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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelings and with the dark and terrible pictures which he ...Joseph Barker John Milton Print: Book
1800-1849'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelings and with the dark and terrible pictures which he ...Joseph Barker Thomas Hobbes Print: Book
1800-1849'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelings and with the dark and terrible pictures which he ...Joseph Barker John Locke Print: Book
1800-1849'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelings and with the dark and terrible pictures which he ...Joseph Barker Isaac Newton Print: Book
1800-1849'Byron has sent us a new poem the Age of Bronze: it is short, and pithy - but not at all poetical. Byron may still easily fail to be a great man. You shall see his Bron...Thomas Carlyle George Gordon ByronThe Age Of BronzePrint: BookManuscript: LetterUnknown
1900-1945'Byron was a great genius. 'Don' Juan is a terrific work. But there is scarcely a page of it which does not show that an artistic conscience was not Byron’s strong poin...Arnold Bennett Sir Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book
1900-1945'Byron was a great genius. 'Don' Juan is a terrific work. But there is scarcely a page of it which does not show that an artistic conscience was not Byron’s strong poin...Arnold Bennett Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1800-1849'Byron's example has formed a sort of Upper House of poetry. There is Lord Leveson Gower a very clever young man. Lord Porchester too, nephew to Mrs Scott of Harden, a ...Walter Scott William ShakespeareCymbelineUnknown
1800-1849'Byron's Magazine or rather Hunt's 'The Liberal' is arrived in town; but they will not sell it - it is so full of Atheism and Radicalism and other noxious isms. I had a ...Thomas Carlyle Leigh Hunt (EDITOR)The LiberalPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'B[reakfast] Herring, bread & butter, tea. Read "The Amazing Duke".'John Frederick William Dunn William MagnayThe Amazing DukePrint: Book
1850-1899'C. Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby'Sarah Good Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1900-1945'C. [David Lloyd George] is in very good spirits after a week-end rest. Yesterday I went down to W.H. [Walton Heath] & spent the afternoon with him, & we had a jolly time...Frances Stevenson Herbert George WellsThe Wife of Sir Eric HarmanPrint: Book
1900-1945'C. [David Lloyd George] is in very good spirits after a week-end rest. Yesterday I went down to W.H. [Walton Heath] & spent the afternoon with him, & we had a jolly time...Frances Stevenson Herbert George WellsAnne VeronicaPrint: Book
1900-1945'C. [David Lloyd George] is in very good spirits after a week-end rest. Yesterday I went down to W.H. [Walton Heath] & spent the afternoon with him, & we had a jolly time...David Lloyd George Herbert George WellsThe Wife of Sir Eric HarmanPrint: Book
1900-1945'C. [David Lloyd George] says that Ibsen's Doll's House was the work that converted him to woman suffrage, & presented the woman's point of view to him.' David Lloyd George Henrik IbsenA Doll's HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'C.E. Stansfield dealt in detail with Goethe's Faust. he showed that Faust started by Goethe at the age of 20 & finished when over 80 yrs is an expression of his own life...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[paper on Goethe's 'Faust']]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'C.E. Stansfield dealt in detail with Goethe's Faust. he showed that Faust started by Goethe at the age of 20 & finished when over 80 yrs is an expression of his own life...Charles Stansfield Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1900-1945'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson & H.M. Wallis'.Charles Stansfield Edmund SpenserFaerie QueenePrint: Book
1900-1945'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson & H.M. Wallis'.Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[paper on Spenser]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson & H.M. Wallis'.Florence Reynolds Edmund SpenserFaerie QueenePrint: Book


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