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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is not pure morality; but there is a good deal of weight in what Callicles says. He is wrong in not perceiving that th...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is one of the finest passages in Greek literature. Plato is a real poet."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias. He marks the the doctrine "that we ought to be more afraid of wronging than of being wronged, and ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, by the trial of Socrates, when Socrates expressed a serene conviction that to die is gain, even if death were nothing more tha...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849Wiliam Wordsworth to Daniel Stuart, 22 June 1817: 'By the bye, it was not till this morning that I read the case of Stuart versus Lovell. What a miscreant - If I had bee...William Wordsworth case of Stuart versus LovellUnknown
1800-1849Wiliam Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 19 [Sept] 1817: 'I have not read Mr. Coleridge's "Biographia", having contented myself with skimming parts of it ... 'William Wordsworth Samuel TaylorColeridgePrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 13 Feb 1818: 'I dined at the Wakefields yesterday. Mr John W. senior broke out on the dependent and enslaved State of the County et...William Wordsworth Lord Lonsdale Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Transcribed in letter from William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [c.25 February 1818]: 'If money I lack The shirt on my back Shall off - and go to the hammer; F...William Wordsworth  Print: Handbill
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 14 March 1818: 'If you continue to read the Kendal Chronicle you must be greatly concerned to see that the Liberty of the Press shoul...William Wordsworth Kendal ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth describing progress of electioneering in Kendal to Sara Hutchinson, 24 March 1818: 'This morning ... [William Crackenthorp] called ... just before he...William Crackenthorp Thomas Clarksonletter to Mr WakefieldUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [27 March 1818]: 'I should at this moment determine to go over to Lowther tomorrow, did I not think that I may be more useful to...William Wordsworth Thomas Clarkson Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 30 March 1818: 'Mr Clarkson's letter [refusing support to Lowther interest in Westmorland elections] was published in yesterday'...Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas Clarkson Print: Newspaper
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 6 April 1818: 'Had the Correspondence [between Henry Brougham and William Wilberforce, 1806] been published upon Mr B[rougham]'s firs...William Wordsworth Thomas De QuinceyClose Comments on a Straggling SpeechUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [c. 14 April 1818]: 'The notes upon [Henry] Brougham's Speech, I have not seen, unless they be those from the pen of Mr De Quincey...William Wordsworth, Viscount LowtherThomas De QuinceyClose Comments on a Straggling SpeechUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 22 September 1818: 'Your two interesting Letters, the Pamphlet, and Sun and Chronicle, have been duly received ... The Pamphlet I ...William Wordsworth Henry BroughamA Letter to Sir Samuel Romilly upon the Abuse of C...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 8 December 1818: 'I have seen Mr Fleming, and told him everything you wished ... I read him a considerable part of your last Lette...William Wordsworth Viscount Lowther Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Christopher Wordsworth, 1 January 1819: 'Mr Monkhouse will probably have shewn you the copy of Mr Russel's Letter [on Madras method of education], ...Christopher Wordsworth William Wordsworthletter to Revd. John RussellManuscript: Letter
1800-1849William Wordsworth describes his eldest son's slowness in reading to his brother Christopher Wordsworth, 1 January 1819: ' ... he is so long in finding his words in his...John Wordsworth dictionaryPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: '[Samuel] Rogers read me his Poem when I was in Town about 2 months ago; but I have heard nothing of it since.'Samuel Rogers Samuel RogersHuman Life, A PoemUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: 'I know little of Blackwood's Magazine, and wish to know less. I have seen in it articles so infamous that I do...William Wordsworth Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical


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