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George Burges : criticism on lines of Aeschylus attributed to Sophocles

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 16 March 1844: 'I return Mr Burges's criticism [...] which interested me much in the reading. Do let him understand how obliged to him I am for permitting me to look, for a moment, according to his view of the question [...] I am delighted to be able to call by the name of Aeschylus, under the authority of Mr Burges, those noble electrical lines [...[ which had struck me twenty times as Aeschylean, when I read them among the recognized fragments of Sophocles.'

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      

  

Burges : The Progress of Pilgrim Good-Intent

'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Butler's Divine Analogy, Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Pilgrim's Good Intent, Pascal's Thoughts, Addison's Evidences of Christianity, Conibeare on Revealed Religion, Madam de Genlis's Religion the only Basis of Happiness and sound Philosophy, with Observations on pretended modern Philosophers, 2 vols. Jenkin's Reasonableness and Certainty of Christianity, and several others of the same tendency. Those excellent defences of revealed religion I read through, during which I had many struggles . . . '

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

  

Frederick Burgess : [paper on matthew Arnold as man and politician]

'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayist with special reference to Literature and Dogma in culture and Anarchy and Mrs Morland as a poet. In these papers, many, and sometimes conflicting estimates of the author were expressed'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Burgess      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Frederick Burgess : [letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]

'Letters were read from Mr Hawkins and Mr Burgess resigning membership in the Society'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings      Manuscript: Letter

 

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