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Collins : unknown
'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose "Caesar" I cannot read without laughing - it is so like Johnny Eames.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book
William Collins Collins : 'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various authors]
'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'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
William Collins : An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland
"[in 29.10.1828 letter to Alexander Dyce] ... W[ordsworth] recalls that 'in 1788 the Ode was first printed from Dr Carlyle's copy, with Mr Mackenzie's supplemental lines - and was extensively circulated through the English newspapers, in which I remember to have read it with great pleasure upon its first appearance.'"
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Newspaper
Wilkie Collins : The Woman in White
'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and indeed it was having it thrown in my way for a second time which attracted so strongly my technical admiration'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book
Wilkie Collins : The Woman in White
'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and indeed it was having it thrown in my way for a second time which attracted so strongly my technical admiration'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book
Collins :
"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Moralia, Xenophon's Memorabilia, and a little Plato."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Power Cobbe Print: Book
Arthur Collins : The peerage of England
'In the even read part of Collins's "Peerage of England".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book
Arthur Collins : The peerage of England
'In the day read part of the 1st volume of "The Peerage of England".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book
Arthur Collins : The peerage of England
'Read part of "The Peerage of England".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book
Norman Collins : Anna
[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of the Kingdom; Two Survived; Hamlet; King's Nurse, Beggar's Nurse; The Snow Goose; Gerald; Early Stages; Cross Creek; Footnotes to the Ballet; The Great Ship; Hungry Hill; Hiawatha; Captain Blood; Scaramouche; Heartbreak House; Fortune's Fool; Fifth Form at St Dominic's; Cold Comfort Farm; The Lost King; The count of Monte Cristo; Diary of a Provincial Lady; Frenchman's Creek; Song of Bernadette; Romeo and Juliet; Rebecca; The Surgeon's Destiny; The Killer and the Slain; Anna; King Solomon's Mines; The Black Moth; Have His Carcase; Peacock Pie; Alice in Wonderland; The Citadel; Good Companions; Our Hearts were Young and Gay; Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man; The Healing Knife; First Year Out; Saint Joan; Stars Look Down; Bridge of San Luis Rey; Rogue Herries; Caesar and Cleopatra; Xmas at Cold Comfort Farm; Dark Lady of the Sonnets; The Velvet Deer; Leaves from a Surgeon's Case Book; A Christmas Carol; Craft of Comedy; As You Like It; Lottie Dundass; Plays of John Galsworthy; Provincial Lady in America; She Shanties; Peter Abelard; Actor, Soldier, Poet; The Best of Lamb; Some Essay of Elia; Poems, Plays etc; The White Cliffs; Three Men in a Boat; Confessions of an Opium Eater; In Search of England; Wuthering Heights; Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Poems of Contemporary Women; Crime at the Club; Quality Street; Villette; Major Barbara; Pygmalion; You Never Can Tell; King John; Doctor's Dilemma'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book
Wilkie Collins : Household Words - "Perils of certain English Prisoners"
'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of Household Words - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am reading "Die Familie" by Riehl, forming the third volume of the series, the two first of which "Land und Volk" and "Die Burgerliche Gesellschaft", I reviewed for the Westminster'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: Serial / periodical
Collins : unknown
?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan, Collins, Woolston, Annet, Mandeville, Shaftesbury, Bolingbroke, Williams, Voltaire, and many other Free-thinkers.? 237
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book
Collins : [account of the first settlement of New South Wales]
'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.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill
[John] Collins : [poems]
'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.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book
William Collins : Poetical Works
[Marginalia]
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
Wilkie Collins : The Moonstone
The Moonstone is frightfully interesting; isn't the detective prime?
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodical
William Collins : Ode occasion'd by the death of Mr Thomson
Letter to Miss Ewing, May 1777, ' ? this other princely seat of the Athol family forms, at this moment, opposite my window ?But now the fairy vallies fade/Dun night has veil?d the solemn view;/Yet once again, dear parted maid/Meek Nature?s child, again adieu.' Letter to Miss Ewing May 1777
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book
William Collins : Address to simplicity
Letter to Mrs Smith August 7 1784 'You and he too have this in common, that you both appear to most advantage on paper, where your diffidence does not stand in your way. He admires my application of Collin?s Address to Simplicity to you and says you really are, ?By nature taught/To breathe her genuine thought/ In language warmly lure and sweetly strong"'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book
Anthony Collins :
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 June 1835: 'I am reading Dr Brown's Philosophy -- shall have [italics]read[end italics] it tomorrow -- and like metaphysics better than ever, & am beginning to think it quite as [italics]demonstrative[end italics] as mathematics the beloved! -- I am reading besides, Anthony Collins, and Luther, [italics]on the will[end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Collins : work 'upon necessity'
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.October 1835, regarding possible visit to him: 'Don't expect [...] to find me improved in anything -- albeit I [italics]have[end italics] read Collins upon necessity. You know, women never [italics]do[end italics] improve -- after a certain point.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
William Collins : Ode to Evening
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaics into the English language in his translation of Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa &c. it is since used most elegantly by Collins Mrs Barbauld — in the gent. of Devon & Cornwalls poems — & by my favourite Dr Sayers — so here I have strong authority.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book
Charles Collins : On Hastings Castle
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 29 August- 7 September 1796: 'Charles Collins wrote a Sonnet upon Hastings Castle — which Horace once showed me — it was ——— fourteen lines.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Manuscript: Sheet
Wilkie Collins : The Moonstone
The seventeen-year-old Robert Louis Stevenson, when he read the novel that year, wrote to his mother: “Isn’t the detective prime?”
