Transcription of poem as 'The Song of Music'. 'Moore'.
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
'The Fickleness of Love'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem].
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
'A Reflection at Sea'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem].
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
'Weep not for Those'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem].
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
'Stanzas'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem]'Go, let me weep there's bliss in tears /...'.
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
'Perpetual Adoration'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem]
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
'The Inspiartion of Love'. 'Moore'.
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
'The Meeting of the Waters'. 'Moore'.
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
'The Tear / Moore' [transcription of text].
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
'The Wintery smile of Sorrow / Moore' [transcription of text].
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
To Jane Whene'er I see those smiling eyes... [the 'transcript' does not follow the original to the letter]
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: member of Carey/Maingay group
'I knew, I knew it could not last...' [transcript (exact) of lines 277-294]
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: member of Carey/Maingay group
'Oh! Had wenever met/...' [transcript of lines 384-387]
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: member of Carey/Maingay group
Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813, in description of Newstead Abbey: 'I remember, when about fifteen, reading your poems there ... '
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron
Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 January 1815: 'I have redde thee upon the Fathers, and it is excellent well ... you must not leave off reviewing. You shine in it ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical
Byron to John Murray 9 July 1817: 'I have got the sketch & extracts from Lallah Rookh ... the plan as well as the extract I have seen please me very much indeed ...'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron
Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 July 1817: '[John] Murray ... has contrived to send me extracts from Lalla Rookh ... They are taken from some magazine, and contain a short outline and quotations from the two first Poems. I am very much delighted with what is before me, and very thirsty for the rest.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Serial / periodical
Byron to John Murray, 15 July 1817: 'I lent [M. G.] Lewis who is at Venice ... your extracts from Lalla Rookh -- & Manuel -- out of contradiction it may be -- he likes the last -- & is not much taken with the first of these performances.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Gregory Lewis Print: Serial / periodical
Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817: 'I have read 'Lallah Rookh' -- but not with sufficient attention yet -- for I ride about -- & lounge -- & ponder & -- two or three other things -- so that my reading is very desultory & not so attentive as it used to be.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am the more confirmed in this - by having lately gone over some of our Classics - particularly Pope ... I took Moore's poems & my own & some others - & went over them side by side with Pope's - and I was really astonished ... and mortified - at the ineffable distance in point of sense - harmony - effect - & even Imagination Passion - & Invention - between the little Queen Anne's Man - & us of the lower Empire ...'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron
Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'Galignani has just sent me the Paris edition of your works (which I wrote to order), and I am glad to see my old friends with a French face. I have been skimming and dipping, in and over them, like a swallow, and as pleased as one.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then in my fifteenth summer.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then in my fifteenth summer.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821, on memories of Cambridge life with friend Edward Noel Long: 'I remember our buying, with vast alacrity, [Thomas] Moore's new quarto (in 1806) and reading it together in the evenings.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Edward Noel Young. Print: Book
Byron to Thomas Moore, 16 November 1821, on literary ambitions of an Irish visitor, John Taaffe: 'I read a letter of yours to him yesterday, and he begs me to write to you about his Poeshie.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: Letter
[Extensive discusion of the text in a letter to Marianne Lawson 15/03/1823.] ...Throw in too, I grant, some fine poetry from p.48 to 63 but [it] is too voluptuous, too Anacreonic, too much that 'by the wildered senseis caught' ' [Quotes from 'The Second Angel's Tale' several times].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Just after ten read aloud to my aunt the very favourable review of Lallah Rookh; an Oriental romance by Thomas Moore...The extracts from this poetic romance are very beautiful.
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister
??Moore, who is a poet of inspiration, could write in any circumstances. There is no man of the age labours harder than Moore. He is often a month working out the end of an epigram. Moore is a writer for whom I feel a strong affection, because he has done that which I would have done if I could; but after him it would be vain to try anything.??
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book
'Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations. It was foolish, you may think, to exchange the truths of philosophy, for the airy nothings of these sweet singers: but I could not help it. Do not fear that I will spend some time in criticising the tulip-cheek.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book
'I have read most of Moore's Life of Sheridan, I see Mr Canning first came into notice in 1794...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Book
'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a firstrate specimen of bad biographical writing'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Susan J. Wolfson notes Felicia Hemans's reading (probably some time after 1830) of Thomas Moore's "Life of Byron", 'which dismayed her.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans Print: Book
'[A]sk Ld M[orpeth] to read you the lost Peri & see the lines about the boy kneeling & the man of crime are not passing beautiful read it too with your heart and not with rules of criticism--I think many parts of Lalla Rookh perfectly beautiful & the idea and often the poetry but he has heaped such a mass of affection about it & affects such discord to make his harmony more sudden & conspicuous that it requires much good humour to admire'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Mary Berry, Journal, 9 June 1808: 'Dined at Lady Donegal's with Agnes [Berry, her sister]. Philippa (Godfrey), Charles Moore, and Anacreon [ie Thomas] Moore at dinner. I praised highly the two poems ("Corruption" and "Intolerance") that I had been reading in the morning, before the author (little Moore), without knowing it. After dinner he owned the fact, and was much pleased with my unsuspicious praise.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Mary Berry, Journal, 9 June 1808: 'Dined at Lady Donegal's with Agnes [Berry, her sister]. Philippa (Godfrey), Charles Moore, and Anacreon [ie Thomas] Moore at dinner. I praised highly the two poems ("Corruption" and "Intolerance") that I had been reading in the morning, before the author (little Moore), without knowing it. After dinner he owned the fact, and was much pleased with my unsuspicious praise.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Mary Berry, Journal, 11 June 1808: 'In the evening I read 'Corruption' and 'Intolerance' aloud.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
Mary Berry, Journal, 11 June 1808: 'In the evening I read 'Corruption' and 'Intolerance' aloud.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry Print: Book
The elderly Harriet Martineau reflects upon her altered reading capacity: 'I could not now read "Lalla Rookh" through before breakfast, as I did when it appeared. I cannot read new novels [...] while I can read with more pleasure than ever the old favourites, -- Miss Austen's and Scott's. My pleasure in Voyages and Travels is almost an insanity'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book
[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'To sigh, yet feel no pain; /To weep - yet scarce know why/ To sport an hour with Beauty's chain/ Then throw it idly be ... ' [total = 2 x 10 line verses]
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown
[transcription of Moore's poem 'Gazel' in what seems to be Lady Caroline's Hand]
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb
[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [ Untitled]; [Text] 'In the morning of life when its cares are unknown/ and its pleasures in all their new lustre begin/ When we live in a bright beaming world of our own/ And the light that surrounds us is all from within/ ... [by] Moore' [total = 3 x 8 line verses]
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown
[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'My Birthday [by] Moore'; [Text] 'My Birthday! what a different sound/ That word had in my youthful years!/ And how each time the day comes round/ Less and less white[?] the ? appears/ ?'; [total = 28 lines]
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown
[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To my mother [by] Moore'; [Text] 'They tell us of an Indian tree/ Which howso'er the sun and sky/ May tempt its boughs to wander free/ And shoot and blossom wide and high?'; [total = 12 lines plus a 2 line quote]. [Quote Titled] 'Comfort for the loss of Friends'; [Text] 'My gems are fast falling away, but I do hope & trust/ it is because "God is making up his jewels"/ Charles Wolfe'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown
'When Wordsworth was then spoken of as a great poet, the ordinary question was, "Why is he not more popular?" The process through which public opinion gradually turns from an ephemeral popularity, permanently to repose upon works of imagination that are not extravagent stimulants, is admirably illustrated by his own experience. I remember distinctly, when "Lalla Rookh" first came out, I read it through at one sitting. To say I was delighted with it is a poor word for my feelings; I was transported out of myself-entranced or what you will.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Knight Print: Serial / periodical
'Love's Wreath!' 'When Love was a Child and went rolling along/...'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown
'Lines written by Moore on Miss [Curria]' 'She is far from the Land, where her young Hero sleeps/...'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown
'Remember thee yes while there's life in this heart/...'[Thomas Moore, 'Remember Thee': first 8 lines of 12-line text. Very little punctuation in transcript. Perhaps from song?]
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown
'Oh thou who driest the mourner's tear/...' 'Moore' [epigraph from Psalms not transcribed]
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown
'Extract from Moore's Love of the Angels' [The Second Angels Story, ll. 1043-1066]
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown
'They tell us of an Indian tree/...'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Maingay [?] Print: Unknown
'There's a bliss beyond all the Minstrel has told/...' ['Light of the Haram' ll. 648-655]
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown
'The Minstrel Boy' 'The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone, /... Moore. Benj. Beanlands, Otley, December 1831'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Beanlands
'As a beam oer the face of the waters may glow, ...'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group
'The Wish' 'Oh! Had we some bright little isle of our own,... S.W. 1821'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: 'S.W.'
'Finished the "Epicurean" by Moore, it is a sad story but very prettily written; began to read the play of "Julius Caesar" by Shakespeare as I had all night, I was able to stay up till late - learning by heart "Paradise & the Peri"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book
'Finished the "Epicurean" by Moore, it is a sad story but very prettily written; began to read the play of "Julius Caesar" by Shakespeare as I had all night, I was able to stay up till late - learning by heart "Paradise & the Peri"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book
'Have you read Moore? I come in, I see, for a little notice once or twice. I find the Peer and Poet (and I knew it only yesterday) has dedicated a stanza or two to me in Don Juan'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book
'Read Lalla Rookh. Not well all day'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and begins Lalla Rookh'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate database entries from this list. Texts marked with an x were read by Percy Shelley too]
'Two vols of Lord Chesterfields Letters.
xColeridges Lay Sermon
Memoirs of Count Gramont
Somnium Scipionis
Roderick Random
Comus
Knights of the Swan
Cumberlands memoirs de se
Junius' letters
Journey to the World Underground
D. of Buckinhams Rehearsal and the Restoration
Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Sir P. Sidney
Round Table by W. Hazlitt
Cupids Revenge
Martial Maid
Wild Goose Chase [these three bracketed as by Beaumont and Fletcher]
x Tales of my Landlord
Rambler
Waverley
Amadis de Gaul
Epistolae Plinii Secundi
x Story of Phsyche [sic] in Apuleius
Anna St Ives
Vita Julii Caesari - Suetonius
x Defoe on the Plague
x Wilsons City of the Plague
Miss Edgeworths Comic Dramas
Fortitude and Frailty by F. Holcroft
3rd Canto of Childe Harold
Quarterly Review
x Lalla Rookh by T. Moore
x Davis' travels in America
x Godwin's Mecellanies
x Spenser's Fairy Queen
x Manuscrit venu de St Helene
Buffon's theorie du terre
Beaumont and Fletchers Plays
x Volpone; Cynthia's Revels. The Alchymist.
Fall of Sejanus. Catilines conspiracy
La Nouvelle Heloise
Lettres Persiennes
Miss Edgeworths Harrington and Ormond
Arthur Mervyn
x Antony & Cleopatra - Othello
Missionary; Rhoda. Wild Irish Girl; Glenarvon; The Anaconda; Pastors Fire side; Amelia; Sir Launcelot Greaves; Strathallan; Twopenny post bag; Anti Jacobin poetry.
Miseries of human life
x Moores odes & epistles
Le Lettre d'Una Peruviana
Confessions et Lettres de Rousseau
x Lamb's Specimens
Molliere's George Dandin - le Testament
Family of Montorio - Querelles de famille
German Theatre - Eugenie & Mathilde
x Mandeville
x Laon and Cynthia
x Lady Morgan's "France".
The three brothers
First vol of Humes Essays
Annalium C. Cornelii Taciti.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Thursday Jany. 23rd. Do an Italian exercise & read some of Moore's Anacreon [...] Read
Anarcharsis [...] Begin Goldsmith's History of Greece p.40.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Sunday July 29th. [...] Read Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Ann Lowry Boyd, c. April 1831:
'For the last week I have not been at all well, & indeed was obliged yesterday to go to bed after breakfast instead of after tea, where I contrived to abstract myself out of a good deal of pain into Lord Byron's Life by Moore.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
'Except the occupation of one or two annoyances, I have done nothing but read since I got Lord Byron's life -
I have no pretensions to being a critic - yet I know infinitely well what pleases me - Not to mention the judicious arrangement and happy tact displayed by Mr Moore, which distinguish this book - I must say a word concerning the style, which is elegant and forcible. I was particularly struck by the observations on Lord Byron's character before his departure to Greece - and on his return - there is strength and richness as well as sweetness
The great charm of the work to me, and it will have the same for you, is that the Lord Byron I find there is our Lord Byron - the fascinating - faulty - childish - philosophical being - daring the world - docile to a private circle - impetuous and indolent - gloomy and yet more gay than any other - I live with him again in these pages - getting reconciled (as I used in his lifetime) to those waywardnesses which annoyed me when he was away, through the delightful and buoyant tone of his conversation and manners -
[...] There is something cruelly kind in this single volume When will the next come? - impatient before how tenfold now am I so.
Among its many other virtues this book is [underlined] accurate [end underlining] to a miracle I have not stumbled on one mistake with regard either to time place or feeling'
[letter to John Murray]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'I saw my Father today who is quite delighted with Mr Moore's book - indeed who is not? - He thinks the whole sets Lord Byron in the light he best deserves - Generous open hearted and kind - He particularly thinks beautiful the account of the first acquaintance between Lord Byron and Mr Moore'
[Letter to John Murray]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Godwin Print: Book
'The "Melodies" bear a few striking marks of the master's hand but there are some of them feeble and I think they must be Lady B's. He is not equal to Moore for [italics] melodies [end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg Print: Book
'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also found a place. Lucy was "A good reader" and gave them Scott and Thackeray and Tom Moore as well as Shakespeare; Edward read Pickwick.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Housman Print: Book
'I worked in the Gaol in the morning for a time then lazily read ["Lalla Rookh"?] till dinner time'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Book
From John Wilson Croker's Note Book:
'On the 25th November 1825, I went by His Majesty's invitation to dine and sleep at the Royal
Lodge in Windsor Park. His Majesty had intended to have shown me the plantations and
improvements made during the autumn, but it snowed heavily in the night, and next morning
the weather was so exceedingly bad that there was no possibility of stirring out, and His
Majesty admitted me to his dressing-room, and conversed with me for a considerable time --
indeed all the morning. Mr. Moore's "Life of Sheridan" was lying on the table, and in allusion to
the variety of misstatements made in that work with regard to His Majesty's conduct, he took
up the book to point out to me particularly some of these errors.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: King George IV and John Wilson Croker Print: Book
'We rowed past these [floating islands of the Dal Lake] on our way to the Shalimar Gardens, already so well known to me from reading "Lalla Rookh".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Book
'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscences of Moore. Mr Goadby read The Demon Sleep [?] and Nellie Gray, Mrs Edminson the Song of the Shirt & Mrs Rawlings selections from Lalla Rookh.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Helen Rawlings Print: Book
'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscences of Moore. Mr Goadby read The Demon Sleep [?] and Nellie Gray, Mrs Edminson the Song of the Shirt & Mrs Rawlings selections from Lalla Rookh.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Goadby Print: Book
'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscences of Moore. Mr Goadby read The Demon Sleep [?] and Nellie Gray, Mrs Edminson the Song of the Shirt & Mrs Rawlings selections from Lalla Rookh.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Edminson Print: Book
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines from Moore's Lalla Rookh [untitled and unattributed], beginning 'I wept thy absence – oer and oer again’.
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Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of "My birthday" T Moore' beginning '"My Birthday” what a different sound/ That word had in my youthful ear!'
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Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen
John Gibson Lockhart to John Murray, 29 September 1829:
'Sir Walter [Scott] has just read the first 120 pages of Moore's "Life of Byron"; and he says they are charming, and not a syllable de trop.'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott
'The first volume of "Lord Byron's Life and Letters," published on the 1st of January, 1830, was read with enthusiasm, and met with a very favourable reception. Moore says in his Diary, that "Lady Byron was highly pleased with the 'Life'"'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Lady Byron Print: Book
Mary Shelley to John Murray, 19 January 1830:
'Except the occupation of one or two annoyances, I have done nothing but read, since I got "Lord Byron's Life." I have no pretensions to being a critic, yet I know infinitely well what pleases me. Not to mention the judicious arrangement and happy [italics]tact[end italics] displayed by Mr. Moore, which distinguish the book, I must say a word concerning the style, which is elegant and forcible. I was particularly struck by the observations on Lord Byron's character before his departure to Greece, and on his return. There is strength and richness, as well as sweetness.
'The great charm of the work to me, and it will have the same to you, is that the Lord Byron I find there is [italics]our[end italics] Lord Byron -- the fascinating, faulty, philosophical being [...] I live with him in these pages -- getting reconciled (as I used in his lifetime) to those waywardnesses which annoyed me when he was away, through the delightful tone of his conversation and manners.
'His own letters and journals mirror him as he was, and are invaluable. There is something cruelly kind in this first volume. When will the next come? [...] Among its many other virtues, this book is accurate to a miracle. I have not stumbled upon one mistake with regard either to time, place, or feeling.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Mary Somerville to John Murray, 13 January 1831:
'You have kindly afforded me a source of very great interest and pleasure in the perusal of the second volume of Moore's "Life of Byron." In my opinion, it is very superior to the first; there is less repetition of the letters; they are better written, abound more in criticism and observation, and make the reader better acquainted with Lord Byron's principles and character. His morality was certainly more suited to the meridian of Italy than England; but with all his faults there is a charm about him that excites the deepest interest and admiration [comments further].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Somerville Print: Book
Mary Somerville to John Murray, 13 January 1831:
'You have kindly afforded me a source of very great interest and pleasure in the perusal of the second volume of Moore's "Life of Byron." In my opinion, it is very superior to the first; there is less repetition of the letters; they are better written, abound more in criticism and observation, and make the reader better acquainted with Lord Byron's principles and character. His morality was certainly more suited to the meridian of Italy than England; but with all his faults there is a charm about him that excites the deepest interest and admiration [comments further].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Somerville Print: Book
Colonel D'Aguilar to John Murray, 15 January 1831, on the second volume of Moore's Life of Byron:
'I have sat up all the night, and devoured every line of it. As a whole it is beautiful, the genuine transcript of his mind and body. But there are passages in it on the score of discretion which can never be sufficiently regretted. I lament this the more because you know the pains I took to prevent it..... The minor and minute detail of those grosser irregularities, to which, for a time, he abandoned himself in the rashness of despair, and when his mind was without an object, should never have been inserted..... I grieve over this beyond measure, becuase so little is wanting to make the book perfect.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Colonel D'Aguilar Print: Book
John Wilson Croker to John Murray (1831), on the second volume of Moore's Life of Byron:
'No doubt there are longeurs, but really not many. The most teasing part is the blanks, which perplex without concealing [comments further].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker Print: Book
Gally Knight to John Murray, 17 February 1831:
'I have seen the second volume of Moore's "Life of Byron," and though it can be matter of surprise to no one to find himself the object of the spleen of the noble author, yet I confess I [italics]am surprised[end italics] at seeing myself so gratuitously offered up as a victim to the public [comments further] [...] The second volume appears to me to be neither more nor less than "Don Juan" in prose, and I cannot say how much I regret to see Lord Byron's amours so openly paraded before the public. It is an indecorous exhibition, and but too likely to do harm, for young men will admire [italics]the whole[end italics] of the life, because it belonged to genius; and will imitate the only part of it with which metal superiority had nothing to do.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Gally Knight Print: Book
[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 22 April 1818:]
'Read Lalla Rookh.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Firth Print: Book
Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 28 May 1853:
'I despatch to-day a box of return books [loaned by Williams]: among them will be found two or
three of those just sent, being such as I had read before — i.e. Moore's "Life and
Correspondence," 1st and 2nd Vols., Lamartine's "Restoration of the Monarchy," etc.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë Print: Book
"I am writing this on the Maid's tragedy which I have read since tea with great pleasure -
Besides this
volume of Beaumont & Fletcher - there are on the table two volumes of chaucer and a new work
of Tom
Moores call'd 'Tom Cribb's memorial to Congress' - nothing in it - These are trifles...
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Keats Print: Book
‘Your Lucretius arrived in all its beauty of type and cover. It is a noble poem
and I wish it were printed in a more compressed form so that one could
have it in the pocket and read it more. It does now sound like a translation
the words seem so natural to the thought … I can say no more than that I
got deep pleasure from it and thank you very much. I’m reading some
Shakespeare—Sturge Moore, G. Bottomley H. G. Wells—Sturge Moore
delights me—they are only small things I mean as number of words go,—
but he is after my own heart. You know what I think of G. B. And that old
hawker of immortality how glad one feels, he is not a witness of these
terrible times—he would only have been flung into this terrible destruction,
like the rest of us. Anyway we all hope it’ll all end well.’
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Rosenberg Print: Book
