Evidence: | 'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have been reading these past months; chiefly because they are of such utter offal that there is no use in remembering so much as their names. Madame Pichler's "Siege of Vienna" ...; a life of Walter Scott, by one Allen, advocate, wherein the said advocate takes superior ground, looking down, as it were, ex cathedra, upon his subject, searching out the genesis, and tracing the development of this or the other power or faculty in that popular writer; and thus by philosophic histoire raisonnee, informing us how it fell out, to the best of his, the advocate's, knowledge that Walter Scott came to write the books he did, and at the times of his life, after the fashion he did... In truth the book is very presumptuous and very stupid;...' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Nov 1848 and 2 Dec 1848 | ||||||||||
Country: | Bermuda | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: on board "Dromedary Hulk", at Bermuda | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | John Mitchel |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 3 Nov 1815 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | author, Irish Nationalist, under arrest for Treason |
Religion: | Presbyterian family |
Country of origin: | Ireland |
Country of experience: | Bermuda |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [George] [Allan?] |
Title: | [biography of Walter Scott] |
Genre: | Biography |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) probably from the library on the prison hulk |
Record ID: | 12744 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | John Mitchel | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Jail Journal | |
Place of Publication: | Dublin | |
Date of Publication: | 1913 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 97 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | John Mitchel, Jail Journal (Dublin, 1913), p. 97, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12744, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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