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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799[LP reproduces her poem 'To the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq.] 'I shewed these lines to Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics], who liked them so well, that he undertook to de...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonTo the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq.Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP reproduces her poem 'To the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq.] 'I shewed these lines to Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics], who liked them so well, that he undertook to de...Henry Pelham Laetitia PilkingtonTo the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq.Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP went to visit Colley Cibber] 'and met, according to Custom, a very kind Reception: For his Friendship to me was inviolable. He was writing the [italics] Character and...Laetitia Pilkington Colley Cibber[alterations to her poem 'To Mr Cibber']Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP went to visit Colley Cibber] 'and met, according to Custom, a very kind Reception: For his Friendship to me was inviolable. He was writing the [italics] Character and...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonTo Mr CibberManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP went to visit Colley Cibber] 'and met, according to Custom, a very kind Reception: For his Friendship to me was inviolable. He was writing the [italics] Character and...Colley Cibber Colley CibberCharacter and Conduct of Cicero Considered Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP wrote a poem 'To his Excellency the Earl of Chesterfield'] 'just as I had finished this poem, [italics] Worsdale came in, and snatched it from me, saying, he would se...James Worsdale Laetitia PilkingtonTo his Excellency the Earl of ChesterfieldManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP wrote a poem 'To his Excellency the Earl of Chesterfield'] 'just as I had finished this poem, [italics] Worsdale came in, and snatched it from me, saying, he would se...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonTo his Excellency the Earl of ChesterfieldManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Julius Caesar] "The last scenes are huddled up, and affect me less than Plutarch's narrative. But the working up of Brutus by Cassiu...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the first book of Cicero's De Finibus]: "Exquisitely written, graceful, calm, luminous and full of interest; but the Epicurean theory...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe FinibusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia by the conversation in the street between Brutus and Cassius, in the First Act of Julius Caesar] "These two or three pages are worth the whole Fren...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia by the lines "Let me have men about me that are fat/ Sleek headed men, and such as sleep o' nights" in Julius Caesar] "Plutarch's hint is admirably...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in Cicero's De Natura Deorum]: "Equal to anything that Cicero ever did."Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe Natura DeorumPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra, by an editorial note by Steevens, which reminds the reader that Cleopatra's story of the salt fish on Antony's...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Ben Jonson's Catiline, by the lines 'Lentulus: The augurs all are constant I am meant / Catiline: They had lost their science else.'...Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben JonsonCatilinePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Letters, opposite the sentences 'Meum factum probari abs te [...] nihil enim malo quam et me mei similem esse, et illos sui...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, by the translations from Aeschylus and Sophocles in the Second Book]: "Cicero's best".Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben CiceroTusculan DisputationsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the composition of the Senate] "Absurd! Who knows anything about the usages of the Sena...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the creation of the first Censor, which suggests that Shakespeare had misread his autho...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the history of the Roman Consular Government]: "Well! but there had certainly been elec...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, on the last page]: "A noble play. As usual, Shakspeare [sic] had thumbed his translation of Plutarch to rags."Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book


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