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Robert Vaughan : The Life and Opinions of John de Wycliffe, D.D.

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

Vaughan : English Revolutions in Religion

Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 28 October 1864: "What are you reading? I have just read Vaughan's Eng. Revolutions in Religion. Interesting subject but middling book."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Unknown

Henry Vaughan : Silex Scintillans

'I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts of Silex Scintillans.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Henry Vaughan : They are all gone into the world of light

'I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts of Silex Scintillans.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

Henry Vaughan : 'Quickness'

'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] Reading F. R. Lucas also [quotes seven lines beginning with 'Your quiet altar after all was best']'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

Henry Vaughan : [poems]

'I was struck this morning, in comparing the poems of George Herbert with those of Henry Vaughan, by the perfect ease and power of the former, the labour and short falling of the latter'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Unknown

Thomas Vaughan : Magia Adamica. Or the Antiquity of Magic, And the Descent thereof from Adam downwards, proved. Whereunto is added a perfect and full discovery of the true Cœlum Terræ, or the Magicians Heavenly Chaos, & first Matter of all Things. By Eugenius Philalethes.

Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Detailed reading notes from Thomas Vaughan's Magia Adamica (1650).

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pordage      Print: Book

Thomas Vaughan : The Man-Mouse Taken in a Trap, and tortur'd to death for gnawing the margins of Eugenius Philalethes

Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Reading notes from Thomas Vaughan's The Man-Mouse Taken in a Trap, and tortur'd to death for gnawing the margins of Eugenius Philalethes (1650), followed by one page of the scribe's reflections and comments on the work (p. 103).

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pordage      Print: Book

Henry Vaughan : [unknown]

'In literature it is only in Vaughan, Traherne, and other mystics, that I find any adequate expression of that perpetual rapturous delight in nature and my own existence that I experienced at that period.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Hudson      Print: Book

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