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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'[letter to H.M. esq] my poor brains have been of late so completely fused in the furnace of metaphysic, that they have become a complete [italics] calx [end italics]. I ...Elizabeth Hamilton [books on metaphysics]Print: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] 'it appears to me, that even in your slighter pieces, this illusion [hiding judgment under imagination] is kept up; while, in your more...Elizabeth Hamilton Hector Macneil[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] Do I not well remember hiding "Kaims's Elements of Criticism", under the cover of an easy chair, whenever I heard the approach of a foo...Elizabeth Hamilton Henry Home, Lord KamesElements of CriticismPrint: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] In what you say with regard to the second volume of "Letters on Education" being, in some parts, too abstruse for certain readers, you ...Hector Macneil Elizabeth HamiltonLetters on EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H'.] along with your volume, of which she had begged the perusal. She is (as I am) pleased ...Miss H. Hector MacneilThe Waes of War or the Upshot of the History of Wi...Print: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H.] along with your volume, of which she had begged the perusal. She is (as I am) pleased w...Elizabeth Hamilton Hector MacneilHarp, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H.] along with your volume, of which she had begged the perusal. She is (as I am) pleased w...Miss H. Hector MacneilHarp, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Miss J-B-] I have just been looking over the fifth volume of poor Burns. it contains much that he would have been sorry to imagine before the public eye; but ...Elizabeth Hamilton R.H. CromekReliques of Robert Burns Print: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Mrs --] 'books, for a certain length of time, are a charming substitute for common conversation. I do not know that I ever read one from which my mind receive...Elizabeth Hamilton James CurrieLife of Robert BurnsPrint: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Mrs --] 'books, for a certain length of time, are a charming substitute for common conversation. I do not know that I ever read one from which my mind receive...Elizabeth Hamilton Robert Burns Print: Book
1850-1899'[letter to Mrs Ward from Edward Burne-Jones] The book has just come - and to my pride and delight with such a pretty autograph: so that to-day I am mightily set up. I ca...Edward Burne Jones Mary Augusta WardDavid GrievePrint: Book
1850-1899'[letter to Mrs Ward from Mr Creighton] I have read "Miss Bretherton" with much interest. It was hardly fair on the book to know the plot beforehand, but I found myself c...Mr Creighton Charles Augustin de Sainte-BeuveVoluptePrint: Book
1850-1899'[letter to Mrs Ward from Mr Creighton] I have read "Miss Bretherton" with much interest. It was hardly fair on the book to know the plot beforehand, but I found myself c...Mr Creighton Mary Augusta WardMiss BrethertonPrint: Book
1850-1899'[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica", which on opposite sides [of a controversy between Liberals and Clericals] brea...Mary Augusta Ward Civilta CattolicaPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica, which on opposite sides [of a controversy between Liberals and Clericals] breat...Mary Augusta Ward TribunaPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'[letter: 1 January 1743]: [Joseph Andrews] contains such a surprising variety of nature, wit, morality, and good sense, as is scarcely to be met with in any one compos...Elizabeth Carter Henry FieldingThe History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews an...Print: Book
1800-1849'[Letter]

'Here is a very pleasant letter from Sally to you, which we thought it was a pity should go for nothing, and so we opened it, and so we read it.'		Elizabeth Wedgwood Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood[Letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'[Letter]

'And now to tell you my opinion of the ''Corsair''. I think it beautiful beyond all his other works.'		Elizabeth Wedgwood George Gordon, Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Lord D-] pulled out of his pocket some very abominable verses, which he called "capital" and desired me to read. He said they were written by Miss [-]. I do not believe...Charlotte Bury versesManuscript: MS verses
1700-1799'[Lord Lyttleton] presented me with the works of Miss Aikin (now Mrs Barbauld). I read them with rapture; I thought them the most beautiful Poems I had ever seen, and con...Mary Robinson Anna Laetitia AikinPoemsPrint: Book


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