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Samuel Drew : Memoirs of Mr Samuel Drew
?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?, the ?Memoirs of Mr. Samuel Drew? and Dr. Stilling?s ?Theory of Pneumatology?, together with same odd volumes of the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book
Lancelot Andrewes : Devotions
'Read B[ishop]. Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in this life' [...] Read portions of Bryant 'On the plagues of Egypt' [...] In the Evening read Archp. Tellotison's Sermon 'On the happiness of heaven', which I found interesting & in simple language... Read sev.l Poetical pieces suitable to this sacred day among others Edmaston's delightful sonnet.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book
Lancelot Andrewes : Prayers
'Used B[isho]p Andrew's exct Prayers both mg & aftn - read one of Blair's sermons morng. Evg read one of B[isho]p Moore's sermons.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Unknown
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J.H. Ewing diary entry, Aug. 25 1869: 'Read Drew'
UnknownCentury: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Juliana Horatia Ewing
Lancelot Andrewes : Sermons
Elizabeth Barrett, invalid, to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 April 1839: 'What can I do bound hand and foot in this wilderness, in the way of book-ferreting? with a physician who groans in the spirit whenever he sees within my reach any book larger & graver looking than "the last new octavo neatly bound"? [...] but you tempted me with Bishop Andrews, the Bishop is in folio, & I was in an obstinate fit -- & I [italics]did[end italics] read -- -- & [italics]was[end italics] scolded'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Lancelot Andrewes : The Moral Law Expounded
'At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandments (in which I owne a secret hand of God) I was clearly convinced that my former practise was sinfull, and deserved the stroak of God's vengeance'.
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer Print: Book
Clarence Andrews : Old Morocco and the Forbidden Atlas
'I hasten therefore to tell you without a moments delay what did mean to write (or have perhaps written) that the book ["Old Morocco and the Forbidden Atlas"] in its human zest for impressions, in its pervading sympathy for strange mankind, its acuity of observation [...] has given me a very real pleasure [...] You will see that neither the lapse of 2 months [since receiving and reading the book?] nor the fact of re-reading, has altered my original judgement "by first impression".'
