From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]':
'He read or had read to him at this time the following books or essays: Leaf's edition of the Iliad; the Iphigenia of Aulis, expressing "wonder at its modernness"; Matthew Arnold on Tolstoi; Fiske's Destiny of Man; Gibbon's History, especially praising the Fall of Constantinople; Keats [sic] poems; Wordsworth's "Recluse." Of this last he said: "I like the passages which have been published before, such as that about the dance of a flock of birds, driven by a thoughtless impulse [...]"
'He often looked at his Virgil, more than ever delighting in what he called "that splendid end of the second Georgic."'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
George Grote to 'Mr Bain,' 4 Septemberr 1868:
'In coming down here [Long Bennington] yesterday, I read the September number of the "Fortnightly," seeing by the advertisement that it contained an article by you. I read it with very great pleasure: it seems to me most excellent; it is the lecture (apparently) that I did [italics]not[end italics] hear last May at the Royal Institution. The same number contained also an admirable article upon the Science of History, written with great ability, and in the best spirit, by an American author, whose name I never heard before -- John Fiske [comments further on article] [...] There was also another good article in the same number -- on John Wilkes.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote Print: Serial / periodical
