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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott...Wilfred Owen [books on history, classics and botany]Print: Book
1700-1799'His description of its [the situation in the Falklands] miseries in this pamphlet ['Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands'] is one of the fines...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonThoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkl...Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799'His disbelief of the authenticity of the poems ascribed to Ossian, a Highland bard, was confirmed in the course of his journey by a very strict examination of the eviden...James Boswell James Macpherson[Ossian poems, culminating in] Fingal, an Ancient ...Print: Book
1700-1799'His figure and manner appeared strange to them [the company on the night of Johnson's arrival in Oxford]; but he behaved modestly, and sat silent, till upon something wh...Samuel Johnson Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius Print: Book
1900-1945'His injury had not been permanent, and he now sat day after day beside Winifred's bed, talking to her about Russian literature and reading aloud from "Crime and Punishme...George de Coundouroff Fyodor DostoyevskyCrime and PunishmentPrint: Book
1800-1849'His Irish book seems to me from the little I have read very clever.'Alfred Tennyson Aubrey de VereEnglish Misdeeds and Irish MisrulePrint: Book
1800-1849'His last works were Spiritual hymns and which he wrote very well. In his own line of Society he was said to exhibit infinite humour but all his works are grave and pens...Walter Scott Ben JonsonEveryman in his HumourUnknown
1850-1899'His lesson consisted of Bible reading, turn and turn round the class, of reciting from memory the names of the kings of Israel and repeating the Church Catechism.'Flora Thompson BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'His letters [PB Shelley's in relation to his desertion of his wife] were really curious. A more singular display of the total want of all moral feeling under the guise o...Anne Romilly Percy Bysshe Shelley[letters to his wife Harriet]Unknown
1800-1849'His letters [PB Shelley's in relation to his desertion of his wife] were really curious. A more singular display of the total want of all moral feeling under the guise o...Anne Romilly [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'His Majesty having observed to him that he supposed he must have read a great deal; Johnson answered, that he thought more than he read; that he had read a great deal in...Samuel Johnson [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johnson what he thought of it. Johnson answered, "Warburt...Samuel Johnson [unknown][Lowth-Warburton controversy]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johnson what he thought of it. Johnson answered, "Warburt...Samuel Johnson George, Lord LytteltonHistory of the Life of Henry the Second Print: Book
1700-1799'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johnson what he thought of it. Johnson answered, "Warburt...George III of England [unknown][Lowth-Warburton controversy]Print: Book
1850-1899'His Majesty, once more disobeying the Dook's orders, had granted to some creature an Irish peerage. 'I observe' wrote Arthur (I quote from memory), that your Majesty has...Robert Louis Stevenson Percy Hetherington FitzgeraldLife of George IVPrint: Book
1900-1945'His Monkey Wife isn't a work of talent; it is a work of genius - or the word genius doesn't mean anything. Anyhow, it is what I know to be genius. And I feel badly that ...Edith Sitwell John CollierHis Monkey wife; or, Married to a ChimpPrint: Book
1900-1945'His novels rather date, but his essays are vivid and stimulating. Red Trousers comes to the mind as being real hot stuff.' D H LawrenceRed TrousersPrint: Book
1850-1899'His peers were surprised to hear him speak disparagingly of Dickens, the most popular novelist of the day. While Wilde admired the author's humour and his gift for caric...Oscar Wilde Charles DickensnovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'His plan was to make use of me as a talking dictionary and grammar, confining my teachings exclusively to the answering of such questions as he thought fit to put. Havin...Oliver GoldsmithVicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and autobiographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old...John Buchan James Boswell?Life of JohnsonPrint: Book


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