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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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 Lewis & ClarkeTravels up the MissouriPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"He says careless work is a proof of something wrong in a person's whole moral character." From the editor's footnote 3 on letter W 38. "Writing in 1865, Lady Waterford,...Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford John RuskinCestus of AglaiaPrint: Book
1900-1945"He would read acts of 'The Honeymoon' aloud to the two women, conscious that he did not read well, but considering it as a good test, to see if his lines could withstand...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettThe HoneymoonManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849"He [Mr Morrison] breeds horses, & the colts came up & talked to us, & his great kennelfulls of dogs who came to be patted & generally would easily become a tenant of Wil...Leslie Stephen Anne BronteTenant of Wildfell HallPrint: Book
1600-1699"Henry Wotton recalled coming across Milton's A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle 'in the very close of the late R's Poems, Printed at Oxford' ..."Henry Wotton R PoemsPrint: Book
1600-1699"Henry Wotton recalled coming across Milton's A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle 'in the very close of the late R's Poems, Printed at Oxford' ..."Henry Wotton John MiltonA Mask Presented at Ludlow CastlePrint: Book
1600-1699"Here Swan showed us a ballat to the tune of Mardike, which was the most incomparably writ in a printed hand; which I borrowed, but the song proved silly and so I did not...Samuel Pepys [ballad]Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849"Horatio Nelson's copy of Helen Maria Williams's Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic Towards the Close of the Eighteenth Century (1801) ....Horatio Nelson Helen Maria WilliamsSketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in t...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"How much a book gains by the appropriate surroundings of the person reading it, was forcibly impressed upon me [by the circumstances described in RED ID 5432], and this ...John Bedford Leno Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1600-1699"Hugh Leeson [a member of the preacher John Rogers's Dublin congregation in the early 1650s] ... was first 'wrought upon' by his wife, 'whom God made the first Instrument...anon The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945"I am disposed to agree with your own estimate of 'Scepticism of the Instrument'. I don?t, however, think that your third indictment of the instrument is quite new." Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsScepticism of the InstrumentUnknown
1850-1899"I am now going in for another shot at "Christie's Faith". I am feeling devilishly lazy - Oh! I will try a pipe - it may wake me up - 5 PM. 5.45 I have done it! both pip...Leslie Stephen Christie's FaithPrint: Book
1850-1899"I am now myself in cap III of 'Sentimental Tommy'. So far, it strikes me, as it struck me before in 'Scribner', as a little too merely facetious, Seems as if the begga...Arnold Bennett J.M. BarrieSentimental TommyPrint: Book
1850-1899"I am really quite well though perhaps a few days more will be a good pick me up. My brain is quite dry. We don't even see a paper expect the Pall Mall Gazette wh. I read...Leslie Stephen Pall Mall GazettePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"I am spending a quiet Sunday morning in Birbeck's smoking room - reading a novel."Leslie Stephen [Novel]Print: Book
1800-1849"I am writing this on the Maid's tragedy which I have read since tea with great pleasure - Besides this volume of Beaumont & Fletcher - there are on the table two vol...John Keats Thomas MooreTom Cribb's Memorial to CongressPrint: Book
1800-1849"I am writing this on the Maid's tragedy which I have read since tea with great pleasure - Besides this volume of Beaumont & Fletcher - there are on the table two vol...John Keats Geoffrey ChaucerunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899"I am, I see, talking pessimism. It is not very easy to talk anything else just now. When I read our debates, I sometimes think that we are doing our best to exemplify th...Leslie Stephen The Latterday PamphletsPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849"I attempt to read a book which attacks my most cherished sentiments as calmly as one which corroborates them. I have not read your writings slightly, I have daily occas...Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinPolitical JusticePrint: Book
1850-1899"I began Robinson Crusoe with Laura. I think that she will be up to it & we made a pretty good start."Leslie Stephen Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book


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