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George Gordon Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Leslie A. Marchand notes regarding 1812 letter in which Byron mentions sending a book (possibly Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) to Lady Caroline Lamb 'which [she] is not to look at till Mr. Lamb has first gone through it for there is one passage which I have doubts whether it would be proper for ladies to see': '... according to Caroline she had read a copy [of Childe Harold], loaned by [Samuel] Rogers, before she met Byron.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb
Samuel Richardson : Clarissa
'Ask Miss Trimmer when it is have you done Clarissa you will be surprised to see so many little dabs of Letters, but it's silly wit'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Thomas Newton : Dissertations of the Prophecies with the Bible
'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's husband William Lamb] & I get up about ten or 1/2 after or later [...] have our breakfasts, talk a little, read Newton on the Prophecies with the Bible--having finished Sherlock [...] he goes to eat & walk--I finish dressing & take a drive or little walk [...] then come up stairs where William meets me, & we read Hume with Shakespear till ye dressing bell, then hurry & hardly get dressed by dinner time'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Thomas Sherlock : Sermons
'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's husband William Lamb] & I get up about ten or 1/2 after or later [...] have our breakfasts, talk a little, read Newton on the Prophecies with the Bible--having finished Sherlock [...] he goes to eat & walk--I finish dressing & take a drive or little walk [...] then come up stairs where William meets me, & we read Hume with Shakespear till ye dressing bell, then hurry & hardly get dressed by dinner time'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
David Hume : unknown
'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's husband William Lamb] & I get up about ten or 1/2 after or later [...] have our breakfasts, talk a little, read Newton on the Prophecies with the Bible--having finished Sherlock [...] he goes to eat & walk--I finish dressing & take a drive or little walk [...] then come up stairs where William meets me, & we read Hume with Shakespear till ye dressing bell, then hurry & hardly get dressed by dinner time'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
William Shakespeare : unknown
'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's husband William Lamb] & I get up about ten or 1/2 after or later [...] have our breakfasts, talk a little, read Newton on the Prophecies with the Bible--having finished Sherlock [...] he goes to eat & walk--I finish dressing & take a drive or little walk [...] then come up stairs where William meets me, & we read Hume with Shakespear till ye dressing bell, then hurry & hardly get dressed by dinner time'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Lady Georgiana Morpeth : unknown
'How pretty I think your verses they express so exactly what I felt but could not find words to speak [...]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Manuscript: Unknown
Faustina Maratti Zappi : Donna che tanto al mio bel sol piacesti
'Donna che tanto al mio bel sol piacesti Che ancor d'preggi tuoi parla sovente Lodando ora il bel crine, ora il ridente Tuo labbro ed ora i saggi detti onesti'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb
William Robertson : History of Scotland
'I have really been so occupied with the sorrows of Mary Queen of Scots you must excuse my not have written before. I had always read the other side except in Hume, & was surpised at the conviction Robertson seems to carry in every line of her guilt. His must be a very immoral book for in spight [sic] of that one always feels so very much interested for her.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Elizabeth Hamilton : Memoirs of Modern Philosophers
'I have also read the Modern Philosophers, which in spight [sic] of a little vulgarity & too much sameness, I like extremely. Julia's character is beautiful & tho' Harriet Orwell gives one rather too much the idea of a blushing maid with a workbag, & I cannot fancy anything very romantic in the way of love--with an apothecary, yet her character is, I think, extremely well drawn & I like Bridgetina very much.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Stephanie de Genlis : Le Siege de la Rochelle, ou le malheur et la conscience
'We have all been reading le Siege de la Rochelle. As I leave others to make their own remarks, I shall only tell you my own opinion, which is, that though I think it almost more interesting than any book I ever read, I think the methodistical stile [sic] it is written in & the whole of her reflections very dull.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Sir John Moore : A Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain
'I began Sir John Mo[o]res letters again and am very much struck if the account is true with the bad management there seems to have been at first setting out. I cannot also conceive how with such letters & opinions daily coming forth such a general infatuation about the Spaniards could prevail [...] [I]n Sir J Mo[o]res letter to Mr. Frere where one can see he is in a tiff at his appointment he agrees with you about titles wrongly bestowed [...] my blood curdled with the quantity of black bile Freres' pompous insignificant impudent letter brought forth.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
'I have read the rights of Woman, am become a convert think dissipation great folly & shall remain the whole year discreetly & quietly in the Country.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb (nee Ponsonby) Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
'[L]ittle else travels down to me my Cousins & Virtuous friends not being over addicted to scribbling--do not think I put you in the other class [...] it is only an appellation I give them out of Contrast to myself & other more liberal minded women who like Mary Wollstonecraft stand up for the rights of the Sex & wear our shackles with dignity.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
[n/a] : New Testament
'I read the new Testament in Greek with great success & am edified with the slow but sure progress I make in that language you cannot think how learned I should grow did it but agree with my head to apply'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : Clarissa
'Miss Clarissa Harlowe is just dead & I really am so much discomposed at it & at Lovelaces grief to whom I do not think she behaved quite handsomely that I can prate no more nonsense [...] I have been 3 years & 7 months reading "Clarissa" and have now half another volume to finish'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
'Childe Harold I have read your Book & cannot refrain from telling you that I think it & all those whom I live with & whose opinions are far more worth having--think it beautiful.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
'"perchance my dog will whine in vain "Till fed my stranger hands-- "But long e'er I come back again "he'd tear me where he stands'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Jacques Cazotte : Le diable amoreux
'ricordati di Biondetta [...] [the sale of] Newstead--that is a pity--why not have kept it & taken Biondetta there & have livd [sic] and died happy'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Maria Edgeworth : Patronage [probably]
'Miss Edg[e]worth must not be run down because she has like most people misunderstood her own powers--she never can pretend to any thing that is the least [particle?] of Genius she has not one single spark of it which time or opportunity could kindle--but in its place I think she has a very reasoning head much Humour, & great discrimination--she paints like the Dutch school true to the life--I only quarrel with her choice--she introduces us to the society of those who are disagreeable & she delineates characters we regret ever to meet with--like Crabbe she delights in drawing mediocrity vulgarity & meanness--this can never please--in her present production--there is more than an ordinary share of it--& no great humour to make up--no interest to carry us through--I for one cannot finish it but those more persevering will'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
George Crabbe : Poems
'Miss Edg[e]worth must not be run down because she has like most people misunderstood her own powers--she never can pretend to any thing that is the least [particle?] of Genius she has not one single spark of it which time or opportunity could kindle--but in its place I think she has a very reasoning head much Humour, & great discrimination--she paints like the Dutch school true to the life--I only quarrel with her choice--she introduces us to the society of those who are disagreeable & she delineates characters we regret ever to meet with--like Crabbe she delights in drawing mediocrity vulgarity & meanness--this can never please--in her present production--there is more than an ordinary share of it--& no great humour to make up--no interest to carry us through--I for one cannot finish it but those more persevering will'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
George Gordon Lord Byron : Bride of Abydos
'"Gull" & the Bulbul and a young Galeongee are just so many baits to draw sneers--which however disposed are always better avoided--I think the Bride of Abydos full of these lesser faults but the Corsair is quite beautiful--indeed he [Byron] has a very splendid Genius--& I cannot but feel a deep & lasting anxiety that he should be himself [underlined] in all things it is all I ask--you owe his quotations from Dante and the beginning of the Bride to me--& not to Mad. De Staal--for I sent him Dante last year so that you see I was not useless even to his Genius.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
George Gordon Lord Byron : The Corsair
'"Gull" & the Bulbul and a young Galeongee are just so many baits to draw sneers--which however disposed are always better avoided--I think the Bride of Abydos full of these lesser faults but the Corsair is quite beautiful--indeed he [Byron] has a very splendid Genius--& I cannot but feel a deep & lasting anxiety that he should be himself [underlined] in all things it is all I ask--you owe his quotations from Dante and the beginning of the Bride to me--& not to Mad. De Staal--for I sent him Dante last year so that you see I was not useless even to his Genius.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book, Unknown
George Gordon Lord Byron : Lines to a Lady Weeping
'How you surprise me--write me but one word more [--] it is not true that he [Byron] sent word to you that he was very angry "Weep daughter" was cut out of the other editions--is it not true that he stood firm to what he had done & took blame wholly upon himself--this I trust is true'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Unknown
George Gordon Lord Byron : unknown
'I never saw two Women more in love with you than my favourite Lady Hamilton & her sister. They talk of you in a manner I cannot bear to hear [...] I read to them in your voice & they nearly cried & kissed me till I was suffocated all for love of you.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Unknown
Laurence Sterne : The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
'I literally saw nothing but your ear for a whole hour one night--it is perfectly unlike any ear in Nature--& as Tristram Shandy might say requires a Chapter in itself'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Choderlos de Laclos : Les Liaisons Dangereuses
'Farewell Mephistocles--Luke Makey de la Touche Richard the 3 Valmont Machiavelli Napoleon [Prival?] the Wicked Duke of Orleans--for you are a little like them all'..
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Robert Southey : Madoc
'Farewell--not as you say so to your favourites or they to you--not as any Woman ever spoke that Word for they never mean it to be what I will make it--but as nuns & those who die--as Madoc said it to Llewellyn--so will I to you'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
George Gordon Lord Byron : The Giaour
'I think I shall live to see the day--when some beautiful & innocent Lady Byron shall drive to your door [...] I really believe that when that day comes, I shall buy a pistol at Mantons & stand before the Giaour [Lord Byron] & his legal wife & shoot myself'.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb
Walter Scott : Guy Mannering
'I cried over Meg Merrilies when she met Brown again--at a little Inn at Cumberland & my tears are not apt to flow'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Walter Scott : Guy Mannering
'I entirely deprecate your opinion concerning Manwaring [sic--Mannering] or sooner the opinion you had borrowed for I am convinced if you had read it through or even half you would have admired it excessively--I judge by myself who never can get over ten pages of any Book[--]yesterday--I finished it--I liked it better than I did Waverly [sic] --the story is better told the Hero more interesting the Gypsies delightful the Characters very well drawn indeed--all good in short except the love & the Ladies which are flippant & vulgar as is the Fashion now'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Walter Scott : Waverly
'I entirely deprecate your opinion concerning Manwaring [sic--Mannering] or sooner the opinion you had borrowed for I am convinced if you had read it through or even half you would have admired it excessively--I judge by myself who never can get over ten pages of any Book[--]yesterday--I finished it--I liked it better than I did Waverly [sic]--the story is better told the Hero more interesting the Gypsies delightful the Characters very well drawn indeed--all good in short except the love & the Ladies which are flippant & vulgar as is the Fashion now'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
George Gordon Lord Byron : Hebrew Melodies
'Many a dull thing goes down by a puff--& all in all is fame Witness the Hebrew Melodies which I have though you did not send them me--they are not worthy of him--trust one who can appreciate his Genius they are very common place lowly performances'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
George Gordon Lord Byron : Hebrew Melodies--"She walks in beauty"
'"She walks in beauty like the night," for example--if Mr. Twiss had written it how we should have laughed! Now we can only weep to see how little just judgement there is on earth, for I make no doubt the name of Byron will give even these lines a grace. I who read his loftier lay with transport will not admire his flaws and nonsense. You will say it is only a song, yet a song should have sense'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
George Gordon Lord Byron : Stanzas to Augusta
'At a moment of such deep agony & I may add shame--when utterly disgraced judge Byron what my feelings must be at Murrays shewing me some beautiful verses of yours--I do implore you for God sake not to publish these could I have seen you one moment I would explain why--I have only time to add that however those who surround you may make you disbelieve it you will draw ruin on your own head and hers [Augusta Leigh's] if at this moment you shew these lines'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Manuscript: Unknown
George Gordon Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Third
'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will succeed--self is the sole inspirer of his genius he cannot like Homer Dante Virgil Milton Dryden Spencer Gray--Goldsmith [underlined] Tasso write on other subjects well[--]but what he feels he can describe extravagantly well--& therefore I never did doubt that he would one day or other write again as at first--but for God sake do not let this circumstance make you forget what a Rogue he is'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Homer : unknown
'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will succeed--self is the sole inspirer of his genius he cannot like Homer Dante Virgil Milton Dryden Spencer Gray--Goldsmith [underlined] Tasso write on other subjects well[--]but what he feels he can describe extravagantly well--& therefore I never did doubt that he would one day or other write again as at first--but for God sake do not let this circumstance make you forget what a Rogue he is''.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb
Dante Alighieri : unknown
'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will succeed--self is the sole inspirer of his genius he cannot like Homer Dante Virgil Milton Dryden Spencer Gray--Goldsmith [underlined] Tasso write on other subjects well[--]but what he feels he can describe extravagantly well--& therefore I never did doubt that he would one day or other write again as at first--but for God sake do not let this circumstance make you forget what a Rogue he is'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Virgil : unknown
'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will succeed--self is the sole inspirer of his genius he cannot like Homer Dante Virgil Milton Dryden Spencer Gray--Goldsmith [underlined] Tasso write on other subjects well[--]but what he feels he can describe extravagantly well--& therefore I never did doubt that he would one day or other write again as at first--but for God sake do not let this circumstance make you forget what a Rogue he is'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
John Milton : unknown
'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will succeed--self is the sole inspirer of his genius he cannot like Homer Dante Virgil Milton Dryden Spencer Gray--Goldsmith [underlined] Tasso write on other subjects well[--]but what he feels he can describe extravagantly well--& therefore I never did doubt that he would one day or other write again as at first--but for God sake do not let this circumstance make you forget what a Rogue he is'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
John Dryden : unknown
'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will succeed--self is the sole inspirer of his genius he cannot like Homer Dante Virgil Milton Dryden Spencer Gray--Goldsmith [underlined] Tasso write on other subjects well[--]but what he feels he can describe extravagantly well--& therefore I never did doubt that he would one day or other write again as at first--but for God sake do not let this circumstance make you forget what a Rogue he is'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Edmund Spenser : unknown
'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will succeed--self is the sole inspirer of his genius he cannot like Homer Dante Virgil Milton Dryden Spencer Gray--Goldsmith [underlined] Tasso write on other subjects well[--]but what he feels he can describe extravagantly well--& therefore I never did doubt that he would one day or other write again as at first--but for God sake do not let this circumstance make you forget what a Rogue he is'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Thomas Gray : unknown
'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will succeed--self is the sole inspirer of his genius he cannot like Homer Dante Virgil Milton Dryden Spencer Gray--Goldsmith [underlined] Tasso write on other subjects well[--]but what he feels he can describe extravagantly well--& therefore I never did doubt that he would one day or other write again as at first--but for God sake do not let this circumstance make you forget what a Rogue he is'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Oliver Goldsmith : unknown
'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will succeed--self is the sole inspirer of his genius he cannot like Homer Dante Virgil Milton Dryden Spencer Gray--Goldsmith [underlined] Tasso write on other subjects well[--]but what he feels he can describe extravagantly well--& therefore I never did doubt that he would one day or other write again as at first--but for God sake do not let this circumstance make you forget what a Rogue he is'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Toquato Tasso : unknown
'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will succeed--self is the sole inspirer of his genius he cannot like Homer Dante Virgil Milton Dryden Spencer Gray--Goldsmith [underlined] Tasso write on other subjects well[--]but what he feels he can describe extravagantly well--& therefore I never did doubt that he would one day or other write again as at first--but for God sake do not let this circumstance make you forget what a Rogue he is'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
George Gordon Lord Byron : Beppo
'[A]nd so you have never heard of Beppo--I think you said so at Devonshire House supper. Now Heaven fail in granting me pardon for all my offenses if it is not by himself [Byron], & in his very best wit as good as any thing Swift ever wrote a flatterer would say better. I read it having taken an Emetic for that head ache which troubled me so much the night I sat beside you & I must own it did delight me so that the Emetic faild [sic] in affecting me--now though this is not a pretty illustration of what should be felt in reading Poetry--believe me it is emphatic & expresses much more than fairer words--after all it would be kind in you to tell me if it is his'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Jonathan Swift : unknown
'[A]nd so you have never heard of Beppo--I think you said so at Devonshire House supper. Now Heaven fail in granting me pardon for all my offenses if it is not by himself [Byron], & in his very best wit as good as any thing Swift ever wrote a flatterer would say better.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Unknown
George Gordon Lord Byron : Beppo
'How very very clever I think Beppo--I am quite sure it is his [Byron's]--& still more that Mr. Frere never could have written any thing like it'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Walter Scott : The Heart of Midlothian
'Do you remember when Jeannie Deans went to London for her sister the gentle Gertie [sic--Geordie] Robertson gave her a [illegible] among the Robbers.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
: The Statesman
'I know that during Elections songs & squibs are fair on each side & much bad wit & many severe things must be said--but I am sure that neither you nor Sir Frances Burdett can see without disgust what is now handed about and sent here & every where and must be sanctioned by some of the people in your Committee [...] I know you are too clever & far too much of a Gentleman to have any thing to do with the common placards sent about in the way this is--but as I read part of it in the Statesman I think you could at all events stop its being inserted and ask yourself what your feelings would be if your found the grossest insults & imputations sanctioned by any of our Party against yr Birth or yr relations'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Serial / periodical
Amelia Opie : unknown
'I have been reading for the first time 2 of yr Tales & am delighted with them. They not only amuse & interest & affect extremely but they amend--and it must be a delightful reflection for a Person who has written for others to feel that they have done good instead of harm.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Mathew (Monk) Lewis : The Monk
'I have made it [the plot of a novel she is writing] two stories--principle or the Brothers is full of events rather terrific & in Monk Lewis's style--all the people whether the Daemons or the angels male or female act from determination'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
unknown : Shadows in the Water
'I read in a chinese book today--converse with clever people when I say a chinese Book I mean a book with 2 chinese stories in it the one is very curious & amusing about Too and Twan--it is called the "Shadows in the Water" two people kept separate fall in love thus by seeing each others shadows'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
unknown : [chinese story]
'I read in a chinese book today--converse with clever people when I say a chinese Book I mean a book with 2 chinese stories in it the one is very curious & amusing about Too and Twan--it is called the "Shadows in the Water" two people kept separate fall in love thus by seeing each others shadows'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Wallenstein
'[Y]ou interested me very much about Coleridge--I wish I had ever known him--his translation of Wallenstein is in my opinion perfectly beautiful'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Thomas Moore : Lalla Rookh
'[A]sk Ld M[orpeth] to read you the lost Peri & see the lines about the boy kneeling & the man of crime are not passing beautiful read it too with your heart and not with rules of criticism--I think many parts of Lalla Rookh perfectly beautiful & the idea and often the poetry but he has heaped such a mass of affection about it & affects such discord to make his harmony more sudden & conspicuous that it requires much good humour to admire'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
J.G. Lockhart : Some Passages is the Life of Mr. Adam Blair
'[W]ould to God I had been an Adam Blair & not a Mrs Campbell [...] I am only miserable--because I dare not die--and like Adam Blair cannot say my prayers'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Richard Bentley : A Reply to a Copy of Verses made in Imitation of Ode II Book III of Horace.
'"drudge like Selden days & nights And in the Endless labour die"'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
William Godwin : unknown
'[T]he few men who are about me are all eager to get yr books but what has vexd me is that the 2 children & 4 young Women to whom I endeavoured to read them did not chuse to attend'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
George Gordon Lord Byron : [Memoirs]
'I told Murray to tell you that I read his journal with sorrow & perhaps with anger'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Manuscript: Unknown
Thomas Medwin : Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron
'She [Lady Caroline Lamb] wrote at length to defend herself to [Thomas] Medwin, whom she treats respectfully, though she had told [John Cam] Hobhouse that it would have been better to publish Byron's journal rather than burn it, for Medwin's book [Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron] was "full of vulgarity & erros--even as to dates"'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Thomas Medwin : Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron
'With the most intense interest I have just finished your Book which does you credit as to the manner in which it is executed, and after the momentary pain in part which it excites in many a bosom, will live in despight [sic] of censure and be gratefully accepted by the Public as long as Lord Byron's name is remembered--yet as you have left to one who adored him a little legacy and as I feel secure the lines "remember thee-thou false to him then friend time"--were his--and as I have been very ill I am not likely to trouble any one much longer--you will I am sure grant me one favour--let me to you at least confide the truth of the past--you owe it to me--you will not I know refuse me [...] Still I love him [Byron]--witness the agony I experienced at his death & the tears your book has cost me. Yet, Sir, allow me to say, although you have unitentionally given me pain I had rather have experienced it than not have read your book. Parts of it are beautiful, and I can vouch for the truth of much as I read his own memoirs before Murray burnt them.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : [Memoirs]
'I read his own [Byron's] memoirs before Murray burnt them.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb
Thomas Medwin : ournal of the Conversations of Lord Byron
'pray have you read Medwin's Book--the part respecting me gives me much pain--this is strange--why need I care--I do however [...]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Alexander Pope : Essay on Man
'"I however still love the hand upraised to shed my blood."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Hamlet
?for Hamlet & the trifling of his favour Hold it a fashion and a Toy in blood; A violet in the youth of primy nature Forward not permanent ? sweet not lasting The perfume and suppliance of a minute No more ?.. [Lamb?s own ellipses] Rest not perturb?d spirit? [writing in another direction on the other half of the sheet she continues] ?O dear Ophelia wherefore doubt me --I have not art to win thee but this I know I love thee best O most best ? believe it adieu. Hamlet?
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb
Thomas Brown : Paradise of Coquettes
'[I] could not like the "Paradise of Coquettes"'.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb
John Milton : Paradise Lost
'Twould make a Paradise of Hell-- & fill even Heaven itself with woe[...]'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb
Sir Walter Scott : Guy Mannering
?There are good characters I think in Guy [Mannering] ? the Scotch Lawyer ? the Farmer ? [...] the Gipsies[sic] & Brown himself as a Modern Tom Jones ? It certainly cannot be called a bad novel it is written by a clever man ? a man who knows human nature & has looked as closely as Claude Lauraine on views of skies & water & rocks ? but there is not much genius there as there was in Waverly'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Sir Walter Scott : Waverley
?There are good characters I think in Guy [Mannering] ? the Scotch Lawyer ? the Farmer ? [...] the Gipsies[sic] & Brown himself as a Modern Tom Jones ? It certainly cannot be called a bad novel it is written by a clever man ? a man who knows human nature & has looked as closely as Claude Lauraine on views of skies & water & rocks ? but there is not much genius there as there was in Waverly [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
[n/a] : [newspaper]
?[N]ow that the Newspaper is so interesting it is difficult to read at all'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Newspaper
[unknown] : [copy books]
?Dear Sir, if you had condescended to write a few lines with these copy Books I should have had greater pleasure in reading them at present I cannot even guess what they are or why you sent them to me. I should have conceived basing[?] a few hard words that it was one of the stories I wrote some fifteen years ago ? as it bears all the marks of that work of premature genius which some romantic children have - & which seldom I think does them any other service than to lead them headlong into love & folly before the usual time I should say it was the production of what Sir Moore properly defines a Girl of Genius unless perchance it is the school effusion of some boy of that sort ? it is very clever, very original in parts ? very imitative in others and tho the whole thing occasioned by having either read some poetry or seen some play that has filled the Authors[sic] head ? with mystery ? wildness & extravagance ? if it is to be published it must of course be reread & rewritten - & if you knew how sick I was of ?Moments of Gloom? mysterious personages ??care worn brows" marble hearts - & the whole of that which deceived me & many others, you would never send me any think of the sort I think however seriously this that if the person who wrote this be young & inexperienced, they will soon write very well & must be very clever. if they be at their best ? I donot [sic] much admire them?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Manuscript: Copy Books
[unknown] : Review of Glenarvon in the Augustan Review
'do you ever read the Augustan Review it is stupid though[underlined] it thinks me so - & yet be afraid I like it because it takes[?] the thing [Glenarvon] fairly & not as real characters[.] have you ever heard what he [presumably Lord Byron] said to Glenarvon ? I burn to know?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Serial / periodical
George Crabbe : Tale II, 'The Parting Hour'
[transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?From Crabbe Minutely trace Man?s life; year after year, Through all his days let all his deeds appear And then though some may in that life be strange, Yet there appears no vast nor sudden change: The links that bind those various deeds are seen, And no mysterious void is left between [?] Yet none who saw the rapid current flow, Could the first instant of that danger know. [line drawn across 12 recto] 'All things prepar[e]d, on he expected day Was seen the vessel anchor'd in the bay. From her would seamen in the evening come, To take the adventurous Allen from his home [...]'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb
Alexander Pope : An Essay on Man, Epistle I
[Transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?["]The Lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today Had he thy ['thy' is underlined] reason would he skip & play Pleas?d to the last he cropp?s the flowery food And licks the hand upraised to shed his blood["] What you always repeated! 1812?
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb
Elizabeth Inchbald : Nature and Art
[Transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?From Nature & Art There is a word in the vocabulary more bitter, more direful in its import than all the rest?if poverty if bodily pain if disgrace even if flighted love be your unhappy fate kneel & bless heaven for its beneficent influence [...] William was gone ? her lover her Friend was gone & with him gone all that excels of happiness which is presence had bestow?d [?] She wished it had been kinder even for his sake who wrote it yes said she after a pause ? he has only the fault of inconstancy and that has been caused by my change of conduct ? had I been virtuous still he had still been affectionate?Bitter thought & true! ??
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb
Richard Brinsley Sheridan : 'The Walse' also entitled 'The Waltz'
[transcribed in what appears to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'With modest sidelong look and downcase glance / Behold the well matched couple now advance / His hand held hers. The other grasped her hip[...]'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb
William Robert Spencer : Urania
[transcribed in what seems to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'If guardian Powers preside above Who still extend to virtuous Love A tutelary care The Virgins bosom?s earliest dole The first born Passion of the soul Must find protection there. Never can noon's maturer ray That charm of orient light display, Which morning suns impart So can no later passion prove That glow which gilds the dawn of Love The day spring of the hearts?
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb
Thomas Moore : 'Gazel'
[transcription of Moore's poem 'Gazel' in what seems to be Lady Caroline's Hand]
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb
Edmund Burke : [unknown]
[transcibed in what seems to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'What is Majesty without its externals?-- / by Burke'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb
George Gordon Lord Byron : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
'To Caroline Lamb, Queen of the Drawing-Rooms, a very early copy of Childe Harold was lent by Samuel Rogers [...] Instantly Rogers was summoned to Melbourne House, where the William Lambs were then living. '"I must see him -- I am dying to see him!" '"He has a club-foot," said Rogers, "and he bites his nails." '"If he is as ugly as Aesop, I must see him!"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
?Thomas ?Holcroft : Life [?of Thomas Holcroft]
Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (1816): 'Thank you for Holcroft's "Life," which is extremely curious and interesting [...] I send you a book; pray read it -- "Lady Calantha Limb." The authoress, actuated by a holy zeal, says in her preface that she is resolved to turn me into ridicule. She chooses an easy task -- too easy, I fear -- yet fails, and makes a most blundering business. Wit's razor's edge she has not, but an unkind tongue to make up for it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
: 'Lady Calantha Limb'
Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (1816): 'Thank you for Holcroft's "Life," which is extremely curious and interesting [...] I send you a book; pray read it -- "Lady Calantha Limb." The authoress, actuated by a holy zeal, says in her preface that she is resolved to turn me into ridicule. She chooses an easy task -- too easy, I fear -- yet fails, and makes a most blundering business. Wit's razor's edge she has not, but an unkind tongue to make up for it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
: The Morning Chronicle
Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (1816): 'They say a black mare of mine (not the one I ride, but a beautiful one) has broken its back. This is all the news I have, except that the Morning Chronicle disgusts me, and that I wish a little enthusiasm for victories and commanders were allowed.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Newspaper
George Gordon Lord Byron : Don Juan, Cantos I and II
'Lady Caroline Lamb informed [John] Murray [Byron's publisher]: "You cannot think how clever I think 'Don Juan' is, in my heart."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Captain Lyon : Private Journal during the recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry, 1824 [sic]
Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (May 1823 [sic]): 'Do tell Captain Lyon that I, and others far better than I am, are enchanted with his book.'
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