[Marginalia by Macaulay on Conyers Middleton's 'Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church']: 'I do not at all admire this letter. Indeed Middleton should have counted the cost before he took his part. He never appears to so little advantage as when he complains in this way of the calumnies and invectives of the orthodox.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book
'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Newspaper
'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Newspaper
'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Letters; Hume's "History of England"; Hooke's "Roman History"; and Conyers Middleton's "Life of Cicero" ... She also ... studied music theory in Diderot's treatise ...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book
'When Middleton Murry attacked George Moore in an editorial of the "Adelphi" in April 1924, he [Arnold Bennett] wrote a very strong letter of protest, and rightly: Murry's piece, "Wrap me up in my Aubusson Carpet", had been a characteristically emotional and unbalanced attack . . .'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical
'The fault of the great author, whose letters to his friend you have been reading, is, that Tully is wholly concerned for the fame of Cicero; and that for fame and self-exaltation sake. In some of his orations, what is called his vehemence (but really is too often insult and ill manners) so transports him, that a modern pleader... would not be heard, if he were to take the like freedoms... Cicero's constitutional faults seem to be vanity and cowardice. Great geniuses seldom have small faults. You have seen, I presume, Dr Middleton's "Life of Cicero". It is a fine piece; but the Doctor, I humbly think, has played the panegyrist, in some places in it, rather than the historian. The present laureat's performance on the same subject, of which Dr Middleton's is the foundation, is a spirited and pretty piece... You greatly oblige me, Madam, whenever you give me your observations upon what you read'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book
[Marginalia]: brief ink additions to some 6 pp of the text e.g p.57 against XXXVIII is the note 'This act is ... to be payed from imported commodities ...'; p. 49 against XXVIII is the note 'This act [word deleted] reshinded [sic]'.
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Johannes [ie John] Chrystie Print: Book
'Read through Middleton's Letter from Rome'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
To Miss Hunt, December 12 1792
'The "Lusiad" I never read. It was Middleton's "Life of Cicero" that I meant. I was not tired with its length because the chief of its contents were new to me. I have lately undertaken Smollet's "History of England", but must leave it in the middle.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book
'The afternoon, while Will is abroad, I spent in reading "The Spanish Gypsy", a play not very good, though commended much.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
'and then down to Woolwich Deptford to look after things...All the way down and up, reading of "The Mayor of Quinborough", a simple play.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
'I have read since last October a good deal ot the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Middleton's "Free Enquiry" ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone 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] Middleton's "Free Enquiry" . his Letter from Rome ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book
'I have read since last October a good deal ot the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Middleton's "Free Enquiry" . his Letter from Rome, several dissertations of his Latin and English ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone 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] Middleton's "Free Enquiry" . his Letter from Rome, several dissertations of his Latin and English , one volume and a half of his "Cicero"...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book
'Up, and got my wife to read to me a copy of what the Surveyor offered to the Duke of York on Friday, he himself putting it into my hand to read; but Lord, it is a poor silly thing ever to think to bring it in practice in the King's Navy; it is to have the Captain's to endent for all stores and victuals; but upon so silly grounds to my thinking, and ignorance of the present instructions of Officers, that I am ashamed to hear it.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Manuscript: Unknown
'Read Middletons Cicero'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
29 July: 'I'm paralysed by the task of describing a week end at Garsington. I suppose we spoke some million words between us [...] There was Gertler; Shearman & Dallas for tea; Brett, Ottoline, 3 children & Philip. The string which united everything together was Philip's attack on Murry in The Nation for his review of Sassoon [...] to prove his case Philip read Murry's article, his letter, & his letter to Murry, three times over, so I thought, emphasising his points, & lifting his finger to make us attend. And there was Sassoon's letter of gratitude too. I think Ott. was a little bored.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Morrell Print: Serial / periodical
'the short stories she did know, from Downe days, were Richard Middleton's colection "The Ghost Ship" and E.M. Forster's "The Celestial Omnibus".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen Print: Book
E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 19 June 1912:
'The day before yesterday I read The Ghost Ship by R. Middleton [...] I thought it very good, and it added to the other qualities I want in a supernatural story, the quality of good nature. The others in the same book did not look as interesting.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster
Copious MS notes, some correcting translation, others commenting on world affairs or noting events in Trevelyan's own life. MS dates of reading up to 1921 and list of 8 men selected for University Scholarship in 1850, incl. Trevelyan. Notes include: "August 18 1887" "Oct. 15. 1919" Page 573: "George's convoy have reached Udine [i.e. G.M. Trevelyan, his son]. How extraordinarily interesting the notes written during this crisis are!" P. 469: "Aug 16 1915 Warsaw has fallen. Rige in dire peril" P. 511: " Aug 16 1915 Runciman and Massingham visited us yesterday." "P. 560: "Aug 14 1889. Rain and no grouse, having spoiled the day's shooting".
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan Print: Book
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Maxims of Bishop Middleton'. Various maxims follow, including 'Keep your temper', 'Employ leisure in study,' and [doubled underlined] 'remember the final account.'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: C.M.G. [anon]
Tuesday, 1 August 1826:
'Yesterday evening [...] I took to arranging the old plays of which Terry had brought me about
a dozen and dipping into them scrambled through two -- One called Michaelmas Term full of
traits of manners and another a sort of bouncing tragedy called The Hector of Germany or The
Palsgrave. The last, worthless in the extreme, is like many of the plays in the beginning of the
17th. Century written to a good tune [goes on to comment further on language in seventeenth-
century drama].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott Print: Book
