( Brontëana, 155.) PB, ‘To my young readers’, in The Phenomenon (1824) And there are a few Novels which I have handed over for her perusal, which are not only harmless, but very entertaining and instructive. She reads nothing of the kind alluded to, but what first passes through my hands, and meets my approbation. But I must say of my girl, that she subsists on no such food. Our libraries want to pass through such another fiery ordeal as the library of the renowned Don Quixote did, when it was scrutinized by the Priest and Barber. “Mischief!” replied the Captain, “Mischief!-The generality of Novels are what you Englishmen say of us Irishmen, when you liken us to our own bogs-green, smooth, and tempting, on the surface, but concealing underneath, the miry slough, or deadly pool or, as the Doctor there would tell you in his phraseology, they are so many poisonous boluses, sufficiently incrusted with honey to make them palatable, but in no degree adequate to counteract their pernicious effects on the constitution. “Yes,” observed Albion, amorous ditties, and amorous Novels, do more mischief than some will allow.” (Eric Glasgow, ‘In Patrick Brontë’s good books’, Library Review, 48: 7 (1999), 352.) They are Richard Bentley’s 1728 edition of the works of Horace, and Samuel Clarke’s 1729 edition of Homer’s The Iliad, in a dual Greek and Latin text … Eventually both of these books were passed on to confiding children. Copies of his two collage prizes, from 1802–1806, have survived. Thus, he studied the Anabasis of Xenophon, Agricola by Tacitus, as well as a lot by both Euripides and Virgil, without, however, emerging as anything like a finished or consummate classical scholar, which it was never his intention to be. … classical studies followed the usual paths, in both Latin and Greek. Books listed in the ‘Catalogue of Sale at Haworth Parsonage, Oct.John Elliot Cairnes description of Charlotte’s collection of books, 1858.
CB’s ‘List of Books from Smith & Elder, March 18 th 1850’.AB’s music manuscript book, June 1843’.William Heaton on PBB at Luddenden Foot’:.CB’s draft and letter to Hartley Coleridge, Dec.
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