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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'I shall transcribe some Verses of Doctor Burney's on the same unworthy Subject [herself]; on which Verses Johnson made this remark when he saw them. These says he are so...Samuel Johnson Charles Burney[poem about Mrs Thrale]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[Dr Burney] could write admirable Verses had he Leisure and Inclination so to do. He has shewn me in Confidence a little Poem partly on the Plan & in the Spirit of the D...Hester Lynch Thrale Charles Burney[verses modelled on 'The Dunciad']Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[italics] My [end italics] Daughter Susan a Girl of seven Years old - said to me yesterday when we had done reading - I like this Book prodigiously Ma'am; the story of t...Susan Thrale [a story book]Print: Book
1700-1799'[italics] My [end italics] Daughter Susan a Girl of seven Years old - said to me yesterday when we had done reading - I like this Book prodigiously Ma'am; the story of t...Susan Thrale James BeattieEssays on Poetry and Music Print: Book
1700-1799'A Gentleman - one Mr Martin a Surgeon - was reproving his Son for relating some Story of a Gentleman's Marriage which he had read in the Newspaper & quoted from Thence a... [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799''15:Jan: 1778 Mr Johnson told me today that he had translated Anacreon's Dove, & as they were the first Greek Verses that had struck him when a Boy; so says he they cont...Samuel Johnson AnacreonDovePrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr Seward has just brought me a very great Curiosity a Copy of English Verses written by Jones the Orientalist when only 13 Years old. Both the Authour & his Friend swea...Hester Lynch Thrale William Jones[MS Ode on St Cecilia's Day]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'it was but last Week I read a new [sic] York Advertisement of Perfumery for the Ladies, Anodyne Necklaces for Teething Children, & some new fashioned Sweet meats fit say...Hester Lynch Thrale [a New York newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'Doctor Grainger, Author of the fine Ode to Solitude printed in Dodsley's Miscellanies wrote a poem while he was in the West Indies and called it the Sugar Cane; it was s...Hester Lynch Thrale James Grainger'Solitude: An Ode'Print: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Grainger, Author of the fine Ode to Solitude printed in Dodsley's Miscellanies wrote a poem while he was in the West Indies and called it the Sugar Cane; it was s...Samuel Johnson James GraingerSugar Cane, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and Spirit in the Scotsman: though both of them knew the...Hester Lynch Thrale Tobias Smollett Print: Book
1700-1799'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and Spirit in the Scotsman: though both of them knew the...Hester Lynch Thrale Henry Fielding Print: Book
1700-1799'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and Spirit in the Scotsman: though both of them knew the...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Richardson Print: Book
1700-1799'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and Spirit in the Scotsman: though both of them knew the...Hester Lynch Thrale Jean Jacques Rousseau Print: Book
1700-1799'For Sublimity & at the same time Familiarity with Life Nothing strikes one more than Clarendon's Account of the Fire of London - De Foe's Plague is still stronger but th...Hester Lynch Thrale Edward Hyde, 1st earl of ClarendonContinuation of the Life of Edward Earl of Clarend...Print: Book
1700-1799'For Sublimity & at the same time Familiarity with Life Nothing strikes one more than Clarendon's Account of the Fire of London - De Foe's Plague is still stronger but th...Hester Lynch Thrale Daniel DefoeJournal of the Plague YearPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the Power it has over our Passions too; for nobody I beli...Hester Lynch Thrale Arthur MurphyGrecian Daughter, the: A tragedyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the Power it has over our Passions too; for nobody I beli...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel JohnsonIrene: A Historical TragedyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the Power it has over our Passions too; for nobody I beli...Hester Lynch Thrale Joseph AddisonCatoPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the Power it has over our Passions too; for nobody I beli...Hester Lynch Thrale George LilloLondon Merchant, or the History of George BarnwellPrint: Book


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