Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Burke

 

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1800-1849As I have no people to tell you of, so have I very few books, and know nothing of what is stirring in the literary wor...Edward Fitzgerald Edmund BurkeLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and B...William Blake Edmund BurkeA Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and BeautifulPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: Copious marginal updates throughout the text. Many relate to entries and are linked to the item by an * ...James Ker John BurkeA general and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire ?Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
H. J. Jackson notes Jeremy Bentham's annotations (including highlightings and marginal comments) to eight pamphlets by...Jeremy Bentham Edmund Burkepamphlets including Observations on a late State of the Nation London: Dodsley, 1769)
1850-1899'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.'George Eliot [pseud] Edmund BurkeReflections on the Revolution in FrancePrint: Book
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 8 November 1790: 'In this country the stock of the National Assembly is fallen down to b...Horace Walpole Edmund BurkeReflections on the Revolution in France
1800-1849[transcibed in what seems to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'What is Majesty without its externals?-- / by Burke'Lady Caroline Lamb Edmund Burke[unknown]Unknown
1900-1945Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living 'Works of reference in public libraries fur...Stuart Wood [pseud?] BurkePeeragePrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Burke's "Letters on a Regicide Peace"...'Thomas Green Edmund BurkeThoughts on the prospect of a regicide peacePrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished a cursory perusal of Burke on the "Sublime and Beautiful"...'Thomas Green Edmund BurkeA philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and the beautifulPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Burke's "Vindication of Natural Society". Except in parts (as in the opening and ending) I cannot think that th...Thomas Green Edmund BurkeVindication of Natural SocietyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Burke's Disquisition prefixed to his "Sublime and Beautiful"...'Thomas Green Edmund BurkeA philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and the beautifulPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw...Sydney Smith Edmund Burke[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Mary Godwin Edmund BurkeA Vindication of Natural Society . . . In a letter to Lord ****
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund Burke [anon.]A Vindication of Natural Society . . . In a letter to Lord ****Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940: 'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.'Virginia Woolf Edmund BurkeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 15 May 1921: 'I read 4 pages of sneer & condescending praise of me in the Dial the other day. Oddly enough, I h...Virginia Woolf Kenneth Burke'The Modern English Novel Plus' (review of Virginia Woolf, NIght and Day, and The Voyage OutPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely readi...Virginia Woolf Edmund BurkeunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h...Samuel Johnson Edmund BurkePhilosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and BeautifulPrint: Book
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A...Tennyson children (boys)Edmund BurkePrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Burke's "Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, on the affairs of America", being mentioned, Johnson censured the com...Samuel Johnson Edmund BurkeLetter To The Sheriffs Of Bristol Print: Unknown

 

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