the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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[James?] Beresford : [On vaccination]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'On vaccination'; Text [prose followed by verse] = 'A Mr Stewart writing on the Cowpax talks/ gravely of a most horrible case of vaccination/ viz, of a child who in consepquence of it, ran upon/ all fours, bellowing like a cow and butting/ like a bull thus reallizing (says the author/ who quotes the above) the apprehensions of/ the author of Vaccine Phantasmogoria and who exclaims/ O Mosely thy books mighty phantasies rousing/ Full oft make me quake for my heart's dearest treasures/ ...' [total = 2 x 4 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine      Print: Unknown

James Beresford : The Miseries of Human Life

'I have been dipping into "the miserys of human life" here & there'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare      Print: Book

James Beresford : Miseries of Human Life

'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Siberia", "Hoole's Tasso['s] Jerusalem", "Oberon" translated from the German by Southeby, "Beatties Minstrel", Savage's poems, Fenelons "lives of ancient Philosophers" and "the Miseries of Human life" 2 vols. If there is any of these that you have not seen - and want my sentiments about - you shall have them in my next'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

James Beresford : Miseries of Human Life; or, the Groans of Samuel Sensitive and Timothy Testy. With a few supplementary sighs from Mrs. Testy

'Read and finish miseries of human life'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

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