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Francis Wrangham : Human Laws best supported by the Gospel

William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'I have read your sermon [Human Laws best supported by the Gospel] (which I lately received from Longman) with much pleasure. I only gave it a cursory perusal, for since it arrived my family has been in great confusion, we having removed to another House, in which we are not yet half settled. The Appendix I had received before in a frank, and of that I feel more entitled to speak, because I had read it more at leisure [goes on to discuss this in detail].'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      

Francis Wrangham : Gospel best promulgated in National Schools, The

William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'Your sermon [The Gospel best promulgated by National Schools] did not reach me till the night before last. I believe we all have read it, and are much pleased with it.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family     

Francis Wrangham : Brutoniad

'[Francis] Wrangham was ... in the habit of reading MS verses to his friends: C[oleridge] heard his "Brutoniad" in Sept. 1794.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Wrangham      Manuscript: Unknown

Francis Wrangham : translation of Virgil, Eclogues

William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: 'I ought to have thanked you before for your versions of Virgil's Eclogues, which reached me at last. I have lately compared it line for line with the original, and think it very well done ... I think I mentioned to you that these Poems of Virgil have always delighted me much; there is frequently in them an elegance and a happiness that no translation can hope to equal. In point of fidelity your translation is very good indeed.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      

Francis Wrangham : [poem]

'Writing to [Francis] Wrangham in late Feb. 1801, W[ordsworth] remarked: "I read with great pleasure a very elegant and tender poem of yours in the 2nd Vol: of the [Annual] Anthology."'

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

Francis Wrangham : The Life of Dr. Richard Bentley

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

Francis Wrangham : Scraps

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

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