The Rev. P. Elmsley to John Murray (1815), regarding the Quarterly Review:
'I think you have not been very brilliant of late. I must say there is as great a difference
between Jeffrey's best papers and your politics as between Handel and his bellows-blower [...]
Is there not too much of the dry rot? Barrow ought not to ride you so unmercifully [...] I want
to know, what I don't expect you to tell me, who [italics]did[end italics] the Paradise of
Coquettes? Is it not the same hand which [italics]did] "Brand's Popular Antiquities" in the last
number but one. I should be sorry to have my brain so full of cobwebs as that gentleman's, be
he who he may. Then, your politician, who talks about that "enemy to Europe, the King of
Saxony," is a most useful performer.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Rev. P. Elmsley Print: Serial / periodical
The Rev. P. Elmsley to John Murray (1815), regarding the Quarterly Review:
'I think you have not been very brilliant of late. I must say there is as great a difference
between Jeffrey's best papers and your politics as between Handel and his bellows-blower [...]
Is there not too much of the dry rot? Barrow ought not to ride you so unmercifully [...] I want
to know, what I don't expect you to tell me, who [italics]did[end italics] the Paradise of
Coquettes? Is it not the same hand which [italics]did] "Brand's Popular Antiquities" in the last
number but one. I should be sorry to have my brain so full of cobwebs as that gentleman's, be
he who he may. Then, your politician, who talks about that "enemy to Europe, the King of
Saxony," is a most useful performer.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Rev. P. Elmsley Print: Serial / periodical
