I know not why but too late for Church. Read 1 hour in the summerhouse, Dr Clark on the Evengelists.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
Came home before 7. Dr Clark 1 hour. Bed past 10.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
Did not go to Church. Read Clark's Attributes morn.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
Lay till past 9. Read Dr Clark little. Went to King Street chapel...
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
Mrs Prade set me down past 9. Read Dr Clark 1/2 hour after supper. Bed 11.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
Afternoon went to the chaple. Home. Coffee. Read Clarke's 'Parraphras on the Evangellists'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
Afternoon read Clarke's Attributes 2 hours.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
Would not go to Church. Read Dr Clark's 'paraphras'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
Some of Dr Clark's paraphras.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
I sat with Aunt till 7. Read Dr Clark's 'Paraphras' 1 1/2 hours.Bed near 11.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
Did not go to Church morn. nor afternoon. Read Dr Clark paraphras.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
None went to Church. Read Clark's 'Attributes' and writt.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
I read yesterday in Mr. Joseph Clarke?s Sacred Literature, that Nonnus is an author whom few can read, & fewer admire. So that my opinion is nothing outrageous. I do not feel well; & look like a ghost.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Byron to Edward Daniel Clarke, 26 June 1812: 'My dear Sir, - Will you accept my very sincere congratulations on your second volume wherein I have retraced some of my old paths adorned by you so beautifully that they give me double delight. The part which pleases me best is the preface ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book
'Very much struck at the unpreachable style of Clarke on the attributes, his logical and metaphysical views, his answers to Lucretius, Hobbesand spinoza. what a difference times and place create, were I to treat my congregation with the productions of this great writer, in three Sundays I should scarce expect half a dozen hearers, not six swine to devour his pearls'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book
'[Attended] the Agricultural Committee in Ripon. Read Clarke, the first volume, and Burder's Illustration of Scripture, one volume'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book
'Read Clarke and Madame La Roche Jaqueline'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book
'Read Vth and VIth vol. of Clarke, admired his account of pyramids, catacombs and hatching of chickens [...]His supposition [...] that the Soros in the Chamber of the Great Pyramid might contain the body of Joseph delighted me much.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book
Mary Berry, Journal, Sunday 14 October 1810, on stay in Greathead household at Guy's Cliff: '[After church attendance] The blind Miss Williams played much of Handel's music, and afterwards Greathead read Clarke's travels to us.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Greathead Print: Book
'During our readings at our lodgings, Dr Clarke's Lake of Riberias formed an interesting portion. King's Hymns too were our companion.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book
"Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scott's 'Lord of the Isles,' Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri (of which a most delectable account in the Quarterly), Joanne Southcott, &c &c".
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical
'Read Pliny - transcribe - read Clarke's travels - Shelley writes and reads Apuleius and Spencer in the evening'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Pliny and Clarkes travels - Shelley writes his poem [The Revolt of Islam] - reads Hist. of Fr. Rev. and Spencer aloud in the evening'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Tacitus - Clarkes travels - transcribe for S. - S writes - reads several of the plays of Aeschylus and Spencer aloud in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 2nd book of the Aeneid - read Dr Clarke's travels'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read part of the 7th book of Virgil - walk - finish the 3rd vol of Clarke'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
[Mary's second reading list for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on those references. An x denotes Percy Shelley having read the text too]
'M
Clarke's Travels
Hume's dissertation on the passions
Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey Letters & c
2 vols of Montaigne
Schlegel on the drama
Oeuvres de Moliere
Aristippes de Wieland
French trans. of Lucian
Mille et une nuits
Tragedies de Voltaire
Trajedies de Corneille
x Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
x Voyages du jeune Anacharsis
Ben Jonson's Comedies
Pope's Homer
Joseph Andrews - Gil Blas - x Corinne
Faublas
Italian
Pamela
x Aminta of Tasso
Monti's Tragedies
x Orlando Furioso
Giurusalemme [sic] Liberata
tragedies of Alfieri
x Inferno of Dante
Vita di Alfieri
Latin
x The Aenied [sic]
Terence's Comedies
2 books of Horace
10 books of Livy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for style. I took an opportunity to-day of mentioning several to him. "Atterbury?" Johnson. "Yes, Sir, one of the best". Boswell. "Tillotson?". Johnson. "Why, not now. I should not advise a preacher at this day to imitate Tillotson's style: though I don't know; I should be cautious of objecting to what has been applauded by so many suffrages. — South is one of the best, if you except his peculiarities, and his violence, and sometimes
coarseness of language. — Seed has a very fine style; but he is not very theological. — Jortin's sermons are very elegant. — Sherlock's style too is very elegant, though he has not made it his principal study. — And you may add Smallridge. All the latter preachers have a good style. Indeed, nobody now talks much of style: everybody composes pretty well. There are no such inharmonious periods as there were a hundred years ago. I should recommend Dr. Clarke's sermons, were he orthodox. However, it is very well known where he is not orthodox, which was upon the doctrine of the Trinity, as to which he is a condemned heretic: so one is aware of it." Boswell. "I like Ogden's "Sermons
on Prayer" very much, both for neatness of style and subtilty of reasoning. "Johnson. "I should like to read all that Ogden has written." Boswell. "What I wish to know is, what sermons afford the best specimen of English pulpit eloquence." Johnson. "We have no sermons addressed to the passions, that are good for anything; if you mean that kind of eloquence".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Unknown
'May 11. I read the lives of some moderne divines, and I was ashamed to find how short I came of such examples for zeale, and diligence. In Mr Stockton's life, whom I knew, I found that being soberly brought up he found not that change, which others, who were wicked, found at their conversion . . . '
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer Print: Book
'He pressed me to study Dr. Clarke and to read his Sermons. I asked him why he pressed Dr. Clarke, an Arian. "Because, (said he) he is fullest on the propitiatory sacrifice."'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
'In the Evening went again to the Club, found no one there but Marcus Clarke & Shillingham. Had a chat with them. Marcus read a portion of a comic Opera he was writing to be called "The Jolly beggars". It was very funny but I should think better adapted for the pages of Punch than for the Stage'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Marcus Clarke Manuscript: Unknown
'I am reading "Haworth Parsonage" by Isabel C. Clarke. I have never read a book on the Brontes before, although I have often passed Cowan Bridge, the notorious school, which caused the deaths of Maria and Elizabeth.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Book