Speeches on Parliamentary Reform

Speeches on Parliamentary Reform

Bright, John

Manchester: Heywood, 1866[?]

1866[?]

"Jan. 23. Since I wrote last I have finished a little poem on Old Agatha. But the last week or two I have been so disturbed in health that no work prospers. I have made a little way in constructing my new Tale, have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th Book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs. Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's Speeches, which I am still reading- besides the first four Cantos of Don Juan. But the last two or three days I have seemed to live under a leaden pressure - all movement mental or bodily is grievous to me. In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the Spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the Revue des Cours a lecture by Sir W. Thomson of Edinburgh on the retardation of the earth's motion round its axis." Diary 1861-1877 134

Bright, John, Speeches on Parliamentary Reform, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57276

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