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Susan Thrale
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: [a story book]
'[italics] My [end italics] Daughter Susan a Girl of seven Years old - said to me yesterday when we had done reading - I like this Book prodigiously Ma'am; the story of the Earthquake was very dismal, and that of the Dwarf very comical; 'tis better Sport to hear of such Things than to read that stupid Book about [italics] Sympathy & Poetical Language [end italics] written by the Man there with a [italics] Woman's [end italics][ Name - Doctor [italics] Betty [end italics] as you call him - She meant Dr [italics] Beattie [end italics] whose book Mrs Cumyns - her Governess had been foolish enough to put into her hands'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Susan Thrale Print: Book
James Beattie : Essays on Poetry and Music
'[italics] My [end italics] Daughter Susan a Girl of seven Years old - said to me yesterday when we had done reading - I like this Book prodigiously Ma'am; the story of the Earthquake was very dismal, and that of the Dwarf very comical; 'tis better Sport to hear of such Things than to read that stupid Book about [italics] Sympathy & Poetical Language [end italics] written by the Man there with a [italics] Woman's [end italics][ Name - Doctor [italics] Betty [end italics] as you call him - She meant Dr [italics] Beattie [end italics] whose book Mrs Cumyns - her Governess had been foolish enough to put into her hands'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Susan Thrale Print: Book
Moliere [pseud.] : Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
'20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment read a French Comedy to divert herself, and these very Holy days her Amusement has been to make Sophy & sometimes Hester help her to act the two or three 1st Scenes of Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme: add to this she has a real Taste for English Poetry, and when Mr Johnson repeated Dryden's Musick Ode the other day, She said She had got the whole poem, & Pope's too upon the same Subject by Heart for her own Amusement'.
Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Susanna Arabella Thrale Print: Book
John Dryden : Song for St. Cecilia's Day
'20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment read a French Comedy to divert herself, and these very Holy days her Amusement has been to make Sophy & sometimes Hester help her to act the two or three 1st Scenes of Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme: add to this she has a real Taste for English Poetry, and when Mr Johnson repeated Dryden's Musick Ode the other day, She said She had got the whole poem, & Pope's too upon the same Subject by Heart for her own Amusement'.
Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Susanna Arabella Thrale Print: Book
Alexander Pope : Ode for Music on St Cecilia's Day
'20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment read a French Comedy to divert herself, and these very Holy days her Amusement has been to make Sophy & sometimes Hester help her to act the two or three 1st Scenes of Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme: add to this she has a real Taste for English Poetry, and when Mr Johnson repeated Dryden's Musick Ode the other day, She said She had got the whole poem, & Pope's too upon the same Subject by Heart for her own Amusement'.
Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Susanna Arabella Thrale Print: Book
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne : Letters
'My second Daughter Susan has a surprising Turn for Letter-writing; her Compositions are really elegant, & She delights - odd enough - in reading Voiture and Sevigne.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Susanna Arabella Thrale Print: Book
Vincent de Voiture : Letters
'My second Daughter Susan has a surprising Turn for Letter-writing; her Compositions are really elegant, & She delights - odd enough - in reading Voiture and Sevigne.'
