Evidence: | The Rev. P. Elmsley to John Murray (1815), regarding the Quarterly Review:
'I think you have not been very brilliant of late. I must say there is as great a difference
between Jeffrey's best papers and your politics as between Handel and his bellows-blower [...]
Is there not too much of the dry rot? Barrow ought not to ride you so unmercifully [...] I want
to know, what I don't expect you to tell me, who [italics]did[end italics] the Paradise of
Coquettes? Is it not the same hand which [italics]did] "Brand's Popular Antiquities" in the last
number but one. I should be sorry to have my brain so full of cobwebs as that gentleman's, be
he who he may. Then, your politician, who talks about that "enemy to Europe, the King of
Saxony," is a most useful performer.'
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Date: | Between 1 Jan 1807 and 31 Dec 1815 | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Rev. P. Elmsley |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) |
Occupation: | Vicar of St Mary Cray |
Religion: | n/a |
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Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Record ID: | 27156 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Samuel Smiles | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1891 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 284 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray (London, 1891), 1, p. 284, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27156, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Reader also himself an occasional contributor to the Quarterly Review. 'Dry rot' refers to part of content of series of articles on shipbuilding by John Barrow, appearing in nos. 15, 19, and 23; see source ed.'s note to p.284. |
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