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Witness statements in trial for highway robbery: John Gavill: "I saw his [Davis] examination in the newspapers... I read his examination in the newspaper and his sister told me of it"
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Gavill Print: Newspaper
Sir John Trevor : [untitled]
His words were not manie, yet he read all he sayd to us, a thing very unbecoming the chaire, and which I never before did see.
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir John Trevor Manuscript: Sheet
Alfred Tennyson : poetry
Joan Evans, "Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained the age of perception was to steal into the drawing-room, when I knew my parents were safe in London, open the [book]case, and take deep delicious draughts of verse. Tennyson and Matthew Arnold were all the sweeter for being read in secret' (p.17).'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joan Evans Print: Book
Matthew Arnold : poetry
Joan Evans, "Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained the age of perception was to steal into the drawing-room, when I knew my parents were safe in London, open the [book]case, and take deep delicious draughts of verse. Tennyson and Matthew Arnold were all the sweeter for being read in secret' (p.17).'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joan Evans Print: Book
Salomon Reinach : Orpheus:A History of Religions
Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion; Farnell, Cults of the Greek States, and Frazer, The Golden Bough.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joan Evans Print: Book
Jane Harrison : Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion; Farnell, Cults of the Greek States, and Frazer, The Golden Bough.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joan Evans Print: Book
Farnell : Cults of the Greek States
Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion; Farnell, Cults of the Greek States, and Frazer, The Golden Bough.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joan Evans Print: Book
Sir James George Frazer : The Golden Bough
Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion; Farnell, Cults of the Greek States, and Frazer, The Golden Bough.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joan Evans Print: Book
Thomas Babington Macaulay : Lays of Ancient Rome: with "Ivry" and "The Armada"
H. J. Jackson notes annotations made by John James Raven over period of around 40-50 years in copy of Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome given to him in 1848, "when Raven was a schoolboy of fifteen."
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John James Raven Print: Book
Mary Wollstonecraft : Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden
'Took "Letters from Norway & c" back to the Vestry Library. I did not read them, but Mr E. said they were very entertaining & instructive; brought Mrs Wollstonecraft "View of the French Revolution".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Evans Print: Book
Thomas Pennant : Outlines of the Globe: the View of Hindoostan
'Took Pennant's "View of Hindoostan" to Library; I have not read it but, Mr E. says it is very entertaining. There are some beautiful plates in it.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Evans Print: Book
Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire
'I was too much engaged with Gibbon to bestow time on reading "Causes and Consequences"; Mr E. However, read it & was pleased with it.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Evans Print: Book
Patrick Colquhoun : Treatise of the police of the metrpolis
'Took Colquhoun's "treatise of the police of the metropolis" to the library. I have not read it but, Mr Evans has; he says that he gives a most dreadful idea of the state of London; he says there are no less than 200, 000 persons, who when they get up in the morning do not know where they shall lay their head at night. That very miserable story, which I have cut out of an old "Iris" & is amongst the rest of the newspaper scraps, & entitled "On the Police of Paris" Mr Col[...] says was related to him by a Foreign Ambassador, who was at Paris at the time.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Evans Print: Book
John Evelyn : Elysium Britannicum
'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. He showed me his "Hortus hyemalis"; leaves laid up in a book of several plants, kept dry, which preserve Colour however, and look very finely, better than any herball... He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own, that were not transcendent, yet one or two very pretty Epigrams: among others, of a lady looking in at a grate and being pecked at by an eagle that was there.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Evelyn Manuscript: Sheet
John Evelyn : Thersander [probably]
'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. He showed me his "Hortus hyemalis"; leaves laid up in a book of several plants. kept dry, which preserve Colour however, and look very finely, better than any herball... He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own, that were not transcendent, yet one or two very pretty Epigrams: among others, of a lady looking in at a grate and being pecked at by an eagle that was there.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Evelyn Manuscript: Sheet
John Evelyn : [poems]
'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. He showed me his "Hortus hyemalis"; leaves laid up in a book of several plants. kept dry, which preserve Colour however, and look very finely, better than any herball... He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own, that were not transcendent, yet one or two very pretty Epigrams: among others, of a lady looking in at a grate and being pecked at by an eagle that was there.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Evelyn Manuscript: Sheet
John Evelyn : Celia afraid of an eagle
'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. He showed me his "Hortus hyemalis"; leaves laid up in a book of several plants. kept dry, which preserve Colour however, and look very finely, better than any herball... He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own, that were not transcendent, yet one or two very pretty Epigrams: among others, of a lady looking in at a grate and being pecked at by an eagle that was there.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Evelyn Manuscript: Sheet
[n/a] : Bible
Conversion of convict J- V-; when came on board the ship he was a convinced socialist, and when appointed school teacher he wanted to use the position to convince others, but he changed: 'As a teacher, he was most useful to me, and most exemplary. He became a diligent student of the Bible, and of other devotional books. He appeared to grow in grace as well as in knowledge.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
[n/a] : [devotional texts]
Conversion of convict J- V-; when came on board the ship he was a convinced socialist, and when appointed school teacher he wanted to use the position to convince others, but he changed: 'As a teacher, he was most useful to me, and most exemplary. He became a diligent student of the Bible, and of other devotional books. He appeared to grow in grace as well as in knowledge.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
[n/a] : [newspaper]
Witness statement in trial for theft: Jonas Levy: 'I read in the newspaper that a man named Jones was taken up for stealing a ring, and I went to Bow-street to see him, a fortnight ago'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jonas Levy Print: Newspaper
Walter Scott : Life of Napoleon
'Say, too, that I received his Life of Napoleon, and have read it this winter - in the evening and at night - with attentino from beginning to end. To me it was full of meaning to observe how the first novelist of the century took upon himself a task and business, so apparently foreign to him, and passed under review with rapid stroke those important events of which it had been our fate to be eyewtinesses. The division into chapters, embracing masses of intimately connected events, gives a clearness to the historical sequence that otherwise might have been only to easily confused, while, at the same time, the individual events in each chapter are described with a clearness and a vividness quite invaluable.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Print: Book
Vera Brittain : Testament of Youth
'Amid several warmly appreciative judgements came a frank note from St. John Ervine, who wrote that my book had entirely changed his opinion of me.'
