the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Sydney Smith : [Letters]

'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began the second Book of the Iliad in Greek this morning'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes     Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Sydney Smith : A Fragment on the Irish Roman Church

'full of his living wit & wisdom, & not without some of his flippancy on solemn themes, however there is so much of manly justice in the whole argument that I could only wish for the suppression of one or two unnecessary jokes about extreme unction'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth      Manuscript: Unknown

Sydney Smith : Letters

'He read — Sterne, Sydney Smith's letters, Canning's speeches, and two thrillers: A. E. W. Mason's Konigsmarch and Michael Innes's Lament for a Maker ...'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buchan      Print: Book

Sydney Smith : Moral Philosophy

'I have been reading and enjoying Sydney Smith's 'Moral Philosophy', which Mrs Smith sent me this winter, and I find it a delightful book.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Allen      Print: Book

Sydney Smith : [papers and correspondence]

'Mrs Sydney Smith is affectionate and kind as it is possible to be. She gives me all her husband's papers and correspondence to look over and read...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Allen      

Sydney Smith : Selections from the writings of the Rev. Sydney Smith

'... I have been idle, but rather too busy to write, our leisure hours being taken up with reading Sydney's "Memoirs".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Allen      Print: Book

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