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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'The Church though may mean the Catholic or Universal Church and so Rome may be included. It is a horrid, startling notion, but a sermon of Newman's I was reading to-nigh...Elizabeth Missing Sewell John Henry Newman[a sermon]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am going through a course of John Henry Newman's Sermons.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Henry Newman[Sermons]Print: Book
1800-1849'Suffice it to say that its who can revere Mr Newman most with Mr Darbishire, the Winkworths and myself, the book is absolutely simply the utterance of the man'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Henry Newman[possibly] Discourses to Mixed CongregationsPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914: 'Another amusing book I looked at here is Hurrell Froude's Remains. I have read partly Newman's Apologia; he seems to m...Leonard Woolf John Henry NewmanApologia pro vita suaPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincia...Oscar Wilde John Henry NewmanThe Grammar of AscentPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincia...Oscar Wilde John Henry NewmanApologia Pro Vita SuaPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincia...Oscar Wilde John Henry NewmanTwo Essays on MiraclesPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincia...Oscar Wilde John Henry NewmanThe Idea of a UniversityPrint: Book
1800-1849'Curious essay of Newman's I read some pages of - about the ecclesiastical miracles; full of intellect but doubtful in tendency. I fear insidious, yet I like it.'John Ruskin John Henry NewmanEssay on the miracles recorded in Ecclesiastical H...Print: Book
1900-1945'I am at present engaged in reading Newman's poems; do you know them at all? They are very, very delicate and pretty, and are like nothing more than one of those valuab...Clive Staples Lewis John Henry NewmanVerses on Various OccasionsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary English writers: the theological works of Cardinal ...John Ellingham Brooks John Henry, Cardinal Newman[theological works]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Herman Merivale, [January 1814]: 'I have redde Roncesvaux with very great pleasure ... You have written a very noble poem ... your measure is uncommonly wel...George Gordon Lord Byron John Herman MerivaleOrlando in RoncesvallesManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899[Read] 'Burton's Queen Anne'.George Eliot [pseud] John Hill Burtonhistory of the reign of Queen Anne, APrint: Book
1850-1899'An old idea, first started while I was reading your history of Scotland, has just been revived over your Queen Anne, which I am in the heart of, with sincere pleasure.'Robert Louis Stevenson John Hill BurtonHistory of the Reign of Queen AnnePrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Gibbon aloud to me (160) - Weeks calls - Hogg comes - work - S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.Mary Godwin John Holroyd, Lord SheffieldMiscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with...Print: Book
1800-1849'talk with Hogg - and read Gibbon but very little (30) in the evening work & S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.Percy Bysshe Shelley John Holroyd, Lord Sheffield (ed.)Miscelaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with ...Print: Book
1800-1849'S reads Gibbon aloud to me (160) - Weeks calls - Hogg comes - work - S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.Percy Bysshe Shelley John Holroyd, Lord Sheffield (ed.)Miscelaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Hookham FrereProspectus and Specimen of an Intended NationalPrint: Book
1800-1849'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in likin...Louisa, Lady Stuart John Hookham FrereQuarterly Review [burlesque poetry]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Horne Tooke is a dirty dog - he gives the derivation of such words! - There sits Mr Wilbraham two hours every morning in the library, sniggering and shaking his fat side...Sarah Harriet Burney John Horne TookeEpea Pteroenta, or the Diversions of PurleyPrint: Book


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