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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Johnson. At this time I found, upon his table, a part o...James Boswell John TaylorSermons left for publication by the Reverend John ...Print: Book
1700-1799'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Johnson. At this time I found, upon his table, a part o...John Taylor John Taylor[sermon]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself. It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to criticise the elegant and ingenious rather than pow...Thomas Carlyle Jean Baptiste BiotTraite de PhysiquePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself. It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to criticise the elegant and ingenious rather than pow...Thomas Carlyle Horace Benedict SaussureVoyage dans les AlpesPrint: Book
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
1850-1899'I have not been able to ride the last few days because it has been so hot. We have finished "The Voyage of the Constance" and it is so pretty, we are reading "The Prince...Gertrude Bell Mary GilliesThe Voyage of the "Constance": A Tale of the Polar...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have not been able to ride the last few days because it has been so hot. We have finished "The Voyage of the Constance" and it is so pretty, we are reading "The Prince...Gertrude Bell Charlotte Mary Yonge The Prince and the Page: A story of the last Crusa...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have not done much with the Sermons you sent me nor after the Bristol Huricanes Would you expect it, still I have not been altogether idle, for vamping old Sermons is ...George Crabbe George Crabbe[sermons]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I have not even yet made up my mind about Dickens, & I am glad that so far I have never expressed an opinion about him, except playfully, in print. I got fairly stuck i...Arnold Bennett Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have not even yet made up my mind about Dickens, & I am glad that so far I have never expressed an opinion about him, except playfully, in print. I got fairly stuck i...Arnold Bennett Charles DickensThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick ClubPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have not finished re-reading your book, so I cannot say whether all is improved; but much is.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles Grant RobertsonKurum, Kabul and Kandahar: being a Brief Record of...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have not forgotten nor neglected my task - but M. Beyle's book is so trite so unentertaining - so [underlined]very[end underlining] commonplace that I have found it qu...Mary Shelley Stendhal [pseud.]Promenades dans RomePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Stott [end italics] had been left out of Scott's prize ...James Hogg John Gibson Lockhart'Dietrich Knickernocker's History of New York'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Stott [end italics] had been left out of Scott's prize ...James Hogg Allan Cunningham'Cameronian Song'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Stott [end italics] had been left out of Scott's prize ...James Hogg John Gibson Lockhart'Testimonium, A Prize Poem by James Scott, Esq.'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have not read "Self control", and am determined not to read it, till my own eternal rubbish is concluded. I was a week in the house, at John Street with the two first ...Joanne Jardine Mary BruntonSelf-controlPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have not read "Self control", and am determined not to read it, till my own eternal rubbish is concluded. I was a week in the house, at John Street with the two first ...Esther Burney Mary BruntonSelf-controlPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have not read Miss Edgeworth's novel nor have I much opinion of her powers of execution saving and excepting Irish characters. Everything else I have read of hers I th...Sydney Smith Maria EdgeworthEunicePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have not read that poem of R. Brownings. I saw the review in the Examiner, (no end of thanks to you for the said,) but don't think I've fairly read it yet!'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell W.C. DeVane[review of Browning's 'Christmas Eve and Easter-Da...Print: Serial / periodical


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