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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Mr Jaegle makes us read an English book that is called "The Vicar of Wakefield" which is very pretty, interesting, well wrote and where there are some very good characte...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Unknown
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing June 10 1774 'Yet I should like none of these climates, where ?Winter lingering chills the lap of May? if I could help it.' Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Oliver Goldsmith[The traveller]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Collector MacVicar, June 20 1773 'In the mean time I hope the best, and endeavour to pursue Oliver Cromwell through all his crooked paths. I have gone but a sho...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Oliver GoldsmithThe vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, and a kind of natural courtesy; in short, they are n...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Oliver GoldsmithThe travellerPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world'Mary Shelley Oliver GoldsmithCitizen of the World, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Oct. 24th. Rise at eight [...] M. reads aloud She stoops to [C]onquer -- She sets out to see Shelley at eleven -- I stay at home & read Political Justice'.Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Oliver GoldsmithShe Stoops to ConquerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Jany. 23rd. Do an Italian exercise & read some of Moore's Anacreon [...] Read Anarcharsis [...] Begin Goldsmith's History of Greece p.40.'Claire Clairmont Oliver GoldsmithThe History of Greece, from the Earliest State, to...Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday June 15th. [...] Go in a Calesse to Casa Ricci at Livorno. Read Vicar of Wakefield'. ...Claire Clairmont Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Vicar of Wakefield'Mary Shelley Oliver GoldsmithVicar of Wakefield, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'my dear father told thee that Goldsmith's would now be the [italics] deserted village [end italics]; perhaps thou dost not remember this compliment, but I remember the i...Richard Shackleton Oliver GoldsmithDeserted Village, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Goldsmiths description of the Appennines is exact - "Woods over Woods in [italics] gay theatric pride [end italics]". Never was epithet more appropriate to the whole sce...Anne Romilly Oliver GoldsmithTraveller, The; or, A Prospect of Society Print: Unknown
1900-1945Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further comments including 'V. of W. gets out of his [depth] 1/2 w...Edward Morgan Forster Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1700-1799'He said of Goldsmith's "Traveller," which had been published in my absence, "There has not been so fine a poem since Pope's time".' Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithTraveller, ThePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'He [Dr Johnson] said, "Goldsmith's 'Life of Parnell' is poor; not that it is poorly written, but that he had poor materials; for nobody can write the life of a man but t...Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithLife of Parnell Print: Book
1700-1799'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat with Mrs. Williams till he came home. I found in the...Samuel Johnson Oliver Goldsmith[apology for beating a bookseller]Unknown
1700-1799' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the ec...Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithTraveller, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the ec...Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithDeserted Village, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the ec...Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithRoman History From The Foundation of The City of R...Print: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the ec...Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithHistory of England in a Series of Letters from a N...Print: Book
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespear...Tennyson children (boys)Oliver Goldsmith Print: Book


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