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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for his Toryism, but what cares he? he calls himself a Tor...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel JohnsonLives of the PoetsPrint: proof sheets
1700-1799'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for his Toryism, but what cares he? he calls himself a Tor...Hester Lynch Thrale Matthew PriorAlmaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for his Toryism, but what cares he? he calls himself a Tor...Hester Lynch Thrale Nicholas RoweFair Penitent, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for his Toryism, but what cares he? he calls himself a Tor...Hester Lynch Thrale Philip MassingerFatal Dowry, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Bruce of Abyssinia has been greatly ridiculed, particularly for trying to make the World believe that the people in Abyssinia eat cuts from the live Beast; yet Mr Coxe &...Hester Lynch Thrale [a book of travels dealing with Abyssinia]Print: Book
1700-1799'I see Mr Pope's skilful Adaptation of Names to his Spirits in the Rape of the Lock, and to his Mud-Nymphs in the Dunciad, are all borrowed from one of Ben Jonson's Masqu...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander PopeRape of the Lock, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'I see Mr Pope's skilful Adaptation of Names to his Spirits in the Rape of the Lock, and to his Mud-Nymphs in the Dunciad, are all borrowed from one of Ben Jonson's Masqu...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander PopeDunciad, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'The Sonnet of Mr des Yveteaux the odd Man who shut himself up with a Wench, & played Shepherd & Shepherdess when he was past threescore; beginning Avoir peu de parens...Hester Lynch Thrale Nicolas Vauquelin Des Yveteaux[a sonnet]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'The Sonnet of Mr des Yveteaux the odd Man who shut himself up with a Wench, & played Shepherd & Shepherdess when he was past threescore; beginning Avoir peu de parens...Hester Lynch Thrale Walter PopeOld Mans Wish, ThePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'the Story of Elmerick in Lillo's Play seems taken from the Conte d'Andre & Gertrude in the Chevreana, but perhaps Lillo never saw it there - the Charge of Plagiarism sho...Hester Lynch Thrale George LilloElmerick; Or Justice TriumphantPrint: Book
1700-1799'the Story of Elmerick in Lillo's Play seems taken from the Conte d'Andre & Gertrude in the Chevreana, but perhaps Lillo never saw it there - the Charge of Plagiarism sho...Hester Lynch Thrale Chevrĉana, ou Diverses Pensées Print: Book
1700-1799'I must ask Baretti who translated the Sonnet of Anacreon into such pretty Italian Verse.' [some lines are given]Hester Lynch Thrale AnacreonAnacreon to himselfUnknown
1700-1799'I was shewed a curious Thing today - a Letter written by Lord Strafford to his Daughter three Weeks before his Execution - he apparently expected no such Sentence, but r...Hester Lynch Thrale Lord Strafford[letter to his daughter, 1641]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'Greville draws Prose Characters incomparably well; that Man's book of Maxims &c. has not had credit enough in the World - Adrastus, Sicinius & Strabo are admirable in th...Hester Lynch Thrale Richard Fulke GrevilleMaxims, Characters, and ReflectionsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Doctr Burney has translated the famous old French Chanson Militaire - [italics] all about Roland [end italics]: how happy, how skilful, how elegant is that dear Creature...Hester Lynch Thrale Charles Burney[translation of a French Chanson]Unknown
1700-1799'Psalmanazar wrote the Cosmogony, and the History of the Jews after his Conversion; how odd that he shold quote the Formosan Opinions therefore as corroborative of some H...Hester Lynch Thrale George Psalmanazar[articles contributed to the 'Universal History']Print: Book
1700-1799'Apropos to riding in a coach, Perkins told me that he had [italics] found out the Secret how to read in a Carriage [end italics] and would tell it to me, to whom it migh...Mr Perkins  Print: Book
1700-1799'Man's Life being divided into five Acts like a Play - in the Sorberiana - what an Affinity it has to Shakespear's seven Ages of Man!'Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Joseph SorbiereSorberianaPrint: Book
1700-1799'We have got a sort of literary Curiosity amongst us; the foul Copy of Pope's Homer, with all his old intended Verses, Sketches, emendations &c. strange that a Man shd ke...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander Pope[MS of his translations of Homer]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'My second Daughter Susan has a surprising Turn for Letter-writing; her Compositions are really elegant, & She delights - odd enough - in reading Voiture and Sevigne.'Susanna Arabella Thrale Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneLettersPrint: Book


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