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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I am very desirous to hear what your Vote is about Walter Scott; I think it excellent, quite as good as any of his novels excepting that in which Claverhouse is introduc...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am truly obliged by your kindness in sendng me the last novel of Walter Scott. It would be profanation to call him Mr Walter Scott. I should as soon say Mr Shakespeare...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1800-1849'Walter Scott seems to me the same sort of thing laboured in a very inferior way, and more careless, with many repetitions of himself. Caleb is overdone. Sir W. and Lady ...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1800-1849'I waited to thank you until I had read the novel. There is [italics] no doubt [end italics] of its success. There is nothing very powerful and striking in it; but it is ...Sydney Smith Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read "Ivanhoe"? It is the least dull, and the most easily read through, of all Scott's novels; but there are many more powerful. The subject, in novels, poems, ...Sydney Smith Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am much obliged by your present of The Monastery, which I have read, and which I must frankly confess I admire less than any of the others - much less. Such I think yo...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe MonasteryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just read "The Abbot"; it is far above common novels, but of very inferior execution to his others, and hardly worth reading. He has exhausted the subject of Scot...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe AbbotPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am much obliged by your kindness in sending me The Pirate. You know how much I admire the genius of the author, but even that has its limits and is exhaustible. I am a...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe PiratePrint: Book
1800-1849'Many thanks for Nigel; a far better novel than The Pirate, though not of the highest order of Scott's novels. It is the first novel in which there is no Meg Merrilies. T...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe Fortunes of NigelPrint: Book
1800-1849'A good novel, but not so good as either of the two last, and not good enough for such a writer. The next must be better or it will be the last. There is I see Flibbertig...Sydney Smith Walter ScottPeveril of the PeakPrint: Book
1800-1849'You have read Peveril, a middling production between his best and worst - rather agreeable than not'.[Lady] Grey Walter ScottPeveril of the PeakPrint: Book
1800-1849'Many thanks for St Ronan, by far the best that has appeared for some time,?I mean the best of Sir Walter?s, and therefore, of course, better than all others. Every now a...Sydney Smith Walter ScottSt Ronan's WellPrint: Book
1800-1849'read man as he is - Hogg comes and reads Rokeby to me'.Thomas Jefferson Hogg Walter ScottRokeby; a poemPrint: Book
1800-1849'go to the British Museum - see all the fine things - ores, fossils, statues, divine &c &c. - return - read Rokeby - go upstairs to talk with S. - read and finish Rokeby'...Mary Godwin Walter ScottRokeby; a poemPrint: Book
1800-1849'read 3 Canto's of the Lord of the Isles'.Mary Godwin Walter ScottThe Lord of the Isles: a poemPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Walter ScottWaverley; or 'Tis Sixty Years Since
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Walter ScottGuy Mannering; or, The Astrologer
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry June 4 1791 'My dear, you will excuse this digressive tribute to departed excellence. What havoc has been lately made in the little circle of those I...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Walter Scott[Elegy 1]Print: Book
1800-1849'read the first vol. of the antiquary and work'Mary Godwin Walter ScottAntiquary, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'read the Edinburgh Review and the second vol. of the antiquary'Mary Godwin Walter ScottAntiquary, ThePrint: Book


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