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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shaksperr [.] His "View of the English Stage" is not so good a...John Clare William HazlittA View of the English StagePrint: Book
1800-1849'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shaksperr [.] His "View of the English Stage" is not so good a...John Clare William HazlittLectures on the English Comic WritersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shakspear [.] His "View of the English Stage" is not so good a...John Clare William HazlittCharacters of Shakespeare's PlaysPrint: Book
1800-1849"Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scott's 'Lord of the Isles,' Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri...Thomas Carlyle William Hazlitt'Standard Novels'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read the Round Table'Mary Shelley William HazlittRound Table, The: A Collection of EssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just read the "Liber Amoris" of (as we are told) Mr Hazlet: it is strange that any Man could write & marvelous that he could publish such History of his own Weakn...George Crabbe William HazlittLiber Amoris, or the New PygmalionPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 25 October 1850:

'The box of books came last night [...] I am now abundantly supplied for a long time. I l...		Charlotte Brontë William HazlittEssaysPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I’ve been reading Wells’ "What is coming …" Hazlitt’s Essays, and a glorious book of critical essays by A. K. Thompson, called "The Greek Tradition". I read no ficti...Wilfred Owen William HazlittEssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished a short article of Heude's travels across the desert, from Bagdad to Constantinople'.Sydney Smith William HeudeA Voyage up the Persian Gulf and a Journey Overlan...Print: Book
1700-1799'[regarding a poetry contest with his brother William, himself and another, Hogg says of William's poem] it was far superior to either of the other two in the sublimity o...James Hogg William Hogg'Urania's Tour'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'My brother and I have read over together the Essay on Sheep their natural history &c which we so often talked about it is extremely curious and interesting and very orig...James and William HoggWilliam Hogg[prize essay on sheep, prize awarded by the Highla...Unknown
1800-1849??we were soon in a free conversation on the subject of parliamentary reform. When objections were stated, they listened candidly to our replies, and a good-humoured disc...Samuel Bamford William Hone[political pamphlets]Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849??we were soon in a free conversation on the subject of parliamentary reform. When objections were stated, they listened candidly to our replies, and a good-humoured disc...William HonePolitical LitanyPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Had a double Polanthus & single white Hepatica sent me from Stamford round which was rapped a curious prospectus of an "Every day book" by W. Hone. If such a thing was w...John Clare William HoneProspectus for 'The Every-Day Book'Print: Advertisement
1800-1849'Recieved the 28 No of the "Everyday book" in which is inserted a poem of mine'John Clare William HoneThe Every-Day BookPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Saturday, 3 July 1830: 'I read Southey's Pilgrim's Progress and think of reviewing the same [...] Read Hone's Every day Book and with a better opinion of him than I ex...Walter Scott William HoneEvery-Day Book and Table Book: or Everlasting Cale...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 July 1843: 'I am reading William Howitt's Germany with a good deal of interest.'Elizabeth Barrett William HowittRural and Domestic Life of GermanyPrint: Book
1800-1849Spencer Perceval to John Wilson Croker, 11 November 1810: 'I thank you for the sight of H[uskisson]'s pamphlet. I have run through it, I cannot say [italics]read[end...Spencer Perceval William Huskisson'The Question Concerning the Depreciation of our C...Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799'At some time between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied the epitaph of Sir George Vane at the parish church of Long Newton, Durham, as published ...Dorothy Wordsworth William HutchinsonHistory and Antiquities of the County Palatine of ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Having read Hutton's life of himself which afforded me much amusement I mean to get a book and attempt something of the kind though aware I have not his memory, industry...Benjamin Newton William HuttonThe life of William HuttonPrint: Book


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