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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799' [Johnson said] "Sir, you know the notion of confinement may be extended, as in the song, "Every island is a prison." There is, in Dodsley's 'Collection', a copy of vers...Samuel Johnson Robert DodsleyCollection of Poems by Several Hands Print: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] 'Of Dodsley's "Publick Virtue, a Poem", he said, "It was fine blank (meaning to express his usual co...Samuel Johnson Robert DodsleyPublick Virtue, a PoemPrint: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Mr. Langton, when a very young man, read Dodsley's "Cleone, a Tragedy", to him, not aware of his ext...Bennet Langton Robert DodsleyCleone, a TragedyPrint: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Mr. Langton, when a very young man, read Dodsley's "Cleone, a Tragedy", to him, not aware of his ext...Samuel Johnson Robert DodsleyCleone, a TragedyPrint: Book
1700-1799'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Verses on Virtue published in Dryden's Miscellanies! ye...Hester Lynch Thrale Robert DodsleyCollection of Poems by Various HandsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [1758] following stay in London with Carter:] 'I have looked in Dodsley, to see if any events had happened between your leaving t...Catherine Talbot Robert DodsleyThe Ladies' Memorandum BookPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'When I came to extract the remarks on Dodsley, I found [they?] were remarks upon an old edition & that the editors we have published in 1782, have adopted the remarks & ...Joseph Hunter Robert Dodsley (editor)A Collection of Poems in Six VolumesPrint: Book
1850-1899"I have been reading lately 'Natural Philosophy' by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the 'Chemistry of Creation' by Dr Ellis."Albert Battiscombe Robert EllisThe Chemistry of Creation: being an outline of thePrint: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extensive reading notes from Robert Ferguson's A View of an Ecclesiastick in his Socks & Buskins (1698). ...Edward Pordage Robert FergusonA View of an Ecclesiastick in his Socks & Buskins,...Print: Book
1800-1849'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp...Janet Hamilton Robert Fergusson[poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I see my way to an end, some new game (or perhaps wild go...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert FergussonPoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read with the greatest of interest your communications to the "Times [Literary Supplement]" in the Dumas-Maquet affair. All this story is quite new to me.'Joseph Conrad Robert GarnettThe Dumas Maquet Case (and) Dumas and Maquet Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 27th Jan. 1945. S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
...		Howard Smith Robert GibbingsLovely is the LeePrint: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, "but I could not have named th...Vernon Scannell Robert GravesGoodbye to All ThatPrint: Book
1900-1945'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (...Lawrence Durrell Robert Graves[poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 August 1918: 'Re the poets you mention I have read some of them both. I liked Graves. Nichols not so much.'Edward Morgan Forster Robert Graves Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy of "The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon". it was my ...Charles Causley Robert Graves[war poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'Robert Graves lent me his manuscript poems to read: some very bad, violent and repulsive. A few full of promise and real beauty. He oughtn't to publish yet.'Siegfried Sassoon Robert Graves Unknown
1900-1945'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nashe, Greene, Peel and Tourneur, as well as Shakespear...Lawrence Durrell Robert Greene[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I said rather dazedly aloud - to Beston - I wonder what time the next train to London goes - & a stranger with a time-table told me. I had just time to catch it. I had a...Violet Asquith Robert GreenePandostoPrint: Book


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