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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Finished reading Fathom [underlined].'Alfred Tennyson Tobias SmollettFerdinand Count FathomPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'I proceeded on sad & solitary to Hounslow & there gave one shilling for Sir Launcelot Greaves to amuse m...Robert Southey Tobias SmollettThe Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves Print: Book
1800-1849'At ten the poor infant was reading Smollett's History... She summed up her impression with scornful lucidity: "There seem to have been more weak kings than wise ones".'Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Tobias SmollettComplete History of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of heightened imagination; -seeing it not only through s...Thomas A. Jackson Tobias Smollett[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson Tobias Smollett[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 14th October ?Roderick Random? (T. Smolett)'. Gerald Moore Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri,...Thomas Carlyle Tobias SmollettPeregrine PicklePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s eight chaotic volumes are before me. To say nothing o...Thomas Carlyle Tobias SmollettHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Reid May 17,1773 'As far as a mountain can resemble a man, it resembles the person Smollet has marked out by the name of Captain Gawky.'Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing, November 14, 1778 '? the former [ie Highlanders] indeed are a people never to be known unless you live among them, and learn their language. Smollet...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Tobias SmollettThe expedition of Humphrey ClinkerPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading little [since I last wrote to you] except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c...Thomas Carlyle Tobias SmollettHistory of England [probably]Print: 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] Tobias SmollettunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Somnium Scipionis & Roderick Random'Mary Shelley Tobias SmollettAdventures of Roderick RandomPrint: Book
1800-1849'finish Roderick Random'Mary Shelley Tobias SmollettAdventures of Roderick RandomPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'Mary Shelley Tobias SmollettAdventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, ThePrint: Book
1850-189919 November 1880, from Paris: 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some y...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1900-1945'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinnacle.'Edward Morgan Forster Tobias Smollett Print: Book
1800-1849From Alfred Tennyson's journal of his tour in Cornwall, 1848: '19th [June]. Finished reading Fathom.'Alfred Tennyson Tobias SmollettThe Adventures of Ferdinand, Count FathomPrint: Book
1850-189919 November 1880, from Paris: 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some y...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Tobias SmollettHumphrey ClinkerPrint: Book
1700-1799'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and Spirit in the Scotsman: though both of them knew the...Hester Lynch Thrale Tobias Smollett Print: Book


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