| Evidence: | 'On 13 May 1812 [Henry Crabb] Robinson recorded in his diary: "William Wordsworth was more afraid of the liberal than the methodistic party on the bench of bishops, and read a beautiful passage from Jeremy Taylor on the progress of religious dissensions from his Dissuasive against Popery."'
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 13 May 1812 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | William Wordsworth |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 7 Apr 1770 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | Church of England |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Jeremy Taylor |
| Title: | Dissuasive from Popery to the People of Ireland, A |
| Genre: | Other religious |
| Form of Text: | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| Publication details: | Wu notes Wordsworth's copy 3rd edn of 1664 (though this not necessarily acquired by time of this reading) |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 1866 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Duncan Wu | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1995 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 208 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 (Cambridge, 1995), p. 208, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1866, accessed: 01 June 2023 | |
| Noted in entry 381 (ii) of Wu (1995); quotation from Edith J. Morley, ed., Henry Crabb Robinson on Books and their Writers (3 vols, 1938) 1:83. |
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