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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I have not been able to discover the author of the article in the Quarterly that you mention. We all admired it very much'.Anne Romilly [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have not been able to discover the author of the article in the Quarterly that you mention. We all admired it very much'.Maria Edgeworth [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'If the Quarterly Reviewers should not think proper to publish it [an article by Edgeworth] Sir Saml wishes you would let it appear in the Philanthropist, a periodical Pu...Anne Romilly [n/a]Philanthropist, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Polly this morning while I was getting up rushed almost breathless into the bed-room with her eyes all alight & The Argus in her hand. "Listen here Castieau" said she & ...Polly Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confidentially everywhere [end italics]. The usual consequ...Anne Romilly [n/a]Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
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
1800-1849'How merciless and ungentlemanlike the"Quarterly Review" is upon Lady Morgan! It is the only thing that could have made me pity her, for she is very flippant and full of ...Anne Romilly [n/a]Quarterly Review Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'[EH having been expecting her brother back from India] Think, then, what I felt on reading in the newspaper of that ship being seen off the Cape in great distress; at le...Elizabeth Hamilton [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'"The Gentleman's Magazine", begun and carried on by Mr Edward Cave , under the name of SYLVANUS URBAN, had attracted the notice and esteem of Johnson, in an eminent degr...Samuel Johnson [n/a]Gentleman's Magazine, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I myself recollect such impressions [of reverence, like Johnson displayed for the "Gentleman's Magazine"] from "The Scots Magazine", which was begun at Edinburgh in the ...James Boswell [n/a]Scot's Magazine, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'all the esays [in the "Universal Visitor"] marked with two [italics] asterisks [end italics] have been ascribed to him; but I am confident, from internal evidence, that ...James Boswell [n/a]The Universal VisitorPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also found a place. Lucy was "A good reader" and gave them...Housman family [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'[A Mr Murphy was looking for something to print in "The Gray's Inn Journal" and a Mr Foote suggested] "Here is a French magazine, in which you will find a very pretty or...Mr Murphy [n/a]Rambler, The Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thinking of Johnson's writings. But surely it has just v...Samuel Johnson [n/a]Connoisseur, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thinking of Johnson's writings. But surely it has just v...Samuel Johnson [n/a]World, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thinking of Johnson's writings. But surely it has just ...James Boswell [n/a]Connoisseur, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and "Critical Reviews"; and on being answered there was...Samuel Johnson [n/a]Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and "Critical Reviews"; and on being answered there was...Samuel Johnson [n/a]Critical ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and "Critical Reviews"; and on being answered there was...Samuel Johnson [n/a]Philosophical Transactions of the Royal SocietyPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799[EDITOR WRITES]'During several months, Mr Hamilton was sedulously engaged in unravelling all the intricacies of the Persian tome'.Charles Hamilton [n/a]Hedaya Print: Book


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