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Jean-Jacques Rousseau :
I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never went from home in the evening I always learned and read for three hours and sometimes longer, the books I now read were french; Helvetius, Rousseau and Voltaire. I never wanted books and could generally borrow those I most desired to peruse.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Place Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise
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 ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Confessions
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"]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
Jean Jaques Rousseau : Confessions
'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.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Jean Jaques Rousseau : Confessions
' Came up to bed at 9.50. Read from pp55 to 65 Vol.I Rousseau's Confessions.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Jean Jaques Rousseau : Julie: ou Nouvelle Heloise
' 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.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Jean Jaques Rousseau : Julie: ou Nouvelle Heloise
' Reading from pp 22 to 32, II, Nouvelle Heloise.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Confessions
"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"
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau :
" reading Rousseau to my Sally."
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler
Jean Jacques Rousseau :
" From one till three reading Rousseau to the joy of my Life."
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler
Jean Jacques Rousseau :
" From five till Ten read Rousseau (finished the 7th tome) to my Sally.
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Eleanor Butler
Jean Jacques Rousseau :
'[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leaving school: Jack London's The Iron Heel and the regulations of the Widnes Town Council. But principal Lionel Elvin "appreciated the profound dificulties facing working class students": "When I stumbled through the intricacies of the political theories of Marx, Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke and T.H. Green, he marked my work frankly yet gave encouragement... He was an excellent teacher, genuinely interested in discussing ideas and persuading students to express their own"
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Ashley Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : A Treatise on the Social Compact; or, The Principles of Politic Law
H. J. Jackson discusses second annotator of 1791 copy of Rousseau, A Treatise on the Social Compact; or, The Principles of Politic Law; ownership inscription in same hand reads "'H. B. L. Webb / Brent House / Master Brace / 30th Dec. 1909. / (Bought at old Bennett's in Castle St.).'" Notes include reference to 1910 elections and comments such as "'very flimsy here'"; "'Pah!'" and (in response to Rousseau's assertion that comparisons between different nations' early religious beliefs "'an absurd part of erudition,'") "'And yet, Jean Jacques, comparitive mythology has told us a different tale about this 'absurd part of erudition'!'"
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: H. B. L. Webb Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : works
'she thinks Rousseau "the most dangerous writer I ever read", his work "of so bad tendency that, after a few trials, I have determined never to look into any thing he should publish".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile
'the book that prompted [Mary Wollstonecraft's] fullest comment was Rousseau's "Emile". It was bound to appeal to her; it was a treatise on education, a metaphysical essay - at times almost a sermon - and a sentimental novel, all in one'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile
'I am now reading Rousseau's "Emile", and love his paradoxes. He chuses a common capacity to educate - and gives as a reason, that a genius will educate itself - however he rambles into a chimerical world into which I have too often [wand]ered - and draws the usual conclusion that all is vanity and vexation of spirit.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Confessions
'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.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : [unknown]
'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. And with the Mediterranean in mind, he read D.H. Lawrence's "Sea and Sardinia" and Norman Douglas's "South Wind"'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Du Contrat Social
'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.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book
Jeans-Jaques Rousseau : Emile
'...he proclaimed himself a disciple of Rousseau. But he can hardly have followed the teaching of "Emile" very closely, since...'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau : odes
'I made acquaintance yesterday with the famous poet Rousseau, who lives here [Vienna] under the peculiar protection of Prince Eugene, by whose liberality he subsists. He passes here for a free-thinker, and, what is still worse in my esteem, for a man whose heart does not feel the encomiums he gives to virtue and honour in his poems. I like his odes mightily, they are much superior to the lyrick productions of our English poets, few of whom have made any figure in that kind of poetry.'
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise
'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 -'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Bailie Welsh Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise
'I have finished Julia - Divine Julia! What a finshed picture of most sublime virtue!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Bailie Welsh Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Thoughts of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Citizen of Geneva, selected from his writings by an Anonymous Editor
'There is a very extraordinary passage in Rousseau's Thoughts on Fanaticism. It is printed in his Thoughts, published by Debrett, Vol.i. page 11. Bayle (says he) has acutely proved that Fanaticism is more pernicious than Atheism. This is incontestable. What he has been very careful, however, not to mention, and, what is not less true is, that Fanaticism, although sanguinary and cruel, is still an exalted passion, which elevates the heart of man, raises him above the fear of death, multiplies his resources exceedingly, and which only wants to be better directed, to be productive of the most sublime virtues. (He adds) The argumentative spirit of controversy and philosophy, on the contrary, attaches us to life, enervates and debases the soul, concentrates all passions in the baseness of self-interest, and thus gradually saps the real foundation of all society.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Les Confessions; suivies de Reveries du promeneur solitaire
[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 IIThe 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 Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile; ou de l'education
[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
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise
[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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire
[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido Orlando Furioso Livy's History Seneca's Works Tasso's Girusalame Liberata Tassos Aminta 2 vols of Plutarch in Italian Some of the plays of Euripedes Seneca's Tragedies Reveries of Rousseau Hesiod Novum Organum Alfieri's Tragedies Theocritus Ossian Herodotus Thucydides Homer Locke on the Human Understanding Conspiration de Rienzi History of arianism Ochley's History of the Saracens Mad. de Stael sur la literature'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie; ou, La Nouvelle Heloise
[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]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire
'Read ten pages of Quintius Curtius and Rousseau's reveries'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire
'Read twelve page[s] of Curt. write - & read the reveries of Rousseau - S. reads Pliny's Letters'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire
'I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire
'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'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Eliosa
Letter to Miss Ewing April 18, 1779 'I do not know whether you will view this in the same light, but I think it is the most affecting and heroic instance of true friendship I have met with in real life. One can?t help comparing it with the lively and impressive portrait Rousseau draws of Clara and Eloisa.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : [?Emile]
Letter to Miss Ourry January 2 1794 'Then I have not put B. to school , or done half of what I meant.- I have seen Mary Wollstonecroft?s book, which is so run after here, that there is no keeping it long enough to read it leisurely, though one had leisure. It has produced no other convictions in my mind, but that of the authors possessing considerable abilities, and greatly misapplying them. To refute her arguments would be to write another and a larger book; for there is more pains and skill required to refute ill-founded assertions, than to make them. [and again on p. 272] 'Where a woman had those superior powers of mind to which we give the name genius, she will exert them under all disadvantages: Jean Jacques says truly, genius will educate itself, and, like flame, burst through all obstructions ?. [p. 268-277 is a criticism of Mary Wollstonecroft's work ]'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile, ou l'Education
'In the evening read the letters of Emile'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile, ou l'Education
'finish the letters of Emile and read a part of Clarissa Harlowe'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile, ou l'Education
'read Vol VII of Clarissa - Shelley reads the letters of Emile'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise
'Read Tacitus and Julie'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise
'Read Julie - S reads Homer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire
'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : [Letters]
'Read Rousseau's letters.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : [Letters]
'Finish Rousseau's letters'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Emile: Ou de l'education
From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin during 1814: 'Friday September 9th. [...] Read Sophie [i.e. Rousseau's Emile; goes on to quote and discuss passage from this].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Emile: Ou de l'education
From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin during 1814: 'Saturday Sept. 10th. [...] Breakfast with our Companions -- Write -- Read Emile -- Write a story'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Emile: Ou de l'education
'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us the Ancient Mariner [...] Read in the Excursion -- the Story of Margaret very beautiful.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Discours sur l'origine de l'inegalite parmi les hommes
'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite [d]es Hommes'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Emile: Ou de l'education
'Sunday Sept. 18. Rise late. Read Emile.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Emile: Ou de l'education
'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer & Political Justice. Admire the Sorcerer very much'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Emile: Ou de l'education
'Tuesday Sept. 20th. Rise late [...] Read Emile [...] Dine at Seven -- Shelley reads aloud Thalaba till Bed time.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Discours qui a remporte le prix a l'Academie de Dijon, en l'annee 1750: ... si le retablissement des sciences et des arts a contribue a epurer les moeurs
'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.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Unknown
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Emile: Ou de l'education
'[Tuesday June [...] 5th. [...] Read Werther and begin Emile de Rousseau.' [also records reading latter text on 7, 8, 9 June 1821]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise
'Begin Julie'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise
'Finish Julie. Read the Fable of the Bees.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile, ou l'Education
'Read Emile'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile, ou l'Education
'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : unknown
Wednesday 11 May: 'again this heroism in the attempt at pen & ink: but I am tired of reading Rousseau: it is 6 o'clock [...] we are shaking & rattling through Lombardy towards the Alps [on way back from holiday in Greece]'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau :
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not a proper book -- Dont read "Tom Jones" -- & none of the books on [italics]this[end italics] side, mind -- So I was very obedient & never touched the books on [italics]that[end italics] side, & only read instead, Tom Paine's Age of Reason, & Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, & Hume's Essays, & Werther, & Rousseau, & Mary Woolstonecraft [sic] .. books, which I was never suspected of looking towards, & which were not "on [italics]that[end italics] side" certainly, but which did as well.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie; ou, la Nouvelle Heloise
'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, of course, longed to read nothing so much. I knew one young lady who owned to me that she stole a reading of it standing on the top steps of her father's library-ladder; and another, who procured it and carried it into the country with her on her wedding day, as the first fruits of being her own mistress. Yet within these few years I happened to hear a girl of very warm feeling, enthusiastic, romantic, just the person whose head it would have turned of old, declare she had tried to read it, but been so disgusted that she threw it away before she got through half the first volume'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie; ou, la Nouvelle Heloise
'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, of course, longed to read nothing so much. I knew one young lady who owned to me that she stole a reading of it standing on the top steps of her father's library-ladder; and another, who procured it and carried it into the country with her on her wedding day, as the first fruits of being her own mistress. Yet within these few years I happened to hear a girl of very warm feeling, enthusiastic, romantic, just the person whose head it would have turned of old, declare she had tried to read it, but been so disgusted that she threw it away before she got through half the first volume'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie; ou, la Nouvelle Heloise
'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, of course, longed to read nothing so much. I knew one young lady who owned to me that she stole a reading of it standing on the top steps of her father's library-ladder; and another, who procured it and carried it into the country with her on her wedding day, as the first fruits of being her own mistress. Yet within these few years I happened to hear a girl of very warm feeling, enthusiastic, romantic, just the person whose head it would have turned of old, declare she had tried to read it, but been so disgusted that she threw it away before she got through half the first volume'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile
'This violence [of Dr Johnson against Rousseau] seemed very strange to me, who had read many of Rousseau's animated writings with great pleasure, and even edification; had been much pleased with his society, and was just come from the Continent, where he was very generally admired. Nor can I yet allow that he deserves the very severe censure which Johnson pronounced upon him. His absurd preference of savage to civilized life and other singularities are proofs rather of a defect in his understanding than of any depravity in his heart. And notwithstanding the unfavourable opinion which many worthy men have expressed of his "Profession de Foi du Vicaire Savoyard," I cannot help admiring it as the performance of a man full of sincere reverential submission to Divine Mystery, though beset with perplexing doubts: a state of mind to be viewed with pity rather than with anger.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Discourse on Inequality
'This violence [of Dr Johnson against Rousseau] seemed very strange to me, who had read many of Rousseau's animated writings with great pleasure, and even edification; had been much pleased with his society, and was just come from the Continent, where he was very generally admired. Nor can I yet allow that he deserves the very severe censure which Johnson pronounced upon him. His absurd preference of savage to civilized life and other singularities are proofs rather of a defect in his understanding than of any depravity in his heart. And notwithstanding the unfavourable opinion which many worthy men have expressed of his "Profession de Foi du Vicaire Savoyard," I cannot help admiring it as the performance of a man full of sincere reverential submission to Divine Mystery, though beset with perplexing doubts: a state of mind to be viewed with pity rather than with anger.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : La Nouvelle Heloise
'Rousseau says that the Man who finding his Affairs embarrassed - puts an end to his own Life; is like one who finding his House in Disorder sets it on Fire in stead of setting it to rights.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau :
'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and Spirit in the Scotsman: though both of them knew the Husk of Life perfectly well - & for the Kernel - you must go to either Richardson or Rousseau'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau :
'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurable Distance Charlotte Lenox, Smollet & Fielding. The Female Quixote & Count Fathom I think far before Tom Jones or Joseph Andrews with regard to Body of Story, Height of Colouring, or General Powers of Thinking. Fielding however knew the Shell of Life - and the Kernel is but for a few.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale Print: Book
Rousseau : unknown
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. September 1792: 'I ought to be studying Euclid — (the Devil take that wretch & make draw triangles below) but Rousseau being more calculated for me the geometrician lies as stupid as he would make me.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile
Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 12-13 January 1793: 'Whether or not man has the stain of original sin I leave to theologians & metaphysicians. That education tends to give it him I do not even doubt. Rousseau's plan is too visionary — it supposes such unremitted attention in the tutor & such natural virtue in the pupil that I doubt its practability of this however when we read Emilius (an occupation I look forward to with pleasure) we will freely determine. Madame Brulerck (late Genlis) appears to me to have struck out a path equally new & excellent — the Emilius of L Homme de la Nature existed only in his imagination. but the two sons of Phillipe Egalitè are living proofs of her capacity.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Unknown
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Confessions, Book 12
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 July - 6 August 1793: 'I have just met with a passage in Rousseau which expresses some of my religious opinions better than I could do it myself. "Je ne trouve point de plus doux hommage a la divinite, que l’admiration enuette qu’excite la contemplation de ses œuvres. Je ne puis comprendre comment des campagnards, et sur-tout des solitaires, peuvent ne pas avoir de foi; comment leur ame ne s’eleve pas cent fois le jour avec extase a l’auteur des merveilles qui les frappent. Dans ma chambre je prie plus rarement & séchement, mais a l’aspect d’un beau paysage, je me sens emu. Une vielle femme, pour toute priere, ne savoit dire que ô! L’eveque lui dit: Bonne femme continuez de prier ainsi, votre priere vaut mieux que les notres. — cette meilleure priere est aussi la mienne." — '
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6-8 November 1793: 'Were men what they ought to be — Rousseau would be canonized for a greater saint than any in the calendar. Read his Julia & tell me whence may we learn the most instructive lesson from the mistress of St Preux or the temptation of St Anthony. My comparison of the Man of Nature with Richardson would have been branded with the epithets of immoral atheistical & licentious. Clodius accuset moechos! Xtianity is less understood & less practised in this country than in the desarts of Arabia! Let him who is innocent cast the first stone was the judgement of the most moral of philosophers, to use no superior title.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : La Lévite d’Ephraim
Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'Do you know Rousseaus Levite of Ephraim? if not — you will find a poem that has not a word too much.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Emile (vol. 1)
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 24 September 1810: 'I am in the middle of [Rousseau's] "Emile." I think parts of it excellent, and the foundation of most of what has been since written on the subject of education. The parts I do not like seem to me more ridiculous than immoral [...] I have, however, only read one volume [...] He has too much of looking up to the sky with larmes dans les yeux, which, though it may be a part and certainly is the consequence of sincere and ardent piety -- I mean that sort of grateful emotion one feels in all the pleasures of fine weather and the works of Nature -- is but a sad loophole or dependance for those who consider it as the whole.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : 'answer to the Archbishop of Paris's mandement against Emile'
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763:] 'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I know it -- Pray amongst your French studies have you met with a refutation of Rousseau's Emile? It is in many parts admirably well writ, and with great strength of argument; but the effect is sometimes unhappily weakened by the mixture of popish doctrines. -- Probably you have seen Rousseau's answer to the Archbishop of Paris's mandement against Emile. There are sometimes so many right things blended with Rousseau's very dangerous errors, that I suppose there are few authors whom is it so difficult to answer in a proper way.'
