Letter W 38 - Chamouni, 3/10/1863 - "I can't make out the run of some coal slates of the Col de Balme at their junction with what Saussure calls the 'poudingues de Valorsins'. Such a scramble as I've had after them today!"
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself. It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to criticise the elegant and ingenious rather than powerful or philosophical narrative which Horace Benedict Saussure gives of his journeys in the Alps. I am in the third quarto-'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book
'In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much conscience to dilate upon this subject... On the same authority [a small Genevese], I inform you that Horace Benedict Saussure (whose beautiful voyages I have not yet finished) died 20 years ago; but Theodore, his son, is still living.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book
Lord Liverpool to John Wilson Croker, 23 August 1824:
'I am very much obliged to you for the specimen which you have sent me of Horace Walpole's
letters to Lord Hertford, which I return. I have been very much amused by it, but [...] I
believe Horace Walpole to have been as bad a man as ever lived; I cannot call him a violent
party man, he had not virtue enough to be so; he was the most sensuous and selfish of
mortals [comments further].'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 11 December 1793: 'Let me turn to more chearful subjects. your verses were particularly good — & they have the additional merit of novelty in manner & metre. write more. fame is a very late consideration — but let us remember that Pope acquired independance by his Homer. let me say Horace that Popes abilities were not above comparison. undertake some great work. it will take up your attention certainly — you certainly have abilities for any work. chuse either epic or a metrical romance. & in the intervals exercise yourself in the lower ranks for with us lyrics are very subordinate.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Manuscript: Sheet
Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 7 June 1794: 'In return for your ode to Indolence I know nothing better than these strains to her eldest born. they immortalize a man who is the ne plus ultra of folly.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Manuscript: Sheet
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 12 August 1818:
'Yesterday evening Granville [husband], Hart [her brother, the Duke of Devonshire] and I
looked over books. A beautiful edition of Camoens, brown and gold, with D. and the coronet
inlaid in diamonds. It is like a book in a fairy tale. The Duchess of Devonshire's editions of
Horace's journey. The prints are from beautiful drawings, one by herself.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Duke of Devonshire and Lord and Lady Granville (his brother-in-law and sister) Print: Book
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 August 1764:]
'Pray has Mrs M. got one of Mr Walpole's Memoirs of Lord Herbert [of Cherbury]? So few copies are dispersed, that I know Lord Chesterfield was not able to get one, and it is so amusing I wish you had it to wear away a rainy evening.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot Print: Book
'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together over a space of years. But somewhere in the past Conrad had read every imaginable and unimaginable volume of politician's memoirs, Mme de Campan, the Duc d'Audiffret Pasquier, Benjamin Constant, Karoline Bauer, Sir Horace Rumbold, Napoleon the Great, Napoleon III, Benjamin Franklin, Assheton Smith, Pitt, Chatham, Palmerston, Parnell,The late Queen Victoria, Dilke, Morley [...] There was no memoir of all these that he had missed or forgotten—down to "Il Principe" or the letters of Thomas Cromwell. He could sugddenly produce an incident from the life of Lord Shaftesbury and work it into "Nostromo" [...].'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
'...through the week I have read an excellent novel of Vachell's "The Paladin" which you have
probably read too.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis Print: Book
‘Last week I went to an excellent play, a really charming Comedy—Quinney’s,
by Vachell. Am now reading and book by Vachell "The Hill", a tale of Harrow,
and the hills on which I never lay, nor shall lie: heights of thought, heights of
friendship, heights of riches, heights of jinks … Lovely and melancholy reading
it is for me.’
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen Print: Book
