"I have been reading lately 'Natural Philosophy' by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the 'Chemistry of Creation' by Dr Ellis."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book
'If you have not read Herschel in Lardners Cyclo ? read it directly.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin Print: Book
'Happy days were spent in the little Twickenham garden, my father reading aloud passages of any book which struck him. Layard's Nineveh and Herschel's Astronomy were read at this time.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
'The note by my father, that originally headed his blank verse translation from the Iliad beginning
'He ceased, and sea-like roar'd the Trojan host,
'ran: "Some, and among these one at least of our best and greatest, have endeavoured to give us the Iliad in English hexameters, and by what appears to me their failure have gone far to prove the impossibility of the task [...]" [...] This was written after reading Sir John Herschel's "Book I. of the Iliad translated in the Hexameter Metre," Cornhill Magazine, May 1862.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Serial / periodical
