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John Bedford Leno
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Samuel Johnson : Lives of the Poets
"After waiting a considerable period for the remittance, the box was forced, and found to contain a vast quantity of brickbats and an odd volume of Johnson's 'Lives of the Poets'. The poring over of that volume possibly helped to decide that I should turn versifier."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bedford Leno Print: Book
Anti Corn Law League : [tracts]
"As Kingsbury and Farrell lost no opportunity of advancing their views, I was soon possessed of a tolerable knowledge of the tenets of each. This was supplemented by the perusal of the tracts issued by the Anti-Corn-law League, and the 'Examiner' newspaper. Farrell lent me the former, the 'Star,' and the 'New Moral World,' and his opponent their antidotes."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bedford Leno
: The Northern Star
"As Kingsbury and Farrell lost no opportunity of advancing their views, I was soon possessed of a tolerable knowledge of the tenets of each. This was supplemented by the perusal of the tracts issued by the Anti-Corn-law League, and the 'Examiner' newspaper. Farrell lent me the former, the 'Star,' and the 'New Moral World,' and his opponent their antidotes."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bedford Leno Print: Newspaper
: New Moral World
"As Kingsbury and Farrell lost no opportunity of advancing their views, I was soon possessed of a tolerable knowledge of the tenets of each. This was supplemented by the perusal of the tracts issued by the Anti-Corn-law League, and the 'Examiner' newspaper. Farrell lent me the former, the 'Star,' and the 'New Moral World,' and his opponent their antidotes.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bedford Leno Print: Newspaper
: The Examiner
"As Kingsbury and Farrell lost no opportunity of advancing their views, I was soon possessed of a tolerable knowledge of the tenets of each. This was supplemented by the perusal of the tracts issued by the Anti-Corn-law League, and the 'Examiner' newspaper. Farrell lent me the former, the 'Star,' and the 'New Moral World,' and his opponent their antidotes.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bedford Leno Print: Newspaper
Edward Young : Night Thoughts
"It was about this period that Mike, the dwarf waiter, fell ill. His mistress and others of her family being worn out by watching, the landlady appealed to me to take a turn. I at once consented, and the widow, much pleased, set about mixing me grog for the night. I asked to be allowed to glance over her library, and, from its contents, I selected "Young's Night Thoughts." This I managed to finish before morning, and never was book read to greater advantage. The moans, occasional ravings and wanderings of my poor little friend and former schoolfellow enabled me to realise beauties that I had failed to see in a previous perusal."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bedford Leno Print: Book
Walter Scott : The Lady of the Lake
"How much a book gains by the appropriate surroundings of the person reading it, was forcibly impressed upon me [by the circumstances described in RED ID 5432], and this fact was farther corroborated years after, when I read Scott's 'Lady of the Lake', during a walk from the Trosachs [sic] to Stirling."
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bedford Leno Print: Book
: [proclamations forbidding Chartists' meetings]
"I found on entering Harborough the walls posted with a proclamation forbidding all meetings in favour of Chartism."
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Bedford Leno Print: Poster
William Wordsworth : Sonnets
"I stayed for the night in Derby, visiting its various printing offices in search of a job, but without success, and, hugging the shore of the river Derwent, made for Matlock on the following morn. I had read the whole of Wordsworth's Sonnets and, penniless as I was, I enjoyed the journey."
