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Eugenia Wynne

 

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Hernan Cortes : Cartas de relacion [??]

'a very dry day. I have nothing to say. Wrote to Fries and read "The Discovery of America" by Cortes'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne      Print: Unknown

  

Moliere [pseud.] : Les Precieuses Ridicules

[Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les Precieuses Ridicules" but had no time to for supper was called'. [Eugenia]: 'In the evening the Paris papers were read I did not give them any attention then we began to reread for Madame de Bombelles "Les Precieuses Ridicules" which was interrupted by supper'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne      Print: Unknown

  

Bernardin de St Pierre : Paul et Virginie

'I read for the second time a novel that Madame de B. brought for us, "Paul and Virginia", that is charming, but though I was told I would weep many tears in reading it I did not shed a single one. I reread it thinking perhaps to have read it too fast the first time, but although the second time it did not interest me less than the first, it did not make me weep. It is of no use to say this is a sign of insensibility. If they will teach me to cry when I will and then everything will melt me and make me cry, for after all I am a woman as they are'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne      Print: Book

  

John Shore : [elegies on deaths of wife and child]

'I read several elegies today, two of Shore the one on the death of his wife, the other on the loss of his child. His tale of woe is expressed in the most moving and natural fashion, and though you greatly admire the poet yet you must yield to the soft and sympathising composition of the widowed Husband and childless father. It is not so when you read Lord Littleton's complaint on his Lady's death, the poetry is beautiful but less natural, less moving. He boasts with his grief, and indulges himself some digressions which show his extended knowledge but are not natural, I think, to a mind wholly occupied with despair'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne      Print: Unknown

  

William Henry Lyttelton : [probably] A Monody to the Memory of lady Lyttelton. Written in the Year 1747

'I read several elegies today, two of Shore the one on the death of his wife, the other on the loss of his child. His tale of woe is expressed in the most moving and natural fashion, and though you greatly admire the poet yet you must yield to the soft and sympathising composition of the widowed Husband and childless father. It is not so when you read Lord Littleton's complaint on his Lady's death, the poetry is beautiful but less natural, less moving. He boasts with his grief, and indulges himself some digressions which show his extended knowledge but are not natural, I think, to a mind wholly occupied with despair'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne      Print: Unknown

  

William Robertson : The History of Scotland during the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI till his Accession to the Crown of England

'Rain again and rain forever. I read a great deal of Robertson's "History of Scotland". I cannot forgive Elizabeth's behaviour and though Mary's is very shameful yet I cannot help feeling a sort of partiality for her, a partiality which is a tribute that I pay to her endless misfortunes and which prompts me to think that if Elizabeth had sought protection in Mary's arms she would have found a sure azylum and a hasty succour there. Robertson in giving Mary's character, perfectly expressed what you must feel in reading her history. "You throw a veil over her frailties and faults, and approve of your tears as if they were shed for an object who drew much nearer to protection".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne      Print: Book

  

[n/a] : [English newspapers]

'I read in the English newspapers an attempt has been made against the life of Louis XVIII as this unfortunate Prince was retiring from the armee of Conde... [the full story is then summarised, with no reaction]'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne      Print: Newspaper

  

Christoph Martin Wieland : Agathon

'I read a great deal of "Agathon" a very fine German novel taken from a grecian manuscript written by Wieland. It is very interesting and expressed with equal grace, elegance and nature. One thing which shows that no man is free of a vanity in which he seeks to hide is that the Author takes every opportunity to mention himself and appears afraid that "Agathon" should make you forget Weiland'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne      Print: Book

  

Thomas Skinner Surr : A Winter in London, or Sketches of Fashion

'I have finished "A Winter in Town", and think that if it was written in two volumes instead of three it would be a very good Novel - Some of the characters such as the Duchess of Devonshire, Duchess of Girdon, and Sir Walter Farquhar are admirably delineated in it'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne      Print: Book

 

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