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Gregory : Apologetick

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.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

Gregory : Odes

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.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

Gregory : Odes

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.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Stuart Boyd      Print: Book

  

John Gregory : A Father's Legacy to His Daughters

[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 ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister      Print: Book

  

Dr John Gregory : A Father's Legacy to his Daughters

"Doctor Gregory's Book was published at Edin [r] just two Days before I left that Place...I read it, tho butin the hurried Way which the Eve of Journey allowed of...I also think that the Publication of it, when one considers that the young Ladies to whom it is address'd are alive & unmarried, is liable to Objection..."

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Mackenzie      Print: Book

  

John Gregory : A Father's Legacy to His Daughters

'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.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott      Print: Book

  

George Gregory : The Life of T. Chatterton or The Works of T. Chatt

'The evening was devoted to the perusal of the life of the most extraordinary genius this country has produced- need I say, Chatterton.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott      Print: Book

  

George Gregory : The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated

[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".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter      Print: Book

  

Lady Gregory : The Rising of the Moon

'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the summer and next year: ? Thread o? Scarlet? (J. J. Bell) ? A night in the sun? (Dunsany) ? The Monkey?s Paw? (W. W. Jacobs) ?The rising of the moon? ( Lady Gregory) Read ? ?The Four Georges? (W. Thackeray)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

James Gregory : Philosophical and literary essays

'Read, after a long intermission (April 27, 1797) the 2d volume of Gregory's "Essays"...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green      Print: Book

  

John Gregory : A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with those of the animal world

Letter to Mrs Smith May 26 1789 'Pray read Dr Gregory?s Comparative View, &c. and observe particularly the last section on the influence of religion; that on taste; and the strictures of taste on refinement. I long to have you share the entertainment they afforded to my happier hours.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]      Print: Book

 

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