Record Number: 27993
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 1 June 1730: 'It pleases me, but does not surprise me at all, that your sentiments concerning Milton's prose writings, agree with those I threw out, under influence of that back-handed inspiration, which his malevolent genius had filled me with, as I drew in the bad air of his pages [...] One might venture on a very new use of two writers: I would pick out my friends and my enemies, by setting them to read [italics]Milton[end italics] and [italics]Cowley[end italics]. I might take it for granted, that I ought to be afraid of his [italics]heart[end italics], who, in the fame and popularity of the first, could lose sight of his malice and wickedness.'
Century:1700-1799
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Type of Experience(Reader):
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
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Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Prose writings
Genre:Other religious, Essays / Criticism, Politics
Form of Text:Print: Unknown
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Source Information:
Record ID:27993
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Editor:Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Title:The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the Original Manuscripts Bequeathed by him to his Family
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1804
Vol:1
Page:2
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Citation:
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (ed.), The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the Original Manuscripts Bequeathed by him to his Family, (London, 1804), 1, p. 2, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=27993, accessed: 21 December 2024
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