'I hope you like Horner's "Life". It succeeds extremely well here. It is full of all the exorbitant and impracticable views so natural to young men at Edinburgh; but there is great order, great love of knowledge, high principle and feelings, which ought to grow and trive in superior minds'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843:
'Here is the first volume of Horner -- thank you! It is very interesting -- but he seems to me
to have had too wavering a will, or rather too many objects, .. to be a great man.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843:
'This Mr Horner is very noble & strong -- & I like him better, my dear cousin, as a whole
politician .. as he gathers himself into one slowly with all his energy & strength [...] And then
what an admirable letter Sydney Smith's is, in the appendix -- quite perfect in its kind I think.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
