We [EB & Mr Boyd] read passages from Gregory?s apologetick, - comparing his marks with mine, in different copies, - & came to the conclusion, that our tastes certainly do agree!! And so they do.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And yet I really read nothing superficially. There is a great deal in Synesius which is very fine. He stands on a much higher step than Gregory does, as a poet; tho? occasional diffuseness is the fault of each. I like the 7th. hymn extremely. A slip of paper in the first leaf, tells me that in Mr. Boyd?s opinion the 1st. 5th. & 6th. are perhaps the finest, next to the 9th. I wd. lay a very strong emphasis on perhaps. The 9th. is, I agree with him, decidedly the finest.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And yet I really read nothing superficially. There is a great deal in Synesius which is very fine. He stands on a much higher step than Gregory does, as a poet; tho? occasional diffuseness is the fault of each. I like the 7th. hymn extremely. A slip of paper in the first leaf, tells me that in Mr. Boyd?s opinion the 1st. 5th. & 6th. are perhaps the finest, next to the 9th. I wd. lay a very strong emphasis on perhaps. The 9th. is, I agree with him, decidedly the finest.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Stuart Boyd Print: Book
[Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated Saturday 10 July 1824] You remind me of Dr Gregory's advive to his daughter. A woman should never shew the full extent of her regard, even to her husband. Perhaps you are right. But neither right nor Dr. Gregory prescribes that words shoulkd never be employed ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
"Doctor Gregory's Book was published at Edin [r] just two Days before I left that Place...I read it, tho butin the hurried Way which the Eve of Journey allowed of...I also think that the Publication of it, when one considers that the young Ladies to whom it is address'd are alive & unmarried, is liable to Objection..."
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Mackenzie Print: Book
'Abt 4 - I returned - and the time until 7 was taken up in reading "Gregory's Legacy"- He is one of my favorite authors- there is something so sincere & so pleasing withal in his "advice" that in myhumble opinion no one can help admiring him.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott Print: Book
'The evening was devoted to the perusal of the life of the most extraordinary genius this country has produced- need I say, Chatterton.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Upcott Print: Book
[account of attending the lectures on metals advertised in the "Iris"] ...all this I had read before ... in the "Sup. Ency." [supplement to the "Encyclopedia Britanica"] and Gregory's "Economy of Nature".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
'Sunday, 28th February,
Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the summer and next year:
? Thread o? Scarlet? (J. J. Bell)
? A night in the sun? (Dunsany)
? The Monkey?s Paw? (W. W. Jacobs)
?The rising of the moon? ( Lady Gregory)
Read ? ?The Four Georges? (W. Thackeray)'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
'Read, after a long intermission (April 27, 1797) the 2d volume of Gregory's "Essays"...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Letter to Mrs Smith May 26 1789 'Pray read Dr Gregory?s Comparative View, &c. and observe particularly the last section on the influence of religion; that on taste; and the strictures of taste on refinement. I long to have you share the entertainment they afforded to my happier hours.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book
'Meeting held at Frensham. Saturday 11th July ’42
H. R. Smith in the chair
[...]
3. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed..
[...]
6. Two One Act Plays were then read. The first of these ‘The Proposal’ by Tchekov was chosen
no doubt in tribute to
our gallant allies. Howard Smith as a Russian landowner Muriel Stevens as his daughter and
Arnold Joselin as a
healthy, well-nourished but hypochondriacal suitor for the daughters hand in marriage, all
displayed great histrionic
ability. The author calls his play ‘A jest’ and it certainly was very funny. Howard Smith’s part
was largely “and so on’
alternating with ‘and all the rest of it’ but the infinite variety of expression he managed to put
into these few rather
simple words soon reduced us to a state of helpless laughter, and the fervour of his prayer
“Good Lord: what it is to
have a grown up daughter” brought down the house.
7. The second play was “The Workhouse Ward” by Lady Gregory and no doubt a student of
national character could
draw many conclusions from the difference between the Irish and the Russian sense of
humour as revealed in these
two plays. Certainly this was altogether a quieter & more subtle work that The Proposal but it
was also very amusing
& well read by F. E. Pollard & A. B. Dilks as the two paupers and Rosamund Wllis as the
Countrywoman
relation.
[...]
[signed by] F. E. Pollard
17. IX. 42.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard Print: Book
'Meeting held at Frensham. Saturday 11th July ’42
H. R. Smith in the chair
[...]
3. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed..
[...]
6. Two One Act Plays were then read. The first of these ‘The Proposal’ by Tchekov was chosen
no doubt in
tribute to our gallant allies. Howard Smith as a Russian landowner Muriel Stevens as his
daughter and
Arnold Joselin as a healthy, well-nourished but hypochondriacal suitor for the daughters hand
in marriage,
all displayed great histrionic ability. The author calls his play ‘A jest’ and it certainly was very
funny.
Howard Smith’s part was largely “and so on’ alternating with ‘and all the rest of it’ but the
infinite variety of
expression he managed to put into these few rather simple words soon reduced us to a state
of helpless
laughter, and the fervour of his prayer “Good Lord: what it is to have a grown up daughter”
brought down
the house.
7. The second play was “The Workhouse Ward” by Lady Gregory and no doubt a student of
national
character could draw many conclusions from the difference between the Irish and the Russian
sense of
humour as revealed in these two plays. Certainly this was altogether a quieter & more subtle
work that The
Proposal but it was also very amusing & well read by F. E. Pollard & A. B. Dilks as the two
paupers and
Rosamund Wllis as the Countrywoman relation.
[...]
[signed by] F. E. Pollard
17. IX. 42.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Bruce Dilks Print: Book
'Meeting held at Frensham. Saturday 11th July ’42
H. R. Smith in the chair
[...]
3. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed..
[...]
6. Two One Act Plays were then read. The first of these ‘The Proposal’ by Tchekov
was chosen no doubt in tribute to our gallant allies. Howard Smith as a Russian
landowner Muriel Stevens as his daughter and Arnold Joselin as a healthy, well-
nourished but hypochondriacal suitor for the daughters hand in marriage, all
displayed great histrionic ability. The author calls his play ‘A jest’ and it certainly
was very funny. Howard Smith’s part was largely “and so on’ alternating with ‘and
all the rest of it’ but the infinite variety of expression he managed to put into these
few rather simple words soon reduced us to a state of helpless laughter, and the
fervour of his prayer “Good Lord: what it is to have a grown up daughter” brought
down the house.
7. The second play was “The Workhouse Ward” by Lady Gregory and no doubt a
student of national character could draw many conclusions from the difference
between the Irish and the Russian sense of humour as revealed in these two plays.
Certainly this was altogether a quieter & more subtle work that The Proposal but it
was also very amusing & well read by F. E. Pollard & A. B. Dilks as the two
paupers and Rosamund Wllis as the Countrywoman relation.
[...]
[signed by] F. E. Pollard
17. IX. 42.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis Print: Book
