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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1753: 'I scarce know a greater pleasure than reading over a book one is fond of with persons of taste and candour, to who...Catherine Talbot Elizabeth Singer Rowe Print: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1753: 'I scarce know a greater pleasure than reading over a book one is fond of with persons of taste and candour, to who...Catherine Talbot 'Vision'Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, on life at Cuddesdon, 8 September 1753: 'Our days here pass too pleasantly to want any foreign enlivening [...] country scenes, c...Catherine Talbot and familySamuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 21 September 1753: 'Mr Richardson has been so good as to send me four volumes of his most charming work, and I heartily wish, for...Elizabeth Carter Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 February 1754: 'Did you ever read a little French book called Theorie des Sentimens Agreables? [...] I have some curiosity abo...anon Louis-Jean Lévesque de PouillyTheorie des sentimens agréablesPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 March 1754: '"Theorie des Sentimens Agreables" I have read some years ago, and quite forget. It made no deep impression upon m...Catherine Talbot Louis-Jean Lévesque de PouillyTheorie des sentimens agreablesPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 June 1754: 'I will send you a sonnet that I am extremely fond of, from no modern author, but from one whom I am sure you never...Catherine Talbot Carlo Maria MaggiSonnet 'Care dell'alma stanca Albengatrici...'Unknown
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 June 1754: 'Your cousin [Richard Owen] Cambridge has writ many lively papers in the World this winter from the mere motive of ...Catherine Talbot Richard Owen Cambridgepapers (i.e. essays)Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 July 1754: 'I am beyond description charmed with the Italian sonnet you sent me. I am afraid your opinion is too well grounded...Elizabeth Carter Carlo Maria MaggiSonnet 'Care dell'alma stanca Albengatrici...'Manuscript: Letter, Transcribed by Catherine Talbot in letter of 10 June 1754.
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 July 1754: 'After that exquisitely beautiful sonnet [by Carlo Maria Maggi, opening 'Care dell'alma stanca Albengatrici...'] yo...Elizabeth Carter Metastasio'love song' opening 'Ecco qual fiero istante'Unknown
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 19 August 1754: 'I was much pleased the other day in reading a system of moral philosophy, to find that the moral frame was not p...Catherine Talbot David FordyceElements of Moral PhilosophyPrint: Unknown
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 September 1754: 'Have you ever read the "Cry?" [...] It never fell in my way till very lately, and I read it with low spirits,...Elizabeth Carter Sarah FieldingThe CryPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 November 1754: 'I was going one day to have writ to you in a hurry to ask you whether I had dreamt it, or whether it was possi...Catherine Talbot Anthony Ashley CooperCharacterisks of Men, Manners, Times, Opinions, [v...Print: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 November 1754: 'Yes, I did read the "Cry" last spring, but was too much out of charity with one sign-post painting in it, to n...Catherine Talbot Sarah FieldingThe CryPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 27 December 1754: 'I cannot help being so ungenteel as to send you the good wishes of the season, though to any of the fine folks...Catherine Talbot The World, No. CIVPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 11 January 1755: 'It is very long since I read Lord Shaftesbury, and I only remember that I was in general charmed with his imagi...Elizabeth Carter Anthony Ashley CooperCharacterisks of Men, Manners, Times, Opinions.Print: Book
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 27 January 1755: 'I read Barbarossa in a great hurry, but remember in general that I was as well pleased with it as I could be wi...Elizabeth Carter BarbarossaPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 January 1755: 'Dr Dalton [i.e a volume of his poetry] is coming, but he has waited this last fortnight for some volumes of Sto...Catherine Talbot 'volumes of Stoic philosophy'Print: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 January 1755: 'Dr Dalton [i.e a volume of his poetry] is coming, but he has waited this last fortnight for some volumes of Sto...Bishop of Norwich 'volumes of Stoic philosophy'Print: Book
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755: 'I read that part of the Bishop of Norwich's quarto which relates to the Stoic philosophy, but met with nothing the...Elizabeth Carter work on Stoic philosophyPrint: Book


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