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Sir William Temple : Essays
'Read, in the evening, "Temple on the Origin of Government:" in which the source of political power is successfully traced....' [Green usually gives extensive summary comments about books, interspersed with his reactions.]
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels
'Finished, afterwards, "Gulliver's Travels". Could this severe satire....'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
William Roscoe : The life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificant
'Began with eagerness, and read, with increasing avidity, the first four Chapters of Roscoe's "Life of Lorenzo de Medici"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Julius Caesar : Commentaries
'Read, after a long interval, with much delight, the first two Books of Caesar's "Commentaries"....'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Niccolo Machiavelli : History of Florence
'Began, with a view of comparing notes, Macchiavel's "Historie Fiorentino"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
James Boswell : Life of Johnson
'Pursued Boswell's "life of Johnson"....'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
John Hawkesworth : Life of Swift [in Works of Swift?]
'Read Hawkesworth's "Life of Swift"....'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Thomas Sheridan : Life of Swift
'Finished Sheridan's "Life of Swift"....'
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John Jortin : Life of Erasmus
'Finished Jortin's "Life of Erasmus"....'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Livy : History of Rome
'Read the first two books of "Livy's History"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Richard Watson : Apology for the Bible
'Read Bp. Watson's "Apology for the Bible", in reply to Paine....'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
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
Richard Hurd : Life of Warburton [in Warburton, Works]
'Read with interest and curiosity, Hurd's "Life of Warburton"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Edward Gibbon : Miscellaneous Works
'Looked into Gibbon's "Miscellaneous Works"...'
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William Robertson : History of Scotland
'Finished Robertson's "History of Scotland"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
William Robertson : History of Charles V.
'Finished Robertson's "History of Scotland"....'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Niccolo Machiavelli : Discourses on Livy
'Read the 1st Book of Macchievel's "Discorsi sopra Livio"...'
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William Robertson : History of America
'Finished the first three Books of Robertson's "America"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
James Beattie : An essay on the nature and immutability of truth
'Looked over, by a cursory perusal, Beattie's "Essay on Truth"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Horace Walpole : The Castle of Otranto
'Read the "Castle of Otranto", which grievously disappointed my expectations...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Edmond Malone : An inquiry into the authenticity of certain papers
'Looked over Malone's "Enquiry into the Authenticity of Ireland's Shakesperian Papers"; a learned and decisive piece of criticism...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : The Italian
'Finished the "Italian"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Edward Gibbon : Memoirs
'Finished Gibbon's "Memoirs of himself"--an exquisite morceau of literature...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Jonathan Swift : The history of the four last years of the Queen
'Read Swift's "Four last Years of Queen Anne"; a clear, connected detail of facts, exhibited with exquisite art...'
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
Adam Smith : Essays on philosophical subjects
'Read Adam Smith's "History of Astronomy", in his posthumous tracts, published by Dugald Stewart...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
James Beattie : Elements of moral science
'Read over Beattie's "Elements of Moral Science"--a miserable work...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Richard Steele : The Tatler
'Looked over the first Vol. of the "Tatlers"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Richard Hurd : Discourse concerning Imitation
'Read Hurd's "Discourse on Poetical Imitation": a critical disquisition of considerable depth and skill...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Horace : Epistola ad Augustum, annotated by Richard Hurd
'Read the "1st Epistle of Horace", Lib. 2 (the celebrated Epistle to Augustus) with the aid of Dacier's notes, and Hurd's Commentary...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Horace : Art of Poetry, annotated by Richard Hurd,
'Read Hurd's "Commentary on Horace's Art of Poetry"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Horace Walpole : The Mysterious Mother
'Read Sir Horace Walpole's "Mysterious Mother". There is a gusto of antiquity...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Thomas James Mathias : Pursuits of Literature
'Finished, with much interest, the "Pursuits of Literature"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Longinus : On the Sublime
'Finished Longinus on the Sublime; to which I had been led, by Gibbon's critique in his "Extraits Raisonnes"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Quintilian : Institutes
'Finished the 1st Book of Quinctilian "De Institutione Oratoria"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
John Gay : Beggar's Opera
'Looked over the "Beggar's Opera". The slang of low iniquity, is happily given in this strange drama...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
John Brown : An essay on satire
'Looked over Brown's "Essays on Satire", prefixed to Pope's "Moral Poems"; in which the nature and end of Satire is happily portrayed...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Anonymous : Arabian Nights Entertainments
'I have been for some time amusing myself with the "Arabian Nights" Entertainments, to whose fascinating influence I am quite ductile...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
William Wollaston : Religion of Nature delineated
'Began, and read the first section of, Wollaston's "Religion of Nature"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
William Gifford : The Baviad
'Finished the "Baviad and Maeviad"; an exquisite satire on the loathsome affectations of the Della Crusca school of poetry...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Daines Barrington : Observations on the Ancient Statutes
'Finished Barrington's "Observations on the Ancient Statutes"; a well conceived and elaborate work...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Joseph Warton : Life of Pope, in Works,
'Finished Warton's "Life of Pope" prefixed to his edition of Pope's "Works"; and compared Wakefield's "Preface" to his "Observations on Pope". These two critics differ essentially in their judgment of Pope...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Thomas Gray : Works
'Looked over some of Gray's Poems. I am almost tempted to agree in Johnson's character of these compositions...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
John Dryden : Works
'Read several of Dryden's original Poems. The sudden transition from his "Funeral Lines on Oliver Cromwell", to his "Astraea Redux on the Restoration", the two first poems in the collection, has a curious effect...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Alexander Pope : The Dunciad, with annotations by Warton and Wakefield
'Read the "Dunciad", with Warton's and Wakefield's Annotations...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Samuel Garth : The Dispensary
'Read Garth's "Dispensary"; a lively and pleasing poem, sparkling with considerable wit, but defrauded of its just fame by the "Dunciad"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Alexander Pope : Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus
'Finished the "Memoirs of Scriblerus"; an exquisite piece of satire, of which the separate parts of Swift, Pope, and Arbuthnot, are sometimes very distinguishable...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Robert Macfarlane : History of George III
'Read Macfarlane's "History of George III.": a strange amalgama of vulgarity, impudence, and scurrility, compounded into a specious and shewy mass, by a morbid vigour of intellect...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Samuel Johnson : London
'Perused Johnson's "London", and "Vanity of Human Wishes". His Numbers are strong in sense, and smooth in flow; but want that varied grace, and inextinguishable spirit, which constitute the essential charm of Pope's...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Samuel Johnson : Vanity of Human Wishes
'Perused Johnson's "London", and "Vanity of Human Wishes". His Numbers are strong in sense, and smooth in flow; but want that varied grace, and inextinguishable spirit, which constitute the essential charm of Pope's...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de Medici
'Concluded a second reading of Roscoe's "Lorenzo de Medici", which fades considerably on a reperusal...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
George Campbell : The Philosophy of Rhetoric
'Began Campbell's "Rhetoric"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Edward Young : Night Thoughts
'Looked into Young's "Night Thoughts": debased throughout with many poor and puerile conceits...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Anthony Hamilton : Memoires de la Vie du Comte de Gramont
'Finished the "Memoirs of Grammont"; which exhibit, with less wit and spirit than I expected, a shameful picture of the voluptuousness, intrigues, and abandoned profligacy, of the Court of Charles II...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Colley Cibber : Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber
'Began Colley Cibber's "Life"; and was much delighted with his minute yet masterly account of the principal actors who figured previously to the Revolution...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Richard Hurd : Moral and political dialogues
'Read Hurd's "Dialogue" between Cowley and Sprat, on Retirement...'
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William King : De origine mali
'Looked over King's "Origin of Evil"...'
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William Russell : The History of Modern Europe
'Finished the 2d. Vol. of Russell's "History of Modern Europe"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
John Locke : Essay concerning Human Understanding
'Read the first Book of Locke's "Essay on the Human Understanding",--in refutation of the doctrine of innate principles...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan : The History of Nourjahad
'Finished the 'Novel of "Nourjahad" in the evening. Nothing, I think, can be more happily conceived for its purpose, than the plan of this little romance...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Bertrand de Moleville : Memoires secrets pour servir a l'histoire
'Finished Bertrand De Moleville's "Memoirs of the Last Year of the Reign of Louis the 16th". They contain much curious, and I presume, authentic information relative to the crisis of the Revolution...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Sir John Dalrymple : Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland
'Began Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland"; and read the two introductory sections, containing a masterly review of our political affairs...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
John Haslam : Observations on Insanity
'Read Haslam on Insanity....'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
William Godwin : Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
'Looked over Godwin's "Memoirs of Mrs. Woolstonecraft"; which strikingly evince that love, even in a modern philosopher, "emollit mores, nec sinet esse feros"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Anthony Ashley Cooper : Inquiry concerning Virtue
'Read Shaftesbury's "Enquiry concerning Virtue". His ideas are not very distinctly state; but he seems, to place Virtue in a proper management of the affections...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Joshua Reynolds : Seven Discourses
'Finished Sir Joshua Reynolds' "Discourses", with an eye to a peculiar and distinguishing doctrine which runs through the whole, and is manifestly a particular favourite with the author...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Bernard Mandeville : Fable of the Bees
'Read Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees", and his "Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Bernard Mandeville : Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue
'Read Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees", and his "Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Samuel Johnson : Preface to Shakespeare
'Looked over Johnson's vigorous defence of Shakespear against the charge of violating, whether from neglect or disdain, the Unities of Time and Place in his Dramas...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Francis Bacon : Essays
'Dipped into Bacon's "Essays"; so pregnant with just, original, and striking observations on every topic which is touched, that I cannot select what pleases me most...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
John Brown : An estimate of the manners and principles of the times
'Read Brown's "Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times". The 2d Vol. is merely a supplementary comment on the 1st; and in that, after allowing us a spirit of liberty, of humanity, and of equity, he maintains, that a vain luxurious and selfish effeminacy, introduced by exorbitant trade and wealth, has sapped our principles of religion, honour, and pubilc spirit...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Augustus Henry Fitzroy : The serious reflections of a rational Christian
'Looked over "Serious Reflections by a rational Christian", from 1788 to 1798 written by the Duke of G-...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Philip Dormer Stanhope : Characters of eminent personages of his own time
'Looked over Lord Chesterfield's "Characters": all of which are neatly, and some very finely, drawn...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Jean-Baptiste Dubos : Critical reflections on poetry, painting and music
'Finished the 1st Volume and Part of "Du Bos sur la Poesie et Peinture"...'
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
Samuel Johnson : Lives of the Poets
'Finished a cursory perusal of Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", with a view to the principles on which his critical decisions are founded...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Joseph Addison : The Spectator
'Examined, with a view to those principles, Addison's Eleven Papers in the "Spectator"; beginning at No. 409, and with the omission of the 410th, ending with the 421st. In the first and preparatory paper, he defines Taste...'
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
Montesquieu : De l?esprit des loix
'Read the first four Books of Montesquieu's "Esprit des Loix"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
William Mitford : History of Greece
'Looked into Mitford's "History of Greece". The Athenian Democracy imparts no sort of relish for that sort of government...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Thomas Reid : An inquiry into the human mind
'Read the first five chapters of Reid's "Enquiry into the Human Mind": in which he examines the senses of Smell, Taste, Hearing, and Touch...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
George Berkeley : A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge
'Read the Introduction to Berkeley's "Principles of Human Knowledge", in which he really seems to be serious and in earnest...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Voltaire : Essay sur l?histoire du siecle de Louis XIV
'Finished Voltaire's "Siecle de Louis 14me.": a most entertaining and instructive work...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Philip Yorke : Athenian Letters
'Finished the "Athenian Letters"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
J. J. Barth?lemy : Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece
'Finished the "Travels of Anacharsis". This work is ably executed, and must have cost prodigious pains; but it still leaves us, as we must ever be left, extremely ignorant of the political constitutions, religious worship, and private manners of the Greeks...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Horace Walpole : Historic doubts on the life and reign of King Richard the third
'Read Horace Walpole's "Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of Richard the 3d."--doubts, which he has in some measure transfused into my mind...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Horace Walpole : Works
'Looked over Horace Walpole's "Fugitive Pieces"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
John Milton : Paradise Regained
'Finished the "Paradise Regained". Milton has been most unhappy in the choice of his subject;--an inexplicable and suspicious legend...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
John Milton : Samson Agonistes
'Read Milton's "Samson Agonistes";--a noble Poem, but a miserable Drama...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Sir James Mackintosh : A discourse on the study of the law of nature, and nations
'Perused, with delight and admiration, Mackintosh's "Preliminary Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Torquato Tasso : Jerusalem Delivered
'Finished Tasso's "Jerusalem", in Hoole's Translation comparing it occasionally with the original, and with Fairfax's version...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise S?vign : Lettres choisies de Mesdames de Sevign? et de Main
'Looked over a Volume of "Lettres Choisies de Mesdames Sevigne et Maintenon"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Thomas Burnet : The theory of the earth
'Began Burnet's "Theory of the Earth". Nothing can exceed the dexterity, or liveliness, or picturesque force, of his reasoning...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
James Ussher : An introduction to the theory of the human mind
'Read with much interest, in a Collection of Fugitive Pieces, an "Introduction to the Theory of the Human Mind", by J. Usher, author of Clio....'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Sir James Mackintosh : Vindiciae Gallicae
'Read Mackinosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae". His style and manner in the Piece are magnificent, but uniformly cumbrous, and occasionally coarse...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Soame Jenyns : A free inquiry into the nature and origin of evil
'Read Soame Jenyns' "Origin of Evil". His grand solution of the introduction of evil is, that it could not have been prevented, by Omnipotence, without the loss of some superior good...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Edward Gibbon : Essai sur l??tude de la litt?rature
'Read Gibbon's "Essai sur l'Etude de la Litterature": an ostentatious performance...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Francis Bacon : Letters, speeches, charges, advices, &c. of Francis Bacon
'Finished Lord Bacon's Letters, edited by Birch. It is grievous to see this great man, who appears from various passages fully sensible of his vast powers and attainments, and impressed with a just confidence of the weight he would have with posterity, eternally cringing...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Edward Hooker : Of the laws of ecclesiastical politie
'Read the 1st Book of Hooker's "Ecclesiastical Polity"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Richard Hurd : An introduction to the study of the prophecies
'Finished Hurd's "Lectures on the Prophecies"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Jonathan Shipley : The works of the Right Reverend Jonathan Shipley
'Finished Bishop Shipley's Works; to the reading of which I had been powerfully recommended by M-h. A vein of good sense, expressed in an original, unaffected, and frequently energetic and impressive manner, runs through the whole of these compositions....'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Richard Hurd : Sermons preached at Lincoln?s-Inn
'Read the first Vol. of Hurd's "Sermons at Lincoln's-Inn"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
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'Finished a review of Cicero's tract "De Officiis"...'
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Cicero : De Senectute
'Read Cicero "De Senectute": a most exquisite and finished disquisition...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Thomas May : The history of the Parliament of England
'Read the first 6 chapters of May's "History of the Long Parliament"; containing a retrospect of affairs, down to its assembling...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
John Dryden : The satires of Juvenalis, translated into English
'Read Dryden's Dedication to his "Translations of Juvenal's Satires":--a stranger, rambling composition...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
William Richardson : A philosophical analysis and illustration of some of Shakespeare's characters
'Read Richardson's "Philosophical Analysis" of some of Shakespear's Characters. The design is happy, and, upon the whole, ingeniously executed...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Richard Owen Cambridge : The scribleriad: an heroic poem in six books
'Read Cambridge's "Scribleriad". The mock heroic is well sustained throughout; but the Poem is deficient in broad humour...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Hugh Blair : Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres
'Finished the perusal of Blair's "Lectures on Rhetoric". The praise of ingenuity, of a judgment in general correct, and a taste for the most part timidly correct, I can readily allow him; but to no higher order of merit in a critic...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
William Jackson of Exeter : The four ages; together with essays on various subjects
'Read Jackson's (of Exeter) "Four Ages". He inverts the usual order; and promises halycon days, from the improvement of every art and every science, in the golden age to which we are rapidly advancing...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
William Warburton : The divine legation of Moses demonstrated
'Looked through the 3d. Book of Warburton's "Divine Legation". It is impossible to pursue this eccentric Genius steadily, through the mazy curves along which he wheels his airy flight...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Thomas Balguy : Discourses on various subjects
'Read Balguy's "Discourses". They are all masterly; but the first four, and the 8th, tower above the rest in excellence...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Pierre Mathurin : The memoirs of the Duke of Sully
'Read the 1st Vol. of Sully's "Memoirs". They open a scene of manners, which, to modern conception, appears perfectly romantic...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Isaac Watts : Logic, or the right use of reason
'Looked over the 1st and 2d Parts of Watts' "Logic"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Archibald Alison : Essays on the nature and principles of taste
'Read the First of Alison's "Two Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste". Taste, he defines, That faculty by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is sublime and beautiful...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Henry Pemberton : A view of Sir Isaac Newton?s philosophy
'Looked over the Introduction to Pemberton's "View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy". He affirms (sec. 2.) that it is the gratification of our taste, which is the source of our desire of knowledge...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
John Moore : Zeluco. Various views of human nature
'Finished Moore's "Zeluco". The character is will contrived to purge the selfish and malignant passions, by exhibiting the hideous effect of their unrestricted indulgence...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Alexander Pope : Moral Epistles
'Read Pope's five "Ethic Epistles" or "Moral Essays". There is an occasional pertness and flippancy in them, not to my taste...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
John Moore : Edward. Various views of human nature
'Finished Moore's "Edward". The outset of this novel delighted me highly; but as it advances, the interest declines...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
John Whitehurst : An inquiry into the original state and formation of the earth
'Looked into Whitehurst's "Theory of the Earth". His hypothesis is, That our globe was originally a confused mass of all the elements; That from gravitation and elective attraction, these elements gradually subsided into concentric layers...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Uvedale Price : An essay on the picturesque
'Read the 1st Part of Price's "Essay on the Picturesque"...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
William Gilpin : Three Essays
'Looked over Gilpin's Two Essay[s]; on Picturesque Beauty, and Picturesque Travel...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Henry Fielding : The life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great
'Read Fielding's "Life of Jonathan Wild"; a caustic satire, in Swift's coarsest manner...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
John Milton : Paradise Lost
'Finished the perusal of the first Six Books of Milton's "Paradise Lost". The scene betwixt Satan, Sin, and Death, in the 2d. Book, is transcendantly sublime...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Henry Fielding : The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews
'Read the 4th. and last Book of Fielding's "Joseph Andrews". I see no necessity for the marvellous in incident, at the conclusion of this Novel...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Henry Fielding : Amelia
'Finished Fielding's "Amelia". There is a still stronger and more disgusting taint of vulgarity, in this Novel, than in Joseph Andrews...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
John Hey : Lectures in divinity
'Finished the 1st Book of Dr. Hey's "Lectures in Divinity". His manner struck me as stiff and perplexed, at first: but this wears off, as I advance...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Robert Bloomfield : The farmer?s boy
'Perused the "Farmer's Boy"; a rural Poem, by Robert Bloomfield; edited by Capel Lofft...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Edward Pearson : Remarks on the Theory of Morals
'Finished Pearson's "Remarks on the Theory of Morals"...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Virgil : Aenied
'Finished the "Aeneid". Virgil's excellence, it is obvious, consists, not in the daring flights of a vigorous and sublime imagination, but in the exquitie art and consummate taste with which he turn, and polishes, and refines into perfection...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
William Godwin : St Leon, a tale of the sixteenth century
'Read Godwin's "St. Leon". In the Preface, he explicitly abjures the doctrine of extinguishing the private affections, which he had inculcated in his Political Justice...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green 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
Johann David Michaelis : Introduction to the New Testament
'Looked into Marsh's "Michaelis"...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
William Frend : Animadversions on the elements of Christian theology
'Read Frend's "Animadversions" on Prettyman's Theology:--more temperate and chastised than I expected...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Richard Porson : Letters to Mr. Archdeacon Travis
'Finished Porson's "Letters to Travis", on the disputed passage in John...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Joseph Warton : Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope
'Finished a perusal of Warton's "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope"...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Herbert Marsh : The history of the politicks of Great Britain and France
'Finished Marsh's "Tract on the Politics of Great Britain and France"...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Richard Hurd : Discourse concerning Imitation
'Read again, and with more attention, Hurd's "Discourse on Poetical Imitation"...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Charles Gildon : "An Essay" in Works of Shakespeare
'Read Gildon's "Essay", prefixed to Shakespear's poems, in which he largely discuses Dramatic Poetry...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Cicero : Brutus
'Looked into Cicero's "Buruts"...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
George Pretyman : Elements of Christian theology
'Looked into Prettyman's "Theology". The Dedication to Pitt is insufferably fulsome...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Edmond Malone : Critical and Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden
'Finished Malone's "Life of Dryden", prefixed to an Edition of his Prose Works. By the drudgery of searching deeds, wills, genealogies, registers, and recods of all sorts, Malone has discovered some new facts, and detected a few mistakes, respecting Dryden and his Famly, of very little consequence...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Daines Barrington : The history of singing birds
'Read Daines Barrington's curious "Observations on the Notes of Birds"...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Thomas Campbell : The Pleasures of Hope
'Read Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope". Parts of this Poem are animated and fine...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
James Thomas Kirkman : Memoirs of the life of Charles Macklin
'Looked into Kirkman's "Life of Macklin"...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
John Dryden : Prose Works, ed. Malone
'Began Dryden's "Prose Works"...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : A journey made in the summer of 1794
'Read Mrs. Radcliffe's "Tour to the Lakes". Much might be expected from this Lady's well known powers of description, exerted on so congenial a theme...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Soame Jenyns : The works of Soame Jenyns, Esq
'Finished the two first Volumes of Soame Jenyns "Works", edited by Cole...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
James Boswell : The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
'Dipped into Boswell's "Life of Johnson". Johnson pronounces Hume either mad or a liar...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Johann Goffried Herder : Outlines of a philosophy of the history of man
'Began Herder's "Outlines of the Philosophy of the History of Man", of which I had heard high praise;--but was soon obliged to desist. He appears to write like a great child, eager to communicate its late acquirements, however trivial..'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Henry James Pye : A Commentary illustrating the Poetic of Aristotle
'Glanced over Pye's "Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics"...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Samuel Darby : A letter to the Rev. Mr. T. Warton, on his late edition of Milton's Juvenile Poems
'Read a very elegant piece of criticism, intitled "A Letter to the Rev. Mr. T. Warton", on his late Edition of Milton?s "Juvenile" Poems...'