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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 29 August- 7 September 1796: 'Charles Collins wrote a Sonnet upon Hastings Castle — which Horace once showed me — it was ——— ...Robert Southey Charles CollinsOn Hastings CastleManuscript: Sheet
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 29-30 October 1793: 'I have laid down Gillies to write to you the third letter in one fortnight. thank yourself for the intru...Robert Southey John GilliesThe History of Ancient GreecePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 30 September 1797: '... this took a strange turn when I was about nine years old. I had been reading the historical plays of...Robert Southey William Shakespeare[history plays, particularly Henry VI, Parts I and...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 July - 6 August 1793: 'I have just met with a passage in Rousseau which expresses some of my religious opinions better tha...Robert Southey Jean Jacques RousseauConfessions, Book 12Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 July-2 August 1796: 'But the other ballad of Bόrger in the M. Magazine is most excellent. I know no commendation equal to ...Robert Southey William TaylorLenoraPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 July-2 August 1796: 'Have you read Cabal & Love? in spite of a translation for which the translator deserves hanging — the...Robert Southey Johann Christoph Friedrich von SchillerCabal and LovePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 July-2 August 1796: 'In the second chapter of the Wisdom of Solomon & at the 23rd verse are these words: For GOD created ...Robert Southey Wisdom of Solomon 2:23Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 May 1792: 'You understand music. as I am ignorant of the tune I beg you will practise "Lillabullero" to teach me. You see ...Robert Southey WatsonChemical EssayPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 May 1792: 'You understand music. As I am ignorant of the tune I beg you will practise "Lillabullero" to teach me. You see ...Robert Southey Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 4 December 1792: 'I have already said too much. I have an old poem of the heroic class before me. Pharonnida — one of the Can...Robert Southey William ChamberlaynePharonnida, a Heroick PoemPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 4-20 April 1793: 'I have lately read the Man of Feeling — if you have never yet read it — do now from my recommendation — few...Robert Southey Henry MackenzieThe Man of FeelingPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'I have been reading Eheu fugaces & your translation this moment together. the three last stanzas are certai...Robert Southey Grosvenor Charles BedfordTranslation of Horace, Odes, 2:14Manuscript: Sheet
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'I have been reading Eheu fugaces & your translation this moment together. the three last stanzas are certai...Robert Southey HoraceOdes, 2:14Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'I have read 12 Satires of Juvenal with a vast deal of pleasure — the 8th is the only one which my head (des...Robert Southey JuvenalSatiresPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'Juvenal is a grand nervous Satirist — your refined criticks prefer the sneering strokes of Horace — for me ...Robert Southey Samuel JohnsonVanity of Human WishesPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'Juvenal is a grand nervous Satirist — your refined criticks prefer the sneering strokes of Horace — for me ...Robert Southey Samuel JohnsonLondonPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6-8 November 1793: 'Were men what they ought to be — Rousseau would be canonized for a greater saint than any in the calendar...Robert Southey Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou la nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 8 December, 1796: 'I have just read Carlyles Arabic Translations — Zounds what stuff is called Poetry!' Robert Southey Joseph Dacre CarlyleSpecimens of Arabian Poetry, From the Earliest Tim...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 8-9 February 1795: 'I have been reading the four first numbers of the Flagellant — they are all I possess — my dearest Gros...Robert Southey Robert Southey (ed.)The FlagellantPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'Forgive egotism if I mention one circumstance which happened above twelve years ago. I was struck with t...Robert Southey anon['sixpenny history of England']Print: Book


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