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Stephane-Felicite de Genlis :

Letter 9/8/1857 (Inverness)- 'Please tell me why you don't like Mme de Genlis. And then I'll tell you, if you like, why I like her.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Stephane-Felicite de Genlis : unknown

Letter 6/9/1857 (Bridge of Allan) - 'I am very glad those are the reasons for your dislike of Mme de Genlis - both because I can entirely agree in the general principle of them - and because I can defend - or think I can defend, my favourite from the application of them. ... I would go farther than most people in requiring sincerity, whether in art or education, I have found it, in practical matters, so curiously difficult to determine what is, or is not, insincerity... let us go at once to the examples of all sincerity in Him who was the Truth... tell me what rule you have fixed upon as in all cases setting limits to dissimulation - I will try and apply your rule to Mme de Genlis - and then say what I can for her. I like her for her love of heroism - her unselfishness - her general grace of feeling - her love of nature, blooming out as it does through the fashions and the ignorance of her time as a girl's love of wild sweetbriar might be detected among the formalities of her court bouquet - and her exquisite expression of the truths she does perceive.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Helen

Letter September 1857 ? 'I hope you know Miss Edgeworths ?Helen?'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

: Arabian Nights

Letter, 25/11/1860 - "I have opposite me at my worktable, a sketch of Rossetti's of the princess - (Parizade; the story is the last in the Arabian nights."

Century: Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Lord John Russell :

Letter, 25/11/1860 - 'The opening of the note enclosed from Mrs Browning refers to my having spoken of Lord John's last dispatch as giving me courage to write to her about Italy.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Newspaper

: The Bible

Letter dated 24/4/1862 ? 'The reason I said I had never understood the story of Cain is that God?s own words to him [Genesis, IV, vv.6-7] are of much more importance to me than St Paul?s words about him [Hebrews, XI, v. 4] ? (which latter are rapid ? vague, and unless you know precisely what is meant by faith, inconclusive.) God?s own pleading with Cain is what I want to understand. Why art thou wroth ? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? if not ? sin lieth at the door - &c. What is the ?Doing well? which God speaks of? What is the meaning of sin?s lying at the door ? and what is meant by the promise following. ?Unto thee shall be his desire?, &c? The passage is rendered still more difficult by an important variation in the Septuagint, (which I almost always find clearly more trustworthy than either the vulgate or English) ? namely in verse 7. ?Has not thou sinned, in that thou hast rightly brought, but not rightly divided.? The ordinary Evangelical gloss, that Cain was wrong in bringing fruit instead of flesh, seems at variance with this ?rightly brought?; and St Paul?s words leave us wholly in darkness as to the nature of the faithlessness, whether in substance or offering, or in manner.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Oliver Goldsmith : The Vicar of Wakefield

Letter 8/2/1863 - "For, as far as I remember - my sayings to you have been very nearly limited to Goldsmith's model of a critical sentence on painter's work: "that it was very well - and would have been better if the painter had taken more pains."

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Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

Oliver Goldsmith : The Vicar of Wakefield

Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm afraid to speak like the wicked girl in the fairy tale - who let - not pearls fall from her lips."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

William Shakespeare : Richard II

Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm so thin and hard and metallic that I think sometimes I'm going to turn into the pin that Death bores through the King's crowns - and 'farewell King'."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott :

Letter 16/8/1863 - Following a description of rural walk - "it was just like the beginning of a new novel of Sir Walter's. - Do you see what the French call him now: - (so truly! - the epithet being one of praise or contempt according to the feeling of the speaker) - 'l'enfantin Sir Walter'!"

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Horace Benedict de Saussure : Voyages dans les Alpes

Letter W 38 - Chamouni, 3/10/1863 - "I can't make out the run of some coal slates of the Col de Balme at their junction with what Saussure calls the 'poudingues de Valorsins'. Such a scramble as I've had after them today!"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Aubrey Thomas de Vere :

Letter B 23 - Postmark 15/10/1858 - "Cease reading my books for the present - there are a thousand as good - and many better. Read Aubrey de Vere's if you like - there's plenty of enthusiasm in them of the kind you like."

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Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

Edmund Spencer : The Faerie Queen

Letter B 24 - 20/10/1858 - "There was some nonsense in your long letter about Britomart and Una. Both of them were in love with the man they were to marry, and loved them."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett Browining : Aurora Leigh

Letter B 28 - Postmark 27/10/1858 - "The fit you took about the slavery arose not only owing to Aurora Leigh, but from your not understanding the proper use of the word."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

John Burnet : [on composition]

Letter B 94 - 6/5/1862 - "The commonest hack writing - Burnett's or anybody's on composition, would do you good."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Robert Browning : Men and Women

Letter H 25 - Late November 1855 - "It is so off ... that we all should like that poem of the Arab physician best. - Fancy my endorsing the Athenaeum! Every word in the Athenaeum critique I agree with - for I am very stupid in making things out in poetry; and that Men & Women is to me simply a set of 50 Conundrums, of the most amazing & tormenting kind."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Hans Christian Andersen : Fairy legends and Tales

Letter H53, January 1857 "But I think if you read Anderson carefully, you will feel how pointed, neat and concise he is in comparison. How unexpected also are most of his turns. The conceit of the different personages is nearly all that is amusing here" (referring to one of Miss Heaton's tales)"and you will find Anderson has worked that point thoroughly in the 'darning needle' and the hen and the can in the ugly duck &c."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Poems, including "Drama of Exile"

Letter H 3 - 9/2/1855 - "I will not fail to quote Mrs Browning in the book I am now about. I think more highly of her poetry than ever - she is a noble creature."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Inferno

Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "-The common - pretty - timid - mistletoe bought kind of kiss was not what Dante meant. Rossetti has thoroughly understood the passage throughout. You will see that in the first of the series it is really not Francesca's fault. She is nearly fainting and cannot help it."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Plato : Death of Socrates

Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "At the death of Socrates - when hemlock is brought - his friends exclaimed - "The sun is not yet set - It is only on the mountains" But he drank the hemlock immediately."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

: The Athenaeum

Letter H 25, Late November 1855 - "-Fancy my endorsing the Athenaeum! Every word in that Athenaeum critique I agree with - for I am very stupid in making things out in poetry; and that Men & Women is to me simply a set of 50 Conundrums, of the most amazing and tormenting kind."

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Serial / periodical

George Gordon Lord Byron : The Destruction of Sennacherib

Letter H. 39 - (12/10/1856) - "I don't know when I read a poem, since a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - which has given me such intense pleasure as the "Burden of Nineveh" in No. 8 of Oxford & Cambridge."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Walter Scott : Waverley

Letter H. 29 - (30/12/1855) - "and she is as proud as - Flora Mac Ivor."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Dante Gabriel Rossetti : The Burden of Nineveh

Letter H. 39 - 12/10/1856 - "-I don't know when I read a poem, since as a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - which has given me such intense pleasure as the "Burden of Nineveh" in No. 8 of Oxford & Cambridge - Pleasure of course - of a different kind but I am quite wild about it - That profound last stanza - the infinite power and ease of all!!!"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Serial / periodical

Dante Alighieri :

Letter H. 28 - 23/12/1855 - "You have Carey's Dante I suppose - else Matilda's quotation from the Psalms might be useless to you. Carey is on the whole the best - and very beautiful. Cayley is sometimes closer to the original."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Ellen Heaton : Tales

Letter H 32 - 11/1/1857 - "Here is a little bit of criticism at last by way of example on your beginning of the Butterfly. "I am going to tell you." This is familiar - as if to a child. But half way down page, you becomes thee - with inverted heroic phrase "Despise not" as if it were some very grand person whom you were talking to; this is a dramatic flaw. ?Loveliest creatures that draw food? ? Why not ?feed?. Weak, because too long. If you mean to limit the phrase to proboscidian feeding ? your compliment to the butterflies is weak ? For it is not much to be fairer than Gnats & midges and such like ? who literally draw food. ?Heart of fairest cloud? is pretty. ?Through many of the daylight hours? ? Very long ? but I see it won?t contract.? ?Is it you have sent? ? ?Who have?, I think ? is necessary. I don?t see anything else to snap at for a long way. The fable is very pretty ? if only you will make your caterpillar dramatically correct - & not so much like one of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton?s best heroes. ?Make him full of caterpillar faults ? like a poor mortal ? cold blooded ? also ? as he is - & without a heart... The essence of a good fable is that every beast should have his own proper nature.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Manuscript: Unpublished short tales

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Aurora Leigh

Letter H 49 (late November 1856) ?Mrs Brownings poem is the finest in the English language ? poem I mean ? (not drama) ? but it is a noble drama too ? ?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Poems before Congress

Letter H 85 (Latter half of March 1860) ?Mrs Browning?s verse is capital, but would have been better in prose. It is spoiled for rhyme?s sake.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Poems before Congress

Letter H88 (?Mid-April 1860) ?Mrs B. is entirely good. In fact Magnificent (except her rhyme to Modena ? needlessly offensive and ?band plays?) ? Finest moral poetry ever written.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

William Morris : The Defence of Guenevere

Letter H.96 (Beginning of June 1861) ?The Defence of Guenevere by Morris is published by Bell & Daldy.?

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Homer : Odyssey

Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863 Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Homer ? and the true heroine ? even of the Odyssey ? (not to speak of the second Part of Faust).

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Homer : Iliad

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Johann von Goethe : Faust

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

William Wordsworth : poetry

Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill, Ruskin, and Tennyson ... read Wordsworth in the collections [of his poetry] published in his lifetime ..."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Philip Nichols : Sir Francis Drake Revived

" ... within a few pages [of his copy of Philip Nichols's Sir Francis Drake Revived (1626)], [John Ruskin] writes, 'very obscure' (p. 27) ... 'don't understand at all' (p. 41) ... These few notes register resistance and engagement as they register Ruskin's reactions."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

John Aikin : Evenings at Home

'"The story of Eyes and No Eyes in Evenings at Home is intended only to illustrate the difference between inattention and vigilance, but the exercise in narration is a subsequent and separate one, it is in the lucidity, completeness and honesty of statement."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

John Aikin : Evenings at Home

'I must include. under the general title of these [fairy legends], the stories in "Evenings at Home" of the Transmigrations of Indur, the Discontented Squirrel, the Travelled Aunt, the Cat and her Children, and Little Fido.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

John Aikin : Evenings at Home

[footnote includes a quote from Evenings and the following:] 'Nevertheless, the germs of all modern conceit and error respecting manufacture and industry ads rivalsto Art and Genius, are concentrated in "Evenings at Home", and Harry and Lucy S...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

John Aikin : Evenings at home

'...one classical in my early days, called "Evenings at Home". It contained, among many well-written lessons, one, under the title of "Eyes and No Eyes", which some of my older hearers may remember, and which I should myself be sorry to forget."

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Elizabeth Gaskell : Cranford

'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but when I am ailing or ill, I take "Cranford" and - I was going to say, [italics] enjoy [end italics] it! (but that would not be pretty!) laugh over it afresh! [...] I am so glad your mother likes it too! [Gaskell then relates an anecdote that she 'dared not' put in the book]'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Alfred Tennyson : Idylls of the King

John Ruskin to Alfred Tennyson, from Strasburg (1860): 'I have had the "Idylls" in my travelling desk ever since I could get them across the water, and have only not written about them because I could not quite make up my mind about that increased quietness of style [...] 'The four songs seem to me the jewels of the crown, and bits come every here and there, the fright of the maid for instance, and the "In the darkness o'er her fallen head," which seem to me finer than almost all you have done yet. Nevertheless I am not sure but I feel the art and finish in these poems a little more than I like to feel it [...] 'As a description of various nobleness and tenderness the book is without price: but I shall always wish it had been nobleness independent of a romantic condition of externals in general.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de Sismondi : Italian Republics

'Looking at Sismondi's "Italian Republics" an odd fit of industry came over me in the morning.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Henry Fielding : Amelia

'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Blas" has always some tangled connection and momentary interest; "Don Quixote" is so intensely amusing that the want of plan is easily forgiven; but to bring on a storm merely that a hero may escape in a boat is the kind of thing I had not expected to find in what is said to be one of the first of English novels. The irony is forced, and the feeling bad; but the characters are highly and equisitely finished, and clearly conceived.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Alain-Rene Le Sage : Gil Blas

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

James Galiffe : Italy and its inhabitants: an account of a tour in that country in 1816 and 1817

'Looking at Galiffe's tour - he has a curious theory that the language of old Rome was Russian.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Captain Frederick Marryat : Diary in America

'Marryat's diary on Continent gives many interesting anecdotes of animals, but I am afraid to remember them, lest they should not be true'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Louis Agassiz : Recherches sur les poissons fossiles

'I began the "Poissons" regularly; pretty hard work; finished "Kenilworth". I think Amy deserved her fate, she is unworthy of being one of Scott's heroines. The book wants both a hero and a heroine, for Tressilian, who is unsuccessful in almost all he does, is too unlucky. Leicester too vacillating. Raleigh and Elizabeth have more of the interest, or of claim to it at least.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Walter Scott : Kenilworth: a romance

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Sir Archibald Alison : History of Europe

'I have begun Alison's "Europe" - a pompous title, by the by, for an account of the Bedlam devilries of the French revolution. Good deal of inaccurate English, but clever on the whole.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Jacob Bryant : Treatise on the Authenticity of the Scriptures

'Looking this evening at Jacob Bryant's remarks on history of Isaiah; fanciful, but very interesting.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison

'Read the Clementina part of "Sir Charles Grandison". I have never met with anything which affected me so powerfully; at present I feel disposed to place this work above all other works of fiction I know. It is very, very grand, and has, I think, a greater practical effect on me for good than anything I ever read in my life.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'Note the following passages respecting Edom. Genes. xxxvi. Num. xx, 14, xxi, 4, xxiv, 18, xxxiii, 7. Judges v, 4. Deut. ii, 4, 8, 12. 2 Sam. viii, 14. 1 Kings xi, 15, xxii, 47. 2nd Kings iii, 9, viii, 20, xiv, 7. conf. 2 Ch. xxv. Isaiah xi, 14, xxi, 12. I Ch. xviii, 12. 2 Ch. xx, 10. Is. lxiii, 1, conf. Jerem. xlix, 7, 13, xxv, 21, 23. Lament iv, 21. Ezek. xxv, 8, 12, xxxv, 5. Amos i, II, 12, ii, I. Obediah all.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

John Henry Newman : Essay on the miracles recorded in Ecclesiastical History

'Curious essay of Newman's I read some pages of - about the ecclesiastical miracles; full of intellect but doubtful in tendency. I fear insidious, yet I like it.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Friend

'Read some of Coleridge's "Friend", which gives one a higher notion of him than even his poetry'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Serial / periodical

Jean-Baptiste Dumas : Essai de statique chimique des étres organisés

'Read Dumas's "Essai de Statique Chimique" - clear but too short.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

William Shakespeare : King John

'Read "King John" completely for the first time; I like the historical plays myself better than the pet ones. "Midsummer Night's Dream" I like least of any in Shakespeare. I think the death scene in "King John" one of the very finest things in Shakespeare; but Constance talks too much Billingsgate.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

W. Orme : Life and Times of Richard Baxter

'Read a little of the life of Baxter; very interesting, and apparently deserving Coleridge's recommendation. Dreadful picture of the state of the church at that time - players, gamblers, drunkards with forged notes; men 80 or 90 years old, of course never preaching; Maypole dancing &c. on the Sunday.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

W. Orme : Life and Times of Richard Baxter

'Note Baxter's opinion in describing George Lawson: "the ablest man of them all, or of almost any I know in England, especially by the advantage of his age and very hard studies and methodological head, but above all by his great skill in politicks, wherein he is most exact, and which contributeth not a little to the understanding of Divinity."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Allan Cunningham : Life of Sir David Wilkie

'Much disappointed with Wilkie's life: he is a thoroughly low person and his biographer worse. I could not have imagined Cunningham could have so little knowledge of art'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Allan Cunningham : Lives of eminent British painters

'Much disappointed with Wilkie's life: he is a thoroughly low person and his biographer worse. I could not have imagined Cunningham could have so little knowledge of art'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Plato : Phaedrus

'Note in the beginning of the "Phaedrus", in the speech attributed to Lysias, the ironical introduction of our Saviour's command, to call to the feast only the poor, the maimed, the halt and the blind.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Sir Archibald Alison : History of Europe

'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Ezekiel)

'Note Ezekiel 22.30. "I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it but I found none."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : [chemistry]

'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Plato : [unknown]

'Read a little Plato; wrote a bit; and composed a good study for a vignette.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Plato : [unknown]

'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Chess.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Gustav Friedrich Waagen : [unknown]

'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Chess.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : [Italian]

'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Chess.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Plato : [unknown]

'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't find it - and a little bit of Rio.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Pliny : [unknown]

'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't find it - and a little bit of Rio.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Alexis François Rio : De la Poesie chretienne dans son principle, dans sa matiere at dans ses formes

'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't find it - and a little bit of Rio.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Gustav Friedrich Waagen : [unknown]

'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : [Italian]

'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Gustav Friedrich Waagen : [unknown]

'Got a good deal out of Waagen, but he is an intolerable fool - good authority only in matters of tradition.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : [Greek]

'read some Greek'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

E.V. Rippingille [ed.] : Artist's and Amateur's Magazine

'while in the "Artist and Amateur" I see a series of essays on beauty commenced, which seem as if they would anticipate me altogether.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Serial / periodical

E.V. Rippingille [ed.] : Artist's and Amateur's Magazine

'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great length.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Art Union

'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great length.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Serial / periodical

Robert Southey : Sir Thomas More; or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society

'a little reading of Southey's "Colloquies" with which I was much pleased.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

E.V. Rippingille : Artist's and Amateur's Magazine

'find Rippingille all wrong in his "Essay on Beauty": shall have the field all open. All comfortable.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Serial / periodical

Edmund Spenser : Faerie Queene, The

'Read a little "Faery Queene" also, but it is heavy, though with sweet lines occasionally.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Richard Owen : Fossil Mammalia

'Read first number of Owen's "mammalia" in the evening.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Serial / periodical

Sir Joshua Reynolds : The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

'Read some Sir Joshua"

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Aristophanes : Clouds, The

'Read some of "Clouds".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : Witness

'Curious account in the "Witness" of a rock, 8 tons in weight, being carried three hundred yards over sand by ice.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Unknown

Aristophanes : Clouds, The

'Dull walk under cloudy sky; learned a few passages from "Clouds", as appropriate.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Edmund Spenser [?] : [unknown]

'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Richard Hooker [?] : [unknown]

'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Sir Joshua Reynolds : The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

'read a little Sir Joshua'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

J.S. Davenport : Edward Irving and the Catholic Apostolic Church

'Shower over the Breven as I returned (after sitting under a vast rock, rich with Alpine rose, reading Mr Ritchie's tract, "Catholick and Apostolick Church") and past away to the Col de Balme.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: tract

George [?] Berkeley : Guardian

'I have been reading Berkeley's paper, no. 55, in the "Guardian". There is this curious inconsistency in it, that setting out with deprecating any intention to turn argument into satire, by attributing ill designs to his opponents, the writer yet uses no argument throughout but what is derived from designs supposed of one sort or another...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Guardian

'I read, as I was sitting at the window, during the sunset of one of the most burning and brilliant days I remember out of Italy, among several other papers, the 81st, of the "Guardian", wherein I was much pleased first by that soliloquy attributed to Alcibiades, of which I would fain see the original, and again by the conclusion'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'In the reading of the psalms this morning, I was struck by the 5th and 6th verses of V, where the abhorrence or contrariety of God to evil is expressed as regards his three attributes of wisdom, truth and love...'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Dante Alighieri : Inferno

'I noticed in Dante today, the two lines, "quali dal vento &c." (Inferno, book 7th, 12) as curiously describing the moment chosen by Turner in the battle of Trafalgar.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : Guardian

'Note the definition of a critic in "Guardian" No.103: "A man who on all occasions is more attentive to what is wanting that to what is present."'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Guardian

'I must interrupt myself to note the 86th paper in the "Guardian" useful to my chapter on penetrative imagination.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Serial / periodical

[unknown] : Guardian

'Note the passage in the 93rd paper of "Guardian" respecting our admiration of the oder of motions of heavenly bodies, to be expressed by imitation of this order in our lives, and conf. Dante, "Inferno" VII. 75-80.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)

'Read the 8th of Jerem this morning. Note the 7th verse very beautiful, comparing Isaiah i. 3. The ninth verse too important.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

George Herbert : [poems]

'I was struck this morning, in comparing the poems of George Herbert with those of Henry Vaughan, by the perfect ease and power of the former, the labour and short falling of the latter'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Unknown

Henry Vaughan : [poems]

'I was struck this morning, in comparing the poems of George Herbert with those of Henry Vaughan, by the perfect ease and power of the former, the labour and short falling of the latter'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Unknown

George Smith : Hints for the times

'Read a pamphlet by the Revd. George Smith, lent me by Macdonald: "Hints for the times", true and useful, but a painful instance of the weak and conventional writing which does so little honour to its cause.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

[n/a] : Bible (Acts)

'I was struck today by the "minding himself to go afoot" in Acts xx. 13. It is interesting to see the Apostle, after labouring and preaching all night, seek this retirement in the day, and walk alone across the country at least 25 miles to Assos. Query: what kind of scenery on this journey?'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

George Gordon, Lord Byron : [unknown]

'I staid in and read Byron'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Revelations)

'I have been abstracting the Book of Revelations. I was especially struck with the general appellation of the System of the world as the Mystery of God, in Chap. X. 7, compared with Hebrews XI. 6, which chapter I read this morning in our usual course. Theme enough for the day's course.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)

'I never noticed the 45th of Jeremiah till today - it is singularly appicable to all ambitious dreaming at this time. Consider also the beautiful 17th verse of the 46th chapter.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I read today in Galignani part of an acrimonious and of what I fear will become an indecent controversy between the Archibishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Exeter, respecting Infant Regeneration by Baptism.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Bible (Proverbs)

'As I opened the Bible today I was peculiarly struck with the well known, never enough known, passage, Prov. II. 3, 4: "If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her, as for hid treasures', showing that we must indeed do this in order to understand at all, and how few do it.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'Note in Psalm 27th, David's claim to spend all his life in the "house of the Lord" v.4 and following expressions about his tabernacle.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'The more I read the psalms, the more it seems to me that Heathen, in such passages as Ps. XLVI. 6, 10, XLIII. 14, II. 1, etc, while in David's mouth indeed meant the Gentiles, was intended to signify for us, the world in general'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Unknown

John Charles Ryle : [unknown]

'Anniversary of martyrdom of Ridley and Latimer. Curiously enough, I read J.C. Ryle's lecture on them in the morning, by chance, not knowing it was the day on which they both suffered.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Unknown

[n/a] : Bible (Genesis)

'First Sunday in new lodgings in Albyn place. Effie in bed. I read thoughtfully part of 1st Genesis, beginning a new course of Bible reading, with greater attention to the marginal readings and interpretations of names than I have attempted yet'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

William Bell Scott : [memoir David Scott]

'Glanced today through the life and diary of David Scott, a Scotch painter: a poor bravura creature, one of the Greek worshippers: himself a mere bad imitation of the Germans, throwing heaps of muscles together and calling them men, and thinking a mass of vernicular attitudes composition.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'Confused about the various phrases: The Man, Gen. III. 24. Adam, and Ish, Isha, II. 23. What is the meaning of Abel?'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)

'Restoration of Israel. Note 31st and 32nd Jeremiah: clear, unmistakeable, beautiful.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Sir John Gardner Wilkinson : Egypt

'read some of Wilkinson's "Egypt".'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

St Bede : An Ecclesiastical History of the English People

'Read a little of Bede's accounts of miracles of St Oswald, and much vexed and disgusted.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'Note today in Bible reading the charge to Abraham, "Walk before me, and be thou perfect". It means "sincere" in marginal reading.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Christian Year

'It is curious that the first book I took up here, after my new testament, was the "Christian Year", and it opened at a poem for the 20th Sunday after Trinity, which I had never read before.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

W.E. Channing : Remarks on the Character of Napoleon Bonaparte

'Read Channing on Napoleon'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Henriette Cabrieres : La dame aux cheveux gris

'Read "La dame aux cheveux gris" all the evening to my mother.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Hans Christen Andersen : [tales]

'Wet all day. Read Andersen's tales. There is a strange mingling of false sentiment - unchildlike - with their delicate fancy and wit; too much of rosebowers and crystal palaces, prettily heaped together but without detail of parts or bearing on the story. On the whole, I am disappointed in him. The ugly duck is perfect; the "fat needle" very good. Nearly all the others, too much of opera nymph in them, or of pure ugliness and painfulness - the princess maing the nettle-shirts, and the "grand Klaus" killing his nurse, and many other such pieces, quite spoiling the tone of the book for me.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : Journal pour tous

'Nothing much learned today except, by glance at the "Journal pour tous", the fact ascertained that French as well as English write foolish romances in quantities.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Unknown

George Sand : La Petite Fadette

'Reading "La Petite Fadette" all day, and able to think of nothing else. Nothing learned today but the finish and passion of George Sand among French writers, and her sense of goodness among general thinkers.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

George Sand : Le peche de M. Antoine

'Reading "Le peche de M. Antoine", diluted and romantic; not good.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

George Sand : Le peche de M. Antoine

'Nothing but going to the Louvre and reading George Sand. Note in the "Peche" first, Emile and Carpenter lying when it suits them; then Carpenter so angry at the blow of the cane and shouting at his work"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

George Sand : Francois le Champi

'Reading "Francois le Champi" all day to my mother; a beautiful tale. These three women, Madeline, Fanchon Fadette and la petite Marie, are enough to justify all Mrs Browning's love of George Sand.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Isaiah)

'Orange dawn through clouds. Opened Bible at Isaiah XXXVII. 30.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Plato : Republic

'4th Book of Plato's "Republic" at beginning, p. 420.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Morning Post

'See in "Morning Post" of October 4th, 61, page 3, 3rd column, last article, results of Christianity and "Mr Close of Cheltenham".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Newspaper

Xenophon : Memorabilia

'Begin "Memorabilia" again. Read to p. 6.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Xenophon : Memorabilia

'To p. 12 of "Memorabilia".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : The Times

'Observe accident in "Times" of June 17th, caused by caterpillar, Bombyx processionea of Reaumur.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)

'Read Jeremiah I. in the morning, long since I looked in the Bible; the fresh eye and ear very useful.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Alexandre ` Dumas : La Dame aux Camélias

'Read ".'Dame aux Camelias"

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Gaullieur : Histoire de Geneve

'Morning, note Beza's blasphemous address to Henry IV: "O Dieu, laisse aller tone serviteur en paix, car mes yeux avant de s'eteindre ont vu le liberateur de la France et des fideles."' (Gaullieur, "Historie de Geneve")'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Plato : Republic

'Begin "Republic" for conclusive work'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Plato : Republic

'Go on with "Republic", Book 1.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Plato : Republic

'Working on 8th and 3rd Books only, examining Plato's fearful judgement on invalids.'

Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Plato : Republic

'Read to end of p. 269.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Plato : Republic

'Read to end of p. 270.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : [geology]

'Read only Geology'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : [geology]

'Read Geology ... and Plato to p. 281. In which note that one great point is got at, respecting justice, that all "hurting" people makes them worse. 281, 7 &c.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Plato : Republic

'Read Geology ... and Plato to p. 281. In which note that one great point is got at, respecting justice, that all "hurting" people makes them worse. 281, 7 &c.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : [geology]

'Read geology'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read to children under tree.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Daily Telegraph

'Note that the Prussians have to black their helmets and take off their epaulettes to prepare for battle "with lacquer made of soot or lampblack". "Daily Telegraph". June 15th, 1866, p. 5 last column but one. Conf. Henry's white plume and Achilles' crest.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Newspaper

Jeremias Gotthelf : Anne Babi

'Read "Anne Babi".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

William Wordsworth : The Excursion

'Take Wordsworth's lines, page 189, of Saturn and his system, for type of his wide, thoughtful, as opposed to Tennyson's acute and passionate wisdom. (Examine passage I, p. 194, for Greek character.)'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Telegraph

'In "Telegraph" of 31st June [sic] is a notice of the poisonous water of the pumps of London.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Newspaper

Jeremias Gotthelf : Anne Babi

'Read "Anne Babi" to my mother in evening'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Jeremias Gotthelf : Anne Babi

'Mama up again, read nice bits of "Anne Babi" to her after dinner'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Plato : Laws

'Today began Plato's "Laws" again at breakfast and felt a little brighter.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

anon : Dorothea Trudel

'Read an account of Dorothea Trudel's mother to my mother.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Livy : History of Rome

'Read Livy's account of Evander again I. 7. Remember "auctoritate magis quam imperio" and his mother Carmenta.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Pleasant evening reading about Pultowa and Mazeppa to my mother.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Bleak House

'Read "Bleak House" in evening'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Psalter

'I open psalter in evening at "respice de caelo et vide, et visita vineam istam".'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

William Shakespeare : Henry IV Part I

'Finished "Henry the Fourth", 1st part.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Julia Cecilia Stretton : Lady of Glynne

'Read "Lady of Glynne" in evening.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Julia Cecilia Stretton : Lady of Glynne

'finished "Lady of Glynne".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : Fortunes of Nigel

'Pleasant tea and "Nigel", but I much depressed all the afternoon.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'Read Epistle and Gospel for first Sunday in Lent, in evening. Note end of Gospel.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : Quentin Durward

'Chess and "Quentin Durward".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'Read "There shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water" &c. to "These make ready".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : Quentin Durward

'Finished "Quentin Durward"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Jeremias Gotthelf : Tour de Jacob

'Began "Tour de Jacob" again.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'Read 61st Psalm'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read 10th Psalm in Rose's book this morning; planned commentary on it.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'37th Psalm in evening!'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : Ivanhoe

'Read "Ivanhoe" to end in evening.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Jean Ingelow : [poems?]

'Read Jean Ingelow'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Mary Elizabeth Braddon : Lady Audley's Secret

'Strangely, instead of Plato, took up "Lady Audley's Secret" this morning.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'Read "All they garmets smell of myrrh, aloes and cassia" out of my book on top of the highest.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Isaiah)

'Intending to read the parallel rendering of this verse in Bible psalms, I opened at Isaiah XXXIII, 17. My old Bible often does open there, but it was a happy first reading.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'The piece for yesterday was Ps. XLV. 8-12 with Isaiah XXXIII. 15-22. The piece for today Ps. XLV. 13 to end.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

J.R. Seeley : Ecce Homo

'Read the gist of "Ecce Homo".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Ormond

'Dream of being at court of Louis XV, in consequence of reading "Ormond".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : [life of Lord Byron]

'Alone with my mother in evening; read life of Byron'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Charles Dickens : Nicholas Nickleby

'Take Mr Lillyvick's "I don't think nothink at all of that langwidge" as an example of people's having "a right to their opinion".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Reading, Rusch all in forenoon'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Elizabeth Barret Browning : [poems]

'Looked at Mrs Browning's "last poems" in evening; not so good as I thought, depressing me with doubts of my own judgement.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

[n/a] : Bible

'Read 19th Proverbs and 10th Ecclesiasticus.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : [geology]

'Read geology at my breakfast with my two loveliest flint-chalcedonies shining in the sun.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : [history]

'Read of Charles of Anjou and Manfred.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Topffer : Nouvelles Genevoises

'Then rested, and read Topffer's "Nouvelles Genevoises" - excellent talk but no "nouvelles".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

George Sand : Mademoiselle de Merquem

'I hardly know how the Monday past, chiefly in reading George Sand's "Madamoiselle de Merquem", and listening to noise of marriage party.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Julia Cecilia Stretton : Lady of Glynne

'This morning, reading "Lady of Glynne".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : [poems]

'Read old poems of 1848. I have gained something in these twenty-two years.'

Unknown

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

William Shakespeare : Midsummer Night's Dream

'"Midsummer Night's Dream" in evening'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : [history]

'Read of Empress Theodora'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : [history]

'read economy of 12th century'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'Opened last night at 1st Chron. XVII. 23 and this morning at the 17th psalm. Then read my own day psalms in chapel.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'Opened last night at 1st Chron. XVII. 23 and this morning at the 17th psalm. Then read my own day psalms in chapel.

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'I open at, and read, the 39th of Ezekiel, and secondly, by equal chance, at the 16th psalm.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Ezekiel)

'Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of painters!) - I open it at 39. i. about Bp Bossuet's work; and intending to read Ezek. XXXIX again, read XXXVI instead.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

John James Ruskin : diary

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Manuscript: Codex

[n/a] : Bible (Tobit)

'Opened 3rd of Tobit'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'Read 1st Chron. XVII and 17th Psalm.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Ernest Renan : St Paul

'Took up Renan's "St Paul" as I was dressing, and read a little. A piece of epistle in smaller type caught my eye as I was closing the book: "Graces a Dieu pour son ineffable don."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : New Testament

'Going to bed, I take up the Inn-table New Testament. It opens at "A little while and ye shall not see me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father."'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Isaiah)

'And going to bed, after a little thinking over the Land question in "Fortnightly Review", got for my verse Isaiah XLI 9 in Joan's Bible.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Fortnightly Review

'And going to bed, after a little thinking over the Land question in "Fortnightly Review", got for my verse Isaiah XLI 9 in Joan's Bible.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Serial / periodical

[n/a] : Bible (John)

'Read the "Sir, come down ere my child die".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Michael Angelo : Pastoral

'Read Michael Angelo's "Pastoral".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Sir Arthur Helps : Conquerors of the New World

'Read chief part of Helps' "Conquerors of the New World".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : [advertisement]

'Advertisement on Rocks of Hudson: "Use Binninger's Old London Dock Gin".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Advertisement

[n/a] : Bible (Luke)

'Read in Luke XXII, the last supper'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

John James Ruskin : diary

'Read my Father's note of flowers at Chartreuse. 21.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Manuscript: Codex

John James Ruskin : diary

'Read my Father's note on St George. p. 26'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Manuscript: Codex

[n/a] : Bible (Ecclesiastes)

'Opened at Ecclesiasticus L. 17, reading on to 18, and, by chance, 8'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : Roman de la rose [?]

'Yesterday after reading "Romance of Rose" thought much of the destruction of all my higher power of sentiment by late sorrow'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great

'Began "Friedrich" to purpose and worked well.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great

'Yesterday hard at "Friedrich", then walk to Tilberthwaite ravine with Joan and Arthur'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great

'Yesterday Mr Shields came and disturbed me, but I was glad to see him. Did some "Frederick" in spite'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read Rouen missal with advantage'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great

'Yesterday ... Worked at "Frederick".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great

'Yesterday hard work on "Frederick"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read glacier theory and got interested in old things'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great

'"Friedrich".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

John Foster : [essays]

'Foster's essays.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : Roman de la rose [?]

'Worked a little on "Romance of Rose"'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible

'Glad to get back to my Testament'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

John Ruskin : diary

'I looked for this old diary and read by chance the entry on my birthday, 1873, with my father's "Apocrypha" to refer to, which I had chanced to put forward on my first shelf last night'

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[n/a] : [Biblical verse]

'My week melting away fast, wholly in black cloud and east wind. But the verse for the 25th, in my brown book, did me much good yesterday.'

Unknown

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[n/a] : [Biblical verses]

'Yesterday a good day; finding money in drawers, and liking my drawings, and getting comfort out of letters and above all out of my brown book.'

Unknown

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[n/a] : [Biblical verses]

'Morning text bad - "be not high-minded": the last text in the world for me, always ashamed of myself. But texts can't be always what one needs.'

Unknown

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[n/a] : [Biblical verses]

'Today, much helped by my brown book'

Unknown

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Voltaire [pseud.] : [unknown]

'Find invaluable passage of Voltaire on Lucifer and Liberty; article in dictionary on "Abus des mots". The Lucifer is invaluable to me, because the devil being called Lucifer is such a prophetic intimation of Science!'

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[unknown] : [unknown]

'Drew a little, and read a French novel, and am singularly better in health.'

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[n/a] : Bible

'Read 1st of Zephaniah. I must now re-read my Bible, with my new mind.'

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[n/a] : Bible

'Read Amos V and by Fors! Ecclesiasticus XXXIX.'

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Charles Dickens : American Notes

'Read end of Charles Dickens' "American Readings, &c; dreadful beyond words.'

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[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)

'Read Jeremiah XV. Note 18th verse.'

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[n/a] : Bible

'Yet I find wonderful things in Bible'

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[n/a] : Bible

'Re-read 1st of Michah carefully. The first nine verses are intelligible. Samaria, the capital, taken as representing sin of all Israel. Jerusalem, the capital, or high places of Judah, v. 5. Therefore, in v. 6 introduces the condemnation of Samaria, and in v. 8 that of Jerusalem. The fourth verse is deeply interesting, of natural destruction: the volcanic melting and river-sculpture: the violence of both, for transgression of men'

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[n/a] : Bible (Isaiah)

'Chanced upon Isaiah 7th, 5, and read the chapter carefully'

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[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'Read from 8th to 12th of the 103rd Psalm and thought how true they would seem to me, if read in their precise negative'

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[n/a] : Bible

'Read first of Zenphaniah. Leaping on threshold, what?'

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[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'On this I open at 42nd Psalm - well - it may be so'

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[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)

'Chanced on Jeremiah IV. 23. The Uncreation by folly, of what had been created by wisdom'

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[n/a] : Bible (Isaiah)

'Came on Isaiah XXI, and was puzzled with it'

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[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)

'Read Jeremiah IX. Compare entry on 18th'

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[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)

'Read half of first Jeremiah. What does he mean by: "I am a child"?'

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[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)

'Read story of Johanan the son of Kareah, Jerem. XLII, XLIII, XLIV.'

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[n/a] : Bible (Ezekiel)

'Read first vision of Ezekiel.'

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[n/a] : Bible (Isaiah)

'Then read 64th Isaiah.'

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[n/a] : Bible

'Read Lamentations IV. Compare 2nd verse with Isaiah LXIV. 8, and note that when God is the Potter, he can make gold or clay alike ... Ecclesiasticus XXXIV. 20-24. Glorious.'

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[n/a] : Bible (John)

'Read piece of St John. "Before Abraham was, I am." The closing verse - "passing through the midst of them" - in its vacant stupidity is a mere trial of faith.'

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[n/a] : Bible (Kings)

'Read the story of Asa - how intensely ill written and uselessly in Kings!'

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[n/a] : Bible (Kings)

'Read pieces of the story of Jehoram and Ahaziah, the two sons of Ahab. Note that II Kings I. 17 would be entirely wrong unless explained by side note. See chap. III. 7 and compare chap. VIII. 16, 17.'

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[n/a] : Bible (Kings)

'Read the contingent promises to Solomon: conf. to Jeroboam. 1st Kings IX. 2, 4; XI. 38.'

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[n/a] : Bible (Isaiah)

'Read 45th Isaiah. Recollect: "I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me", and conf. V. 13.'

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[n/a] : Bible (Ecclesiastes)

'Read 27th Ecclesiasticus. Note V. 1, 2, 14, 15, 23, 24.'

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[n/a] : Bible (Amos)

'Amos V. see vv. 10-11, 12, but note in it the special attack on the priesthood in Bethel and Gilgal. Compare ch. IV. 4; V. 5, 6; VII. 10.'

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[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)

'Read the wonderful 51st of Jeremiah. Recollect vv. 5, 7, 17, 21-23, 63.'

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[n/a] : Bible

'Read Wisdom of Solomon XV, XVI with great delight in this sunny, pure morning'

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[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'Psalm LI. 15; XVII. 1 and 15.'

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[n/a] : Bible

'Yesterday read 1st of Wisdom of Solomon.'

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Heliodorus : [unknown]

'Read chapter of Heliodorus.'

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[n/a] : Bible (Esdras)

'Read, by chance, Esdras II, VI, and read on to VIII. 48, 54.'

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[n/a] : Bible (Esdras)

'Read II Esdras I to the marvellous clause of minor prophets.'

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[n/a] : Bible (Esdras)

'Read II Esdras XIV to XV.'

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[n/a] : Bible (Esdras)

'And the last verse I read, of my morning's reading, is Esdras II. XV. XVIII.'

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[n/a] : Bible

'read lessons and psalms for the day to her.'

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Charles Dickens : [ghost story]

'read a Dickens ghost story (the old nurse's) and so early to bed.'

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[unknown] : [unknown]

'Down after reading carefully and analysing a year of Scott's life (first at Ashtiel), to draw Francesca leaves.'

Unknown

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[n/a] : Bible

'Verse for today Esdras - no - Maccabees I. XIII. 30.'

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[unknown] : [unknown]

'Still in bed to breakfast, reading of Scott's early hours'

Unknown

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[n/a] : Bible (Isaiah)

'Read 45th Isaiah again, which strikes hard, for I have been striving with my Maker, this last month, sullenly'

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[n/a] : Bible

'Read 15th Esdras again, and 24th Ezekiel carefully'

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[n/a] : Bible (Esdras)

'Read Moschele's life in bed to breakfast, delicious, and Part of II Esdras I.'

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[unknown] : [Moschele's life]

'Read Moschele's life in bed to breakfast, delicious, and Part of II Esdras I.'

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[unknown] : [unknown]

'recovered in evening greatly, reading Scott's life and seeing Turner's Okehampton more beautiful than ever'

Unknown

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[n/a] : Bible (Ecclesiastes)

'Read Ecclesiasticus XXVI - how lovely.'

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[n/a] : Bible

'Compare Wisdom of Solomon, of Egyptians, Ch. XVII.'

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John Ruskin : diary

'Read diary of spring 1873 - what a change!'

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[n/a] : Bible

'Come upon Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus II. 1-6.'

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[n/a] : Bible

'Came on Ecclesiasticus XXIV, and noted references at p. 89 above, with which conf. Wisdom VII. 22 &C. and "The Wisdom which is from above is first pure" &c.'

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John Ruskin : diary

'Read entry in this journal for 8th and 9th September!'

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John Ruskin : diary

'Read again the lines p. 45 of last diary (Palmero book)'

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[n/a] : Psalter

'Today the morning psalms very good for me. 1st Collect. p. 83. Lincoln Psalter.'

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John Ruskin : diary

'Read, by chance, looking for Botany, the entry of 12th June last year - the trials of the just and scourges of the Sinner! I seem to catch both, just now.'

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[unknown] : Munera

'For National debt read "Munera" page 32. Read the first statement of the principles of currency, "Munera" Chap. III 66-80.'

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Adam Smith : An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

'Read Smith's "Wealth of Nations" in evening: the most naive assumption of Nature that ever was'

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[n/a] : Bible

'Read IX of Book of Wisdom today'

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Washington Irving : Rip Van Winkle

'At "Rip Van Winkle" in evening, and much enjoyed it'

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[n/a] : Bible (Genesis)

'I read Genesis XLVIII for beginning of "Life of Moses"'

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Thomas Carlyle : Past and Present

'Read part of Abbot Samson in evening. The pilgrimage to Rome!'

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Sir Walter Scott : Marmion

'In afternoon, the trance-teaching, and the reading of "Marmion" with companions...'

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Sir Walter Scott : Old Mortality

'Sound sleep after walk and long reading of "Old Mortality".'

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Thomas Carlyle : History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great

'Yesterday a very happy Sunday, drawing a snailshell and with sweet evening home service and music, and reading Carlyle's "Teutsch Ritter".'

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[n/a] : Bible

'Opened my father's Bible at the blessing of Aaron. Numbers VI. 26.'

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Allan Kardec [pseud.] : Experimental Spritism

'Miss Blackwell's "Spiritism" horrible, like waking nightmare, read before going to bed.'

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[n/a] : Bible

'Read Wisdom of Solomon, Ch. IX: a little comforting'

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[n/a] : Bible (Numbers)

'Also the book of Numbers is woeful reading'

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[n/a] : Psalter

'Yesterday all day at Lombardic Psalter. My book continually opening at p.98 rebukes me for being faint-hearted.'

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[n/a] : Bible

'Recovered from fit of quite cowardly despair by Habakkuk III. 16 to end; that chapter and most such are incomparably grander in English than Greek'

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[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'Read my Aosta letter and 104th Psalm in Vulgate - the geology of it quite perfect'

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[n/a] : Bible (Mark)

'Read, in the Hotel French Testament, Mark VIII. 33 to end'

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[n/a] : Bible (Mark)

'Read Mark VIII. 33 to end again.'

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[unknown] : [French novel]

'finally concluding in reading a French novel'

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[n/a] : Bible (Deuteronomy)

'I was not going to open my mother's Bible to try Fors, but to read a Nativity; mechanically, looking at the Dome of the S.M., I did open it; by Fors order, at Deuteronomy XXIX. 29. Taking this verse, for year's and life's guide...'

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[unknown] : Expectans expectavi

'Last night I was led to read "Expectans expectavi", and to understand it for the first time.'

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[unknown] : Mariegola

'read twelve chapters of "Mariegola"'

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[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'19th Psalm."

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[n/a] : Bible (Corinthians)

'Work out Chap. VI of Corinthians'

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[unknown] : [unknown]

'Eyes more weary than usual in reading a little by candlelight'

Unknown

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[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'A grey, quiet morning. I up, lively enough: open at "Propterea benedixit te Deus in aeternum" and consider if really "that's me"!'

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[n/a] : Bible

'I've been reading my general epistle of Jude in my old Bible'

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[n/a] : Bible (Matthew)

'Matthew XXIV, 45th, of All Rulers, giving "Meat", for next "Fors".'

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[n/a] : Bible (Daniel)

'Read prayer of Daniel, Chap. IX: the most important of all prayers and prophecies in Old Testament. Of some consequence, however, whether it is desolate or desolator in last verse'

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Plato : [unknown]

'Terribly difficult bit of Plato'

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Thomas Carlyle : History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great

'"Frederick" reading in evening at once encouraging and dismal in the extreme.'

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Plato : Laws

'See noble passage on the greatest [Greek word], Plato, Laws, 42.'

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[unknown] : Ariadne

'Read, fortunately, my St John's day extract, in "Ariadne", about dreams: helpful much again, now.'

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[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'Read the 40th Psalm, with great hope I may take it to myself, led to it by an entry of 1st January'

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Plato : Laws

'I pretty well, and at Plato by 1/2 past six ... Plato, 117, of vain words &c., with the central laws read today, lovely for new Sheffield colony'

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Plato : Laws

'Looked back to Plato on weaving, Laws V, p. 151.'

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John Ruskin : diary

'Greatly relieved in mind by resolving to stay, and reading former diary'

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[n/a] : Bible (Romans)

'Read 14th of Romans, perceiving clearly for the first time how the narrowness of St Paul's business continually misleads us.'

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John Ruskin : diary

'read, this morning, pp. 15 to 18 of Broadlands book with great comfort.'

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George Sand : Marquise de Villemer

'At George Sand's "Marquise de Villemer", in evening, and enjoyed it.'

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[n/a] : Bible (Ezekiel)

'Read Ezekiel 34th'

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[n/a] : Bible (Genesis)

'Read Genesis XXXI, noting infinite wonder and absurdity of Rachel's speech, V. 15. Same in Vulgate.'

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[n/a] : Bible (Corinthians)

'And now, thinking of the mischief done to my own life and how ti many thousand thousand, by dark desire, I open my first text at I Corinthians VII. 1. And yet the second verse directly reverses the nobleness of all youthful thought'

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Plato : Laws

'Today I began my Plato again, properly, at page 409, after an effort failing at p. 407.'

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John Ruskin : [notes]

'Yesterday was a culmination of all mischief, finding I had lost (temporarily, may the Fates and Fors'es grant) Sir Walter Scott's Pen! Comforted a little by reading my own notes above on Sisyphus.'

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Horace : [unknown]

'In reading Horace at breakfast, planned the form in which to gather my work on him'

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John Ruskin : diary

'Read this morning my entries early in 1877.'

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Cardinal Wiseman : [unknown]

'Read also Cardinal Wiseman on Chartres and the Chemise - very wonderful and delightful.'

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John Ruskin : Deucalion

'This morning I have great pleasure in reading "Deucalion" before coffee'

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[n/a] : Bible (Job)

'Opened, after writing this - meaning to take up "Deucalion", book took up Bible instead - at Job XI. 16, and read all the rest with comfort'

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Cuthbert Collingwood : [poems]

'Collingwood's poem, read last night, not without its meaning.'

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[n/a] : Bible

'Read a bit of Ezra and referred to Haggai ii. 9: "In this place will I give peace".'

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Machiavelli : Florence

'Read in Machiavelli's "Florence" Cosmo de' Medici's sad saying before his death: keeping his eyes shut, his wife asking why - "To get them into the way of it."'

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[n/a] : Bible

'Read Hosea XII. 7-9'

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[n/a] : Bible (Psalms)

'Examined group of Psalms, 65 to 68.'

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[n/a] : Bible (Corinthians)

Curiously threatening verses open for me just now in the Bible. I can still read my old one without spectacles. D.G. "Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not." II Cor. iv.'

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anon : Darkness and Dawn: the peaceful birth of a new age

'Slept well, and read grand book - "Darkness and Dawn" at coffee time.'

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[n/a] : World

'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" on run-away racehorse and pigeonshooting at lunch. French novel at tea, "La petite Comtesse", and Sir G. Baker on Gladstone, Baxter reading to me after dinner.'

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Octave Feuillet : La Petite Comtesse

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G. Baker : [Gladstone]

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[n/a] : Psalter

'read 49th Psalm in 12th century psalter'

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Edward Fitzgerald : Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

'I up to coffee, reading "Omar Khayyam".'

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Isaac Taylor : Natural History of Enthusiasm

'Thunder, after reading "Natural History of Enthusiasm" and planning series of lectures.'

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[unknown] : [unknown]

'read St Francis' Hymn of the Creatures to my infinite delight'

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Sir Thomas More : [unknown]

'Read Sir T. More in evening'

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[unknown] : Roma Sotternea

'At Rose, reading "Roma Sotteranea".'

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[n/a] : Bible (Esdras)

'I read Esdras II. 8 again with comfort and shame and wonder'

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[n/a] : Pall Mall Gazette

'Paragraph in "Pall Mall Gazette" very pretty!'

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[unknown] : [unknown]

'Reading by gaslight at breakfast - unwholesome'

Unknown

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anon : History of Fair Rosamond

'Rest in room and discovered "History of Fair Rosamond".'

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Charles Dickens : Dombey and Son

'A horribly faint despairing evening, giving up the ghost of myself in bed, and complicated by reading the horrible death of Mrs Skewton in Dickens' abominable "Dombey".'

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Froude : Carlyle

'Read the end of Froude's "Carlyle" last night, thankful that in general I make the people about me happy.'

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Oliver Goldsmith : Vicar of Wakefield, The

'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.'

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Oliver Goldsmith : Citizen of the World, The

'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.'

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Sir Walter Scott : Fortunes of Nigel

'Playing chess, and marbles, with myself, and reading "Nigel" to Lollie.'

Unknown

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[unknown] : Aladdin

'Joan and I by ourselves in the evening played old tunes and read "Aladdin".'

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[n/a] : Bible (Chronicles)

'Read the story of Uzziah in the Bible. Curious that it says nothing of what the man was himself, except that his heart was lifted up - nor why at first he was so helped.'

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[n/a] : Bible (Jeremiah)

'Came on the grand Darwinian verse, just now, "Saying to a stock, thou art my father". Jeremiah II. 27'

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[n/a] : Bible (Deuteronomy)

'Read today the lovely 4-6 verses of Deuteronomy XXX.'

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[n/a] : Bible (Proverbs)

'Read "Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars".'

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John Ruskin : diary

'Greatly rooted in displeasure with myself as I look over old diaries.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Manuscript: Codex

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Slept well, though Joan teazing in evening playing with beads when I was reading.'

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Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin

Horace-Bénédicte de Saussure : Voyage dans les Alpes

'Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before Franklin! Then, helped infinitely by Alciat's four emblems'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Andrea Alciati : Emblems

'Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before Franklin! Then, helped infinitely by Alciat's four emblems'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Maria Edgeworth : Harry and Lucy

'exciting discoveries of things in "Harry and Lucy" at coffee'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Daily Telegraph

'an inglorious misery in evening, over article of extinction of Bison in "Daily Telegraph".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Newspaper

Thomas Carlyle : French Revolution

'Reading death of Swiss (Carlyle "French Revolution") to girls (Clennie and Diddie).'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Blanche Roosevelt : Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Dore

'Awake from 1-4 last night, after reading battle of Vittoria, bits of "Life of Gustave Dore" and hearing of the two girls burnt together in ball dress.'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Thomas Carlyle : History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great

'And I have just been reading poor Carlyle on last vol. of "Frederick".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[n/a] : Bible (Peter)

'read 1st Peter with satisfaction as in old days'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

[unknown] : [French novel]

'rather enjoyed a bit of absurd French novel'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

William Shakespeare : As you like it

'read, with understanding for the first time in my life, the first scene of "As you like it".'

Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book

Sir Walter Scott : Abbot, The

'Yesterday dined quietly with Diddie and Clennie came down to dessert, and I read the "Abbot" in the evening to them.'

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