'On turning to my book, I find I have journalised only one day, during this summer vis [sic] July 29, when I walked after tea with Mrs Cole a new walk down Penny-black Lane, across Chapman's Common, & into the Scalby Road - a short way into the Whitby Road, & returned over the fields by the bleach yard on the Whitby Road - a delightful rural walk. Read in Dibdin's Decameron - Delany's Life of King David, & Gay's Choir.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book
'The Hulses have been reading Mrs Delany's Letters, & never were so interested, they say, nor even [underlined] affected [end underlining] in some parts of it, by any book in their lives'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: General Sir Samuel Hulse and his wife Print: Book
'in one of the Sermons on Social Duties, published lately by a [italics] real [end italics] Divine, he makes this Observation, That he believes, very few Women have either been so weak, or so wicked, to wrong the Marriage-bed, but when they have been provok'd to it, either by the ill Treatment they receiv'd from their Husbands, or in Revenge to their prior falsehoods.
If I have not deliver'd the worthy Author's sentiments with his own Elegance of Style, I am sure he will pardon me, as I only quote from memory, not being mistress of his admirable Works.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington Print: Book
'I found him at home in the morning. He praised Delany's "Observations on Swift ;" said that his book and Lord Orrery's might both be true, though one viewed Swift more, and the other less favourably; and that, between both, we might have a complete notion of Swift.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
From John Wilson Croker's Journal of 1818:
'December 16th. -- Before dinner His Royal Highness told me he had been reading Walter
Scott's edition of Swift, which, and particularly the correspondence, amused him; and above
all he was surprised to find Dr. Sheridan's character to be so exactly that of poor Sheridan. He
said he thought the best letters were Lord Bolingbroke's [...] I had shown H.R.H. in the
morning, a copy of a letter written 40 years ago by Mrs. Delany (widow of the Dr. Swift's
friend) giving an account of a visit of the Royal family to Bulstrode, in which H.R.H. was
mentioned; he was pleased at this revival of early reflections, and assured me every word of
the account was true.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Augustus Frederick Prince of Wales Manuscript: Letter, Copied.
