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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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 Henry JonesEarl of Essex, The, a tragedyPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have heard Johnson say that there was no Series of Verses in any English Tragedy so sublime & striking as the passage in Congreve's Mourning Bride: beginning thus H...Samuel Johnson William CongreveMourning Bride, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'One could not bear to read a Page of the Gentleman Instructed now, & yet what a favourite Book it was - can that ever be the fate of the Rambler? - perhaps so.' Hester Lynch Thrale William DarrellGentleman Instructed, In the Conduct of a Virtuous...Print: Book
1700-1799'[Dr Parker] shewed me a little Poem written to himself by an old Clergyman of sixty nine Years old just upon the Accession of the present King, or about the time of his ...Hester Lynch Thrale [verses written to Dr Parker by a clergyman]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[at a gathering on the Isle of Wight] it fell to Paterson's Share [in a rhyming contest] it seems to celebrate Kitty Parker, then a reigning Beauty: he promised not to l...Mr Paterson Mr Paterson[verses written to Kitty Parker]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[when Mrs Thrale was a child] The Duchess of Leeds likewise took an odd Delight in my excellent company, used to send her chair for me & set me to read Milton I remember...Hester Lynch Salusbury John Milton Print: Book
1700-1799'having shewed her [Sophia Streatfield] the other day three Translations of a few Verses written by Voltaire She immediately guessed one of them to be mine, and pitched u...Hester Lynch Thrale Thomas Parnell Print: Book
1700-1799'having shewed her [Sophia Streatfield] the other day three Translations of a few Verses written by Voltaire She immediately guessed one of them to be mine, and pitched u...Sophia Streatfield Hester Lynch Thrale[translation of Voltaire's 'A Madame de Chatelet']Print: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want of Probability in the Story be excusable, for that se...Hester Lynch Thrale John HawkesworthRival, TheManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want of Probability in the Story be excusable, for that se...Hester Lynch Thrale John Hawkesworth[Ode on life]Print: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want of Probability in the Story be excusable, for that se...Hester Lynch Thrale John HawkesworthAmurathPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want of Probability in the Story be excusable, for that se...Hester Lynch Thrale John HawkesworthAdventurer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurable Distance Charlotte Lenox, Smollet & Fielding. The...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Richardson Print: Book
1700-1799'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurable Distance Charlotte Lenox, Smollet & Fielding. The...Hester Lynch Thrale Jean Jacques Rousseau Print: Book
1700-1799'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurable Distance Charlotte Lenox, Smollet & Fielding. The...Hester Lynch Thrale Tobias SmollettFerdinand Count FathomPrint: Book
1700-1799'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurable Distance Charlotte Lenox [sic], Smollet & Fieldin...Hester Lynch Thrale Charlotte LennoxFemale Quixote, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurable Distance Charlotte Lenox [sic], Smollet & Fieldin...Hester Lynch Thrale Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurable Distance Charlotte Lenox [sic], Smollet & Fieldin...Hester Lynch Thrale Henry FieldingJoseph AndrewsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Nobody reads Spenser's Pastorals, and they are exquisitely pretty; the Story in his February of the Oak and the Breere, and the other in his May of the Fox and the Kid a...Hester Lynch Thrale Edmund SpenserShepheardes Calendar, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so much did She delight in the Poetry of Dr Young - She ...Hester Lynch Thrale Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book


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