Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Voltaire

 

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1800-1849"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....Frances Power Cobbe Voltaire Print: Book
1800-1849'The Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge [...] had read and pondered Voltaire's "Dictionary of Philosophy" and Pa...Joseph Gutteridge Voltaire Dictionary of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Oct -- 17 [...] Read Memoires de Voltaire by Himself'.Claire Clairmont Voltaire MemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In the Evening read...Claire Clairmont Voltaire MemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In the Evening read...Claire Clairmont Voltaire MemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Oct -- 20th [...] After dinner read Political Justice [...] read Memoires of Voltaire -- & the Life of Alf...Claire Clairmont Voltaire MemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday April 5th. [...] Read Memoires of Voltaire written by himself [notes anecdote from this]'.Claire Clairmont Voltaire MemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday October 1st. [...] Begin Voltaire's Life of Charles XII. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny in the Evening. [...Claire Clairmont Voltaire Histoire de Charles XII, roi de SuedePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Voltaire Philosophical DictionaryPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi...Leonard Woolf Voltaire La Dictionnaire PhilosophiquePrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906: 'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is ...Leonard Woolf Voltaire LettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts from which passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1931-32, include remarks on animal genitalia in ...Edward Morgan Forster Voltaire Des Singularites de la NaturePrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1932) include extract from Voltaire, Charles XII B...Edward Morgan Forster Voltaire Histoire de Charles XII (Book 3)Print: Book
1900-1945[under heading Voltaire's Zaide] 'The warmth of feeling between Z. and Orasmane, the easiness of the action (except in...Edward Morgan Forster Voltaire ZaidePrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 4 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Read Goguet on the different Arts until breakfast; after ...George Grote Voltaire Dictionnaire [?philosophique]Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 6 December 1822: 'Continued the perusal of Wolf's Prolegomena, which contains very muc...George Grote Voltaire Dictionnaire [?philosophique]Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 9 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Employed all my reading-time this day upon Diodor., and g...George Grote Voltaire 'Miracles'Print: Book
1700-1799Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgina Cavendish (November 1797): 'You can't imagine, G. how tourty [sic] w...Harriet Ponsonby Voltaire L'Enfant prodigePrint: Book
1700-1799'Besides studying Greek and Latin, Gifford learnt French and Spanish while at Oxford. He went through Moliere's plays ...William Gifford Voltaire worksPrint: Book
1800-1849'A very fair measure of French and some skill in drawing appear to have been the most striking accomplishments which C...Charlotte Bronte Voltaire HenriadePrint: Book

 

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