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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'S. reads Pope's Essay on Criticism aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Alexander PopeEssay on Criticism, AnPrint: Book
1800-1849‘Owen Lloyd has lent me an essay on Faith by my Father transcribed by poor Charles Lloyd. It will probably make a good addition to your forthcoming volumes. I will tran...Hartley Coleridge Samuel Taylor ColeridgeEssay on FaithManuscript: Sheet
1700-1799'He recommended Dr. Cheyne's books. I said, I thought Cheyne had been reckoned whimsical. "So he was, (said he,) in some things; but there is no end of objections. There ...Samuel Johnson George CheyneEssay on Health and Long LifePrint: Book
1700-1799'I returned home and read four chapters of Winn's abridgement of Lock[e] on the human understanding. The transition from such a dissipate scene [a party she has left] to ...Anna Larpent John LockeEssay on human understandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday July 19th. [...] Read Comic Dramas by Miss Edgeworth [...] Read Essay on Irish Bulls. [...] 'Friday July 21st. Finish Essay on Irish Bulls'. ...Claire Clairmont Maria Edgeworth and R.L. EdgeworthEssay on Irish BullsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal to Stella. After supper Miss D. Brain read several ...George Burrow William Makepeace ThackerayEssay on Jonathan SwiftPrint: Book
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1800-1849		[Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that he polished everything high. His 'Satires', his 'Ethi...Anna Seward Alexander PopeEssay on ManPrint: Book
1800-1849'"I however still love the hand upraised to shed my blood."'Lady Caroline Lamb Alexander PopeEssay on ManPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing October 3 1778 'Modern history indeed refutes my wise conclusions, by presenting us with an almost similar character [ie to one in fiction], Lord Bol...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Alexander PopeEssay on manPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry October 30 1791 'This, no doubt, forms no pleasant chain of dependences, but in this, as in many other instances ?What happier nature shrinks at with...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Alexander PopeEssay on manPrint: Book
'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows] "TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. DEAR SIR, In the year 1763, being at London, I was car...Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst Alexander PopeEssay on ManPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fresnoy's Art of Painting. "Plac'd on the isthmus of ...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander PopeEssay on ManPrint: Book
1700-1799Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755: 'You have a very just opinion of St. John's works [...] As far as I have seen, and I read at Ember the last volum...Thomas Edwards Alexander PopeEssay on ManPrint: Book
1800-1849[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]Adam Sedgwick Thomas MalthusEssay on PopulationPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary's reading list for Percy Shelley for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on those references.] 'S Hu...Percy Bysshe Shelley MalthusEssay on PopulationPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", etc., the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure...George Gordon Lord Byron Henri Beyleessay on Racine and ShakespearePrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799'[I am] pleased with Mr Whitehead's Essay on Ridicule, a Piece which shews the Goodness of the Author's Heart, so much preferable to that of the Head alone'Samuel Richardson William WhiteheadEssay on RidiculePrint: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Mrs Hannah More says in her "Essay on Saint Paul," that he had the loftiness of Isaiah, the devotion of David, ...C.M.G. [anon] Hannah MoreEssay on Saint PaulUnknown
1800-1849'Go to the tomb and read the essay on sepulchres there - Shelley is out all the morning at the Lawyers but nothing is done - read Voltaire's tales'.Mary Godwin William GodwinEssay on SepulchresPrint: Book
1800-1849"My Brother has read Mr Price's Book on the picturesque ... "William Wordsworth Uvedale PriceEssay on the PicturesquePrint: Book


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