Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 August 1842:
'Romilly's memoirs have interest [...] Not that I am an enthusiast about [italics]him[end
italics] [...] it is wonderful & chilling to me, his unconsciousness, -- apparent at least &
unbroken to the observation, by voice or sign, throughout these memoirs, -- of the Spiritual
Realities beyond his humanity. Is it not so? I think it was my impression.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
'We have read the speech which you were so good as to send me, which I most truly consider as the effusion of honest feeling and of cultivated eloquence. In the whole of the speech there were but two words which I would have ommitted...
Nothing could be added by any person of sound taste and enlarged understanding.
I hope that Lady Romilly will be curious to know the two words which I would have ommitted. - The two epithets "horrible" and "foul" page 10 - because in the last lines of the preceding page you had said that vague and general terms of reprobation such as "inhuman", "sanguinary", "detestable" can convey but inadequate notions etc.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Lovell Edgeworth Manuscript: Unknown
'We have read the speech which you were so good as to send me, which I most truly consider as the effusion of honest feeling and of cultivated eloquence. In the whole of the speech there were but two words which I would have ommitted...
Nothing could be added by any person of sound taste and enlarged understanding.
I hope that Lady Romilly will be curious to know the two words which I would have ommitted. - The two epithets "horrible" and "foul" page 10 - because in the last lines of the preceding page you had said that vague and general terms of reprobation such as "inhuman", "sanguinary", "detestable" can convey but inadequate notions etc.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Manuscript: Unknown
