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Edward Hyde Clarendon : History of the Rebellion and civil wars in England

To Miss Hunt Shirley, July 28, 1795 'I have just finished Clarendon's "History of the rebellion", which Miss Bowdler long ago desired me to read. It is extremely interesting and instructive.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon : The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the year 1641; ed. with fourth volume, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland

[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year texts are referred to in diary entries so as far as possible these works are not given separate database references based on this list. An x marks the fact that Percy Shelley read the book too.] x Moritz' tour in England Tales of the Minstrels x Park's Journal of a Journey in Africa Peregrine Proteus x Siege of Corinth & Parasina. 4 vols. of Clarendon's History x Modern Philosophers opinions of Various writers on the punishment of death by B. Montagu Erskines speeches x Caleb Williams x 3rd Canto of Childe Harold Schiller's arminian Lady Craven's Leters Caliste Nouvelle nouvelles Romans de Voltaire Reveries d'un Solitaire de Rousseau Adele et Theodore x Lettres Persannes de Montesquieu Tableau de Famille Le vieux de la Montagne x Conjuration de Rienzi Walther par La Fontaine Les voeux temeraires Herman d'Una Nouveaux nouvelles de Mad. de Genlis x Christabel Caroline de Litchfield x Bertram x Le Criminel se[c]ret Vancenza by Mrs Robinson Antiquary x Edinburgh Review num. LII Chrononhotonthologus x Fazio Love and Madness Memoirs of Princess of Bareith x Letters of Emile The latter part of Clarissa Harlowe Clarendons History of the Civil War x Life of Holcroft x Glenarvon Patronage The Milesian Chief. O'Donnel x Don Quixote x Vita Alexandri - Quintii Curtii Conspiration de Rienzi Introduction to Davy's Chemistry Les Incas de Marmontel Bryan Perdue Sir C. Grandison x Castle Rackrent x Gulliver's Travels x Paradise Lost x Pamela x 3 vol of Gibbon 1 book of Locke's Essay Some of Horace's odes x Edinburgh Review L.III Rights of Women De senectute by Cicero 2 vols of Lord Chesterfield's leters to his son x Story of Rimini' 'Pastor Fido Orlando Furioso Livy's History Seneca's Works Tasso's Girusalame Liberata Tassos Aminta 2 vols of Plutarch in Italian Some of the plays of Euripedes Seneca's Tragedies Reveries of Rousseau Hesiod Novum Organum Alfieri's Tragedies Theocritus Ossian Herodotus Thucydides Homer Locke on the Human Understanding Conspiration de Rienzi History of arianism Ochley's History of the Saracens Mad. de Stael sur la literature'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon : The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the year 1641; ed. with fourth volume, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland

'Read Clarendon all day - Shelley writes to Albe [Byron] and other things - he finishes Lacratelle's history of the French Revolution - we walk out for a short time after dinner S. reads Lucian'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon : The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the year 1641; ed. with fourth volume, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland

'Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon : The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the year 1641; ed. with fourth volume, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland

'Read Clarendon and Curtius - walk with Shelley - S. read Tasso'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon : Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon . . . written by himself

'read Life of Clarendon'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon : [probably] History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England

'Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon : History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England

'S. finishes the 1st vol of Clarendon - Read the little Theif [sic]'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon : History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England

'S reads Clarendon aloud'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon : History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland

'Muratori - Greek - Rebellion of Ireland'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon : History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland

'Muratori - greek - finish the Rebellion of Ireland'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon : 

'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were careless of arrangement, and did not mind whether a sentence ended with an important word or an insignificant word, or with what part of speech it was concluded". Mr. Langton, who now had joined us, commended Clarendon. JOHNSON. "He is objected to for his parentheses, his involved clauses, and his want of harmony. But he is supported by his matter. It is, indeed, owing to a plethory of matter that his style is so faulty. Every [italics] substance [end italics], (smiling to Mr. Harris,) has so many [italics] accidents [end italics].--To be distinct, we must talk analytically. If we analyse language, we must speak of it grammatically; if we analyse argument, we must speak of it logically". GARRICK. "Of all the translations that ever were attempted, I think Elphinston's 'Martial' the most extraordinary. He consulted me upon it, who am a little of an epigrammatist myself, you know. I told him freely, 'You don't seem to have that turn.' I asked him if he was serious; and finding he was, I advised him against publishing. Why, his translation is more difficult to understand than the original. I thought him a man of some talents; but he seems crazy in this".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Bennet Langton      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon : 

'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were careless of arrangement, and did not mind whether a sentence ended with an important word or an insignificant word, or with what part of speech it was concluded". Mr. Langton, who now had joined us, commended Clarendon. JOHNSON. "He is objected to for his parentheses, his involved clauses, and his want of harmony. But he is supported by his matter. It is, indeed, owing to a plethory of matter that his style is so faulty. Every [italics] substance [end italics], (smiling to Mr. Harris,) has so many [italics] accidents [end italics].--To be distinct, we must talk analytically. If we analyse language, we must speak of it grammatically; if we analyse argument, we must speak of it logically". GARRICK. "Of all the translations that ever were attempted, I think Elphinston's 'Martial' the most extraordinary. He consulted me upon it, who am a little of an epigrammatist myself, you know. I told him freely, 'You don't seem to have that turn.' I asked him if he was serious; and finding he was, I advised him against publishing. Why, his translation is more difficult to understand than the original. I thought him a man of some talents; but he seems crazy in this".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon :  History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England

'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here now are two speeches ascribed to him, both of which were written by me: and the best of it is, they have found out that one is like Demosthenes, and the other like Cicero". He censured Lord Kames's "Sketches of the History of Man" for misrepresenting Clarendon's account of the appearance of Sir George Villiers's ghost, as if Clarendon were weakly credulous; when the truth is, that Clarendon only says, that the story was upon a better foundation of credit, than usually such discourses are founded upon; nay, speaks thus of the person who was reported to have seen the vision, "the poor man, if he had been at all waking"; which Lord Kames has omitted.'

Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon : Continuation of the Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon

'For Sublimity & at the same time Familiarity with Life Nothing strikes one more than Clarendon's Account of the Fire of London - De Foe's Plague is still stronger but that is a Romance'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale      Print: Book

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