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unknown : Hunger and Thirst
'Coming home we saw Erasmus Wilson who had been reading "Hunger and Thirst" and expressed great value for it.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Erasmus Wilson Print: Book
unknown : [review in Times of G.H. Lewes' "Sea-side Studies"]
'Read the article in yesterday's "Times" on George's Sea-side Studies - highly gratifying... G. is reading to me Michelet's book "De l'Amour".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Newspaper
unknown : [Penny Dreadfuls]
'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls of his day, which he read in secret... The school books he read contained poems that stirred him deeply. One of the school texts he used contained long passges from "The Lady of the Lake" with a prose commentary attached. And then there was a favourite schoolboy poem starting with the resounding line: "The Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers", with a refrain that the boys loved to chant at play. There were extracts from Shakespeare, the usual lyrics, and a few heavily didactic poems intended to inculcate morality in the boyish heart'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Davies Print: Book
unknown : 'The Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers
'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls of his day, which he read in secret... The school books he read contained poems that stirred him deeply. One of the school texts he used contained long passges from "The Lady of the Lake" with a prose commentary attached. And then there was a favourite schoolboy poem starting with the resounding line: "The Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers", with a refrain that the boys loved to chant at play. There were extracts from Shakespeare, the usual lyrics, and a few heavily didactic poems intended to inculcate morality in the boyish heart'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Davies Print: Book
unknown : [didactic poems]
'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls of his day, which he read in secret... The school books he read contained poems that stirred him deeply. One of the school texts he used contained long passges from "The Lady of the Lake" with a prose commentary attached. And then there was a favourite schoolboy poem starting with the resounding line: "The Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers", with a refrain that the boys loved to chant at play. There were extracts from Shakespeare, the usual lyrics, and a few heavily didactic poems intended to inculcate morality in the boyish heart'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Davies Print: Book
unknown Neale : History of the Puritans
'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the Puritans of which I have reached the fourth volume'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
unknown Guillemin : [presumably astronomy text]
'Finished Guillemin on the Heavens'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
unknown Nichols : [poetry]
'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (especially "Death of a Hero") were rapidly digested; his poetic models were Edith Sitwell, Aldington, Nichols, Sassoon and Graves (in the cheap Benn's Sixpenny Poets editions), to be followed by the more lasting influences of Eliot and D.H. Lawrence...He read an essay by Lawrence in which he showed how England treated its writers. That, he said, made him decide "to swim against the current".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book
unknown Darwin : [article on 'Diseased Volition']
'He was reading an article by Darwin on Diseased Volition'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Unknown
[unknown] : Notice des tableaux exposes au Musee d'Anvers
[Marginalia]
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Unknown : Blue Beard
'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides "Rutledges's Sermons" and "Black's sermons" neither of which I have any relish for, and the "Juvenile Library" which, with the exception of "Jack the Gi[ant] Killer", ["]Blue Beard" and the "Wishing cap" that I read last night, does not appear to be particularly edifying...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: BookManuscript: Letter
Unknown : Unknown
'Dearest - I found not only a load of Books on Saturday, but eight proof sheets besides; the consideration and alteration of which, attended with other sorry enough drawbacks, has kept me occupied to the present hour. Henceforth nothing but fireman haste awaits me, for week after week! My spare hours filled with critical meditations, and ever and anon the thought of this solemn treaty intervening!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book
Unknown : Unknown
'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-room, a little place all fitted up like a lady's work-box; where a 'spunk of fire' is lit for the forenoon; and I meanwhile sit scribbling and meditating, and wrestling with the powers of Dulness, till one or two o'clock; when I sally forth into city, or towards the sea-shore, taking care only to be home for the important purpose of consuming my mutton-chop at four. After dinner, we all read learned languages till coffee (which we now often take instead of tea), and so on till bed-time...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book
Unknown : Unknown
'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-room, a little place all fitted up like a lady's work-box; where a 'spunk of fire' is lit for the forenoon; and I meanwhile sit scribbling and meditating, and wrestling with the powers of Dulness, till one or two o'clock; when I sally forth into city, or towards the sea-shore, taking care only to be home for the important purpose of consuming my mutton-chop at four. After dinner, we all read learned languages till coffee (which we now often take instead of tea), and so on till bed-time...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh Print: Book
unknown :
'"François" is quite good. Very genuine touches all along and quite telling bits here and there.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
unknown unknown : Fragments from an Officer's Diary in Southern Poland
'Thanks very much for the book and the "Spectator" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the book for me.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Serial / periodical
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'She [Mona Limerick, South American-born actor being considered for the leading female role in "Victory"] had excellent notices in J[osé] Echegarrays play ("Cleansing Stain" Pioneer Players). There's a suggestion of trouble and sorow about her which would just do for Lena.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper
unknown unknown : unknown
'I was reading in the headquarters shelter when the great man [the Brigadier-General] suddenly drew aside the sacking of the entrance, and gleamed stupendously in our candlelight, followed by an almost equally menacing Staff Captain.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Blunden Print: Book
unknown unknown : unknown
'I will stay in this farmhouse while the gas course lasts [...] and get the old peasant in the evenings to recite more "[Fables of] La Fontaine" to me, in the Béthune dialect, and walk out to see the neighbouring inns and shrines, and read -- Bless me, Kapp [a fellow officer and satirical artist, recently sent away to the Press Bureau] has gone away with my "John Clare"! He has the book yet for all I know [...].
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Blunden Print: Book
unknown unknown : unknown
'Our billet was a chemist's house, well furnished with ledgers and letters strewn about from bureaux, chiefly the scrawl of poor people in Thiepval and other places of the past who bemoaned the bad crops, and their consequent inability to pay up.'
