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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Breakfasted below. Read "Edinburgh Review" afterwards, for first time, after I know what interval, a little Greek, viz Plut. "Phocian"'William Windham [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have seen the last number of the Edinr review at Mount-annan. I regret, with you, that Jeffrey should bestow so much of his time on Politics; and I rejoice in the pros...Thomas Carlyle Francis JeffreyEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri,...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have read little of any consequence since I wrote to you. You will have seen the last Numbers of the "Edinr" & "Quarterly" reviews. In the latter, among a great deal o...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Has Lord Grey read the Edinburgh Review? the article on Barrere is by Macaulay, that upon Lord St Vincent by Barrow; I thnk this latter very entertaining, but it was har...Sydney Smith [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have as yet read very few articles in the Edinburgh Review, having lent it to a sick countess, who only wished to read it because a few copies only had arrived in Lond...Sydney Smith [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'read the Edinburgh Review and the second vol. of the antiquary'Mary Godwin [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Chap. of Gibbon'Mary Godwin [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Thursday Jany. 22nd. Read an article in the Edinburgh Review. Meroigne Thericourt [sic] a poissade in the time of the Revolution now raving mad. I cannot but think t...Claire Clairmont Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Sunday March 7 -- 1819 Remove from La Villa di Parigi to Palazzo Verospi upon the Corso -- Read the Edinburgh & Quarterly Reviews.'Claire Clairmont Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Sunday June 11th. Read Edinburgh Reviews & Quarterly.' Claire Clairmont Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Sunday June 25th. [...] Read Edinburgh Review [...] Read a History of England, written in french [sic] by a Jew after the manner of the Bible [quotes/cites various exa...Claire Clairmont Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Teusday [sic] June 27th. [...] Read Edinburg [sic] Review.' ...Claire Clairmont Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Wednesday [...] October 5th. [...] Read the Edinburgh Review.' Claire Clairmont Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Write - Read the Edinburgh Review'Mary Shelley [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The Edin. and the Scottish Reviews were both published yesterday. Neither Rokeby nor the Wake is in the former. Rokeby it is certain is never to be in, but it is still r...James Hogg Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'by the way my dear Sir, why does the Scottish Reviewer (late Edinboro Quarterly) abuse me in his last Number? Whatever he may think, I am a very middling, wellish-dispos...George Crabbe Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'A spendid constellation of Poets arose in the literary horizon - I looked around for Crabbe - Why does not he, who shines as brightly as any of these, add his lustre? - ...Mary Leadbeter [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Having passed a sleepless night I did not rise until 1/2 past 7. Read some more of ...George Grote Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Rose a little before 9. Breakfasted and read some more of the "Edinburgh Review," but was litt...George Grote Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical


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