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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I have not read the Edinburgh Magazine you mention, but if it attacks Walter Scott (or whoever it may be) for a design to ridicule the priesthood, it is as unjust as if ...Louisa Clinton [n/a]Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I have not yet finished "Joan of Arc". Near 500 lines at the beginning of the 2d book were supplied by S.T. Coleridge. These appear to me to be the worst I have ever rea...Joseph Hunter Robert SoutheyJoan of Arc, An Epic PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have not yet had time to read through the Twin Sisters but there is a certain stile apparent in the Fall of Nineveh &c which is always irrestible [sic] though not equa...James Hogg Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I have nothing to say in favour or disfavour of the Shakespeare illustrated. Some pieces are not calculated for more than the present Age, or Time, I should rather say. ...Samuel Richardson William Shakespeare[illustrated, edited version]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have now finished the morceau so highly reccomended by my nephew, the account of Gibbon's life and writings by himself and confess myself greatly disappointed, not ind...Benjamin Newton Edward GibbonMiscellaneous works...with memoirs of his lifePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have now finished [the 12th book, represented by a Greek character] of the Odyssey'Mary Shelley HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have now had your manuscript for some days and have read it with a great deal of interest.' Thence follows a page and a half of constructive and gentle criticism to ...Ford Madox Ford [unknown] Mack[unknown]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I have now one great satisfaction, which is reading Hume's "History". It entertains and instructs me. It elevates my mind and excites noble feelings of every kind.'James Boswell David HumeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have now read the remainder [underlined twice] nearly [end underlining] of Glenarvon! & should not give th[e Wr]iter as an Example of the good Ladies: the [wo]man abso...George Crabbe Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have now read three volumes of Madame de Sevigne - with a conviction that her letters are very much overpraised. Mr Thomas Grenville says he has made seven vigorous at...Sydney Smith Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne[Letters]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have now read—but indeed I did a week or so ago—"Men Adrift" with a great deal of pleasure —pleasure because it was fun reading it and being able to think that you ha...Ford Madox Ford Anthony BertramMen AdriftPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have now struck better ground in Charlotte Bronte's "Wuthering Heights", which although melodramatic like all her books, shapes very well indeed.'Clive Staples Lewis Emily BrontëWuthering HeightsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have often read the bit of Wordsworth that you quote ['She was a Phantom of Delight'], and am very fond of it, and now I shall love it more and feel all that you ...Emily Lytton William WordsworthShe was a phantom of delightPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have been reading these past months; chiefly because they...John Mitchel Madame Pichler[Siege of Vienna]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have been reading these past months; chiefly because they...John Mitchel Dr Memes [pseud?][Life of William Cowper]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have been reading these past months; chiefly because they...John Mitchel [George] [Allan?][biography of Walter Scott]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have only got about half through Cyral Thornton as yet and cannot therefore be decided on its merits. But I suspect it to have one grievious fault that of introducing ...James Hogg Thomas HamiltonYouth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have only just returned to town, and found the Rhyming Chronicle [title underlined]. Your cousin must be worth knowing: there are some very charming things in her book...Alfred Tennyson Jean IngelowRhyming chronicle of incidents and feelingsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have only now realised that the reason Blind Pew in "Treasure Island" frightened me so extremely was that I gave him the face of our own Blind Man' [seen regularly in ...Gwen Raverat Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have only read the first article of Maga which is a glorious confusion a miscellany of itself the other long articles I dont like'.James Hogg John Wilson 'Hints for the Holidays. No. III' [in Blackwood's...Print: Serial / periodical


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