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William Roscoe

  

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William Roscoe : The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth

'On 29 Nov. 1805, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told Lady Beaumont: "I am reading Rosco's Leo the tenth - I have only got through the first Chapter which I find exceedingly interesting. The whole Book can scarcely be so interesting to me."'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

William Roscoe : The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth

' ... by 11 Jan. 1806 ... [Southey] was reading ... [Roscoe, "Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth"] a second time [having read it to review it in 1805]: "I am come to Roscoe," he told Henry Herbert Southey, "whose book rises much in my estimation upon a second perusal."'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

  

William Roscoe : The Life of Lorenzo de Medici, called the Magnificent OR The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a passage I have not found. Read the 4th. vol. of W. Scott's second series of "Tales of my Landlord".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Print: Book

  

William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo Di Medici, 2 vols

'You will readily believe that I have not read much since I wrote to you. Roscoe's life of Lorenzo di'Medici - a work concerning which I shall only observe, in the words of the Auctioneer that it is "well worth any gentleman's perusal" - is the only thing almost that I recollect aught abo[ut.]'

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

  

William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de Medici

'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone with G.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

  

William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de Medici

'Continued Roscoe, with much disgust at his shallowness and folly'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

  

William Roscoe : The life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificant

'Began with eagerness, and read, with increasing avidity, the first four Chapters of Roscoe's "Life of Lorenzo de Medici"...'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green      Print: Book

  

William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de Medici

'Concluded a second reading of Roscoe's "Lorenzo de Medici", which fades considerably on a reperusal...'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green      Print: Book

  

William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent

'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and work in the evening. Read severy [for several)] odes of Horace'

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

  

William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent

'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - read several odes of Horace'

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

  

William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent

'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - read several odes of Horace'

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

  

William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent

'read the life of Lorenzo - shelley [sic] reads the appendix'

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

  

William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent

'read the life of Lorenzo - shelley [sic] reads the appendix'

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

  

William Roscoe : [pre-publication comments on Hogg's 'The Hunting of Badlewe'

'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginning to end and his hints are most rational - these letters will well make up to you what is unfilled up in my sheet. I send you likewise a volume of poems by a young friend of mine of very great poetical powers. I have been greatly instrumental in bringing them forward, and subscribed for ten copies and I beg you will accept of this as a small present to the neat collection upstairs which has erst been free to me'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: presumably in MS

  

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