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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'The Farbenlehre [The Theory (or Science) of Colour], which you are so good as to offer me, I have never seen, and shall thankfully accept, and study, it.'Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFarbenlehrePrint: Book
1800-1849'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', the 'Fare thee well', and the 'Satire'. With the first...Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron George Gordon, Lord ByronFare Thee WellPrint: Book
1800-1849'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confidentially everywhere [end italics]. The usual consequ...Anne Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronFare thee wellPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanly, but unmanly. "The Domestick Sketch" is powerfully...Richard Lovell Edgeworth George Gordon, Lord ByronFare thee wellPrint: Unknown, either in newspaper or version circulated in society
1800-1849'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confidentially everywhere [end italics]. The usual consequ...Samuel Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronFare thee wellPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Farewell' 'Nay [shy] not from the word "Farewell"! / As if twer friendships knell ...' 'Bernard Barton' [transcribes text]Mary Dugdale Bernard BartonFarewellUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Farewell to the Year/ by Luis Baylon [?], translated by J.G. Lockhart'; [Text] 'Hark friends! It strikes -the year's ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Luis BaylonFarewell to the YearPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I read a lot of "Farewell Victoria"'.Hilary Spalding T.H. WhiteFarewell VictoriaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Farewell' 'Farewell! If ever fondest prayer/...' [Some differences in punctuation from Byron's text]Carey/Maingay groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronFarewell! If Ever Fondest PrayerPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849S. T. Coleridge to James Tobin, 17 Sept 1800: 'What Wordsworth & I have seen of the Farmer's Boy (only a few short extracts) pleased us very much.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert BloomfieldFarmer's Boy, TheUnknown
1800-1849S. T. Coleridge to James Tobin, 17 Sept 1800: 'What Wordsworth & I have seen of the Farmer's Boy (only a few short extracts) pleased us very much.'William Wordsworth Robert BloomfieldFarmer's Boy, TheUnknown
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1800-1849		The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849: 'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Young's, and from me you will hear only his praises. I...Earl of Lonsdale Arthur YoungFarmer's CalendarPrint: Book
1800-1849'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation and not to murmur at the d...Joseph Mayett Hannah MoreFarmer's firesidePrint: Book, Pamphlet, chapbook
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected with India. ... [but included] ; Japher's "Farriery" ....Mountstuart Elphinstone JapherFarrieryPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading a sweet book, "The Farthing Spinster", by Catherine Dodd. Some of the passages about gardens are beautiful. Here are some of the most lovely [...] from th...Hilary Spalding Catherine DoddFarthing Spinster, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Shortly afterwards Victor Gollancz issued a pamphlet, entitled "Fascists at Olympia", which contained statements from eye-witnesses, vistims of assault, and doctors who ...Vera Brittain anonFascists at OlympiaPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Began Clinton's Introduction &c.'William Ewart Gladstone Henry Fynes ClintonFasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology...Print: Book
1800-1849'Bland — Clinton — a little Herodotus.'William Ewart Gladstone Henry Fynes ClintonFasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology...Print: Book
1800-1849Thucydides — Clinton — Public Lecture in Diff. Calc — reading it & Questions ...William Ewart Gladstone Henry Fynes ClintonFasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology...Print: Book
1800-1849Read Juvenal all the morning- (save that I now read a few verses of Greek Testament the first thing)- finished Clinton's Introduction.William Ewart Gladstone Henry Fynes ClintonFasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology...Print: Book


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