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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849?In one of my early schoolbooks, indeed, I had read "Lucy Gray" and "We are seven". The music of these simple lays had charmed my boyish fancy and lingered in my memory.?Thomas Burt William WordsworthLucy GrayPrint: Book
1800-1849?In one of my early schoolbooks, indeed, I had read "Lucy Gray" and "We are seven". The music of these simple lays had charmed my boyish fancy and lingered in my memory.?Thomas Burt William WordsworthWe are sevenPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?In the works of Fielding our credulity is not taxed for superfluous admiration by any of those faultless monsters? Fielding?s chief excellence appears to lie in the deli...Charles Maturin Henry FieldingThe History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingPrint: Book
1850-1899?In your last ? letter you spoke very highly of Ecce Homo. To say the truth I don?t agree in your estimate ? partly because the book seemed to me to be feeble rhetoricall...Leslie Stephen John Robert SeeleyEcce Homo: a survey of the life and work of Jesus ...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?It would be necessary to notice here, when we profess to give a sketch of the progress of novel or romance writing, as indication of and connected with the state of mann...Charles Robert Maturin Charlotte LennoxThe Female QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must have occasionally surprised him. When he selected some ...Thomas Burt William WordsworthThe DaffodilsPrint: Book
1850-1899?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must have occasionally surprised him. When he selected some ...Thomas Burt William WordsworthThe Highland GirlPrint: Book
1850-1899?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must have occasionally surprised him. When he selected some ...Thomas Burt William WordsworthThe Solitary ReaperPrint: Book
1800-1849?Just as the boat was leaving Dover, a breathless Bots put a letter from town, and ?The Examiner? into my hands, the latter of which, I verily believe preserved me from t...Charles Dickens B.W. Proctor'The Sea'Print: Book, Unknown
1800-1849?Just as the boat was leaving Dover, a breathless Bots put a letter from town, and ?The Examiner? into my hands, the latter of which, I verily believe preserved me from t...Charles Dickens The ExaminerPrint: Newspaper, Unknown
1850-1899?Macaulay, who had recently died, was greatly in vogue. I had read with enjoyment and advantage his "History of England" and some of his essays.'Thomas Burt Thomas Babbington Macaulay[essays]Print: Unknown
1850-1899?Macaulay, who had recently died, was greatly in vogue. I had read with enjoyment and advantage his "History of England" and some of his essays.? Thomas Burt Thomas Babbington MacaulayHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849?Malden and I have read Thalaba together, and are proceeding to the Curse of Kehama.?Thomas Babington Macaulay Robert SoutheyThalabaPrint: Book
1850-1899?Meanwhile I have a book from you, wh. I ought to have acknowledged. I guess that Julia did my duty & I did it better than I should. But, though late, I will say thank yo...Leslie Stephen James Russell LowellDemocracy and other addressesPrint: Book
1800-1849?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did, not only an account of the pleasure which I felt i...Samuel Bamford John Milton[miscellaneous works]Print: Book
1800-1849?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did, not only an account of the pleasure which I felt i...Samuel Bamford VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did, not only an account of the pleasure which I felt i...Samuel Bamford HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799?Miss Burney I am come to thank you for the vast entertainment you have given me; ? I am quite happy to see you,? I wished to see you very much; ? it?s a charming book in...Susanna Dobson Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
1800-1849?Miss Edgeworth?s incomparable description of Mrs Beaumont?s marriage in Manoeuvering, where the interesting, almost fainting, lady is lifted out of the arms of her anxio...Charles Robert Maturin Maria EdgeworthTales of Fashionable LifePrint: Book
1850-1899?Morley has accepted the "Fables" and I have seen it in proof and think less of it than ever.? Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson"On Lord Lytton's Fables in Song"Manuscript: Sheet, Proof of the article


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