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George Crabbe
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: [Romances]
'I continued two years with this man [an apothecary to whom he was apprenticed], I read Romances and learned to Bleed'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
: [Novels and poetry]
'I read novels and poetry and began to contribute to Magazines and Diaries.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
: [Latin medical books]
'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the Materia Medica, & made some progress in Botany; I dissected Dogs & fancied myself an Anatomist, quitting entirely Poetry Novels & Books of Entertainment'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
: [botany books]
'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the Materia Medica, & made some progress in Botany; I dissected Dogs & fancied myself an Anatomist, quitting entirely Poetry Novels & Books of Entertainment'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Gilbert Knowles : Materia medica botanica
'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the Materia Medica, & made some progress in Botany; I dissected Dogs & fancied myself an Anatomist, quitting entirely Poetry Novels & Books of Entertainment'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Francois de La Rochefoucauld : Maximes
'The Frenchman who wrote Maxims says 'there is hardly anyone who does not repay great obligations with Ingratitude'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
George Crabbe : [funeral address for Duke of Rutland]
'I am desired by the Duchess of Rutland to Print a Discourse which I read at Belvoir-Chapel at the Funeral of the late Duke'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Manuscript: Unknown
Michael Drayton : Polyolbion
'I think Drayton's Verses have a peculiar propriety in such work; his Subject being the same and his Poetry now becoming antient.' [Crabbe is alluding to his writing of introductory verses for a 'Natural History of the Vale of Belvoir', a collaboration with John Nichols]
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Arthur Young : Six Month's Tour Through the North of England, A
'With this parcel we return Messrs Marshall and Young. some Observations from the former I lay by as matters to be inquired into but have taken nothing by way of Extract, so that all you intend to take may be put in the proper Place in your work, without Danger of Repetition' [Crabbe is alluding to his work on the 'Natural History of the Vale of Belvoir', a collaboration with John Nichols]
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
William Marshall : Rural Economy of the Midland Counties, The; Including the Management of Livestock in Leicestershire and its Environs'
'With this parcel we return Messrs Marshall and Young. some Observations from the former I lay by as matters to be inquired into but have taken nothing by way of Extract, so that all you intend to take may be put in the proper Place in your work, without Danger of Repetition' [Crabbe is alluding to his work on the 'Natural History of the Vale of Belvoir', a collaboration with John Nichols]
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Johan Christian Fabricius : Systema entomologiae
'I do not perfectly understand Fabricius always, but I think his Genera more natural than those of any other Author; it is indeed almost impossible to follow him in the smaller insects through all the minutia of his researches, but admitting him to be right in these, his Disposition and discriptions [sic] are accurate. I [grant his] obscurity and the greater Facility of the method of Linn[aeus], but I find much to be pleased with in the Systema Entomologica Fabia and frequently recur to it'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
: [newspapers]
'we know nothing of mankind, but from letters and Neswpapers, to the latter of which, in spite of my Verses & Witticisms, I have recourse for Information: sad Information now!' [Crabbe alludes to his satirical poem 'The Newspaper']
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Newspaper
Samuel Jackson Pratt : Lower World, The
'Mr Pratt Author of a poem called "the Lower World" & of divers other works in prose & rhyme sent to me his Book with obliging direction where to find a Line of Panegyric in the Performance. This was flattering & yet (on the common principles of human Nature) calculated to move Envy & stir up the angry movements of the spirit for I had but one solitary line of applause, virtuous, to be sure was my Muse denominated, but the Muse of Marmion had 3 lines'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
: Scotish Review, The
'by the way my dear Sir, why does the Scottish Reviewer (late Edinboro Quarterly) abuse me in his last Number? Whatever he may think, I am a very middling, wellish-disposed kind of Man, and not the profligate he would seem to hold forth, I thought the Business of these Gentlemen had been with our verse & prose & not with our Dispositions & Characters [...] possibly the Civility of the older Edinburgh Reviewer (of whom I also am ignorant) may have caused a fit of spleen for there is evidently among even the best of these Critics a Spirit of Opposition as well as Emulation & I think whichsoever of the two Reviews the Quarterly or Edinboro I read first on any Author whose Subject I am acquainted with, I can foretell what the rival brother will observe: this I have seen in their Examinations of you of myself of Miss Edgeworth'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Serial / periodical
: Edinburgh Review
'by the way my dear Sir, why does the Scottish Reviewer (late Edinboro Quarterly) abuse me in his last Number? Whatever he may think, I am a very middling, wellish-disposed kind of Man, and not the profligate he would seem to hold forth, I thought the Business of these Gentlemen had been with our verse & prose & not with our Dispositions & Characters [...] possibly the Civility of the older Edinburgh Reviewer (of whom I also am ignorant) may have caused a fit of spleen for there is evidently among even the best of these Critics a Spirit of Opposition as well as Emulation & I think whichsoever of the two Reviews the Quarterly or Edinboro I read first on any Author whose Subject I am acquainted with, I can foretell what the rival brother will observe: this I have seen in their Examinations of you of myself of Miss Edgeworth'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Serial / periodical
Walter Scott : Rokeby
'I derived a three fold Pleasure from the Receipt of Rokeby, first from the book itself, the Article, the thing sold and bought, & for this I know how much I am indebted [;] not so for the 2d part of the favour, the Pleasure of the perusal, nor for the 3d, the Honour of the present: but in more direct terms my dear Sir I do sincerely & heartily thank you & I beg of you likewise to accept the Thanks of my Household Mrs Crabbe & her Sons'. [Crabbe goes on to say how 'we had scarsely gratified our own Curiosity' when petitions from villagers to borrow the boook began]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Samuel Jackson Pratt : Sympathy; a Poem
'Mr Pratt & I began to write nearly about the same time & his Sympathy & my Village were [cancelled] nearly [ end cancelled] contemporaries, but this soon ceased & I was outrun in the first Season nor has his diligent Muse or whatever Spirit it be, ceased to prompt his ready Pen from that time to almost this present: The Lower World terminates his poetical career where Scott & Crabbe are handed down to'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Unknown
Walter Scott : Lay of the Last Minstrel, The
'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind with the grand northern Scenery that they may appear in my beautiful and ---- now if this anonymous Lady had read the "Lay" or any one of the four finest descriptive poems & of that very Scenery in our Language, with what kind of Taste & Judgment could she so call upon me & if she have not read them, she had only to enquire of the first reading Friend she met, but thus People judge, if a Man has acquired the Knack of painting a Tinkers Hov[el] how admirably would he describe the ruins of Balbu'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Walter Scott : Marmion
'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind with the grand northern Scenery that they may appear in my beautiful and ---- now if this anonymous Lady had read the "Lay" or any one of the four finest descriptive poems & of that very Scenery in our Language, with what kind of Taste & Judgment could she so call upon me & if she have not read them, she had only to enquire of the first reading Friend she met, but thus People judge, if a Man has acquired the Knack of painting a Tinkers Hov[el] how admirably would he describe the ruins of Balbu'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Walter Scott : Lady of the Lake, The
'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind with the grand northern Scenery that they may appear in my beautiful and ---- now if this anonymous Lady had read the "Lay" or any one of the four finest descriptive poems & of that very Scenery in our Language, with what kind of Taste & Judgment could she so call upon me & if she have not read them, she had only to enquire of the first reading Friend she met, but thus People judge, if a Man has acquired the Knack of painting a Tinkers Hov[el] how admirably would he describe the ruins of Balbu'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Walter Scott : Rokeby
'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountains & penetrate the Defiles & in short embue my Mind with the grand northern Scenery that they may appear in my beautiful and ---- now if this anonymous Lady had read the "Lay" or any one of the four finest descriptive poems & of that very Scenery in our Language, with what kind of Taste & Judgment could she so call upon me & if she have not read them, she had only to enquire of the first reading Friend she met, but thus People judge, if a Man has acquired the Knack of painting a Tinkers Hov[el] how admirably would he describe the ruins of Balbu'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Horace Smith : Horace in London
'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London [end italics]. A friend has previously mentioned the work but in high terms that occurred [italics] too [end italics] often as I read, yet there is, (no Question), Ability & music in this Mock-bird, or rather these, for there are two I am told Messrs Smiths, Brothers & Authors of ye rejected Addresses where you & I & Mr Southey & I know not who shine in the eye of the public, & Wordsworth whom I read & laughed at till I caught a touch of his disease & now really like many of the Simplicities'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Serial / periodical
Horace Smith : Rejected Addresses
'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London [end italics]. A friend has previously mentioned the work but in high terms that occurred [italics] too [end italics] often as I read, yet there is, (no Question), Ability & music in this Mock-bird, or rather these, for there are two I am told Messrs Smiths, Brothers & Authors of ye rejected Addresses where you & I & Mr Southey & I know not who shine in the eye of the public, & Wordsworth whom I read & laughed at till I caught a touch of his disease & now really like many of the Simplicities'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Unknown
William Wordsworth : [poems]
'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London [end italics]. A friend has previously mentioned the work but in high terms that occurred [italics] too [end italics] often as I read, yet there is, (no Question), Ability & music in this Mock-bird, or rather these, for there are two I am told Messrs Smiths, Brothers & Authors of ye rejected Addresses where you & I & Mr Southey & I know not who shine in the eye of the public, & Wordsworth whom I read & laughed at till I caught a touch of his disease & now really like many of the Simplicities'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Unknown
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The
'there is one Story if story it may be called, that Shape or Limb, Beginning or End has none, "The ancient Mariner or poets Reverie" written by a friend [of Wordsworth] (Mr Lambe?) & the Reason for my pointing it out to your notice if perchance you have not dwelt on its Singularities, is this that it does not describe Madness by its effects but by Imitation, as if a painter to give a picture of Lunacy should make his Canvas crazy, & fill it with wild unconnected Limbs & Distortions of features, & yet one or two of the Limbs are pretty'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Walter Scott : Lord of the Isles, The
'I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solitary Perusal and came boasting, at the End of the first Book of the Discovery he made there in those admirable Verses but he soon found that he had no peculiar Discernment.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Walter Scott : Waverley; or, Tis Sixty Years Since
'We talk of Waverly [sic] and Guy Mannering: Lady Jersey sent me the former [italics] as yours [end italics]. I vote with the Multitude, yet some pretend to know more & talk of revisals & amendments. I have a private Reason for my Opinion viz. my own Vanity. who but a friend would haved quoted me so often & once in a peculiar Manner? - I ask no Question! I ought not but I tell you what we say & think. Waverley may be best but Guy is most entertaining.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Walter Scott : Guy Mannering
'We talk of Waverly [sic] and Guy Mannering: Lady Jersey sent me the former [italics] as yours [end italics]. I vote with the Multitude, yet some pretend to know more & talk of revisals & amendments. I have a private Reason for my Opinion viz. my own Vanity. who but a friend would haved quoted me so often & once in a peculiar Manner? - I ask no Question! I ought not but I tell you what we say & think. Waverley may be best but Guy is most entertaining.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon
'I have now read the remainder [underlined twice] nearly [end underlining] of Glenarvon! & should not give th[e Wr]iter as an Example of the good Ladies: the [wo]man absolutely holds forth the doctrine of [irre]sistable Passion, & that if Lady Avondale falls desperately in love with Lord Glenarvon, after marrying the Man of her own Choice, there is no help for it: if he spare her, well & good! if not she must fall! charming Morality & such as my dear Miss Houltons will never be taught.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Mary Leadbeter : [unknown]
'you can write: They really are very admirable Things and the Morality is as pure & useful as the literary merit is conspicuous: I am not sure that I have read all you have given us; but what I have read has really that rare and almost indifineable Quality Genius; that is to say, it Seizes on the Mind & commands Attention, & on the Heart & compels its feelings.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Edmund Malone : [unknown]
'Mr Boswell the younger. Malone's papers.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Manuscript: Unknown
[unknown] : [pamphlet]
'Read the pamphlet Mr Boswell recommended:, natural, certainly, and the man had too much provocation for his act.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe
Maria Graham : Journal of A Residence in India
[present at dinner at Mr Murray's was] 'The Mrs Graham who wrote the lively India Journal, a delightful woman!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Maria Edgeworth : [Dramas]
'Read Miss Edgeworth's dramas'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Amelia Alderson Opie : Father and Daughter, The: a Tale in Prose, with an Epistle from the Maid of Corinth to her Lover, and Other Poetical Pieces
'I went to Norwich & past two Days with Mrs Opie who has written some pleasant books, particularly the [italics] Father & Daughter [end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Samuel Rogers : Human Life
'I have thought of your lines, and will claim your pardon when I suggest another alteration. The boy and the butterfly, though a beautiful, is a common image; and harebells have not only the same objection, but they are so seldom seen in cultivated ground that the name brings the idea of a wood or wild scene. I therefore prefer the boy's pursuit of insects and flowers in general to these particular instances.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Manuscript: Unknown
George Crabbe : [verses]
'I assure you she [Mrs Murray] was a Shield to me on the Night when I read my Verses.' [to Murray and others, prior to agreeing on their publication]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Manuscript: Unknown
George Crabbe : Tales from the Hall
'I received yours this Morning as I was reading pages 85-113 in the M.S.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Manuscript: Unknown
Samuel Rogers : Human Life, A Poem
'I found your Poem some days before at Mr Hoare's who has paid his Annual Visit to Bath. Give me full Credit when I assure you that I heard, no inferior or ordinary Judge speak feelingly, warmly and accurately of the Verses. Those on Page 41 are most admired by Ladies who feel tenderly & correctly & indeed, though I have other passages in as high Estimation & indeed higher, I am [underlined twice] not [end underlining] insensible to the Images which those lines Excite'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Francis Jeffrey : [review of Crabbe's 'Tales from the Hall']
'[Critics] have been as graciously disposed towards me as I could expect. The Edinborough more particularly who have praised me into some Reputation for writing Lyrical Verses, that is to say, Songs, a Talent with which I did not previously flatter myself that I was I possession of & it is marvelous how much even acute Readers are led & influenced by these periodical Critics who dictate to us all more than perhaps any of us are willing to allow.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Serial / periodical
Henry Gally Knight : Alashtar, an Arabian Tale [?]
'A Mr Gally Knight the Author of a Book of very fair Poetry, told me a Story which He thought would suit me [as the basuis of a poem]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Washington Irving : [Works]
'Mr Murray made me a present of the 5 Octavo Vols of Mr Irvings Works, the Sketch-Book & some others: I do understand this but it is not of Importance that I should'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Henry Mackenzie : Man of Feeling, The
'Here is Mr Mackensie - with the Surprise I heard it - the Author of "the Man of Feeling" & indeed he is so called.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
[unknown] : [Miscellany]
'Mr Blackwood the Editor of the Magazine which goes under his Name & who this Morning - in Modo Mr Murray of London - very kindly prest me to accept a Volume & a very pleasing Volume of Miscellanies which I will take with me if I live to reach Trowbridge again.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
[unknown] : [poetry]
'With your Letter I found a Parcel containing 2 vols of Poetry from a Gentleman who some time since wrote to me upon the Subject: it is rather unmerciful, but I must bear it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
[n/a] : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
'I will not forget Blackwood's Magazine, for though you will not approve much you will certainly be entertained by some Things.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Serial / periodical
Patrick Keith : Systems of Physiological Botany
'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & good humoured. Faust was not so terrific as I apprehended from the seduction of a Philosopher by an evil Spirit. I verily think that Business is conducted better (than in far more ostentatious works) in the Arabian Tales, (not Nights) where a pious old Lady is wrought upon by her Vanity into Compliance with a Devil who takes the Character of a pious old Man:I want this second part of these strange Tales & to have done with the Subject of Books I treated myself with Warton's History of Poetry: I have long wished for it, but the Quarto edition was so dear £ 5 that I waited for a Octavo & it is just published: it has a great deal of dull Matter but with much Information & Amusement & moreover it is in the way of my Vocation. There is a good Print of the Author & John having seen that, I believe has no wish to look a page further.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
[unknown] : [Travels]
'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & good humoured. Faust was not so terrific as I apprehended from the seduction of a Philosopher by an evil Spirit. I verily think that Business is conducted better (than in far more ostentatious works) in the Arabian Tales, (not Nights) where a pious old Lady is wrought upon by her Vanity into Compliance with a Devil who takes the Character of a pious old Man:I want this second part of these strange Tales & to have done with the Subject of Books I treated myself with Warton's History of Poetry: I have long wished for it, but the Quarto edition was so dear £ 5 that I waited for a Octavo & it is just published: it has a great deal of dull Matter but with much Information & Amusement & moreover it is in the way of my Vocation. There is a good Print of the Author & John having seen that, I believe has no wish to look a page further.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Johan Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust
'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & good humoured. Faust was not so terrific as I apprehended from the seduction of a Philosopher by an evil Spirit. I verily think that Business is conducted better (than in far more ostentatious works) in the Arabian Tales, (not Nights) where a pious old Lady is wrought upon by her Vanity into Compliance with a Devil who takes the Character of a pious old Man:I want this second part of these strange Tales & to have done with the Subject of Books I treated myself with Warton's History of Poetry: I have long wished for it, but the Quarto edition was so dear £ 5 that I waited for a Octavo & it is just published: it has a great deal of dull Matter but with much Information & Amusement & moreover it is in the way of my Vocation. There is a good Print of the Author & John having seen that, I believe has no wish to look a page further.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Denis Chavis : Arabian Tales; or, A Continuation of The Arabian Nights Entertainments
'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & good humoured. Faust was not so terrific as I apprehended from the seduction of a Philosopher by an evil Spirit. I verily think that Business is conducted better (than in far more ostentatious works) in the Arabian Tales, (not Nights) where a pious old Lady is wrought upon by her Vanity into Compliance with a Devil who takes the Character of a pious old Man:I want this second part of these strange Tales & to have done with the Subject of Books I treated myself with Warton's History of Poetry: I have long wished for it, but the Quarto edition was so dear £ 5 that I waited for a Octavo & it is just published: it has a great deal of dull Matter but with much Information & Amusement & moreover it is in the way of my Vocation. There is a good Print of the Author & John having seen that, I believe has no wish to look a page further.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Thomas Warton : History of English Poetry, The
'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & good humoured. Faust was not so terrific as I apprehended from the seduction of a Philosopher by an evil Spirit. I verily think that Business is conducted better (than in far more ostentatious works) in the Arabian Tales, (not Nights) where a pious old Lady is wrought upon by her Vanity into Compliance with a Devil who takes the Character of a pious old Man:I want this second part of these strange Tales & to have done with the Subject of Books I treated myself with Warton's History of Poetry: I have long wished for it, but the Quarto edition was so dear £ 5 that I waited for a Octavo & it is just published: it has a great deal of dull Matter but with much Information & Amusement & moreover it is in the way of my Vocation. There is a good Print of the Author & John having seen that, I believe has no wish to look a page further.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
William Hazlitt : Liber Amoris, or the New Pygmalion
'I have just read the "Liber Amoris" of (as we are told) Mr Hazlet: it is strange that any Man could write & marvelous that he could publish such History of his own Weakness, Vice and Gullibility'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Johann C. Spurzheim : Phrenology
'I have been engaged by Spurzheims new Edition of his Phrenology: he does not write English Accurately & even where I understand, I cannot always agree & that in Assertions which do not immediately relate to the Science to which I lean sceptically.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Abraham Scott : Calvinistic Doctrines Refuted
'I thank you for your Letter & Mr Scott's Treatise. True! I agree with him in his principal Idea, though even there I do not like the Expression that Regeneration must precede Faith, but it is his Intricacy and his so strongly contending that Things must be as he has stated. There is too much of the Logician & though he is in Earnest, It is with the spirit of one who Fights for the Truth & loves the Fighting. He narrows the way & then what plain unlettered Christian is able to comprehend his Meaning? I do not say He is wrong, but I have no Doubt of there being many who differ very much from him & yet [5X] equal Reasons may be urged for them. In fact tho' I can but accord with Mr Scott on the Nature of saving Faith as distinguished from unproductive Belief, yet there is much in his tract which I do not understand & not a little which I cannot agreed to. see his Definition of Faith Page 9-10'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
[n/a] : Morning Herald, The
'The public opinion [of the trial of Catherine Cook, a servant convicted of theft] is, I think, expressed in the Morning Herald. Other papers I do not see, except the provincial.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Newspaper
Horace Smith : Gaieties and Gravities; A Series of Sketches, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries
'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was amusing: "not so Gayeties & Gravities" an affected work & here is the journal of a young Officer but not yet read: a pretty good Quarterly Review & John's Gentleman's Magazine'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Reynolds : [unknown]
'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was amusing: "not so Gayeties & Gravities" an affected work & here is the journal of a young Officer but not yet read: a pretty good Quarterly Review & John's Gentleman's Magazine'
Century: Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
[n/a] : Quarterly Review
'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was amusing: "not so Gayeties & Gravities" an affected work & here is the journal of a young Officer but not yet read: a pretty good Quarterly Review & John's Gentleman's Magazine'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Serial / periodical
William Lisle Bowles : Parochial History of Bremhill, The
'The reason for my not mentioning the History of Bremhill was this. I had not read at that time more than a very few pages: I knew nothing of Wansdike, nothing of Tanhill, and could not have told in what county, scarcely in what kingdom, were Avebury and Silbury [Crabbe details his activities whilst not reading the book] I am not a reader of topgraphy, though at one time I corresponded with John Nichols. I always had an opinion that it was extremely dull and I even now suspect that yours is not the genuine sort, for I understand you very well and to say nothing of the knowledge acquired, have been amused. The account of parishes and their "fat rectors" is most assuredly correct, lamentably correct [...] Your natural history and more especially your account of Kelloway rock revived in me the desire of seeng that part of the county [but, he says, his health prevents this] I read the more learned portion of the work with all the interest I could acquire and really by the time I had finished the notes on Chap. 2nd I conceived that I understood the matter like a contributor to the Gentleman's Magazine. I mean in its pristine glory. [Crabbe then praises Bowles for inspiring feeling in his readers, which is unusual for those who write on monuments] But seriously, though I like your book the better because it engages me by subjects which I partly understand, yet I dare not affirm that a rigid antiquary would approve any portion of the work, except that which I either do not comprehend or cannot relish....'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Edward Copleston : Inquiry into the Doctrines of Necessity & Predestination
'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and Contingency, of Predestination & Free-will, which are his Subjects,that I do not cordially assent to. He pretends not to see farther into the mill-stone than you & I do. I may read the Cardiophonia of Mr Newton as you recommend it, but the Title offends my Taste & who could guess what Cardiophonia was about? - I have been engaged by the confessions of St Augustine in Milner's History of the Church: the piety is impressive and the Story of his philosophic-Life & Conversation, curious: His "City of God" I expect to find very interesting.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Joseph Milner : History of the Church of Christ
'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and Contingency, of Predestination & Free-will, which are his Subjects,that I do not cordially assent to. He pretends not to see farther into the mill-stone than you & I do. I may read the Cardiophonia of Mr Newton as you recommend it, but the Title offends my Taste & who could guess what Cardiophonia was about? - I have been engaged by the confessions of St Augustine in Milner's History of the Church: the piety is impressive and the Story of his philosophic-Life & Conversation, curious: His "City of God" I expect to find very interesting.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
John Newton : Cardiphonia, or Utterance of the Heart
'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and Contingency, of Predestination & Free-will, which are his Subjects,that I do not cordially assent to. He pretends not to see farther into the mill-stone than you & I do. I may read the Cardiophonia of Mr Newton as you recommend it, but the Title offends my Taste & who could guess what Cardiophonia was about? - I have been engaged by the confessions of St Augustine in Milner's History of the Church: the piety is impressive and the Story of his philosophic-Life & Conversation, curious: His "City of God" I expect to find very interesting.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
[unknown] : [book on witchcraft trials]
'That is a curious kind of Hallucination which Miss B. discovers in her Addresses to imaginary Beings: it comes very near to a case I read, long since, in the Trials of Witches, a book wh I should like to see again'. [Crabbe outlines the witchcraft case in question]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
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'You and I both love reading, and it is well for me that I do; but at your time reading is but one employment, whereas with me it is almost all. And yet I often ask myself, at the end of my volumes, - Well! what am I the wiser, what the better, for this? Reading for amusement only, and, as it is said, merely to kill time, is not the satisfaction of a reasonable being. At your age, my dear Caroline, I read every book which I could procure. Now, I should wish to procure only such as are worth reading; but I confess I am frequently disappointed'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Christopher Benson : Hulsean Lectures for 1822: On Scripture Difficulties; Twenty Discourses
'Have you met with a Work called Scripture Difficulties? - C. Benson in the Hulsean Lectures?'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown work on religious enthusiasm]
'I am reading & have nearly read, a Work upon Enthusiasm, [the] 3d Edition, the author unknown to me, but a thinking Man of good Sense & a stedd[y] Believer in what he does believe, which is not all that imaginative people [suppose.] He thinks the spread of Christianity over the World is rapidly going on with ev[ry] Prospect of Success, & that Every Believer should be a persuader & maker of Converts as far as his Abilities & powers &c extend-'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
[n/a] : [newspapers at time of Reform debate]
'I read the papers, Reviews &c &c and cannot help perceiving strong prejudices on both Sides of the Reform Question. Blackwoods last Number, Numbers I should say for there are 2 for the present Month & one filled with Reviews & Remarks on this Bill. With him it is Ruin: with his Opponents it is Renovation.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Newspaper
[n/a] : Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine
'I read the papers, Reviews &c &c and cannot help perceiving strong prejudices on both Sides of the Reform Question. Blackwoods last Number, Numbers I should say for there are 2 for the present Month & one filled with Reviews & Remarks on this Bill. With him it is Ruin: with his Opponents it is Renovation.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Serial / periodical
George Crabbe : Lady Barbara
'So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost to me, and I must read them myself before I can apply your remarks.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
George Crabbe : Ellen
'So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost to me, and I must read them myself before I can apply your remarks.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
George Crabbe : [sermons]
'I have not done much with the Sermons you sent me nor after the Bristol Huricanes Would you expect it, still I have not been altogether idle, for vamping old Sermons is to me no unpleasant kind of Employment.'
