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John Hawkesworth
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John Hawkesworth : An account of voyages...
'Even conservative Elizabeth Montagu read "Bankes' voyage", and although she disapproved his religious scepticism she also criticised the "prudery of the Ladies", who are afraid to own they have read the "Voyages"', arguing that accounts of the open sexual freedom of the "Demoiselles of Ottaheite" were less "dangerous" to young British women than the "secret" liaisons of their own society.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Montagu Print: Book
John Hawkesworth : An account of voyages undertaken... for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere and performed by Commodore Byrone, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret and Captain Cook (from 1702 to 1771) drawn up from the Journals...
'Even conservative Elizabeth Montagu read "Bankes's Voyage", and although she disapproved his religious scepticism she also criticised the "prudery of the Ladies, who are afraid to own they have read the Voyages", arguing that accounts of the open sexual freedom of the "Demoiselles of Ottaheite" were less "dangerous" to young British women than the "secret" liaisons of their own society.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Montagu Print: Book
John Hawkesworth : Adventurer, The
'Does your Ladiship see The Adventurer? I buy it; but have not had time to read but here and there one; But purpose from the Character judicious Friends give of them, to make them part of my Reading Entertainment when I have Leisure'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Serial / periodical
John Hawkesworth : The Adventurer
'I am glad the Adventurers please your Ladiship. You think the Style of some of them uneasy and difficult. The principal Author has been thought an Imitator of Mr Johnson, the Author of the Rambler. The two Gentlemen have a high Opinion of each other. Mr Hawkesworth has written some very good things in Cave's Magazine...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Bradshaigh Print: Serial / periodical
John Hawkesworth : [items in Cave's Magazine]
'I am glad the Adventurers please your Ladiship. You think the Style of some of them uneasy and difficult. The principal Author has been thought an Imitator of Mr Johnson, the Author of the Rambler. The two Gentlemen have a high Opinion of each other. Mr Hawkesworth has written some very good things in Cave's Magazine...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Serial / periodical
John Hawkesworth : Life of Swift [in Works of Swift?]
'Read Hawkesworth's "Life of Swift"....'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
John Hawkesworth : Adventurer, The
'Let me add, that Hawkesworth's imitations of Johnson are sometimes so happy,that it is extremely difficult to distinguish them, with certainty, from the compositions of his great archetype'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell Print: Serial / periodical
John Hawkesworth : Rival, The
'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want of Probability in the Story be excusable, for that seems to me its only Defect: but Hawkesworth doubtless was one of the few, both as a Man & a Writer; his ode on Life in Some of the latter Vols of Dodsley's Collection has more of an original Poem about it than one often meets with, & his Story of Sultan Amurath in the Adventurer excels any Eastern Tale either by Addison or Johnson: there is another Number of the Adventurer particularly happy in showing off the Foibles in common Life; I mean the Story of Mr Friendly & his Nephew John'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale Manuscript: Unknown
John Hawkesworth : [Ode on life]
'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want of Probability in the Story be excusable, for that seems to me its only Defect: but Hawkesworth doubtless was one of the few, both as a Man & a Writer; his ode on Life in Some of the latter Vols of Dodsley's Collection has more of an original Poem about it than one often meets with, & his Story of Sultan Amurath in the Adventurer excels any Eastern Tale either by Addison or Johnson: there is another Number of the Adventurer particularly happy in showing off the Foibles in common Life; I mean the Story of Mr Friendly & his Nephew John'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale Print: Book
John Hawkesworth : Amurath
'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want of Probability in the Story be excusable, for that seems to me its only Defect: but Hawkesworth doubtless was one of the few, both as a Man & a Writer; his ode on Life in Some of the latter Vols of Dodsley's Collection has more of an original Poem about it than one often meets with, & his Story of Sultan Amurath in the Adventurer excels any Eastern Tale either by Addison or Johnson: there is another Number of the Adventurer particularly happy in showing off the Foibles in common Life; I mean the Story of Mr Friendly & his Nephew John'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale Print: Serial / periodical
John Hawkesworth : Adventurer, The
'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want of Probability in the Story be excusable, for that seems to me its only Defect: but Hawkesworth doubtless was one of the few, both as a Man & a Writer; his ode on Life in Some of the latter Vols of Dodsley's Collection has more of an original Poem about it than one often meets with, & his Story of Sultan Amurath in the Adventurer excels any Eastern Tale either by Addison or Johnson: there is another Number of the Adventurer particularly happy in showing off the Foibles in common Life; I mean the Story of Mr Friendly & his Nephew John'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale Print: Serial / periodical
John Hawkesworth : The Adventurer
Robert Southey to John Horseman, 16-20 April 1794: 'Hawkesworth argues very strongly against indulging in these fantastical pleasures — they enervate the mind & by accustoming it to the dreams of fancy render it totally unfit for serious contemplation & abstract reasoning — they have likewise a worse effect even than this — they tend to render society odious & the world contemptible, till the dreamer possesses all the austerity of a Cynic without the sublimity of his virtues.'
