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Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne :
"By ... [January 1804 Coleridge] ... had probably ... begun to write brief notes, appreciative and explanatory, in copies of the works of Sir Thomas Browne destined for Sara Hutchinson, Wordsworth's sister-in-law, with whom he was hopelessly in love."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
Thomas Browne : Christian Morals
I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not approve of everything in it. A little Vol. intitled, "Christian Morals", by Sir Thomas Browne of Norwich, Author of Religio Medici, with his Life and Explanatory Notes, by S. Johnson, Author of "the Rablers", will, I believe, amuse you. There is a third Book written by Mr G[reville], a Man of Fashion, intitled, "Maxims", "Characters" or some such Title. Among his Subjects, he takes to Task (to severe Task, some have thought) the Writings of your Humble Servt. Thus I wrote upon it to a Lady, who was unwilling I should see it, for fear it shd. vex me; a Fear several of my Friends had on the same Account; "I have read Mr G[reville's] Censure of the Writings of a [italics] certain Author[end italics]. I sincerely think there may be Justice in the most unfavourable Part of it."'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book
Sir Thomas Browne : Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or Enquries into very many received tenets and commonly presumed truths
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
Sir Thomas Browne : Religio Medici
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
Sir Thomas Browne : Religio Medici
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
Thomas Browne : Religio Medici
'Shelley reads Religio Medici aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
Sir Thomas Browne : unknown
Thursday 12 September 1919: 'Writing has been done under difficulties. I was making way with my new experiment, when I came up against Sir Thomas Browne, & found I hadn't read him since I used to dip & duck & be bored & somewhow [sic -- misprint?] enchanted hundreds of years ago. Therefore I had to break off, send for his books (by the way, I have read him fairly often, now I come to think of it) & start little stories.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
Sir Thomas Browne : letters
Friday 27 November 1936: 'Dined alone, read Sir T. Browne's letters.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
Sir Thomas Browne : Of Consumptions
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Thomas Browne, 'Of Consumptions'.
UnknownCentury: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton
Sir Thomas Browne (attrib.) : Verses beginning 'the Almond florisheth ye Birch trees flowe'
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of lines attributed to Sir Thomas Browne, beginning, 'the Almond florisheth ye Birch trees flowe'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton Print: Book
Sir Thomas Browne : Fragment on meadowes
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Thomas Browne, 'Fragment on meadowes'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton Print: Book
Sir Thomas Browne : Seignor verdero in his proper habitt,
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Thomas Browne, 'Seignor verdero in his proper habitt'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton Print: Book
Thomas Browne :
'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Dylan Thomas Print: Book
Thomas Browne : Christian Morals
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 May 1756:] 'Has Mr Johnson sent you his new edition of Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals? 'Tis a collection of the noblest thoughts, drest in the uncouthest language possible, for which reason few will read, and half of those despise, a book as superior to Mr Greville's [Reflections, Maxims, and Characters...] as Epictetus to Tom Thumb.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot Print: Book
Thomas Browne : Religio Medici
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 May 1756:] 'I have not seen Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals, but your recommendation of it [in letter of 7 May 1756] will set me to reading his Religio Medici again, which I have utterly forgot, except that when I read it I thought it contained many excellent things.'