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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'My humble apology for not thanking you before for the volume of verses. I share your opinion of Maupassant.The man is a great artist who sees the essential in everythi...Joseph Conrad Guy de MaupassantDes VersPrint: Book
1600-1699'I walked back again, all the way reading of my book of Timber measure, comparing it with my new Sliding rule, brought home this morning, with great pleasure.'Samuel Pepys John BrownDescription and use of the carpenter's rulePrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'In George North's "Description of Swedland, Gotland, and Finland" (1561), on sig.G2r next to a textual discussion of the "Swecian Language" and a copy of "The Lordes Pr...Gabriel Harvey George NorthDescription of Swedland, Gotland, and FinlandPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jean Antoine DuboisDescription of the Character, Manners and Customs ...Print: Book
1700-1799'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as go...Samuel Johnson Richard PocockeDescription of the East and Some other Countries,Print: Book
1700-1799'He told me, that his father had put Martin's account of those islands into his hands when he was very young, and that he was highly pleased with it; that he was particul...Samuel Johnson Martin MartinDescription of the Western Islands of ScotlandPrint: Book
1700-1799'He told me, that his father had put Martin's account of those islands into his hands when he was very young, and that he was highly pleased with it; that he was particul...Michael Johnson Martin MartinDescription of the Western Islands of ScotlandPrint: Book
1800-1849'In late 1808 S[ara] H[utchinson] copied the description of the gawlin from [Martin] Martin, pp.71-2, into C[oleridge]'s notebook ... 'Sara Hutchinson Martin MartinDescription of the Western Islands of Scotland, APrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 9 April, 1797: 'I have seen Bayntons Book. it is vilely written. but the theory seems good, & the practise appears to have been successfu...Robert Southey Thomas BayntonDescriptive Account of a New Method of Treating Ol...Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, about how she spent Saturday, 23 January 1802: '[after walking in cold] O how comfortable and happy we felt ourselves, sitting by o...William and Dorothy WordsworthWilliam WordsworthDescriptive SketchesUnknown
1800-1849'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading a Society-Octavo, an Essay on the Military Police &...Cassandra Leigh Austen John CarrDescriptive Travels in the Southern and Eastern Pa...Print: Book
1800-1849'my dear father told thee that Goldsmith's would now be the [italics] deserted village [end italics]; perhaps thou dost not remember this compliment, but I remember the i...Richard Shackleton Oliver GoldsmithDeserted Village, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the ec...Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithDeserted Village, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have found what should interest you dear. A paper in which I had sketched out my life, before I knew you. Here is the exact copy even to spelling.[?]'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonDesiderataManuscript: Sheet
1700-1799'Sir William Chambers, that great Architect, whose works shew a sublimity of genius, and who is esteemed by all who know him for his social, hospitable, and generous qual...Samuel Johnson William ChambersDesigns of Chinese buildings, furniture, dresses, ...Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'With a fine imagination and command of Language Charlotte Smith cannot write without Interest [.] this is an odd work. She introduces in a prettily wrought novel the mor...Anna Larpent Charlotte SmithDesmondPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Pennington] emphasises... that she "highly disapproved" the novels of Charlotte Smith, believing their morality "very defective" if not "positively bad" (Memoirs, p. 29...Elizabeth Carter Charlotte SmithDesmondPrint: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 16 March 1826: 'In the evening after dinner read Mrs. Charlotte Smith's novel Desmond, decidedly the worst of her compositions.'Walter Scott Charlotte SmithDesmondPrint: Book
1900-1945'Before we turned in Raymond, at Hugh's suggestion, read aloud Norton's 1924 despatch, in which he summoned up the possibilities of climbing Everest.'(Charles) Raymond Greene Edward Felix NortondespatchUnknown
1800-1849'They give the picture of a consumate man, in whom the signal aptitude for detail does not detract from, but adds largely to the impression of his even & capacious greatn...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Arthur Wellesley, Duke of WellingtonDespatches of the Duke of WellingtonPrint: Unknown


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