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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Mrs Barber, whose Name, at her earnest request, I omitted in my first Volume, and who was the Lady I mentioned to have been with me, at my first interview with the Dean ...Laetitia Pilkington Mary Barber[Poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is that Clifford doesn't admire your poetry!! so that s...Clifford Bax Ford Madox Ford[poems]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is that Clifford doesn't admire your poetry!! so that s...Esther Gwendolyn 'Stella' Bowen Clifford Bax[poems]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is that Clifford doesn't admire your poetry!! so that s...Esther Gwendolyn 'Stella' Bowen Phyllis Reid[poems]Unknown
1900-1945'A colleague at the Council, later to achieve distinction as a poet, sent me a copy of his first slim volume of verse with a note: "This is to get you into trouble with t...Ralph Glasser [unknown][poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? Her nerves must be strong if she can read it without s...Samuel Romilly George Gordon, Lord Byron[poems]Print: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'In this depreciation [by Johnson] of Churchill's poetry I could not agree with him. It is very true that the greatest part of it is upon the topicks of the day, on which...James Boswell Charles Churchill[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'On Tuesday the 5th of July, I again visited Johnson. He told me he had looked into the poems of a pretty voluminous writer, Mr. (now Dr.) John Ogilvie, one of the Presby...Samuel Johnson John Ogilvie[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia valued himself upon three things;—upon being a hero...James Boswell Frederick II King of Prussia[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'On Thursday, July 28, we again supped in private at the Turk's Head coffee-house. Johnson. "Swift has a higher reputation than he deserves. His excellence is strong sens...Samuel Johnson James Thomson[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'He talked of Mr. Blacklock's poetry, so far as it was descriptive of visible objects; and observed, that "as its author had the misfortune to be blind, we may be absolut...Samuel Johnson Thomas Blacklock[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mrs. Thrale disputed with him on the merit of Prior. He attacked him powerfully ; said he wrote of love like a man who had never felt it: his love verses were college ve...Hester Thrale Matthew Prior[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Buchanan (he observed,) has fewer [italics] centos [end italics] than any modern Latin poet. He not only had great knowledge of the Latin language, but was a great poeti...Samuel Johnson George Buchanan[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'I have read your kind letter much more than the elegant Pindar which it accompanied'. Samuel Johnson Pindar[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian to his Soul". Johnson repeated Rochester's verses upo...Samuel Johnson Thomas Flatman[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian to his Soul". Johnson repeated Rochester's verses upo...Hester Lynch Thrale Thomas Flatman[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you there saw a man constantly at work in literature". ...Mr Murphy Thomas Gray[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you there saw a man constantly at work in literature". ...Samuel Johnson Mark Akenside[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you there saw a man constantly at work in literature". ...Samuel Johnson William Mason[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Dr. Johnson said, "Thomson had a true poetical genius, the power of viewing every thing in a poetical light. His fault is such a cloud of words sometimes, that the sense...Samuel Johnson James Thomson[Poems]Print: Book


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