Evidence: | 'We have read the speech which you were so good as to send me, which I most truly consider as the effusion of honest feeling and of cultivated eloquence. In the whole of the speech there were but two words which I would have ommitted...
Nothing could be added by any person of sound taste and enlarged understanding.
I hope that Lady Romilly will be curious to know the two words which I would have ommitted. - The two epithets "horrible" and "foul" page 10 - because in the last lines of the preceding page you had said that vague and general terms of reprobation such as "inhuman", "sanguinary", "detestable" can convey but inadequate notions etc.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 30 Sep 1814 | ||||||||||
Country: | Ireland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Edgeworth's Town | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Maria Edgeworth |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1 Jan 1767 |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | author |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | Ireland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Samuel Romilly |
Title: | [speech on the Slave Trade] |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Politics, speech |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned sent by S Romilly to her father |
Record ID: | 20607 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Anne Romilly | |
Editor: | Samuel Henry Romilly | |
Title: | Romilly-Edgeworth Letters 1813-1818 | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1936 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 87-8 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Anne Romilly, Samuel Henry Romilly (ed.), Romilly-Edgeworth Letters 1813-1818 (London, 1936), p. 87-8, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20607, accessed: 18 April 2024 |
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