Evidence: | 'Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes, before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Fairy Queen for a stop-gap, or a volume of Bishop Andrewes' sermons? Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which, who listens, had need bring docile thoughts, and purged ears.[...] you cannot avoid reading [him] aloud-to your-self or (as it chances) to some single person listening. More than one-and it degenerates into an audience.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Charles Lamb |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1775 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Essayist |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
yes, names unknown |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | John Milton |
Title: | [poetry] |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 11110 | |
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Author: | Charles Lamb | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Elia and the Last Essays of Elia | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1987 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 198 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Charles Lamb, Elia and the Last Essays of Elia (Oxford, 1987), p. 198, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11110, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
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