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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift, as he used to do upon all occasions. "The 'Tale of ...Samuel Johnson Jonathan SwiftDrapier's Letters, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift, as he used to do upon all occasions. "The 'Tale of ...Samuel Johnson Jonathan SwiftPlan for the Improvement of the English Language Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson: 'Tennyson was greatly impressed by the deadly-earnest and savagery, and let me say [italics]sadness[end ital...Alfred Tennyson Jonathan SwiftLegion ClubPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson: 'Tennyson was greatly impressed by the deadly-earnest and savagery, and let me say [italics]sadness[end ital...Alfred Tennyson Jonathan SwiftLegion ClubPrint: Book
1700-1799'Of Swift's Style which I praised as beautiful he observed; that it had only the Beauty of a Bubble, The Colour says he is gay, but the substance slight.' Samuel Johnson Jonathan Swift Print: Book
1700-1799'Of Swift's Style which I praised as beautiful he observed; that it had only the Beauty of a Bubble, The Colour says he is gay, but the substance slight.' Hester Lynch Thrale Jonathan Swift Print: Book
1700-1799'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Ferguson on Civil Society: I do not says Johnson perceive...Samuel Johnson Jonathan SwiftHistory Of the Four last years Of the QueenPrint: Book
1700-1799'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Ferguson on Civil Society: I do not says Johnson perceive...Dr Delap Jonathan SwiftHistory Of the Four last years Of the QueenPrint: Book
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the...Hester Lynch Thrale Jonathan SwiftThe Bubble: A Poem; aka, The South Sea ProjectPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I was reading something of Swift one Day & commending him as a Writer - I cannot endure Swift replied my eldest Daughter; every thing of his seems to be [italics] Froth ...Hester Maria Thrale Jonathan Swift Print: Book
1700-1799'I was reading something of Swift one Day & commending him as a Writer - I cannot endure Swift replied my eldest Daughter; every thing of his seems to be [italics] Froth ...Hester Lynch Thrale Jonathan Swift Print: Book
1700-1799'as I looked in the Glass this Morning & kept Bouhours Maniere de bien penser in my Hand - like Swift's Vanessa Who we know - held Montagne and read- While Mrs Susan ...Hester Lynch Thrale Jonathan Swift'Cadenus and Vanessa'Print: Book
1900-1945'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal to Stella. After supper Miss D. Brain read several ...Howard R. Smith Jonathan SwiftJournal to StellaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal to Stella. After supper Miss D. Brain read several ...Dorothy Brain Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal to Stella. After supper Miss D. Brain read several ...T. C. Elliott Jonathan SwiftDrapier's Letters, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal to Stella. After supper Miss D. Brain read several ...Alfred Rawlings Jonathan SwiftTale of a Tub, APrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766, on her pursuit of her 'journal-letter scheme':] 'I shall fancy if I write thus Journal-wise, by bits and scraps,...Catherine Talbot and familyJonathan SwiftLettersPrint: Book
1850-1899'It is comical to read Swift's journal along with Maurice, so undoubting and passionate, angry and affectionate.'Emma Darwin Jonathan SwiftA Journal to StellaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Last night I read the correspondence between Vanessa and Swift — I wonder if any man, beginning with the man to whom those letters were first addressed has ever un...Gertrude Bell Jonathan SwiftunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished the journal to Stella. What a bitter story!' Gertrude Bell Jonathan SwiftThe Journal to StellaPrint: Book


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