"By ... [January 1804 Coleridge] ... had probably ... begun to write brief notes, appreciative and explanatory, in copies of the works of Sir Thomas Browne destined for Sara Hutchinson, Wordsworth's sister-in-law, with whom he was hopelessly in love."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not approve of everything in it. A little Vol. intitled, "Christian Morals", by Sir Thomas Browne of Norwich, Author of Religio Medici, with his Life and Explanatory Notes, by S. Johnson, Author of "the Rablers", will, I believe, amuse you. There is a third Book written by Mr G[reville], a Man of Fashion, intitled, "Maxims", "Characters" or some such Title. Among his Subjects, he takes to Task (to severe Task, some have thought) the Writings of your Humble Servt. Thus I wrote upon it to a Lady, who was unwilling I should see it, for fear it shd. vex me; a Fear several of my Friends had on the same Account; "I have read Mr G[reville's] Censure of the Writings of a [italics] certain Author[end italics]. I sincerely think there may be Justice in the most unfavourable Part of it."'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
'Shelley reads Religio Medici aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
Thursday 12 September 1919: 'Writing has been done under difficulties. I was making way with my new experiment, when I came up against Sir Thomas Browne, & found I hadn't read him since I used to dip & duck & be bored & somewhow [sic -- misprint?] enchanted hundreds of years ago. Therefore I had to break off, send for his books (by the way, I have read him fairly often, now I come to think of it) & start little stories.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
Friday 27 November 1936: 'Dined alone, read Sir T. Browne's letters.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Thomas Browne, 'Of Consumptions'.
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Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of lines attributed to Sir Thomas Browne, beginning, 'the Almond florisheth ye Birch trees flowe'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton Print: Book
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Thomas Browne, 'Fragment on meadowes'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton Print: Book
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Thomas Browne, 'Seignor verdero in his proper habitt'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton Print: Book
'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anything I happened to be reading at the time: Sir Thomas Brown, de Quincey, Henry Newbolt, the Ballads, Blake, Baroness Orczy, Marlowe, Chums, the Imagists, the Bible, Poe, Keats, Lawrence, Anon., and Shakespeare. A mixed lot as you see, and randomly remembered'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Dylan Thomas Print: Book
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 May 1756:]
'Has Mr Johnson sent you his new edition of Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals? 'Tis a collection of the noblest thoughts, drest in the uncouthest language possible, for which reason few will read, and half of those despise, a book as superior to Mr Greville's [Reflections, Maxims, and Characters...] as Epictetus to Tom Thumb.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot Print: Book
[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 May 1756:]
'I have not seen Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals, but your recommendation of it [in letter of 7 May 1756] will set me to reading his Religio Medici again, which I have utterly forgot, except that when I read it I thought it contained many excellent things.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book
'I have just been reading a little of the "Religio Medici". Just at the beginning he is
talking about the Mysteries of Religion, and how he loves to lose himself in one.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emily Lytton Print: Book
‘I am still in the hospital and expect to be for at least two days more … Just
now I don’t know where I can keep books. I have with me Donne’s poems
and Brown’s “Religion De Medici” and must carry both in my pocket. I have
drawn some of the chaps in the hospital and can see heaps of subject
matter all over. If you could send me any small books or news that might
interest me I think I could find a place for them. A small box of watercolours
would be handy. I cannot get one in this town. I can only get Sundays off
so have no chance of finding out as the evenings are pitch black and no
shops are visible. Cigarettes or any small eatables also help to make things
pleasanter.’
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Rosenberg Print: Book
