Evidence: | '[letter to Mrs --] 'books, for a certain length of time, are a charming substitute for common conversation. I do not know that I ever read one from which my mind received a higher degree of pleasure than "Currie's life of Burns". To me, its charm was enhanced by a thousand pleasing recollections - a thousand associations, that gave a strong additional interest to every word. The strength of Burns's feelings, the character of his mind, had excited an enthusiastic admiration, at a period when my own enthusiastic feelings were in perfect unison with those of the poet; and in him alone did I meet with the expression of a sensibility with which I could perfectly sympathise: in his emotions there was a strength, an energy, that came home to my heart; while the tender sorrows of other poets had to me appeared mawkish and insipid. Even the strong light in which he saw the ridiculous, was, I fear, too agreeable to me. The idea I then formed of his mind has been confirmed by Dr Currie's delineation of it'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 30 Apr 1801 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Bath | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Elizabeth Hamilton |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 25 Jul 1758 |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | Episcopalian |
Country of origin: | Ireland |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | James Currie |
Title: | Life of Robert Burns |
Genre: | Biography |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 22355 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Elizabeth Hamilton | |
Editor: | Elizabeth Benger | |
Title: | Memoirs of the Late Mrs Elizabeth Hamilton | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1818 | |
Vol: | II | |
Page: | 2-3 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Elizabeth Hamilton, Elizabeth Benger (ed.), Memoirs of the Late Mrs Elizabeth Hamilton (London, 1818), II, p. 2-3, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22355, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
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