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Richard Bentley : A Reply to a Copy of Verses made in Imitation of Ode II Book III of Horace.
'"drudge like Selden days & nights And in the Endless labour die"'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Horace Walpole (ed. Richard Bentley) : Letters of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann
'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!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book
Richard Bentley : Prospectus for Bentley?s Miscellany
?I shall certainly have the pleasure of seeing you tomorrow, and will turn over the prospectus in my mind, meanwhile.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens Manuscript: Unknown
Richard Bentley : A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 21 January 1831: 'You will lend me Phalaris (will you not?) at some future time -- -- i have read it [italics]once[end italics] thro', -- yet, as there are many things [italics]in[end italics] the book which I should like to read oftener than once, I do not feel quite satisfied, & would bespeak a second loan [...] It is certainly a wonderful work, -- & less wonderful in the extent & depth of its learning, than in the felicity & aptitude & vivacity of that learning's application.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Bentley : Sermons on the Folly of Atheism
'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth of Divine Revelation:- Paley's Evidences of Christianity; Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to Thomas Paine; Bishop Porteus' Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity; Addison's Evidences of the Christian Religion; Madam Genlis' Religion the only Basis of Happiness and true Philosophy, in which the Principles of the modern pretended Philosophers are laid open and refuted, 2 vols. Butler's Divine Analogy; Bentley against Collins; Bentley's Sermons on the Folly of Atheism; Jenkins Reasonableness and Certainty of the Chrisian Religion, 2 vols. I have lately read the whole of these works with great satisfaction. If you are fond of real philosophy and astronomy, you will be highly pleased with Bentley's Sermons on the Folly of Atheism. Paley's is an extraordinary good work. Butler's Analogy is a very great work.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book
Richard Bentley : [edition of Horace with commentary]
'Boswell. "But, Sir, may there not be very good conversation without a contest for superiority." Johnson. "No animated conversation, Sir; for it cannot be but one or other will come off superior. I do not mean that the victor must have the better of the argument, for he may take the weak side; but his superiority of parts and knowledge will necessarily appear: and he to whom he thus shows himself superiour is lessened in the eyes of the young men. You know it was said, [italics] 'Mallem cum Scaligero errare quam cum Clavio recte sapere [end italics]' In the same manner take Bentley's and Jason de Nores' Comments upon Horace, you will admire Bentley more when wrong than Jason when right."
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
Richard Bentley :
'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Johnson one day gave high praise to Dr. Bentley's verses in Dodsley's "Collection", which he recited with his usual energy.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
E. C. Bentley : Trent's Last Case
'I go to the library; luckily there is no queue. I get "Trent's Last Case" - a grand book. I've read it at least three times in a previous existence.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Book
Phyllis Bentley : Inheritance
'Phyliis's novel, "Inheritance", had become the fiction-star of that spring.'
