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Edmund Burke : Letters
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. . .
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald Print: Book
Edmund Burke : A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and Beautiful] when very Young at the same time I read Locke on Human Understanding & Bacons Advancmt [sic] of Learning on Every one of these Books I wrote my Opinions & on looking them over find that my Notes on Reynolds in this Book are exactly Similar. I felt the Same Comtempt & Abhorrence then; that I do now.'"
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Blake Print: Book
Edmund Burke : pamphlets including Observations on a late State of the Nation London: Dodsley, 1769)
H. J. Jackson notes Jeremy Bentham's annotations (including highlightings and marginal comments) to eight pamphlets by Edmund Burke.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jeremy Bentham
Edmund Burke : Reflections on the Revolution in France
'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Edmund Burke : Reflections on the Revolution in France
Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 8 November 1790: 'In this country the stock of the National Assembly is fallen down to bankruptcy [...] the fatal blow has been at last given by Mr. Burke. His pamphlet ["Reflections on the Revolution in France"] came out this day se'ennight, and is far superior to what was expected even by his warmest admirers. I have redde it twice, and tho' of 350 pages, I wish I could repeat every page by heart. It is sublime, profound, and gay. The wit and satire are equally brilliant, and the whole is wise, tho' in some points he goes too far, yet in general there is far less want of judgement than could be expected from [italics]him[end italics].'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole
Edmund Burke : [unknown]
[transcibed in what seems to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'What is Majesty without its externals?-- / by Burke'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb
Edmund Burke : Thoughts on the prospect of a regicide peace
'Read Burke's "Letters on a Regicide Peace"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Edmund Burke : A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and the beautiful
'Finished a cursory perusal of Burke on the "Sublime and Beautiful"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Edmund Burke : Vindication of Natural Society
'Read Burke's "Vindication of Natural Society". Except in parts (as in the opening and ending) I cannot think that this piece has much of Bolingbroke's style and manner...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Edmund Burke : A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and the beautiful
'Read Burke's Disquisition prefixed to his "Sublime and Beautiful"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Edmund Burke : [unknown]
'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'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book
Edmund Burke : A Vindication of Natural Society . . . In a letter to Lord ****
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Edmund Burke [anon.] : A Vindication of Natural Society . . . In a letter to Lord ****
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley - again, only those not mentioned in journal entries are indicated separately in the database] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Metamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
Edmund Burke : unknown
Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940: 'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
Edmund Burke : unknown
Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely reading Stephen [Spender]'s autobiography [published Spring 1940 by Woolf's Hogarth Press] [...] its odd -- reading that & South Riding both mint new, give me a fillip after all the evenings I grind at Burke & Mill. A good thing to read one's contemporaries, even rapid twinkling slice of life novels like poor W.H.'s.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
Edmund Burke : Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that he has taught us any thing; but he has told us old things in a new way." Murphy. "He seems to have read a great deal of French criticism, and wants to make it his own; as if he had been for years anatomizing the heart of man, and peeping into every cranny of it." Goldsmith. "It is easier to write that book, than to read it." Johnson. "We have an example of true criticism in Burke's 'Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful'; and, if I recollect, there is also Du Bos; and Bouhours, who shews all beauty to depend on truth. There is no great merit in telling how many plays have ghosts in them, and how this Ghost is better than that. You must shew how terrour is impressed on the human heart.— In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness,—inspissated gloom".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
Edmund Burke :
'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespeare, Milton, Burke, Goldsmith, Rabelais, Sir William Jones, Addison, Swift, Defoe, Cervantes, Bunyan and Buffon.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Tennyson children (boys) Print: Book
Edmund Burke : Letter To The Sheriffs Of Bristol
'Mr. Burke's "Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, on the affairs of America", being mentioned, Johnson censured the composition much, and he ridiculed the definition of a free government, viz. "For any practical purpose, it is what the people think so"--"I will let the King of France govern me on those conditions, (said he,) for it is to be governed just as I ".'