'The first opinion I have heard of it [the "Makers of Venice"] is Mr Gladstone's, to whom Mr Macmillan sent it, and who sent back to him at once a letter of four pages saying, first, that he was not going to Venice, as had been reported; and next, that he must contradict himself, and say that he had been in Venice, the book having quite given him that feeling; after which he enters into a question of Venetian political history about Bajamonte, whose very name, I should think, was unknown to most readers, but with whom this amazing old man seems intimately acquainted.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
I have begun the perusal, and I very much hope, and cannot doubt, that your living portraitures of Scripture characters will impress upon many minds an important portion of those evidences of the sacred volume which are so much higher than the "higher criticism", and which have a range of flight beyond its reach.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book, Unknown
On process of choosing a Poet Laureate from 1892: 'When Gladstone had read [William] Watson's Poems (1892), sent to him by R. H. Hutton, it was with a view to obtaining for him a Civil List pension, not the laureateship.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
'... "Natalie" [by Julia Kavanagh] she [Mary Gladstone] did not think measured up to the same author's "Daisy Burns" (1853), although her recommendation ... led her father, lately ejected from the premiership, to read it too.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
"Mr. Gladstone left aside the cares of state by reading ... [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
' ... Gladstone, who was meticulous in keeping a record of his reading, noted only one [Hall] Caine novel, "The Scapegoat", which he read on publication in 1891 ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
"... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started on Ardath a couple of days afterwards, but when he returned to it after two months, he was doing no more than skimming it."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
"... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started on Ardath a couple of days afterwards, but when he returned to it after two months, he was doing no more than skimming it."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, was his moral anxiety that a society without a Christian framework would lose its ethical bearings.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Unknown
' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, was his moral anxiety that a society without a Christian framework would lose its ethical bearings.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
' ... [Gladstone] was disappointed by ... "The History of David Grieve" (1892), though he read it all ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
' ... at home [Lady Frances Balfour] listened to Gladstone reading Latin and Italian.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
' ... at home [Lady Frances Balfour] listened to Gladstone reading Latin and Italian.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
[Friday 20 November 1840]. Before prayers work with my Father- cards at night- shooting - read Stahl- Clarendon- Burnet (Own Time, began).
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
[Saturday 21 November 1840]. [...] read Clarendon- Burnet - worked on Ch. & State [...].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
[Monday 23 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & State [...].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
[Tues 24 November 1840]. read Burnet - Bruce on Assam- Clarendon- [...].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
[Weds 25 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Neal - Clarendon- [...].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
[Thurs 26 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon Life- d[itt]o Reln and Policy- Poems- Tyler- H[enry] V. [...].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
[Fri 27 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & St. [...].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
[Sat 28 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & St. [...].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
[Sunday 21 November 1841]. [...] Read Knight's Life of Colet. [...].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
'Began Clinton's Introduction &c.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
'Bland — Clinton — a little Herodotus.'
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Thucydides — Clinton — Public Lecture in Diff. Calc — reading it & Questions ...
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
Read Juvenal all the morning- (save that I now read a few verses of Greek Testament the first thing)- finished Clinton's Introduction.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
[...] Stanley- Gisborne- Shelley- Lancaster: exceedingly desultory & alas exceedingly idle. Did a very few Lat. vss & Greek Iambb.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
[Sunday] Chapel & Serm. mg & aft. Whateley. Lancaster. Sleepy. [...].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
[Sunday] Short's Serm. Heard Buckley. Lancaster &c &C. [...].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
18,19. Frid. Sat. Two very idle days- read a little Allgebraic Geometry, in Powell and Lardner [...].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
25 Fri. [...] Rode to Cuddesdon with Bruce- to remain there for a fortnight. read Powell's Differential Calculus in aftn & evg [...].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
[Sunday] Church 11 A.M. 3 P.M. [...] Worked on Index. Read Burton's Testimonies to the Trinity.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
[...] Finished Burton [...]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
