Swiftean opinions about church government, and contradict and vituperate Bishop Burnet with an odium almost theological, and he a mere dragoon.'"""
"""'4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elwood's, Capt. Crichton's autobiography by Dean Swift. ... William Gifford's account of himself is somewhat conceited and pragmatical, yet natural and manful. I have a deep and secret sympathy with Gifford.'"""
"""'4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elwood's, Capt. Crichton's autobiography by Dean Swift. ... Elwood's, however, is by far the best of the three, and is indeed one of the most downright straightforward productions I have ever met with. What a book of books an autobiography might be made, if a man were found who would and could tell the whole truth and no more than the truth!'"""
"""'4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elwood's, Capt. Crichton's autobiography by Dean Swift.'"""
"""The routine of the """"""""Scourge"""""""" has grown familiar; and one tires of unbroken fine weather and smooth seas. No resource for me but the officers' little library. Therefore I must have been sleepily pouring over Dana's """"""""Two Years before the Mast"""""""": a pleasant, rough kind of book, but with something too much hauling of ropes and """"""""handing"""""""" of sails it in. ...I have been reading also """"""""The Amber Witch"""""""", a most beautiful German story, translated into English, by Lady Duff Gordon.'"""
"""The routine of the """"""""Scourge"""""""" has grown familiar; and one tires of unbroken fine weather and smooth seas. No resource for me but the officers' little library. Therefore I must have been sleepily pouring over Dana's """"""""Two Years before the Mast"""""""": a pleasant, rough kind of book, but with something too much hauling of ropes and """"""""handing"""""""" of sails it in. ...I have been reading also """"""""The Amber Witch"""""""", a most beautiful German story, translated into English, by Lady Duff Gordon.'"""
"""Charlotte Bronte postscript to letter to William Smith Williams, 12 May 1848: 'I find -- on glancing over yours, that I have forgotten to answer a question you ask respecting my next work ...' """
"""I was struck today by the """"""""minding himself to go afoot"""""""" in Acts xx. 13. It is interesting to see the Apostle, after labouring and preaching all night, seek this retirement in the day, and walk alone across the country at least 25 miles to Assos. Query: what kind of scenery on this journey?'"""
"""Thurs 16 November 1848: 'Visited an invalid in hospital, conversed with her on her everlasting concern, read and expounded portions of Scripture applicable to her state of mind - concluded with a prayer - observed her much affected'"""
"""Reading - for want of something better - """"""""Macaulay's Essays"""""""". He is a born Edinburgh Reviewer, this Macaulay; and, indeed, a type-reviewer - an authentic specimen-page of nineteenth century """"""""literature"""""""". He has the right, omniscent tone, and air, and the true knac; of administering reverential flattery to British civilisation, British prowess, honour, enlightenment, and all that, especially to the great nineteenth century and its astounding civilisation, that is, to his readers. It is altogether a new thing in the history of mankind, this triumphant glorification of a current century upon being the century it is...'"""
"""Can you tell me about """"""""Jane Eyre"""""""", - who wrote it? I am told I wrote the 1st vol: and I don't know how to disbelieve it myself, - though I am wholly ignorant of the authorship. I cannot help feeling that the author must know not only my books but myself very well. My own family suppose me in the secret, till I deny it. With much improbability of incident, it is surely a very able book (outside of what I could have done of it) and the way in which the heroine comes out without conceit or egotism is, to me, perfectly wonderful'."""
"""After breakfast, when the sun burned too fiercely on deck, went below, threw off coat and waistcoat for coolness, and began to read Macaulay's essay on Bacon - """"""""the great English teacher"""""""", as the reviewer calls him. And to do the reviewer justice, he understands Bacon, knows what Bacon did, and what he did not; and therefore sets small store by that illustrious Chimera's new """"""""method"""""""" of investigating truth...' """
"""Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the """"""""light"""""""" reading that I have been devouring I find to weigh very heavy. Yet the """"""""Three Mousquetaires"""""""" of Dumas is certainly the best novel that creature has made. How is it that the paltriest feuilletoniste in Paris can always turn out something at least readable (readable, I mean, by a person of ordinary taste and knowledge) and that the popular providers of that sort of thing in London - save only Dickens - are also so very stupid, ignorant and vicious a herd? Not but the feuilleton-men are vicious enough; but then vice wrapped decently in plenty of British cant, and brutified by cockney ignorance, is triply vicious. Dumas's """"""""Marquis de Letoriere"""""""", too, is a pleasant enough little novelette: but I have tried twice, and tried in vain, to get through a mass of letterpress called """"""""Windsor Castle"""""""", by Ainsworth; and another by one Douglas Jerrold, entitled """"""""St Giles and St James"""""""". """
"""Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the """"""""light"""""""" reading that I have been devouring I find to weigh very heavy. Yet the """"""""Three Mousquetaires"""""""" of Dumas is certainly the best novel that creature has made. How is it that the paltriest feuilletoniste in Paris can always turn out something at least readable (readable, I mean, by a person of ordinary taste and knowledge) and that the popular providers of that sort of thing in London - save only Dickens - are also so very stupid, ignorant and vicious a herd? Not but the feuilleton-men are vicious enough; but then vice wrapped decently in plenty of British cant, and brutified by cockney ignorance, is triply vicious. Dumas's """"""""Marquis de Letoriere"""""""", too, is a pleasant enough little novelette: but I have tried twice, and tried in vain, to get through a mass of letterpress called """"""""Windsor Castle"""""""", by Ainsworth; and another by one Douglas Jerrold, entitled """"""""St Giles and St James"""""""".' """
"""Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the """"""""light"""""""" reading that I have been devouring I find to weigh very heavy. Yet the """"""""Three Mousquetaires"""""""" of Dumas is certainly the best novel that creature has made. How is it that the paltriest feuilletoniste in Paris can always turn out something at least readable (readable, I mean, by a person of ordinary taste and knowledge) and that the popular providers of that sort of thing in London - save only Dickens - are also so very stupid, ignorant and vicious a herd? Not but the feuilleton-men are vicious enough; but then vice wrapped decently in plenty of British cant, and brutified by cockney ignorance, is triply vicious. Dumas's """"""""Marquis de Letoriere"""""""", too, is a pleasant enough little novelette: but I have tried twice, and tried in vain, to get through a mass of letterpress called """"""""Windsor Castle"""""""", by Ainsworth; and another by one Douglas Jerrold, entitled """"""""St Giles and St James"""""""".' """
"""Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the """"""""light"""""""" reading that I have been devouring I find to weigh very heavy. Yet the """"""""Three Mousquetaires"""""""" of Dumas is certainly the best novel that creature has made. How is it that the paltriest feuilletoniste in Paris can always turn out something at least readable (readable, I mean, by a person of ordinary taste and knowledge) and that the popular providers of that sort of thing in London - save only Dickens - are also so very stupid, ignorant and vicious a herd? Not but the feuilleton-men are vicious enough; but then vice wrapped decently in plenty of British cant, and brutified by cockney ignorance, is triply vicious. Dumas's """"""""Marquis de Letoriere"""""""", too, is a pleasant enough little novelette: but I have tried twice, and tried in vain, to get through a mass of letterpress called """"""""Windsor Castle"""""""", by Ainsworth; and another by one Douglas Jerrold, entitled """"""""St Giles and St James"""""""".' """
"""[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were the holy verses by Dr. Kitto, & Duffy's Irish Songs & Ballads- For my own part I have been reading 21 volumes of Mirabeau & about as long of Memoires of that great statesman... What a story- & what a man! If you never read Lucas Montigny's Memoires from Mirabeau sa famille & ses ecrits.  Do I conjure you.  It is the most graphic book in that language of graphic memoires...Macaulay's book is very able- but one wished to find a greater sympathy especially with misfortune - He really likes nobody except that odious Dutchman.'"""
"""[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were the holy verses by Dr. Kitto, & Duffy's Irish Songs & Ballads- For my own part I have been reading 21 volumes of Mirabeau & about as long of Memoires of that great statesman... What a story- & what a man! If you never read Lucas Montigny's Memoires from Mirabeau sa famille & ses ecrits.  Do I conjure you.  It is the most graphic book in that language of graphic memoires...Macaulay's book is very able- but one wished to find a greater sympathy especially with misfortune - He really likes nobody except that odious Dutchman.'"""
"""[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were the holy verses by Dr. Kitto, & Duffy's Irish Songs & Ballads- For my own part I have been reading 21 volumes of Mirabeau & about as long of Memoires of that great statesman... What a story- & what a man! If you never read Lucas Montigny's Memoires from Mirabeau sa famille & ses ecrits.  Do I conjure you.  It is the most graphic book in that language of graphic memoires...Macaulay's book is very able- but one wished to find a greater sympathy especially with misfortune - He really likes nobody except that odious Dutchman.'"""
"""[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were the holy verses by Dr. Kitto, & Duffy's Irish Songs & Ballads- For my own part I have been reading 21 volumes of Mirabeau & about as long of Memoires of that great statesman... What a story- & what a man! If you never read Lucas Montigny's Memoires from Mirabeau sa famille & ses ecrits.  Do I conjure you.  It is the most graphic book in that language of graphic memoires...Macaulay's book is very able- but one wished to find a greater sympathy especially with misfortune - He really likes nobody except that odious Dutchman.'"""
"""[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were the holy verses by Dr. Kitto, & Duffy's Irish Songs & Ballads- For my own part I have been reading 21 volumes of Mirabeau & about as long of Memoires of that great statesman... What a story- & what a man! If you never read Lucas Montigny's Memoires from Mirabeau sa famille & ses ecrits.  Do I conjure you.  It is the most graphic book in that language of graphic memoires...Macaulay's book is very able- but one wished to find a greater sympathy especially with misfortune - He really likes nobody except that odious Dutchman.'"""
"""[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were the holy verses by Dr. Kitto, & Duffy's Irish Songs & Ballads- For my own part I have been reading 21 volumes of Mirabeau & about as long of Memoires of that great statesman... What a story- & what a man! If you never read Lucas Montigny's Memoires from Mirabeau sa famille & ses ecrits.  Do I conjure you.  It is the most graphic book in that language of graphic memoires...Macaulay's book is very able- but one wished to find a greater sympathy especially with misfortune - He really likes nobody except that odious Dutchman.'"""
"""[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were the holy verses by Dr. Kitto, & Duffy's Irish Songs & Ballads- For my own part I have been reading 21 volumes of Mirabeau & about as long of Memoires of that great statesman... What a story- & what a man! If you never read Lucas Montigny's Memoires from Mirabeau sa famille & ses ecrits.  Do I conjure you.  It is the most graphic book in that language of graphic memoires...Macaulay's book is very able- but one wished to find a greater sympathy especially with misfortune - He really likes nobody except that odious Dutchman.'"""
"""[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were the holy verses by Dr. Kitto, & Duffy's Irish Songs & Ballads- For my own part I have been reading 21 volumes of Mirabeau & about as long of Memoires of that great statesman... What a story- & what a man! If you never read Lucas Montigny's Memoires from Mirabeau sa famille & ses ecrits.  Do I conjure you.  It is the most graphic book in that language of graphic memoires...Macaulay's book is very able- but one wished to find a greater sympathy especially with misfortune - He really likes nobody except that odious Dutchman.'"""
"""I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have been reading these past months; chiefly because they are of such utter offal that there is no use in remembering so much as their names. Madame Pichler's """"""""Siege of Vienna"""""""" (Sobieski's Siege - a grand page of history spun out into many hundred pages of pitiful romance, and interwoven with a love-story); a life of Walter Scott, by one Allen, advocate...'"""
"""I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have been reading these past months; chiefly because they are of such utter offal that there is no use in remembering so much as their names. Madame Pichler's """"""""Siege of Vienna"""""""" ...; a life of Walter Scott, by one Allen, advocate, wherein the said advocate takes superior ground, looking down, as it were, ex cathedra, upon his subject, searching out the genesis, and tracing the development of this or the other power or faculty in that popular writer; and thus by philosophic histoire raisonnee, informing us how it fell out, to the best of his, the advocate's, knowledge that Walter Scott came to write the books he did, and at the times of his life, after the fashion he did... In truth the book is very presumptuous and very stupid;...'"""
"""I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have been reading these past months; chiefly because they are of such utter offal that there is no use in remembering so much as their names. Madame Pichler's """"""""Siege of Vienna"""""""" ...; a life of Walter Scott, by one Allen, advocate, ... In truth the book is very presumptuous and very stupid; yet it is far excelled in both these respects by another I am reading now, a life of Cowper, by Dr Memes (bookseller's hack literator of that name). Not that the writer is without genius; for he has succeeded in making a book as repulsive as it is possible for a book giving anything like a narrative of Cowper's life to be.'"""
"""And have I read no books, then, save bad ones? That I have. Amongst those sent to me from home is an old Dublin copy of Rabelais, in four volumes, imprinted by Philip Crampton, of Dame Street - and has kept me in good wholesome laughter for a fortnight - laughter of the sort that agitates the shoulders, and shakes the diaphragm, and makes the blood tingle; than which no medicine can be more cordial to me - I have read the cause of his effects in Galen.'"""
"""With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dialogues of Plato, with the critical diligence of a junior sophister. The """"""""Politeia"""""""", indeed, as a gentle exercise of my mind, I am writing out in literal bald English; which I do chiefly with a view to compel myself to read Greek accurately, and not to gobble it, bones and all.'"""
"""With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dialogues of Plato, with the critical diligence of a junior sophister. The """"""""Politeia"""""""", indeed, as a gentle exercise of my mind, I am writing out in literal bald English; which I do chiefly with a view to compel myself to read Greek accurately, and not to gobble it, bones and all.'"""
"""With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dialogues of Plato, with the critical diligence of a junior sophister. The """"""""Politeia"""""""", indeed, as a gentle exercise of my mind, I am writing out in literal bald English; which I do chiefly with a view to compel myself to read Greek accurately, and not to gobble it, bones and all.'"""
"""One of the last books I have laid hands on is Lieutenant Burnes's (afterwards Sir Alexander Burnes) """"""""Journey through Bokhara and Voyage up the Indus"""""""". And, not to speak of the intrinsic merits of the work as a narrative of travel, which merits are moderate, it has become remarkable on account of events which have befallen since its publication. This Burnes was sent to those countries (in plain English) as a spy, to make observations and get intelligence which should be available to the Anglo-Indian government, in the project they had of invading, civilising, plundering, clothing in cotton, and finally subduing Lahore and Cabool.' [diary entry includes extracts from the book]"""
"""Here I have been reading an account of Abyssinia, being a volume of the """"""""Family Library"""""""", wherein you travel one stage (or chapter) with Bruce; then half a stage with some Portuguese missionary, and the remainder of it with Salt, or somebody else: you are never sure of your travelling companion.'"""
"""Two other volumes of the same Library, to wit: """"""""Palestine"""""""", edited by Dr Russell, and """"""""Persia"""""""", by Frazer, I have also read diligently, not without many wry faces - and find them to be of the same indigestible material.'"""
"""Two other volumes of the same Library, to wit: """"""""Palestine"""""""", edited by Dr Russell, and """"""""Persia"""""""", by Frazer, I have also read diligently, not without many wry faces - and find them to be of the same indigestible material.'"""
"""I was struck this morning, in comparing the poems of George Herbert with those of Henry Vaughan, by the perfect ease and power of the former, the labour and short falling of the latter'"""
"""I was struck this morning, in comparing the poems of George Herbert with those of Henry Vaughan, by the perfect ease and power of the former, the labour and short falling of the latter'"""
"""[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be sad, and I think it rather oppressed her.  [italics]Margaret Percival[end italics] I read to her entirely, and also a portion of [italics]Laneton Parsonage[end italics], and I remember being obliged to assure her that Alice Lennox (in the latter tale) when taken ill would not die, she took such a vivid interest in the story -- which was only completed after her death.'"""
"""[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be sad, and I think it rather oppressed her.  [italics]Margaret Percival[end italics] I read to her entirely, and also a portion of [italics]Laneton Parsonage[end italics], and I remember being obliged to assure her that Alice Lennox (in the latter tale) when taken ill would not die, she took such a vivid interest in the story -- which was only completed after her death.'"""
"""[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be sad, and I think it rather oppressed her.  [italics]Margaret Percival[end italics] I read to her entirely, and also a portion of [italics]Laneton Parsonage[end italics], and I remember being obliged to assure her that Alice Lennox (in the latter tale) when taken ill would not die, she took such a vivid interest in the story -- which was only completed after her death.'"""
"""""""""""The Earl's Daughter"""""""" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be sad, and I think it rather oppressed her. """"""""Margaret Percival"""""""" I read to her entirely, and also a portion of """"""""Laneton Parsonage"""""""", and I remember being obliged to reassure her that Alice Lennox (in the latter tale) when taken ill would not die, she took such a vivid interest in the story - which was only completed after her death'."""
"""""""""""The Earl's Daughter"""""""" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be sad, and I think it rather oppressed her. """"""""Margaret Percival"""""""" I read to her entirely, and also a portion of """"""""Laneton Parsonage"""""""", and I remember being obliged to reassure her that Alice Lennox (in the latter tale) when taken ill would not die, she took such a vivid interest in the story - which was only completed after her death'."""
"""Mon 20 November 1848: 'After service conversed with Ellen Hinds and Anne Wheatcroft who appeared truly contrite, read a portion of Scripture, concluded with prayer'"""
"""The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it.  We have got Macaulay and Layard, and the """"""""Monasteries of the Levant,"""""""" and other big books, but I want some moderately moral French novel, or some very amusing two and sixpence or five-shilling English book to keep the thing going.  Such a book as """"""""La Mare au Diable"""""""", or """"""""La Chasse au Roman,"""""""" would be the thing, or Murray's """"""""Life of Conde"""""""", or his """"""""Memoirs of a Missionary.""""""""  Can you kindly recommend some?'"""
"""The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it.  We have got Macaulay and Layard, and the """"""""Monasteries of the Levant,"""""""" and other big books, but I want some moderately moral French novel, or some very amusing two and sixpence or five-shilling English book to keep the thing going.  Such a book as """"""""La Mare au Diable"""""""", or """"""""La Chasse au Roman,"""""""" would be the thing, or Murray's """"""""Life of Conde"""""""", or his """"""""Memoirs of a Missionary.""""""""  Can you kindly recommend some?'"""
"""The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it.  We have got Macaulay and Layard, and the """"""""Monasteries of the Levant,"""""""" and other big books, but I want some moderately moral French novel, or some very amusing two and sixpence or five-shilling English book to keep the thing going.  Such a book as """"""""La Mare au Diable"""""""", or """"""""La Chasse au Roman,"""""""" would be the thing, or Murray's """"""""Life of Conde"""""""", or his """"""""Memoirs of a Missionary.""""""""  Can you kindly recommend some?'"""
"""The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it.  We have got Macaulay and Layard, and the """"""""Monasteries of the Levant,"""""""" and other big books, but I want some moderately moral French novel, or some very amusing two and sixpence or five-shilling English book to keep the thing going.  Such a book as """"""""La Mare au Diable"""""""", or """"""""La Chasse au Roman,"""""""" would be the thing, or Murray's """"""""Life of Conde"""""""", or his """"""""Memoirs of a Missionary.""""""""  Can you kindly recommend some?'"""
"""Tues 21 November 1848: 'After service conversed apart with Anne Wheatcroft who indicated a very favourable state of mind - read and expounded a portion of Scripture suitable to her state'"""
"""Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 22 November 1848: 'I put your most friendly letter [recommending homeopathic treatments] into Emily's hands as soon as I had myself perused it ... after reading your letter she said """"""""Mr Williams' intention was kind and good, but he was under a delusion -- Homeopathy was only another form of Quackery.""""""""'"""
"""Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 22 November 1848: 'I put your most friendly letter [recommending homeopathic treatments] into Emily's hands as soon as I had myself perused it ... after reading your letter she said """"""""Mr Williams' intention was kind and good, but he was under a delusion -- Homeopathy was only another form of Quackery.""""""""'"""
"""I had read it first to nearly the very same people after my Father's illness in 1844; it is only less beautiful than practical & useful'"""
"""admirable in design, execution, story & delineation of character. I only allow myself these pleasant readings when in bed'"""
"""Mary Berry to the Countess of Morley, 24 December 1848: 'Talking of Macaulay, I hope you have got his book, as the [italics]very[end italics] most entertaining reading I ever met with ... The first edition of 3,000 copies was sold in the first week; another, of 3,000 more, is to come out on Thursday next.'"""
"""Read """"""""Antony and Cleopatra"""""""".'"""
"""Read a pamphlet by the Revd. George Smith, lent me by Macdonald: """"""""Hints for the times"""""""", true and useful, but a painful instance of the weak and conventional writing which does so little honour to its cause.'"""
"""28th - Sunday morning. A bright morning but no land in sight. Found the """"""""United Irishman"""""""" of yesterday in my cabin. The sixteenth and the last [italics] number. Read all the articles. Good Martin! Brave Reilly! but you will be swallowed, my fine fellows. """"""""Government"""""""" has adopted the vigorous policy.'"""
"""Drew my chair to the door, sat down in the sun, and spent an hour or two in reading the """"""""Merry Wives of Windsor"""""""". Thank God for Shakespeare at any rate. Baron Lefroy cannot sentence Shakespeare to death, nor so much as mulct him for damages, though I am told he deserves it for defamation of character, in the case of Sir John Falstaff.'"""
"""In the old solitary years, a long time ago, by the shores of Canadian rapids, on the edge of West Indian swamps, his Virgil had been an inestimable solace to him...The book was a Delphin edition of 1798, which had followed him in all his wanderings; ther was a great scratch on the sheep-skin cover that a thorn had made in a forest of Alabama.'"""
"""Mary Taylor to Charlotte Bronte, 24 July 1848: 'About a month since I received and read """"""""Jane Eyre"""""""".'"""
"""Several newspapers have come to hand; also """"""""Blackwood's Magazine"""""""" for October. """"""""Blackwood"""""""" has a long article on Irish affairs, which pleases me much; for they say it is now clear the British Constitution, with its trial-by-jury and other respectable institutions, is no way suited to Ireland; that even the Whigs have foundout this truth at last; that they, the """"""""Blackwood's"""""""" men, always said so; and who will contradict them now? - that Ireland is to be kept in order simply by bayonets; and when the vile Celts are sufficiently educated and improved, they may then perhaps aspire to be admitted to the pure blessings of, etc, etc.'"""
"""Several newspapers have come to hand; also """"""""Blackwood's Magazine"""""""" for October. """"""""Blackwood"""""""" has a long article on Irish affairs, which pleases me much; for they say it is now clear the British Constitution, with its trial-by-jury and other respectable institutions, is no way suited to Ireland; that even the Whigs have foundout this truth at last; that they, the """"""""Blackwood's"""""""" men, always said so; and who will contradict them now? - that Ireland is to be kept in order simply by bayonets; and when the vile Celts are sufficiently educated and improved, they may then perhaps aspire to be admitted to the pure blessings of, etc, etc.'"""
"""The chaplain had left me about half an hour, and I was sitting at an open window reading Livy and drinking grog, beginning, indeed, to feel myself at home in the """"""""Tenedos"""""""" - for I have been ten days on board - when Dr Hall entered my cabin in a violent hurry, accompanied by a negro boatman.'"""
"""Get on but slowly with my translation of the """"""""Politeia"""""""": and nearly repent that I began it; for I lack the energy and strength to go through with it. On some days I have hardly strength to mend my pen, or strength of will to do so much as determine upon that important measure.'"""
"""Dawdling over Keightley's history of the war in Greece, compiled out of all the newspapers and all the memoirs. Full enough of incident certainly; for the author seems to give different versions of the same event as so many different transactions, and he ruthlessly kills more Greeks in the course of this war than there have been in all Greece at one time since the days of Philopoemen not to speak of incredible multitudes of Turks, whom he generally slays at least thrice.'"""
"""Then I have been turning lazily over the pages of a certain """"""""magazine"""""""" called the """"""""Saturday Magazine"""""""", which the worthy chaplain has lent me. There are six double volumes of this astounding rubbish; or more properly six strata - a huge deposit of pudding-stone, rubble, detritus and scoriae in six thick stratifications; containing great veins of fossil balderdash, and whole regions of what the Germans call """"""""loss"""""""" and """"""""trass""""""""; amongst which, however, sometimes glances up a fragment of pure ore that has no business there, or a gleaming splinter of diamond illuminating the foul opacity. After an hour's digging and shovelling, I meet perhaps with an authentic piece of """"""""noster"""""""" Thomas himself - there are two of those in the whole six beds - and once I turned up what made my heart leap - """"""""The Forging of the Anchor"""""""" - which I straight away rolled forth till the tweak timbers rang. There are a great many not intolerable wood engravings in the volumes, and some readable topographical description: but on the whole the thing is of very base material - """"""""Amusements in Science"""""""" - """"""""Recreations in Religion"""""""" - no, but """"""""Easy Lessons on Christian Evidences"""""""" - much apocryphol anecdotage of history, but, above all, abundant illustrations of British generosity, valour, humanity...' """
"""Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 1 November 1849: 'I have just received the """"""""Daily News."""""""" [containing review of """"""""Shirley""""""""] ... when I read it my heart sickened over it.'"""
"""[...] Finished Burton [...]"""
"""Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 12 April 1849: 'I read Anne's letter [of 5 April] to you; it was touching enough ...'"""
"""It is impossible to read a more entertaining book, & it very much exalts one's opinion of the author's ability. But what a picture he draws & exhibits in himself of human & of courtly nature. Was there ever such a parting dialogue as that between George 2 & his dying Queen'."""
"""Daily entry in journal, reads the Scriptures to the female convicts on board the 'Cadet' every morning and evening."""
"""27 Nov 1848 to 17 Apr 1849: visits the inmates in ship hospital to read Scriptures to them every morning."""
"""I have been abstracting the Book of Revelations. I was especially struck with the general appellation of the System of the world as the Mystery of God, in Chap. X. 7, compared with Hebrews XI. 6, which chapter I read this morning in our usual course. Theme enough for the day's course.' """
"""""""""""As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into reasoning upon men and things, the causes of misery, the anomalies of our societary state, politics &tc., and the circle of my being rapidly out-surged.  New power came to me with all that I saw and thought and read.  I studied political works, - such as Paine, Volney, Howitt, Louis Blanc, &tc, which gave me another element to mould into my verse, though I am convinced that a poet must sacrifice much if he write party-political poetry."""""""""""
"""""""""""As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into reasoning upon men and things, the causes of misery, the anomalies of our societary state, politics &tc., and the circle of my being rapidly out-surged.  New power came to me with all that I saw and thought and read.  I studied political works, - such as Paine, Volney, Howitt, Louis Blanc, &tc, which gave me another element to mould into my verse, though I am convinced that a poet must sacrifice much if he write party-political poetry."""""""""""
"""""""""""As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into reasoning upon men and things, the causes of misery, the anomalies of our societary state, politics &tc., and the circle of my being rapidly out-surged.  New power came to me with all that I saw and thought and read.  I studied political works, - such as Paine, Volney, Howitt, Louis Blanc, &tc, which gave me another element to mould into my verse, though I am convinced that a poet must sacrifice much if he write party-political poetry."""""""""""
"""""""""""As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into reasoning upon men and things, the causes of misery, the anomalies of our societary state, politics &tc., and the circle of my being rapidly out-surged.  New power came to me with all that I saw and thought and read.  I studied political works, - such as Paine, Volney, Howitt, Louis Blanc, &tc, which gave me another element to mould into my verse, though I am convinced that a poet must sacrifice much if he write party-political poetry."""""""""""
"""As a Manchester warehouse porter, Samuel Bamford found the same richness in Milton: """"""""His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso' were but expressions of thoughts and feelings which my romantic imagination had not unfrequently led me to indulge, but which, until now, I had deemed beyond all human utterance"""""""".'"""
"""As a Manchester warehouse porter, Samuel Bamford found the same richness in Milton: """"""""His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso' were but expressions of thoughts and feelings which my romantic imagination had not unfrequently led me to indulge, but which, until now, I had deemed beyond all human utterance"""""""".'"""
"""Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages and, ultimately, William Cobbett's Political Register'."""
"""Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages and, ultimately, William Cobbett's Political Register'."""
"""Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages and, ultimately, William Cobbett's Political Register'."""
"""Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages and, ultimately, William Cobbett's Political Register'."""
"""Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages and, ultimately, William Cobbett's Political Register'."""
"""Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages and, ultimately, William Cobbett's Political Register'."""
"""Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages and, ultimately, William Cobbett's Political Register'."""
"""I never noticed the 45th of Jeremiah till today - it is singularly appicable to all ambitious dreaming at this time. Consider also the beautiful 17th verse of the 46th chapter.'"""
"""I send you back 'Ambarvalia' with many thanks; I am also much obliged to you for sending me Mr Espinasse's prospectus, which had before excited my attention'."""
"""I send you back 'Ambarvalia' with many thanks; I am also much obliged to you for sending me Mr Espinasse's prospectus, which had before excited my attention'."""
"""My copy of 'Margaret' is in such demand since the review in the Athenaeum; it is pledged 3 deep'."""
"""My copy of 'Margaret' is in such demand since the review in the Athenaeum; it is pledged 3 deep'."""
"""I think I told you that I disliked a good deal in the plot of Shirley, but the expression of her own thoughts in it is so true and brave, that I greatly admire her.'"""
"""she said to H M, 'What did you really think of """"""""Jane Eyre""""""""?' H M. I thought it a first rate book, whereupon the little spirite went red all over with pleasure.'"""
"""If you want an agreeable book, read 'Lives of the Lindsays'."""
"""I have got Cape newspapers for the last two months, and have been reading of the proceedings of the various anti-convict associations within that time.'"""
"""The Doctor has sent into my cabin a """"""""Daily News"""""""", which came by the mail on Sunday' [general discussion of its contents - political]"""
"""Do you know Dr Epps - I think you do - ask him to tell you who wrote Jane Eyre and Shirley,- <...> Do tell me who wrote Jane Eyre'"""
"""I mean to copy you out some lines of my [italics] hero [end italics], Mr Kingsley'"""
"""[italics] Is [end italics] Miss Jewsbury's review shallow? It looked to me very deep, but then I know I'm easily imposed upon in the metaphysical line, and could no more attempt to write such an article than fly'"""
"""I am going through a course of John Henry Newman's Sermons.'"""
"""'Tennyson' has arrived safe, without a shadow of damage and thanks without end for it. I have been half-opening the pretty golden leaves, and peeping here and there at old favourites since it came. But I have shut it up close again, that it may all properly stick togeher like a new bound book, before I take it to Bamford'"""
"""I only hope that its appalling details of profligacy are exaggerated'"""
"""Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 29 March 1849: 'I read your kind note to Anne and she wishes me to thank you sincerely for your friendly proposal.'"""
"""Suffice it to say that its who can revere Mr Newman most with Mr Darbishire, the Winkworths and myself, the book is absolutely simply the utterance of the man'."""
"""[Sunday] Church 11 A.M. 3 P.M. [...] Worked on Index. Read Burton's Testimonies to the Trinity."""
"""After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews of the time [1840s] -- """"""""The Edinburgh"""""""", """"""""Quarterly"""""""", and """"""""Blackwoods""""""""; and foreign literature.  Pascal's """"""""Life and Provincial Letters"""""""" inspired a spirit of emulation in her: she borrowed a Euclid and worked her own way through the first six books ...'"""
"""After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews of the time [1840s] -- """"""""The Edinburgh"""""""", """"""""Quarterly"""""""", and """"""""Blackwoods""""""""; and foreign literature.  Pascal's """"""""Life and Provincial Letters"""""""" inspired a spirit of emulation in her: she borrowed a Euclid and worked her own way through the first six books ...'"""
"""After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews of the time [1840s] -- """"""""The Edinburgh"""""""", """"""""Quarterly"""""""", and """"""""Blackwoods""""""""; and foreign literature.  Pascal's """"""""Life and Provincial Letters"""""""" inspired a spirit of emulation in her: she borrowed a Euclid and worked her own way through the first six books ...'"""
"""I well remember, and I sometimes think of it with tears, bringing to my lodgings Rollin's """"""""Ancient History"""""""", in six volumes. I wanted something to read. I had no one to advise me to a course of reading, so I pitched on Rollin. Next I obtained a number of Wiley and Putnam's """"""""Library of Choice Reading"""""""", and there I found essay, and biography, and history; but for the lack of a system, my reading was desultory. My time was soon fully occupied in speaking, day and night, in school-houses, vestries, and halls, so that the opportunities for intellectual culture were limited. Still, I read a great deal to small profit, owing to the lack of advantages, such as I might have obtained, by the training which an education would have imparted.'"""
"""I well remember, and I sometimes think of it with tears, bringing to my lodgings Rollin's """"""""Ancient History"""""""", in six volumes. I wanted something to read. I had no one to advise me to a course of reading, so I pitched on Rollin. Next I obtained a number of Wiley and Putnam's """"""""Library of Choice Reading"""""""", and there I found essay, and biography, and history; but for the lack of a system, my reading was desultory. My time was soon fully occupied in speaking, day and night, in school-houses, vestries, and halls, so that the opportunities for intellectual culture were limited. Still, I read a great deal to small profit, owing to the lack of advantages, such as I might have obtained, by the training which an education would have imparted.'"""
"""I got my [first] peep into """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""" and the """"""""Arabian Nights"""""""" at the home of an old uncle of mine. But even though these two wonderful books have been read and enjoyed by millions, I am afraid I could never thoroughly master the contents of either of them.'"""
"""I got my [first] peep into """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""" and the """"""""Arabian Nights"""""""" at the home of an old uncle of mine. But even though these two wonderful books have been read and enjoyed by millions, I am afraid I could never thoroughly master the contents of either of them.'"""
"""Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... From this time the poor prisoner earnestly longed for salvation, and received with joy the glad tidings of a Savior's love. The little tract, entitled """"""""Come to Jesus"""""""", was blessed to her, and she read it frequently with much delight'"""
"""?One Sunday afternoon, the usual call was made for our ramble in the fields. Word was sent to the callers that their old companion was not going to join them. I heard from an upper room, not without a certain amount of tremour, their exclamations of surprise. They wandered off into the fields in one direction; I, with a new companion, wandered off into the fields in another. My new companion was Young?s """"""""Night Thoughts"""""""". The old companions were never joined again.?"""
"""I have many things I should like to say to the writer of the remarks on 'Mary Barton' which Miss Mitchell has sent me, and which I conjecture were written by your husband? Those remarks and the note which accompanied have given me great and real pleasure. I have heard much about the disapproval which Mr Greg's family have felt with regard to 'M.B.', and have heard of it with so much regret that I am particularly glad that Mr Sam Greg does not participate in it.'"""
"""Henry Mayhew interviews a running patterer -seller of broadsheets mainly dealing with crime and breaking news, sometimes also 'cocks' or fiction. Patterer's seeling techniques include chanting part of text of sheets to potential purchasers to induce sale"""
"""I had not looked at it before, which is very wrong, & it did not do well'"""
"""Have been reading in """"""""Tait's Magazine"""""""" an elaborate review of a new book by the indefatigable Government literator, Macaulay - no less than a """"""""History of England"""""""". """"""""Tait"""""""" gives copious extracts from which I easily perceive that the book is a piece of authentic Edinburgh Reviewing, declamatory in style, meagre in narrative, thoroughly corrupt in principle, as from all this man's essays on subjects of British history must have been expected.'"""
"""I think I have behaved most abominably in never taking any notice of your great kindness in sending me David Copperfield, and your note. Oh, dear! I have been so whirled about {against} since I saw you last that I hardly know what to write. I do so like D. Copperfield; and it was a charming liberty you took in sending it.'"""
"""Albert went into Dublin again after luncheon, and I wrote and read, and heard our children say some lessons.'"""
"""Elizabeth Gaskell, """"""""Life of Charlotte Bronte"""""""" (1857): '[Charlotte Bronte's] hosts [in London] took pleasure in showing her the sights of London.  On one of the days which had been set apart for some of these pleasant excursions, a severe review of """"""""Shirley"""""""" was published in the """"""""Times.""""""""  She ... guessed that there was some particular reason for the care with which her hosts mislaid it on that particular morning ... Mrs Smith at once admitted that her conjecture was right, and said that they had wished her to go to the day's engagement before reading it.  But she quietly persisted in her request to be allowed to have the paper.  Mrs Smith ... tried not to observe the countenance, which the other tried to hide behind the large sheets; but she could not help becoming aware of tears stealing down the face and dropping on the lap.  The first remark Miss Bronte made was to express her fear lest so severe a notice should check the sale of the book, and injurously affect her publishers.'   """
"""[Gaskell describes handing over the gift of a signed copy of Tennyson's poems to Samuel Bamford] 'I said, 'Look at the title page', for I saw he was fairly caught by something he liked in the middle of the book, & was standing reading it there in the street. 'Well! I am a proud man this day', he exclaimed, - then he turned it up and down, & read a bit, (it was a very crowded street), and his grey face went quite brown-red with pleasure [...] Then he dipped down into his book, and began reading aloud the Sleeping beauty, and in the middle stopped to look at the writing again, and we left him a sort of sleep[-]walking state, & only trust he will not be run over'."""
"""Tired to death of reading books - at least all books of an instructive sort - and have now been devouring (for about the fifth time) """"""""Ivanhoe"""""""" and """"""""The Heart of the Mid-Lothian"""""""". My blessing on the memory of Walter Scott!'"""
"""Tired to death of reading books - at least all books of an instructive sort - and have now been devouring (for about the fifth time) """"""""Ivanhoe"""""""" and """"""""The Heart of the Mid-Lothian"""""""". My blessing on the memory of Walter Scott!'"""
"""[Gaskell tells John Forster of Samuel Bamford who knows many of Tennyson's poems by heart and recites them, but does not have his own copy - she later asks Forster if he could procure a copy for Bamford, signed by Tennyson] ''whenever he got into a house where there were Tennyson's poems he learnt as many as he could of[f] by heart; & he thought he knew better than twelve', - & he began Oenone, & then the Sleeping Beauty'."""
"""[Gaskell tells John Forster of Samuel Bamford who knows many of Tennyson's poems by heart and recites them, but does not have his own copy - she later asks Forster if he could procure a copy for Bamford, signed by Tennyson] ''whenever he got into a house where there were Tennyson's poems he learnt as many as he could of[f] by heart; & he thought he knew better than twelve', - & he began Oenone, & then the Sleeping Beauty'."""
"""I staid in and read Byron'"""
"""Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 16 August 1849: '""""""""The North British Review"""""""" duly reached me.  I read attentively all it says about E. Wyndham, J. Eyre, and F. Hervey.  Much of the article is clever -- and yet there are remarks which -- for me -- rob it of importance.'  """