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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Saturday 13 March 1819: 'Rose at 1/2 past 7, after a sleepless night. Read some of Hume's Essay on the A...George Grote David HumeEssay on the Academical PhilosophyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Here is an odd Book come out to prove Falstaff was no Coward, when says Dr Johnson will one come forth to prove Iago an honest Man?'Hester Lynch Thrale Maurice MorganEssay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falsta...Print: Book
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1850-1899		[Marginalia by Macaulay on Swift's "Essay on the Fates of Clergymen"]: 'People speak of the world as they find it. I have been more fortunate or prudent than Swift or Eu...Thomas Babington Macaulay Jonathan SwiftEssay on the Fates of ClergymenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished a perusal of Warton's "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope"...'Thomas Green Joseph WartonEssay on the Genius and Writings of PopePrint: Book
1700-1799'He said, Dr. Joseph Warton was a very agreeable man, and his "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope," a very pleasing book. I wondered that he delayed so long to give...Samuel Johnson Joseph WartonEssay on the Genius and Writings of PopePrint: Book
1700-1799'He said, Dr. Joseph Warton was a very agreeable man, and his "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope," a very pleasing book. I wondered that he delayed so long to give...James Boswell Joseph WartonEssay on the Genius and Writings of PopePrint: Book
1700-1799'He censured Ruffhead's "Life of Pope"; -and said, "he knew nothing of Pope, and nothing of poetry." He praised Dr. Joseph Warton's "Essay on Pope"; but said, he supposed...Samuel Johnson Joseph WartonEssay on the Genius and Writings of PopePrint: Book
1700-1799'He censured Ruffhead's "Life of Pope"; -and said, "he knew nothing of Pope, and nothing of poetry." He praised Dr. Joseph Warton's "Essay on Pope"; but said, he supposed...James Boswell Joseph WartonEssay on the Genius and Writings of PopePrint: Book
1700-1799'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thomson] Since I received your letter I have read his [T...James Boswell Joseph WartonEssay on the Genius and Writings of PopePrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794 'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has given me his entire library, to take whatever I like. I...Elizabeth Smith HuntEssay on the happiness of the life to comePrint: Book
1700-1799'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Ferguson on Civil Society: I do not says Johnson perceive...Samuel Johnson Adam FergusonEssay on the History of Civil SocietyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Ferguson on Civil Society: I do not says Johnson perceive...William Rose Adam FergusonEssay on the History of Civil SocietyPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1755:] 'How do you like Mr Johnson's Dictionary? I have only seen part of the Preface, which was like himself. I have ju...Elizabeth Carter Deane SwiftEssay on the Life, &c. of Dr SwiftPrint: Book
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 &...Jane Austen Sir Charles William PasleyEssay on the Military Policy and Institutions of t...Print: Book
1800-1849'Curious essay of Newman's I read some pages of - about the ecclesiastical miracles; full of intellect but doubtful in tendency. I fear insidious, yet I like it.'John Ruskin John Henry NewmanEssay on the miracles recorded in Ecclesiastical H...Print: Book
1700-1799'Had Mr [italics] Hutcheson [end italics] stop'd at this Book [his 'Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue'], by which he had acquired some Degree of...Laetitia Pilkington Francis HutchesonEssay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions an...Print: Book
1700-1799'Had Mr [italics] Hutcheson [end italics] stop'd at this Book [his 'Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue'], by which he had acquired some Degree of...Edward Synge Francis HutchesonEssay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions an...Print: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Beattie, author of the celebrated book on Truth, was much the Subject of Conversation, the whole company concurring in the Praise of so able and useful a Writer; ...Dr Johnson, Mrs Thrale, Oliver Goldsmith and othersJames BeattieEssay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 28-29 May 1828: "If you have not read the Essay on the Picturesque, will you let me send it to you [...] It is one of the books ...Elizabeth Barrett Uvedale PriceEssay on the PicturesquePrint: Book
1800-1849"In January 1804 Coleridge annotated, heavily, in pencil, the first dozen or so pages of a copy of Thomas Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population by way of assista...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas MalthusEssay on the Principle of PopulationPrint: Book


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