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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I then went to town, and at Newgate, where I went under feelings of rather deep concern, found unexpectedly [underline] numbers [end underline] there. A magistrate who I...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'I then wrote a little journal, read a chapter away from the fire; rather as a cross to the body; but I had such a sweet time alone as to forget bodily cold, for I was in...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I think "Ireland and its Leaders" worth reading and beg of you to tell me who wrote it if you happen to know, for you though you call yourself solitary live much more in...Sydney Smith Daniel Owen-Madden [published anon.]Ireland and its Rulers Since 1829Print: Book
1900-1945'I think "The Genius" is a pretty good book.' Arnold Bennett Theodore DreiserThe GeniusPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I think Adam Blair beautifully done?quite beautifully. It is not every lady who confesses she reads it; but if you had been silent upon the subject, or even if you had d...Sydney Smith John Gibson LockhartSome Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair Ministe...Print: Book
1900-1945'I think Algernon's article is quite first rate, about the best thing he ever wrote. It is at once individual and sane - don't you think so?'John Bailey Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I think Anne's 'Tales' particularly interesting ... I prefer the first, there is greater purity and far greater truth. 'The Admiral's Daughter' is deficient in both thes...Jessie Sismondi Anne Marsh CaldwellTwo Old Men's Tales: The deformed and The Admiral'...Print: Book
1900-1945'I think astrology is the most reliable way of telling the future. Astrologers are so often right. I read him and study him regularly, and I find it's a great help.......... Lindoeastrology books / articlesPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I think astrology is the most reliable way of telling the future. Astrologers are so often right. I read him and study him regularly, and I find it's a great help.....th... Lyndoeunknown texts on AstrologyPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I think Channing an admirable writer, so much eloquence so much sense so much command of Language; yet admirable as his Sermon on War is, I have the Vanity to think my o...Sydney Smith William Ellery Channing[sermon on War]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I think Drayton's Verses have a peculiar propriety in such work; his Subject being the same and his Poetry now becoming antient.' [Crabbe is alluding to his writing o...George Crabbe Michael DraytonPolyolbionPrint: Book
1850-1899'I think Georgie’s idea about the impropriety of Marjory sending for Will on her deathbed so lunatic, so furious, so truly wicked and silly that I don’t know what to say ...Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Isabella Stevenson Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I think he has great merit, uncommon clearness of style & thought, as an historian and a general impartiality, which extends sometimes to vice and virtue, despotism & li...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Adolphe ThiersHistoire de la Révolution FrançaisePrint: Book
1900-1945'I think I am not [italics] serious [end italics] enough! Sometimes when I look through the [italics] New Statesman [end italics] ... I see all the lists of books on soci...Antonia White [n/a]New Statesman, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I think I have a feeling that it is not worth while trying to write, while there are such books as Adam Bede & Scenes from Clerical Life - I set "Janet's Repentance" abo...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Janet's RepentancePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I think I have already mentioned to you the Life of Ld Eldon by Horace Twiss. It is not badly done, and I think it would very much amuse Ld Grey as it is the history alm...Sydney Smith Horace TwissLife of Lord Chancellor EldonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think I have behaved most abominably in never taking any notice of your great kindness in sending me David Copperfield, and your note. Oh, dear! I have been so whirled...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I think I have never written to you since I read ''Glenarvon''. I agree with you in admiring it exceedingly in some respects [...] I almost think that as a picture of th...Sarah Wedgwood Caroline, Lady LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1700-1799'I think I have scarce ever read Two better Lines than Mr POPE's Epitaph on this Prince of Philosophers [Newton; she then quotes the lines] His Inscription on Sir [italic...Laetitia Pilkington Alexander PopeOn the Death of Mr CrashawPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'I think I have scarce ever read Two better Lines than Mr POPE's Epitaph on this Prince of Philosophers [Newton; she then quotes the lines] His Inscription on Sir [italic...Laetitia Pilkington Alexander Pope[Inscription on monument of godfrey Kneller in Wes...Manuscript: Graffito


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