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Francis Jeffrey

 

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Margaret Oliphant : Passages in the Life of Margaret Maitland

'I was captivated by "Margaret Maitland" before the author came to [italic] bribe [end italic] me by the gift of a copy and a too flattering letter [...] Nothing half so true or so touching (in the delineation of Scottish character) has appeared since Galt published his "Annals of the Parish" - and this is purer and deeper than Galt, and even more absolutely and simply true.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Jeffrey      Print: Book

  

Jane Austen : Emma

'Mr Jeffery (of the Edinburgh Review) was kept up by it three nights.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Jeffrey      Print: Book

  

unknown : Catalogue of Strawberry Hill collections

Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, [1842]: 'I have been amusing myself lately by looking over the catalogue of the Strawberry Hill collections, and, as you may suppose, have had you often enough in my mind as I went through names and little anecdotes which must be pregnant to you with so many touching reflections.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Francis Jeffrey      Print: Book, catalogue

  

Mary Berry : Letter to Lord Francis Jeffrey

Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 22 April 1842 ('Friday Evening'): 'I have just been reading over your admirable letter for a third time, and, after nourishing the meditations to which it led by gazing for half-an-hour on the long waves which come glittering in the moonlight to the beach below my windows [...] find that I cannot lay myself down with a quiet conscience till I have thanked you for the pleasure it has given, [italics]and the good it has done me[end italics].'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Francis Jeffrey      Manuscript: Letter

  

 : The Edinburgh Review

Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 23 April 1842 (in letter begun 22 April): 'I still read a good deal [...] I have just finished the last number of the "Edinburgh Review," and have been charmed more than ever, I think, with that splendid paper of Macaulay's on Frederic of Prussia. I have read it twice over already, with thrillings of admiration whcih make my very weak heart leap rather too strongly; but it is delightful.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Francis Jeffrey      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Thomas Babington Macaulay : article on Frederick of Prussia

Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 23 April 1842 (in letter begun 22 April): 'I still read a good deal [...] I have just finished the last number of the "Edinburgh Review," and have been charmed more than ever, I think, with that splendid paper of Macaulay's on Frederic of Prussia. I have read it twice over already, with thrillings of admiration whcih make my very weak heart leap rather too strongly; but it is delightful.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Francis Jeffrey      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Harriet Martineau : The Hour and the Man (vol. I)

Lord Jeffrey to 'Mr. Empson', December 1840: 'I have read Harriet [Martineau]'s first volume [of "The Hour and the Man"], and give in my adhesion to her Black Prince [Toussaint L'Ouverture] with all my heart and soul. The book is really not only beautiful and touching, but [italics]noble[end italics]; and I do not recollect when I have been more charmed, whether by very sweet and eloquent writing and glowing description, or by elevated as well as tender sentiments. I do not believe that the worthy people ever spoke or acted as she has so gracefully presented them, and must confess that in all the striking scenes I entirely forgot their complexion, and drove the notion of it from me as often as it occurred. But this does not at all diminish, but rather increases the merit of her creations.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Jeffrey      Print: Book

  

Robert Southey : Roderick, The Last of the Goths

'I have read Roderick over and over again and am the more and more convinced that it is the noblest Epic poem of the age I have had some correspondence and a good deal of conversation with Mr Jeffery [sic] about it who though he does not agree with me in every particular. He says it is too long and wants [italics] elasticity [end italics] and will not he fears be generally read though much may be said in its favours' [Hogg was trying to get Jeffrey to allow him to review the poem]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Jeffrey      Print: Book

  

William Wordsworth : Excursion, The

'I suppose you have heard what a crushing review [Jeffrey] has given [Wordsworth]. I still found him persisting in his first asseveration that it was heavy but what was my pleasure to find he had only got to the 17 division I assured him he had the marrow of the thing to come at as yet'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Jeffrey      Print: Book

  

James Hogg : Pilgrims of the Sun, The

'I had a note from Mr Jeffery [sic] on the very day after [Hogg's The Pilgrims of the Sun] was published who is not going to review it till he get another to join with it which makes me think it is no peculiar favourite with him, I copy his own words from the note he sent which was an invitation to sup "I have run slightly over your new published poem - It unquestionably shows great powers of imagination and composition but I am afraid it is too [italics] stretchy [end italics] and desultory - the public estimation of your powers will lose nothing by it of your judgement it may but of this we shall have a long crack".'

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