Sup'd alone. Read 'The Sophy', a play of Sir J Deham's.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... most of Cowley, Butler, and Denham, Pope and Dryden often;...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book
'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end italics] Betters, his Ethic Epistles are little more than Lord [italics] Shaftesbury's [end italics] Rhapsody be rhym'd; his [italics] Windsor Forest [end italics] stollen [sic] from [italics] Cooper's [end italics] Hill; and his [italics] Eloisa and Abelard [end italics], the most beautiful Lines in it, taken from [italics] Milton's Il Penseroso [end italics]'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington Print: Unknown
Wednesday, 5 April 1826:
'Read Clapperton's journey and Denman's [sic] into Bornou -- very entertaining and less
botheration about mineralogy botany and so forth than usual. Pity Africa picks up so many brave
men however.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott Print: Book
