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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849
1850-1899		Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaissance-period texts, by William Gifford in his Memoir ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William GiffordMemoir of Ben JonsonPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 23 October 1795, 'Have you seen the Mæviad? the poem is not equal to the former production of the same author — but the s...Robert Southey William GiffordThe MæviadPrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 17 January 1827: 'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainments and many excellent qualities. The translation o...Walter Scott William Giffordtranslation of JuvenalPrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 17 January 1827: 'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainments and many excellent qualities. The translation o...Walter Scott William GiffordThe Baviad Print: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 17 January 1827: 'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainments and many excellent qualities. The translation o...Walter Scott William GiffordThe MaeviadPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 16 January 1797: 'I wish Bob would insert a review of my writing in the British Critic. it is upon a strange poem with sti...Robert Southey William GilbertThe HurricanePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I read a volume which was called "The Guide to Domestic Happiness", but found that it had no direct bearing upon the case of a working man - all its reasonings, counsels...Thomas Carter William GilesGuide to Domestic Happiness, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Wrote out of the "Analytical Review" an account of the Abbey of Glastonbury which they have extracted from Gilpin's Observations.'Joseph Hunter William GilpinThe Analytical Review; or History of LiteraturePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Looked over Gilpin's Two Essay[s]; on Picturesque Beauty, and Picturesque Travel...'Thomas Green William GilpinThree EssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849"Perhaps Picturesque is somewhat synonymous to the word Taste, which we should think improperly applied to Homer & Milton, but very well to Prior or Pope. I suspect that ...William Blake William Gilpin3 Essays on Picturesque BeautyPrint: Book
1800-1849'In this state of affairs I sent to my late partners for Secker's Lectures on the Catechism, Gilpin's Lectures on the same, Wilson's Sermons, 4vols. and Gilpin's Sermons....James and Mary LackingtonWilliam GilpinLectures on the Catechism of the Church of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'In this state of affairs I sent to my late partners for Secker's Lectures on the Catechism, Gilpin's Lectures on the same, Wilson's Sermons, 4vols. and Gilpin's Sermons....James and Mary LackingtonWilliam GilpinSermons preached to a country congregationPrint: Book
1850-1899 'I struggled through one [essay/article] by Gladstone just, in order to be able to say I had, but honestly I understood no single sentence.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes William Gladstone Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. I have read the article you point out to me with the...Mary Augusta Ward William GladstoneGleanings Of Past Years Print: Book
1700-1799"'I have received from [Basil] Montagu, Godwyn's second edition,' reports W[ordsworth] on 21 March 1796: 'I expect to find the work much improved. I cannot say that I hav...William Wordsworth William GodwinAn Enquiry Concerning Political JusticePrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Lamb to Mrs Morgan and Charlotte Brant, 22 May 1815: 'Godwin has just published a new book ... Wordsworth has just now looked into it and found these words "All mod...William Wordsworth William GodwinLives of Edward and John Philips, Nephews and Pupi...Print: Book
1700-1799I was finally induced to come to this determination sooner than I should otherwise have done by reading Mr Godwins 'Enquiry concerning Political Justice'.Francis Place William GodwinInquiry Concerning Political JusticePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Poor Godwin is a terrific example for all conjugal biography; but he has marked that path which may be avoided? The title of Mrs Owens? new work has something very charm...Elizabeth Inchbald William GodwinMary WollstonecraftPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... a large part of the manuscript for William Godwin's play Abbas, with Coleridge's commentary dating from 1801, has recently come to light ... there he ... adopted a ...Samuel Taylor Coleridge William GodwinAbbasManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		H. J. Jackson discusses John Horseman's annotations to, and insertions in, his first edition copy of William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights ...John Horseman William GodwinMemoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Righ...Print: Book


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