the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Thomas Hamilton : Men and Manners in America

'Read Hamilton';s "America", it is quite excellent'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith      Print: Book

Thomas Hamilton : Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, The

'I have only got about half through Cyral Thornton as yet and cannot therefore be decided on its merits. But I suspect it to have one grievious fault that of introducing innumerable curous [sic] and original characters of whom you would like to be well acquainted and of whom you hear no more. I have no patience at all with this rambling and deesultory mode of running through a life, and if it do not turn out better embodied ultimately than it has done thus far I shall damn it as the work of a man of high accomplishments given to prosing and garrulity'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book

Captain Thomas Hamilton : The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton

Sunday, 13 May 1827: 'Spent the day, which was delightful, wandering from place to place in the woods, sometimes reading the new and interesting volumes of Cyril Thornton, sometimes chewing the cud of sweet and bitter fancy which strangely alternated in my mind idly stirred by the succession of a thousand vague thoughts and fears'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      Print: Book

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