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Charles Greville
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Cicero : Second Philippic
'Nothing to put down these last two days unless I go back to my old practice of recording what I read, and which I rather think I left off because I read nothing and had nothing to put down: but last two days, read a little of Cicero's Second Philippic, Voltaire's Siecle de Louis XVI, Coleridge's Journey to the West Indies; bought some books...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Greville Print: Book
: Globe
'...This morning I learnt (by reading it in the Globe) the sudden death of Lord Holland after a few hours' illness, and whom I left not a fortnight ago in his usual health and likely to live many years ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Greville Print: Newspaper
: Morning Chronicle
'...and this morning the Morning Chronicle puts forth an article having every appearance of being written by Palmerston himself (as I have no doubt it was) most violent, declamatory and insulting to France...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Greville Print: Newspaper
: [newspaper]
?I read in the newspaper the day before yesterday an account of a lad brought up for not supporting his child. The father was fifteen or sixteen years old, the mother a year or two less, and the Grandmother of the child ? the girl?s mother ? appeared, who was twenty-nine years old and had fourteen children. This seems to me to be curious enough to be worth recording?'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Greville Print: Newspaper
: [newspapers]
?I could no longer stand the torrent of nonsense, violence and folly which the newspapers day after day poured forth, and resolved to write a letter which was published in The Times the day before yesterday and signed ?Carolus???
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Greville Print: Newspaper
Walter Scott : Kenilworth
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 8 October 1820: 'To-day I perform alone upon a roast chicken, and mean to devour "Kenilworth" with it. There are different opinions. Charles Greville told me last night that he did not stir out or go to bed till five in the morning of the day he begun it.'
