'Read one of Bradley's Sermons and some pieces in The Sacred Lyre.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book
'Read one of Bradley's Sermons and some pieces in The Sacred Lyre.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book
'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesaurus... When he chaired the Tredegar Library Committee, ?60 of its ?300 acquisitions budget was delegated to a colliery repairman to buy philosophy books. Bevan could quote Nietzsche, discuss F.H. Bradley's "Appearance and Reality", and deeply impress an Oxford tutor with his crique of Kant's "Categorical Imperative"... Bevan was... deeply influenced by "The Theory of the Leisure Class".'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Aneurin (Nye) Bevan Print: Book
[in the sick bay with measles, after a week not allowed to read] 'I was very bored, and started reading "Diary of a District Officer". Matron says that I must not read more than two hours a day!'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book
'I read Bradley on "Hamlet" all day, and am in a greater muddle over it than I am over "Antony and Cleo", if that is possible!'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book
'I finished reading "The Rivals", and have embarked on Bradley's "Shakespearean Tragedy"'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book
'Finished reading A.C. Bradley's "Shakespearean Tragedy", which has lain unread for 20 years: a work of profound penetration. Not only has it taught me much about Shakespeare; but its analysis of those values which underlie Shakespeare's tragic conception has in some measure confirmed my own convictions embodied in "But the Earth Abideth".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar Print: Book
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 31 July 1832:
'I have the greatest pleasure in reading religious books. I find that I understand the Bible better than I ever did before, that I know much better what I am not and what I ought to be, that the subject interests and occupies me deeply, whilst I am employed on it [...] I have been reading Fenn's sermons and like most of them extremely as explaining and directing. Bradley's third volume is excellent. Adams' "Private Thoughts" one likes better and better. There are parts that one cannot, but these always redeemed by something so true, so feeling, so practical.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville Print: Book
'I keep the two books a little longer. "Shakespeare" is good.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
'I am deep in ''Dean Stanley's Life'' and I like it so much.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin Print: Book
