'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire, & the Rejected Addresses?'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
'Fanny & I are to go on with Modern Europe together, but hitherto have advanced only 25 Pages, something or other has always happened to delay or curtail the reading hour.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818:
'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks." I think it a most amusing book ... I have not
yet finished "Bigland on the Character and Circumstances of Nations." An admirable work
indeed ... I do not admire "Madame de Sevigne's letters," though the French is excellent [...]
yet the sentiment is not novel, and the rhapsody of the style is so affected, so disgusting, so
entirely FRENCH, that every time I open the book it is rather as a task than a pleasure -- the
last Canto of "Childe Harold" (certainly much superior to the others) has delighted me more
than I can express. The description of the waterfall is the most exquisite piece of poetry that
I ever read [...] All the energy, all the sublimity of modern verse is centered in those lines'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
