Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Reader: Leslie Stephen

 

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1900-194513/3/1904 - "He was able to read on the last morning of his life, asking me to bring him an article on Shakespeare and...Leslie Stephen Thomas HardyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-194513/3/1904 - "He was able to read on the last morning of his life, asking me to bring him an article on Shakespeare and...Leslie Stephen [an article on Shakespeare]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"I took in Mr Holmes' humorous poems & Davidson (a very jolly little friend of mine) another light work & we sat toget...Leslie Stephen Oliver Wendell HolmesPrint: Book
1850-1899"Do you know that I have just read in a book that my grandfather James Stephen invented the orders in council - which ...Leslie Stephen Print: Book
1850-1899"I am now going in for another shot at "Christie's Faith". I am feeling devilishly lazy - Oh! I will try a pipe - it m...Leslie Stephen Christie's FaithPrint: Book
1850-1899"I have hardly read a book except for strictly professional purposes for 3 months & more. One of the few I have read i...Leslie Stephen W Hepworth DixonNew AmericaPrint: Book
1850-1899?Talking of books, you will perhaps be in the way of seeing a volume of Essays on Reform just published. You may find ...Leslie Stephen [Essays on Reform]Print: Book
1850-1899"From your account of the absence of newspapers - on wh. I congratulate you sincerely - you may possibly have heard th...Leslie Stephen NewspapersPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899"You say you have been reading some French novels lately. I am much given to that amusement though I never read de Mus...Leslie Stephen [Some French novels]Print: Book
1850-1899"I read with satisfaction Lowell's poem wh. you sent me. The only fault I find with him is that he occasionally lets h...Leslie Stephen James Russell LowellAgassizPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"I have read with great interest your article on Victor Hugo & also that which appeared in the last number of Macmillan."Leslie Stephen Robert Louis StevensonOrdered SouthPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"By an accidental combination of circumstances I only saw your article on my 'secularism' this afternoon. I have no co...Leslie Stephen Frederick Denison MauricePrint: Book
1850-1899"Excuse all this; but though you may not easily give me credit I really admired Mr Maurice; I attended his lectures as...Leslie Stephen Frederick Denison MauricePrint: Book
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?I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they go...Leslie Stephen Robert BrowningPrint: Book
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?I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they go...Leslie Stephen William ShakespearePrint: Book
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?I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they go...Leslie Stephen Alfred TennysonPrint: Book
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?I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they go...Leslie Stephen John MiltonPrint: Book
1850-1899?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read withou...Leslie Stephen The SpectatorPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read withou...Leslie Stephen The Pall MallPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read withou...Leslie Stephen The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read withou...Leslie Stephen The WorldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899?Do you sympathise with me when I say that the only writer whom I have been able to read with pleasure through this ni...Leslie Stephen William WordsworthPrint: Book
1850-1899?And this reminds me by a further association of ideas that you would do well to look ? if you like to have your stoma...Leslie Stephen Frederick FarrarThe Life of ChristPrint: Book
1850-1899"Payn showed me yesterday an article of yours upon a Miss Grant of whom I confess, I have heard for the first time; bu...Leslie Stephen William Ernest HenleyMiss GrantPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"I have been through a course of perhaps the dreariest reading in the whole of English literature - I mean, 18th centu...Leslie Stephen [18th and 19th century sermons]Print: Book
1850-1899"I go off tomorrow to Cumberland where I shall climb the British Mt Blanc & forget for a short time that there are suc...Leslie Stephen James Russell LowellPictures from AppledorePrint: Book
1850-1899"I have read, too, or repeated, for I know him by heart, our old friend Omar Khyyam. He is grand in his way & if spiri...Leslie Stephen Omar KhayyamPrint: Book
1850-1899"Morley has just published a book on 'Compromise'; out of the Fortnightly. I think his writing improves. It seems to m...Leslie Stephen John MorleyOn CompromisePrint: Book
1850-1899"And that reminds me that the last Contemporary is worth looking at, not only for Gladstone's twaddle about Ritualism,...Leslie Stephen W E GladstoneRitualism and RitualPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"And that reminds me that the last Contemporary is worth looking at, not only for Gladstone's twaddle about Ritualism,...Leslie Stephen Matthew ArnoldReview of Objections to Literature and DogmaPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"I am spending a quiet Sunday morning in Birbeck's smoking room - reading a novel."Leslie Stephen [Novel]Print: Book
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"It is very like Shirley except that there is no heather & the people are all of them of the Yorkshire kind as describ...Leslie Stephen Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849"He [Mr Morrison] breeds horses, & the colts came up & talked to us, & his great kennelfulls of dogs who came to be pa...Leslie Stephen Anne BronteTenant of Wildfell HallPrint: Book
1800-1849"The longer you are married, the better you will like it & then I hope you will show proper gratitude to your adviser ...Leslie Stephen Francois de La RochefoucauldReflexions ou sentences et maximes moralesPrint: Book
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"Rather vexatiously Mat Arnold has sent in an article wh. I must read before it goes in because it is supposed to be h...Leslie Stephen Matthew ArnoldLiterature and Dogma (possibly)Manuscript: proofs of article
1850-1899We have all read, by the way, The Poet at the breakfast table & sent him our sincere compliments on his performance."Leslie Stephen Sir Oliver Wendell HolmesThe Poet at the Breakfast TablePrint: Book
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"I think, for example, that Shirley is very superior to Dorothea Brooke. She has far more character & power, though sh...Leslie Stephen Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899"I think, for example, that Shirley is very superior to Dorothea Brooke. She has far more character & power, though sh...Leslie Stephen George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Book
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"But if you mean seriously to ask me what critical books I recommend, I can only say that I recommend none. I think as...Leslie Stephen Thomas HardyPrint: Book
1850-1899"S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, t...Leslie Stephen Charles Augustin Sainte-BeuvePrint: Book
1850-1899"S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, t...Leslie Stephen Matthew ArnoldPrint: Book
1850-1899"S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, t...Leslie Stephen LowellPrint: Book
1850-1899"If I were in the vein, I think I should exhort you above all to read George Sand, whose country stories seem to me pe...Leslie Stephen George SandLes maitres SonneursPrint: Book
1850-1899 "I may tell you that, although your Hospital Sonnets did not seem to attract much notice at the time, as, indeed, I a...Leslie Stephen William Ernest HenleyHospital SonnetsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899 "I may tell you that, although your Hospital Sonnets did not seem to attract much notice at the time, as, indeed, I a...Leslie Stephen William Ernest HenleyChildren: Private WardPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"I tried to read Lord Lytton's Lucile which is rot."Leslie Stephen Robert Bulwer-LyttonLucilePrint: Book
1850-1899"I have led a specially quiet life of late; amusing myself by reading a little biography for a change - a good many Ne...Leslie Stephen [biographies]Print: Book
1850-1899"I have been amusing myself down here with reading Browning - some of him for the first time; & I wonder more and more...Leslie Stephen Robert BrowningPrint: Book
1850-1899"The inn was shut up; but Mr Walker's friend (I suppose) had just looked in to see after his property & was quite amia...Leslie Stephen [a thief] [comic poem]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899"The little ones were very good: all 3 sitting on my knee to look at the bear book & listening whilst Nessa explained ...Leslie Stephen ["The Bear Book"]Print: Book
1850-1899"I am, I see, talking pessimism. It is not very easy to talk anything else just now. When I read our debates, I someti...Leslie Stephen The Latterday Pamphlets
1850-1899"I began Robinson Crusoe with Laura. I think that she will be up to it & we made a pretty good start."Leslie Stephen Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899"This bit of Tennyson sticks in my head; so I write it down: - 'All along the valley where the waters flow / I walked ...Leslie Stephen Alfred TennysonIn the Valley of the CauteretzPrint: Book
1850-1899"Poor fellow! I really pity him; for his last numbers of the Fors [Clavigera] seem to imply growing distraction of min...Leslie Stephen John RuskinFors [Clavigera]Print: Book
1850-1899"I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out eno...Leslie Stephen Alphonse DaudetPrint: Book
1850-1899"I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out eno...Leslie Stephen PlatoPrint: Book
1850-1899"I have read a book or two from the 'Library' here, wh. fills a small cupboard & passes time fairly."Leslie Stephen Print: Book
1850-1899"I stayed at home this morning - not that there is anything new in that - until lunch, and did very little, very easy ...Leslie Stephen M.G. LewisThe MonkPrint: Book
1850-1899"I am really quite well though perhaps a few days more will be a good pick me up. My brain is quite dry. We don't even...Leslie Stephen Pall Mall GazettePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"Besides wh. I have been looking at Hale's book 'Lowell & his friends'; wh. is not, I think, very much of a book but w...Leslie Stephen E. E. HaleJames Russell Lowell and his friendsPrint: Book
1900-1945"I have read your book with keen interest. I always read you with the pleasure of a literary critic recognising (and e...Leslie Stephen William JamesThe varieties of religious experiencePrint: Book
1850-1899'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a rev...Leslie Stephen Richard Grant White[on Copyright]Print: Book
1850-1899'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a rev...Leslie Stephen VariousSaturday ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a rev...Leslie Stephen Richard Grant WhiteWashington AdamsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have ? read your criticism of my book. I will not say that you have given no twinges to my vanity; but I will say t...Leslie Stephen Henry SidgwickReview of Leslie Stephen's The Science of EthicsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Dear Mr Gosse, I hope that I am not impertinent in telling you how heartily I have enjoyed your Gray. I think it one ...Leslie Stephen Edmund GosseLife of GrayPrint: Book
1850-1899'Dear Mr Gosse, I hope that I am not impertinent in telling you how heartily I have enjoyed your Gray. I think it one ...Leslie Stephen William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'My dear Norton, since I wrote to you last, I have read Mr Chauncey Wright?s book or nearly all & - to say the truth ?...Leslie Stephen Chauncey WrightPhilosophical DiscussionsPrint: Book
1850-1899'The statement wh. I transmitted to you about Cortes was the vaguest but I will see if I can find out anything from my...Leslie Stephen VariousSaturday Review, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admi...Leslie Stephen G. B. SmithThe BrontesManuscript: article
1850-1899'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admi...Leslie Stephen Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admi...Leslie Stephen Emily BronteWuthering HeightsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I prefer Villette to Shirley, on the whole.'Leslie Stephen Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book
1850-1899'I prefer Villette to Shirley, on the whole.'Leslie Stephen Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I finished old Newman?s book coming down & as the book is too metaphysical to give you pleasure I will tell you what ...Leslie Stephen John Henry NewmanAn essay in aid of a grammar of assentPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [Leslie Stephen's brother] wrote articles for the Pall Mall Gazette all the way out to India; enough, he says, to ...Leslie Stephen J.F. StephenPall Mall Gazette, articlesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness i...Leslie Stephen unknown[French novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness i...Leslie Stephen George SandunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness i...Leslie Stephen Honore de BalzacunknownPrint: Book
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?Of course, it is true that English writers ? Thackeray conspicuously so ? are injured by being cramped as to love in ...Leslie Stephen William ThackerayPrint: Book
1850-1899?I hope that you have read Carlyle in August Macmillan & that you appreciate him. Of course it is damned nonsense but ...Leslie Stephen Thomas CarlyleShooting NiagaraPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899 "If it was not enough to have all the Catholic theology suddenly discharged upon one, I have suddenly taken a fancy t...Leslie Stephen William ShakespeareHenry VIIIPrint: Book
1850-1899?I bought the other day a copy of Aquinas & find him very good reading. Only to understand him one ought obviously to ...Leslie Stephen Thomas AquinasPrint: Book
1850-1899?There are plenty of things to groan over if so disposed; a fact wh. has been lately impressed upon me by reading some...Leslie Stephen John RuskinFors Clavigera: Letters to the workenand labourers of Great BritainPrint: Book
1850-1899?I have read your MS with great pleasure; though I had seen most of it before. As you ask me for my opinion I will say...Leslie Stephen Thomas HardyManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945?I have received your book and in spite of your permission to abstain, have read it from first to last? My ignorance o...Leslie Stephen Herbert FisherStudies in Napoleonic statesmanship: GermanyPrint: Book
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"Then I promised Morley to contribute to a continuation of the 'Men of Letters' series a book upon George Eliot. I fin...Leslie Stephen George EliotRomolaPrint: Book
1900-1945"Ruskin's death has set me reading some of his books and among others 'Praeterita' in wh. I read of your first acquain...Leslie Stephen John RuskinPraeteritaPrint: Book
1900-1945"Ruskin's death has set me reading some of his books and among others 'Praeterita' in wh. I read of your first acquain...Leslie Stephen John RuskinPrint: Book
1850-1899"Why do you say that I don't like Dante? I read him through with the help of your crib & was profoundly impressed."Leslie Stephen Dante AlighieriPrint: Book
1850-1899?I have to thank you for the ?Wessex Poems? which came to me with the kind inscription and gave me a real pleasure? I ...Leslie Stephen Thomas HardyFar from the madding crowdPrint: Book
1850-1899?I have to thank you for the ?Wessex Poems? which came to me with the kind inscription and gave me a real pleasure? I ...Leslie Stephen Thomas HardyThe Wessex PoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899?I have waited to thank you for your book till I had read it & write now ? before having quite finished ? because I ca...Leslie Stephen Herbert FisherThe Medieval EmpirePrint: Book
1850-1899?Another book is Jowett?s life; wh. I have read with a good deal of interest. It is too long & too idolatrous; but see...Leslie Stephen Benjamin JowettLife and Letters of Benjamin JowettPrint: Book
1850-1899?I have read two books lately wh. interested me. One for wh. you will not care is a history of English law down to the...Leslie Stephen F. W. MaitlandHistory of English LawPrint: Book
1850-1899?Boswell showed his genius in setting forth Johnson?s weaknesses as well as his strength. But if Boswell had been John...Leslie Stephen James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Then I called at Lucy Clifford?s. She showed me a short preface she has written to those stories of hers about "World...Leslie Stephen Lucy CliffordLove letters of a worldly womanPrint: Book
1850-1899?The other day I was reading a life in wh. a biographer calmly states that his hero was imprisoned by the Long Parl[ia...Leslie Stephen [a biography]Unknown
1850-1899?Meanwhile I have a book from you, wh. I ought to have acknowledged. I guess that Julia did my duty & I did it better ...Leslie Stephen James Russell LowellDemocracy and other addressesPrint: Book
1850-1899"I think you have done Mrs B[rowning] very well. I have read it & put in some savage criticism, marking, however, what...Leslie Stephen Anne Isabella Ritchie'Mrs Browning' (life for the DNB)Unknown
1850-1899?I finished poor old Carlyle last night. Froude?s case is curious. He expresses & I think, really feels, veneration & ...Leslie Stephen James A. FroudeThomas Carlyle: A History of his Life in London 1834-1881Print: Book
1850-1899?the snow left off a bit after lunch & we strolled out for a walk? so after pounding a mile or two out & home along sl...Leslie Stephen PlatoPrint: Book
1850-1899"I had Plato in my pocket & intermittently read through the Protagorus - as well as I could - which lasted me till Bri...Leslie Stephen PlatoProtagorusPrint: Book
1850-1899'Do you know his [Sir Alfred Lyall's] books? The "Eastern Studies" is, I think, the most interesting work of the kind ...Leslie Stephen Sir Alfred LyallEastern Studies, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899?His [Sir Alfred Lyall] little volume of poems too is very good in its way. When I came back from America last time, I...Leslie Stephen Sir Alfred LyallVerses written in IndiaPrint: Book
1850-1899?I have read two books lately wh. interested me. One for wh. you will not care is a history of English law down to the...Leslie Stephen A. J. BalfourFoundations of BeliefPrint: Book
1850-1899?Another book, by the way, worth a glance is a collection of old S. T. Coleridge?s letters. I have had to write the be...Leslie Stephen Samuel Taylor ColeridgeLetters of Samuel Taylor ColeridgePrint: Book
1850-1899'I find distraction in writing, with a growing sense that it is not worth the trouble; but at 64 it is too late to lea...Leslie Stephen George SantayanaunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'It occurred to me lately to read Dante again &, as I required a crib very constantly I took yours & by its help went ...Leslie Stephen Dante AlighieriunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899?I have read your history; and when I say ?read? I mean that I have turned over the pages and read all such parts as w...Leslie Stephen F W MaitlandHistory of English LawPrint: Book
1850-1899?The best I have read are two or three of Swift?s, who has a real go in him wh. cannot be quenched even by theology. T...Leslie Stephen SwiftsermonsPrint: Book
1850-1899?In your last ? letter you spoke very highly of Ecce Homo. To say the truth I don?t agree in your estimate ? partly be...Leslie Stephen John Robert SeeleyEcce Homo: a survey of the life and work of Jesus ChristPrint: Book
1850-1899?I have read with great interest your article on Victor Hugo & also that which appeared in the last number of Macmilla...Leslie Stephen Robert Louis Stevensonarticle on Victor HugoPrint: Serial / periodical
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?To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly wel...Leslie Stephen Victor HugoPrint: Book
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?To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly wel...Leslie Stephen Henry FieldingPrint: Book
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?To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly wel...Leslie Stephen Samuel RichardsonPrint: Book
1850-1899?Have you read Mat Arnold?s letters? Some, I see, are addressed to you? I can imagine old Carlyle taking himself to be...Leslie Stephen Matthew ArnoldLetters of Matthew Arnold: 1848-1888Print: Book
1850-1899 "I was thinking of Eliot [Norton] the other day. When he was here in the summer he came one day to see Miss Valey. Sh...Leslie Stephen Margaret VeleyMarriage of Shadows and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Father is rehearsing Drake's Drum for Wednesday'. Leslie Stephen Henry John NewboltDrake's DrumPrint: Book

 

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