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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
'On 13 May 1812 [Henry Crabb] Robinson recorded in his diary: "William Wordsworth was more afraid of the liberal than the methodistic party on the bench of bishops, and read a beautiful passage from Jeremy Taylor on the progress of religious dissensions from his Dissuasive against Popery."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
"Coleridge's many notes to Jeremy Taylor's Polemicall Discourses include some addressed to the author directly ('A sophism, dearest Jeremy!'); some to the owner of the volume, Charles Lamb; and some to a hypothetical other reader ..."
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of which I have been reading lately':
'Alfieri's "Life", by himself, a curious and interesting work; Washington Irving's last book, "A Tour on the Prairies", rather an ordinary book, upon a not ordinary subject, but not without sufficiently interesting matter in it too; Dr. Combe's "Principles of Physiology"; and a volume of Marlowe's plays, containing "Dr. Faustus". I have just finished Hayward's Translation of Goethe's "Faust", and wanted to see the old English treatment of the subject. I have read Marlowe's play with more curiosity than pleasure. This is, after all, but a small sample of what I read, but if you remember the complexion of my studies when I was a girl at Heath Farm and read Jeremy Taylor and Byron together, I can only say that they are still apt to be of the same heterogenous quality. But my brain is kept in a certain state of activity by them, and that, I suppose, is one of the desirable results of reading.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble Print: Book
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
'I took Lubbock's List as a guide in my book hunting and persevered until I had acquired and read every single book in Lubbock's "hundred". It took time, of course: it was only after many years that I could happen upon and acquire, secondhand, Grote's "History of Greece". But as I found them, so, doggedly, I set myself to read them, and to puzzle out, as well as I could, why they had acquired the repute in which they stood. It was, at times, hard going; I got little pleasure or profit from Keble's "Christian Year", and, though his gorgeous word tapestry impressed me greatly, little of either from Jeremy Taylor's "Holy Living" and "Holy Dying".'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book
'I took Lubbock's List as a guide in my book hunting and persevered until I had acquired and read every single book in Lubbock's "hundred". It took time, of course: it was only after many years that I could happen upon and acquire, secondhand, Grote's "History of Greece". But as I found them, so, doggedly, I set myself to read them, and to puzzle out, as well as I could, why they had acquired the repute in which they stood. It was, at times, hard going; I got little pleasure or profit from Keble's "Christian Year", and, though his gorgeous word tapestry impressed me greatly, little of either from Jeremy Taylor's "Holy Living" and "Holy Dying".'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book
'but we had breakfasted a little at Mr Gawdens, he being out of town though; and there borrowed Dr Taylors Sermons, and is a most excellent book and worth my buying'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 26 December 1843:
'Although I have read rather widely the divinity of the Greek Fathers [...] & have of course
informed myself in the works generally of our old English divines, Hooker's, Jeremy Taylor's &
so forth, I am not by any means a frequent reader of books of theology as such [...] I read
the Scriptures every day & in as simple a spirit as I can; thinking as little as possible of the
controversies engendered in that great sunshine, & as much as possible of the heat & glory
belonging to it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
'This [talking about feuds between families] reminds me of "Ivanhoe". I take the introduction of Scripture phrases to be neither intentional profaneness in the author nor carelessness, but adherence to the strict letter of the time he describes. It was their constant language. They had few books to read, and they quoted [italics] a tort et a travers [end italics] the one they knew, just as in the 17th century they did the Classics. Even Jeremy Taylor cannot bid us do as we would be done by without bringing in a passage from Plato or Homer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart Print: Book
'I read also Dr Taylour of practical repentance, and Dr Preston of faith, and found good by them'.
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer Print: Book
'I mentioned Jeremy Taylor's using, in his forms of prayer, "I am the chief of sinners", and other such self-condemning expressions. "Now, (said I) this cannot be said with truth by every man, and therefore is improper for a general printed form. I myself cannot say that I am the worst of men; I will not say so".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell Print: Book
'JOHNSON. "I do not approve of figurative expressions in addressing the Supreme Being; and I never use them. Taylor gives a very good advice: 'Never lie in your prayers; never confess more than you really believe; never promise more than you mean to perform'. I recollected this precept in his "Golden Grove"; but his [italics]example [end italics] for prayer contradicts his [italics] precept [end italics].'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
