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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 - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri,...Thomas Carlyle Robert Southey[essay in the Quarterly Review on Lewis and Clarke...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri,...Thomas Carlyle Mark AkensideNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri,...Thomas Carlyle Tobias SmollettPeregrine PicklePrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you seen the last vol of Mrs Garnett's Turgeniev? There's a story there. "Three Portraits" really fine. Also "Enough" worth reading.' Joseph Conrad Ivan TurgenevThe Jew and Other StoriesPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Have you seen the little book, "Cottage Dialogues", by Mrs Leadbetter? Edgeworths notes are lively and [nationally] characteristic as ever: but I own, I tired a little o...Sarah Harriet Burney Mary LeadbetterCottage Dialogues Among the Irish PeasantryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you seen the little book, 'Cottage Dialogues', by Mrs Leadbetter. Edgeworth's notes are lively and [nationally] characteristic as ever: but I own I am tired a littl...Sarah Harriet Burney Mary Leadbetter and Maria EdgeworthCottage Dialogues Amongst the Irish PeasantryPrint: Book
1700-1799'Have you seen two volumes called "Deism Revealed"? 'Tis a well written piece, and much approved here. I think it is not harsh against the religion of France; but scourge...Samuel Richardson Philip SkeltonOphiomaches: or, Deism RevealedManuscript: Unknown, MS of work Richardson printed
1800-1849'Have you Tom Davis's Life of David Garrick? I have been reading Boswell's Life of Johnson, and should like to peruse the life of his (Johnson's) contemporary. Mrs Hannah... BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Have you yet seen Middlemarch? You would not be quite so unsophisticated a visitor to Rome as Miss Brooke.'Robert Louis Stevenson George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Having been lately interested in astronomical studies & been reading Ferguson and Bonnycastle on that science; I on Monday the 15th began making a planetorium upon a st...John Marsh James FergusonHis Astronomy explained on Sir Isaac Newton's Prin...Print: Book
1700-1799'Having been lately interested in astronomical studies & been reading Ferguson and Bonnycastle on that science; I on Monday the 15th began making a planetorium upon a st...John Marsh John BonnycastleAn introduction to astronomyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Having been upon a tour in Scotland I did not receive your book till my arrival at York & was unwilling to answer your very obliging letter till I had read the Parish re...Henry Vassal Fox, Lord Holland George CrabbeParish Register, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Having been upon a tour in Scotland I did not receive your book till my arrival at York & was unwilling to answer your very obliging letter till I had read the Parish re...Henry Vassal Fox, Lord Holland George CrabbeLibrary, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Having been upon a tour in Scotland I did not receive your book till my arrival at York & was unwilling to answer your very obliging letter till I had read the Parish re...Henry Vassal Fox, Lord Holland George CrabbeVillage, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Having finish'd my business in this neighbourhood, I on the next day (Friday the 24th) return'd to London in the coach, in w'ch being alone great part of the way I finis...John Marsh Jane WestThe History of Ned EvansPrint: Book
1700-1799'Having finish'd my business in this neighbourhood, I on the next day (Friday the 24th) return'd to London in the coach, in w'ch being alone great part of the way I finis...John Marsh Charlotte SmithThe Young PhilosopherPrint: Book
1900-1945'Having finished Morris I am reading a silly book of Anstey's "The Talking Horse" before settling down to Macaulay. I never heard you speak of Anstey, but you should re...Clive Staples Lewis F. AnsteyThe Talking Horse and Other TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Having finished Spencer's Sociology we began Max MUller's Lectures on the Science of Language'.George Eliot and John CrossHerbert SpencerPrinciples of SociologyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Having finished Spencer's Sociology we began Max Muller's Lectures on the Science of Language'.George Eliot and John CrossFriedrich Max MullerLectures on the Science of LanguagePrint: Book
1700-1799'Having given such a specimen of his poetical powers, he was asked by Mr Jorden to translate Pope's Messiah into Latin verse, as a Christmas exercise. He performed it wit...Samuel Johnson Alexander PopeMessiah. A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil'...Print: Book


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